Savage Lands: A Book Review That Will Make You Root for a Badass Heroine and Her Dangerous Love Interest

Almost twenty years after the barrier between Earth and the Otherworld fell in the Fae Wars, Budapest is balancing on the precipice. A battle for dominance is brewing between the elite fae and the privileged humans in Eastern Europe. The prejudice between the sides is bubbling with hate and violence.

Nineteen-year-old human, Brexley, has grown up in privilege, but not without heartbreak. After being orphaned, she is taken in by General Markos, living in a walled city rife with power grabs and ruthless political games. Then one night the course of her life changes, and Brexley is thrown into the most feared prison in the east. Halalhaz, the House of Death—where you go in but don’t come out.

She must learn to live with the worst of fae and human criminals. The rule of hierarchy puts humans on the bottom, where the only way to survive each day is to make alliances with the fae.

Here she meets the sexy, vicious legend, Warwick Farkas. A myth among man and fae. He is as brutal, cruel, arrogant, and as lethal as the lore says he is, ruling the prison with unchallenged authority. Brexley can’t deny an intense draw to him, one that might cost her life.

If The Games don’t take her out first—A fight to the death where only one survives.
  • Author: Stacey Marie Brown
  • Release Date: October 20, 2020
  • Genre: Fantasy Romance
  • My Rating: 4/5
  •  Spice:🌶️/5

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To Jason Momoa: If I can’t have you in real life, at least I can have you as my book boyfriend
– Dedication

I loved everything about this book until I got to the last four pages and almost threw my kindle out the window. Not what I saw coming, not what I was expecting! I need some answers. But holy fck was that a good book!

Spoilers Ahead

The train operators knew to be on alert thanks to people like me. Thieves

We meet Brexley, a badass mf who loves to live life on the edge. Little did I know that Brexley wasn’t actually a thief but a privileged human living on the inside of the city’s walls. You would think she was doing a Robin Hood kinda scheme to it, but no. She only did it because she could. It was a thrill, putting her skills to the test and proving to herself just how good she was at stealing. 

She was a trained fighter, able to take down opponents twice her size. Dragging her best friend Caden (who she is definitely in love with) along with her to rob the trains going into the fae side of Budapest. Caden was the opposite, he followed the rules or at least tries to, never wants to go against his father and kinda sucks. I’m not a fan of his, you’ll see 

It had been years since tourists came here, back when Budapest flourished with foreign money and travelers. That all ended the day I was born. My birth not only killed my mother, but had also marked the deaths of millions of humans, the world as they knew it, and was the beginning of the end for this country

I could not imagine the pain she had for being the cause for her mothers death, and probably somehow blamed herself in a way for the barrier and her mother. The world did a 180 in a short amount of time since the wall fell. Fae and humans fought one another, the wealthy rich, privileged humans surrounded themselves in luxury in the new walls they had out around their little city. They didn’t care for the poor or half breeds and the fae were just the same. Only cared about the rich, elite Fae and left the poor and half breeds to fight for themselves.

Neither side cared about the place where the poor, thieves, murderers, druggies, and mixed-species dwelled. Both sides ignored the lawless land, the terrain where the “savages” lived, which consumed most of the Pest side like the black plague 

Less than half of a district. As if a scar slashed through the land, most of the Pest side hemorrhaged with people, disease, murder, starvation, prostitution, drugs, poverty and half-breeds. It was called “the Wild West of the East.” The Savage Land

Family Guy; “Friends of Peter G.” Season 9 Episode 10

The Markos family took in Brexley when her father had died when she was around 15. They had fed her, given her clothes, given her the best of everything. But did they really love her like she was a child of theirs or did they think she would be valuable later on. Seems like the latter was the truth. Istvan Markos(Caden father), wanted the best for her, teaching her chess, history, different languages and economics, while Rebka (Caden’s mother) taught her how to be a proper lady. All to use her later on in life, which smacked her in the face when Istvan had made an arranged marriage for her to some scum bag for a “union” between two human parties to strength the humans against the fae.

He wanted me as their Queen.

His love had been a loan.

And it was time for me to pay back my debt

She reminds me of Aelin from ToG, strong headed, and big hearted. I fell for Brexley the moment I met her robbing trains.  Until one heist goes completely wrong and ends up in the most feared prison on the east side.

Warwick Farkas a man, a myth, a legend who is in prison? The stories told about him around campfires and training are probably all true. He is brutal, cruel and lethal as fuck, definitely don’t want to mess with the sexy, viscous legend or do you? 😏 Even demons stay clear of him. His he human, fae or a demon? No one knows, and no one has come back from the dead before expect for him

Anyone else notice the way that Brexley describes Warwick’s eyes throughout the book? At the beginning his eyes were aqua. In chapter 16 she describes them as turquoise. Then blue-green, and than back to aqua

“Welcome to the gladiator games of Halalhaz. Where two go in and only one comes out”

Favorite Quotes

He will kill you without blinking… and he’s so unbearably hot, you go willingly

Prison thrived on breaking people down and rebuilding them. Maybe it worked for others-bad people. But when you broke down good people, we didn’t rise again as even nicer people. No. That’s not how it worked. We rose like a dragon, one that would spew fire and burn everything to ash. We became depraved

Staring straight ahead, the fae castle in the distance, HDF glittering in the night like stars, I felt something shift inside me.

Whatever was ahead, whatever Killian had planned for me, I would come out alive.

 Whatever it took, whatever I had to do, I would survive. Live.

Because right there, I made a promise to myself.

I would kill Warwick Farkas.

 It was a promise I would not break.

I would become very monster the House of Death created

✨Tropes✨

  • 🥷🏻Badass FMC
  • ⚔️Revenge
  • ❤️‍🔥Enemies to Lovers
  • ☠️Touch Her and D!e
  • 🙈Forced Proximity
  • 🛏️One Bed

Savage Lands series

  • Savage Lands
  • Wild Lands
  • Dead Lands
  • Bad Lands
  • Blood Lands
  • Shadow Lands
  • Land of Ashes
  • Land of Monsters

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