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

emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

The way this book is written is beautiful. I read a sample on my library app and decided to borrow it. I think I finished it in about 2 hours. The way it tells the story and paints a picture of the FMC as an artist handling grief in her work is just beautiful. Unfortunately the premise of the main romance and how it plays out, along with the ending feeling very rushed and abrupt, left me confused and unsatisfied. 

The characters personalities and their actions don't line up to me and I can't agree with the story that any of what happened was acceptable at all- the characters could acknowledge what a mess they were making but they still made it... Yikes. Lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Grief

Moderate: Death

Like we're really gonna pretend the main love interests have an ounce of decency in them after she hooks up with the dude's dad? Come on dude. Both main characters are huge assholes for what they did. I get grief sucks and all but I can't find it relatable or the characters likeable after they pull some shit like that lmao. Especially the bit where it suggests she was right to go so slowly with the son because he flipped out so hard when he found out she was HOOKING UP WITH HIS FATHER as if that's a normal extreme for people to reach and he was just secretly an asshole the whole time. Please