Worlds of You: Poetry & Prose

This is a very much romantic anthology. It speaks for itself. You can feel the love with every verse. But it's part love and part loss. And there's no separate parts like Part 1: Love and Part 2: Loss. They just blend together and it's both love and loss. And it's very interesting because normally you would definitely have those two conflicting themes separate, but Taplin just puts them together and somehow it works.

As well as being both love and loss, the anthology also shows the bad side of love alongside the good side. How love can be amazing and beautiful but also deadly and dangerous.

Yes, I did rate it 3 stars. Sometimes I felt it went too mushy with the love. Not that there's anything wrong with mushy love (well, unless you're not interested in that mushy love