Name: the princess saves herself in this one
Rating: 3.636431784107946 (667 reviews)
ISBN: 9781532913686

Amanda Lovelace

the princess saves herself in this one

Mal 

Lindsay

Lara owens 

for the boy who lived. thank you for inspiring me to be the girl who survived. you may have a lightning bolt to show for it, but my body is a lightning storm.

when you're taught to see the world through fire, nothing looks safe. 

"the queen" is striked out but literal doesn't have that type of formatting

- you may be gone, but i still have a stomachache.

- did it really happen if i can’t remember it?

- silence has always been my loudest scream.

- you were in love with the idea of love, not me.

- sometimes i think it would be better if someone cut the whole tree down & started anew.

- from the beginning i knew i could leave it unlocked for you.

Jennifer

Easy, quick read because it’s more poetry in broken sentence fragments. I highlighted three poems I liked. The rest were meh. 

"From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first three sections piece together the life of the author while the final section serves as a note to the reader. This moving book explores love, loss, grief, healing, empowerment, and inspiration"--Publisher's website.

The princess saves herself in this one

chloe rae

I enjoyed this! Some poems I found to be absolutely stunning. I felt I connected with them and they were very profound. I found a lot of them to be extremely relatable and I already want to go back and tab my favorites.
However, some poems I found to be...meh. They felt very basic. They seemed to follow the same format as other ‘modern’ poets and talk about similar things but not really in a new way. I felt like they weren’t saying anything new, she was just stringing along a somewhat pretty sentence. I definitely felt some missed the mark for me.
Overall, I enjoyed this and I do see myself picking up her next poetry book in the future. This just wasn’t a favorite.

Melissa Palmer

Book # 84 Read in 2017
the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda lovelace

This is a book of poetry, detailing a young woman's journey for strength. The poetry talks about such heavy topics as abuse, rape, suicide and self-esteem issues but the overall message of strength makes this a powerful read. I recommend it.

Moth

I did not love this simply due to knowing the author. I loved this because of how well written and awe inspiring the poems were. I knew from hearing about this project that it would be good, but it didn't prepare me for the tears that it brought to my eyes and the echoing ache in my chest from the feelings I've felt over things so similar. If I could have, I would have highlighted the whole book. It was well crafted and in being able to make people relate is one of the things writers strive for and she managed to do so easily. I know her words will stay with me and will be at my side through the good and the bad, echoing their messages again and again.

dija

Jamieson

i have
so much love
to give
but no one
ever wants it

--- a cup overfilled

honestly I sit somewhere in the middle with this poetry collection. I don't think it's 'bad poetry', and being mad at modern poetry for having lots of space bar use and short poems is just .. dumb. Thats what the genre is (it's like being mad at contemporary for not having dragons)

but I did think some of the poems were cliche, especially in the first section. Lots of pretty words that, actually don't mean anything. faux deep

But in the second section (my favourite) this really started to pick up and hit me with some good words. I think the second and third parts are told with much more emotion and meaning and I really enjoyed some of the poems enough to go out and find tabs

the emotion behind the poems, and the way amanda lovelace has chosen to go and bare her own trauma and thoughts and history onto the page is something so deeply personal I would be uncomfortable critiquing it. But I don't really feel I need to because these poems worked for me, and lots of them really moved me

Overall I did really enjoy this collection and I'm excited for her second collection

some poems

once upon
a time, 
the princess
rose from the ashes
her dragon lovers
made of her
& 
crowned 
herself
the
motherfucking
queen of
herself

--- how's that for a happily ever after?


the love 
some girls 
have for 
other girls 
is 
so gentle 
& so soft
& so fucking 
beautiful,
& 
these girls
deserve
to have
better stories
than the ones
where they
are murdered
because they love
with too much
of their
hearts.

Arturo Hernández

I appreciate the openness this book tries to showcase, however I feel like its objective got lost in translation. Chapter 2 almost got there, but the rest of the book seemed afraid to really talk about what the author wanted to say in the beginning. Will keep reading though...

Sintia

** spoiler alert **
           3.5 stars

It's my second poetry book by Amanda Lovelace and I enjoyed it. 
Even though I'm not a fan of the format of the poems and the fact that some of them reminded me of Instagram quotes, I really liked this collection. There are some poems that I loved and that left me speechless.

Really good, very easy read but also hard? Bc of the themes that are brought up

Ary Dias 

Haylie

I got freebies of this and her other book of "poems" because of all the buzz surrounding her. It seems she's cashing in on the same style as Rupi Kaur, but in THIS book there were instances of her writing ONE SENTENCE on a page and calling it a poem. I find that a tad ridiculous. Yes, there were some decent works in these 160-ish pages, but overall I was really underwhelmed. 

It seems in the present, you really don't have to try to be a poet - or rather a "poetess" as Lovelace is referred to in her author bio. If you can make a sentence, then hit enter/return after 1-2 words in each sentence, you're golden. You can write one full sentence without special spacing on a page and call it a poem. You can disguise two sentences in the shape of a heart and call it a poem. You can stretch out a word in this r i d i c u l o u s way and call it a poem. The styles and structure of poetry that we've been exposed to in the past is just thrown out the window for sticky note/Instagram caption "poetry".

Another funny thing: I read this and thought: wow I'd see this as a caption on Tumblr, and lo and behold she writes this stuff on her Tumblr.

To be polite to the person who gave these books to me, I'll read her second one. Witches were more up my alley than princesses anyway.

There were parts I loved and felt in my vertebrae & words that slipped through the slippery slopes of my brain

the princess saves herself in this one

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