4/5 stars 
 after seeing so many good reviews on this book from reviewers i trust so dearly and the immense respect victoria schwab receives from her lovely stories, i knew it was inevitable that i picked up this savage song. and boy, was i glad i did! 
 schwab created such amazing characters. kate harker is such a badass heroine, i adore her so much. on the other hand we have august flynn, with so many dimensions, sO COMPLEX, and a dark eeriness to him. out of the two, i think i preferred august's pov slightly more just because i was so intrigued by the sunai/monster concept. his power was so interesting, i was completely sucked in by his violin. 
 also really enjoyed the family dynamic, especially between kate and her father. if i wasn't reading closely, i could've easily not have even realized harker was kate's father because of how distant they were! i noticed it before her pov even brought it up, and it was clever foreshadowing to see the big twist at the end. 
 for me, there was not a moment in this book where i was bored. it was gripping throughout, and i FLEW through it. when i can't imagine the book getting any more intense, this book GOES THERE. 
 (view spoiler)[on a less positive note, i was kind of taken aback by callum harker's death. i was kind of confused by his "betrayal" and didn't fully grasp how the truce was breaking? i wish we went more in depth with that, albeit part of it may be due to the fact that i was reading very quickly through the ending because i couldn't puT THIS BOOK DOWN! 
 same kind of goes with leo...... i was kind of just taken aback, but i didn't really have time to digest how this truce-breaking thing went down with sloan and before i know it hE JUST DIED. 
 now let's talk about isla, my jaw dropped when she turned around with that slit on her throat, holy sHIT. (hide spoiler)] 
 hearing that this book is actually one of her weaker ones makes me very excited to read her other works!