Savage Legion: Volume 1 (Savage Rebellion, #1)

by Matt Wallace

An epic fantasy by Hugo Award–winning author Matt Wallace about a utopian city with a dark secret…and the underdogs who will expose it, or die trying.

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.

• ISBN10: 153443920X
• ISBN13: 9781534439207
• Publish Date: 21 July 2020
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publisher: The Gallery Press
• Imprint: Gallery Books
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 512
• Language: English

Reviews

[Ashley]

Ugh I thought I was going to love this book. Sadly the synopsis really does it a disservice. The synopsis talks all about the "Savages", and Evie—a warrior on a mission to find the man she once loved. It sounds epic. But Savage Legion isn't just about Evie; there are actually three different points of view.

This completely messed with my expectations. I expected a brutal, cutthroat book about a warrior. What I got was ⅓ of that, but ⅔ other stuff, including politics and inventor/propaganda stuff. That isn't necessarily bad, it just wasn't at all what I expected from this book. I went in wanting a very specific thing to scratch a very specific itch (like one woman army “kill them all” type stuff), and I got something very different.

I'm sure this is still a decent book, it just wasn't at all what I expected. I stopped reading 30% through.