Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

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

126 reviews

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Self harm

sundayfever's review

emotional lighthearted reflective fast-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

4.0

A quick read, steamy romance but also has emotional depth. Always impressed by how Emezi can write differently but beautifully in different genres. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Homophobia and Blood

zombiezami's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Outing

Minor: Biphobia, Cancer, Child death, Homophobia, and Fire/Fire injury

thirdeyeangel23's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective fast-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

I am Team Feyi all day long!!!! YMAFODWYB was my first experience with Emezi’s writing and has instantly turned me into a fan. This is a story about loss, grief, and all of the messy ways that we move through it. We walk with our main character Feyi who is going through the motions of moving on after tragically losing her fiancé. Interests and friendships become messy when a trip to woo Feyi lands her in the arms of her friends father. I was completely invested in Feyi’s healing journey from beginning to end. Truly a must-read story from Emezi.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Homophobia and Sexual content

lynseyreads_'s review against another edition

hopeful tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Homophobia

rouxellereads's review against another edition

I don’t really know what it is about this story but I really didn’t care to continue. I’m all for messy books so I don’t think it’s that. If I had to guess, I would say I’m really just not connecting to the characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, and Grief

k_lupin's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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

Minor: Child death and Homophobia

nefariousbee's review against another edition

emotional inspiring relaxing fast-paced

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

4.75

I came out of this book like *who hasn't had dilf thoughts?!*
okay for real, Emezi is a wonderful author, I absolutely adore their characters and the way they portray relationships. in their most raw, messy state. what I missed here is hard to out I to words; I just wanted *more*. more messy, raw feelings. everything happened too all at once for my tastes. but i still absolutely loved it and I think I'm gonna read the rest of their books as well, now that I only have two more to go.
also I gotta say, I was really surprised by the average rating. what is here not to love? I'm gonna read some reviews later but I have string suspicions it's the purity culture and pearl clutching that's so prevalent in the younger generation again and I don't fuck with that. fiction is such a great place to figure out fucked up situations and Emezi does just that here. and they do it well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Death, Homophobia, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Drug use, Infidelity, Death of parent, and Alcohol

ukponge's review

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Homophobia

sarahreadsromance's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-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

If I could give this more than 5 stars I would.  Emezi illustrates the complexity of love and grief.  They so clearly communicates that life can be messy as hell but beautiful all the same.  There is a depth in the emotions they write that I can’t even fathom.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, and Alcohol