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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A fast paced, short book of poems that tell the story of a young woman’s love life.
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
'Things kept happening that seemed so improbable / that if I'd read them in a novel / I'd have it put it down: stories so perfectly / schematic they resist retelling - obvious, already / penned by Fate.'
Maggie Millner’s Couplets is a small book doing so much. Told mostly in rhyming couplets, these fragments traverse love, lust, sexuality, sex and intimacy. Inventive, witty, sharp and brief, it’s definitely a work I’ll return to for another poetic affair.
interesting story, but i didn't really connect to the characters or the ideas. no depth
a lovely little read, adore a poetry book with a clear narrative. genre isn’t real, is it?
So you had an affair with a woman. Girl, it’s not that deep. Stop being so pretentious.
Idk, I do find parts of this good and occasionally very funny (though maybe it’s not supposed to be), but I lose patience for this sort of white-girl-english-post-grad-angst lit writing. It doesn’t matter how self-aware you are, you just cannot use “chthonic”, “eidolon”, and “isomer” all in one poem and not have that be painfully pretentious.
But maybe I’m bitter because I used chthonic in a high-school poem one time and people just (rightly) thought it was cringe. 😂
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Low rating because the form did not work for me. I liked the chapters that were more prose poem, as they still felt inherently poetic but were easy to read and well written, but the rhyming couplets got boring quickly despite the fact that they are the majority of the novel.
A great concept: a novel told in couplets, with the odd prose text in between. I enjoyed it more for its form than its content, but would recommend nonetheless.