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A review by simlish
She Must Be Mad by Charly Cox
2.0
The best thing I have to say about She Must Be Mad is that it's short. The audiobook was about three hours long, and the last half hour was an entirely skippable Q&A, so I listened to it on one longish walk.
I kind of knew I wasn't going to like it from the beginning, where the author introduces her own work as being from between ages 16 and 22. I fully admit to being prejudiced against works by young authors that market on being by young authors, and if I'd realized what the book was, I wouldn't have checked it out. None of the poems are bad, exactly, but they are very young and shallow in a short, easily digestible way. There's multiple poems about Tinder and Instagram, so they're not going to age well.
I was at a solidly indifferent three stars (nothing was so offensively bad that I felt like changing the book or walking in silence) until I got to the half hour long Q&A. For an author I'd never heard of. When I mentioned it to my mother, she said, "Her publisher really likes her," and I thought, oh, she's got a social media following. Yep! She's an Instagram poet. It explains so much! Short and easily digestible is exactly what I expect from Instagram poetry! Also, her IG bio is "Your favorite poet to write shitty Goodreads reviews about," so she definitely has heard all my complaints before.
Since her poetry is so personal and so much of her work is about mental illness and body image, I will say that I think she's doing good things and kudos to her, etc. I just have no interest in ever reading any of her work ever again.
I kind of knew I wasn't going to like it from the beginning, where the author introduces her own work as being from between ages 16 and 22. I fully admit to being prejudiced against works by young authors that market on being by young authors, and if I'd realized what the book was, I wouldn't have checked it out. None of the poems are bad, exactly, but they are very young and shallow in a short, easily digestible way. There's multiple poems about Tinder and Instagram, so they're not going to age well.
I was at a solidly indifferent three stars (nothing was so offensively bad that I felt like changing the book or walking in silence) until I got to the half hour long Q&A. For an author I'd never heard of. When I mentioned it to my mother, she said, "Her publisher really likes her," and I thought, oh, she's got a social media following. Yep! She's an Instagram poet. It explains so much! Short and easily digestible is exactly what I expect from Instagram poetry! Also, her IG bio is "Your favorite poet to write shitty Goodreads reviews about," so she definitely has heard all my complaints before.
Since her poetry is so personal and so much of her work is about mental illness and body image, I will say that I think she's doing good things and kudos to her, etc. I just have no interest in ever reading any of her work ever again.