A review by sophieskilling
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

2.0

there’s a really beautiful story hidden in this book somewhere, but i couldn’t connect with it because it felt like every word had been so agonisingly forced to be poetic and beautiful that the actual emotion behind them was lost. i love poetry and maybe this would’ve served me better as a poetry collection? (though some of the poetic writing was lowkey cringe so maybe not lol) as a narrative though, it just didn’t work!