the witch doesn't burn in this one

As soon as I saw this available on NetGalley, I knew I needed to read it. The Princess Saves Herself in This One was an amazing foray into poetry for me. I do not particularily like poetry, but I was able to connect on a deep level with many of the poems in that collection. So when I knew Amanda was going to have a “sequel” I couldn't wait to get my hands on it. That being said, this one fell flat for me. I did not have the same connection to the writing as I had with Princess.

This collection is all about female empowerment which is important and very timely. I unfortunately, was unable to make that connection with these poems to really truly enjoy this book. Many are going to read this an absolutely fall in love. It is another great collection of poetry, it just was not the collection for me.

Thanks to NetGalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for the eARC

This book was like reading an angry rant on twitter. It felt like she was mad at me somehow even though most poems were addressed to men reading as angry notes lecturing them about their own ignorance and how they're supposed to treat women. I think her audience is mostly female so she's most likely preaching to the choir of others who's just as angry as she is and not the audience she's presumably trying to reach which is the male counterpart.

I guess you could feel empowered if you agree with her generalisation of the opposite sex and their thoughts on women and what women should be, but I beg to differ as I have personal experience with several men who are not like that and I'm sad that many do not have the same experience. Also, I'm not saying that she shouldn't feel angry or feel as though she needs to present her message wrapped in a pink, sparkly bow in order to get her message across, but I believe this book will only reach an audience already as furious at men and the patriarchy as she is as it failed to teach me anything valuable about her kind of feminism. 

I did like the poems addressed to women about how they should feel about themselves because I agree that other's thoughts about you (whether that is the societal outlook on women or someone's personal opinion) shouldn't keep you from achieving what you are absolutely capable of doing. 

In the end this poetry just wasn't for me and I probably wouldn't recommend it to anyone I know.

This is an overdue love letter to each and every woman who walked these fields before me & made the path soft enough for me to walk through.

This was slightly better than the previous ones but I still wish I got more of a poetic feeling out of it, more metaphors and imagery and things like that. Very surface level feminism that i don't disagree with and I'm glad that there are people connecting with this but I wish there was more to say.