For the last five years, she’s been merely existing, rather than living since her husband died in a car accident that left her with barely a scratch, less than a year after they got married. This book does contain a lot of things that seasoned romance readers might find quite a bit off-putting and for me the ending is very much left open to interpretation and seems more HFN (happy for now) rather than HEA (happy ever after) and a lot of people consider a romance must have a HEA to be considered as such.įeyi is in her late twenties, living in Brooklyn in New York. And to be a hundred per cent honest, I’m not entirely sure it is a romance novel in the strictest sense.

One of the hosts was reading it and I thought it sounded really interesting because it didn’t particularly sound like a romance novel with that title. I first heard about this book through one of Book Riot’s Podcasts, which I think is called When In Romance – it’s the romance specific one anyway. The only problem is, she’s falling for the one man she absolutely can’t have. And as the sun goes down on her old life our heroine also might just be ready to open her heart to someone new… The author was repped in the deal by Verve’s Head of Books-To-Screen, Chris Lupo, and the author is repped for publishing by The Wylie Agency.You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beautyīlurb : It’s the opportunity of a lifetime.įeyi is about to be given the chance to escape the city’s blistering heat for a dream island holiday: poolside cocktails, beach sunsets and elaborate meals. It is a highly anticipated book, tracing Emezi’s own unfolding of a self and the journey of a creative spirit stepping into power in the human world. Emezi will publish their memoir Dear Senthuran through Riverhead Books on June 8. Emezi’s debut novel was Freshwater, in development for series at FX, followed by the YA title Pet. Emezi’s most recent novel, The Death of Vivek Oji, was published last August by Riverhead and quickly became a bestseller. But even as romance takes her to a beautiful estate in the Caribbean, she struggles with the challenge of balancing grief with the desire to move forward with her life.īorn in Umuahia and raised in Aba, Nigeria, Emezi is the bestselling author of three previous novels and is a 2018 National Book Foundation ‘5 Under 35’ honoree.

And is given an introduction to a major curator who wants to launch her career in the art world. While she grieves through her art, her life begins to turn around when she meets a handsome new man at a party. The protagonist is a beautiful Nigerian 29-year old aspiring artist in Brooklyn who loses her husband in a tragic accident.

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