Series: Women Are Some Kind of Magic #3
Author: Amanda Lovelace
Pages: 208 pages
Version: Paperback
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Rating: ★★★★
Synopsis
Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Lovelace presents The Mermaid’s Voice Returns in This One – the third and final installment in her ‘Women Are Some Kind of Magic’ series, featuring a foreword from Lang Leav and 13 guest poems from leading voices in poetry such as Nikita Gill, KY Robinson, and Orion Carloto.
The mermaid is known for her siren song, luring bedroom-eyed sailors to their demise. However, beneath these misguided myths are tales of escapism and healing, which Lovelace weaves throughout this empowering collection of poetry, taking you on a journey from the sea to the stars. They tried to silence her once and for all, but the mermaid’s voice returns in this one.
Review
The Mermaid’s Voice Returns in This One is the third and final poetry collection in the Women Are Some Kind of Magic series and contains poems about abuse, assault, addiction, self-harm, …
I think that this collection wasn’t my favourite of the three books in the series. There were still some beautiful poems, but I couldn’t really relate to a lot of them. Some of them felt a bit weird or just not something for me. However, the collection was still beautiful, I really liked reading it and I cannot wait to read more poetry books by Amanda Lovelace.
Something also really liked was that there was a foreword by Lang Leav and there were poems written by other poets in this collection. I think it’s a nice way of discovering new poets. I also really liked that at the end of the book she inserted all of the social media details of all the poets that wrote a poem for this collection.
Favourite poems
- Wanted
- Shrinking violets like us
- My Midas
- Titanic
- They’re both assault
- I’m deciding my firsts from now on
- Goodbye
- The good kind of drowning
- For my childhood friend
- Don’t touch the stones
- You are worth spoiling