THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS
RELEASED OUT NOW! 464 pages | Hardback/ebook Author Chloe Gong Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Nowadays an awful lot of stories are billed as something familiar with a twist: a genderswapped this, a that in space, an alternate the other. These Violent Delights’ title gives its “something familiar” away: Romeo And Juliet. And that’s actually a pity, because this isn’t very close to the play, certainly not in the way Tessa Gratton’s The Queens Of Innis Lear played with King Lear without straying too far from the original’s plot. It doesn’t explore or deepen or comment on the play it’s associated with, nor stick closely to its plot.