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A review by lady_wira
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
4.0
Feyi lost her husband five years ago, and in that time she’s been lost in her grief. Everything good turned tragic, and grieving became her constant. Five years on and it feels like it just happened. Why does moving on feel like a betrayal?
Her best friend and confidant, Joy, urges her to embrace life, to choose to be alive and live not just exist. Feyi battles against herself and finally agrees to a date.
Watching her navigate through the date and getting excited about life again was refreshing to read. It is not easy to pull oneself up from the dungeons of immense grief. Along the way, she has a couple of steamy encounters and one that sees her on a tropical island being a guest to a two-Michelin star chef.
If we knew how events would end, would we still make the same choices? Feyi falls for the Chef and he in turn colors her world with exquisite cuisines, sunset and sunrise views and a longing she had not felt in a long while.
You made a fool of death with your beauty, at first reads like a steamy, sexy read. Honestly, I almost did not finish reading because I expected more on the grief angle. But as chapters lapsed it got real and intense diving deep into the intricacies of a wife losing a husband, a husband losing a wife, children losing a parent and a couple trying hard to find their way back to each other after the loss of a child.
Grief looks different to different people and keeping memories alive while still navigating a life without the departed is not easy.
How can one be okay with their father falling for their crush? It hurts but it makes your father happy…what’s the lesser of the two evils?
Seeing Feyi be unkind to herself was harsh. She grappled with the thought of finding happiness despite all the hurt in her heart. But it is okay to live? Right. It is okay to choose life even when taking the next breath feels impossible.
It is a book I recommend to anyone battling grief, anyone looking to understand what it manifests like in different people, and anyone looking to find the good in the day.
Akwaeke Emezi is a fantastic writer, and an author who recommends other books is always in my love column, and the reason why my to-be-read collection will never be zero. She craftily leaves some gems behind. Some I am sure I’ll be reading soon.
Her best friend and confidant, Joy, urges her to embrace life, to choose to be alive and live not just exist. Feyi battles against herself and finally agrees to a date.
Watching her navigate through the date and getting excited about life again was refreshing to read. It is not easy to pull oneself up from the dungeons of immense grief. Along the way, she has a couple of steamy encounters and one that sees her on a tropical island being a guest to a two-Michelin star chef.
If we knew how events would end, would we still make the same choices? Feyi falls for the Chef and he in turn colors her world with exquisite cuisines, sunset and sunrise views and a longing she had not felt in a long while.
You made a fool of death with your beauty, at first reads like a steamy, sexy read. Honestly, I almost did not finish reading because I expected more on the grief angle. But as chapters lapsed it got real and intense diving deep into the intricacies of a wife losing a husband, a husband losing a wife, children losing a parent and a couple trying hard to find their way back to each other after the loss of a child.
Grief looks different to different people and keeping memories alive while still navigating a life without the departed is not easy.
How can one be okay with their father falling for their crush? It hurts but it makes your father happy…what’s the lesser of the two evils?
Seeing Feyi be unkind to herself was harsh. She grappled with the thought of finding happiness despite all the hurt in her heart. But it is okay to live? Right. It is okay to choose life even when taking the next breath feels impossible.
It is a book I recommend to anyone battling grief, anyone looking to understand what it manifests like in different people, and anyone looking to find the good in the day.
Akwaeke Emezi is a fantastic writer, and an author who recommends other books is always in my love column, and the reason why my to-be-read collection will never be zero. She craftily leaves some gems behind. Some I am sure I’ll be reading soon.