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A review by literaryintersections
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
challenging
emotional
funny
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I will not accept any Feyi slander anywhere!!!
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty was a vision. It’s about being messy. Being in love. Being loved. Loving yourself. What it means to grieve and the fact that we never truly get over those we lost.
And it’s so. Damn. Messy. Feyi girl, baby what is you doing???? But also, you do you and I love you. But also, these choices ma’am 🥴🥴🥴. But also, I just want you to be happy.
And my girl JOY!!! The person you always want by your side. My favorite part about Joy is that she was truly loyal. There for Feyi - anytime she needed her, supporting her, challenging here, being the shoulder to lean on. I kind of wanted Feyi and Joy to end up together but also marveled at how beautiful their friendship is.
And that one character can go rot because I’m over his trashy ass. You’ll know when you read.
Can you tell this book made me feel. It’s a damn roller coaster than Emezi brings us on and I gleefully went along for the ride. Please read this book. And if you’ve read it, sound off in the comments about Feyi, Joy, Nasir, and Zaddy 🤣
Thank you to Atria for my copy of this book. It truly is going to be one of the meatiest, emotional, stickiest books I’ve read this year.
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty was a vision. It’s about being messy. Being in love. Being loved. Loving yourself. What it means to grieve and the fact that we never truly get over those we lost.
And it’s so. Damn. Messy. Feyi girl, baby what is you doing???? But also, you do you and I love you. But also, these choices ma’am 🥴🥴🥴. But also, I just want you to be happy.
And my girl JOY!!! The person you always want by your side. My favorite part about Joy is that she was truly loyal. There for Feyi - anytime she needed her, supporting her, challenging here, being the shoulder to lean on. I kind of wanted Feyi and Joy to end up together but also marveled at how beautiful their friendship is.
And that one character can go rot because I’m over his trashy ass. You’ll know when you read.
Can you tell this book made me feel. It’s a damn roller coaster than Emezi brings us on and I gleefully went along for the ride. Please read this book. And if you’ve read it, sound off in the comments about Feyi, Joy, Nasir, and Zaddy 🤣
Thank you to Atria for my copy of this book. It truly is going to be one of the meatiest, emotional, stickiest books I’ve read this year.
Graphic: Death and Blood
Moderate: Grief and Car accident