This book of poetry is absolutely incredible. It instantly transformed my 32 year old mind back to the mind of my teenage self, and the toxic high school relationships of my past. If you look at it through that younger, more naive lens this book is absolute gold. I laughed, I cried, and I had goosebumps at the very end. This is perfection and something that I think just about everyone will be able to pull something from. It is a quick just under an hour listen, I highly recommend making the time for it.

This is not an easy one for me to RATE, so I'll do my best with the review portion and encourage you to ignore the star rating as much as you can.

This is a collection of poems by Bella Robertson Mayo and I listened to the audio version where she's the one reading them all. I went in with the bias of really liking Bella as I've been following their family since the Duck Dynasty days, so I really wanted to love it Typically, I enjoy books read by the author, but maybe a different narrator would have been better suited for this audiobook.

Some of the poems were cute and some of them were pretty rough. For instance, she has one called My Paradox about how her boyfriend is her paradox but then all the examples she give are not, in fact, paradoxes. For a pre-teen poetry journal, this is pretty good, but that's about where it ends for me.

I wish Bella luck with this book. Thanks so much to Andrews McMeel Publishing for the free audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

Bella Mayo is also known as Bella Robertson, of the Duck Dynasty family. Interesting that wasn't mentioned on the book page. Nevertheless, I listened to her poetry. I appreciated that she read it, but a more seasoned narrator (who has a background in reading poetry) may have enhanced the audiobook. This was a very sweet book, certainly a first book of poetry. There is promise there for the future.