the witch doesn't burn in this one
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Average rating3.8
Review also posted on my blog: https://dbsguidetothegalaxy.wordpress.com/2019/06/15/poetry-mini-reviews-1/
I thought I loved Princess (The Princess Saves Herself in this one) more than Witch, but I loved them both for different reasons. I also have the third book so I can't wait to post that review. Where Princess speaks more of self-love and self-acceptance, Witch is about taking all that self-love and -acceptance and using it to show others you are unafraid of them or the world or trials that appear in your path. Witch is about facing those who said ‘you can't' with a ‘watch me'.
Witch is also about reminding yourself you're strong, that you can go ahead. It's about finding that power within you and using it. It's a message to the world that we will fight back. We will let you know when we've had enough and we'll stand up and I mean, I think if you read this poetry books, you'd probably find that out.
Lovelace has quickly become one of my favourite poets. I believe I found her on Pinterest – or a few of her quotes and really liked it! Which is cool because I'm slowly getting into expanding my list of genres I read.
Favourite Quotes:
bewitching
women: we can spin g o l d out of d i r t
bewitching ii
women: we can magic f i r e out of a i r
women are some kind of magic ii
I'm pretty sure you have w i t c h c r a f t running through those v e i n s
This is an overdue love letter to each and every woman who walked these fields before me & made the path soft enough for me to walk through.
This was slightly better than the previous ones but I still wish I got more of a poetic feeling out of it, more metaphors and imagery and things like that. Very surface level feminism that i don't disagree with and I'm glad that there are people connecting with this but I wish there was more to say.
I liked this one more than the 1st volume, however I struggle to consider this poetry. For me it's a collection of sentences with too many spaces between words.
It deals with a very important and dramatic topic and I really enjoyed some pieces. I will probably try and film a video about it.
Can't stop re-reading this, and I bought copies for a bunch of my friends. I haven't come across poetry I love this much in more than a decade. Transformative.
This book was like reading an angry rant on twitter. It felt like she was mad at me somehow even though most poems were addressed to men reading as angry notes lecturing them about their own ignorance and how they're supposed to treat women. I think her audience is mostly female so she's most likely preaching to the choir of others who's just as angry as she is and not the audience she's presumably trying to reach which is the male counterpart.
I guess you could feel empowered if you agree with her generalisation of the opposite sex and their thoughts on women and what women should be, but I beg to differ as I have personal experience with several men who are not like that and I'm sad that many do not have the same experience. Also, I'm not saying that she shouldn't feel angry or feel as though she needs to present her message wrapped in a pink, sparkly bow in order to get her message across, but I believe this book will only reach an audience already as furious at men and the patriarchy as she is as it failed to teach me anything valuable about her kind of feminism.
I did like the poems addressed to women about how they should feel about themselves because I agree that other's thoughts about you (whether that is the societal outlook on women or someone's personal opinion) shouldn't keep you from achieving what you are absolutely capable of doing.
In the end this poetry just wasn't for me and I probably wouldn't recommend it to anyone I know.
This made me so sad for the state of the world, its truth is poignant, and as she warns you in the start, it's time for some self care.
As soon as I saw this available on NetGalley, I knew I needed to read it. The Princess Saves Herself in This One was an amazing foray into poetry for me. I do not particularily like poetry, but I was able to connect on a deep level with many of the poems in that collection. So when I knew Amanda was going to have a “sequel” I couldn't wait to get my hands on it. That being said, this one fell flat for me. I did not have the same connection to the writing as I had with Princess.
This collection is all about female empowerment which is important and very timely. I unfortunately, was unable to make that connection with these poems to really truly enjoy this book. Many are going to read this an absolutely fall in love. It is another great collection of poetry, it just was not the collection for me.
Thanks to NetGalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for the eARC