BOOK STATS
Rating: ☆☆.5
Title: Shine Your Icy Crown
Author: Amanda Lovelace
Series: You Are Your Own Fairy Tale #2
Genre: Poetry
Audience: Adult
Format: Paperback
Length: 160 pages
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Release Date: March 16, 2021
Source: Personal collection
Content Warnings: child abuse, toxic relationships, sexual assault, eating disorders, mental illness, self-harm, sexism, suicide, trauma
SYNOPSIS
“Make them rue the day they underestimated you.”
This is a story about not letting society dictate the limits of your potential. it’s time to take back your power & realize that you don’t need a king in order to be a queen.
MY THOUGHTS
This is my least favorite collection I’ve read from this author so far. It features the same format I disliked in the first book in this series (this time it’s “big sister says”); however, while the previous book modernizes Cinderella, this one draws inspiration from a variety of tales “to be an entirely new fairy tale of its own,” but that just made it feel more vague to me. In general, Amanda Lovelace’s poems are inconsistent in quality. There were some poems that really spoke to me, but I thought most of these in particular lacked true depth and creative use of language.
Carolibrary 