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Our Violent Ends
by Chloe Gong
In a way I think I enjoyed this one even more than the first book, These Violent Delights. If I remember right, it took a bit to get into the story and the monster with the first book. But this one maybe because we had all that and I needed to know what was happening now that the man who had controlled the monster was gone, I was able to dive right back in. And this is a long book, as the first was, but it flew by every time I picked it up to read. I could barely put it down.
In this second book, the historical time we were in almost became more of the story and the monster was a little less important. Even though every time one of the now 5 monsters showed up it was a horrible scene for those who were stuck in the path. And honestly, once again, as with the first book, I really enjoyed the historical aspect. It isn’t a time period or at least not in that location, that I know that much about. So I always find books that teach me about history I haven’t learned to be some of my favorites.
Of course I also loved the Romeo and Juliet retelling aspect of the story. I actually really liked the way the author re-did some of the details of the story. Making us think that our star-crossed lovers might actually get a happy ending, that the suicide of this Juliet might not be real this time, and they might get to live on. And the ending, well I won’t tell you how it goes. You have to read it and decide for yourself about how the author has left our two lovers.
As with the first book, the descriptions of everything were so vivid and really got me into the world I was reading about. Now, usually, I will speed past those types of things in a story just to get to what is actually going on. And there were a few times maybe I did that, but quite often with this book I had to slow down and absorb all of the details so I could picture the scenes to perfection in my head as the author so completely drew a picture with her words.
This is an author I cannot wait to read more of in the future, and will definitely be sharing these books with my students.
Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.
In this second book, the historical time we were in almost became more of the story and the monster was a little less important. Even though every time one of the now 5 monsters showed up it was a horrible scene for those who were stuck in the path. And honestly, once again, as with the first book, I really enjoyed the historical aspect. It isn’t a time period or at least not in that location, that I know that much about. So I always find books that teach me about history I haven’t learned to be some of my favorites.
Of course I also loved the Romeo and Juliet retelling aspect of the story. I actually really liked the way the author re-did some of the details of the story. Making us think that our star-crossed lovers might actually get a happy ending, that the suicide of this Juliet might not be real this time, and they might get to live on. And the ending, well I won’t tell you how it goes. You have to read it and decide for yourself about how the author has left our two lovers.
As with the first book, the descriptions of everything were so vivid and really got me into the world I was reading about. Now, usually, I will speed past those types of things in a story just to get to what is actually going on. And there were a few times maybe I did that, but quite often with this book I had to slow down and absorb all of the details so I could picture the scenes to perfection in my head as the author so completely drew a picture with her words.
This is an author I cannot wait to read more of in the future, and will definitely be sharing these books with my students.
Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.