Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

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

41 reviews

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

laurataylor's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Sexual assault, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Homophobia, Alcohol, Car accident, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, and Sexual content

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

queenofthefae's review against another edition

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

jourdanicus's review against another edition

emotional hopeful tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

Easiest 5 stars of all my reads so far this year. My favorite part about this story was how just... Well the characters were. Yes there was grief, yes there were messy emotions and hurt, but there was also constant communication and care for each other. The writing was excellent and all the themes in the story were handled with such nuance. I love this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Car accident, Cursing, Death, and Grief

Minor: Alcohol, Biphobia, and Injury/Injury detail

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

amandalorianxo's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This definitely is a book that will leave you pondering over so much, especially when it comes to love & relationships. I felt that even though I was struggling to accept the choices and decisions our female MC was making, they ultimately were hers to make, not mine. I loved Joy and wish there was a book on her story alone. The ending felt abrupt and I wish it ended cleaner but minus that this was a novel that wasn’t afraid to be a little messy, provocative and spicy 🤭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Cursing, and Infidelity

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Blood

readingthroughinfinity's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Homophobia

changreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content

purplepenning's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

Whew. Complicated, raw, sensual, powerful, romantic, redemptive, messy as hell ... kind of amazing?

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Biphobia, Child death, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia