A review by powerlibrarian
Through the Ashes by Julia Wolf

5.0

This is the second book in the Savage Crew series. While I read the first one back when it came out, I didn’t have a hard time slipping back into this world. Colour me surprised to find out that Bex and Gabe aren’t the couple in this book! “Through the Ashes” features Bex pairing up with Asher, who we (apparently) briefly met in the previous book, though I don’t quite remember him. He’s a golden boy football player who’s in the top 10% of his class, but he has a darkness inside him. I loved peeling back his layers and finding out who he is. Bex is just as lovable as she was in the first book--sarcastic, but kind, and an adorable little goth. I can just picture the two of them--seemingly polar opposites on the outside, but they have a lot in common. Their romance was just as good as the romance between Grace and Bash in the first book!
There are a few twists in the story, and while they were kind of predictable, I love the places that the author took this story. It’s a lot more than a simple, two-dimensional dark high school bully romance.
5 stars!