A review by pjrochester
The Savage by Frank Bill

3.0

The best thing here is the writing. These hard violent people, these savages; the writing itself is the same. It's hard. Savage. Bites. Sometimes it's very difficult to read. On the down side, the story meanders. Between this and the previous story, the sense of chaos and random-ness seems to come off as the author not quite able to decide where he wanted the story to go. Or, changing his mind and switching things up. That sort of thing might work with more engaging characters (see George RR Martin), but the writing style actually puts a wall between the reader and the characters, so when we veer off course, it all starts to feel a bit pointless.

Then again, maybe that's the point.