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A review by starfleckedsoul
Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong
5.0
I finished this at around 11:57 last night. The whole day that I've been reading, I was on edge. I honestly don't know how to make this review coherent, so let's see how this goes.
Of course, Chloe Gong's writing has never failed to amaze me. In fact, it's her writing structure that made this book so climactic at every freaking turn. It's her writing that gave me, despite that ending, a good closure.
I'm honestly not in the right state of mind to make this review longer, but here's something I realized last night. Great authors don't insert character deaths just to give the story a flair, or some kind of twist. They don't write simply to impress the readers, or attend to their wishes for the characters. No, they write what is best and true to the story. Chloe wasn't afraid to do that. I'm devastated, truly. Juliette and Roma died so gruesomely, they never got to see and experience a lot of the things that they deserved. But there really couldn't have been anything else they could've done. It was what needed to be sacrificed. And I understand that. I feel like the whole time I dreaded it, I expected it, and I was just in denial. But I let myself hope too much. Anyways, Chloe is just amazing. I couldn't be any more grateful and honored that I got to read this duology.
BRB, I need an indefinite amount of time to recover.
Of course, Chloe Gong's writing has never failed to amaze me. In fact, it's her writing structure that made this book so climactic at every freaking turn. It's her writing that gave me, despite that ending, a good closure.
I'm honestly not in the right state of mind to make this review longer, but here's something I realized last night. Great authors don't insert character deaths just to give the story a flair, or some kind of twist. They don't write simply to impress the readers, or attend to their wishes for the characters. No, they write what is best and true to the story. Chloe wasn't afraid to do that. I'm devastated, truly. Juliette and Roma died so gruesomely, they never got to see and experience a lot of the things that they deserved. But there really couldn't have been anything else they could've done. It was what needed to be sacrificed. And I understand that. I feel like the whole time I dreaded it, I expected it, and I was just in denial. But I let myself hope too much. Anyways, Chloe is just amazing. I couldn't be any more grateful and honored that I got to read this duology.
BRB, I need an indefinite amount of time to recover.