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A review by feralbookdragon
Her III by Pierre Alex Jeanty
2.0
Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC of this title in exchange for an honest review.
Red flag right out of the gate. I did not enjoy the disclaimer at the beginning saying essentially "if this book ever sounds like it's telling women how to be women" you're wrong. He isn't a great poet guys, he's a great observer.
The synopsis of this book specifically says, "a collection of poetry written for women in an attempt to capture true resilience" but on the same disclaimer page where he mansplains that he's not mansplaining, he said "the purpose of the books in this series has always been to speak to my fellow men about HER." So is this a book written for women? Or about women? My guess is definitely the later.
I have not read the previous installments of this poetry collection and I don't think I ever will. The actually poetry in this collection isn't necessarily bad, but it's also not good. There are a couple of poems in here that were nice but most of them were pretty cliché and unmemorable.
Red flag right out of the gate. I did not enjoy the disclaimer at the beginning saying essentially "if this book ever sounds like it's telling women how to be women" you're wrong. He isn't a great poet guys, he's a great observer.
The synopsis of this book specifically says, "a collection of poetry written for women in an attempt to capture true resilience" but on the same disclaimer page where he mansplains that he's not mansplaining, he said "the purpose of the books in this series has always been to speak to my fellow men about HER." So is this a book written for women? Or about women? My guess is definitely the later.
I have not read the previous installments of this poetry collection and I don't think I ever will. The actually poetry in this collection isn't necessarily bad, but it's also not good. There are a couple of poems in here that were nice but most of them were pretty cliché and unmemorable.