That’s what I loved most about Juliette and Roma: both think they know the other through and through until the cracks start to show in their facade. The characters all have a voice of their own, and a unique way of seeing the world and each other. I didn’t have a moment that really knocked me off my feet. Related to that: These Violent Delights does have some good twists at the end, but they weren’t completely unexpected. It’s possible that, because the story switches viewpoints between different characters, the reader sometimes gets too much information, and it would’ve been more exciting to have less information and be surprised. While all the scenes seemed to have a purpose and increased the tension of the story, I feel some of them could’ve been packed together or omitted.

Yet, at some points, it did feel somewhat slow. A lot is going on in the story, and it’s also pretty fast-paced. With every clue uncovered, we get closer, yet things also get more and more complicated.Īnd most of all, we wonder: what actually happened between Roma and Juliette? What did Roma do, and why did he do it?Īs you can see: that’s a lot of questions. Gong keeps us on our feet, trying to figure out what the monster is, how the madness spreads, and who’s behind it all. Violent, bloody, and exciting: that’s these violent delights. If they fail, there won’t be a city for them left to rule. Roma and Juliette are forced to set aside their grudges and guns to work together so that they can stop the madness. But things turn dark when an incomprehensible madness has gangsters on both sides clawing out their own throats. He’s Julliette’s first love and first betrayal. Their rival is the White Flowers, with their heir Roma Montagov. On the one hand, we have the heir of the Scarlet Gang, Juliette Cai. In Shanghai, 1926, the city is in the grips of chaos, with a blood feud between two gangs turning the streets red.

These violent delights book review