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Book Review: when love ends, be the water by Rene Villanueva

Writer's picture: Amy LittlefordAmy Littleford

A collection of poetry and short stories about a young Chicano's pursuit of love in South Texas. An accompaniment to the EP by Idyll Green.


My Review:


Rating: 3/5 stars.


I'm so happy to have won this collection of poetry in a Giveaway on Rene's Instagram page (@hacienda_tx). Thank you Rene for sending me a signed copy! I really loved the three short stories that were the main structure of each chapter and helped me to understand what the poetry was focused on. They took us on a journey that progressed with each story which I really enjoyed. I feel like the poetry could use some work as it felt a little confusing at points and didn't flow as well as it could. There weren't many concrete images and quite a few mistakes with tenses. It was a very quick read with good short stories but the poetry let it down for me. Amy x

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