832 reviews for:

shine your icy crown

Amanda Lovelace

3.9 AVERAGE

kprocopio's review against another edition

5.0

fast-paced

sanachalhoub's review against another edition

5.0

emotional fast-paced

dbguide2's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

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 shine your icy crown focuses mostly on sisters and their relationship. I liked that a lot because I like positive female friendships in books. There’s a lot of the older sister giving advice to the younger one and (thankfully) I didn’t feel like the advice was too cheesy or unwanted (I have an older sister and sometimes I don’t always want to accept the advice 

As always with Amanda Lovelace, there’s the important theme of self-love and self-empowerment. In this one it’s the big sister telling the older one to be more happy. Care less about what other people think. Stand up for yourself, make your voice the loudest advocate for you. Lets the younger sister know that even though others might not love her, her older sister always does. 

ccleeds7's review against another edition

5.0

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I just reread this (specifically the bonus edition) and I really love this collection!

books4days's review against another edition

2.0

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Probably my least favorite volume of Lovelace so far. Much prefer her "you are your own fairy tale" series. There was only one poem I had really any sort of feelings on, and that was:

"do not plan your life
so meticulously that
you leave no space
for starlight to leak in.
-miracles happen only if you let them."

ashley_1206's review against another edition

3.0

hopeful reflective fast-paced

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we love feminism! but i loved her other books i’ve read more than this one
29 minute read tho 💪

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt

samaykay912's review against another edition

4.0

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The sister relationship was beautiful in here, and therefore I didn't relate to it as harshly. Some of the images didn't mesh with the poetry on the page. I loved this, and it was impactful as her work has always been. I'm glad I read it. Some of the things, like the sister relationship, is like a personal preference.

literate_liz's review against another edition

5.0

emotional inspiring fast-paced

charminwanderland's review against another edition

5.0

inspiring lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

reading_diaries's review against another edition

medium-paced

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It’s so bad, it’s like you gave a white woman a podcast and told her to be inspirational.