Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong

11 reviews

linblythe_pub22's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Blood

Moderate: Classism, Murder, Kidnapping, Grief, Death, Child death, and Violence

Minor: Colonisation, Cursing, and Alcohol

clairew97's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Colonisation, Alcohol, Child death, Grief, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Body horror, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, and Violence

ye_li's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Confinement, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Death of parent

breedawnwriter's review against another edition

4.0

Um…

I have so many thoughts and feelings. I’ve never been more STRESSED about a book in my LIFE. 

I LOVED it.

I teared up.

I cursed.

I squealed.

I think I screeched. 

The ending felt kinda lackluster to me because I guess I expected it all to go down differently? Don’t ask me what I thought would happen because I don’t know, I just thought it would be different. 

I wanted it to make me sob uncontrollably. It did not, so I knocked off a star because I’m a cruel book dragon.

Please don’t come for me. I will not respond or engage with that kind of behavior.

I will probably update this review when I’ve had time to think more about the book.

Content warnings (from the author): Blood, violence, gore, character deaths, murder (including mass murder), war themes, torture, weapon use, insects, alcohol consumption, parental abuse.

Additional content warnings: passionate kissing (including a gay kiss), a sex scene (not graphic, mostly just describes them undressing and the guy asking “is this okay?” before the scene ends), and strong cursing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Gun violence, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Cursing, Alcohol, Gore, and Torture

eve_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.5

 Overall Thoughts:
⁕ Gong takes the beloved enemies-to-lovers trope and raises you enemies-to-lovers-to-enemies-and-back-to-lovers-again FLAWLESSLY. She doesn't ignore the conflict between their families and political parties, but builds that tension into every scene between them. It's an agonizing slow-burn with the greatest payoff.

⁕  This sequel was even more enriched with historical context than These Violent Delights. I've never read a book in this setting before and loved learning about/researching 1920's Shanghai. 

⁕ [spoilers] I love the small bit of hope that Gong concludes this duology with. She still honors the authentic tragedy of Romeo and Juliet but also makes space for the reader to explore other possibilities for her main characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Murder, Gun violence, Violence, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Kidnapping, War, Cursing, Classism, and Colonisation

_persephone_'s review

emotional sad 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

5.0

Omg was this book was so good, probably one of the best books I've read this year. It was beautifully written in so many different ways, the writing style, the characters, the romance. I truly cannot think of a single complaint and I recommend this book to everyone. Also

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the first half of the book where Roma hated Juliette I wanted to sob, istg I cried happy tears when they got back together

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And I heard there's gonna be a spin-off duology about

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Rosalind

(I don't actually know if that was a spoiler but better safe than sorry). And I can't wait.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Grief

Minor: Cursing, Blood, Colonisation, Sexism, and Suicidal thoughts

claudiamacpherson's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Colonisation, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Alcohol, Drug use, Kidnapping, and Sexual content

rebeccaxpaige's review

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

This book will have you on the edge of your seat no doubt. Here you have a sequel that is shocking, humourous and in its foundation, political. I do not want to reveal too much but Gong has successfully crafted the most complex and riveting characters. Juliette is wise, cutthroat and embodies a much more empowered version of her original character written by Shakespeare. Though she is wise, she is also flawed— which makes her loveable. She is unfairly torn between two political forces: loyalty or betrayal. Roma is another complex character who pales in comparison to his sister, Alisa who is not a central plot device by any means; but she proves herself to be a hero in her own right in this mind boggling, emotionally distressing (in the best way possible) young adult masterpiece. 

I will not say anything else other than if you want to see what real women are made of, you must read this book. 5 of the easiest stars I gave this year.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Body horror, War, Torture, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Murder, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Grief, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Death, Cursing, and Colonisation

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

awxiee's review

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent and Medical content

quillify_'s review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

THIS BOOK ANNIHILATED ME WHAT THE HELL??????
CHLOE GONG NEEDS TO PAY FOR MY THERAPY BILLS BECAUSE WHAT WAS THAT ENDING!?!? WHY AM I IN LOVE WITH BOOKS THAT HAVE AN AMBIGUOUS ENDING???
*deep breath* *inhale* *exhale* POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
Okay. Alright. I'm fine. I survived reading this book. I had the excuse of exams to hold off because I was scared but in the end my curiosity caught up to the trick. So here I am, wondering what the hell happened.
The characters, as always are *chef's kiss*. Alisa Montagova has become my new favourite kid. That girl deserves so much more than being kidnapped at every turn, oh my god ;-;
Ben and Mars deserve all the happiness in the world. I was having a headache because of Ben's sadness, and every time they both were close to meeting, something would happen. It felt like watching a Hindi TV serial drama in the best way, of course. Because their reunion was so satisfying. And Marshall and Juliette really did have the cutest friendship ever. Appreciate the m/f platonic relationship without any cumbersome romance.

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Wonder why we had to be told that the boys were off living life instead of being shown all their happiness. Yeah, this is me begging for a BenMars novella ;-;

I really, really, really loved Kathleen's

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(or as I should call her now: Celia)

character development. She is another one of my favourites beside Alisa and the main characters. 
In addition, the angst and tension between Roma and Juliette was done really well. They ripped my heart out and then stitched it together and then repeated the process. The only iffy thing was when the truth of Juliette's actions was revealed, they zoomed a bit too fast into kissing and whispering I-love-yous when Juliette had

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killed Tyler just hours ago

I dunno about you, but it just seemed a bit too fast for both of them to go from hate-loving each other to sexy times. Or maybe this is just another ace thing. \_(O_O)_/
The book dragged just a little bit at around the 75% mark but that's probably because I figured out who was up to those shenanigans in the city and was waiting for the mains to come to the realization. The rest of it though: the references from the Shakespeare play, the climax, Roma and Juliette and their struggle with their parents, all of it was amazing. Really appreciated the talk on colonization and the white people jokes (thank you Miss Cai <3)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Grief, Sexism, War, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Colonisation, and Suicide attempt