Review- Bleed Like Me by Azzurra Nox

 Bleed Like Me Review

BOOK SUMMARY:

This is how you draw a broken heart:
Dip your fingers in blood and don't
Hesitate to botch the final project.

This is a book about love and the wounds that it can bring. It explores the exhilaration of first love, the damage of unrequited love, and the distress of abandonment. The poems are little memories that come alive, a journey between reality and fantasy, often mingling as one. Fragments of life depicted in words. This is a collection of poems both cruel and sweet. The poems depict the difference between how we perceive ourselves and how others perceive us. But most of all, this is a kaleidoscope of emotions that are multiplied and amplified as the reader looks into the window of a young woman's heart.

Release date: February 12th 2019

Published by: Twisted Wings Productions

Page numbers: 303

REVIEW: 

I have previously read and thoroughly devoured Azzurra Nox's Doll Parts- which you haven't read, let me just quickly point out- is an absolutely incredible collection of three enticingly gorgeous and dark stories. I have also read the author's collection of horror stories written by female authors, titled My American Nightmare which has stories that are so eerie and dangerously dazzling that they will- as the title aptly suggests- give the reader nightmares. 

I don't normally read poems, but after reading these two gems, I knew I had to read Azzurra's poetry collection, which is a lovely blend of darkness and some amount of hope. Bleed Like Me is a collection of dark and deep poems, which if at all I read poetry, is exactly the way I want poems to be. So on a very selfish level, I savoured the collection. But I totally see how someone who looks for hope and brightness in poetry might find it to be rather average. What is not to be missed, however, is Azzurra's superb writing. 

Poetry is, of course, something you need to read and understand in order to decide whether you like it or not. Which is why, I am sharing a few lines from the collection that truly spoke to me: 

This is how you draw a broken heart; 

Drip you fingers in blood and don't 

Hesitate to botch the final project 

(from Paper Monsters) 

Puncture another vein, 

Watch the red blood stains. 

Varnish my nails with a scarlet hue, 

With every stroke, I feel new. 

Rip my eyes from their sockets, 

A queer fetish have in your pocket. 

(from Betrayed) 

Death is my trusty companion, 

For it knows of my desperation. 

Of my yearning to reach the end,

Before I even start. 

(from Unmotivated Soul) 

I would want to seduce you 

So that I could use you up. 

I would want to reduce you 

To tiny shreds of insignificance. 

I would want to deduce you 

From all my insanity. 

(from Butterfly) 

These are lines that I have shortlisted from a bunch of highlighted notes. Some of my favourite poems from the collection are: Ice Princess, Mademoiselle Elise, Princess Shadow, Marie Antoinette, For Eva Marie, Zura's Hysterical Realm Kills the Innocent and 60 Seconds. 

Bleed Like Me has poems about betrayal, heart break, lust everything in between. If you are looking for dark poetry that is easy to follow, then I highly recommend this book! 

*Note: A copy of this book was provided by Azzurra Nox in exchange for an honest review. We thank them.

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