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.

the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace REVIEW

When I used to follow booklrs, I followed Amanda Lovelace. I didn't realize this until I saw her picture on her author page literally a minute before typing this. Just something fun to start this off with.

So, for the most part I liked this. I liked that Amanda's story was told in the poetry and that her story was very much relatable. There was parts in the middle where I was wishing for her to stop feeling sorry for herself (as a person that has also went through a lot of trauma, I had also gone through a phase where I felt sorry for myself) and was very happy to find that she had reached that point. I like seeing people get themselves out of that hole, there's no greater feeling.

As far as the parts I didn't like, it's just nitpicking on my part, a difference of opinion on a few choice lines, a few well meaning lines but a few lines that I felt holds more damage if not specified. Though overall, the message of the whole book was really good and positive.

The poetry was nice, it flowed fairly well, the language was fairly pretty minus a few instances but they didn't bother me all that much. It's not classical poetry so if you're into that kind of poetry it might not be your cup of tea. However, I did like this a lot and I recommend it a lot.