A review by ginnylee
Beautiful Sad Eyes, Weary Waiting for Love by Robert M. Drake, r.h. Sin

sad fast-paced

1.0

I feel like giving this 1 star may feel a little generous if I think too hard on it. I'm familiar with r.h. sin's work, for a long time I was hooked, I collected his work. As soon as a new book dropped I was there, but as I grew up I stopped resonating with it. When I saw this I was taken by the artwork on the cover, it's haunting and beautiful and I thought I may as well give it a shot.

Beautiful Sad Eyes-
     I can't even begin to explain just how angry I am. The book starts with R.M. Drake so let's start there. He's now my nemesis, the type of guy that claims to be a "nice guy." He uses vulnerable, sad girls for content; he has a savior complex and it immediately turned me off reading any more of his stuff but I thought maybe I was being quick to judge so I kept going.

He doesn't stick up for a woman his friend is actively emotionally abusing but he'll write a poem about how he told said friend that that was not ok.

Now R.H. Sin's work before this I started to feel was too repetitive, too "insta-poetry." His first piece in this collection is hauntingly beautiful

casting her inner light against the horizon like a beautiful lighthouse searching for something more

and never happens again. It almost feels like it was written by someone else entirely. 

Weary Waiting For Love- 
    This one made me blissfully less angry, because I wasn't feeling much of anything anymore. It's all entirely repetitive, regurgitated, tired, self-help bs. I wanna know why R.M. Drake's woman friends are always crying and his man friends are always fumbling some "good woman"? R.H. Sin's stuff was just boring, same-y. Felt a bit "I was cheated on and now it's my entire personality while I refuse to grow and 'let go' like I continuously preach." Contradictory and kind of just sad that any beautiful or genuine piece is going to be lost to a collection that I'll only remember in anger.