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cekwrites 's review for:
Whiskey Words & a Shovel I
by r.h. Sin
actual rating: 3.25 ☆
+1: content for intended audience; honestly if I had read this book during my sophomore year of high school instead of my sophomore year of university, I think it would have struck a lot deeper of a chord. but, being able to look back and think "wow, these were words I needed to hear" is kinda whacky.
-0.5: formatting; the font was nice, but there was a distinct lack of punctuation throughout a lot of the poems that bothered me a bit, and I also personally disliked the way poems that took up more than a page were done.
+1: vibe; I genuinely liked the vibes of this book. it's very 2015 in the ways the poetry is written, and i like it
-0.25: overuse of title words
+0.5: fourth wall breaks; i always think those are cool, and the ones throughout got me.
-0.5: sensitive content; I wouldn't recommend this to anyone under 16 because of some of the poems in the collection, especially the ones concerning harm in any capacity or the strange sex allusions. not my style, but if it's what r.h. sin felt the need to write about then go off, my guy.
+0.5: flow; I love when poetry collections follow a cohesive storyline, and while I believe this one did, it wasn't glaringly obvious. I am glad there's a resolution, regardless.
-0.5: capitalisation; this could probably just fall under formatting, but I feel like this needs its own place on here. if an author is going to use roman numerals to number parts of a poem, then maybe don't capitalize your I's, especially if nothing else is capitalised to begin with!
+0.25: I enjoyed it much better than the other collection of his that I read :)
+1: content for intended audience; honestly if I had read this book during my sophomore year of high school instead of my sophomore year of university, I think it would have struck a lot deeper of a chord. but, being able to look back and think "wow, these were words I needed to hear" is kinda whacky.
-0.5: formatting; the font was nice, but there was a distinct lack of punctuation throughout a lot of the poems that bothered me a bit, and I also personally disliked the way poems that took up more than a page were done.
+1: vibe; I genuinely liked the vibes of this book. it's very 2015 in the ways the poetry is written, and i like it
-0.25: overuse of title words
+0.5: fourth wall breaks; i always think those are cool, and the ones throughout got me.
-0.5: sensitive content; I wouldn't recommend this to anyone under 16 because of some of the poems in the collection, especially the ones concerning harm in any capacity or the strange sex allusions. not my style, but if it's what r.h. sin felt the need to write about then go off, my guy.
+0.5: flow; I love when poetry collections follow a cohesive storyline, and while I believe this one did, it wasn't glaringly obvious. I am glad there's a resolution, regardless.
-0.5: capitalisation; this could probably just fall under formatting, but I feel like this needs its own place on here. if an author is going to use roman numerals to number parts of a poem, then maybe don't capitalize your I's, especially if nothing else is capitalised to begin with!
+0.25: I enjoyed it much better than the other collection of his that I read :)