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I enjoyed reading it, and I think that You made a Fool of Death with your Beauty is an excellent Valentine’s Day selection. And there was a maturity about it as well, the way it blossomed gracefully into an exploration of love, loss, and the vulnerability needed to heal and love again.

It was a messy, titillating, anxiety-inducing romantic spiral that invested me in the story from line one. I honestly feel like the excellence of this novel was undersold. Nevertheless, the story I found within these pages was deliciously complex. I wasn’t expecting a lofty literary read with this novel, Emezi themself having made it clear that You made a Fool of Death with your Beauty is a romance book that’s unlike the literary and speculative books they published before. For years, I shied away.īut this year, I resolved to banish my timidity and tackle Emezi’s work from behind, sinking claws and teeth into their most recent publication and romance debut You made a Fool of Death with your Beauty, which was published in May 2022. It was hard not to feel ill-equipped to even try to ride their literary tempest. They have been busy, and astonishingly successful. Since then, they have published six more critically acclaimed books, three of which were published in 2022 alone. They have bounced from genre to genre, storyform to storyform, leaving ground-breaking and provocative work in their wake since their debut novel Freshwater shook the literary world in 2018.

You made a fool of death with your beauty genre