A whipping mentions blood and screams of pain. There's also some large-scale, real-world violence including a massacre of unarmed protesters. Real-world violence is mostly gangster activity and includes shootings, stabbings, fistfights, and threats. Fantasy violence includes gory descriptions of people tearing their own throats out. Here, the star-crossed lovers are from feuding families in 1920s Shanghai.

Parents need to know that Our Violent Ends continues, and brings to a close, the retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, which began in These Violent Delights. Cigar and cigarette smoke mentioned.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. 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 nightclub setting with mention that excessive drinking is a pastime. 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. 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. 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. Roma is still reeling from Marshall’s death, and his cousin Benedikt will barely speak to him.

If Juliette were actually guilty of the crime Roma believes she committed, his rejection might sting less. 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. One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang’s heir. The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution.Īfter sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on a mission. 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.”

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