Haidji

I received this book in exchange for an honest review, and while I'd love to be able to offer a positive one, I simply can't.

As someone who adores poetry based on real life persons and stories, I truly looked forward to getting this book, but it feels like the author threw it down on paper in one afternoon and then hit 'publish'. It is, much as I hate to say it, the type of book (in terms of professionalism and publication-readiness) that gives self-publishing a bad name. There are typos that appear as early as the first page of the introduction, and formatting is a distraction throughout the book. The writing itself, if you ignore the typos and questionable formatting, is wildly abstract and repetitive, and although there are plenty of lovely sounding phrases, there are far too many cliches, and I generally got the impression that the writer loved to hear/see her own words and work toward flowery prose, but was paying more attention to sound than meaning... and not interested in revising or offering any depth.

Simply put, this isn't a book I'd recommend, and although I'm the target audience for this book, I was utterly disappointed. I won't be trying out anything else by this author, and I hope she'll hire a professional editor before publishing her next work.… (meer)