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ryliereadss 's review for:
Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems
by Megan Fox
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Megan Fox has obviously experienced a lot of trauma and mistreatment and I hope she is feeling safe now. You can tell how angry she is in her poetry. I enjoyed the references she made to Shakespeare and Greek legends and movies. I think my favorite poem was on page 53. But I really wish she had used more poetic and metaphoric language in her poems, more show and less tell. Sometimes I think her titles were better than the poems themselves. Some of them were just one sentence which I didn’t like.
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Violence
Minor: Miscarriage, Rape
Lots of references to mistreatment and violence. Pages 128-129 depict a specific, detailed scene that was hard to read. The last two poems of the book are about her miscarriage. There is one poem titled rape.