Here’s a quick mini-review post with four poetry collections I read in January (I know, I know).

I don’t easily give up on books so I pushed through with one of the collection series I started and I’m glad to say that it ended on a better note than it began.

The other two collections weren’t that great, but all of them can’t be winners, right?

DISCLAIMER: This review could contain possible spoilers based on my opinions. All opinions and views are my own.

The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace

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Thoughts:

This is book two from the Women are Some Kind of Magic series. Most of the pieces in this collection, as with the previous one I read, The Princess Saves Herself in This One, are focused on feminism and some are based on mental health issues. Basically the exact same messages as the previous book, just using a different theme to express them. Some of the pieces stood out to me, the ones that used some sense of unique phrasing. Others just continued on the repetition train and left me stranded. The poet could’ve embraced the theme and coated it in creativity to add more punch to the pieces.

My Rating:

The book has a rating of 3.74 on GoodReads. I gave it a 2.

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I Miss My Friends by Dawn Lanuza

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Thoughts:

There was nothing wow about this collection. It probably would’ve impacted my emotions more had I read it during or just after the worst of the pandemic. This was just a poet attempting to express feelings of isolation and talking about what they were missing out on doing with their friends. The illustrations used to fill the space weren’t anything amazing and didn’t stir any emotional responses either.

My Rating:

The book has a rating of 3.63 on GoodReads. I gave it a 3.

The Mermaid’s Voice Returns in This One by Amanda Lovelace

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Thoughts:

This is book three from the Women are Some Kind of Magic series. I honestly didn’t care much for the first two collections in the series due to their repetitiveness but I found this one to be a little better than they were. There were fewer repetitive pieces, disgusted by throwing around different phrasing. The pieces also showed some diversity and didn’t feel like they were forced into one jar of continuation. There were many more relatable pieces and I’m glad the poet ventured a little into a different space to create something different. The third time is a charm, it seems.

My Rating:

The book has a rating of 3.68 on GoodReads. I gave it a 4.

Every Word You Cannot Say by Iain S. Thomas

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Thoughts:

I feel the poet really tried to reach into everyone’s soul and assume what we could all be feeling, threw all those words into a hat, and then pulled them all out at random. This collection was really just a bunch of words put together in hopes that something magical and moving would come out of it.

There was nothing emotionally moving or special about the pieces to draw me in and stir something on the inside. For this to be labeled under ‘self-help’ is misdirection because something falling under that label would mean that it would actually be helpful to the reader, which personally to me, there was no inspiration to draw on.

My Rating:

The book has a rating of 4.02 on GoodReads. I gave it a 1.

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