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A review by doodayoussef
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
2.0
I am still 100 pages away from the ending but I have made up my mind about this book. At first I was enjoying it so much. It was a great start of a fantasy book. Despite me not liking Juliette pov most of the time, I liked following other characters. I had my ghost ship in this book and liked some of the characters background however the story was dragging too much.
First let’s talk about Juliette pov. In my opinion she sounded pretentious. She wants to act strong when she is nothing near strong, have identity crisis and sounded excessively arrogant at some point. I get she is the heiress of a gang but… she just wasn’t to my liking.
Moving on to the plot dragging, the book introduced a monster in the first page of the book and until page 100 it felt like they are running after nothing. A delusional maybe. The monster rarely appeared and people just kept dying. Some people would think it would keep to know until the end what kind of monster that is, but I just got bored. It’s like fighting with yourself and you don’t know who is your enemy.
Now moving to the romance part, it’s almost not existent. I couldn’t connect with the characters emotions. I didn’t feel the angst the writer was trying so hard to deliver. It just didn’t hit. Cause beside we didn’t know the monster the whole book we also didn’t know Roma and Juliette history and we are expected to relate to their pain. Even the slightest tension between them wasn’t there
First let’s talk about Juliette pov. In my opinion she sounded pretentious. She wants to act strong when she is nothing near strong, have identity crisis and sounded excessively arrogant at some point. I get she is the heiress of a gang but… she just wasn’t to my liking.
Moving on to the plot dragging, the book introduced a monster in the first page of the book and until page 100 it felt like they are running after nothing. A delusional maybe. The monster rarely appeared and people just kept dying. Some people would think it would keep to know until the end what kind of monster that is, but I just got bored. It’s like fighting with yourself and you don’t know who is your enemy.
Now moving to the romance part, it’s almost not existent. I couldn’t connect with the characters emotions. I didn’t feel the angst the writer was trying so hard to deliver. It just didn’t hit. Cause beside we didn’t know the monster the whole book we also didn’t know Roma and Juliette history and we are expected to relate to their pain. Even the slightest tension between them wasn’t there