On the Savage Side

I would like to thank Knopf and NetGalley for the opportunity to read the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was a very difficult book to read, and it is a difficult review to write. I considered DNF the book since the beginning because I was just finding it too heavy for me.

I was expecting something a bit different, closer to a thriller than to what it ended to be. However, as I kept thinking I would just stop reading it, I could not. I was hooked with the twins' stories, their friends and, despite knowing what was going to happen, I still wanted to see how it would happen.

Tiffany McDaniel writing was beautiful, even if unrelated with the way these twins and other characters would speak, and the end was absolutely brilliant.

This book is a heavy reading and not for everyone, but if you feel you can handle the trigger warnings, go for it. Read it slowly, make breaks if it becomes too much, DNF if needed, go until the end when you are ready.

TW: drugs, substance abuse, prostitution, paedophilia, death of family members, death of friends, violence, extreme poverty