I received this book for free for an honest review from netgalley #netgalley

Moving, artistic and profound. Three words that come to mind after reading this book.

Thank you so much as always to NetGalley and the publishers who allow me to explore new poets. There is nothing I love more than connecting to a new voice in poetry. I moved through this collection slowly, wanting to give each piece the time it deserved. I would read one or two pieces in a sitting and reflect upon them. Beautiful work. I can't wait to see what else Scheck will write.

Why do I relate so much to these poems?? It’s disturbing and so beautiful at the same time! I really enjoyed this book and it’s going straight into my Amazon wishlist until I can order some books!! Plus it had some cute little illustrations in it and it made reading so cool.

This book has the kindest haiku I have ever read. Maybe because is my first one.
But I do love my poetry books. This felt like a sweet love letter and made me wish I was the loved one.
I can’t speak as a reviewer of poems but as I creative soul that appreciates beauty and rhymes.

I thought this was cute! I’m not typically a poetry person but if something is sapphic, I’ll read it so I gave it a go. The illustrations were all really cute. Though I don’t know if I’ll reach for it again, I enjoyed reading it :)

Arc was given by BookBuzz & NetGalley in exchange for an honest review

This review is being published after the release date (November 28th 2021)

This was probably the hardest poetry collection I’ve had to rate. Honestly, my feelings with this collection was very torn. Not just with the contents of the book, but how I wanted to rate this and whether or not I actually enjoyed my time reading this poetry collection. Ultimately, I decided that this collection wasn’t for me. I really wanted to love this and maybe the reason why I didn’t connect with this was due to setting my expectations too high. But I digress.

The Moon Resides in Her Heart is a sapphic poetry collection about crushes and unrequited love. What it means to love someone so much, but to become heart broken because they don’t see you that way. These haikus are very short, three lines per page. With that being said, this makes for a very fast read. Also, there’s matching imagery to represent the haikus.

I will say, some of these haikus are very relatable. Whether you’ve dealt with an unrequited love or perhaps you loved someone so much that you thought entire universes lived within them. It’s very easy to feel connected to them and enjoy the underlying message of these haikus.

“Stars in her ribcage. Moon residing in her heart. Galaxies love her.”

However, despite the haikus being relatable and descriptive enough to enjoy them, there were two major flaws that prevented me from truly being able to enjoy this book the way I hoped. My biggest issue was repetitiveness. This is something that I can usually overlook at times, but the theme was very repetitive on multiple pages which made it incredibly hard to overlook. It didn’t help that this book is so short. Which leads me into the second issue with this book, the length. Fifty-six pages long with repetitive haikus, and themes. It was really difficult to enjoy this book with these two elements. I think if this book had been longer, add another fifty or so pages and I think the repetitiveness would have been easier to overlook or even be more forgivable.

Overall, this just wasn’t the kind of poetry collection I was looking for. It’s definitely relatable and I truly believe there will be others who may find joy in this collection. Sadly, the repetitiveness and the short length of this book made it very hard to enjoy. However, I still recommend this book. Even though it wasn’t for me, I truly believe someone else may enjoy it more than I did.


The quotes above were taken from an ARC and are subject to change upon publication.

First of all, thank you to NetGalley and BookBuzz.net for providing me with a copy of this book.
Let's start with the fact that I'm not that much of a fan of poetry. You would, rightfully, question why I would want to read this then and the answer is that I'm a baby gay. It's only recently that I actually understood that I like and am attracted to women, and anyone other than men, to be honest, so I really wanted to see what this might be like and I wasn't disappointed. While I can't critique it as poetry I can say that some of the things that were written were relatable and generally descriptive enough that I enjoyed this.
I don't think I can give this more than 3/5 stars bc I simply couldn't enjoy it more but I'm certain people who actually like poetry, will love this!!