Description:
From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first three sections piece together the life of the author while the final section serves as a note to the reader. This moving book explores love, loss, grief, healing, empowerment, and inspiration.
Publishing Co.: Andrew McMeel Publishing
Release Date: Feb. 14, 2017
Date Started: Feb. 9, 2017
Date Completed: Feb. 9, 2017
Rating: ★★
Review:
I received this advanced reader copy from Netgalley and Andrew McMeel Publishing in exchange for my honest review. This collection of poems tell Amanda's history of abuse, from the emotional and mental abuse she went through by the hands of her mother, to her own acts of self harm, and more in between. Which is why I hate to pick out things I didn't like because everyone's poems portray what they individually went through and how they individually feel. But there were aspects of this collection that I did not like.
What I did like was how emotionally connected I felt to some of the poems, some of them even made me tear up a little. There were a few moments in the book that I giggled a little, mostly the inspirational parts, which I also really enjoyed.
What I didn't like was that half of the collection could have been left out just because they didn't add to the work but they definitely took away. Most of them weren't even poems and it seemed like they were really being used as page fillers more than actual meaningful pieces. I would rather a very short collection of poems that are all really good vs. a standard size collection where half of them are page fillers.
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