Our Violent Ends

"It was good. I felt like the monsters were an afterthought and weren't even needed. It was like the author forgot there was a monster story line then at the end remembered to do something with it."

"“Our Violent Ends” is a heartfelt, romantic tragedy; my eyes are - quite literally - flooding in a pool of tears. I love the books’ theme of romance, heartbreak, betrayal, and humour. Moreover, I love the LGBTQ+ representation. As for the cover, it’s beautiful. Yet heartbreaking, as well, now knowing the symbolism behind it. ~ Constructive Criticism: • A bit predictable, but not as predictable as the first book • The author broke my heart... **Contains a spoiler** I know the novel is a re-telling on Romeo and Juliet and the dedication literally foreshadows the ending, but Marshall survived!! It’s not fair!! They deserved a long, life that they could spend with each other. They needed more time… 😭😭😭 ~ Edit: Turns out there’s a freaking novella. I scream-cried for no reason. "

"I cried at the ending of this"

"chloe you are a cruel, heartless person"

"I meannnnn. But anyway, these books have so much potential to be a tv series. Definitely something I’d come back to and reread. "

"Can’t believe I’m giving 5 stars when I didn’t really care about the main characters that much? Roma and Juliette are? Fine? I suppose? (Don’t get me wrong I liked the characters—especially Juliette—but the romance was just fine) But let me tell you what, the side characters and the subplot romance is That Good. I’m convinced the multiple chapters of Roma and Juliette waxing angst about “why they can’t be together but what if they dared to hope oh my” (it’s not their fault I just never liked Romeo and Juliet that much, I’m sorry Chloe"

"This book is completely enthralling but has yanked my heart out. "

"Innovative retelling and interesting ending that i really felt emotionally "

"I loved the characters and thought the relationship arc was fantastic. This book was one of the few books that left me sobbing. After finishing this two book series I feel so incredible connected with the characters that I might as well have met them. Definitely read it. But be careful, it might break you. #ourviolentends #enemiestolovers "

"It is almost always really hard for me to get into sequels. I anticipate them the whole year or however long it takes, but when they eventually come out I inevitably already forget everything but the barest details about the first book and have to force myself to start reading it at all. That happened this time too. For maybe the first chapter I was going summary please and also get on with it I don't have time for this. And then I remembered how addictive this series can be and binged the rest of the book haha.<br/><br/>I actually had more apprehension going into this than usual because it is literally called "Our Violent Ends". I have never been the audience for books where things just progressively fall apart worse and worse from how we originally saw them. I just don't generally like "dark" books, and I was prepared for this book to ruin everything I liked about the first one. How could I cope with an entire book set in the aftermath? But while I'm not completely happy with the ending of this book (I'm sad!), I was egging it on from the beginning to the end and just simply cannot get enough. The drama is wonderful, and I was always rooting for things to still work out. The extremely intense homicidal romance is wonderful, actually. As always, the glimpses we get of the setting are wonderful, and while the monster plays a much smaller role this time, we still get mystery-solving duo who can't stand to be in the same room as each other, and that is what I really could not enjoy this without. And as a Romeo and Juliet retelling, Chloe Gong made some really good choices too. The Bard would approve.<br/><br/>So maybe I will like this less if I ever read it together with the first book, but I'm thinking not. Not at all.<br/><br/>PS. Am I the only one who thinks the cover is slightly unfortunate? Like it's nice or whatever but the first one was an actual masterpiece."