A review by alykat_reads
On the Savage Side by Tiffany McDaniel

dark slow-paced

2.0

I'm definitely an outlier by skimming the reviews here, but I didn't really care for this book. This book is filled with triggering topics, it wasn't the topics themselves that made me cringe - it was that 85% of the book was just trauma porn. I think the fact that these women went through some horrific stuff could have been conveyed without all that. It was very repetitive, and after a point it was stale. I get the point was tragedy after tragedy, but it didn't leave much for the rest of the plot once you removed all the tragedies; nothing else really happened.

You never find out who the murderer is; the 'twist' with her sister is beyond belief and leaves too many holes in the already weak plot

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The cover also really bothers me, because it should be one with the top lip in lipstick and the other with the bottom lip in lipstick, not each split down the middle. How can you get it so tragically wrong when it was an important piece to this story.