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Dochter van de Scharlaken Rozen by Chloe Gong

31 reviews

ghostlyprince's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Addiction, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Police brutality, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

sneeps's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Gun violence

Moderate: Blood, Colonisation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Alcohol

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

creolelitbelle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

These Violent Delights is a great re-imagining of Shakespeare's classic Romeo and Juliet set in 1920s Shanghai, China with Roma & Juliette now at odds against each other after secretly dating four years prior to the events of the novel. Their families head the rival White Flowers and Scarlet Gang, and they can never forget that key piece of their personal identities. I love the subtle (and not-so-subtle) callbacks to the original play through major and minor characters, scenes, and pivotal lines. Those were all written in carefully to tie book into its source material but not pull the reader out of the new historical fiction story. Gong also did a delicately wonderful job weaving Chinese and other world history into the setting and plot by laying the history out whenever relevant to the story or characters but never over-explaining anything. Knowing the history prior to reading this book is not necessary but did add to my experience. The mystery of what causes the madness seeping into the city pushes enemies together for collaboration, and the intense action kept me hooked. Diversity in cast felt authentic to the time period of China's forced spheres of influence from other countries' powers, and the multi-pov storytelling really made certain chapters feel like isolated scenes as in a play. I am excited to read the sequel and the other books in the world of Secret Shanghai soon. The bonus content in the B&N edition was well worth it, too. I loved getting inside Roma's head through his letters from their first romance together, the prequel story of their courtship before is so sweet. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Murder, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Cursing, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use, Sexual content, and Transphobia

bookycnidaria's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Drug use and Transphobia

readingdragon28's review against another edition

Too much detail on the gore of what happened with the "madness" from the *spoiler alert* nasty engineered insects.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

cnaccarato's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Transphobia

Minor: Bullying, Homophobia, Sexual content, Police brutality, and Outing

superstar_y2k's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

this book is not as complex as it seems to be (or rather has the potential to be) 
this book speaks on colonialism, racism and white supremacy, murder, betrayal, politics, and other humanitarian topics but somehow oversimplifies and brushes off those topics to follow a clumsy mystery where our romeo & juliette must work together despite their previous murderous betrayals.  see, the thing about shakespeare’s romeo & juliette is that the reader wants to root for them.  roma & juliette cai aren’t likable characters that i felt didn’t actually love each other.  
i could go on, but honestly there are many other reviews i’ve seen that correspond to the way i feel, so i won’t beat a dead horse

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Deadnaming, Gore, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

serendipity421's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Vomit

akane_readsyt's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming, Child abuse, Drug use, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Police brutality, and Dysphoria