Reviews tagging 'Incest'

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

6 reviews

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-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

3.5

This is a well written story but also the premise was more trashy romance novel than i expected based on the description.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Incest

venetiana's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective tense slow-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

Best book I've read in a long time. Sometimes I wanted to highlight All the Words, the writing is beautiful.
Very emotional (in a good way) and tender.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Death of parent

Minor: Biphobia, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, Outing, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

honeyenbee's review

challenging emotional funny sad tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cursing, Incest, and Violence

Minor: Homophobia

sarah984's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

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

2.0

I was really loving this book until about the 70% mark. Feyi was a great character with tons of personality, and even the side characters sparkled. The landscape descriptions were lush and the food descriptions were amazing (I read in the end notes that the author commissioned a menu from a pro chef to fit the characters and it shows). I loved the idea of Feyi getting messy and taking some risks to try and get her life moving again after her husband's sudden death in an accident.

However, the actual romance was bad. Alim just wasn't an interesting character to me. He was so bland despite his history, and he had this self conscious way of talking that made it sound like he was constantly vying for an A in therapy. He's in love with his son's girlfriend in like 3.5 seconds and he doesn't even have the excuse of being star struck.

Also in the second half the writing just gets really Wattpad-ish and bad, which I wasn't expecting from this author. Feyi "let out a breath she didn't realize she had been holding" and I almost screamed.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Incest, Infidelity, and Self harm

Incest was mentioned as a joke, but did not actually occur on page.

escapismforlife's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

5.0

This book is unapologetic  in every aspect  of it's  main character Feyi's choices. The story at times feels reckless  and is meant  to  be  on purpose.  At least that's  how I read it. This is a grieving 29 year olds story. She is in  a sad transition because  she doesn't  feel  good about  commitment. Not after such a loving and  consistent presence with her dead husband  five years before.  

 Everything  comes down  to  either pushing  away in the name of friendship or folding to desire.  I think its beautiful  how the loss of something makes it easier  to  step back. To not feel  pressure to  commit in a romantic  relationship. And this  is the aspect of this story that I related to  in certain ways.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Incest, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, and Car accident

skudiklier's review against another edition

emotional 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? It's complicated

4.75

Okay, wow. I didn't read the synopsis for this book beyond the very first lines, because I knew the author was good and I didn't want anything spoiled. Maybe if I'd read that I would have been more prepared for where the story went, but wow it was wild experiencing that with no idea it was going in that direction. 

I really enjoyed this book, and I feel like it balanced the feelings of grief and new love so well. I was a bit worried in the beginning I wouldn't be able to handle all of the stuff about her ex-husband's death, but I got through it okay. I think this book is beautiful and messy and I really want to believe in it, honestly. It made me feel so many things. 

I'm not sure I'd recommend this to everyone; I feel like I'd want to give a caveat or two if I did. But who knows, maybe I'll think about it. The writing was beautiful of course and there was nothing wrong with it that isn't the case for almost any romance.

Thank you to Atria Books and Netgalley for the chance to read and review this ARC. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Incest