Review: Love Looks Pretty On You

July 7, 20192 Comments

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Rating: ★★★★

I’m such a huge fan of Lang Leav so when I saw this book, I just had to buy it!

I always love how organized Lang’s collections are. She knows how to come up with with an overarching theme and how to follow it. She never tries too hard to make her poems fit into the theme. That is very true with this collection. It was effortless the way the poems came together to convey her message.

However, for some reason, there was something missing from this collection. I can’t quite place it, but it was lacking something. It could be because some of the pieces didn’t have titles so it felt slightly incomplete.

That being said, I still enjoyed it and had a ton of favorites. Some of them were:

Someone else (pg. 17)
Vultures (pg. 29)
Regrets (pg. 35)
Idols (pg. 45)
Your Right to Love (pg. 47)
Too Young (pg. 61)
I Had You (pg. 71)
The Friendship Bond (pg. 75)
Flowers (pg. 93)
Saltwater (pg. 107)
Shut Out (pg. 113)
Anxiety (pg. 153)
Obsession (pg. 155)
Sunday Afternoon (pg. 177)
Something Else (pg. 181)
Write for Yourself (pg. 193)
Springtime (pg. 205)

Overall, this was a wonderful collection of poetry!

Review: Sea of Strangers

January 27, 20196 Comments

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Rating: ★★★★★

This is my second time reading a poetry collection from Lang Leav. I had previously read Lullabies and loved it. I’ve also read her novel, Sad Girls, and thought that was just okay.

Basically, I loved this collection. Her poetry is just so beautiful and I love that some of her poems even rhyme (which you don’t get all that often in contemporary poetry). Her poems are a wonderful blend of contemporary and classical poetry which I think makes it very special. There is an effortless quality to them which I love.

This collection had the theme of water/sea/ocean and I liked that the poems touched upon that without being too much. Not every poem incorporated that theme, but a good chunk of them did. I liked that she didn’t go overboard with that theme, because that sometimes happens in poetry collections and it makes them boring.

I had so many favorites. I’ll list them below: