Savage Saints by J.A. Huss

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Pell learns to love pants.
Pie learns to love magic.
And Tomas learns to love a woman.

Pie and Pell are like two peas in a pod. Meant for each other, madly in love, and living their best lives as Mr. and Mrs. Monster of Saint Mark’s. Kind of. Pie is dreading her new job working for the tall, dark, and sleek Modern Minotaur. And the irony that just a few weeks ago she was demanding that Pell allow her to get a job to support the sanctuary, isn’t lost. It’s like the gods are playing with her on purpose.

Pell is still his grumpy self but he’s got a new job as well—babysitting a bag of magic rings that seem to have a mind of their own. No matter where he hides them, they will not stay put. Add in a doorway he can suddenly see and a new power he forgot he had, and well… things are getting interesting.

Tomas is a brand-new man. Literally. His new freedoms are just the beginning of his adventure into modern humanity. Not only can he leave the sanctuary, drive a truck, and spend time with the people in Granite Springs—he also learns how to cheat the rules.

Everything has changed for the better. But when Pie discovers the secrets of magic, Pell uncovers the real purpose of the rings, and Tomas falls in love with a Townie… things change again.

b>Only this time, they’re the ones with all the power.

Savage Saints

Unique and unpredictable!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙❤️💚🖤
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎🌍
Character development: 😕😊😄😘🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Pie – she has spent her whole life as a human girl, albeit a lonely one who was abandoned by her mother at a young age because everyone thought she was crazy. She had an imaginary friend, a bird named Pia who spoke to her. Though now everything has changed. She now is a nymph chimera, a monster. She was told she was no longer the caretaker of St. Marks Sanctuary, but she still owes a debt that is growing every day now that a bunch of monsters have arrived.

The Hero: Pell – he loves Pie and is devoted to making her life better. He is a satyr chimera. His old friend Tarq, a Minotaur, now holds Pie’s debt and she has to work for him in his other world, through his tomb. While Pie is away at work, Pell finds new purpose at the sanctuary, creating magic of his own and working hard as a blacksmith. He is changing as well, and is starting to question things about the sanctuary, like where all the tombs are coming from, since more fill the graveyard all the time.

The Story: I had thought this book would be more of Tomas’s story and in a way, it was, but it was also Pell and Pie’s continuing story. Tomas is no longer a dragon; he has changed into a dragon chimera and both he and Pell have magical rings and they can leave the sanctuary and go into town looking like human males. They also found a bag full of magical rings for all the other monsters who are now roaming the sanctuary. Though Pie and Pell have kept the bag of rings hidden since they don’t think allowing all the monsters to walk free into the human world is a good idea. Though the bag full of magic rings keeps popping up all over the place.

There are a bunch of fantastic characters in this book besides Pie, Pell, Thomas and Tarq. All the other monsters are great, and Thomas is the only one who can speak their language. Pie gives them all great names, like Batty, Eyebrows, Cookie and more. There is also Talina (the other nymph chimera who works with Pie), Madeline (the human girl Tomas starts dating) and of course, Russ Roth (the local sheriff). Russ Roth has gathered a posse of others and are calling themselves the Savage Saints and they are trying to hunt down all the monsters.

A whole heck of a lot happens in this book, especially towards the ending. There is an evil queen, a lot of magic, and things get pretty messy for the monsters of Saint Mark’s. One thing I really liked about this book and series is that it is unlike any other I have read in the past. Not only are the monsters different than most other paranormal books, but the story is unique and unpredictable which I love.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Jason Clarke and Hathaway Lee. Both of these are terrific narrators and both of them are great at using different voices and accents for different characters, especially Jason Clarke, who does a whole cast of male characters in this one.

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