A review by scburhans
Twelve by Andrea Blythe

5.0

This book was nothing like what I expected, but it was still amazing! I'm not sure if it was the formatting on my phone (read through the Kindle app), but the poems felt less like poems and more like short stories. Not complaining, though, they were still amazing. I was surprised, however, that the poems were only based off of The Twelve Dancing Princesses - for some reason, I though it was going to be based off of 12 different fairytales. I must not have read the description very well. Still, the poems were beautiful and they gave so much more depth to characters that were just glanced over originally. I also really enjoyed the feminist take on the story as well. Definitely one of my favorite poetry collections!

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