**I was gifted this book by the publisher through Bookishfirst in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.**
I love a good book with a strong female character and this book is no exception. However, it was a slow starter for sure. The first 30% of the book is world building and character development. Every book has that bit but this book in particular was a slow burn in the beginning because of it. If you can get past that first slow burn, the book turns into a phenomenal story of an incredible world and interesting characters. The book synopsis is as follows:
They call them Savages. Brutal. Efficient. Expendable.
The empire relies on them. The Savages are the greatest weapon they ever developed. Culled from the streets of their cities, they take the ones no one will miss and throw them, by the thousands, at the empire’s enemies. If they live, they fight again. If they die, there are always more to take their place.
Evie is not a Savage. She’s a warrior with a mission: to find the man she once loved, the man who holds the key to exposing the secret of the Savage Legion and ending the mass conscription of the empire’s poor and wretched.
But to find him, she must become one of them, to be marked in her blood, to fight in their wars, and to find her purpose. Evie will die a Savage if she has to, but not before showing the world who she really is and what the Savage Legion can really do.
I gave this four stars because of the slow burn starter but this book is truly fantastic and a must read!
I love a good book with a strong female character and this book is no exception. However, it was a slow starter for sure. The first 30% of the book is world building and character development. Every book has that bit but this book in particular was a slow burn in the beginning because of it. If you can get past that first slow burn, the book turns into a phenomenal story of an incredible world and interesting characters. The book synopsis is as follows:
They call them Savages. Brutal. Efficient. Expendable.
The empire relies on them. The Savages are the greatest weapon they ever developed. Culled from the streets of their cities, they take the ones no one will miss and throw them, by the thousands, at the empire’s enemies. If they live, they fight again. If they die, there are always more to take their place.
Evie is not a Savage. She’s a warrior with a mission: to find the man she once loved, the man who holds the key to exposing the secret of the Savage Legion and ending the mass conscription of the empire’s poor and wretched.
But to find him, she must become one of them, to be marked in her blood, to fight in their wars, and to find her purpose. Evie will die a Savage if she has to, but not before showing the world who she really is and what the Savage Legion can really do.
I gave this four stars because of the slow burn starter but this book is truly fantastic and a must read!