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4.29 AVERAGE
4.29 AVERAGE
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I don't care what anyone says, they're alive and happy somewhere.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
“'This is a city built on labor,' Juliette said coldly. 'If madness tears through the streets once again, we are only as safe as the weakest and poorest. They fall, and we fall too. Do you forget who runs your factories? Do you forget how your shops open every morning?'”
This book was mid for a few reasons
- I was promised scary creepy monsters throughout,, it felt like they were only mentioned when convenient and there were maybe four attacks throughout the book as a whole?? As opposed to the first book where the mystery was more intriguing and scary. Nevermind that they gave up on the monster hunt halfway through
- I was promised gangsters and mob rule,, instead I got a lot of politics that I skimmed
- The main character was a bitch to literally everyone in her life but she still gets the man? thats kinda wack
- The amount of fake deaths in this book and near suicides/murders as a result? Far too many. FIVE!!! It got stale
- Child murder as a plot device? Sadistic child murder at that. No thank you
- The ending was anticlimactic for me
but this book was GREAT for a few reasons
- it delivered on the enemies to lovers
- It had two gay disasters who got together in the end (and other queer representation yay)
- The narrator (Cindy Kay - Audiobook) was great in the train monster scene
- The politics were still relatively easy to follow? They were just boring
- I was promised scary creepy monsters throughout,, it felt like they were only mentioned when convenient and there were maybe four attacks throughout the book as a whole?? As opposed to the first book where the mystery was more intriguing and scary. Nevermind that they gave up on the monster hunt halfway through
- I was promised gangsters and mob rule,, instead I got a lot of politics that I skimmed
- The main character was a bitch to literally everyone in her life but she still gets the man? thats kinda wack
- The amount of fake deaths in this book and near suicides/murders as a result? Far too many. FIVE!!! It got stale
- Child murder as a plot device? Sadistic child murder at that. No thank you
- The ending was anticlimactic for me
but this book was GREAT for a few reasons
- it delivered on the enemies to lovers
- It had two gay disasters who got together in the end (and other queer representation yay)
- The narrator (Cindy Kay - Audiobook) was great in the train monster scene
- The politics were still relatively easy to follow? They were just boring
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
To have and to hold, where even death cannot part us.”
“In this life and the next, for however long our souls remain, mine will always find yours.”
I don’t think I have the right to act shocked and sad about a book based off Romeo and Juliet as if I haven’t ever read or heard about it.
Their love story it beautiful. I would tattoo the above quote on my body.
I loved this book way more than the first one and I think it’s because I knew what to expect this time around and spent time investing myself into the story. Gong’s writing pulls you in for the long haul and so having experience helped me immerse myself into her tale. I definitely will be re reading These Violent Delights but you know that trend where people say “books I wish I could experience for the same time again.” This duology would make my list.
Also this is going to be a personal hot take - but I was noticing the other day that my favorite books ever are duologys and I know that a lot of people disagree with that but I was just making a note.
“In this life and the next, for however long our souls remain, mine will always find yours.”
I don’t think I have the right to act shocked and sad about a book based off Romeo and Juliet as if I haven’t ever read or heard about it.
Their love story it beautiful. I would tattoo the above quote on my body.
I loved this book way more than the first one and I think it’s because I knew what to expect this time around and spent time investing myself into the story. Gong’s writing pulls you in for the long haul and so having experience helped me immerse myself into her tale. I definitely will be re reading These Violent Delights but you know that trend where people say “books I wish I could experience for the same time again.” This duology would make my list.
Also this is going to be a personal hot take - but I was noticing the other day that my favorite books ever are duologys and I know that a lot of people disagree with that but I was just making a note.