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Nov 17, 2020 · A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the proud heir of the Scarlet Gang—a network of criminals far above the law.
- These Violent Delights Series by Chloe Gong
These Violent Delights is a Romeo and Juliet inspired...
- These Violent Delights Series by Chloe Gong
- Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian. You could put several McCarthy novels on this list, but I think Blood Meridian is the best and certainly among the most brutal.
- Ryu Murakami, Piercing. Like McCarthy, there’s a lot of violence in Murakami’s oeuvre—but having read three of his novels, it is the violence in this one that I remember most viscerally, despite the fact that it is most imagined.
- Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho. Another case of fantasized violence (well, maybe—the novel is rather less clear about this than the film, but the popularity of the film has now passed the fact that it’s all in Bateman’s head into canon), but intensely detailed.
- Roberto Bolaño, 2666. Five words: The Part About the Crimes. Okay, a few more: the Part About the Crimes is the gruesome heart of 2666, the outpouring of blood without which none of the rest would exist.
Jul 5, 2019 · After writing bestselling thrillers as well as books that missed the mark, author Carter Wilson shares five lessons he's learned about writing violent scenes.
The Secret History meets Lie with Me in Micah Nemerever's compulsively readable debut novel—a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence.
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Sep 15, 2020 · The Secret History meets Call Me by Your Name in Micah Nemerever's compulsively readable debut novel—a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence. Show more.
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