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bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward

7 reviews

raulle's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad medium-paced

3.75

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astrangewind's review against another edition

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dark sad fast-paced

2.0

I did not like this book.

The shorter poems were - at best - a slightly better version of something rupi kaur would have written; that is, they were entirely generic and lackluster. (Genuinely, kaur's popularity stupefies me.)

The longer poems were rambling messes of nonsense. Daley-Ward dealt with abstractions... in abstractions. In fact, the (very few) lines that contained concrete imagery are the reason I'm not giving this book a worse rating.

The book failed to hook me in. I do not think it is worth anyone's time.

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mavii's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective medium-paced

2.75

wow. I truly don't know what to say about this book.
I'm not sure if I'll leave my 2.75/5 rating or if I'll change it.
it's not a bad book. I know that. I think it's beautifully written and so deep and complex. it's really emotional and I'm sure it might be really touching for the right people.
I'm not the right audience. I could resonate with and I even loved some of the poems, but it was honestly the minority of them. I wasn't able to actually understand most of this, and that's awful. because I really wanted to.
for people who can actually relate and understand this poems, I easily see this being a 5star reading.

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