Shine your Icy Crown by Amanda Lovelace
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Thank you to the publisher, Andrews McMeel Publishing, and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of Shine Your Icy Crown in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
The Gist
I loved Lovelace’s first poetry series, Women Are Some Kind Of Magic and was excited for Shine Your Icy Crown of her newest series, You Are Your Own Fairy Tale.
In fact, I was so excited that I didn’t even notice I had requested the audio version on NetGalley. I’m not the greatest admirer of audiobooks, so I had to find a printed version of Shine Your Icy Crown for me to fully appreciate the author’s work.
The Details
As with Lovelace’s other works, this collection of poems deals with various types of trauma and it includes a trigger warning.
Although I find the poems still very good, I have some trouble seeing the overall theme/story arc in this instalment.
There are a number of poems addressing a variety of issues. Then there are little passages written by the “bigger sister” that encourage self-care and motivate the reader to take some agency in their live. And then there are the small narrative sections that tie the overall theme together.
It makes sense, but I thought the separate sections do not fit together as nicely to make a complete narrative out of this anthology.
I couldn’t get as emotionally invested in the poems as I usually do when reading Lovelace’s works.
The Verdict
Overall, I still enjoyed this collection of poems. It is a relatively quick read. I would recommend it.
