Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

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

15 reviews

llams's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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? No

5.0

this is the most beautiful book i've read yet! i'm not great with the words but this was so moving and beautiful and full of love alongside the pain and ache

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Death, Blood, Biphobia, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Grief, and Car accident

binevolentbookworm's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent, Blood, Grief, Biphobia, and Death

Minor: Car accident and Fire/Fire injury

zombiezami's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Outing

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

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

ariel_marie's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Grief, Death, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Blood

xlivinglikejen's review

challenging emotional funny tense fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Car accident, Death, and Sexual content

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

arsenic_'s review against another edition

dark

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Acephobia/Arophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual content

eralbesu's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

I really enjoyed the descriptions of the food. I didn’t love the age-gap romance element to it and it was quite a big part of the plot. The discussions of grief are poignant, but I just got hung up on the romance element of the book that just was not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Abandonment, Car accident, Child death, Grief, Biphobia, Cursing, and Death

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

the_vegan_bookworm's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful 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

This is a brilliant, inventive romance book about messy, beautiful, complex characters. The premise was original, the imagery is vibrant, and the chemistry is so magnetic that you feel it the whole way through.

After finishing this book, it has continued to live rent-free in my mind since then. I find myself thinking about the story very often. Highly, highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Biphobia and Fire/Fire injury