These Violent Delights

i genuinely want to know why this was the most hyped-up book on here, tiktok, instagram, literally everywhere back in like 2021 when this is one of the most boring books i've read in a while. this had so much potential to be brilliant, but the writing let this down real bad (and yes i know chloe gong was a young college student when she wrote this). the pacing was slow as literal christmas, the characters were so bland and uninteresting, the romance wasn't romancing, and the story was nearly boring me into a nap up until like the 80% mark. istg some of y'all have to be liars because why does this have so many five-star reviews. genuinely why. gotta give credit where it's due though, and ms. gong can write a hell of a cliffhanger epilogue. now i'm going to have to read the next book aren't i. smh.