There was something so unique about this collection and I love that the author included her illustrations and art work. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation. I recently finished Dreams of Gods and Monsters, the final book in the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy. I opened the book to “start” reading, and ended up reading the entire thing without putting it down. I want to give young, new poets a chance and I am always looking for new talent, but every time I try them out, I end up disappointed.

But this new wave of poets and their poetry seem to read more like diary entries or Instagram posts than poems. It plays a strong parallel to the sides of stories from everyday women today society would have us overlook, too, and it’s powerful. I feel like I come out of most poetry/prose collections with generally the same thoughts and feelings. You will find grace between these pages and a little sadness, too--the kind that makes flowers grow in all of the places you need them most. Literature degree, but I’ve come to realise that I don’t hate poetry, it’s just a matter of finding the words that sing to you.The poems here combine to make a feminist manifesto that inspires strength, courage, pride, and a negation of all society deems a woman's body to be and all the multitudes it actually contains. Aphrodite Made Me Do It is a feminist poetry collection about love, loss, insecurity, pain, and empowerment.

Aphrodite Made Me Do It is a poetry collection for every fem, feminist, or fan of the goddess of love. The feeling and expression of strong emotions acts as the healthy catharsis that can allow poet/goddess/woman to open her heart to the peace, self-love and joy that she deserves. Aphrodite Made Me Do It is a collection of prose-poetry, framed as a conversation between the author and Aphrodite, goddess of love, sex and beauty.The author uses this dialogue to explore ideas of womanhood, and womanhood in relation to the ideas that the goddess represents: pleasure and pain, love and sex, beauty and the gentle, suffering female. There were so many pages I marked and highlighted on Scribd, but I don't think I'll purchase a physical copy for myself or ever revisit it.