This Savage Song

By (author) V. E. Schwab; By (author) V. E Schwab
Short description/annotation:
Kate Harker and August Flynn''s families rule opposite ends of Verity, a grisly metropolis where violent acts summon real monsters. The truce that keeps the Families at peace is crumbling, and August is sent to spy on Kate. But when Harker''s men try to kill her and pin it on the Flynns, August and Kate find themselves running from both sides.
Description:
Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city, a grisly metropolis where the violence has begun to create real and deadly monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam free and makes the inhabitants pay for his protection. August just wants to be human, as good-hearted as his own father-but his curse is to be what the humans fear. The thin truce that keeps the Harker and Flynn families at peace is crumbling, and an assassination attempt forces Kate and August into a tenuous alliance. But how long will they survive in a city where no one is safe and monsters are real...
Review quote:
"Smart, funny and sexcy... the natural successor to Diana Wynne Jones" - Independent. "Confident prose and marvellous touches" - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review).
Biographical note:
V.E. Schwab is the bestselling author A Darker Shade of Magic, which came second in the Goodreads Choice 2015 Book Awards, the forthcoming A Gathering of Shadows, and of Vicious, which was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2013, an Amazon Best Book of the Year (as well as Best Book of the month), a semi-finalist in the Goodreads Choice 2013 Book Awards, and the ALA top pick for Fantasy For their 2014 reading list.
Promotional headline:
Interviews and features in fantasy and entertainment magazines. Reviews in national Newspapers. Blog tour across fantasy and book tours. Promotion on titanbooks.com. A brand new dark fantasy series from the bestseller author of A Darker Shade of Magic, A Gathering of Shadows and Vicious. A Darker Shade of Magic came second in the Goodreads Choice 2015 Book Awards. "Reminiscent of Neil Gaiman" We love this book. Vicious was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2013, an Amazon best book of the year, a semi-finalist in the Goodreads Choice 2013 Book Awards and has been optioned as a movie by Ridley Scott''s company.