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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
12 reviews
toffishay's review
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
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? It's complicated
5.0
I absolutely loved this book! I laughed, I cried, I cringed all at the right times and in the best ways. You are pulled into Feyi's world, her joy, and pain and I never wanted to leave. The romance is engaging and messy and feels so real and so strong. I can't wait to re-read!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Car accident, Grief, and Sexual content
Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Blood
Minor: Child death, Biphobia, Homophobia, and Alcohol
nataliereadz's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-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? It's complicated
5.0
Ever finish a book and immediately want to reread it all over again?
Let's just preface this with "romance is NOT my thing". While marketed as one, this book is so.much.more. than that. It's a gripping, heart wrenching, trip through the trial and error and messy in betweens of working through grief, pain, loss and emotional recovery. While it is heated and loaded with romance (thankfully not the cheesy kind), it's full of relatable characters with equally as relatably messy lives, and a ton of laughter (read: Joy! I want her as my best friend!). This story and its characters are seductive, sensual and so, SO, complex.
This is my second Emezi read, and while they moved me with The Death of Vivek Oji, this time, they comfortably cracked me open and left me in a puddle on the floor.
Emezi is a masterful storyteller. Their writing is all consuming and totally hypnotic. More than a handful of times I found myself closing my eyes after reading one of the many poignant lines throughout, just to savour it for a moment longer.
The only negative is that it wasnt 600 pages long. I could have lived in this story for that many more.
Exquisite!
Let's just preface this with "romance is NOT my thing". While marketed as one, this book is so.much.more. than that. It's a gripping, heart wrenching, trip through the trial and error and messy in betweens of working through grief, pain, loss and emotional recovery. While it is heated and loaded with romance (thankfully not the cheesy kind), it's full of relatable characters with equally as relatably messy lives, and a ton of laughter (read: Joy! I want her as my best friend!). This story and its characters are seductive, sensual and so, SO, complex.
This is my second Emezi read, and while they moved me with The Death of Vivek Oji, this time, they comfortably cracked me open and left me in a puddle on the floor.
Emezi is a masterful storyteller. Their writing is all consuming and totally hypnotic. More than a handful of times I found myself closing my eyes after reading one of the many poignant lines throughout, just to savour it for a moment longer.
The only negative is that it wasnt 600 pages long. I could have lived in this story for that many more.
Exquisite!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Car accident, Cursing, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content
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