Our Violent Ends

These Violent Delights, Book 2

By: Chloe Gong

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

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.

©2021 Chloe Gong (P)2021 Tantor

Enjoyable

I enjoyed this for the most part. the narrator was fine, she just spoke a little too slow for my taste.

hard to hear

great story! my only issue is that the reader sometimes whispers and talks so low that it is inaudible, for example in particular when she reads lines in French.

One of the most amazing duolgies ever!

Truly one of the most incredibly gripping, heart wrenching, and phenomenal fantasy duologies I’ve ever read. I don’t have the words.

This is absolutely magnificent all around.

This Did Not Need To Be Two Books

And it certainly didn't need to be almost 1,000 pages combined. This book was beautifully written, but ran on the same juice as the first book. There was nothing fresh about it, no plot twist. The multiple POVs slowed the story and truthfully, I didn't feel invested in any character at the half way mark. They're all 19 and immature and it showed. There was no reason for this to be so long and feature the same 'virus' which was the entire plot of the first book, but character development drove this book. We didn't get a lot of answers which irked me. The narrator was just too slow and too quiet. I couldn't differentiate the character's voices. Good effort all around, but not my cup of tea.

Was expecting romance and got pg love

Yall, there is no sex. I read two whole books for a make-out scene. LOL but it was entertaining and I liked the voices!