The Savages
The Savage family is close-knit, but everyone has something to hidefrom father Titus’s shady business dealings, to mother Angelica’s dangerously compulsive shopping habits, to 12-year-old Ivan’s increasingly lethal pranks. But teenager Sasha’s secret trumps them all: she is dating a vegetarian....
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The Savage family is close-knit, but everyone has something to hidefrom father Titus’s shady business dealings, to mother Angelica’s dangerously compulsive shopping habits, to 12-year-old Ivan’s increasingly lethal pranks. But teenager Sasha’s secret trumps them all: she is dating a vegetarian. This trait will never fly with the rest of the Savages, who are
uniquely carnivorous. Problems start to pile up. Sasha’s boyfriend convinces her to try going vegetarian for a month, but then leaves her for a vegan vigilante. Angelica attempts to pay her mounting credit card bill by allowing commercials to film in the family home, until one of Ivan’s pranks leaves a model dead in their bathroom. A detective hired to investigate Titus’s predatory business affairs notices the model’s disappearance, and starts to think that there may be something more sinister to the perfect-seeming Savages. He’s right, of coursethey’re cannibals.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781468308563 (1468308564)
Publish date: March 6th 2014
Publisher: Overlook Juvenile
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Series: The Savages (#1)
Brilliant. Love a bit of dark humour! Review to come.
Wonderfully dark for a YA book but with much more intelligence and well written.
Darkly comic YA read. Fans of Hannibal in particular will be amused by this book, I think. Full review to come shortly.
4.5 stars. Delicious and utterly delightful. A must-read for anyone that enjoys dark humour, quirky characters and good food. Full review to come.