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These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

25 reviews

introvertinterrupted's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Drug abuse, Drug use, Xenophobia, Murder, Medical content, Gore, Death of parent, Deadnaming, Blood, Animal death, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Toxic relationship, Torture, Terminal illness, Stalking, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Hate crime, and Animal cruelty

annescorner's review

dark emotional mysterious 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

Loved the characters - they were flawed but strong.
Loved the way Mandarin was incorporated in the novel, as well as Shanghai's historical background.
There was so much suspense that my fingers were itching.
The ending was great - though heartbreaking, sad and horrifying. It makes me look forward to book to!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Death, and Drug abuse

Minor: Cursing

thatbookishfamily's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Gore

Moderate: Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, and Violence

awitchisreading's review against another edition

tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Own voices story with some lgtbq+ rep Slow paced feels like historical fiction ya with elements of horror/gore. Heavy political socieoeconomics for the time with xenophobic connotations and multiculturalism within Shanghai. Really well written. You can tell the author loves the city. Doesn’t really read like fantasy. Minimal romance. Pace really picks up in the last seven or so chapters when everything comes together. Didn’t feel much connection to the main characters who are morally grey but side characters Kathleen, Marshall and Alisa are really likeable and interesting. I liked learning their stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Alcoholism and Drug abuse

Minor: Mental illness and Racism

Parental abuse

ehmannky's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Truly a wonderful take on Romeo and Juliet that is violent and brutal and passionate. Word of warning though. The violence is super gory, much more than I thought it would be (people tear out their throats with their bare hands--not a spoiler, this happens in the first few chapters) and I would have liked to be a bit more prepared for what was coming.
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On reading it through a second time (and apparently in the last year I've lost a lot of my capacity to deal with the levels of gore that is depicted in this book), I felt that this series just didn't hit him the same way the first time. It's not bad, just not for me anymore. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Police brutality and Racism

Minor: Drug abuse and Drug use