A review by fientasie
I Hope You Stay by Courtney Peppernell

2.0

this really let me down… i’d been waiting to read this for four years and now it’s just… pretty mediocre. does she say some true things? yes. does she phrase things beautifully sometimes? yes. but this was not poetry. i liked individual lines but usually not the whole piece of text on the page and it just really didn’t stand out to me. i’ve been looking back on her book pillow thoughts thinking she was a masterful writer and poet but maybe i just read pillow thoughts when i was fifteen and mentally ill and in love and she wrote gay poems and like i’m still mentally ill and in love and she still writes gay poems but maybe this is just for the fifteen year olds and maybe i’ve just grown out of it