A review by honeycoffeereads
break your glass slippers by Amanda Lovelace

2.0

This one had me in the first half, I’m not gonna lie. I enjoyed the structure of Lovelace’ writing on one page, her fears, expectations, and doubts, and the fairy godmother answering on the next in the first part. There were a few sentiments that read very deeply as much needed reminders. And the artwork is wonderful accompaniment to the poems throughout. But by the second part of the fatefully tragic love story and the last part of Lovelace becoming her own princess, it felt full of empty platitudes. I felt like I kept being told about what she went through but there’s no emotive or thought-provoking imagery in her words. A lot reminded me of other works by Atticus and RH Sin, very generalized ‘the author fell in love with someone who isn’t a good person / now look at them shine’. It might worked better if she brought in other characters as conversations as part of her story instead of mentioning family and the prince in passing.

I always want to love these poetry collections, the ones that are popular on Instagram by taking in a single sentence to fill half a page. But it just never works put that way. I have a real tough time understanding how fragmented sentences taking up half a page is considered poetry.