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The Dark Between Stars
by Atticus
Want to save some money? Look up inspirational things on google or justgirlythings on tumblr, and you have this book.
It’s like the publisher said “Okay, I like what you have going, but we need to meet a number of pages. Just write some bullshit young teens will find ‘deep’ and we’ll throw in some stock images.” Then, the publisher put the poems out of order and called it a day. Literally. It’s exactly that.
See, this book has so much potential. Add some dates as to when the poems were written. Boom, solves the issue of the poems not really making sense in the order they are in. There are a handful of poems I actually liked (saving this book from being a 1 star), but the stock images kill this book for me. There’s a way to do images artfully, but this isn’t it. Like, on page 181 I don’t think anyone noticed that the model isn’t wearing any pants. Which would be fine, but it doesn’t fit with the poem it’s paired with, plus I could go to pexels and probably find the image. None of the images are made specifically for the book. I’d expect this from a ebook being sold by the author, but not a book I can find at popular retailers like Chapters.
Not to mention, they try to be artsy by putting some of the poems in cursive. Again, it’s an interesting idea, but when all of the “s” look like “y” you fucked up. Like, I read one of the poems as “She way the dream I had been yearching for, the one to wake me up.” I honest to god thought it was just a typo somehow, but it took me till almost the end of the book to realize that they are ‘s’ instead of ‘y’.
It’s dissapointing. I’ve read poetry that I haven’t found good, but at least it sounded like an actual person with feelings wrote it. The majority of poems are straight out of some inspirational quotes generator like “Live life like death is tomorrow”. Like... what?? I expect to see that on a tumblr page or on a poster being sold for less than $5, not in a book of poetry written by an author who had a previous success. I haven’t read his other books, and based off of this one... I don’t know if I will.
It’s like the publisher said “Okay, I like what you have going, but we need to meet a number of pages. Just write some bullshit young teens will find ‘deep’ and we’ll throw in some stock images.” Then, the publisher put the poems out of order and called it a day. Literally. It’s exactly that.
See, this book has so much potential. Add some dates as to when the poems were written. Boom, solves the issue of the poems not really making sense in the order they are in. There are a handful of poems I actually liked (saving this book from being a 1 star), but the stock images kill this book for me. There’s a way to do images artfully, but this isn’t it. Like, on page 181 I don’t think anyone noticed that the model isn’t wearing any pants. Which would be fine, but it doesn’t fit with the poem it’s paired with, plus I could go to pexels and probably find the image. None of the images are made specifically for the book. I’d expect this from a ebook being sold by the author, but not a book I can find at popular retailers like Chapters.
Not to mention, they try to be artsy by putting some of the poems in cursive. Again, it’s an interesting idea, but when all of the “s” look like “y” you fucked up. Like, I read one of the poems as “She way the dream I had been yearching for, the one to wake me up.” I honest to god thought it was just a typo somehow, but it took me till almost the end of the book to realize that they are ‘s’ instead of ‘y’.
It’s dissapointing. I’ve read poetry that I haven’t found good, but at least it sounded like an actual person with feelings wrote it. The majority of poems are straight out of some inspirational quotes generator like “Live life like death is tomorrow”. Like... what?? I expect to see that on a tumblr page or on a poster being sold for less than $5, not in a book of poetry written by an author who had a previous success. I haven’t read his other books, and based off of this one... I don’t know if I will.