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A review by alyssasshelves
[dis]connected, Volume 1: Poems & Stories of Connection and Otherwise by Michelle Halket
Did not finish book.
3.0
I got this from netgalley for review.
This is a very cool concept! It's a mixture of poetry and short stories that all connect by using parts from the previous writer's poem. SO NEAT. I complain a lot about how I lose steam with poetry collections sometimes because they don't flow and can feel very disjointed. BUT THIS IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF THAT. Therefore I obviously loved the format of this lol. I haven't read a collection with short stories in god knows how long, so it was super nice and I felt extremely well done. I think this being all/majority poets meant that the short stories were so well done and fleshed out, being that what poets have to do is convey so much in less words. I really didn't have any problems with this other than the fact that it just didn't do much for me?? I just left it not feeling like I had read anything out of this world or a new favorite. It's still very solid and I do recommend this if you like poetry and like all the stories to flow really well. As with any anthology, there were some I enjoyed more than others but again nothing stood out as extraordinary or really bad. So that's why it's a 3 star fore me. Not amazing but still a good, solid read.
This is a very cool concept! It's a mixture of poetry and short stories that all connect by using parts from the previous writer's poem. SO NEAT. I complain a lot about how I lose steam with poetry collections sometimes because they don't flow and can feel very disjointed. BUT THIS IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF THAT. Therefore I obviously loved the format of this lol. I haven't read a collection with short stories in god knows how long, so it was super nice and I felt extremely well done. I think this being all/majority poets meant that the short stories were so well done and fleshed out, being that what poets have to do is convey so much in less words. I really didn't have any problems with this other than the fact that it just didn't do much for me?? I just left it not feeling like I had read anything out of this world or a new favorite. It's still very solid and I do recommend this if you like poetry and like all the stories to flow really well. As with any anthology, there were some I enjoyed more than others but again nothing stood out as extraordinary or really bad. So that's why it's a 3 star fore me. Not amazing but still a good, solid read.