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Title: Our Violent Ends
Author: Chloe Gong
After amazing These Violent Delights I was not sure the sequel could be as good but I was so wrong. This book is even better! All the characters we came to adore in first book are back and they have even bigger problems to solve. Juliette, Roma, Kathleen, Marshall and Benedikt may have defeted the monster, but it was not the only one and with Shanghai politics playing a giant role in everything that happens we get such a complex story it was a real fun to read and try to figure out.
The real strength of this book are the characters. They all have grown so much since the beginning of the first book, especially Kathleen was a real star in this one. I was really rooting for Juliette and Roma’s relationship and I am happy with how things turned out between them.
There were so many plot twists, betrayals, changing sides and so much action I read it in one sitting, literally could not put it down. Every time I thought I figured something out just around the corner was a plot twist that turned everything upside down and left me wondering (and worrying) how can this story end.
And that ending… it destroyed me and I am not even mad because it was such a perfect ending for Juliette and Roma’s story. I loved this book and can’t wait to see what else Chloe Gong is going to write because she just became one of my favorite authors.
Genre:YA Fantasy, Retelling (Romeo and Juliet)
Series: These Violent Delights (book #2)
Pages: 494
Synopsis:
Shanghai is under siege in this captivating and searingly romantic sequel to These Violent Delights, which New York Times bestselling author Natasha Ngan calls “deliciously dark.”
The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution.
After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on the warpath. One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang’s heir. The only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the Scarlets is to have him want her dead for murdering his best friend in cold blood. If Juliette were actually guilty of the crime Roma believes she committed, his rejection might sting less.
Roma is still reeling from Marshall’s death, and his cousin Benedikt will barely speak to him. Roma knows it’s his fault for letting the ruthless Juliette back into his life, and he’s determined to set things right—even if that means killing the girl he hates and loves with equal measure.
Then a new monstrous danger emerges in the city, and though secrets keep them apart, Juliette must secure Roma’s cooperation if they are to end this threat once and for all. Shanghai is already at a boiling point: The Nationalists are marching in, whispers of civil war brew louder every day, and gangster rule faces complete annihilation. Roma and Juliette must put aside their differences to combat monsters and politics, but they aren’t prepared for the biggest threat of all: protecting their hearts from each other.
The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution.
After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on the warpath. One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang’s heir. The only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the Scarlets is to have him want her dead for murdering his best friend in cold blood. If Juliette were actually guilty of the crime Roma believes she committed, his rejection might sting less.
Roma is still reeling from Marshall’s death, and his cousin Benedikt will barely speak to him. Roma knows it’s his fault for letting the ruthless Juliette back into his life, and he’s determined to set things right—even if that means killing the girl he hates and loves with equal measure.
Then a new monstrous danger emerges in the city, and though secrets keep them apart, Juliette must secure Roma’s cooperation if they are to end this threat once and for all. Shanghai is already at a boiling point: The Nationalists are marching in, whispers of civil war brew louder every day, and gangster rule faces complete annihilation. Roma and Juliette must put aside their differences to combat monsters and politics, but they aren’t prepared for the biggest threat of all: protecting their hearts from each other.
Review & thoughts:
The real strength of this book are the characters. They all have grown so much since the beginning of the first book, especially Kathleen was a real star in this one. I was really rooting for Juliette and Roma’s relationship and I am happy with how things turned out between them.
There were so many plot twists, betrayals, changing sides and so much action I read it in one sitting, literally could not put it down. Every time I thought I figured something out just around the corner was a plot twist that turned everything upside down and left me wondering (and worrying) how can this story end.
And that ending… it destroyed me and I am not even mad because it was such a perfect ending for Juliette and Roma’s story. I loved this book and can’t wait to see what else Chloe Gong is going to write because she just became one of my favorite authors.
Rating:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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