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TikTok lied to me.

As a body of work, I was disappointed in this book. It felt more like mini-short stories than poetry. Even the title itself is misleading, “Great Goddesses.�� However, I believe if I counted the pages by hand there would be more dedicated to the Gods than the Goddesses. There were chapters dedicated to Zeus, Ares, Apollo, and Hephaestus, but only a paragraph about Hecate?! What?? The title is a blatant lie.

There were also simple typos that should’ve been caught in the editing process.

However, there were still a few pieces that I liked.

My favorite lines:
“I suppose a tragic romance fraught with unhappiness makes for a better poem than a love that takes millennia to grow.��

“When I held her, I held her gently so that she always knew she could fly away and I would never harm her or clip her wings.��

“I watched fire devour everything I loved, and prayed to a God who never came. That, that is how a girl becomes a shadow.��