City of Savages

Lee Kelly

Feb 2015 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

“Red Dawn meets Escape from New York and The Hunger Games” (Booklist) in an action-packed dystopian fantasy filled with “prose [that] is gorgeous and brilliant” and “tells a satisfyingly dark tale through alternating the two sisters’ points of view” (VOYA, starred review).

It’s been nearly two decades since the Red Allies first attacked New York, and Manhattan is now a prisoner-of-war camp, ruled by Rolladin and her brutal, impulsive warlords. For Skyler Miller, Manhattan is a cage that keeps her from the world beyond the city’s borders. But for Sky’s younger sister, Phee, the POW camp is a dangerous playground of possibility, and the only home she’d ever want.

When Sky and Phee discover their mom’s hidden journal from the war’s outbreak, they both realize there’s more to Manhattan—and their mother—than either of them had ever imagined. And after a group of strangers arrives at the annual POW census, the girls begin to uncover the island’s long-kept secrets. The strangers hail from England, a country supposedly destroyed by the Red Allies, and Rolladin’s lies about Manhattan’s captivity begin to unravel.

Hungry for the truth, the sisters set a series of events in motion that end in the death of one of Rolladin’s guards. Now they’re outlaws, forced to join the strange Englishmen on an escape mission through Manhattan. Their flight takes them into subways haunted by cannibals, into the arms of a sadistic cult in the city’s Meatpacking District and, through the pages of their mom’s old journal, into the island’s dark and shocking past.

Ratings and reviews

I am usually a person who doesn't read books. Literally the last book i read cover to cover was the 6th Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, lol. When I started to get into the storyline, I could not put it down. This book keeps me reading and wanting to find more. I LOVE books that has a hidden story about one character and the reader slowly finds out, inch by inch, the history of that character. I highly recommend this book to ANYONE.

I just finished reading this book like last week and I much like the rest of the people who read it COULDNT PUT IT DOWN!!! I loved the story and when sky was reading the journal and it was revealed that Mary is Rolladin I saw it coming but I was genuinely infuriated by it and when they were...wait I might have revealed to much uhh...well I highly recommend this amazing story of the apocalyptic New York city, like no book I have ever read and if you start it you will be like sky and phee with their mother, Sarahs journal, you won't be able to put it down and you will be thinking about it constantly. So Lee Kelly I just want to say this, I love your writing style and I will always hold this book on the top shelf as my number 1 favorite story of all the books in the world and keep up the amazing work (ﾉ*0*)ﾉ❤️❤️❤️

I simply could not put it down. Good pacing and the alternation of narrators kept all the subplots moving coherently. Two thumbs up!

About the author

Lee Kelly is the author of A Criminal Magic and City of Savages. She has wanted to write since she was old enough to hold a pencil, but it wasn’t until she began studying for the California Bar Exam that she conveniently started putting pen to paper. An entertainment lawyer by trade, lee has practiced in Los Angeles and New York. She lives with her husband and son in Millburn, New Jersey. Follow her on at @LeeYKelly and on her website at NewWriteCity.com.