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How Does 'This Savage Song' End?

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Talia
Talia
The end of This Savage Song is intense and bittersweet. In the final confrontation with Kate’s father, August Flynn, the monstrous alto sax player, finally admits to being a monster in order to save the girl who is half-human, half-monster. In order to save Kate from her father’s soul-sucking world, August uses his ability to steal souls through music and turns against his own kind in order to save her. It’s a powerful scene that really drives home the friendship between the two, and the tragic division between humans and monsters. The city is still divided at the end of the book, but there’s a glimmer of hope for Kate and August as they part ways, each burdened by their actions. Will their connection be enough to bridge the two worlds that they occupy? You’ll have to read the sequel to find out.
2025-07-02
Finn
Finn
August and Kate’s relationship is central to the final chapters of ‘This Savage Song’ and is often an uneasy alliance, but ultimately it becomes a very beautiful thing as they grapple with their conflicted feelings for each other. By the final act August is engaged in a desperate battle to come to terms with his internal demons. The imagery of him playing his violin to destroy the Malchai is a powerful and hauntingly beautiful one.

The wrap-up of August and Kate is especially noteworthy, and I found their parting especially bittersweet. As the daughter of Vargo Stoltz, Kate could have easily chosen to take the city under her control. Instead she chose to stand by August in a time when the city was on the brink of collapse. The final scenes of the two of them were so full of pain that I think it would have been far too easy to allow either of them to give in to their desires. Instead, both acknowledge the reality of their alternate worlds, and bid each other a painful goodbye in hope that change is possible.
2025-07-04
Brynn
Brynn
In ‘This Savage Song’, the end is incredibly character driven and was fantastic to read. We see the change in August from the beginning of the book where he is unsure of who he is as a Sunai (a monster who can suck the soul out of people through his music) and by the end of the book he has made a decision about who he is to become. In the final confrontation with the Malchai who are trying to kill Kate, August uses his music in a powerful way to fight off the Malchai but at the cost of having to face the darker side of himself. The description of his music was so beautiful and so terrifying at the same time that it made for a very powerful scene.

As for Kate, she has to decide between her father’s legacy and being the type of person to protect August from the Malchai that are trying to kill him. And in the end, she chooses to be the kind of person to protect August, even though that means she will never be able to rule the city. Her final conversation with August is very emotive and although they recognize that they are going to be off on their own paths, it was really nice to see them together in the end.

A very morally ambiguous ending. Fans of complex storylines and morally confused heroes will appreciate the close to ‘This Savage Song’. The ending is left somewhat and picked up in the sequel ‘Our Dark Duet’ but it is a powerful conclusion to the story of August and Kate and their identities and loyalty to each other.
2025-07-06

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