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Historical Fantasy

These Violent Delights

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  • 2020 first published
  • 470 pages
  • ★ 3.9 (10 ratings)
  • 12 editions
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Chloe Gong's These Violent Delights (2020) is a historical fantasy novel. Readers will find themes of monsters, death, gangs and China.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.9 out of 5 from 10 ratings, and 183 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 12 editions. It appeared on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover bestseller list in 2020.

At about 470 pages, most readers finish it in 8–9 hours.

About These Violent Delights

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.
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Awards & lists

  • 📰New York Times bestseller list — Young Adult Hardcover, 2020

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • Children's fiction
  • Monsters
  • Death
  • Gangs
  • China
  • Young adult fiction, fantasy, historical

Quick answers

Who wrote These Violent Delights?

These Violent Delights was written by Chloe Gong and first published in 2020.

What genre is These Violent Delights?

It is usually shelved as Historical Fantasy.

How long is These Violent Delights?

The median edition has 470 pages, about 8–9 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to These Violent Delights?

Readers who like it often enjoy Kingdom of the Wicked, Belladonna and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

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