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A review by dame_samara
Last Violent Call by Chloe Gong
5.0
So I will be honest, I didn't read the description of this book before I checked it out from the library, I had just previously seen it as book 3.5 in the Secret Shanghai series and was like add it to the stack. I don't need to know anything else, I will start it after Foul Lady Fortune and that is what I did.
So when I started the audiobook, I was diving in head first and did not look back at any point. So both parts were very much a surprise to me. When I found out the second half of this book was about Benedikt and Marshall... I may have made a sound that spooked the Cats that inhabit my home. I also can't say I regret the decision of going in blind either. It meant this brought me so much more joy then it otherwise would have.
Like I loved Foul Lady Fortune, but I of course missed Roma and Juliette, as well as Benedikt and Marshall. SO getting to take a step back from Shanghai and getting to see Roma and Juliette living their cute little domestic lives together in the quiet countryside, making their living RUNNING AN UNDERGROUND WEAPONS RING. Waking up together, finding out about their failed domestic projects, saving a young woman from being hunted down and possibly murdered, their relationships with the people in Zhouzhuang it was all super cute.
In follow up, it was also interesting to see how Juliette came to terms with getting back involved in the affairs of "the city" and reaching out to her family.
Benedikt and Marshall, out here trying to warm my cold queer heart. Thinking the need to have their "Murder on the Orient Express" C plotline and making me enjoy it, a ton and while the reveal wasn't as good as the ones in Foul Lady Fortune I did enjoy it a lot.
TLDR: It's (half) Gay and It Slaps! (It's Bi? lol) Also it did a really good job at trying to cure my cold depressed heart and I appreciate the attempt.
So when I started the audiobook, I was diving in head first and did not look back at any point. So both parts were very much a surprise to me. When I found out the second half of this book was about Benedikt and Marshall... I may have made a sound that spooked the Cats that inhabit my home. I also can't say I regret the decision of going in blind either. It meant this brought me so much more joy then it otherwise would have.
Like I loved Foul Lady Fortune, but I of course missed Roma and Juliette, as well as Benedikt and Marshall. SO getting to take a step back from Shanghai and getting to see Roma and Juliette living their cute little domestic lives together in the quiet countryside, making their living RUNNING AN UNDERGROUND WEAPONS RING. Waking up together, finding out about their failed domestic projects, saving a young woman from being hunted down and possibly murdered, their relationships with the people in Zhouzhuang it was all super cute.
In follow up, it was also interesting to see how Juliette came to terms with getting back involved in the affairs of "the city" and reaching out to her family.
Benedikt and Marshall, out here trying to warm my cold queer heart. Thinking the need to have their "Murder on the Orient Express" C plotline and making me enjoy it, a ton and while the reveal wasn't as good as the ones in Foul Lady Fortune I did enjoy it a lot.
TLDR: It's (half) Gay and It Slaps! (It's Bi? lol) Also it did a really good job at trying to cure my cold depressed heart and I appreciate the attempt.