num_pages: 469
description: Theres no such thing as safe in a city at war a city overrun with monsters. In this dark urban fantasy from author Victoria Schwab a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or villainsand friends or enemieswith the future of their home at stake. The first of two books.Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided citya city where the violence has begun to breed actual monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father who lets the monsters roam free and makes the humans pay for his protection. All August wants is to be human as good-hearted as his own father to play a bigger role in protecting the innocentbut hes one of the monsters. One who can steal a soul with a simple strain of music. When the chance arises to keep an eye on Kate whos just been kicked out of her sixth boarding school and returned home August jumps at it. But Kate discovers Augusts secret and after a failed assassination attempt the pair must flee for their lives.
language: English
title: This Savage Song
publisher: Greenwillow Books