“the witch doesn’t burn in this one” is a stunning and empowering poetry collection. While it doesn’t delve too much in Lovelace’s personal life like her first collection did, it still ends up being completely relatable and raw. You can feel Lovelace’s wrath towards anyone who has ever wronged a woman. This collection is about taking your power back and that’s exactly what I feel inspired to do.

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THIS IS AMAZING. Even better than the first. Lovelace is coming along as a poet. Her tributes are powerful, her words are fiery, and her message is loud and clear.

I was so excited when I first got the ARC for this book. Amanda Lovelace's voice is so amazing to listen to. Her thoughts on abuse, misogyny, and violence vibrate so well through her writing. And although it takes on a dark and angry tone, the message still empowers women and challenges the ways of society. Although it is the sequel to the princess saves herself in this one, anyone can easily pick up this one and still understand everything Lovelace sheds a light on.

With a strong voice, Lovelace draws in references from other events from our time as well as the stories of women and speaks of how not to burn from the matchmaker boys.

4.5

I love the idea of this collection of poetry being part of a series and a followup to The Princess Saves Herself in this One. The connections are deftly felt.

As with the first book, Witch is raw and gritty. I felt like the poems themselves were less internally personal for the poetess and more externally personal and empowering for women as a whole. Given the current discussions in the media t these poems are also quite timely, yet it's undeniable that these issues are ones that stem much longer than many of us can comprehend. Lovelace offers words of understanding while encouraging women to stand up to have our voices heard and condemns those who take advantage while promising they'll one day see vengeance enacted upon them.

I loved the open-eyed outlook the poems represent. I felt like, for the most part, the poems had a nice flow about them. There were a couple of times where I felt like a poem was misplaced in the sequence of things. Not that they weren't worthy of inclusion, but could have possibly been included in a different spot to keep the continuity going strong.

I look forward to seeing where Amanda Lovelace's poems lead us next.

Beautiful and brilliant. Lovelace has absolutely done it again. She manages to grab a hold of you, and although you do not share all the experiences of life that she writes about, you can still connect to the feelings portrayed. Brilliant work and I'm looking forward to reading more from Lovelace in the future.

I didn't know how WITCH could surpass PRINCESS, but it did. I had tears in my eyes and a fire in my heart after reading the second book in this series. I am not a poetry person, at all. It makes me yearn for more writing like this, empowering words laid out in a thoughtful way that all people can understand. This needs to be taught and heard on audiobook. I am so moved by this title.

I ADORE THIS BOOK!

FIVE HUGE stars all the way!

Amanda's poetry is such a gist to the world!

It can't get any more up close and personal than this. Amanda's poems are so incredibly direct and authentic and utterly intimate. reading her poetry feel like you are having a conversation with her. Strong, daring, challenging, and assertive. Just the way we should ALL react to sexism! With all consuming fire. Take no prisoners. No mercy

I really enjoyed The Witch Doesn’t Burn In This One by Amanda Lovelace. Her words are captivating, bold, and unapologetic. She is an empowering voice for others and uses her words to start fires many have been silenced out of making to save themselves. I felt so empowered after reading, nodding yes, and yelling THIS after reading so many poems. Her words are so necessary in modern poetry and literature. How have I not read her work sooner!? Getting my hands on her first collection ASAP and will be purchasing a personal hardcover of this once it releases.

Thank you Netgalley for providing me with this ARC for review.

The Witch Doesn't Burn in this One is the second collection of poetry from Amanda Lovelace and takes it up a step on the themes from the first one. Some of these themes include feminism, patriarchy, female empowerment, abuse and more.

In the first collection, the overarching theme was a princess slaying those dragons. This one's theme throughout each piece was witches at the stake fighting back from oppression. The second collection seems to be stronger (and sometimes harsher) than the first, but it's what made it better for me. That, and I really have an aversion to women be called princesses, so this collection did a much better job at grabbing my attention and holding it to the end.

The only part where it sort of breaks you out of the trance of reading is some of the pop culture references and pieces inspired by other pieces that quite a few readers may not recognize. Other than that, it's a solid piece of work that brings politics and social issues to the forefront without sacrificing creativity.

I really enjoyed this

I loved The Princess Saved Herself in This One, so when I heard there would be a sequel of sorts, I was intrigued. I wasn't entirely sure that the fairy tale conceit would hold up through multiple collections without feeling redundant, but this book proved me wrong. The poetry is beautiful, empowering, and incredibly timely. I was especially moved by the last 30-40 pages of this collection. I will be recommending this for purchase at the library where I work, and also recommending it to patrons and friends.

First off, I went into this knowing that this is not my kind of poetry, but also willing to give it a chance to change my mind. My rating of this book reflects that. My opinions, obviously, also reflect that.

Modern poetry does nothing for me. Never has. I'm still waiting for the poet who can absolutely rip the carpet out from under my feet and make me <i>feel</i> things. Lovelace does a good job trying to be that poet. Not quite there, though. And I'm not saying that making people feel things is a poet's responsibility, because it is not. And it will never be. All I'm saying is that this is not the collection that made me feel.

But it will make other people feel. And this might not be the book of poetry for me, but it will be the one that makes someone else feel everything and nothing and all the things in between. And this book, despite how much I really didn't like it, will be so important to some young girl who has yet never felt that sense of empowerment that comes in knowing that you're the best goddamn thing that's ever happened to yourself. And this book, and all the poems it contains, will tell you that. And I know from experience that the more you're told this, the sooner you'll believe it. I've made it to the point where I know this about myself, and it's all thanks to things like this book. We need more of this. And that's why, despite not enjoying this, that I give it a 3-star rating. Because while it may not be good for me, it's will be the best dang thing for someone else. And that counts for something, too.

I love Amanda Lovelace a lot. Her second book is a more carefully structured than The Princess Saves Herself in This One, more of a narrative than a collection of themed poems. Dripping with righteous feminist rage, and what I call "Prettiest broken girl". There is a refusal to be quiet, or to pretend to be okay that I adore in her work. Princess sells well in my store.
I'd recommend it to anyone who is reading Rupi Kaur, Sylvia Plath, Handmaids Tale (because of the Netflix series), or Brave.

I find that poetry is something I *want* to like but don’t actually enjoy a lot. I found this very repetitive and too over the top.

This collection of powerful poems needs to be shared with every woman in your life. It is very timely, yet is inspired by the timeless tales of the women who have come before us. I love how Lovelace intertwines and bends the words and works of other women.
I read from cover to cover twice before I could sit The Witch Doesn't Burn in this One down. It is one of my new favorites.

While I love poetry, and enjoyed the first collection in the series, this one was not for me.
That being said, it is a great collection to introduce young readers to poetry. I wouldn’t put in a middle school class, but think it works as a choice for high school students. Some explicit language. I enjoyed the fighting spirit in each poem.

Amanda Lovelace's poems somehow always manage to make me feel like I could climb mountains with the pent-up feminist rage dwelling inside of me.
I admit, I've never been the biggest fan of analyzing poems back in school and that is probably why I enjoy Lovelace's poem so much: they are accessible, pack a punch, and make you feel - above all else - empowered.
Moving away from the more personal take in The Princess Saves Herself in this One, Lovelace returns with a collection of poems about women and a battlecry. We should no longer be afraid, we should be unapologetically ourselves, and revolt against the kingdom of misogyny reigning us all.
It doesn't matter if you've heard the message before, it's the way Lovelace manages to remind you how inherently powerful and magnificent you truly are while calling attention to barriers we make for ourselves because of what we have been told all our lives to be, that make this collection what it is.
Lovelace's power lies in how relatable her words are, she doesn't need heavy metaphors to bring her point across, and yet her language never fails to be beautiful and entrancing.

P.S. huge shoutout for the trigger warnings included in this poetry collection. I know some people actually perceive trigger warning lists as spoilers for the content, but I couldn't be happier about it being included.

The Witch Doesn't Burn in this One is one helluva crafty collection that has a vast array of thought-provoking poems.

While there were a few that I found myself rolling my rolls at, I found myself majority of the time flipping each page faster than the next because I enjoyed this work so much. Ms. Lovelace's ability to weave in sensitive topics along with humorous ones that don't deter from the overall impactful message that this book is trying to convey to its reader must be appreciated; she is able to take something bad and turn it into something good and uplifting.

Some other things that I loved about this collection:

-homages paid to other influential people and their work.
-the formatting.
-that this read like a story even though you can extract and enjoy each poem separately.
-the trigger warning at the very beginning which outlined everything that was going to be touched on. (this was super considerate and much appreciated!)

Here's a little taste of what this witch Amanda Lovelace has to offer in her book that comes out on March 6th, 2018:

some
fathers
will
c r a c k
their daughter's
teeth
with skinned
knuckles

&

when
her lover's
fist
comes
for her
she will
offer him
an open-lipped
smile.

"it's just like home,"
she'll say.

-she didn't even have to tap her feet together.

--

women
learn
to sense
what who
danger
looks like
just
by catching
another
woman's eye
from across
a crowded
room.

- survival.

--

dish?

woman

ingredients:

I. sugar
II. spite
III. everything not-so-nice

directions:

I. preheat cauldron to 375 degrees.
II. mix together ingredients in a medium to large bowl.
III. add more spite if necessary. (& oh, will it be necessary.)
IV. boil 10 to 12 minutes.
V. eat. have the seconds&thirds&fourths you were always denied. lick fingers when done.

- from the kitchen witch’s cookbook.

OVERALL RATING: 3.5 stars

Thanks a million to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC. Quotes are subject to change upon publication.

This is the second installation in Amanda Lovelace's collection entitled Women are Some Kind of Magic. Her centralized theme remains the same: women are magical, strong, empowering, and we deserve more than what we've been given.



This book pushes a more aggressive message than the first, pushing self love, self worth and the idea that it's okay to be selfish, it's okay to yell, and it's okay to fight back.

This is a collection written for the times we are facing now. When everything we have been fighting for with women's rights are at risk of being taken back from us.

I liked the first collection ( the princess saves her self in this one ) better, but these hit home all the same.