“He loved people being messy as f*ck—he said it was one of the best things about being human, how we could make such disasters and recover from them enough to make them into stories later.”

Feyi is an artist and a widow. She’s messy, intoxicating but at the same time destructive and derailed. When she gets the opportunity of a life time, a holiday and a prestigious exposition of her work as an artist, she can’t say no.

You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty, lyrics from the wonderful song Hunger by Florence+ The Machine’s, is a one of a kind literary romance. It makes you feel messy, unethical, morally depraved and in between flirts with yearning, dedication and loyalty. As Emezi intended, confided to Teen Vogue, “it opens up a huge conversation about dating ethics, what things are acceptable or unacceptable”. In these prose filled pages we are taken on an ethical journey filled with grief. It’s because of these characters and explorations of ethics that I Ioved every bit of it. I loved Feyi as a complex character making unwise decisions and because of it being scolded by her amazing and hilarious friend Joy. I loved the romance and the search for oneself again after losing it. I loved the prose and the detailed mouthwatering descriptions of the food. It’s just everything. A book of the senses: I cried, laughed, ate, created and loved and it left me full.

Fun fact: the screen rights for a movie have already been auctioned to Amazon Studio’s.