Black Book of Poems depicts different persona. It shows an angst about the environment where we are living. It naturally blows up someone's mind if they will indulge into this ... What I love about this book is the dignity of the author to embrace all the flaws, the love, the passion, the respect and the heartbreaks that the epitome of every words reminds me to be brave and be yourself ... Such an amazing poet and poetry book!

We need more poetry like this.
The emotion
The structure
The rhymes
It was all there. I felt connected to the poems like they were my own. I felt like I was feeling those things while writing them. I felt every emotion the poems was written to evoke. Very good job. I'll definitely be reading more from this author.

I enjoyed this collection of poems. Poems can almost be seen as dark but can be seen in the truth of authors or someone else's experience.

this collection was not for me at all. I am really really disappointed by this collection. too cliche and not in a good way

I got an eARC of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

For those of you who read my review (like literally no one) of the first book, “Black Book of Poems,” you would have seen that I almost hated the first book had it not been for the short stories thrown in. And then I read his second book published, “I Wasn’t Crying Over You,” a short story collection and I fell in love with Hunanyan’s writing. That wasn’t a poetry book so I am giving his poetry a second chance.

Black Book of Poems: Part II did for me what the first book did for everyone else. I am in awe of his work once again. I want to reread this for the first time again so if anyone wants to knock me out with a baseball bat you’re more than welcome. This book covers a lot of the same topics as the first book did but with a less “rhym-y” scheme, which is what made me dislike it a bit. I cannot wait for more of Hunanyan’s writing.

PTSD (to be read in one breath)
Free World Leaders calmly selling
Trigger-happy soldiers, raping
Beaten children, hungry, crying
Broken veterans keep trying
Ravished villages collapsing
Orphaned children, hungry, dying
Propaganda keeps corrupting
The brightest minds of my generation
Feeble-minded freedom fighters
Public pressure, public panic
Hunting season is upon me

Now your arguments don’t matter
My opinions reign true

This collection of poems was like none I have read before. You could feel the author's passion in every line he wrote. While I did not relate to every poem in this collection, I could understand the value behind each one.
The one issue I had when I picked this up (through no fault of the writer, I did not dock a star for this) was that it was advertised as having multiple authors, not just one.

Today I am #reading: Black Book of Poems II by Vincent Hunanyan (@vincenthunanyan). It was an interesting read. Intense and personal, yet relatable if you are going through it.

This book is was quite quirky to be a poetry book. I liked it but many of the poems went above me! Maybe, I am too naive to understand the poetry in this book. However, the quirkiness of the book felt really good to me.
Some of the poems were really magical. I would recommend the book to those who are advanced in reading poetry and not beginners.

I struggled to connect to these but that doesn’t take away from these poems. I just didn’t truly feel like it was something I could see myself reading again. It was nice and I loved the way some of the poems were writing the structure and feel of them. But ultimately it just wasn’t something I could get behind.


Thank you to Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this.

CONFINED

I am confined to my own mind
And can't escape these prison walls
For what I am is what I see
And what I see I'll always be

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an advance reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

This was a short read, made up of a collection of poems - this is a genre I haven’t really explored before, but after thoroughly enjoying this book I definitely will seek out more poetry collections in the future.

Whilst I didn’t connect with all of the poems in this book, I enjoyed reading them all, and I felt connected to the author as some of the poems have a lot of emotion behind the words.

I would love to listen to an audiobook of this, and I hope to read the first black book of poems soon!