Last Violent Call by Chloe GongMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Bridging the gap between the two duologies of Secret Shanghai, as well as the gap between the two books of the second duology, is this collection of two beautifully bound novellas from Chloe Gong, sold in a lovely box set that apparently is too tall for the shelves at Barnes & Noble (at least, the newly opened and oddly very small store at Cascade Station in Portland.) The two stories focus on a pair of couples who've had to go into hiding since the events of the first duology - one, Roma and Juliette, hiding in a smaller town many miles away from Shanghai and yet unable to quite escape the underworld, or their family; and the other, Benedikt and Marshall, getting to play Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express. Both stories were pretty bite sized, but gripping as Gong's work always is - and more than ever, the humor really shines front and center, with Roma and Juliette having long since earned their right to be as cutesy lovey dovey as they can, and Benedikt and Marshall being sassy as hell and yet still having to hide the fact that they're a couple, even if they're officially married by someone of some certain ordination. It's very nice to have this to tide readers over until Foul Heart Huntsman comes out this fall, but with this, that, and Immortal Designs in July, it truly is the year of Chloe Gong and all her haters can just sit there and be wrong, as always.
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