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oxnard_montalvo's review against another edition
2.0
Solidly OK. The kind of book that I might have gotten into as a sensitive teenager, with the cosmic ideas and imagery drawing me in and the subverted fairytale princess trope keeping me hanging around to the end, but the adult I am now wanted something a bit less self-care self aware and more challenging.
This is simple stuff, even if the themes aren't and I found it too light for my taste. Poetry is always a hard one to judge- it either resonates with you or it doesn't. This collection didn't.
This is simple stuff, even if the themes aren't and I found it too light for my taste. Poetry is always a hard one to judge- it either resonates with you or it doesn't. This collection didn't.
bookishtiff1's review against another edition
3.0
This poetry collection was okay. There were a few poems that I really loved but overall it just felt a bit repetitive. For me there wasn’t a flow between the concepts for some of the poems, it was a bit all over the place. I couldn’t feel the emotion radiating out of it. I much preferred Rupi Kaur’s style of poetry.
alexan13's review against another edition
4.0
I adored this collection, particularly the first part where space serves as the conceit organizing the poems.
megnut's review against another edition
It just didn't pull me in like other poems have done.
I flipped forward to see some of the ones other people mentioned, but I don't think they were enough to keep me reading until the end.
It just fell a bit flat for me.
I flipped forward to see some of the ones other people mentioned, but I don't think they were enough to keep me reading until the end.
It just fell a bit flat for me.
unhinged_female_protagonist's review against another edition
2.0
Something just fell a little flat for me. I don’t want to discourage anyone from reading this one, maybe you’ll love it. It just didn’t resonate with me as it didn’t felt orignal or exciting. The concept of using female characters from storybooks and mythology is something I’m divided on - on one hand I think it’s classic, and on the other I find it to be played out. Also, many of these poems read as prose, with no poetic form or function. I liked Nikita Gill’s other book I read recently, THESE ARE THE WORD, much better