Thank you to Dr. Elly McCausland, Andrews McMeel Publishing, and NetGalley for an advanced copy of Stars Around My Scars in exchange for an honest review.

As a Swiftie and a lover of reading poetry, this book was a perfect combination of my interests!  Poetry analysis has never been a subject I enjoyed but through this book I learned so much about literary techniques and poetry construction. It helps that I already knew all of the songs that were analyzed!

I appreciate that there are songs from each of Taylor Swift's eras to show the long history of thought and story telling that goes into her music! Additionally, I loved that Dr. McCausland made it a point to state that the songs were picked and analyzed based on their universally applicable themes and didn't speculate on who the song might be about.

My biggest issue with the book has to do with styling. All of the songs have in text "handwritten" analysis. Some songs have purple boxes within to analyze themes as the poem goes on. Others have the analysis after the poem. I like the in text purple boxes more! 

Overall, this is a 4 star read for me!

#scarsaroundmystars #netgalley