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3.33 AVERAGE
3.33 AVERAGE
I read this in one sitting but.. I dunno.. I usually read poetry when im feeling sad, depressed or anxious and want to wallow in the feeling. Thats what I did reading this and it made me feel like I expected. Still something is missing. The poems are good but not excellent. I placed just 3 sticky tabs in the book and when im loving the poetry there's usually like a million tabs there.. So I dunno about the rating.
After reading the third in a trilogy, I picked up this very hyped collection hoping it would ease the book hangover. To give credit where it’s due, it did that - by making me angry.
This collection is FULL of Sin telling women how they should be; he writes frequently about beautiful broken women and how their scars are on the inside and that makes them strong... and it was probably the most patronising piece of poetry I had ever read.
He throws in a few poems about sex (as if he isn’t a ‘man’ without them? I didn’t really understand the point...) but the majority of them focus on his palpable anger in a past relationship. He seems to go from saying ‘you didn’t deserve me’ to ‘dear woman reader, no one deserves you’ in the space of two pages.
A huge portion of poems were about what women could do for him, like how she could guide him through heartbreak. It felt entitled and the occasional semi-feminist poems in between seemed to be more of a token pass at what’s ‘popular now’. He even notes in one poem that he raised his voice ‘because he cared’ and now he’s silent and doesn’t give a fuck so now is the time to worry. That is manipulation and is a massive abusive relationship red flag to me.
In all honesty I thought this collection was dreadful and I would be wary about going into this. To me, it was misogynistic, entitled, and reeked of Nice Guy™️ tendencies. Will not be reading any more of his work in future and wouldn’t recommend.
This collection is FULL of Sin telling women how they should be; he writes frequently about beautiful broken women and how their scars are on the inside and that makes them strong... and it was probably the most patronising piece of poetry I had ever read.
He throws in a few poems about sex (as if he isn’t a ‘man’ without them? I didn’t really understand the point...) but the majority of them focus on his palpable anger in a past relationship. He seems to go from saying ‘you didn’t deserve me’ to ‘dear woman reader, no one deserves you’ in the space of two pages.
A huge portion of poems were about what women could do for him, like how she could guide him through heartbreak. It felt entitled and the occasional semi-feminist poems in between seemed to be more of a token pass at what’s ‘popular now’. He even notes in one poem that he raised his voice ‘because he cared’ and now he’s silent and doesn’t give a fuck so now is the time to worry. That is manipulation and is a massive abusive relationship red flag to me.
In all honesty I thought this collection was dreadful and I would be wary about going into this. To me, it was misogynistic, entitled, and reeked of Nice Guy™️ tendencies. Will not be reading any more of his work in future and wouldn’t recommend.
I read this book back in 2016, still pulled at my heartstrings the same way the second time around.
emotional
medium-paced
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.5 stars
I didn’t live EVERY poem because some of them were just too short to make me feel any kind of emotion. But I would still definitely recommend to modern poetry lovers like myself!
I didn’t live EVERY poem because some of them were just too short to make me feel any kind of emotion. But I would still definitely recommend to modern poetry lovers like myself!
This is perfection. I will definitely be coming back to this one.