This year, i’ve been trying to push reading out of my comfort zone more, which include more poetry. However.. this will most probably be the last one that I’d read/review because if i’m being honest with myself, I don’t really enjoy poetry that much?
The good thing being that the way verses are put and everything, it did help me finding sleep at night — which for an insomniac is pretty great.
3 / 5 stars ⭐️
I had been attracted to that one for a while, always picking it up but deciding not to, until finally I caved and got it. I like the symplicity of the cover, it’s a really pretty book! It promised me young love, anxiety & depression aswell as heartbreak.
Unfortunately, the book was just fine for me- as for many others it seems– nothing in the collection really caught my eyes as really relatable you know? Like usually I’d have a few favorite poems that I just “!!!”.. but this hadn’t been the case. Again, I loved how some pages were devided by red ones and the simple art between the page were cute, but nothing more.
I have a few hypothesis as of why this might’ve not resonated with me: maybe if I would’ve picked it up in english, as sometimes the translation doesn’t do it justice- but then again, I feel like I have gone past the emotion portrayed in this.. the book has a more negative tone, someone who JUST got it’s heart broken & struggling.
While I’ve honestly became so much more happier; the days that I had been in the gutters are long gone for me, thanksfully. I would’ve probably enjoyed this better back when I was struggling with a relationship not working with one of my friends that I wanted to love so much..
Had you picked that one up? Had you enjoyed it?
Thanks for sharing!
Yep, I’m not into poetry either. Despite many attempts.
I havent tried novels in verse yet, so that might be different- but yeah 😅 we don’t need to read poetry, if we don’t enjoy that’s completely fine