Reviews tagging 'Violence'

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

468 reviews

jessiereads98's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark mysterious 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

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Overall this was really enjoyable. A unique take on Romeo and Juliet, but maybe the best one I’ve read in being both recognizable and tolerable. Chloe Gong successively captures the atmosphere of the setting. There does seem to be the occasional anachronism, but nothing glaring or intolerable. Juliette came off as the badass heroine that YA stories often strive for without seeming flat or cringey. My biggest criticism would be that this is definitely overwritten in parts. There’s many instances where the prose could be simplified and tightened up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Racism, Sexism, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Trafficking

g30rgina's review against another edition

4.5

dark 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: Complicated

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This book was very captivating. There are many plot twists and I enjoyed seeing the characters work together to gather information on the “madness”.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

_simply_cyndi_'s review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense

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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

rae42's review against another edition

2.75

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Seems to be missing a pre quel and seems like the fantasy element was only added to try and fix a plot hole 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, Classism

mythxcally's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-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: No

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I liked the mystery atmosphere of this book, where Roma and Juliette worked together and the romantic tension between them. 

However I felt the mystery was a little slow going to be investigated and the politic scenes with the individual characters could get very dry sometimes. The most interesting parts were when Roma and Juliette were together or Roma's trio because they're quite comical. 

However I was confused with Kathleen's story, it didn't explain it very well but from what I gathered she was trans? Still very confused and I think they could've explained it better!

I did get very invested with the characters and the twist at the end was surprising! Overall a really good book, would reccomend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

ashbreadin's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence

Moderate: Transphobia, Blood

chronicacademia's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicide, Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Drug use, Genocide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

amelias_library_'s review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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the beginning was slow but it got better towards the middle.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Classism

Minor: Homophobia, Transphobia

readsbymoonlight's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Colonisation

memoirsofabooklover's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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i enjoyed this more than i thought i would. i liked the modern retelling of romeo and juliet, &

that they already had a past & were aged up so it was a new take, despite it being obvious they’d end up together.

majority of the plot was predictable with a few unexpected twists in there. quite political; so took me a little longer to get into it but was relevant to the story. i liked some of the side characters, they added depth to the story and it was left in a way that i want to read the sequel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Grief, Alcohol