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About Chloe Gong
Chloe Gong is the New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and its sequel Our Violent Ends. 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 pretending to be a real adult.
After devouring the entire YA section of her local library, she started writing her own novels at age 13 to keep herself entertained, and has been highly entertained ever since. Chloe has been known to mysteriously appear by chanting “Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s best plays and doesn’t deserve its slander in pop culture” into a mirror three times.
You can find her on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok under @thechloegong.
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Shanghai is under siege in this captivating and searingly romantic sequel to These Violent Delights, which New York Times bestselling author Natasha Ngan calls “deliciously dark.”
The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution.
After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on a mission. One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang’s heir. The only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the Scarlets is to have him want her dead for murdering his best friend in cold blood. If Juliette were actually guilty of the crime Roma believes she committed, his rejection might sting less.
Roma is still reeling from Marshall’s death, and his cousin Benedikt will barely speak to him. Roma knows it’s his fault for letting the ruthless Juliette back 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, and though secrets keep them apart, Juliette must secure Roma’s cooperation if they are to end this threat once and for all. Shanghai is already at a boiling point: The Nationalists are marching in, whispers of civil war brew louder every day, 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.
A BuzzFeed Best Young Adult Book of 2020
Perfect for fans of The Last Magician and Serpent & Dove, this heart-stopping debut is an imaginative Romeo and Juliet retelling set in 1920s Shanghai, with rival gangs and a monster in the depths of the Huangpu River.
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.
It’s 1931 in Shanghai, and the stage is set for a new decade of intrigue.
Four years ago, Rosalind Lang was brought back from the brink of death, but the strange experiment that saved her also stopped her from sleeping and aging—and allows her to heal from any wound. In short, Rosalind cannot die. Now, desperate for redemption for her traitorous past, she uses her abilities as an assassin for her country.
Code name: Fortune.
But when the Japanese Imperial Army begins its invasion march, Rosalind’s mission pivots. A series of murders is causing unrest in Shanghai, and the Japanese are under suspicion. Rosalind’s new orders are to infiltrate foreign society and identify the culprits behind the terror plot before more of her people are killed.
To reduce suspicion, however, she must pose as the wife of another Nationalist spy, Orion Hong, and though Rosalind finds Orion’s cavalier attitude and playboy demeanor infuriating, she is willing to work with him for the greater good. But Orion has an agenda of his own, and Rosalind has secrets that she wants to keep buried. As they both attempt to unravel the conspiracy, the two spies soon find that there are deeper and more horrifying layers to this mystery than they ever imagined.
Eine Blutfehde zwischen zwei Banden färbt die Straßen rot und lässt die Stadt hilflos im Chaos versinken. Im Zentrum des Geschehens steht die achtzehnjährige Juliette Cai, eine emanzipierte junge Frau, die die stolze Nachfolgerin an der Spitze der kriminellen Scarlet Gang werden will. Ihre einzigen Rivalen an der Macht sind die White Flowers, die die Scarlets seit Generationen bekämpfen. Jeder Schritt der White Flowers wird von Roma Montagov geplant, Juliettes erster Liebe ... und ihrem ersten Verrat.
Doch als Gerüchte über eine Krankheit umgehen, die in den Wahnsinn treibt, und sich die Todesfälle häufen, müssen Juliette und Roma ihre Waffen – und ihren Groll – beiseitelegen und zusammenarbeiten. Denn wenn sie dieses tödliche Chaos nicht aufhalten, wird es keine Stadt mehr geben, die sie regieren können.
«Me criaron para odiar, Roma. Nunca podría ser tu amante, sólo tu asesina. »
Una antigua guerra de sangre entre dos bandas baña las calles de rojo, dejando a la ciudad indefensa ante las garras del caos. En el centro de esta disputa se halla Juliette Cai, la orgullosa heredera de la Pandilla Escarlata, una red de gánsteres que opera por encima de la ley. Sus únicos rivales son los criminales rusos que integran la Banda de las Flores Blancas; detrás de cada movimiento está su heredero: Roma Montagov, el primer amor de Juliette… y su primera traición.
Pero cuando la población parece ser poseída por una locura que la hace desgarrar su propia garganta hasta morir, comienza a correr el rumor acerca de un contagio provocado por un monstruo oculto en las sombras. A medida que las muertes se acrecientan, Juliette y Roma deberán dejar sus rencores de lado y trabajar unidos antes de que la ciudad que ansían dominar desaparezca por completo.
« Romeo y Julieta se transforma magistralmente de una historia de amor maldito adolescente a una mezcla emocionante de intriga política, horror, misterio trepidante y, sí, romance, en una ciudad que se convierte en un personaje por derecho propio.» BCCB
« Esta novela se sitúa entre las mejores reinterpretaciones de historias clásicas de la literatura juvenil.» School Library Journal
«"El Bardo" aprobaría con toda seguridad esta novela.» The New York Times Review
« Una lectura obligada con una conclusión que dejará a los lectores con ganas de más.» Kirkus Reviews