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3.33 AVERAGE
3.33 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
challenging
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
This book spoke to me in just the way I needed it at a time I needed it. I opened it knowing nothing more than it was poetry. It spoke to me, not every page, but so many opened me up and buried deep in my soul. Poems about love lost, and finding and learning to love yourself.
I'm not sure I cared for the subject matter of Mr. Sin's collection, in fact I know I didn't care for it. It was basically one bad breakup song after another. Lets put it this way, an alternate title to this book could've been "An Emo's Guide to the Bad Breakup". The melodrama and imagery were way over the top and I know the world feels like it's going to end when you're going through a breakup, but I don't need 100+ poems about it in the same collection...a little variety would've been nice, is all I'm sayin'. The words "broken" and "pieces", and talk of internal"scars" and "deserving" real love were, I swear to you, used in almost every other poem (this much repetition hasn't been seen since 50 Shades of Grey) and it left me feeling like I was reading just permutations of the same poem over and over again. See Exhibit A below for examples...
I did like a few of the poems in here, I think I flagged about 5, but for the most part I think I'll just listen to some (insert your favorite Emo band here) next time.
Exhibit A:
"She was the most beautiful type
of broken I'd ever seen in my
entire life and even though her
heart was in pieces, she
deserved to be loved."
"She was broken. Yes, but
somehow she found peace in
the pieces left behind. She's
an artist in the way she pieces
herself back together..."
This one's titled (pieces of peace)...WE GET IT ALREADY!!
"Amazing isn't it
the way your broken pieces
give me peace
you've been broken
and yet
you're still able
to make me feel whole."
I did like a few of the poems in here, I think I flagged about 5, but for the most part I think I'll just listen to some (insert your favorite Emo band here) next time.
Exhibit A:
"She was the most beautiful type
of broken I'd ever seen in my
entire life and even though her
heart was in pieces, she
deserved to be loved."
"She was broken. Yes, but
somehow she found peace in
the pieces left behind. She's
an artist in the way she pieces
herself back together..."
This one's titled (pieces of peace)...WE GET IT ALREADY!!
"Amazing isn't it
the way your broken pieces
give me peace
you've been broken
and yet
you're still able
to make me feel whole."
fast-paced
Straight people are weird. Please go to therapy.
A lot of the poems in this are repeated so many times it just gets annoying. I felt like the whole time I read this, I was being patronized by a 'nice guy'. Another book of his I ended up liking, but this one just doesn't sit well with me.
Lately I have been reading a lot of poetry novels. I think I am at the point where I am getting tired of reading/interpreting some of them. This is why I might of ranked this book lower. However, at some parts I was confused as to how many partners this person had. I didn't know if it was many or if it was just one that they kept referring back to. There were some really good life quotes in there that I really enjoyed.
This collection was far better than She Felt Like Feeling Nothing. The poems had a little more depth and feeling and the messages came through well
