summer read no. 7: Poemsia by Lang Leav

started: idk when 2020

finished: May 20, 2020

hello and welcome!

I don’t really have much to say so let’s not beat around the bush and just get on with this.

I gave Lang Leav the benefit of the doubt on this one for I really wanted to like Poemsia because, as I’ve seen, compared to Sad Girls, it had much better reviews on Goodreads but, to my disappointment, it wasn’t that far off from it.

in fact, Poemsia was very reminiscent of Sad Girls because of the characters and the pacing.

the characters in this book were very bland and didn’t show that much personalities to me. like in Sad Girls, I only liked probably 2 or 3 of them and the main character isn’t even one. they were far too unrealistic and none of them really struck me except for the grandad, the bestfriend, and the cat.

the pacing, although wasn’t as crazy as Sad Girls, was still terrible in my opinion. events were occurring really fast and it was just too forced, you wouldn’t really see that much of a development (because it was too forced ‘-_- ). and, to add up to that, the writing of the events was in large paragraphs so the pacing is basically a combination of fast AND slow, if that makes sense.

Poemsia by Lan Leav

we follow our main character, Verity.

Verity lost her parents at a very young age so she stays with her grandad who owns a bookstore and is basically where they live. she dreams of becoming a poet but, even with that aspiration, she never really told anyone about it except her bestfriend, Jess.

one day, she was sorting out books and found one about poetry entitled Poemsia. long story short, after her bestfriend urged her to post her poems on Instagram, she included that one poem she read from the aforementioned book.

a famous celebrity then found it since Verity’s following was growing. the celebrity reposted it and got it misattributed as Verity’s (even though she stated in her post that it wasn’t hers) and that’s where her fame began.

aside from Sad Girls, the book really reminded me of twitter a lot. it wasn’t because it did feature Twitter and other social media platforms, but (probably) because of the cheesy (literally) relationship Verity had with the love interest and Verity herself. idk how to explain it. it just *weirdly* reminded me of Twitter. I don’t really like Twitter :/

the romance in this book wasn’t that great either. from that point where the guy was debating on standing up for Verity and on, I just knew that I didn’t like them.

also, despite it being a book about poetry, there weren’t really poems. so if you expect to see a snippet of Lang Leav’s poetry through Verity, like I did, you ain’t getting any from here.

overall, as far as the plot of this book stretched out, it was funny at times but it just really turned out shady to me for many different reasons going further (which I will not say because we don’t do major spoilers around here).

even if this one’s a 2 out of 5 stars, I’d still recommend it ESPECIALLY if you ask me which novel to read from Lang Leav ; )

aight, until next time! hopefully it’ll be a good read by then, I just wanna be happy and proud about a book. is that too much to ask for? :’<

May 27, 2020