Vilest Issues by Chloe Gong
“Vilest Issues grips with its breathtaking return to San-Er, the place intricate magic, fierce characters, and political intrigue collide in a high-stakes, action-packed saga.”
Vilest Issues (Saga Press) by Chloe Gong is a panoramic return to the dual cities of San-Er, the place the streets virtually breathe with their very own life and other people have the power to leap between our bodies with the facility of qi.
On this thrilling sequel to New York Occasions and USA At present bestseller Immortal Longings, impressed by Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, we as soon as extra comply with Calla Tuoleimi right into a tumultuous story of energy struggles, risky uprisings, political drama and extra, set in opposition to the pulsing backdrop of an overcrowded metropolis surrounded by struggling provinces. Vilest Issues picks up proper the place the explosive ending of the primary ebook left off, thrusting us into the upheaval of San-Er as August Shenzhi takes the throne due to the homicide of King Kasa by the hands of Calla.
Nonetheless, unbeknownst to the populace, August is presently inhabited by Anton Makusa. Solely Calla is aware of it isn’t actually August, and Anton is none too thrilled with Calla after she betrayed him within the closing spherical of the video games. As tensions rise, Anton’s former lover, Otta Avia, returns to the fray after years spent in a coma, carrying a secret that units in movement a plot with ties to everybody from August and Calla to the Crescent Society and monarchs forgotten by the world. With the crown, the dominion and excess of they may ever think about at stake, Calla and Anton should decide how they really feel about one another and if they’ll work collectively in spite of everything that they’ve been by way of as they attempt to verify what strikes Otta, August, and the remainder of their companions will make whereas chaos erupts in San-Er and past.
Evolving Qi and Higher Dangers
What I liked about Immortal Longings, and what’s again in all its glory in Vilest Issues, is the fascinating magic system that Gong has created. Individuals on this world have the power to leap between our bodies by transferring their qi. Sometimes, a person would wish to have the ability to see the opposite physique, and there are particular guidelines that apply to leaping. Individuals’s eye coloration jumps with them, there are particular individuals who can’t be jumped into and so forth.
Nonetheless, in Vilest Issues Gong takes the system she established within the first ebook and begins to unravel it. There are characters who start to defy the preset guidelines of leaping, realizing that their eye coloration doesn’t transfer with them, or that they’ll truly soar into Weisannas, the lineage that’s supposedly impervious to being jumped into. As increasingly exceptions are made to the principles, we start to understand that every thing we thought we knew is in query, simply as a lot because the characters inside this story are realizing it — and oh what enjoyable that creates for the reader!
The laborious and quick guidelines of the system are clearly capable of be damaged by those that have both been born with a unique potential, or who’ve realized a option to bypass the system, and in consequence, it provides a brand new layer of suspense and pleasure to the story.
Immersive World Constructing and Unforgettable Characters
The world of San-Er is all the time fast-paced and exhilarating, and our return to it’s no completely different. Gong has a manner with world constructing that makes us need to exist inside the pages of the story, each sensory element including one other layer of sight, sound, odor and extra till we’re enveloped in a stunningly wealthy atmosphere. Add on prime of that the superbly advanced characters that Gong has created, and the Flesh and False Gods Sequence is a masterpiece. I all the time love studying from Calla’s perspective.
She’s sharp, crafty, highly effective and all the time appears to be balancing on a razor’s edge. Even once we suppose we all know her, we will by no means be fairly certain what selection she’ll make subsequent as she tiptoes alongside that morally grey boundary. Anton and August aren’t any completely different, weighing selections by way of the lenses of their private agendas, even when it’d hurt these round them. These are passionate, pushed characters who want to attain their finish targets, regardless of the price, and it makes for a really action-packed, full throttle learn.
Vilest Issues is strictly what I wanted from the sequel to Immortal Longings, and I’m already determined for the following installment in Calla, Anton, August, and Otta’s story. For those who love a ebook with excessive stakes, energy grabs, a badass feminine protagonist, a captivating magic system and vivid world constructing, then Vilest Issues (and Immortal Longings!) is for you.
About Chloe Gong:
Chloe Gong is the #1 New York Occasions bestselling writer of the critically acclaimed Secret Shanghai novels, in addition to the Flesh and False Gods trilogy. Her books have been revealed in over twenty nations and have been featured within the New York Occasions, PEOPLE, Cosmopolitan, and extra. She was named one in all Forbes’ 30 Underneath 30 for 2024. Chloe graduated from the College of Pennsylvania with a level in English and Worldwide Relations. Born in Shanghai and raised in Auckland, New Zealand, she is now positioned in New York Metropolis, pretending to be an actual grownup.
Publish Date: September 10, 2024
Style: Fiction
Creator: Chloe Gong
Web page Rely: 384 pages
Writer: S&S/Saga Press
ISBN: 978-1668000267
