You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
twiinklex 's review for:
Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems
by Megan Fox
3.5⭐️
Dark, raw and eye-opening. Some of the poems felt like fillers with no real substance but there were quite a few powerful ones. There's also a lot of rage, pain, unresolved trauma and abuse and I feel like this is the author's way of working through them. I loved her introduction and the illustrations.
I was really excited to read this because of Megan Fox but have to admit I'm somewhat let down even though I liked this collection overall. Maybe it's because I still feel an emotional distance between author and reader despite the difficult themes covered in this book, like there's so much more she's not saying and I still don't know the real her.
i didn't realize how much of myself
i was giving away
or how much of me was disappearing
until I turned on a light
and couldn't even find my shadow
but maybe if we use a black light
we could still find all the stains
you left on me
Dark, raw and eye-opening. Some of the poems felt like fillers with no real substance but there were quite a few powerful ones. There's also a lot of rage, pain, unresolved trauma and abuse and I feel like this is the author's way of working through them. I loved her introduction and the illustrations.
I was really excited to read this because of Megan Fox but have to admit I'm somewhat let down even though I liked this collection overall. Maybe it's because I still feel an emotional distance between author and reader despite the difficult themes covered in this book, like there's so much more she's not saying and I still don't know the real her.