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A review by jenpaul13
the witch doesn't burn in this one by Amanda Lovelace
3.0
Witches tend to be powerful women who have been feared throughout the ages and though they may be filled with fire, they don't always burn, as explored in Amanda Lovelace's The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One.
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This collection of poems encourages and empowers women to embrace their inner fires and seize control of their stories despite how others may be trying to turn their fire into a weapon against them. The feminist ideas conveyed through the text are important and recognizable and it's particularly commendable for the author to provide trigger warnings for the types of topical content that the pages address. There’s a generalized depiction of men throughout who have anger directed toward them and some ideas and phrases are consistently repeated, which detracts from the power of the concepts being conveyed. Though the format of the poems, which are a word or two per line, is quick to read, it does get visually tiring to consistently be moving your eyes down the page to take in the overly segmented words; however, unlike the first collection, there were periodic visual breaks where the text on the page appeared more like prose in a paragraph.
To read this, and other book reviews, visit my website: http://makinggoodstories.wordpress.com/.
This collection of poems encourages and empowers women to embrace their inner fires and seize control of their stories despite how others may be trying to turn their fire into a weapon against them. The feminist ideas conveyed through the text are important and recognizable and it's particularly commendable for the author to provide trigger warnings for the types of topical content that the pages address. There’s a generalized depiction of men throughout who have anger directed toward them and some ideas and phrases are consistently repeated, which detracts from the power of the concepts being conveyed. Though the format of the poems, which are a word or two per line, is quick to read, it does get visually tiring to consistently be moving your eyes down the page to take in the overly segmented words; however, unlike the first collection, there were periodic visual breaks where the text on the page appeared more like prose in a paragraph.