ABOUT
Chloe Gong is the New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and its sequel Our Violent Ends. She is a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she double-majored in English and International Relations. Born in Shanghai and raised in Auckland, New Zealand, Chloe is now located in New York pretending to be a real adult.
After devouring the entire YA section of her local library, she started writing her own novels at age 13 to keep herself entertained, and has been highly entertained ever since. Chloe has been known to mysteriously appear by chanting “Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s best plays and doesn’t deserve its slander in pop culture” into a mirror three times.
You can find her on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok under @thechloegong. She is represented by the wonderful Laura Crockett at TriadaUS Literary Agency.
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.
Review: This sequel is edge of your seat , nail biting action from the start. Our Violent Ends is jam packed with adventure and dangerous schemes that will have you second guessing everything you thought you knew. This story has soo many twists and turns that I was never sure who could be trusted. The tension between Roma and Juliette was so thick, and there were times I just wanted to scream at them and tell them they were being stupid and to kiss already. I was beside myself with all of the back and forth with these two. The monsters take on a terrifying twist leaving more death and carnage not to mention mounting terror from the communists trying to take over. Between the political restore and the monsters I honestly was not sure which was worse. This all builds up until an absolutely heartbreaking and beautiful conclusion completely wrecked me in the best of ways I highly recommend this series but read lightly.. terror and gore awaits.
US:
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UK:
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Amazon: https://amzn.to/3wy5Rkq
Blackwell’s: https://bit.ly/3uu0f91
NZ:
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Whitcoulls: coming soon
Worldwide:
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Content Warnings: Blood, violence, gore, character deaths, murder (including mass murder), war themes, torture, weapon use, insects, alcohol consumption, parental abuse.
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