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A review by lovelymisanthrope
break your glass slippers by Amanda Lovelace
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
3.0
I have long been a fan of Amanda Lovelace, and this has been on my radar to read for years.
"Break Your Glass Slippers" is the first book in the "You Are Your Own Fairy Tale" collection from Amanda Lovelace. Amanda is known for her poetry and beautiful prose, and this collection is a merging of both. This reads more like an epic: chapters that are long poetry, but still eloquently strung together.
I did not realize this was not a "traditional" poetry collection until I started to read it, and I was pleasantly surprised by its format! I love when authors take risks and try new things, and this felt like the perfect melting of Amanda's talent and a step in a new direction.
As much as I love Amanda's writing style, I feel like their work all sounds really similar, just worded ever so slightly different. It kind of feels like once you read one collection from Amanda, you have read them all, and I really felt that way about this specifically. I think this is beautiful, and if it is the first thing you pick up from her, it will be more exciting for you, but I felt like I had already read this from Amanda.
I am still very interested to read more from Amanda, but I will probably wait awhile before I pick up anymore poetry from them.
"Break Your Glass Slippers" is the first book in the "You Are Your Own Fairy Tale" collection from Amanda Lovelace. Amanda is known for her poetry and beautiful prose, and this collection is a merging of both. This reads more like an epic: chapters that are long poetry, but still eloquently strung together.
I did not realize this was not a "traditional" poetry collection until I started to read it, and I was pleasantly surprised by its format! I love when authors take risks and try new things, and this felt like the perfect melting of Amanda's talent and a step in a new direction.
As much as I love Amanda's writing style, I feel like their work all sounds really similar, just worded ever so slightly different. It kind of feels like once you read one collection from Amanda, you have read them all, and I really felt that way about this specifically. I think this is beautiful, and if it is the first thing you pick up from her, it will be more exciting for you, but I felt like I had already read this from Amanda.
I am still very interested to read more from Amanda, but I will probably wait awhile before I pick up anymore poetry from them.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship