crownedaimee's reviews
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the characters were super annoying, didn't act like they were 29/30 at all. insta love trope which really isn't something that i particularly like nor look for in a book. lucy was completely unlikeable and felt like she was actually talking to the reading, i just couldn't get into this book whatsoever no matter how much i tried to push through it. to name a few quotes that really annoyed me... "and we both make eye contact and laugh like gangly teenagers." and "I laugh a booming HA-HA-HA."

ACTUAL RATING: 4.5

"There's not a part that I regret."

Tillie Cole has done it again and made me sob like a baby. A Wish For Us is a standalone contemporary romance about love, loss and music and completely full of heartbreak. It filled with so much beauty but yet so emotional at the same time.

We follow nineteen-year-old Cromwell Dean who is a gifted musician, composer and EDM DJ and when he is partnered up with Bonnie Farraday who is composer and performer, it sends Cromwell's work rocking. They are both broken but together they make the perfect harmony. I can't say anything more without giving spoilers away.

If you've read A Thousand Boy Kisses then you will some similarity within the characters and the plot to some degree but that's where the similarities finish. A Thousand Boy Kisses was torture and heartache from the start to end, whereas A Wish For Us is more impactful. The writing in the latter is so beautiful and had me wishing I could see the colors the way Cromwell can.

I still highly recommend if you want to feel pain and suffering. I will be suing Tillie Cole for emotional damage for breaking my heart once again. I was just beginning to get over A Thousand Boy Kisses then I make the mistake of reading this and it came all back again. I highly suggest going into this book blind and don't go looking for spoilers. Just trust me on this. You need it to experience it without knowing anything. However, I do recommend looking at the trigger warnings first just in case.

“He was my violet blue. My favorite-ever note.”

Not sure how to feel. The plot felt like it wasn't going anywhere and found myself skipping ahead but then it was somewhat enjoyable? I'm hoping that it gets better like everyone says it does. However, the men oh my god. They are just so awful and misogynistic and what for? There is no reason for it. They only exception was Sail and then look what happened. But excuse me, he was the only decent character.

Despite being mentioned in the blurb like they were gonna be a much bigger deal then they were, the fae was literally only mentioned twice: at the beginning and 80% in. There might be more in the second book because I was mislead here.

WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS, READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

“These violent delights have violent ends, you have always known this.”

Our Violent Ends is the sequel to These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong and such an emotional rollercoaster. This has been one of my most anticipated releases for this and it did not disappoint. It has a lot more angst, romance, and definitely a lot more heartbreak and violence. Also all of those tropes?? I could not put this book down. I'm gonna need some time to emotionally recover from this. I didn't expect to be this heartbroken and fall in love with these characters? Just setting myself up for pain and torture right there, classic me. I am still in complete denial over that ending and have set an alternative ending in my head.

While some things were quite predictable and the subplot between the communists and the nationalists was hard to follow, it was full of action and the character development was *chefs kiss.* If the subplot was done separately then there would be no complaints. I want more action with those monsters and the gang trying to take them down, instead of being left to the last moment. It felt like it kinda got pushed to the side to accommodate for the subplot.

“ I love him. I love him, Tyler, and you tried to take him from me.”

Roma and Juliette completely own me, I'm just in love with both of them. Their angst! Them holding knives to each other throats please, I was struggling to refrain myself from screaming at work. And then the fact that they got married! Not over this... curse you, Chloe Gong. The fact they were from enemies to lovers back to enemies than to back to lovers. My heart y'all.

But Marshall and Benedikt... oh my god! They had me squealing and wanting to shout at the book. Seeing Benedikt so heartbroken over believing that Marshall was dead, the amounts of times I wish I could shout "he's alive," was torture. I hope that we can see more of them, even if it's in a novella because I'm not done reading about them. Give me the gays!

“To have and to hold, where even death cannot part us,’ Juliette whispered.
‘In this life and the next,’ Roma returned, ‘for however long our souls remain, mine will always find yours.”

Also is it just me being delusional or does anyone else think that Roma and Juliette might not be dead? like they could've found a way to get out and then with that epilogue scene? Was Alisa just imagining them two on the boat together or was it actually them alive?

"In this life and the next, for however long our souls remain, mine will always find yours.”