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bella_beach's review against another edition
3.0
Some really beautiful ideas in this book.
“Listen to your own storytelling, there are hints there, take a minute to listen — heal.”
My bookmarked pages:
29, 30, 34, 35, 40, 47, 70, 143, 145, 154
“Listen to your own storytelling, there are hints there, take a minute to listen — heal.”
My bookmarked pages:
29, 30, 34, 35, 40, 47, 70, 143, 145, 154
ladyreading365's review against another edition
4.0
3.5 stars
This is a lovely collection of short poetry and simple lines of inspiration. I loved the simplicity of the cover and the little flowers throughout the book. It creates a certain power to the words. Also it seemed very fitting to the poetry the book contained. I found the poems simple yet inspiring and motivational. I saw it as almost a day a page motivation poetry on self love and feminity and also the simple pleasures in life. I especially found inspiration and connected with the poem called Made Whole on page 156. The poems throughout were light showing the beauty in the small everyday things we do and see. I read the book and felt like it was aimed to be part self love and part self-help.
Many thanks to the author and publishing team for putting together this lovely and inspiring collection of poems.
This is a lovely collection of short poetry and simple lines of inspiration. I loved the simplicity of the cover and the little flowers throughout the book. It creates a certain power to the words. Also it seemed very fitting to the poetry the book contained. I found the poems simple yet inspiring and motivational. I saw it as almost a day a page motivation poetry on self love and feminity and also the simple pleasures in life. I especially found inspiration and connected with the poem called Made Whole on page 156. The poems throughout were light showing the beauty in the small everyday things we do and see. I read the book and felt like it was aimed to be part self love and part self-help.
Many thanks to the author and publishing team for putting together this lovely and inspiring collection of poems.
aliceworldea's review against another edition
3.0
Thank you to Net Galley for providing me with an e-copy of this book in exchange of an honest review.
3 stars
I will say this, the author is the type of person that I would like to be when I grow up:
An artist turned author, creative director, wife, mother of three, graphic designer, social media consultant, painter, and the list goes on and on. check her insta and website.
Sorry sorry back to the book, this is my first poetry book in 2022, and the message is quite beautiful,
some of the poems I like, some others are repetitive. I guess is because I'm more used to the classic ones. and I expect for poetry to be long enough to tell me a story in a way no ones sees it.
3 stars
I will say this, the author is the type of person that I would like to be when I grow up:
An artist turned author, creative director, wife, mother of three, graphic designer, social media consultant, painter, and the list goes on and on. check her insta and website.
Sorry sorry back to the book, this is my first poetry book in 2022, and the message is quite beautiful,
some of the poems I like, some others are repetitive. I guess is because I'm more used to the classic ones. and I expect for poetry to be long enough to tell me a story in a way no ones sees it.
marilwyd's review
medium-paced
2.0
ARC GIVEN BY NETGALLEY FOR AN HONEST REVIEW
There are a few poems that expand over half of the page, that’s when the writing is at its most enjoyable.
There is a lot of potential. Also, the drawings are cute.
This falls into the trap of ‘insta poetry’, they’re just 2-10 word sentences, sometimes with a line break. I wish she had expanded and put more time into giving the four word sentences more life. It felt shallow and done multiple times before. Most of it felt like an instagram caption or a tweet. I would feel like I had been stolen from if I had bought this, with all the free space that was left on the pages.
There are a few poems that expand over half of the page, that’s when the writing is at its most enjoyable.
There is a lot of potential. Also, the drawings are cute.
This falls into the trap of ‘insta poetry’, they’re just 2-10 word sentences, sometimes with a line break. I wish she had expanded and put more time into giving the four word sentences more life. It felt shallow and done multiple times before. Most of it felt like an instagram caption or a tweet. I would feel like I had been stolen from if I had bought this, with all the free space that was left on the pages.
abookedbear's review against another edition
1.0
Thank you to Net Galley for providing me with an e-copy of this book in exchange of an honest review. "The Moonflower Monologues" by Tess Guinery is a sugar-coated book focusing on topics such as faith, love, wisdom, friendship, etc. The writing style is rather repetitive and lacks individuality, also too sweet for me, I prefer more realistic and raw poems and these surely were not for me. The pieces in this books can be generally separated into three categories: 5-word sentences, almost-poems and just big paragraphs of text. It reminded me of Rupi Kaur's works, just more over-sentimental. Although there are a few main topics, I was left with the impression that a certain amount of poems/sentences/paragraphs were randomly put together in a book, absolutely no structure. The content also is quite religious and a reader cannot tell by the synopsis that such topics will be discussed, so I felt pretty uncomfortable. Such information has to be included one way or another, or readers will be simply mislead into buying and reading this book.
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