Tuesday, March 7, 2017

New American Best Friend by Olivia Gatwood REVIEW

So, I won this in a goodreads giveaway and it's not a normal occurrence where my review would be the first review on a book that I actually liked... This is a special occurrence, nay, an achievement. Small battles people, small battles.

Usually, I don't like poetry, I mean, I love poetry, but most people don't do it right. Maybe they write it the right way but any idiot that can rhyme can write crappy poems. It takes real talents to make it into something worth reading. I genuinely think that this is something worth reading.

Not only is this poetry a nice reading experience but there's a heavy truthfulness to it. In truth some of the titles sound like they could belong to my own life story. Odd how some things are so relatable in such a way.

In all honesty, I find this as a very tranquil and dark read that switches back and forth oddly. Some stories are about just generally growing up and others about other things. If you're a fan of the by the book poetry where you have to know every ounce of symbolism in existence to understand maybe you won't like this. I mean, some people have that compulisve need to feel like they're better than everyone else BUT if you want poetry that feels real and raw, I would suggest this. It's pretty good.

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