I received an early copy through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Release date: March 6th, 2018

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This was one of the best and most powerful debut poetry collections I've read.

I loved the composition and how all the poems together told one story - I read the whole thing almost in one sitting because I was eager to know what happens next. The way Cyrus described every small detail of his two very different relationships was captivating, both the toxicity of the first relationship, and the little, loving, everyday moments of the second.

As someone who's used to fiction, reading some of the poems was strange - there were some events that weirded me out and yet I couldn't really "disagree" or judge, since this was someone's real, actual life, not the relationship of two fictional characters. I'll have to get used to this if I read more personal poetry, but I still enjoyed the poems in this collection. ( )