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A review by nataliereadz
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Ever finish a book and immediately want to reread it all over again?
Let's just preface this with "romance is NOT my thing". While marketed as one, this book is so.much.more. than that. It's a gripping, heart wrenching, trip through the trial and error and messy in betweens of working through grief, pain, loss and emotional recovery. While it is heated and loaded with romance (thankfully not the cheesy kind), it's full of relatable characters with equally as relatably messy lives, and a ton of laughter (read: Joy! I want her as my best friend!). This story and its characters are seductive, sensual and so, SO, complex.
This is my second Emezi read, and while they moved me with The Death of Vivek Oji, this time, they comfortably cracked me open and left me in a puddle on the floor.
Emezi is a masterful storyteller. Their writing is all consuming and totally hypnotic. More than a handful of times I found myself closing my eyes after reading one of the many poignant lines throughout, just to savour it for a moment longer.
The only negative is that it wasnt 600 pages long. I could have lived in this story for that many more.
Exquisite!
Let's just preface this with "romance is NOT my thing". While marketed as one, this book is so.much.more. than that. It's a gripping, heart wrenching, trip through the trial and error and messy in betweens of working through grief, pain, loss and emotional recovery. While it is heated and loaded with romance (thankfully not the cheesy kind), it's full of relatable characters with equally as relatably messy lives, and a ton of laughter (read: Joy! I want her as my best friend!). This story and its characters are seductive, sensual and so, SO, complex.
This is my second Emezi read, and while they moved me with The Death of Vivek Oji, this time, they comfortably cracked me open and left me in a puddle on the floor.
Emezi is a masterful storyteller. Their writing is all consuming and totally hypnotic. More than a handful of times I found myself closing my eyes after reading one of the many poignant lines throughout, just to savour it for a moment longer.
The only negative is that it wasnt 600 pages long. I could have lived in this story for that many more.
Exquisite!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Car accident, Cursing, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content