Mai's Reviews > The Princess Saves Herself in This One

I'm not criticizing, belittling or making fun of what the author has gone through by any means, it's just pure personal opinion of a book whose title I found to be intriguing.

I only read this book because it won the Goodreads award for Poetry, and honestly I wanted to know why, and I somehow couldn't find the reason, maybe it's me.

I'm gonna make this review as simple as the poems.

So, why two stars?

1. The poems were very personal that I actually felt uncomfortable, and this is not how you should feel while reading.

2. I tried reading them out loud, and my brother thought I was mimicking Siri.

3. I thought modern poetry is written in sentences. But then I was hit with the fact that no, it can also be written in one word per line form. Even some extremes as one letter per line.

"it is strange
how

s
i
s
t
e
r
s

can
be

s
a
v
i
o
r
s

or

s
t
r
a
n
g
e
r
s

&
sometimes
a bit of both.

- sisters"

How do you read that?

4. It could've been a bit tolerable if these poems were just normal texts on tumblr. I would reblog this many times!

5. I don't see the literature? Where's the literature? Poetry is supposed to make you feel something, and when it does then it's literature, and if it's literature then it's talent. So?

6. I finished this book in a matter of 36 minutes, and I spent another 36 minutes searching for other alternatives of the modern poetry that I know. Also I hate when I finish books so fast, but it was that simple. Too simple.

7. The princess didn't save herself anyway. It was just angst all over, I love reading angst, but this was a bit strange and jumping from a topic to another to the point where I got a headache.

8. This one here is all me. I promised myself that I won't read any more free verse modern poetry but, I couldn't resist when it has a title like that. You know you have to read it. And I had high hopes.

So, why two stars?

1. The title.

2. The pain the author had to go through while writing this. It's spilled all over the pages.


This is a written note for myself to not read any more free verse modern poetry again because it's not my thing and authors invest time in writing these poems for people who actually do like it, so I don't have to waste mine reading something that isn't for me.