Save You
Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for the digital review copy in advance. This book, now translated into English, hits shelves today, September 2nd.
As I did with my review for Save Me, let me preface this by saying, I have not watched the television series on Amazon Prime and went into this completely blind. It’s my understanding that the first season of the show roughly follows the first book. This is book two in the trilogy and after the cliffhanger of Save Me’s ending, I was ready for it!
Here’s where we pick up:
Ruby Bell is in sixth form at Maxton Hall. In the last several months she’s formed an unlikely friendship and love interest in James Beaufort. He’s wealthy and popular; he’s also just been met with an awful tragedy at the close of book 1, a tragedy so awful that he falls back into some of his bad habits. Ruby is witness to this and while she longs to comfort him, she’s also incredibly hurt. The book also introduces new points of view in Ruby’s sister, Ember, and James’s sister, Lydia.
I didn’t quite eat this one up the way I did the first, but there was so much I still loved about it, including:
🤍 The second-chance romance aspect for James and Ruby
🤍 The exploration and navigation of grief
🤍 The additional points of view (and it looks like from the short preview of book 3 included in this one, we’ll get yet another voice soon!)
This one held my attention to the end just like the last one. I wish I had the final book in my hands already because these cliffhangers are frustrating! This one somehow felt both less and more dramatic than the prior ending somehow. For me, the pacing dipped a little in the middle and the general teen angst isn’t always my cup, but overall I still really liked it and am looking forward to reading the final book. I think I’ll probably wait until I’ve finished the entire trilogy before diving into the TV series, so that I can keep the characters in my mind the way I imagined them first.
With that said, Berkley Publishing, feel free to approve that advance reader copy for me on NetGalley, okay? If not, then I guess I’ll wait around until November 6th like the other eager readers.
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This book did not include any on-page intimate scenes, unlike book 1. However, the characters do recall the open-door scene from Save Me with vague descriptions a few times in this book.
