Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

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

40 reviews

ruthiethetoothie's review

dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal death

dfrancis's review against another edition

emotional slow-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? It's complicated

4.0

I don’t typically read romance books but this one was really good. The book talks a lot about grief and I think it handles it beautifully. Also some messy relationship drama and definitely some spice. Would recommend even if romance and spice isn’t usually in your wheelhouse

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Content Warnings

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

agnesbebon's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Messy, beautiful, alive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Car accident, Death of parent, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

albernikolauras's review

challenging emotional lighthearted reflective tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

What happens when you go on a trip with a boyfriend you are semi-serious about only to potentially fall in love with someone else? Feyi knows. This is a book that plays with grief and messy life directions.

This book was a rollercoaster from page 1 to the end. While sold as a romance, it doesn't quite hit the same beats as a typical romance. I enjoyed the messiness of the entire thing, although I don't know if even Feyi would defend her actions. I also don't know if I could have done this better.

Feyi's best friend was the star character throughout this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Grief, Sexual content, Blood, Car accident, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Homophobia

republicofben's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

5.0

This book was such a well-written, profound exploration of grief that really resonated with me. The book opens on lighter, more salacious notes, only giving you bits and pieces of the protagonist's hidden feelings. But the author does such an expert job showing you more and more of Feyi as the book continues, and it was so easy to get caught up in her feelings. I absolutely recommend this book, though I'd recommend you take care to ensure you're feeling up to the jumps and bumps your heart will go through.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Violence, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, and Physical abuse

Minor: Gore, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, and Cursing

kshertz's review

emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

It’s definitely beautifully written. I love most of the book. It gets to a point where it gets slightly tough to follow or believe in my perspective. I want to leave her perspective and go to someone else’s. But I’m stuck in her mess of her own making. Also, found a new trigger. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Death, and Gaslighting

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

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

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

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

rachelagain's review against another edition

• 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity and Violence

queenofthefae's review

challenging emotional tense

• 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

4.0

I did really enjoy this book, and probably would’ve absolutely loved it if not for the initial discomfort I felt with the premise of the main conflict —

that Feyi falls in love with and decides ultimately to pursue a relationship with the father of the man she’s already involved with.

I don’t really have a problem with age-gap romances, but that particular vein of relationship dynamic really squicked me out for some reason, to the point where I almost put the book down. I could see by about halfway where the plot was headed, but I think it must have been more the anticipation of

Feyi crossing into *something* with Alim

than anything else, because for the last third or so of the book once they’d crossed that line, so to speak, I was much more okay with it. I still didn’t love that dynamic situation, but not so badly I wanted to stop reading. Overall, I really did enjoy the book, and aside from that one aspect, really don’t have anything negative to say.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Grief, and Sexual content

Moderate: Car accident, Death of parent, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness