"Insomnia is my trusty companion, for it knows of my suicidal tendencies"

DNF @31.7%

Bleed Like Me: Poems for the Broken by Azzurra Nox is a collection of dark poems. It talks about love, lust, depression, abuse, and self-harm.

I didn't enjoy the writing style and some of the poems are repetitive. I really wanted to love this collection but I just couldn't get into it

I received a copy of this from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Not my kind of poetry unfortunately. I read the first dozen poems and didnt feel any connrction to the words or the story. I prefer shorter form poems generally

[ I received an e-ARC of this book in an exchange for an honest review.]

I was very excited for this book when I saw the beautiful cover and read the blurb, but unfortunately I couldn't really get into the poetry. The author's writing style is very interesting, but I personally didn't like it that much.

I tried to like this collection, but I'm just not the target audience I think. If I was still an emo high school girl, maybe, but as a middle-aged woman, I just not feeling it. Nox's poetry has potential; with a little more life experience and maturity, I think she'll write some great things. For now, she gets repetitive at times, like she's writing song lyrics with a repeating chorus instead of poems. She has some strong moments, and is getting there, but she's not quite there yet.

*I received a ebook copy of this poetry collection for free through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

“This is how you draw a broken heart: Dip your fingers in blood and don't Hesitate to botch the final project”.

This poetry collection explores emotion, including abandonment, love, real life and the fantasy.

I was really excited when I first started reading this, I so badly wanted to love it but I couldn’t get into it. The poems are well written and Nox certainly has talent, but this collection just didn’t click for me. I could tell how open and vulnerable Nox was in her writing, pouring her emotions out onto the page for reader after reader to devour.

There are certainly common themes throughout this collection, but that for me made the poems seem overly repetitive. I will admit I skim read a lot of it, there were some good parts and Nox has promise but this just wasn’t for me.

Overall, this was an ok poetry collection, if you like poetry looking at the darker side of life then perhaps give this one a look.

I received this e-book over NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Bleed Like Me: Poems for the Broken by Azzurra Nox is a collection of poems. It touches various topics, such as love, lust, depression and self-harm. 

Keep in mind that I love poetry but this book didn't do it for me at all. I know poetry is extremely subjective and that is why I don't feel like I'm in the position to say it is a bad book just because it isn't of my liking.

The writing is quite good and I feel like it could have been a great book. Sadly, overall it felt too melodramatic and sometimes it felt quite depressing and morbid just for the sake of it. Don't get me wrong, I know it is important to talk openly about depression but in this book, I felt like it was being romanticized, which is never a good thing. Besides that, the book didn’t seem to grasp the reality of those feelings, which prevented me from enjoying most part of the poems.

With that being said, if I was still in my teen years, in my emo phase, I would probably have different feelings towards this book. Just because of what it made me feel.

these were all exhausting and repetitive, the type of poetry i don't enjoy. things that are more simple make things more impacting when it comes to poetry for me, and these were long winded and full of dark words that tried too hard. maybe i gave up too early but i couldn't even bring myself to finish this, which makes me feel guilty but it's time i could be reading something i actually like and i know such a short book will only take me too long to try to get through when so many pages in i haven't found a groove i flow into

“On my hands and knees I crawl
Searching for the shreds of my broken heart.” – Azzurra Nox, A Mad Girl’s Love Story

BLEED LIKE ME: POEMS FOR THE BROKEN by Azzurra Nox was a deep and fascinating poetry collection. Each poem contributed to the main theme of heart-break and other strong emotions. As the title promises, these poems are for the broken, or at least for readers that like poetry with a darker edge. Nox manages to capture emotion in each poem by using vivid words and imagery.

I’m completely obsessed with the cover and it was the main reason I picked up the collection. The cover gives a glimpse at the contents inside and what kind of tone to expect. This collection features more than 100 poems and I personally think it could have been divided into two collections. However, it’s nice to have an ample collection of poems with the same gothic undertone. Some of the rhyming also didn’t quite work for me and I think a few poems could have used more editing. I liked the nostalgic feel that the poems left me with.

If you like poetry that explores darker themes, this is for you. Some of the poems read like a modern female perspective equivalent to Edgar Allan Poe. Others like a broken-hearted teenager and other’s like they were written by mythical characters. Grab a copy if you are into gothic poems of love and loss.


* Thank you NetGalley for providing me with this arc in exchange for an honest review.

The book started off very strong, I was immediately hooked. But my enjoyment began to wax and wane after a while. This is not a poetry book to sit and read in one sitting; I think I would have enjoyed it more if I had spread it out over a couple of days. Regardless, the poems were sooo good, even stand alone!

While I had this as an ARC from NetGalley, this is definitely one I will be adding to my personal collection!

I couldn't connect to as many poems as I would have liked, but the ones I did connect to really spoke to my soul.

I will say that some of the ones I was unable to connect with were still very deep, deeper than some of the poetry books I've read in the last few years so I was able to appreciate that as well.

There was a lot of insight and deep poetry in this book. I did not expect to like it as much as did. Will definitely keep an eye out for the authors future work.

This is a competent collection with a few truly stand out moments. The use of motif and metaphor to communicate theme was done well. While most of the poems failed to connect for me personally on some fundamental level, this is an author who has something to say and as she masters the form further, will doubtless produce some powerful writing.

🌟🌟🌟🌟/5

I was provided with an ARC through netgalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

"You wanted me to be a moth, when I was always a butterfly"

This is a very dark, angry, brutal and lustful book of poetry. There are loads of trigger warnings for abuse and self harm. This poety isn't for everyone but it deffinatly got under my skin. It was well written and the emotions came across very well.

*The Lessons We're Taught*
"Men are taught to take what they please Women are taught to relinquish their treasures with a smile.
It's why women mistake brutality for love And men believe a woman's body is for them to seize without consequences."

This was a great read, though I was slightly underwhelmed. It was an interesting read, with some very moving pieces.

I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect from this collection of poetry. Most of the poetry I’ve read recently has been about love and healing, and this was quite the opposite. Each and every poem is twisted in some sort of way. I didn’t hate any of the poems, but the vast majority just didn’t speak to me on a deeper level. I have to appreciate the beauty of the writing and the obvious care and emotion that went into writing the poems, I just couldn’t feel it for myself. I’m sure that others would enjoy this collection quite a bit more than I did, which is not to say that I didn’t like it. I just don’t think I’m in the correct mindset to be able to really connect to this dark poetry collection.

Nothing is as sweet or as deep as the first cut, at least that's what they say. Bleed Like Me is a collection of poems, some of them are beautiful heart rent sentiments while others are incredibly dark. Truly most of the poems were a bit dark for my taste, but with Valentine's day just around the corner I thought I would give it a go.

I posted the following review on both my blog and on Goodreads.

Book 11 of my 2019 Reading Challenge
read from January 19 - 29

Bleed Like Me: Poems for the Broken
by Azzurra Nox

Summary (via Goodreads)
Expected publication: February 2019 (I read pre-publication thanks to NetGalley)
This is how you draw a broken heart:
Dip your fingers in blood and don't
Hesitate to botch the final project.

This is a book about love and the wounds that it can bring. It explores the exhilaration of first love, the damage of unrequited love, and the distress of abandonment. The poems are little memories that come alive, a journey between reality and fantasy, often mingling as one. Fragments of life depicted in words. This is a collection of poems both cruel and sweet. The poems depict the difference between how we perceive ourselves and how others perceive us. But most of all, this is a kaleidoscope of emotions that are multiplied and amplified as the reader looks into the window of a young woman's heart.

My Opinion
2 stars

*I received an electronic copy of this book via NetGalley and would like to thank the author and/or publisher for the opportunity to read and honestly review it*

Poetry is so subjective that I'm really not comfortable giving a full critique of it. What I can say is that is the poetry was very descriptive and generated a visceral reaction but it wasn't something I personally enjoyed. I liked the content of Part II a lot more than Part I.

It felt a little melodramatic but I can chalk that up to being so far removed from personally experiencing heartbreak (I'm 39 and have been with my husband for 19 years). In most situations when I didn't really like it but also don't feel like the target audience, I will rate it a neutral 3 stars and move on. The reason I didn't in this case is because even though I feel the melodrama might lend itself to a younger audience, the number of poems that referenced suicide as a solution to stop feeling the pain of heartbreak makes me hesitate in a recommendation to someone younger. There's a difference between being broken-hearted and being a little unhinged; if I read any of her poems as social media statuses I would be reaching out to her to make sure she's safe and okay.

I really enjoy emotional, angst-y poetry in the vein of Lang Leav, Rupi Kaur, Nikita Gill and a few others of the recent "Instagram Poets" but this just wasn't for me.
I didn't really connect with the poems and while I could see the appreciate the emotion within them I just didn't feel it.

I was provided with an e-ARC of this book by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

I think it is pretty obvious I didn't like this book. It is not my genre of poetry, plus I struggled to get to the end.

First of all, I didn't enjoy the style, since I felt like it was a strange mix between 2012 Tumblr and 2018 Twitter, meaning that the themes were depression and sex. I don't mind the themes per se, but I didn't like the way they were handled.

Moreover, I felt like this book was too pretentious at some point and the author tended to repeat herself.
Maybe I would have enjoyed this more if I read it when I was like fourteen, but as an almost twenty years old it seemed too edgy and Tumblr gothic girl style.

I think many others will love this, though. It just wasn't for me.

Bleed Like Me:Poems For The Broken
by Azzurra Nox
due 2-12-2019
Twisted Wing
3.5 / 5.0

The poems collected here are very personal, straight from the heart and confessional. Some are very long. Some are only a few lines long. All share her feelings of being broken, abandoned and reveal her smashed emotions and heart. Poems of loss, deception, yearning, infatuation, idolizing and falling in lust.
My favorites were ´Amoeba´; ´23:57´; ´Bag of Horrors´; ´Cold Attrition´; ´Unwanted´; Memoirs´ and ´You Can Change Who I Am´.
Thank you to Twisted Wings for an e-book ARC for a fair and honest review.
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