Bestselling poet Bridgett Devoue shares insight and advice into the powerful world of unrequited love and abuse.
Soft Thorns Vol. II is a continuation of the deep and emotional journey author Bridgett Devoue started with her debut poetry collection Soft Thorns. Similar to her first book, Devoue’s lyrical and comforting writing is perfectly complemented by gorgeous illustrations. Focusing on themes of online bullying, abusive relationships, and unrequited love, Devoue’s topics resonate. As she explores and elaborates on these issues over eight chapters of poems, the reader will discover all the knowledge and power to be gained from facing hardships head on. Soft Thorns Vol. II is for those who are struggling to reckon with their past, apprehensive of what is to come, and a little nervous about everything in between.
My Review:
Rating: 3/5 stars
Firstly I'd like to thank Netgalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for the eARC for an honest review.
This was my first time reading Bridgett Devoue's work so I didn't know what to expect. This is a five chapter poetry collection that explores all the emotions that come with longing, lust, toxic love, self-destruction, confusing breakups, abuse, and overcoming it all through finding light in even the darkest of places. Each chapter focused on a different type of relationship or emotion and I really liked that about this collection. The art from Laura Kline was beautiful! Absolutely loved it. The poetry in this collection are of short to medium in length making it a quick read.
I didn't feel like the pieces all resembled poetry but more like quotes or inspiring messages. I also felt like it could have been edited to a higher standard as some of the pieces just didn't work for me and just didn't read well. Having said this I did relate to some of the poetry and also felt like I learnt some things from it as well.