venetiana 's review for:

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

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective tense 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

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Best book I've read in a long time. Sometimes I wanted to highlight All the Words, the writing is beautiful.
Very emotional (in a good way) and tender.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Grief, Car accident

Moderate: Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexual content, Death of parent

Minor: Biphobia, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, Outing, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail