A review by scarroll178
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

emotional sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Is this what love bombing is? 😂

This father and son are red flags all around. The son really flew her out to live in his mansion, and the dad really gets her to fall in love with him in two weeks? Moving too fast for me lmao. 

Honestly, I wish the author would’ve leaned more into the messiness of the relationship, rather than trying to minimize the mess by making Nasir react so violently to the affair. It felt too much like the author was trying to justify it. ‘Yeah, Feyi fucked his dad, but it turns out Nasir was a violent shithead all along, so maybe Feyi was kinda right to fuck her friend’s dad? 🤔’

I wish we got more development for Lorraine. I thought it was really interesting that she seemed so warm and friendly in her house but so cold and guarded in her father’s house. I definitely thought we were going to find out what Alim did to make her act that way, like tbh I thought we were gonna find out that Devon had been Lorraine’s boyfriend or something 😂
 

I really loved the book, esp
the main characters both being bi!!
, I just wish the author had gone further with it. Let them be more messy! 
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