Our Violent Ends

These Violent Delights, Book 2

By: Chloe Gong

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's summary

The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution. After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on the warpath. One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang's heir. The only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the Scarlets is to have him want her dead for murdering his best friend in cold blood. If Juliette were actually guilty of the crime Roma believes she committed, his rejection might sting less.

Roma is still reeling from Marshall's death, and his cousin Benedikt will barely speak to him. Roma knows it's his fault for letting the ruthless Juliette back into his life, and he's determined to set things right - even if that means killing the girl he hates and loves with equal measure.

Then a new monstrous danger emerges in the city, and though secrets keep them apart, Juliette must secure Roma's cooperation if they are to end this threat once and for all. Shanghai is already at a boiling point: The Nationalists are marching in, whispers of civil war brew louder every day, and gangster rule faces complete annihilation. Roma and Juliette must put aside their differences to combat monsters and politics, but they aren't prepared for the biggest threat of all: protecting their hearts from each other.

©2021 Chloe Gong (P)2021 Tantor

hard to hear

great story! my only issue is that the reader sometimes whispers and talks so low that it is inaudible, for example in particular when she reads lines in French.

Enjoyable

I enjoyed this for the most part. the narrator was fine, she just spoke a little too slow for my taste.

One of the most amazing duolgies ever!

Truly one of the most incredibly gripping, heart wrenching, and phenomenal fantasy duologies I’ve ever read. I don’t have the words.

This is absolutely magnificent all around.

Beautiful 😭😭😭

I will have it in my mind for a while, just perfect.I love it!

There is a fine line between love and hate

I loved this book duology because of the world building, setting, strong main characters, and inclusion of multiple cultures with many languages (Mandarin, French, Russian...) in the text that I'd never read before in any other book! This is such a gem to read as a trilingual multicultural individual! I disliked the constant tension, fighting, and sadness in the second book but then again, violence was preluded to from the titles. The ENDING 😭 I should've expected in retrospect but I'm still sad about and was not prepared!! Taking the next few hours to recover 🤧 That said, I'm excited for Chloe Gong's next book Foul Lady Fortune coming in Fall 2022!

Binge listened

The plot and characters were well developed. I expected the ending and it still made me sad.

I’m let down

Everyone raves about this book, it was a fun retelling of Romeo and Juliet, and I knew they were going to die but the ending just left me feeling bland… I won’t recommend it

Wish I could give 0 stars

Worst book ever and the voices make it worse, the convoluted side story do help an already weak premise

second book syndrome

I wasnt as impressed with this book. I found it boring honestly. It was very political, and a lot more of a blatant Romeo and Juliet retelling. I was disappointed by the ending, of course they both "die". I was more invested in Marshall and Benedicts relationship than anything else, but then they just randomly moved to Moscow at the end? It was weird and felt incomplete. Also, the narrator couldn't seem to keep her Russian accent for the Montagovas. Half the time they had it and half the time they didn't. All around unimpressed.

I did not like it

It was so boring. I really struggled through this one. It did not hold my attention at all.