smartie_chan's review against another edition
5.0
5 / 5 Stars!!
I want to quote half the book so that I can show you how amazing it is and how much I connected with it. I want to spill all of my feeling into this review until I bleed out from it. And I want to scream until you're all deaf because this! This made me very emotional, and sad, and understood and seen and Aaaaah!
I was close to tears through 99% of it, because the book was talking about me and to me.
The thing I hate about a lot of "inspirational" poems is that I'm not in the mindeset for sunshine, rainbow pooping unicorns, when you spend half of the book making me cry about our shared self-hatred.
You can't just switch from being depressed to not being depressed. It's a struggle you lose more often than you want. And this book just gets it.
I don't know how
to let myself be happy
but I deserve to be
I'm going to write it
And say it
Until I believe it.
This is this feeling of "I know I deserve happyness. I know I want happyness, I know I want to not feel like shit all the time, but GOD is it hard."
I'm still very raw and open, because this book hit me so hard I fell over. And now I don't know how to stand up anymore.
It's talking about depression, toxic relationships, covid, lonlyness and self-worth/self-doubt. And it's doing an amazing job with all of these things.
The writing style is also very beautiful!
Truly an amazing collection!
I want to quote half the book so that I can show you how amazing it is and how much I connected with it. I want to spill all of my feeling into this review until I bleed out from it. And I want to scream until you're all deaf because this! This made me very emotional, and sad, and understood and seen and Aaaaah!
I was close to tears through 99% of it, because the book was talking about me and to me.
The thing I hate about a lot of "inspirational" poems is that I'm not in the mindeset for sunshine, rainbow pooping unicorns, when you spend half of the book making me cry about our shared self-hatred.
You can't just switch from being depressed to not being depressed. It's a struggle you lose more often than you want. And this book just gets it.
I don't know how
to let myself be happy
but I deserve to be
I'm going to write it
And say it
Until I believe it.
This is this feeling of "I know I deserve happyness. I know I want happyness, I know I want to not feel like shit all the time, but GOD is it hard."
I'm still very raw and open, because this book hit me so hard I fell over. And now I don't know how to stand up anymore.
It's talking about depression, toxic relationships, covid, lonlyness and self-worth/self-doubt. And it's doing an amazing job with all of these things.
The writing style is also very beautiful!
Truly an amazing collection!
punkkhippie's review
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
Just like all of Shan's writing, I absolutely loved this poetry collection!! She never fails to make me feel less alone and truly hit my heart both with things I've experienced and things I haven't. While this particular collection has some themes that are still fresh, it's nice to see people writing about it. Shan's writing always makes me feel like I'm speaking to and comforting a friend.
thebookishmel's review
5.0
** I was sent an e-arc in exchange for review. All opinions are my own **
She does it again!
Particularly enjoyed the slightly new formatting of various poems - the stylistic choice was very well done.
Overall, these poems hit home with the peak of the pandemic striking when she wrote this. Absolutely raw and real as always.
And the HIMYM reference made my heart swell.
She does it again!
Particularly enjoyed the slightly new formatting of various poems - the stylistic choice was very well done.
Overall, these poems hit home with the peak of the pandemic striking when she wrote this. Absolutely raw and real as always.
And the HIMYM reference made my heart swell.
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