Amanda Lovelace é uma autora que eu gosto bastante, principalmente por sua poesia ser tão pessoal, intensa e sincera. Há muita identificação entre leitor-obra-autor. Shine your icy crown é uma extensão do que foi iniciado anos atrás com The princess saves herself in this one (que continua sendo o meu volume favorito).

As lyrical as ever! Lovelace is a wonder, and shine your icy crown is yet another favourite! I found myself saving too many quotes to even count to send to friends as affirmations or advice; so beautifully written and illustrated.

Thoroughly enjoyed every bit of this, and promptly preordered it.
Amanda Lovelace is one of those authors that pulls you in and pours her words into your very soul.

Thank you to the publisher for providing me an e-Arc

TW: child abuse, toxic relationships, sexual assault, eating disorders, mental illness, self-harm, sexism, suicide, trauma (listed on page one of the book)

This poetry collection was empowering and comforting to read. I loved all the poems and the illustrations were beautiful. As always Amanda Lovelace amazes me with her collections. Highly recommend it if you love her poetry.

I love this book! I enjoyed how Lovelace explored the bonds of sisterhood with this one. As usual, her poetry tells a great story and is told in a way that I can connect and identify with it.

I've heard so many good things about amanda lovelace and her poetry, so I was excited when I saw her nevest collection on NetGalley. And to be honest? This wasn't for me. And I'm not sure I'd call this poetry. Poetry as a genre has changed a lot over the years so maybe I'm just getting old and shaking my fist at the sky, yelling "Get off my lawn!".
I enjoyed some parts of the collection but overall it just left me wanting a bit more. But... I want to give the author another chance.

Review copy provided by the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Lovelace does it again with her ode to people who are trying to make it in the world. Her poetry is relatable and encourages readers to put themselves first.

I've read Amanda Lovelace's poetry before and really enjoyed this collection. Her writing is lovely and I look forward to adding the paperback edition of this to my collection

This is a beautiful book, filled with so many moving & emotional poems. Amanda Lovelace is a true poet and an incredible writer. All her poems feel so relatable and stunningly tragic.

Very deep in meaning beyond the words on the page. You pick up this book and can't help but keep turning the page and you are left engulfed in the emotions.

Sometimes a book comes into your life at just the right moment. Amanda Lovelace's The Princess Saves Herself in This One was one such book for me. I've deeply enjoyed and connected with a half dozen of her books since then, but they didn't quite reach that same level for me personally. Shine Your Icy Crown makes for the second of Lovelace's books that came to me at just the right moment, that I've connected to in that way.

The first section of the book alternates between poems that serve as a big sister speaking advice to a little sister, and poems that serve as the struggle the little sister is going through. The poems about struggle are ones that I connected with and made me wish I had a big sister to give me advice when I was going through those struggles. The poems from the big sister are ones I identified with, and they shared everything I've wanted to tell my own little sister but never had the words. I'm not sure I've ever gifted a book of poetry to anyone before, but I want my sister to have this one. The second section of the book makes a lot of powerful feminist statements that I think all of us need to hear every now and then. The third section gives a happy ending to the fairytale throughout.

Shine Your Icy Crown will be yet another book from Amanda Lovelace that I treasure and hold dear to my heart. It came to me just when I really needed it, and I'm grateful to have had the chance to experience it.

You know the feeling when you are unmotivated, thinking you don't have anything to read (that's a lie lol) an aren't motivated to pick up a full length novel? I went through the same feeling and I was so not in the mood to continue reading the books I am already reading when I realized that I had started this one ages ago and had forgotten about it. And I am SO GLAD I finally picked it up because oh my, this was I wanted to read!!!

You can say the whole book is divided into three parts, each one portraying a journey for every person out there who has been put down in life. I am not kidding when I say the prose was so effing good, I could feel the goofy smile on my face. Amanda breaks down the stereotypes and the 'competitiveness' that women are said to have against one another along with breaking down double standards that we see ourselves surrounded in. And more than that it spoke high volumes about loving oneself, about taking one's care without a care in the world because no, it is not a selfish act indeed. And apart from that it was about learning to respect yourself because you deserve as much respect as love from yourself! There are soo many lines I want to quote but at the same time I don't want to give everything away from this book (The struggle is real, trust me). But here's a small and absolutely lovely piece:

'you say lonely.

i say self-sufficient .
i say content dating myself

- your local spinster '

I loved this collection so freaking much! There's a possibility that many people wouldn't get too much out of it and there's a possibility that others would get so much out of it and I recommend everyone to read this because it contains a very good bunch of poems on empowerment that you couldn't get tired of reading! And did I mention that the author compiled a list of TW in starting? I really love when authors do that!!!! :)))

Trigger Warnings: child abuse, toxic relationships, sexual assault, eating disorders, mental illness, self-harm, sexism, suicide, trauma...

This book is a perfect read for anyone. It's almost like a guide book on learning to love yourself and to grow. I definitely recommend for anyone, young or old, who may need a pick me up or reassurance.

@Thanks NetGalley for giving me the access to read these well written poems and beautifully written. Amanda Lovelace has such a great talent to write emotional poems.
I loved very much the poems.
Furthermore, I give 4 stars to this book.

I've always known that I needed to be in the right mindset to read an Amanda Lovelace poetry collection - and this time is no different. Shine Your Icy Crown is just as powerful as all of her other collections. Lovelace shines light and reflects on what many of us struggle with and keep to ourselves. I highly recommend these collections to everyone I come across and will continue to do so with Shine Your Icy Crown.

Amanda Lovelace really brought inspiration out to me to continue writing my poetry collection. Her writing is just so motivating for those of us who have went through the similar situations that she writes about and runs with it. Myself being a domestic violence survivor I battle mental health issues every day. Her writing inspires me to keep going and to straighten my crown and keep my head held high. I would recommend this book of poetry to anyone but, they should read her other works as well!

I love reading poetry collections and I have read all the books by Amanda Lovelace and this was amazing as usual.

Take your time in reading (devouring) this book which is less poetry and more instructional/manual/handbook. For those of us, who have loved Amanda's previous work, this can be a bit of a let down, but possibly still a treasured addition to one's library for the rainy days.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher and author!

Amanda Lovelace has done it again. Every poetry book I read from her has made me cry and this book is no exception. This poetry book speaks on the experiences that young girls go through throughout their lives. I. could relate to many of these poems and that broke my heart. While reading this I felt empowered and strong. The writing was once again amazing.

That being said, there were some poems that felt kinda felt to me. That could just be a me thing though. I am giving this book 4/5 stars.

'Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.'

as painful as it may be,
it is always easier to
walk away from the villain

than it is to try to
convince them of their villany.
- a hard pill to swallow

Out today, Amanda Lovelace returns with a new poetry collection that focuses on empowerment, feminism and knowing your self-worth. Lovelace explores the idea of valuing yourself even if you don’t have a romantic partner and the complexities of family relationships.

This poetry collection was just alright for me. I loved some of the themes explored (feminism - yay!!). It had some cool imagery incorporated and I loved the illustrations. That being said, there is one trope that is woven throughout that is referred to as the Big Sister. The Big Sister seems to know everything and her parts are frequent and seemed almost preachy to me in parts. Big Sister was an all knowing being and those parts almost seemed like a self-help portion to me - which is not my favourite. It’s for this reason I settled on 3 stars as I just couldn’t connect with a lot of the content. For others this poetry collection may be a totally different experience.