Our Violent Ends: the unputdownable, thrilling sequel to the astonishing fantasy romance These Violent Delights: These Violent Delights
Autor Chloe Gongen Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 noi 2022
Suntem de părere că Our Violent Ends reprezintă punctul culminant al unei viziuni ambițioase asupra Shanghaiului interbelic, reușind să ridice mizele stabilite anterior de Chloe Gong. Dacă în primul volum am asistat la o introducere în lumea decadentă a anilor '20, acest sequel ne aruncă direct în mijlocul haosului din 1927, unde tensiunea politică dintre facțiunile criminale este pe punctul de a exploda sub presiunea marșului Naționaliștilor. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autoarea integrează elementele supranaturale într-un context istoric atât de dens; monștrii care amenință orașul nu sunt doar creaturi de coșmar, ci și metafore pentru descompunerea ordinii sociale sub domnia bandelor Scarlet Gang și White Flowers.
Subliniem construcția lumii, unde tehnologia incipientă și misticismul se ciocnesc pe străzile luminate de neon. Ritmul narativ este unul alert, alimentat de dinamica „enemies-to-lovers” dintre Juliette și Roma, personajele fiind forțate să aleagă între loialitatea față de familie și o iubire marcată de trădare. Cei care au parcurs Bright Smoke, Cold Fire de Rosamund Hodge vor fi pregătiți pentru această atmosferă încărcată de fatalism, unde datoria cântărește mai mult decât viața, însă Chloe Gong adaugă o notă distinctă de brutalitate mafiotă și realism politic. În contextul operei sale, cartea păstrează rigoarea istorică și intensitatea emoțională regăsite și în Foul Lady Fortune sau Immortal Longings, demonstrând predilecția autoarei pentru reinterpretări curajoase ale clasicilor într-un cadru oriental vibrant.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1529344581
Pagini: 494
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Hodderscape
Seria These Violent Delights
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii de la cititorii Books Express
Firru . a dat nota:
This book was just--wow. Probably one of the most stressful books I've ever read, but in the best way possible. When reading These Violent Delights, it took me a good chunk of the book to get into the story, but Our Violent Ends had me utterly hooked from the start. The writing made me feel as though I was in 1920s Shanghai right along side Roma and Juliette.
De ce să citești această carte
Această lectură este esențială pentru cei care caută o experiență fantasy istorică intensă, unde romantismul nu eclipsează complexitatea politică. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă fascinantă asupra Shanghaiului anilor '20, reinterpretat printr-o lentilă întunecată și violentă. Este o recomandare certă pentru fanii poveștilor de dragoste imposibile, care apreciază o structură narativă ce îmbină perfect elementele de thriller cu cele de ficțiune speculativă.
Despre autor
Chloe Gong este o scriitoare de origine chineză, stabilită în Noua Zeelandă, care a devenit rapid o voce de referință în literatura pentru tineri. Debutul său cu These Violent Delights a propulsat-o direct în topul listelor de bestseller New York Times, fiind aclamată pentru capacitatea de a transpune teme universale în contexte culturale specifice. Stilul său se remarcă prin descrieri senzoriale bogate și o explorare neînfricată a consecințelor violenței și puterii, teme care traversează întreaga sa bibliografie, de la ficțiunea istorică la cyberpunk-ul din Coldwire.
Descriere
'Deliciously dark' NATASHA NGAN
'Heady, smart and vicious' TESSA GRATTON
The heartstopping and unputdownable sequel to These Violent Delights, a searingly romantic fantasy retelling of Romeo and Juliet set in 1920s Shanghai.
SHANGHAI, 1927: Juliette Cai is on the warpath. One wrong move, and her cousin will take her place as the Scarlet Gang's heir. The only way to protect Roma, and herself, is to let the boy she loves believe she murdered his best friend in cold blood.
Roma is still reeling from Marshall's death, and his cousin Benedikt will barely speak to him. Roma blames himself for letting Juliette 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.
Then a new monstrous danger emerges in the city. Shanghai is at boiling point: the Nationalists are marching in, whispers of civil war are brewing, and gangster rule faces complete annihilation. 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.
TROPES
Second chance romance °*⁀➷
Mafia 🔫
Star-crossed lovers 🌠💗
Betrayal🩸🗡️
READERS LOVE CHLOE GONG
'Chloe Gong has done another fantastic job at ripping out my heart and stomping on it. I AM DEVASTATED. THIS BOOK WAS SO GOOD. I AM RUINED' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'I would read this again and again. The emotions I felt during this book were unreal' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'I love them with my whole heart. I did however cried a lot... like, A LOT. But I don't regret ever buying it. It is now one of my favorite books' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'If you haven't picked up this duology yet then please do it, you won't regret it and you will wonder why you didn't pick it up sooner!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'First off: how dare you? In all seriousness: this book is fantastic. It's the perfect violent end to violent delights and I was enchanted but also deeply moved' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Recenzii
Chloe Gong's These Violent Delights plants a Shakespearean classic in the rich soil of 1920s Shanghai, allowing her characters to grow, flourish, and steal your heart while warring against their own
Gong ensnares readers with a delicious tale of family rivalries and forbidden love all set against the glittering backdrop of 1920s Shanghai. Don't miss this dark and beautiful retelling of Romeo and Juliet!
A deliciously dark twist on Romeo and Juliet that feels vibrant, modern, and wholly exciting. Gong's writing brims with energy. I was swept away to her dark Shanghai from the first page and never wanted to leave!
Heady, smart, and vicious, These Violent Delights strikes every note with precision, layering romance and politics into a roaring 20s Shanghai of both monsters and monstrous imperialism
Full of glitter, suspense and gore, These Violent Delights takes readers into the perilous world of 1926 Shanghai . . . Chloe Gong's debut is a terrific, deliciously unputdownable read!
These Violent Delights combines strong characterisation, skilfully interwoven political insight and an atmospheric portrayal of a Shanghai in the throes of change
A lush, wholly original debut that will satiate Shakespeare aficionados and draw those seeking an engrossing, multifaceted historical fantasy
A must-read with a conclusion that will leave readers craving more
The setting's brilliant, a city split by merchant colonies and divided into gang territories, in a country itself fractured politically and on the verge of revolution
Filled with Gong's lush prose, These Violent Delights brings 1920s Shanghai to life, along with a romance that is weighed with history
Stylish and engrossing
A rip-roaring, magic-tinged epic of cabarets and speakeasies, dens and divas . . . Gong's vivid Shanghai is a place to get enjoyably lost in
Gong's darkly seductive YA debut transplants Romeo and Juliet to 20s Shanghai for a gripping story of rival gangs, forbidden love and a plague that threatens to tear the city asunder
The Bard would surely approve
These Violent Delights is a phenomenal book and a wonder of a debut . . . Chloe has written star-crossed lovers/lovers-to-enemies like I've never read before, and if you love yearning, then trust me: you'll love These Violent Delights
This is the kind of book where I sort of just want to open my mouth and let the words expressing my love tumble out with abandon . . . I truly loved everything about this book
More than anything, These Violent Delights is a rich portrait of a seldom-depicted time and place
An unforgettable reimagining of Romeo and Juliet
These Violent Delights is a superior fantasy novel; multi-layered, diverse and reflective in its themes, whilst at the same time offering up the kind of darkness, romance and emotion that leaves you yearning for more - not just more of this particular story and its endearing, complex characters - which we've already been promised - but more from Chloe Gong beyond her star-crossed lovers too
Chloe Gong does expertly what all the best retellings do. She doesn't simply transpose her source material into a new setting, she engages with the spirit of the original and in doing so crafts a story that is entirely and beautifully her own . . . I cannot recommend this book strongly enough
Gong's debut is not to be missed. With a dazzling setting, a mysterious series of murders, and diverse, unapologetically criminal characters, this novel ranks with the greatest YA retellings
Notă biografică
Chloe Gong is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Secret Shanghai novels, as well as the Flesh and False Gods trilogy. Her books have been published in over twenty countries and have been featured in the New York Times, PEOPLE, Forbes and more. She is a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she double-majored in English and International Relations. Born in Shanghai and raised in Auckland, New Zealand, Chloe is now located in New York City, pretending to be a real adult.