Savage Tongues by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is a story about a woman going back to visit a place she used to live where she experienced an abusive relationship. As the back cover states, the story begins when Arezu, an Iranian American teenager, goes to Spain to meet her estranged father at an apartment he owns there. He never shows up, instead sending her a weekly allowance, care of his step-nephew, Omar, a forty-year-old Lebanese man. As the weeks progress, Arezu is drawn into a mercurial, charged, and ultimately catastrophic affair with Omar, a relationship that shatters her just at the cusp of adulthood. The big problem I had was that it is written like a person analyzing a relationship and has very little feeling. There really isn't a story beyond how she is upset at how Omar abused her and she can't move on. I found the main character Arezu very unlikable and she overanalyzes everything repeatedly. There were bits and pieces where it was promising but not nearly enough. The cover gives it a textbook feel and that is exactly how I found it.