A review by abookedbear
The Moonflower Monologues by Tess Guinery

1.0

Thank you to Net Galley for providing me with an e-copy of this book in exchange of an honest review. "The Moonflower Monologues" by Tess Guinery is a sugar-coated book focusing on topics such as faith, love, wisdom, friendship, etc. The writing style is rather repetitive and lacks individuality, also too sweet for me, I prefer more realistic and raw poems and these surely were not for me. The pieces in this books can be generally separated into three categories: 5-word sentences, almost-poems and just big paragraphs of text. It reminded me of Rupi Kaur's works, just more over-sentimental. Although there are a few main topics, I was left with the impression that a certain amount of poems/sentences/paragraphs were randomly put together in a book, absolutely no structure. The content also is quite religious and a reader cannot tell by the synopsis that such topics will be discussed, so I felt pretty uncomfortable. Such information has to be included one way or another, or readers will be simply mislead into buying and reading this book.