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A review by xxivo
Entwined: Essays on Polyamory and Creating Home by Alex Alberto
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
I absolutely loved this book and needed it a lot.
Fictional books that have polyamorous romance I have read quite a bit by now. But as expected all of those tend to end in a happily ever after, and the coming together is usually fairly smooth. I picked up this ARC as I wanted to read a story grounded in reality, showing all sides of polyamory and not only the ideal endings. This book delivered exactly that and it was amazing.
This book is full of essays that tell the romantic life story of the author. Some read as love letters, others are a bit more factual. There were multiple styles of essays, there was one written as a play, and the first is a bulletpoint timeline of their life. I really enjoyed it that the styles changed throughout the book and definitely made it fun to see so many different ways of telling a story.
Together these essays made a picture of a life that is being enjoyed en fully explored. It was great to see the authors perspective in life and everything that they went through. The story of their life was shared with the right amount of detail but was never too dense with information. But above all the emotions of the author and the people around them was thoroughly felt by me and I experienced every emotion they felt as well.
In my own life I am realizing more and more I might be polyamorous too, and I have been escaping in polyamorous romances as a consequence. But to read about a lived life felt immensely more valuable in exploring myself than that any other fictional book ever did for me. It showed me the factual possibilities of dating multiple people, and gave a clear example of one such life. Of course there are a million ways to live a polyamorous life, but to read about one of those was already enlightening.
Concluding I would recommend this book for anyone interested in having a peek into the authors love life, especially if they like many styles of writing an essay and feeling emotions deeply.
I received an eARC and this was my honest review.
Fictional books that have polyamorous romance I have read quite a bit by now. But as expected all of those tend to end in a happily ever after, and the coming together is usually fairly smooth. I picked up this ARC as I wanted to read a story grounded in reality, showing all sides of polyamory and not only the ideal endings. This book delivered exactly that and it was amazing.
This book is full of essays that tell the romantic life story of the author. Some read as love letters, others are a bit more factual. There were multiple styles of essays, there was one written as a play, and the first is a bulletpoint timeline of their life. I really enjoyed it that the styles changed throughout the book and definitely made it fun to see so many different ways of telling a story.
Together these essays made a picture of a life that is being enjoyed en fully explored. It was great to see the authors perspective in life and everything that they went through. The story of their life was shared with the right amount of detail but was never too dense with information. But above all the emotions of the author and the people around them was thoroughly felt by me and I experienced every emotion they felt as well.
In my own life I am realizing more and more I might be polyamorous too, and I have been escaping in polyamorous romances as a consequence. But to read about a lived life felt immensely more valuable in exploring myself than that any other fictional book ever did for me. It showed me the factual possibilities of dating multiple people, and gave a clear example of one such life. Of course there are a million ways to live a polyamorous life, but to read about one of those was already enlightening.
Concluding I would recommend this book for anyone interested in having a peek into the authors love life, especially if they like many styles of writing an essay and feeling emotions deeply.
I received an eARC and this was my honest review.