Reviews

Couplets: A Love Story by Maggie Millner

annexelizabeth's review

reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

willowchloe's review

5.0

Couples is a slight but richly beautiful coming of age book. The language is stunning and easy to follow even for someone like me who isn't used to reading poetry.

agmaynard's review

emotional hopeful reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Excellent! This collection, really a story of existing and new relationships, with their joys and pains, pulled me rapidly through. Sets of rhyming couplets with jagged flow, interspersed with more narrative ones (there's likely a name for the form that I don't know) that also sometimes concluded with couplets.

bdvflip's review

challenging emotional funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

0v0_mi's review

reflective fast-paced

4.5

fifty_six's review

reflective medium-paced

3.5

thebobolink's review

reflective fast-paced

4.25

mtgill's review

healing. another new favorite

toephia's review

adventurous emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

cwalsh's review

5.0

So smart and sexy. I love a book that experiments with structure and really appreciated Millner's use of couplets as both a form and a theme.

And when I was not unbelievably sad,
I was moved unbelievably

to hold inside me both my lovers
and to introduce them to each other

there, in the hollow just above the heart,
among the little folds where the voice starts.