Sarah’s Reviews > These Violent Delights > Status Update

I gave this book more than enough time to grab me. Chloe Gong writes well but this plot/pacing is a hot mess. It's a Romeo and Juliet retelling in 1920s Shanghai w/ communists, French, British, and rival gangs, with monsters that may be scientifically engineered to produce a suicide-inducing plague! And yet I don't know how we've filled 126 pages because NOTHING HAS HAPPENED.