Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

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

243 reviews

franksalot's review against another edition

is akwaeke emezi in the room with us ???? this book felt like it was written by a completely different author 

still, as always, able to make me feel incredibly uncomfortable with the content 

got too many books to read and this one is annoying me 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Grief

bookasaurbri's review against another edition

fast-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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

ecster's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? No

5.0

I've read this in a paper book before and the audiobook was such an awesome experience. I guess i'll just have to keep reading it again and again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Car accident

Minor: Violence

chb's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

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

lily1304's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Grief

Moderate: Blood

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

******

THE ORIGINAL BOOK IS BRILLIANT. ✨

This explanation is about the German audio book:
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The *German* version is badly translated. I cringed!

Admittedly, while the narrator has an amazing voice, the German audiobook was also not well read, and some things were just pronounced wrong, which kept pulling me out of the story.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Biphobia, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

dschwartz5's review

reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

The ending sort of dragged on and got repetitive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death and Car accident

Minor: Homophobia and Violence

luizalikesbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

Don’t let the people saying this book it’s just super messy and spicy fool you. This was 100% a wonderful depiction of how grief undeniably transforms you and how maybe ~messy~ it can be to go about rebuilding your life and prioritizing your joy and pleasure sometimes at the detriment of making other people happy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, and Grief

Minor: Violence and Blood