Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

69 reviews

martinza's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Exploration of grief and new beginnings. Starts very steamy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, and Car accident

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Description of character changing person they are in a relationship with in way that some people might consider immoral/upsetting

raquelcanread's review

challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death and Alcohol

shinypurplepants's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Cursing and Sexual content

Minor: Biphobia and Homophobia

ramreadsagain's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

One of my favourite romances ever! 

This is a messy slow-burn romance, an exploration of grief, an ode to cooking and Black art. It does contain the

age gap

trope which i’m never keen on but it was dealt with in pretty much a perfect way and i’m not really upset about it! 

The drawn out sequences of Feyi and Alim discussing their feelings in an open way was so amazingly done and felt truly realistic. A breath of fresh air compared to romances where they never have a proper deep conversation about things.

 

I’ll add more at some future point. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death and Homophobia

eralbesu's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I really enjoyed the descriptions of the food. I didn’t love the age-gap romance element to it and it was quite a big part of the plot. The discussions of grief are poignant, but I just got hung up on the romance element of the book that just was not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Child death, Cursing, Death, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

boundedinanutshell's review

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Sexual content

laurataylor's review

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

clairew97's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol

lilysaddler's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Blood, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death, Drug use, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

parttimehippie's review

dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, and Car accident