(Warning: There will be spoiler from the 1st book, These Violent Delights!!) The monster of Shanghai who? I only know Miss Chloe Gong * sobbing * I can literally imagine this was how Chloe was when she wrote OVE: Just the way I got trolled so badly, like some of the events actually had me thinking otherwise but oh no no🤡 I am now and forever depressed™ I actually wasn’t expecting to be this heartbroken like WHY did I go ahead and fall in love with every single one of these characters? I was literally setting myself up for pain * sobs * But oh, isn’t that the beauty of reading? To fall in love only to have your heart broken. My heart has been stomped on, torn into pieces and thrown into an explosion. I don’t think I will ever truly recover and really I should’ve known better but of course I foolishly hoped.

Literally it was a full out sob-fest for me reading this. This is the 2nd time in my life that I’ve been this heartbroken over a book. 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.Ĭhloe you’re paying for my therapy bills ❤ 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.

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. 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. Roma is still reeling from Marshall’s death, and his cousin Benedikt will barely speak to him. If Juliette were actually guilty of the crime Roma believes she committed, his rejection might sting less. 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. One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang’s heir. The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution.Īfter sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on the warpath. Shanghai is under siege in this captivating and searingly romantic sequel to These Violent Delights, which New York Times bestselling author Natasha Ngan calls “deliciously dark.”

Our violent ends by chloe gong