Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

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

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

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Biphobia and Fire/Fire injury

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

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

Moderate: Sexual content, Blood, and Death of parent

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

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

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: Grief and Car accident

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

Minor: Child death

caseythereader's review against another edition

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