734 reviews for:

Couplets: A Love Story

Maggie Millner

3.74 AVERAGE

emquartz15's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book is a deeply vulnerable invitation to see what it looks like when you turn your life upside down, in hopes that it will actually make things right side up again.

Millner’s couplets flow with urgency in the spirit of exploring the speaker’s relationship with herself and others. This read surprised me in the best way. It’s honest, erotic, and insightful. I love how Millner includes other strong, non-cis-male voices like Audre Lorde and Louise Glück to lean on and pull from both in a literary and personal sense. 

There are really strong individual poems in here that add to the fabric of the story as a whole! Definitely would recommend this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

bibliolinde's review against another edition

4.75

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

lamalo's review against another edition

2.5

emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

gg_mac's review against another edition

3.5

emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

abfark's review against another edition

3.25

emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

shipherder's review against another edition

4.0

emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

arletemontv's review against another edition

3.75

reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

thejeneral's review against another edition

2.5

emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sarahalexis28's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

lilymelton's review against another edition

4.75

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loved this