A review by ebartsch85
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

emotional hopeful tense 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

5.0

 I can feel the weight of this book sitting in my chest. It feels like an open wound that has begun to heal from the beauty and rawness of this book. I honestly didn't know what to think when the book began but this book feels like life. As our main character says its "messy and alive." This is truly beautiful.



“You were like light. I couldn’t help but to turn my face to you if I wanted to keep living.”


"We're doing this?"
"What...setting our lives on fire? Sounds fantastic."
"I'll burn with you."
 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Car accident