You Made a Fool of Death with your Beauty

How about that title?  It’s what grabbed my attention to be honest. 

Feyi Adekola lost her husband five years ago in a tragic accident. She has been mourning but is now ready to being * dating* again with her best friend/roommate’s encouragement. After she meets and has sec (aka steamy encounter) with a stranger at a rooftop party, things change drastically for her.  She is whisked away from her art studio and her home to a tropical island.

There she will have meals cooked by a celebrity chef and meet with an art curator who wants to launch her career.  She’s dating the perfect man, and is ready to embrace her new life and yet…

This book is a contemporary romance which I am still trying to decide how I feel about it. This book looks at grief, moving on from loss, loving again, and second chances. All things that I usually enjoy in a book, yet I just didn’t feel a connection to any of the characters. The book is more focused on the plot than on the growth of the characters. Characters, who I don’t feel were entirely fleshed out. I wanted to get to know them a little more. I feel I would have felt a deeper connection to them had I learned more. This one didn’t’ quite pack the punch that I was hoping that it would. There was something off in the storytelling for me. The pacing was either slow or fast. It didn’t have a natural flow to it. I am not sure that the author did this on purpose or not. I would put this one in the I enjoyed it but didn’t love it camp.

Thank you to Atria Books and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.

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