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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

Akwaeke Emezi

Start date: June 1, 2022

Finish date: July 1, 2022

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What Members Thought

Jan 02, 2023 Kobi rated it really liked it

Wow, this book has drama! I listened to this as an audiobook and I think it definitely added to the novel as the accents and narration helped me to become fully engulfed in the story line. Following the loss of her husband, Feyi has been anti-relationship and doesn’t believe that she will ever love anyone again. Then she meets someone that brings sparks and desire to her life and their forbidden love makes their lives a bit more complicated. I really enjoyed this book and definitely would like t ...more

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Aug 25, 2023 Shan ~A~ rated it really liked it

Shelves: age-gap, audio, owned-audible, erotic, millionaire-billionaire, family, romance, dancing, books-i-own, artist

Feyi Adekola, Nasir, Alim

Where do I start? I guess at the beginning where I had a bit of trouble getting into it. I have a hard time when urban characters are portrayed as speaking this way. With the N word, and the cursing. I'm urban and I don't speak this way and it just rubs me the wrong way.

That being said once Feyi got to the island (a fictional Caribbean Island) I was all in. I know a lot of people took issue with the relationship that developed while she was there, but from the moment sh ...more

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