hello everyone! today i am going to talk about shine your icy crown by Amanda Lovelace. i gave this book 5/5 stars. first off, thank you so much Netgalley and the publisher for an arc of this book! and also happy pub date to this book!
this review is also going to be kind of short, since i don’t have to much to talk about.
but, i do feel like Lovelace kind of reached into every single women’s life and put it in a poetry collection. and i mean, i feel like it was kind of so normalized, which is just so depressing, but i really liked how they talked about it and how it literally sucks for a lot to be a women in 2021.
i do honestly feel like this book is a lot of real advice. which, was pretty cool, and it honestly feels like something you can read and go back to it whenever you need it. which, is honestly so cool. but, i mean i think that it gets the point across, and really tells you how to live your life in a certain way.
but, on a more negitive note, i feel like this book was kind of repetive. and i’ll include a couple, but i feel like it was just annoying. but, i mean i think it was kind of a pain, since it was just so much so quickly. and half of them weren’t even poetry.
some examples-
“why does nobody want me?”
- why, why why, why, why?
‘your to pretty to be single.”
- says him
so, you get what i’m trying to get at. but, then when it wasn’t like that, it was like i’m considered a poet cause half of my shit doesn’t make sense, then there is a lot of commas, and then these are sentences that i would get yelled at if i used in school homework. so, you get the point.
i’ve never read their other stories, but from what i can gather from just reading what they are about, it seems to be kind of different. since, in here it talked about how this was sisters, not so much of a fairy tale. which, i honestly really liked how they talked about sisters, and how sisters will forever be connected.
but, also i really liked that it was cool how it got told like you actually have a sister. personally, i don’t have a sister, but i feel like this is kind of having a sister to talk to when you have an issue. which, i really liked in here. and it just felt like you were talked to, not talked down to like in most poetry in my experience.
anyway, i hope you enjoyed this blog post! first off, thank you so much Netgalley and the publishers for an arc! all of my feeling are my own in here, and wasn’t changed because i do have an arc. but, in the future i honestly cannot wait to read more of these books by this author in the future.
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