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Books Like These Violent Delights

These Violent Delights is enemies to lovers, second chance & forbidden love — sweet (1/5), multi-person, ending on a hard-won happy ending. These 12 romantasy read-alikes are ranked by how much they share with it, closest first — each one explained.

Shanghai, 1926: Juliette Cai, heir to the Scarlet Gang, and Roma Montagov, heir to the rival White Flowers, are former lovers turned sworn enemies. When a mysterious madness sweeps the city — driving victims to claw out their own throats — the two must form a fragile truce to hunt the source before their feud destroys them both. This Romeo and Juliet retelling weaves historical gang warfare, colonial politics, and a creeping biological conspiracy.