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A review by madison_tovey
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
3.0
2.5 rounded up
Here’s the thing...it’s not bad, it’s really not. It’s just not what I expected based on reviews and the synopsis.
I weirdly had the opposite reaction of everyone else, I thought it started strong, and then failed to follow through. The reason why I gave it such a low rating is because I think it delve WAY too much into the politics of it. Like, I assumed that most of the book was going to be how they are going to solve this “madness” or whatever, still was never clear on that. But instead it was who made it happen, and who was working with who.
ALSO, if you’re going to play into the enemies to lovers trope, which I have been known to love, how about, I don’t know, MAYBE ACTUALLY HAVING THE CHARACTERS INTERACT?! Half way through the book and Juliette and Roma, literally, only had 3 conversations, 2 if you’re counting more than 10 words being exchanged.
So, I still give it an alright rating because maybe it’s just me who isn’t big on spending a lot of time on politics. But I don’t make it higher cause, after all, this is a Romeo and Juliet retelling and yet this reads more like a bad wattpad fan fiction than Shakespeare. And I don’t specifically mean that Chloe Gong is a bad author, in fact I found her language and description the saving grace of the book, I just mean that the plot is....scattered? I don’t know the word but ya get the vibe.
Here’s the thing...it’s not bad, it’s really not. It’s just not what I expected based on reviews and the synopsis.
I weirdly had the opposite reaction of everyone else, I thought it started strong, and then failed to follow through. The reason why I gave it such a low rating is because I think it delve WAY too much into the politics of it. Like, I assumed that most of the book was going to be how they are going to solve this “madness” or whatever, still was never clear on that. But instead it was who made it happen, and who was working with who.
ALSO, if you’re going to play into the enemies to lovers trope, which I have been known to love, how about, I don’t know, MAYBE ACTUALLY HAVING THE CHARACTERS INTERACT?! Half way through the book and Juliette and Roma, literally, only had 3 conversations, 2 if you’re counting more than 10 words being exchanged.
So, I still give it an alright rating because maybe it’s just me who isn’t big on spending a lot of time on politics. But I don’t make it higher cause, after all, this is a Romeo and Juliet retelling and yet this reads more like a bad wattpad fan fiction than Shakespeare. And I don’t specifically mean that Chloe Gong is a bad author, in fact I found her language and description the saving grace of the book, I just mean that the plot is....scattered? I don’t know the word but ya get the vibe.