A review by helene0707
La Petite Mort by Eli Wilde

3.0

La Petite Mort is a short collection of free verse poetry about a vampire longing for his eternal bride. The poems are, as you’d expect, melancholic and thematise death and the afterlife as well as love and lust. Did I find the poems groundbreaking? No. Did they stir my emotions? Some did, yes. We will never understand what it means to live eternally, but through art we can at least imagine what it could be like. Recommended to lovers of anything vampire who don’t shy away from free verse poetry.

++ I accessed a copy via NetGalley. All my opinions are my own. ++