The book “City of Savages” by Lee Kelly is an interesting dystopian book with many plotholes and twists. It starts in a gloomy post-apocolyptic Manhattan, New York where the main characters Phee and Skylar live. There seems to be no control as everything around these two sisters is under constant chaos, from simple rivalry to all out war remains. The sisters have no true recollection of their parents and live in a once prestigious hotel. They constantly live with vigilance, Skylar being the brains and Phee being the brawn. This pointless living suddenly changes when their supposedly dead mother appears before them and explains to them the truth about their father. Determined to find him, the sisters venture on and eventually discover the truth about the war. Eventually they find a secret baring society known as the “City of Savages” which then leads them to the key to find their father. After relentlessly fighting on and on, the sisters finally reach their confined father, breaking the mysteries behind the war and fixing the war torn city they long lived in. I thought that this books plot was very entertaining and the ideas it covered especially interested me since dystopian theme is one my favorite genres to read. However, this book wasn’t written as well as it could’ve been. For starters, the pacing of this book was very odd for the amount of concepts it addressed weren’t all covered evenly and left me on a few cliffhangers. I also felt like the ending itself was a cliffhanger as the main characters didn’t change too much throughout the book and we didn’t get to see much of what happened after everyone was saved including their father. Adding on to that, we didn’t get to see much of the entire family connected as a whole, especially because their mother was the one who started the idea of saving their father in the first place. All in all, the book “City of Savages” was a book that I enjoyed reading and I recommend it to you if you’re someone who likes exploring new ideas, likes war-themed dystopian novels, and is open to a lot of plot twists.
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