the mermaid's voice returns in this one

Amanda Lovelace is my favorite author/poet. I was over the moon when I heard she was writing another book, and that it would be about MERMAIDS! Such a unique fantastical creature! Even so, I was worried I wouldn’t love it like I do her others, with an unhealthy intensity! However, my fears were unfounded because each poem hit me like a freight train. This is the most raw, personal poetry we’ve seen from her, and it takes guts to publish something like this where everyone can see it. This is more princess than witch, but it’s less anger and more plain truth. I would definitely recommend buying any of her books, but this was a beautiful conclusion to her Women Are Some Kind of Magic series!

I didn’t enjoy the second book as much, but I did enjoy the first. And this third book, lived up to my standards of the first book. I enjoyed a lot of the poems and had several favorites. The premise of these books are just so interesting. Some of the fan submitted ones I didn’t feel like reading because I didn’t know they were in there since all I was expecting was poetry from the author, but some of them were very nice.

I loved this collection. It’s so so hard to pick a favorite of Amanda’s but I would definitely say this one is it! The words are so refreshing to the soul, reading them is like being refreshed by the salt water Amanda often mentions. This collection makes you feel understood and seen and somehow reminds you that the blood from your wounds will inevitably be washed away, even though scars remain. The last of the Women Are Some Kind of Magic series goes out with an incredible siren song that soothes your soul. Thank you to Amanda for digging deep and always baring her soul onto her pages. I look forward to whatever she has planned next.

I am a huge fan of amanda's work and credit her poetry for getting me into modern poetry. Despite loving the overarching narrative of the mermaid finding her voice and becoming strong, the individual poems were not as strong as some of her previous work. However, since this is a collection about healing it is hard to make critiques about it. Who am I to say she didn't present her healing the right way? But, I will say that despite feeling her pain in certain poems, I could not connect to this collection in the way I connected to her previous works. I also was not a fan of intermixing the other poet's poems in the last section. I liked their poems, but going into this I thought they would be in a separate section. It was jarring to keep switching from amanda's narrative to another. I do like the idea of so many poet's showing different ways of healing and overcoming one's demons, but intermixing them lost some of the value of both their words and amanda's. I also always forget that I should not read eARCs of poetry because the formatting is usually weird. The formatting of this collection was pretty good, but I still think I need to reread it to truly get meaning out of some of the poems.

I really enjoy Amanda Lovelace and her poetry. It really is fun and I connect to quite a few of the poems. This series is so fun and I have really enjoyed each one.

The packaging wasn’t good and it only came in a box and the books weren’t wrapped with paper or even bubblewrap The book wasn’t all the good. The writer talks about feminism which I like but her way in portraying the message was weak and not refined enough. I liked her first book more

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again ~ it tastes a great amount of bravery to be vulnerable to a world that might not believe you, and Amanda has done just that. Every word is a living image of what has happened and what has been felt. The mermaid is free.

This author has some of my all time favorite books it’s worth the purchase I would recommend I even got a used book and it came in brand new conditions

Gutes Buch

Sono passati anni da quando ho acquistato questi tre libricini di poesie di Amanda Lovelace e solo ultimamente mi sono ricordata di dar loro una riletta, per assaporare di nuovo frammenti d’esistenza altrui che si affiancano facilmente ad un mio modo di pensare o di vivere gli eventi della vita. Come si può comprendere anche dai tre titoli, queste poesie indicano la vittoria, la riuscita nell’intento di combattere qualsiasi cosa ci faccia stare male: nel primo caso la strega non brucia, si salva e diventa forte; nel secondo caso la principessa si salva da sola, non ha bisogno di alcun principe; nel terzo caso la sirena ha di nuovo la sua voce per cantare e ammaliare. In ogni raccolta è racchiusa la vita dell’autrice, un percorso lungo fatto di alti e bassi, di momenti spensierati, drammatici, felici e dolorosi...con un messaggio importante, oltre il sottinteso, che invita a crescere e a riscoprire se stessi; la Lovelace tramanda piccole perle quotidiane attraverso poesie dalla costruzione particolare, brevi ma in grado di racchiudere l’essenza. Amore, amicizia, il rapporto conflittuale con i genitori o con il proprio corpo che mai ci soddisfa, la perdita...tanti sono gli argomenti trattati e in cui ci si può rispecchiare. La poesia non è mai stato il mio forte, ma con piacere mi ci immergo di tanto in tanto. Ricordo perfettamente chi mi consigliò queste raccolte, una persona che ora non è più nella mia sfera di vita ma che anni fa era fondamentale per sentirmi un po’ più parte del mondo. Era un periodo in cui sia io che questa persona avevamo bisogno di qualcosa che ci spronasse a ritrovare parti sepolte di noi stesse e lo abbiamo fatto anche attraverso la lettura di queste poesie. Piano piano, un po’ per volta, le pagine si lasciano assaporare ed è facile riflettere la propria immagine in qualche frammento, un aspetto che sottolinea quanto in realtà siamo simili noi esseri umani, con le nostre incertezze e i nostri dolori, con le nostre vittorie e le nostre gioie.

Brought for my granddaughter to complete the set, she was over the moon

Bought for my sister for her bday and she loved it.

aimé