“Astra inclinant,” he would whisper into the wind, so heartachingly sincere even when quoting in Latin, “sed non obligant. The stars incline us, they do not bind us” Chloe Gong’s debut Young Adult novel, These Violent Delights, was a glittering gem of a book. The book oscillates between the historical fiction, fantasy, and romance genres. My good friend and fellow senior English Major, Emma MacKinnon, recommended this book to me, and I loved it. Gong’s novel is a retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, with Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang and Roma Montagov, heir of the White Flowers gang in Shanghai during the 1920s. They belong to rival…