Ancient Among Us
Battle for Forever • Book 2
by Edward Savio
Why You'll Love This
If Saturday alone involves a stadium collapse, a car through a building, and a street explosion, buckle up for the rest of the week.
- Great if you want: high-octane action wrapped around a genuinely unsettling moral stakes
- The experience: relentless pacing — barely a chapter without escalation or threat
- The writing: Savio keeps chaos readable — each scene lands before the next one hits
- Skip if: you want quiet, character-driven mystery over breakneck thriller energy
About This Book
What would you do if survival meant sacrificing everyone around you — and someone just like you was willing to make that trade? In Ancient Among Us, Edward Savio raises the stakes of his Battle for Forever series to a genuinely unsettling pitch. Alexander X is no longer just running from danger; he's racing against a plan that could preserve a select few at catastrophic cost to the rest of humanity. The threat feels both intimate and world-ending, and the moral weight of that tension is what gives this book its edge. This isn't a story about good versus evil — it's about what people become when they've lived long enough to stop fearing consequences.
Savio writes action the way a good director blocks a chase sequence — kinetic, relentless, and spatially precise, so you always know exactly where everyone is and how much time they have. But the series' real strength is its escalation: each book builds on the last without feeling like a retread. At 448 pages, Ancient Among Us earns its length, balancing momentum with the quieter moments that make the larger questions actually land.
