Gorgeous cover but the inside is just mediocre.
Some of the poems come close to hitting the mark, but none of them really reached me.
It's a lot of angst, drama and heartbreak. I expected the author to focus some more on feminist topics, but mostly it's about breakups, heart break and love. I actually really enjoyed the first poem.

It's not bad, but not really great either.

Thanks Netgalley for providing me with an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book couldn't have a better opening poem. It automatically made sense and made me very excited to read more and more. What I enjoyed the most while reading this book was the feminism expressed in these poems. The writing is beautiful, I just wished the book was a bit longer. Lost girls do go everywhere. Rating: 4/5 stars.

Once upon a time, poetry was more of a forgotten genre to the average reader. Sure there will always be a couple of those classical buffs who insist there is nothing more comforting than curling up with some Byron, Shelly, and Keats. All the while, others devoured thrillers, horror, and other forms of fiction while the likes of T.S Elliot, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost were relegated to our long-forgotten literature classes.

Occasionally, the words of Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes would be referenced to describe the need for social activism but for the most part, poetry was left to the wayside.

Out of nowhere, there was a re-emergence of poetry. Authors such as r.h sin, Rumi Kumar, and Najwa Zebian became best selling authors with their tomes filled with rebel poems. This was no Dickinson and no iambic pentameter rules. Instead, these stanzas would run through pages in different shapes and tones describing love lost, missing identities, and various epiphanies.

Following in this vein comes Lost Girls Go Everywhere, a poetry and prose collection by one Azzurra Nox. This book explores ideas of femininity, equality, and sexuality all the while detailing the jet-setting love life of the author throughout the years. Rules are forgotten in the writing of these poems but that seems to be intentional given the subject matter.

The first half of this book contains that quizzical poetry while the second half reads more like the inner dialog of a girl learning of love, By the end of this book, it is evident that she has become a woman, but one still struggling to understand love and the world.

I recommend Lost Girls Go Everywhere to readers who agree that poetry is more than counted syllables and other literature edicts.

This ARC was provided to me by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This one was a pleasant surprise! I've been a little bit worried reading all those not-so-great reviews but man, I really enjoyed this collection! I am very picky about poetry and I usually enjoy those I can mostly relate to or I just enjoy author's style of verse.

Lost Girls are collection of short poems and stories in prose, divided by them into two parts. Main focus of this collection is on youth, young love and love itself. Author describes ways men are treating women - which I quite like but I'd be happy if author focused more on how women treat men as well because it goes both ways.

I can see why people rate this that low because yes, some of the poems are quite profound and generic but I honestly didn't care. I was looking for some fast read that I could enjoy in one sitting. And I got that. I was quite surprised how much I enjoyed second part of the collections as well - stories written in prose. They mostly focuse on girls or women after partin ways with their "one and only". There was a story or two that I didn't enjoy at all, but I am not mad about it. Just not my style.

In the end, I'd recommend this book to anyone who doesn't care if poems are not that deep or meaningful. If you like short, fast paced poems about first love, this one is for you.

This book is more than a read.
Azzura details and draws the reader into feeling. Into reflecting on her life, on his life.

While exploring themes of love, love lost, self, sense of self, hope and pure resignation which she sprinkles in sarcasm most times she takes the reader into a self inflicted state of "What has my life been about?"
But she ends it well — "I haven't seen it since."

I loved the first half of the book, but the second half just fell flat for me. It was harder to get through at the end.,

<i>The ARC of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.</i>

This was problematic and oh so painful to read. I got just under 50% of the way through and I just couldn't keep wasting my time. This read like high school poetry that was full of angst and no substance. The cover is absolutely gorgeous; I'd recommend to look at it and move along.

This book is a poetry and prose collection regarding some of the most pivotal moments in the authors life.

Unfortunately, don't have nice things to say about it. Even though the book shows us deep thoughts of the author, it is not at all original.

We encounter same GirlPower quotes that were cool when they were originally published that are now losing their charm; the same metaphors about love and soulmates that I've seen in countless poetry collections.

I would say even some of the poems would be better in prose. Its structure would give them more chance to develop.

Lastly, the whole book came of as very unpolished and unfinished, which can make make the art timeless, but not in this case.

There are some good quotes and poems, but I wouldn't recommend it.

ARC was provided by NetGalley and Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op in exchange for an honest review.

This review is being published before the release date (October 6th, 2020)

Content/Trigger Warnings: Mentions and allusions to rape and assault, mentions of death and loss of a loved one, grief, depression, mentions of suicidal thoughts, mentions of physical violence, toxic relationships, mentions of blood, body shaming, mentions of slut shaming, alcoholism



I always find rating poetry really difficult. I don’t say it often enough, but I’m a firm believer poetry and works of literature come into our life when we need them the most. So maybe I went into this collection with high expectations or maybe I was wanted something more from within these pages. Either way; I wanted to love this book, I wanted to enjoy this book, but I’m sad to say that wasn’t the case with this book. I’ll be honest, I’m disappointed and maybe, this book wasn’t meant for me.

This book is broken into two parts, part one is poetry and part two is prose. There were a few pieces of part one that I enjoyed or felt a small pull to, but for the most part I felt nothing. I felt detachment and I found myself wanting more emotional pull, more connection. A lot of this portion paints all men in a terrible light, how they’re entitled, take what they want, or how they’re always causing more harm than good. There was nothing positive to be said, not even once. Honestly, it felt like I was reading passages by someone who hates all men and that’s not my cup of tea. I’ll also make the statement that this can happen the other way around and it does happen. There’s also a lot of references as to wanting to harm them back, to the point of potentially killing them. There’s actually a passage in one of the poems that references twisting a knife repeatedly into a man’s chest because he enjoys it and the blood. Needless to say, I was completely turned off. Not to make this about me, but I like to think I’m a very open person about you should always defend yourself and only do harm if it’s necessary to your survival. I have said this a few times in past reviews, if it’s not in self-defense or in a situation of life and death, physical violence should always be a last resort otherwise it’s not necessary. This entire poem alone, turned me off from the rest of the book.

“I got so much misfortune that I’m bathing in my bad omens.”

The second portion of this book was probably my least favorite. The entire second half felt like I was sitting down with someone I had just met and they thought the best way for us to get to know one another was to break out a rollodex of all the bad, toxic, or loveless relationships they had been in. I felt completely detached from this entire portion of the book. I think I read about five of these short stories before I started skimming. As I mentioned, I wanted more pulling, something that would jab at my emotions, but I didn’t feel anything, no spark. This portion of the book really dragged on for me especially since these short stories were two to three pages long. There needed to be something to capture the reader’s attention.

Overall, I wish I had a more positive experience with this book. I felt really underwhelmed and felt this book was a big rant of some sort. And there were so many other issues with this book. I definitely felt like this book needed to be balanced with some poems or short stories of hope, signs of life improving, or something to lighten things up. As an avid poetry reader, I wanted so much more from this book and unfortunately it fell flat for me.

The quotes above were taken from an ARC and are subject to change upon publication.

Lost Girls Go Everywhere is a short book of poetry and prose by Azzura Fox

These poems and pieces reawakened the heartbroken romantic within and gave me a really personal nostalgia. The writing was very conversational, very teenage diary-esque; like a feminine confession of crushes, dreams and heartbreak.

This book is this eyeliner smudge, Sid & Nancy punch that uses poetry to its main purpose of showing all the writers scars and telling you they all came from love.

There’s a great relatability when it comes to relationships but also depression - so I will say now that there is a trigger warning for suicide.

The writing was good but no particular line stood out to me to quote and that’s because it was more of the premise of the piece that I enjoyed or understood.

These pages took me back to being 15 and I aged a year again with each new piece, growing until the talk of sex and relationships became more adult. If I had found this at 15 it would of been my bible; it was the life I lived and the life I wanted to live. It’s very much that miserable enjoyment of being in the dark.

It’s not my favourite book of poetry but I enjoyed the feeling of my younger self being understood and thinking of loves I haven’t thought of for a while.

Thank you to @netgalley for the arc!

Split into two parts, poetry and short stories, I definitely enjoyed the latter more.

Lost Girls Go Everywhere felt like a chance to read about experiences I never had: of parties, first kisses and evenings of feeling free and wild.

This book feels more simply like a personal diary, you may either relate to the words or have them conjure up longing and wanting.

I don’t think it’s a book that will allow you to find yourself reaching for it over and over again, but to save some poems for melancholy memories and daydreaming fits its purpose.

"Lost Girls Go Everywhere" deals with the themes of romance and especially separation, love lost; this collection of prose and poetry is not particularly poignant or unconventional - which felt absolutely underwhelming - yet is definitely heartfelt and personal.

The prose in this book is so beautiful.
I really connected to Nox's words. Her writing is so visual, that i defy anyone to not feel connected.

Unfortunately, I really did not enjoy this title. The first half of the book is a selection of poems and the second half is a selection of short stories. However, I kind of felt like the whole book was comprised of short stories and the poetry section was just formatted differently. Adding odd line breaks into a paragraph does not automatically qualify that writing as poetry. I ending up skimming some parts of this title and probably would have not finished it, if it had not been such a short book.

Name: Lost Girls Go Everywhere
Author: Azzurra Nox
Genre: Poetry, Feminism, Women Empowerment
Rating:
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This collection of poetries gives a glimpse in the concious thinking of every women. Original, Brutally honest, this book presents you the lives of women from a new perspective.
I really liked the concept, but with moving on to the pages, this felt more like a rant. Not all men are bad, the poet has not made any distinction between the good and the bad ones.

It's so painfully basic that I don't want to think about this anymore. I burned through the whole book in less than half and hour and all I could think the entire time was that this is like a shitty retelling of someone's life with dabbles and dribbles of useless advice thrown in for shits and giggles. The observations that the poet makes is nothing that most people cannot make on their own, so I cannot bring myself to fathom why they required a poem dedicated to them.

Usually when I'm reading a poem I keep waiting for it to hit me where it hurts, and with that title and Synopsis, my hopes were definitely higher than it would've otherwise been. But my dear god, that first poem bored me and I just kept hoping that it would get better only for it to never?

Usually when someone's publishing a poetry collection, it is expected that the pieces they put in it are reviewed and critiqued by peers, because although something you write might be close to you, it needn't necessarily be a poem that most of the readers would enjoy. And one or two or four poems in a collection of 50 can always be overlooked, but when the entire collection is so bland, I truly don't know what else to say.

Most of the pieces are completely flavourless and just feels like a 17 year old teenager has written in a fit of angst, the experiences don't come through, and neither do the things that make poetry stand out. When I'm reading a poem, I don't particularly expect it to be full of imagery and metaphors and personifications, but at the least one in a piece doesn't sound bad, does it?

Someone forgot to tell this to the poet.

In conclusion, I'm incredibly and thoroughly disappointed.

I always find poetry books difficult to rate. Part one had me. I highlighted so many passages and loved so many poems. Part two lost me the prose and writing style just didn't click for me.

Poetry is so personal in terms of taste and I definitely recommend giving this ago it is unique and captivating.

I felt underwhelmed while reading this book. I typically don't like flowery prose, but I wished this book had that element. The writing is just too simple and mediocre for me, it didn't tug any emotional string which I believe is what poetry and prose collectively always try to achieve.

This was a pretty solid poetry collection. It contains many topics that are relevant and relatable. There is also a prose section, which was interesting to read, however, I would have preferred it all to be poetry. The main themes were youth and young love, which seem to be the norm for poetry nowadays.

I ended up loving this poetry collection ever since the moment I saw the cover and the moment I read the first line.

The collection presents several societal relevant issues specially when it comes to us women, more so when we are at our vulnerable age of growing up.

It talks pretty much about the way men treat women and women having to stay alert all the time. Well, I want to argue not all men are the same and ready to pounce on women all the time. It could happen the other way around.

I wish the lines represent better comparisons between the one who's being described and the ones compared with. Girls and women need not have to compare themselves with celebs and models and well known bands and musicians when our lives were seemingly happy and better.

I didn't like the encouragement to smoke. We don't need the rush.

The collection mostly talks about youth and young love.

It started out great and strong. But it didn't go well for me towards the end. Too much of unrealistic comparisons and shallow references.

It ended up as something like a rant.

But anyway, life gets better with you expressing your thoughts and feelings.

I like the poetry parts more than the short stories that filled up the second half. It seems a bit juvenile and immature what these stories are trying to convey. The prose significantly didn't leave much impact. All it sounds like is something like rants and complaints. I can understand if it's meant to be let out like that. But I need some better form of expression and writing style.

Thank you NetGalley for the copy.