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

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

This was such a visceral read. And not even because of the more obvious reasons (hi grief, hi forbidden romances), but because the way Akwaeke Emezi writes is a whole damn experience. 

It seems impossible that someone can so perfectly capture an emotion or an experience using just words. But each and every time the story moved forward, their writing hit me in yet another way. 

A very real book about very real and imperfect characters, living this messy thing we call life. 

Cannot recommend enough.