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mermaird's review
3.0
Dancing Souls is a collection of uplifting and self-empowering poetry. The poems radiate strong yet delicate vibes, and there were several pieces that sound sassy as well. I enjoyed reading this poetry collection, especially the ones that mentioned God's greatness in them. It's not often for me to read poems with religious (Islamic) elements in it, so I really appreciate the poet's take on them.
However, there were more than a few things that I couldn't get through, no matter how much I loved reading Dancing Souls. I'd like to touch upon the language, grammar and punctuation first. I'm very particular about these three matters whenever I read anything, and even if they're free verse poems, I take these matter seriously.
I noticed that the poet tend to use shortened/informal words (e.g. "imma") in her poems, and I find this quite unflattering. To me, a poem should sound graceful—not all the time of course, as the subject of each poetry vary—but using words like "imma" or "wanna" just takes the beauty out of the poetry. Words like that should be reserved for dialogues only. This could possibly be a typing error, but the poet had confused the word "then" and "than". These two words are used in completely different situations, and in 'Do What You Love, Love What You Do', it should have been "then", instead of "than".
I also noticed that a few poems appeared twice. 'Throne'/'The Throne' and 'Hatred' are the ones that I noticed to appear twice in the book. I like the final section of the book, 'Late Night Thoughts', as they felt very raw to me. However, grammatical errors and typos are too glaring on this part, which left me a bit dismayed. There were multiple missing full stops (full stops are important!), spaces before a punctuation mark (there shouldn't be any spaces before a punctuation mark), wrong use of punctuation marks, and a quite messy use of uppercase and lowercase letters.
I do realise that this part of the book was named 'Late Night Thoughts', so these errors are probably meant to be left alone to reflect the impulsiveness of the late night thoughts, but I can't find myself able to get pass them. I also personally think that the quotes from other people were not needed in the book; they felt unnecessary and the poet didn't actually need them to prove her point.
Overall, reading Dancing Souls was fun as I could relate to many of its pieces. The problems that I listed are probably to my personal preference (I tend to judge poetry collection harsher than fiction books) so this shouldn't discourage you to pick up the book.
However, there were more than a few things that I couldn't get through, no matter how much I loved reading Dancing Souls. I'd like to touch upon the language, grammar and punctuation first. I'm very particular about these three matters whenever I read anything, and even if they're free verse poems, I take these matter seriously.
I noticed that the poet tend to use shortened/informal words (e.g. "imma") in her poems, and I find this quite unflattering. To me, a poem should sound graceful—not all the time of course, as the subject of each poetry vary—but using words like "imma" or "wanna" just takes the beauty out of the poetry. Words like that should be reserved for dialogues only. This could possibly be a typing error, but the poet had confused the word "then" and "than". These two words are used in completely different situations, and in 'Do What You Love, Love What You Do', it should have been "then", instead of "than".
I also noticed that a few poems appeared twice. 'Throne'/'The Throne' and 'Hatred' are the ones that I noticed to appear twice in the book. I like the final section of the book, 'Late Night Thoughts', as they felt very raw to me. However, grammatical errors and typos are too glaring on this part, which left me a bit dismayed. There were multiple missing full stops (full stops are important!), spaces before a punctuation mark (there shouldn't be any spaces before a punctuation mark), wrong use of punctuation marks, and a quite messy use of uppercase and lowercase letters.
I do realise that this part of the book was named 'Late Night Thoughts', so these errors are probably meant to be left alone to reflect the impulsiveness of the late night thoughts, but I can't find myself able to get pass them. I also personally think that the quotes from other people were not needed in the book; they felt unnecessary and the poet didn't actually need them to prove her point.
Overall, reading Dancing Souls was fun as I could relate to many of its pieces. The problems that I listed are probably to my personal preference (I tend to judge poetry collection harsher than fiction books) so this shouldn't discourage you to pick up the book.
biblio_mom's review
3.0
I love how the author had successfully weaves in her fantasies, emotions, thoughts, experiences, all together in creating these wonderful poetries. From reading this, I can tell she reads many fantasy books (she mentioned that she really love Disney).
Though this might not really be my kind of poetry that I would love to go back to occasionally because it has some of Red Queen series vibes in it with swords, kingdom, throne and stuff, some of them really speaks on behalf of my soul and thoughts that I would have never know how to put on papers.
I indulged them bit by bits everyday while i'm in a clear state of minds and moods because thats just how I do it. Overall, I can say that I would love to give her other works a go and recommend you this one to try.
Though this might not really be my kind of poetry that I would love to go back to occasionally because it has some of Red Queen series vibes in it with swords, kingdom, throne and stuff, some of them really speaks on behalf of my soul and thoughts that I would have never know how to put on papers.
I indulged them bit by bits everyday while i'm in a clear state of minds and moods because thats just how I do it. Overall, I can say that I would love to give her other works a go and recommend you this one to try.
letterfromafifah's review
4.0
Thank you to the author for the review copy in exchange for an honest review. I am very sorry for this truly late review.
Actually, I'm not really a reader of poetries, thus I will review this collection from my perspective as best that I can.
Basically, this collection contains mainly poems and some inspirational words and stories that fall under motivational and self-improvement themes. All of them are written in a fairly easy way for readers to understand. Because the writing is quite straightforward, those messages managed to be delivered quite well in my opinion. There is a technical issue that I found in the received copy which is duplicate pages. In conclusion, this collection is quite an easy read and for me, this collection is quite suitable for readers that do not usually read poetry or readers that are not really like or used to complex style of poetry.
Actually, I'm not really a reader of poetries, thus I will review this collection from my perspective as best that I can.
Basically, this collection contains mainly poems and some inspirational words and stories that fall under motivational and self-improvement themes. All of them are written in a fairly easy way for readers to understand. Because the writing is quite straightforward, those messages managed to be delivered quite well in my opinion. There is a technical issue that I found in the received copy which is duplicate pages. In conclusion, this collection is quite an easy read and for me, this collection is quite suitable for readers that do not usually read poetry or readers that are not really like or used to complex style of poetry.
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