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Foul Heart Huntsman by Chloe Gong

23 reviews

linblythe_pub22's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Confinement, Physical abuse, Torture, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Car accident

teddy_books's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Violence, Medical trauma, Murder, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Gaslighting

Minor: Terminal illness, Car accident, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

emilywemily6's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

This book was such a good conclusion to the series and these characters. I didn’t know how it would all work out for them, but it did and it makes sense without being too out there. I feel like you need to read the novellas to know how certain characters play a role in this book that don’t appear in the Foul Lady Fortune. I also feel like some really important plot points get resolved a little too quickly/without conflict considering how long this book is. This was a compelling read that I couldn’t put down and I am sad to leave this world!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Self harm, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Torture, Medical content, and Kidnapping

Minor: Car accident, Abandonment, and Classism

lisashelves's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Torture and Vomit

wet_towlette's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

5.0

CHLOE GONG THE WOMAN THAT YOU ARE. bro I can’t believe the Shanghai series is over this is absurd. There is always something about Chloe’s second books that get me to my core. It was so fun and exciting and like an action movie but made for the squealing teenage girls like me. The ending was perfect. I loved her notes and the end I thought it was really well done. Even though there is a lot of perspectives in this book and for a bit I thought that would be a complaint, they actually turned out to be really engaging and interesting in their own right. Like for a while I really cared to read about Rosalind and Orion but then it all started to work together and the pieces were falling into place and ITS JUST ALL SO GOOD I SWEAR BRO THE CHLOE GONG SECOND BOOKS JUST HIT DIFFERENT 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Minor: Transphobia

jenny_librarian's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

As good as the others! This last Secret Shanghai novel brings a beautiful end to the saga, with as many twists and turns as one can expect from Chloe Gong.

A lot happened in there, and I don’t mean only with the characters. Once again, the tense historical Chinese background blooms through and gives this story life. The setting is its own character and really elevates the whole thing from good to great.

I don’t usually love stories where everyone gets matched, but these couples have been in the work for two books, and some of the side characters have been together longer. So I can forgive it. And the demiromantic and trans rep included so smoothly makes it even better.

The last act might have required some suspension of disbelief (despite everything, I draw the line at that blood transfusion 🙈), but it doesn’t diminish my love for this series.

Thank you, Chloe Gong, for introducing me to early 20th century Shanghai and its many layers through a story that started as a Romeo & Juliet retelling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Child death, Sexism, Torture, Transphobia, and Police brutality

kassidyreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Torture and Medical content

epellicci's review

adventurous funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

As much as I wanted to love this book... I didn't. The relationship I already had with the characters from previous installments is what kept me invested.

I think what lets Foul Hearts Huntsman down the most is that the entire plot is underpinned by the politics of an era torn by civil war and the threat of foreign invasion, but nowhere does it feel like that politics has been well researched. On several occasions, Chloe Gong tried to brush this off with the characters acknowledging that everything going on was so much bigger than them as individuals, but to be honest this just detracted from their steadfast commitment to their political factions in the first book. It was confusing and a touch lackluster.

Despite several things I didn't enjoy about the book, Gong is back on her stuff when it comes to writing fun, adorable romances. The character relationships bring humour and emotional investment to what would have otherwise been a bit of a disaster. I loved the revival of TVD/TVE characters in particular (although I'd expected a lot more from Ben and Mars after reading Last Violent Call!) 

Very mixed feelings in the end for this one. Despite the neat and tidy ending, I was left wanting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Kidnapping

khnleesi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny reflective 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

chloe gong: do you want a deal with the devil?
me: ..... what am i gonna do with a soul anyways? souls are boring!
(review to come but <3<3<3)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

sarah_loves_books's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Emotional abuse, Torture, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent