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melbel13's review against another edition
4.0
4.25
Absolutely beautiful! I think I like this more than Love and Misadventures.
Absolutely beautiful! I think I like this more than Love and Misadventures.
urhomie's review against another edition
4.0
Second Read: Read this all over again just so I can highlight all the beautiful parts I love <3
✨ 3.75 beautiful stars ✨
I really enjoyed reading this beauty of a work. So many descriptions and deep thoughts and everything I just...
Heartbreaking stories, love, feelings, the universe, fate, coincidence, decisions. I LOVED it. I guess it's just me having this book as one of the first real poetry books I read that stopped me from understanding it completely. There was the pain, there was first love, there were so many and so many different feelings that I couldn't get proper words out of me. It was tragic and mesmerizing at the same time.
“The second I tried to tell myself I wasn’t in love was the moment I realized I was.”
“When you lose a person, a whole universe goes along with them.”
“Tell me that story again—the one where the world ends how it began with a boy who loves a girl and a girl who loves a boy. And she is deaf and he is blind and he tells her he loves her over and over and she writes him every day but never hears a thing back.”
✨ 3.75 beautiful stars ✨
I really enjoyed reading this beauty of a work. So many descriptions and deep thoughts and everything I just...
Heartbreaking stories, love, feelings, the universe, fate, coincidence, decisions. I LOVED it. I guess it's just me having this book as one of the first real poetry books I read that stopped me from understanding it completely. There was the pain, there was first love, there were so many and so many different feelings that I couldn't get proper words out of me. It was tragic and mesmerizing at the same time.
“The second I tried to tell myself I wasn’t in love was the moment I realized I was.”
“When you lose a person, a whole universe goes along with them.”
“Tell me that story again—the one where the world ends how it began with a boy who loves a girl and a girl who loves a boy. And she is deaf and he is blind and he tells her he loves her over and over and she writes him every day but never hears a thing back.”
thaonguyen61295's review against another edition
5.0
Cuốn sách này chạm được đến mình, đến được vết thương của mình. Có 1 số đoạn mình phải đọc đi đọc lại để cảm nhận rõ hơn được cái đau mà nó mang đến
eishe's review against another edition
1.0
If this book had been around when I was 15 and heartbroken to the core, I would have probably adored it.
Now it's a mixture of "That's not really a healthy outlook on... anything.", "Why am I even reading this?" and "Is this what modern poetry is?".
Now it's a mixture of "That's not really a healthy outlook on... anything.", "Why am I even reading this?" and "Is this what modern poetry is?".
barolo's review against another edition
3.0
A weak 7/10.
I won’t pretend I like poetry. The parts of the book that resonated were the parts that diverged from standard poetic prose into more descriptive assertions.
Still, the subject matter leaned into the ridiculous without any semblance of nuance nor presence of meta-commentary. It’s a poetry set about yearning for somebody, without any of the complicated feelings that comes with yearning. It’s yearning for the sake of yearning. It’s yearning without the remorse, hatred, or anger. It’s the literary equivalent of basking in your own sadness but the intensity of your feelings are blunted to time.
I found it generally incapable of provoking more than an occasional acknowledgement of the fact that certain word pairs fit well together. Still, I think this author knows what they’re doing; hence, the writing quality is consistently high. There is conviction in the words. Intention in the phrasing and order of ideas.
I think a different subject matter would impress me more.
I won’t pretend I like poetry. The parts of the book that resonated were the parts that diverged from standard poetic prose into more descriptive assertions.
Still, the subject matter leaned into the ridiculous without any semblance of nuance nor presence of meta-commentary. It’s a poetry set about yearning for somebody, without any of the complicated feelings that comes with yearning. It’s yearning for the sake of yearning. It’s yearning without the remorse, hatred, or anger. It’s the literary equivalent of basking in your own sadness but the intensity of your feelings are blunted to time.
I found it generally incapable of provoking more than an occasional acknowledgement of the fact that certain word pairs fit well together. Still, I think this author knows what they’re doing; hence, the writing quality is consistently high. There is conviction in the words. Intention in the phrasing and order of ideas.
I think a different subject matter would impress me more.
notvibing's review against another edition
5.0
I don't read poems often but I actually like it a lot. This year I read a few from different authors but I never read a whole book full of poems. And I got this book from my best friend for Christmas and I really really enjoyed it.
Most of the poems are about love but not all and they are about many different facets of loving or not loving anymore. I found Lang Leav's style so lovely to read, I love the words she choses and how she writes her poems (how long they are, how they look, etc.).
Not all her poems are written the same way, oh no, and that made it so not boring to read this book.
I think I'm going to check out more of her poems in the future because I feel like they actually mean a lot to me and that I understand them and that's just nice.
Most of the poems are about love but not all and they are about many different facets of loving or not loving anymore. I found Lang Leav's style so lovely to read, I love the words she choses and how she writes her poems (how long they are, how they look, etc.).
Not all her poems are written the same way, oh no, and that made it so not boring to read this book.
I think I'm going to check out more of her poems in the future because I feel like they actually mean a lot to me and that I understand them and that's just nice.
diptyque's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
relaxing
sad
fast-paced
5.0
Timing is everything. I do not know if I am more generous after the grand DNF of Gabbie Hanna’s poetry book…. But regardless of that, the main takeaway is do not read poetry books you aren’t in the mood for.
The perspective is the tone is extremely lovelorn, lost, a bit hopeless, contradictory with hopeful which lends itself to extreme relatability from my part. That is what kept me sated, not being jarred at any part. That may be what I want to read, an echo of understanding.
It is with admittance of post-January realization that I do enjoy romance in writing too. I truly did enjoy this book and not one poem or prose was off to me. A surprise! A surprise. I might revisit the last book I read from her later this year to see if I was unfair.
The perspective is the tone is extremely lovelorn, lost, a bit hopeless, contradictory with hopeful which lends itself to extreme relatability from my part. That is what kept me sated, not being jarred at any part. That may be what I want to read, an echo of understanding.
It is with admittance of post-January realization that I do enjoy romance in writing too. I truly did enjoy this book and not one poem or prose was off to me. A surprise! A surprise. I might revisit the last book I read from her later this year to see if I was unfair.
speakwithadam's review against another edition
3.0
I'm so torn on how to rate this book. I found 90% of it to be just meh. It was repetitive and not very inventive. But that other 10% would hit home with me so perfectly. Multiple times I had to stop reading because of all the emotions and thoughts that one line would evoke. I kept reading to find those few moments that inspired me. But I had to wade through the weeds to find them.