I thought that this was a really emotionally riveting collection of poetry. I enjoyed the fact that there were three parts, each of which seemed to encapsulate a different level and kind of emotion. There were poems and parts that resonated with me more than others, but I think that is just a normal experience when it comes to poetry. Overall I enjoyed!

This is one poetry book i can actually get behind, so many feelings and personal encounters it was unreal; literally eye opening on some and alot of thoughts to my own life. I need this book in phycial form just so i can carry it with me at all times.

I enjoyed the shit out of this book, i love a book that blows my mind.

Usually poetry i have a hard time getting behind there are ones that can get my attention and ones that just have me like "WTF did i just read". This one however was the attention seeker and i love it.

Please read this, if it is not for you i am sure it will be for someone else in your life.

This is the perfect collection of poems for anyone who is struggling after a break-up or a bout of loneliness. I think that is when this collection will most resonate.

''You see, words hold the power of life and death, and it scares me to know that something so powerful can sit right between us.''

''To Be Loved To The Bone'' is so good that I even had trouble deciding which quote to highlight. I loved every single word, every single line. This was beautifully written. Reading it made me feel like the author was speaking to me, like she understood me. I really needed to read this book in this moment of my life.

I can't wait to read this again.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me an e-arc in exchange of an honest review.

An interesting read that I don't regret, but I simply didn't connect with it. Still, something that'd make for a good read during some introspective time at a coffee shop.

The collection didn't feel very authentic and original. Some felt superficial but the longer ones were somewhat better, not just pretty sentences strung together.

Beverly Maier shows glimpses of her true heart and soul in “To Be Loved To The Bone”. A collection about all kinds of love… we have with ourselves, others, and even when it’s lost — “To Be Loved To The Bone” has something for everyone who has loved and lost.

There’s some incredible symbolism and vividness between works and waves/the sea/water. I thought this was really strong and helped carry the collection a step further.

Also a gentle reminder of how much we’ll hurt in the life but continue to rise and learn as we go. All in all, this is a solid collection and I enjoyed reading it. I can’t wait to get a physical copy to annotate and keep for myself.

I didn't feel moved or excited about a single one of these poems. While the author did a good job expressing her hope and excitement and pain and loss, it just felt so similar to every other collection of this type out there.

Some of these poems hit me quite hard and I found quite poignant, but overall this just wasn’t the style of poetry for me.

This is a really beautiful, poignant poetry collection. It explores healing from pain, loving after trauma, and forgiving yourself for what others did. The poems were really easy to read and flowed beautifully, and so many hit me in the soft-squishy spaces. If you want a poetry collection that’s full of love and explores various facets of love, I highly recommend picking this up~

Amazing book, loved reading this. Some of the poems resignatedwith me on a personal level. I'd give this book 4 stars 🌟

I don't know if I enjoyed this one. Some of the poems were good but I didn't get that vibe from most of them. Maybe I'm not a poem person. That can be the reason too...

"To Be Loved To The Bone" by Beverly Maier is a poetic journey through various aspects of love, including romantic love, as well as self-love, and loosing love.

Undoubtedly there is a lot of strength in the simplicity of Maier's writing, which makes this collection accessible also to those, who want to dabble in reading poetry. I found it refreshing that not all the writing was made to look like poems, as occasional one-liners or longer musings of the author are quite poetic and allow the readers to look closer at Beverly Maier's perspective at the same time.

I believe some of the poems will stay with me for longer as they really spoke to me.

Rating: 5 🌟
First and foremost, I'd like to express my gratitude to Netgalley for providing me with an e-ARC of this poetry.
I know as immediately as I start reading this book that it will be a 5-star read. Every word in this book was flawlessly woven into sentences and phrases. It just hit me square in the face. I'll undoubtedly get a physical copy to annotate.🤍

Is the world kind to any of us? That’s the crux at the center of this poetry collection, that’s a meditation on what it means to keep going when it hasn’t been. A perfect read for that moment you’re crushed and your world is changing. “I’m hurting, too!” It says, “Let’s hold hands while we turn these pages together”. There are enough hopeful moments spent reflecting on why it’s worth putting ourselves back together at all - and what will make us want to - here, to give us the strength to love ourselves in the midst of a heart mess.

Thanks to Netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for a honest review. I love poetry but I am not the audience for this type of poetry collection. I felt like the poems lacked a theme or a story or a narration. They read like twitter posts or diary entries. The poems are well written but to me they lacked depth and nuance.

This poetry collection was raw — not only a collection of poems but a story. I read this book among weeks, piece by piece. It hit me especially when I struggled, and I was a huge fan of how the longer poems were split by shorter ones. I enjoyed the illustrations. At times, it did feel robotic, yet so very human at the same time, which I relate to so much. Overall, I enjoyed reading this book so much, and look forward to purchasing it when it releases to have a physical copy.

“Some days my heart can hold an entire hurricane, but today it can hardly hold the storm.”

This collection was okay. It had some stronger poems and lines but overall I wasn’t impressed. It didn’t really keep my attention as a lot of the poems felt repetitive. I really loved the cover.

In diesem Gedichtband wechseln sich Seiten, auf denen mittellange bis lange Gedichte zu finden sind, mit Seiten, die kurze Gedichte und eine kleine Zeichnung beinhalten ab. Dadurch lässt sich das Buch sehr schnell lesen und die Seiten fliegen nur so vorbei. Die Gedichte handeln von Liebe; sowohl von heilsamer, glücklicher Liebe, als auch schmerzhafter Liebe und Trennung, sowie von Selbstliebe und Selbstreflektion.

Mir haben die Gedichte gut gefallen, sie waren teilweise metaphorisch und teilweise greifbar und praktisch. Zugleich waren sie aufgrund ihrer Länge nicht zu ausschweifend. Ich konnte viele der beschriebenen Gefühle gut nachempfinden und habe mir einige besonders schöne Gedichte markiert, um sie später noch einmal lesen zu können.

Fazit:
Mir hat dieser Gedichtband sehr gefallen. Sehr empfehlenswerte 4,5 Sterne.

Poetry is a favorite of mine. I loved how this was divided into different sections; anchors, beacons, oceans. I really felt like I could resonate with some of the themes in the poems. Most of them were really moving.