A decent collection of poetry, but the themes and ideas feel old by midway through this collection, and downright ancient if you've read other collections by Lovelace. I'd love to see her explore different ideas and themes in her poetry.

An absolutely incredible collection that will resonate with so many people especially now. It makes you think about yourself and those around you, especially how they treat you and your own worth. Every single poem in this collection is beautiful and thought provoking. I loved it.

This was so beautiful, and Amanda Lovelace's best work yet! Her writing is enchanting, and I could not put this down. I love her feminist take on Cinderella's story and her message on loving yourself first, and how that's enough. This is definitely a book of poetry that I would recommend to anyone with its uplifting message. It sparked joy in my life and I can't wait to be able to buy a physical copy of this!

Thank you to the publishers for the gifted review copy!

I really enjoyed this collection of poems. I could relate to some of them and some really stuck with me. As always Amanda Lovelace writes empowering pieces and this one is definitely my favorite of the author!

This book is amazing. It’s written in the simple poetic style of Amanda’s previous books. Not only is it well written, but there are trigger warnings in the beginning are so helpful. That’s honestly why I continue to read Amanda Lovelace’s work. She also talks about self care before and after which is important for such dense topics. Amanda finds a way to talk about such hard dense topics, and make them less tabo. She finds away to help reads to connect to hard topics, but also know and understand that they are strong and can get over them. The book is a fairy quick read but reading slowing and taking breaks when it gets tough is recommended. I can’t wait for the second installment of this series.

A new poetry collection to love!
Cinderella was my favorite princess as a child. The idea of turning the original fairytale into poetry about self love was so well executed. The illustrations throughout the book were a lovely addition.
This was my first book by the author but I will soon check out the rest of her works.

I can imagine that fans of this author will also enjoy her newest collection. But for readers who are new to poetry this is a great start. It is easy to understand and the fairytale well known. The topic of self love and not losing oneself within a relationship can be relatable to all genders and most age groups. I highly recommend this especially if you need a little pep talk about self love in form of a book. Within these pages you will find a fairy-godmother and let me tell you this book feels truly like one.

I wish I liked this one a lot more, but I felt like it was just kind of meh. There were some poems that hit me, but for the most part, they were nothing special. This makes me so sad because I loved Amanda's first two poetry collections so much.
There isn't much to say about this collection because none of the poems went deep enough.

Thank you to @NetGalley and @andrewsmcmeel for this advanced reading copy. This the first of lovelace’s new series called you are your own fairytale. It focuses on female empowerment, self-worth and self-care. It uses the trope of the “fairy godmother” as a woman’s conscience who knows that she is not treating herself as she should by being in a toxic relationship and being taken advantage of by other people in her life such as family and friends.

I enjoy poetry that focuses on self-worth and female empowerment. I hadn’t read lovelace before but I did like her work. My all time favourite is Rupi Kaur and she still remains on top. I liked the messages behind lovelace’s poetry, but I found she could have used some more figurative language/imagery. I leave you with one of my favourite snippets from her anthology:

“some days,
your body will feel like a cage.

on those days,
Lace flowers through the bars.”

This book carries a beautiful and very important message:

she is her own goddamn fairy tale

All of what is the author saying is so important and should be taped on the walls everywhere, so we would finally start to take care of and love ourselves. The book is divided into two main parts, in the first part, we can see the story of a girl and the advices from her fairy godmother. The second part talks about what happens when the girl breaks her slippers and starts to love herself as she is.

There were some pieces I really loved, as:

"you are limitless.

you can have the lipstick.
you can have the sword."

or

"there is nothing
unfeminist
about the girl
who chooses
the ball gown
& the prince.

there is everything
unfeminist
about those
who try to
shame her for
her choices".

I absolutely loved the message of this book and find it so important.

But what I didn't love was the execution. The poems sometimes didn't feel like the poems at all, just like the inspirational slogans you can find everywhere on the internet inserted in pretty and deep mystical pictures.

Like:

"so often we are our own true love"

or

"being called fat is not an insult.
being called skinny is not a compliment".

or

"my value doesn't go down when my weight goes up.
- they are just sizes."

I am not saying they are not wise words that everybody needs to hear, just... I expected a bit more from the book of poetry. More depth, more metaphors, more of beautiful writing that makes me feel a lot? And this book did not deliver that.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a review copy. Opinions stated are completely my own.

Firstly, I would like to thank Amanda Lovelace, Andrews McMeel Publishing, and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of this book.

“My value doesn’t go down when my weight goes up.”

“Withholding forgiveness can be a form of self-care.”

Amanda Lovelace is one of those authors who knows how to dig a spot deep in your soul, settle there, and nourish you. I believe this book should be made a required reading for all women; teens to grown ass women. I’m currently at year 24, and every single page of this beauty resonated with me. I was so sad when I finished it.

I cannot express how important this book is. The illustrations were such a gorgeous surprise! They brought the fairytale to life even more so than just having unadorned pages.

This is a masterpiece that will teach you that it’s okay to want the ballgown and the boy, and it’s okay to want to be left alone. You are the author of your own fairytale, and your own destiny. Nobody else. Practice self-care and always put yourself first. There is nothing wrong with that.

This is most definitely getting 5/5 stars. I’d give it 100/5 if I could. It will definitely be a book I pick up again and again when I forget the wisdom that was imparted in its pages.

Thank you to the publisher for giving me an ARC

I have loved all of Amanda Lovelace's poetry books. This one is no different. Most of her books have a running metaphor throughout the collection that ties everything together. This one focused on Cinderella. The metaphor is a lot more obvious in this collection than her other ones. This one contained such beautiful illustrations. I can't wait to see a finished copy. My ebook probably didn't do the artwork justice. I loved this and can't wait for the next installments in this series.

“you are limitless
you can have the lipstick
you can have the sword”
(pg. 27)

I find it very strange to give a rating to poetry. You either connect with it or it leaves you cold. It either speaks to your soul or it is hollow. Judging by the popularity of Lovelace I think she has tapped into the common female experience in a way that many women can relate to. It certainly resonated strongly with me. As a 40 year old woman I have learned some of these lessons the hard way and I wish that someone had put this book in my hands as a teen. It would be a kindness to get this to every girl in your life and discuss it with them. Fairy Godmothers don’t exist so it’s our duty as women to share our knowledge and words of wisdom with the young. We are the fairy godmothers. So tell the princesses in your life that they are valuable and perfect just how they are and that they don’t need anyone to be their prince. As the author says be your “own goddamn fairy tale.”

I have to note that this book is beautifully illustrated with line drawings and the most gorgeous starry blue sky and moon. It really is a lovely presentation. I’m impressed and I’m reading an e-arc so I can only imagine that the final version will be incredible, especially in print. It’s such a meaningful book which deserves to be as visually beautiful as its message.

Thank you to Andrews McMeel Publishing for providing an Electronic Advance Reader Copy via NetGalley for review.

After reading Break Your Glass Slippers by Amanda Lovelace I struggled to write the review. Simply because I cannot begin to put into words the beauty in this book and the power in its minimalist format. This was my first book by Ms. Lovelace and surely not my last. I have not read poetry in what seems like decades, but this collection quickly transformed me into a poetry fan.

Throughout the story, the fairy godmother succinctly and beautifully prescribes adages that I found myself revisiting before even finishing the novel. The themes within this poetry collection of: feminism, self-care, and self-preservation are so timely and necessary in today’s divided society. For this reason and many others, when my daughter is old enough I will add this book to her collection. Thank you to Netgalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review. I look forward to purchasing a hard copy for my collection on publication day.

it was cute and inspirational, but nothing stood out for me. and we've heard all these poems before. I really appreciate the intention behind this, it's a beautiful message that girls need to hear but I guess reading one of these kinds of poetry books is enough, because I really enjoyed the author's previous works. I guess after a while it loses its power. anyways, it was motivational and i respect that!

“when you spend
all your time
imagining yourself
in other people's shoes,

your own story
goes unwritten,

& there is nothing
more painful
than that.”

I love how Amanda Lovelace is putting a spin on the traditional fairytale of Cinderella and introducing new elements of feminism and banishing toxic masculinity and other social ideas prevalent in society. It's easy to read and yet impactful. The only reason for my 3.5-star rating would be that I've enjoyed Amanda's other works a bit more than this one. I'm literally comparing her work to her past work.

But anyway, I'm super excited to read the other books in this seeries!

I did like this book and the poetry was lovely, however Amanda Lovelace's books are all kind of the same. This one was nothing new and was basically a repeat of the others but with a different cover and name.

Growing up, I never thought that I would be this much into poetry. But thanks to the likes of Amanda Lovelace and Rupi Kaur I'm really starting to enjoy reading more in this genre.

I liked a couple of things about this book:
- The fact that this is a thrilling new way of retelling the Cinderella story
- The poems are an easy read and very accessible
- The poems lingered in my mind and made me think
- The whole story feels empowering
- A lot of things are relatable
- The artwork throughout the book is just lovely

I can't wait to read more and more from Amanda Lovelace.

Lovelace never fails to amaze me. This collection of poems was probably her best yet; the back-and-forth with the fairy godmother was what every girl should have heard growing up. In my mid twenties, a lot of it was still what I needed to hear. The body shame and the self-love issues were painfully relatable, but finishing this felt like a therapy session I didn't realize I needed.

Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to read an ARC of this book.
Break Your Glass Slippers marks the beginning of a new poetry collection series, this one in particular plays with the Cinderella fairytale and rewrites it.
Pretty neat idea, however, while reading this I felt like the themes and even the poems were more or less the same as her previous collections.
The artwork in this is absolutely stunning, no doubt it’s my favourite so far.
Much like her previous works, her poems are hit or miss for me, I end up really liking some of them but forgetting about others the second I read them.
My main issue is in general with modern poetry, I really struggle sometimes to call some poems “poems”. A lot of them are basically online phrases printed in a book.
I keep coming back to her books because they still makes me feel something, which I guess is the whole point of writing poetry, and in that, Amanda Lovelace overall succeeds pretty well.

Such a beautiful poetry book, really stuck to the theme of fairy tales and was lovely to read! I will definitely recommend this to customers in my store.