Book Review:
Title: These Violent Delights
Author: Chloe Gong
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
I received an early copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
“So don’t start believing that skill is all it takes to stay at the top. Loyalty plays its dirty hand too, and it is a fickle, ever-changing thing.”
The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery.
A
blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city
helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is
eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to
assume her role as the proud heir of the Scarlet Gang—a network of
criminals far above the law. Their only rivals in power are the White
Flowers, who have fought the Scarlets for generations. And behind every
move is their heir, Roma Montagov, Juliette’s first love…and first
betrayal.
But when gangsters on both sides show signs of
instability culminating in clawing their own throats out, the people
start to whisper. Of a contagion, a madness. Of a monster in the
shadows. As the deaths stack up, Juliette and Roma must set their
guns—and grudges—aside and work together, for if they can’t stop this
mayhem, then there will be no city left for either to rule.