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The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace

37 reviews

booksawyer's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace is (I think) the first poetry collection I’ve ever read, and I absolutely loved it! 

I was hooked from the first poem I read this collection. The author eloquently tackles challenging themes with beautiful language. She uses a lot of metaphors, with the concept of being a “Princess” being a reoccurring theme. I think it is evident that a lot of care went into creating these poems. 

From reading other reviews, I gathered that Lovelace’s style of writing is polarizing, as it is a non-traditional poetry style. I’m not that familiar with this art form, so I don’t have anything to compare it to, but I can absolutely say that I loved the author’s writing style. I found it to be very unique, and the poems to be expertly written.

I can’t wait to check out Amanda Lovelace’s other collections, and I’m excited to keep reading more poetry in general! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Cancer

Moderate: Rape and Suicide

Minor: Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, and Self harm

This book also contains minor mentions of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy

robinks's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

3.5

There were definitely some lines that gave me pause, and I can see how creating this work would be a cathartic/therapeutic experience for Lovelace.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Cancer, Racism, Suicide, Sexual assault, Self harm, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Eating disorder

Minor: Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Bullying

alon_nmc's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

You can really feel all the pain and despair the voice has gone through. But even through all that, she still manages to bring herself up. 
She becomes her own savior as she realizes that nobody will bring her happiness for her. And even though she has suffered a lot, she comes to the conclusion that living life to the fullest is her best option. 
Solid book, read it quite fast. I actually found a lot of poems that I quite loved, so that’s that. Would recommend for anyone that’s going through hard times.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual violence, Death, Cancer, Rape, Suicide, and Torture

mariah_poulin's review

Depressing. Triggering for someone who suffers from depression. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Abandonment, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Bullying, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Dementia, and Child abuse

loki_sdaughter's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Bullying, Sexual assault, Homophobia, Alcoholism, Racism, Death of parent, Suicide, Death, and Cancer

2busyreading's review

emotional fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Grief, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Suicide and Cancer

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

ayerobiin's review

dark emotional inspiring sad fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Death, Death of parent, Child abuse, and Suicide

tomatothesoop's review

emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Grief, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, and Cancer

namenotimportant's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death of parent, Grief, Cancer, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Rape

potsandpans22's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

My goodness where do I even start with this book. The journey I went through when reading this is definitely a reflective one. It ripped me to shreds, grinded me to a pulp, stomped me into the ground, covered me with dirt, watered me, let flowers grow from where the remnants of myself were buried in an unmarked grave and then let a blissful life come from all of that. 

It is a very heavy anthology but I highly recommend it. Just check the content warnings first, as it covers some very heavy, triggering topics. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death of parent, Rape, and Suicide

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Terminal illness, Cancer, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Self harm, Sexism, Eating disorder, Sexual harassment, Child death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Cancer, Death of parent, Alcoholism, and Alcohol