These Violent Delights

Chloe Gong

Young Adult FantasyFantasy

Summary

Within the dim-lit halls of a historic city brimming with hidden magic, Juliette Cai's world is one of secrets and shadows. Her life is intertwined with ancient pacts and modern angsts, where loyalty is a fragile thing and trust can be deadly. As rival factions vie for power amid crumbling palaces and bustling streets, her own motives evolve, blurring the lines between revenge and redemption. Each step she takes pulls her deeper into a labyrinth of danger, her choices echoing across generations and reshaping her destiny in a city caught between the past and the present.

'These Violent Delights' marks Chloe Gong’s meteoric rise in the YA fantasy scene, praised for her vivid prose and inventive blending of historical inspiration with supernatural elements. Critics often commend her sharp wit and compelling characterizations, making this debut series highly regarded among young adult readers. Some reviewers note that the complex, fast-paced plot can be overwhelming at times, but praise Gong’s ability to weave intricate emotional stakes into her layered worldbuilding. As the first installment, it established her as a fresh voice in a crowded genre, with potential for rapid growth and further series expansions.

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These Violent Delights

Shanghai in the 1920s smolders with danger and possibility as Juliette Cai returns to a fractured city and to the gang she once led. Haunted by the violent miracle in her past that left her with a...

Shanghai in the 1920s smolders with danger and possibility as Juliette Cai returns to a fractured city and to the gang she once led. Haunted by the violent miracle in her past that left her with a venomous secret, Juliette struggles to hold the Scarlet Gang together while a mysterious contagion begins to dissolve the minds of citizens. When Roma Montagov, heir to the rival White Flowers and the boy she once loved, reappears, the fragile truce between them is shattered by old betrayals and new hunting grounds. Thrown into an uneasy alliance, Juliette and Roma must race through a transformed Shanghai, following clues that point to biological manipulation and a pathogen that warps instinct and identity. As the city unravels with riots and betrayal, both must confront the private ghosts that made them who they are: guilt, desire, and the lingering ember of a love that could save or destroy them. Loyalties are tested, and each choice forces them toward violent reckonings that will determine whether the city survives or is swallowed whole.

2020 Year

14 Publications

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The contagion in Shanghai has spread its claws deeper, twisting minds and loyalties, and Juliette Cai wakes into a world where nothing can be trusted. She and Roma Montagov, each carrying wounds...

The contagion in Shanghai has spread its claws deeper, twisting minds and loyalties, and Juliette Cai wakes into a world where nothing can be trusted. She and Roma Montagov, each carrying wounds both fresh and old, find themselves forced into desperate maneuvers as secrets about the outbreak's origins surface and allies become liabilities. The war for the city's soul intensifies and the line between hunter and hunted blurs. Juliette must face the cost of the powers she wields and the consequences of choices she once believed necessary. Roma, bound by duty and grief, wrestles with revenge that could consume him. Together they follow a trail that leads back to betrayals at the heart of their families and to a truth that could end the madness—or doom them all. As violence escalates into sacrifice, love and vengeance collide in a finale that tests whether redemption is possible amid so much ruin.

2021 Year

10 Publications

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