Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

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

15 reviews

lilysaddler's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death, Car accident, Blood, Cursing, and Death of parent

Minor: Violence, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, and Drug use

sib_reads's review against another edition

emotional 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, and Blood

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Drug use, Infidelity, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

berodatheelf's review against another edition

emotional fast-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Sexual content, Death of parent, Drug use, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Biphobia, Car accident, Child death, Alcohol, and Blood

tinytrashqueen's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Grief

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Infidelity, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Child death

caseythereader's review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-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

4.75

Thanks to Atria Books for the free advance copy of this book.

 - OMG, this book! I think YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY is going to be divisive, but count me firmly in the "loved in" camp.
- Trust in Emezi to write a painful, messy, literary romance novel, full of intense feelings and complicated relationship dynamics, all draped in decadence.
- My one quibble is that it veers real close to insta-love, but everything else about the book is spectacular: the setting, Feyi and Joy's friendship, the queerness, the connections sparking off the page. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Alcohol, Cursing, Blood, Car accident, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts