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Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things by Amanda Lovelace

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jessie_h's review against another edition

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dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.5


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dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0


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kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

Poems about the dichotomy of woman, seen through the lens of Persephone, this book is visually and emotionally stunning. The art is gorgeous. The poems hit deep. Love her work, per usual. 

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emotional reflective fast-paced

3.0


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emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

2.0

Some of the poems were incredible. Some just felt like words thrown in a book. There were a lot that I knew if I saw them on Instagram, I'd press like and probably send one or two of them to a friend I thought would appreciate them. I'm glad I read it. It just didn't move me personally.

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

📙 This is my fifth experience reading one of Amanda Lovelace’s poetry collections, which goes to show you that I am definitely a fan of her work! In this collection, specifically, Lovelace alternates between Wildflower and Wildfire poems, which are supported with artwork. 

The poems really worked and resonated with me, for the majority of her book. More so than prior collections. And what I thought was fascinating is the use of duality between fierceness and softness. I feel like it’s important, especially for women, to recognize that channeling each ends of this spectrum can be useful and does not necessarily need to be feared, or avoided. Rather, accepting the intricacies of one’s personality ought to be celebrated and explored.💫

💬 Needless to say I enjoyed this one quite a bit! Although I did enjoy the alternating sequence between wildflowers and wildfires, sometimes it was a bit difficult for me to move through the poems sequentially. I’m sure I don’t speak for the majority of readers, but I think I may have felt a bit more grounded reading a wildfire section, and a wildflower section. Or, something to break up the consistent alternating sequence. But it may have been that the author wanted a buffer so that the reader didn’t feel overwhelmed by the intensity of some of the poems. 

Regardless, I enjoyed this collection! Many of the poems are new favourites in this collection. 

Olivia 🐈 and I rate this poetry collection a solid ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️.75 stars!

Thank you to NetGalley and Andrew McMeels Publishing for providing an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

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