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A review by underscorelsa
The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace
1.0
"That is what abuse is, knowing you are going to get salt but still hoping for sugar for nineteen years.”
I honestly have no words for this book. I went 99% blind into this book and my only previous correct knowledge about it before getting into was the fact that it was a poetry book and it was short. But that was it. I was hoping for a cute little story about an actual princess and a prince, somehow like a fairytale from another perspective, but that, to my surprise, turned out not to be what this story is about.
This book contains a lot of mature topics, such as abuse from her mother, eating disorder, self-harming and suicide. In my opinion, they could've been handled a lot better, since the story tried to beat around the bush too much for my taste.
However, I feel like the main character actually developed throughout the story and evolved as a person who learns, which is actually what I expected from the very start.
I would have given this book four stars if this "poetry" was actually POETRY. I appreciate the effort, as many said, in hitting enter in a keyboard instead of directly telling the story in lines, which would have been a much convenient way of narrating it. But I get it. Free style poetry is still poetry. It is still accepted and I still have no idea how it is, but you do you. I, myself, think well-written poetry should at least have rhyme and verbal rhythm, but this won't stop me from thinking that a poem is good if it misses ONE of those elements. If it misses both, I won't really take it as poetry, and many people won't either.
Overall, this is a 1.5-star read for me, not good at all for my taste. I would recommend this to people who like this type of poetry and can enjoy it as a story itself and separate those elements.
I honestly have no words for this book. I went 99% blind into this book and my only previous correct knowledge about it before getting into was the fact that it was a poetry book and it was short. But that was it. I was hoping for a cute little story about an actual princess and a prince, somehow like a fairytale from another perspective, but that, to my surprise, turned out not to be what this story is about.
This book contains a lot of mature topics, such as abuse from her mother, eating disorder, self-harming and suicide. In my opinion, they could've been handled a lot better, since the story tried to beat around the bush too much for my taste.
However, I feel like the main character actually developed throughout the story and evolved as a person who learns, which is actually what I expected from the very start.
I would have given this book four stars if this "poetry" was actually POETRY. I appreciate the effort, as many said, in hitting enter in a keyboard instead of directly telling the story in lines, which would have been a much convenient way of narrating it. But I get it. Free style poetry is still poetry. It is still accepted and I still have no idea how it is, but you do you. I, myself, think well-written poetry should at least have rhyme and verbal rhythm, but this won't stop me from thinking that a poem is good if it misses ONE of those elements. If it misses both, I won't really take it as poetry, and many people won't either.
Overall, this is a 1.5-star read for me, not good at all for my taste. I would recommend this to people who like this type of poetry and can enjoy it as a story itself and separate those elements.