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lsmith36's review
3.0
Not my favorite collection of poetry I’ve ever read, but it had some lines and poems that stuck out to me. I particularly enjoyed “The Fall” and “D-Day”. It had a lot of vivid imagery, but was a bit literal and didn’t really leave much to be thought about.
katkinslee's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
5.0
avereads's review
4.0
“You have ripped out my tongue; I cannot speak. My hands spoke for me, but then you ripped them out too. Your words churn ice as you speak. Snow drops from your lips. I weep blood, listening to your confession, wishing you had ripped out my eardrums instead.”
A Collection of Nightmares is a poetry collection by Christina Sng that has dark themes of horror and science fiction. I thought that I didn’t really get along with poetry, but I really enjoyed this collection! I think it has to do with the type of poetry I was reading, but horror seemed like a whole new experience and these were so beautifully done that I couldn’t help by loving it. It’s quite short, which I enjoyed, because I read it in one evening and it was just so satisfying to finish. The balance of horror to science fiction was nice too, and I really enjoyed how a lot of the poems, although quite different, felt like connected stories. If you are like me and are hesitant about poetry but want to test out some with darker themes, I fully recommend this one!
A Collection of Nightmares is a poetry collection by Christina Sng that has dark themes of horror and science fiction. I thought that I didn’t really get along with poetry, but I really enjoyed this collection! I think it has to do with the type of poetry I was reading, but horror seemed like a whole new experience and these were so beautifully done that I couldn’t help by loving it. It’s quite short, which I enjoyed, because I read it in one evening and it was just so satisfying to finish. The balance of horror to science fiction was nice too, and I really enjoyed how a lot of the poems, although quite different, felt like connected stories. If you are like me and are hesitant about poetry but want to test out some with darker themes, I fully recommend this one!
spillinggrace's review
5.0
“The years passed and the survivors passed. /
This is not life, whispered the last.”
In Christina Sng’s A COLLECTION OF NIGHTMARES the promise of a poetic feast of sleeplessness and shadows is delivered and it is DELICIOUS. It is dark, it is elegant, and it is dangerous.
There is a story being told through this collection. Without giving away what that is, I can tell you that this book is a masterpiece of dark fiction and beautiful destruction. I love this book so much.
Some of my favorite poems in the collection are:
Twenty Years
This is not life, whispered the last.”
In Christina Sng’s A COLLECTION OF NIGHTMARES the promise of a poetic feast of sleeplessness and shadows is delivered and it is DELICIOUS. It is dark, it is elegant, and it is dangerous.
There is a story being told through this collection. Without giving away what that is, I can tell you that this book is a masterpiece of dark fiction and beautiful destruction. I love this book so much.
Some of my favorite poems in the collection are:
Twenty Years
spookyoctopusreads's review
4.0
A Collection of Nightmares is a horribly beautiful collection of nightmarish sketches, each word carefully chosen to add another brushstroke to the shadows.
These poems contain such depth that many urged me to read them numerous times to peel back the layers. I could not get over the beauty of each line, perfectly constructed to vividly describe such darkness.
I believe many of these poems would fall into the science fiction sub-genre of horror, which is not normally my preferred horror arena, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed reading this collection.
Some of my favorite poems include:
These poems contain such depth that many urged me to read them numerous times to peel back the layers. I could not get over the beauty of each line, perfectly constructed to vividly describe such darkness.
I believe many of these poems would fall into the science fiction sub-genre of horror, which is not normally my preferred horror arena, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed reading this collection.
Some of my favorite poems include:
munjiru's review
4.0
Here we have some horror poetry for the class. I have read and loved cosmic horror poetry but it's always been old school stuff never anything by modern authors. I've read all of Lovecraft's as well as Clark Ashton Smith's poetry and really loved it. Smith's stuff especially has always been a favorite of mine...it's the type of deliciously dramatic stuff that I can't help but read aloud again and again.
Coming back to this, I really enjoyed it! I liked how the collection progressed from individual horrors to global to cosmic. I felt like it built the tension in the collection really well. The writing was good, the content was my kind of thing and the vibes were vibin.
Coming back to this, I really enjoyed it! I liked how the collection progressed from individual horrors to global to cosmic. I felt like it built the tension in the collection really well. The writing was good, the content was my kind of thing and the vibes were vibin.
breathedeep's review
3.0
There’s some really beautiful writing, imagery and killer lines in this collection. However, I really enjoyed the first half of the collection which seemed cohesive and fit well with the title and blurb, but I found the second half moved away from the scary, horror style to a more apocalyptic, sci-fi style that I wasn’t really expecting and which seemed like it would be better suited to a separate collection.
gay's review against another edition
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.75