Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

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

68 reviews

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: Sexual content, Blood, Death, and Grief

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

Minor: Alcohol and Child death

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: Blood, Death, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Sexual content and Cursing

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: Grief, Car accident, and Death

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rubycs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

I loved it ! 

From the rich descriptions of the location, people, events and emotions felt by the characters to the tense scenes, this book was a true work of art.

LGBTQIA+ rep: The MC is bisexual, but in this book is only in relationships with men. Her bsf is a raging lesbian (and we love her for it) and there are a few other sprinklings of gay…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Car accident, Sexual content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Homophobia, Cursing, Blood, Mental illness, and Racial slurs

Minor: Biphobia

Cw for slurs: N word used by black people as a term of endearment