Even if their families refuse to share information.Īs Juliette and Roma begin their joint investigation, they utilize their trusted family and friends to help them. It’s only after Roma’s own sister, Alisa, is infected that Juliette is convinced that she and Roma should work together to get to the bottom of the madness. Only Juliette and Roma seem truly interested in finding the source of this disease decimating the gangs’ numbers. But the city is teaming with so much activity and debauchery that this spreading madness is largely ignored. The contagion spreads, with the infected ripping their own throats out. The book opens with a mysterious creature crawling from the Huangpu River and leaving gang members from both sides dead. Recap Part 2: In Glittering Shanghai, A Monster AwakensĪ contagion, a madness, a monster – no one knows for sure. When they were fifteen, Juliette and Roma defied the blood feud in a moment of mutual peace and fell in love.īut we wouldn’t have a story if their love was allowed to grow and flourish, right? They were torn apart by betrayal and haven’t spoken since.

Our story centers around Juliette Cai, a former flapper girl who’s returned from her time in America to reclaim her place as heiress to the Scarlet Gang, and Roma Montagov, the mistreated and belittled heir of the White Flowers. The gangs’ once iron clad rule is slowly being chipped away by French and British foreigners carving out their own sections of the city, Nationalists fighting for power, and the rise of the Communist party sweeping through the working class. The city has been divided between the Scarlet Gang and the White Flowers – the streets painted red by their never-ending blood feud. The These Violent Delights Recap You Need Before You Read Our Violent Ends Recap Part 1: Sweat, Blood and Violence Stop reading here as the below will 1,000% include SPOILERS.WARNING – if you haven’t experienced the UTTER JOY that is reading These Violent Delights:

In order to prep for the release of Foul Lady Fortune on September 27, we’re re-reading Chloe’s first two books, and we’ve recapped what happens in These Violent Ends for you below.

The vicious parts of my heart soared (don’t worry – we all have them) and the homage Chloe pays to Romeo & Juliet is so expertly interwoven into the story that I squealed with joy.

If you’re like me, you fell in LOVE with Chloe Gong’s These Violent Delights when it came out last year.

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