Aphrodite Made Me Do It

Second time reading Trista. beautiful writing of her experience of love-.

‘If you were only meant to be beautiful, we wouldn't have put you down here in the dirt.' I loved every second of this.

This of course suffers from the same pitfalls as other modern-day twitter-Esque poetry does. I enjoyed and appreciated the added artistic elements which made it feel more substantial than other poetry in this category.

Reading this felt like someone methodically cutting me away from my body (affectionate)!!!!!! This made me feel emotions that I STILL can't process, and I technically finished this last night!!!!!! HIGHLY recommend!!!!!!

I don't often read poetry, it doesn't always work for me. This one hit me in the right way and I really enjoyed the Aphrodite theme. Really powerful, dark at times as it does deal with some triggering topics (Sorry, I'm writing this review 6 months after reading so I can't remember which). I now do think of Aphrodite differently, wonder why people don't try to retell her story/myth in other ways.

When I first began this I thought it was going to be 5 stars, a new favorite. But as it progressed, I really didn't like the “poet” parts. They were quite basic modern poetry and didn't bring anything new or interesting that I hadn't seen before. But the Aphrodite sections were so off-the-wall phenomenal that it somewhat made up for it.