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tyler_j's review
3.0
It starts off with a warning "Warning: The poems in this book contain graphic violence, sex, gore and adult language. It is not recommended for anyone under the age of 18 or those who are easily offended."
True, but mostly I was underwhelmed, or I should say many of the poems just missed the mark for me. Where-as the last dark poetry book I read was dark because it dealt with feelings of depression and while it could be gorey/graphic it was meaningful, these were just....horrific and demented for the sake of it. And I like my demented horror but sadly many of the 36 poems just missed the mark for me and others were ok enough but I didn't love them either. I think trying to make a horror story into a poem is just difficult.
There were a few I did really like though, "The Realization" which freaking scared me because hello to the fear of being buried alive! "Halloween Night" because I love Halloween, it's a short poem but I loved it in it's atmosphere, and "Daddy" is the perfect revenge poem, Daddy got what he deserved. Oh and the scariest to me was "The Little Tiny Spider" because fucking spiders man! SPIDERS *runs for the hills*
True, but mostly I was underwhelmed, or I should say many of the poems just missed the mark for me. Where-as the last dark poetry book I read was dark because it dealt with feelings of depression and while it could be gorey/graphic it was meaningful, these were just....horrific and demented for the sake of it. And I like my demented horror but sadly many of the 36 poems just missed the mark for me and others were ok enough but I didn't love them either. I think trying to make a horror story into a poem is just difficult.
There were a few I did really like though, "The Realization" which freaking scared me because hello to the fear of being buried alive! "Halloween Night" because I love Halloween, it's a short poem but I loved it in it's atmosphere, and "Daddy" is the perfect revenge poem, Daddy got what he deserved. Oh and the scariest to me was "The Little Tiny Spider" because fucking spiders man! SPIDERS *runs for the hills*
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