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3.33 AVERAGE
3.33 AVERAGE
I absolutely hated this book. It’s redundant, I think I read the same 6 poems over and over for 300 pages. It’s whiny, which would be forgivable if it wasn’t actually pretty misogynistic if you really look at it. He tries to explain women’s experiences and feelings and worth instead of focusing on the human experience, which he would actually have some context for. The format is boring, and even if you isolate individual poems they are juvenile and have no rhythm. To be honest I wouldn’t even actually call them poems.
I hated the book from the first poem, that was definitely not for me. Good luck to the next readers.
Excited to get the next one. Some of these hit home.
Unfortunately I just didn’t connect with this collection. I didn’t relate to many of the poems and I found it quite repetitive. I may try other collections of his but this one just wasn’t for me.
These poems were all super repetitive and obnoxious; half of the poems here are about how beautiful broken girls are and the other half are about how the speaker is great and deserves better than every girl hes ever been with. Almost all the poems are either two to four lines or just sentences spaced out to look longer.
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.