I really appreciate what this book did as a sequel. Our Violent Ends kept developing the characters, and the secondary ones in particular got their chance to shine and be fleshed out.

While it falls into a more cliché narrative, in contrast to the very unique setting of the first one, the pacing was well developed and I enjoyed how we had povs of multiple sides of the revolution.

There were several moments when the characters were plain stupid just to further the plot or to force a Romeo and Juliet reference, and some villains were bad... just because, I guess?

Still, this is a thoroughly entertaining read, and I'll definitely read more books by Chloe Gong.