I received a free digital copy from the author in exchange for an honest review.
Summary:
A collection of love poems.
My Review:
I think the book cover is very pretty. I like the colors and it certainly looks like exactly what the title suggests – something is cracked open.
I’ve read my fair share of poetry collections so I was more than happy to give this one a try.
Cracked Open is about the narrator getting over her lover. And… that’s pretty much it. There is a happy ending but it took a while to get there. This collection tells a story through its poetry from start to finish yet I didn’t feel as though there was a beginning, middle, and end.
I don’t have much to say about the characters. There are no names and not many gender pronouns used either. I could relate with the narrator since I’ve been through a break up before. I have to say, that part was captured nicely and accurately despite each of us going through it in our own way.
The poems in this collection were just okay for me. They were free verse – most of them not really having much rhyme or rhythm. With that said, the poems didn’t seem to flow well for me. I felt as though I was reading a letter written by the narrator to her ex instead of poetry. The words felt a little flat rather than poetic and while the emotion was well captured, it felt as though the narrator was just complaining to her ex rather than fully letting go of her emotions in a rhythmic poem.
Cracked Open wasn’t a bad read. It’s short and sweet. I couldn’t connect with the poems that much though I did sympathize with the main character, whoever she may be. With that said, this was just an okay read for me.
Cracked Open by Megan O’Keeffe gets…
3 out of 5 cups
Favorite Quote:
“We are not a love story and we are not a lesson. We were just two people wasting time Comfortable in the in-between hiding from our truths.”
-Megan O’Keeffe, Cracked Open