This was definitely written by a fellow horror nerd and I see you dude. Very fun, still had a few edge lord moments but I have a feeling those may have been put in there on purpose to make people laugh.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC to review!

3 stars!

First off I loved the random Dario Argento poem! I enjoyed these. Very different, and held lots of raw emotions and dark themes within them. I also really liked the poem Hypocrite.

Obviously not for everyone but I'm glad I came across this as now it has put Quinn Hernandez on my radar!

Spoilers.

Received free for honest review.

This poem book was...different. People only read this if you can handle horror: murder, rape, necromancy, etc.

Some of these poems really spoke to me, like Breaking the Cycle. Which was about a man being tied to a chair by his son's because of the traits he passed on to them.

Or

The Power of Grief, which was about a man capturing death to delay his wife's inevitable death from cancer, but his son frees death.

But some of these poems really had me questioning if I was reading was a big metaphor or if I should take it literally. Poems are supposed to be interpreted by the reader, but I was having a hard time doing that. I could tell these poems were written by the heart of the person but the poems near the end started to dry up. And wasn't making me think as much or discuss with myself.

The three poems I disliked the most was Three Examples of Why Clowns Ain't Funny. Basically a spinoff of killer clowns from outer space and felt like the poems didn't fit well in the book.

Overall I give it a good three stars cause the book did make me think. But it also slightly disappointed with some poems.