I really enjoyed this selection of poetry and have even since read it 3 more times. I really liked how calming the selection was to me even though it's been a little while since I have read it.

Firstly, I'd like to thank Netgalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for an eARC for an honest opinion.

I haven't read any of S.K. Williams poetry before so thought I would give this book a read. I think the cover is really beautiful but that is probably the only positive I can say about this book. Apparently each poem was from the perspective of either the male or female of the relationship but this wasn't stated in the book anywhere and wasn't clear at all, only when I read other reviews that said it was the case. It's a collection of love poetry that seems to go through all the stages of the relationship. It really dragged and took me over a month to finish even though it was under 200 pages.

I found all the poetry very cheesy and simple and not really poetry at all. Just really cheesy pieces of writing. I didn't connect to the writing and just felt it was rather simple and generic. I've read collections of good love poetry before and this was not it. I really just wanted more from this collection and didn't get it. I can see this has very mixed reviews so some people obviously enjoyed but this wasn't for me.

I am a sucker for poems. Generally by any author that I can find. This collection of poems here is absolutely perfect! There were several that I had to stop and sign for a moment afterward, or stop and think about what I just read. I’m completely wrecked when poems to connect with me in that certain way that some of these ones here did.

This is a very sweet book. The poems aren't quite to my taste but I thought it was a really lovely read.

This book hit right down the middle for me. Some parts spoke to me, but others missed. Overall, it was a meh read for me. I wouldn't recommend it to others.

I liked the smoothness of the poems and it was unisex. The voices i heard while reading this were male and female

A selection of long and short poems. Some really good poems on love or thinking about a loved one. Some really nice and simple watercolour art on a lot of the pages.

4.5/5
Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an eARC of this collection!

This poetry collection was beautiful. If you want a love story but with the perspectives of both/all parties, this is for you. I did not know what to expect when I saw this but poems about love. What I got was a collection about what it is like to fall in love and the fears that come along with that. I think my favorite part of this collection, is that it is like a conversation between this couple about how they fell in love with each other. This was so stinking adorable, cute, and gives you all of the warm fuzzy feelings. Everything about this collection was amazing. Their voices, the art, the stories they share about their love for each other. Everything. This is one of those things that make you love, love. I hope we get more from this couple in the future!

Love by Night is an artistic poetry collection, compiled by the famed Instagram poetry account. Divided into 5 sections and each a phase of the moon starting from new moon to full moon, this cozy and tender poetry collection explores a heartwarming romance that you can read snuggled up in your bed, with some music that evokes a deep yearning for love, in the twilight.
This book of poetry was so sweet. I honestly usually don't love romantic poetry. I tend to prefer poetry about more hard-hitting topics but this collection was very unique, featuring the voices of both people in the relationship instead of just the one person who's pining or heartbroken. That in itself made this collection really enjoyable for me.
What I loved about this collection of poems is the parallels of two people in a committed relationship. From the early, nervous interactions, to the growing old and grey of forever, this collection has both sides speaking their minds and exploring their hearts.

A book of love poems shown from both perspectives in a relationship. Beautifully illustration goes along with the poems and add to the overall experience. It's a quick book of poetry but we'll worth a read if you want to remember what it's like to first be in love.

This was an okay book full of love poems. I liked a few of them, I related to some of them. But overall, I didn't like it as much as I thought I would.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me a copy of the book.

Thank you NetGalley and Andrews McMeel for giving me an ARC of this book.

When I was browsing poetry books coming out in 2021, this one caught my eye suddenly. Night, being the most used element in poetry, is used by a lot of poets to discover what is hidden from the human sight. Unlike most sorrowful night poems, this collection has a more cheerful undertone talking about connection between two people as well as with others.

Love By Night is more about the developing love interests between two people and the fact that it was written in poetic style makes it quite beautiful. It is almost a short novella written in poetic style , which came across so genuine and nor forced. What I found to be great was how each poem felt so simple using stream of consciousness. As a reader, the poems lure you into two people’s conversations about their vulnerable moments, hence why I believed the fact that these poems were written at night. There is something magical and sorrowful at nights: the sounds of silence presents you naked to the world.

What makes love so genuine is the themes surrounding it such as worries, future, and being able to be vulnerable to open up to each other. I really loved the fact that, love was mentioned in a more mature way in this collection. The entire collection opens up a window into the life of two lovers for us to watch them silently.

I really loved the concept/format of this book of poetry.

It's also beautifully packaged/ illustrated.

Although I did feel a bit of a disconnection with some of the poems and that they did not flow together as good as they should have.

I found the poems overall were nicely written, touching and a bit sad sometimes. Overall I did enjoy it.

I was hoping for more from this book unfortunately. I was hoping that it would explore more of the hardships of being in love, but it really only focused on how good it feels and how you are wanting to always be with that person. There were some great passages, but I felt like it started to get redundant. It was a good read and I know others will appreciate it more then I could.

Memorable quotes
"Please, be slow to remind me of my mistakes. Be gentle in telling me when I am wrong. Be kind when you feel like I don't deserve it. Please remember I am not always right and I can't always be strong"

"Your hand is the safest place I've ever known"

"When you go, come find me up on the stars. I'll be waiting for you up there"

This book was a sweet, sometimes saccharine, collection of poetry told from the perspectives of two people as they fall (and remain) in love. These are people who have experienced dark times, and the themes here are often about how we love others when they can't currently love themselves. It's imperfect and messy and honest.

There was good representation of depression and anxiety in these pages.

The illustrations were beautiful, and there were several poems in this collection that stood out as exceptional. I know that poetry elicits deeply individual responses, but I personally found a lot of the material here to feel like unrefined filler. It's difficult to fill 200 pages with love poems, but I feel this would have benefited from losing approximately 50 pages in editing.

This is simultaneously a good read and a confusing one. It honestly reads like it should have been formatted as an epistolary novella, with alternating correspondence between the two love interests. I'm not sure why this was done as poetry, but it just doesn't work for me at all that way.

However, if you consider only the story told between the two people, and consider the alternating 'poems' as their points of view, it works much better. The story itself it cute, as we follow each partner through their feelings in the romance.

This book of poetry was so sweet. I honestly usually don't love romantic poetry. I tend to prefer poetry about more hard-hitting topics but this collection was very unique, featuring the voices of both people in the relationship instead of just the one person who's pining or heartbroken. That in itself made this collection really enjoyable for me.

Next, I saw someone compare this style of poetry to Instagram poetry and I have to completely disagree. While some of the poems are shorter, there are other longer ones which take up a page or two. This isn't something you'd see in Instagram poetry!

Lastly, the illustrations were amazing. The collection is broken up into sections corresponding with the phases of the moon and the drawings in between and throughout were so beautiful. These types of books feel like hydration for my soul! Well done.

Thank you to the publisher & NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Love by Night is a poetry collection about love. Meeting someone you like, starting a relationship, passion, knowing you met your soulmate.

I liked reading this collection, but I have to say I was also a bit bored by it. The collection feels repetitive. The poems are dreamy and they illustrate a perfect relationship. Unfortunately, it just didn't really work for me.

This collection of poems tells a story. The subject is the evolution of a relationship with all of the inherent vulnerability, revelation, hope, fear, acceptance and more that come to light. The poems are from the perspectives of two people and reflect their growing connection to each other. This title will perhaps make readers think back to when a relationship began or wish for the start of one. It is a tale well told.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this title. All opinions are my own.

1.5 stars. does this type of poetry have a name? a subgenre?? if so, can all poetry like this be labeled with that name so that i know to avoid it??? i'm talking about this minimalist, overly generic, rupi kaur type poetry with some simple line/abstract art to distract from the absolute lack of substance in the actual poems. there was no depth in this. none. NONE. absolute nothing at all. kiddie pools have more depth than this. smut on tumblr has more depth than this. the mug that i drank my coffee out of this morning has more depth than this. it's just...... it's so easy to read, to the point where it's fucking frustrating to read. it requires absolutely zero brain cells to decipher. not a single one. now don't get me wrong, it's not that these were 'bad' per se, these were sweet love poems that i could see as fragments from love letters. they read like anniversary instagram posts. it's cute. it's romantic. but it's completely shallow. surface level. all you have to do is look at it for more than 3 seconds to see the bottom. is this the depth of love?? is this what love creates?? i wouldn't know. but if love spurs you to make poetry like this then maybe i don't want it after all. the 'art' or designs in this are pretty, i won't lie. i enjoyed how it was cut up into sections based on phases of the moon. the stars and night imagery was pretty and romantic. but that's all it was. pretty. had no depth. there were some poems that i did like, that had a bit more depth and actually immersed me in the romance of it all, but those poems were fewww and far between. this was nearly 200 pages, mind you. 200 PAGES. A POETRY COLLECTION. 200 PAGES of "I've never been more afraid/ of anything/ than I am/ now/ of ever losing you". am i being too harsh? pessimistic?? I've never read poetry about just romance and maybe this is what it entails. but either way, i did not like this. no. not at all. if you like rupi kaur, or amanda lovelace, or other poets like that, then i'm sure you'll absolutely love this. but, as you can probably tell, i'm not one of those people.