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On the Savage Side by Tiffany McDaniel

14 reviews

_treatyoshelves_'s review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Drug abuse

Moderate: Sexual violence, Death, Miscarriage, Child abuse, Violence, Rape, and Pedophilia

diannasbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

This book was a very hard read for me. It’s very dark and there are so many triggers. Please be aware before you dive into it. That said, this book was so beautiful! Arc and her twin sister go through so much! I just wanted to hug them and make it all better! The way the girls handled their traumas and abuse was just so beautiful, yet sad. 

It did take me awhile to read this because of the themes. The author did a very good job writing this. I will think about this story for a very long time. I really want to read more from them. I didn’t see the twist in the book, and the ending was beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Drug abuse, Violence, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Rape, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Sexual violence, Addiction, Death, and Blood

Minor: Child death and Pregnancy

pomoevareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Not for the faint of heart, On the Savage Side, Tiffany McDaniel’s upcoming book is affecting and important.

Loosely based on the Chillicothe Six, an unsolved case of missing and murdered women in Chillicothe, Ohio, this book is narrated by Arcade Doggs, who goes by Arc. Arc and her twin sister Daffodil (Daffy) spend their earliest years with their grandmother who gives them all the love they need that their parents can’t give them because of poverty and addiction. When Adelyn and Flood Doggs convince Mamaw that they are sober and ready to show their daughters a wonderful life, the girls go to live with them. But addiction is a mean thing. It is not long before the girls are being raised in an environment of sadness, addiction and sex work. A police officer who comes to the house at one point makes a comment on his way out to his partner that in a few years they will be returning to arrest these young girls for the same things their parents have been doing. Talk about being set up for failure…

The story moves between time periods and focusses its lens on the girls. When we come back to see the young women in early adulthood, they are living the same tragic life that their mother and their aunt live. Going to the river with their friends is a past time, sitting in an old half buried car, getting high. The women call themselves the Chillicothe Queens. Each of the women in this story have a very distinctive character and we see their most human side. They deal with bad johns, family, children and pregnancy in addition to having hope, creativity and strength of character. 

When a woman is found floating in the river, a new era in this small Appalachian town has begun. Soon one of the group disappears and turns up in the river and the group fears for their safety from the River Man. Reports to police are not taken seriously. Police comment on the risky lifestyles that the women lead as reasons to not assume they are missing. 

This is not a whodunit, although there will be many suspects. This story is to show that the women who have gone missing or found murdered were human beings. They were mothers, sisters, and daughters. 

I would recommend this book for people that understand hurt, enjoy Appalachian stories, true crime stories, detailed characters, great writing, and have good self-care practices as this one could be triggering for many. 

Thank you to @netgalley and @aaknopf for this ARC in exchange for my honest opinions. On the Savage Side comes out February 14, 2023. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Addiction, and Death

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Death, Pregnancy, Body horror, Child abuse, Death of parent, Murder, Self harm, Abandonment, and Sexual assault

Minor: Animal cruelty

hippiequeen's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Hate crime, Death of parent, Alcohol, Vomit, Suicide, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Abandonment, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Rape, Death, Blood, Physical abuse, and Violence