These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong. Young adult gothic-adjacent or Asian horror novels, these books retell something of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet story in the “melting-pot” of 1920s Shanghai. The young heirs of opposing Chinese and Russian emigree gangs do battle on city streets and across the foreign concessions. Then a bloody pandemic rages, leaving yet more mutilated corpses in the streets, that might require two dominating fathers ‘both alike in dignity’ and their extended families to cooperate towards a solution before their lucrative rackets collapse. Elements for dystopian and speculative fiction readers too (Sarah Olive, Bangor).