magnetgrrl 's review for:

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson

2.0

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A few of these poems were amazing (the one about the tandem bike speaking after the breakup) or, at least, one of them was, ha. A few were pretty good, or interesting (I liked Time Piece... mostly - there were three lines that made me want to pull my hair out and wonder if this was edited - and I liked the Museum of Broken Relationships but I realized I only liked the first 1/2 which is just describing ACTUAL things in the REAL museum - that's not something you can accredit to Andrea Gibson, those objects really exist and their poetry is innate; just describing them is not really much in the way of adding to that).

Then there were a bunch of "poems" that were more like... Buzzfeed headlines? Twitter hot takes? Ready-to-be-sold-on-T-Shirt bon mots?

THOSE frustrated the hell out of me.

I would have maybe given this book 3 stars, but honestly, I just think most things on Goodreads get inflated reviews, and if I'm the curmudgeonly lodestone that weighs things back down to reality, well, I'll do that.