A review by lightsleeperstudio
Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell by Katherine Angel

3.0

Apparently I am on a Katherine Angel hype! This book was gifted to me by a friend after she saw I was reading Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again, and found Angel’s debut book for my birthday present. I was expecting it to be similar to her second book, and although themes were comparable, I couldn’t have been more wrong in terms of style. Unmastered flitters between freeform prose, political statements, memoir, poetry. It was a bit disorientating to begin with, especially as there are sometimes only four words on a page - I couldn’t help but think what a waste of paper. But as I sunk into it and understood the form, I enjoyed it more and more. She writes so passionately, I can feel her fire. It is erotic, political and vulnerable, I can see how her exploration of subject in this book stemmed into TSWBGA. The book is a quick read, I finished it in 3 days, but I feel you may be able to in one sitting if you love poetic prose.