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

emotional hopeful medium-paced
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

contemporary romance isn’t really my thing (read it for the florence + the machine title lol) but found myself enjoying it for the most part! the conversations of “should we or should we not” in regards to the main relationship got quite repetitive, and i wasn’t sold on the main couple falling in love so quickly, though they are quite sweet together.
the insta-lust (teetering on instalove) upon meeting alim at the airport threw me out of it. with the blurb describing that she was attracted to someone she definitely shouldn’t be looking at and an early chapter reveal of alim being a widower, it was clear who the main couple would be. i would have liked to see the pair get to know each other and share their similar hurts and develop the relationship from there, rather than love at first sight.
loved the bi rep and the friendship between feyi and joy. not the strongest hit for me, but looking forward to reading more from Emezi in their other works.
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