Review of Renaissance of Butterflies
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Review of Renaissance of Butterflies
It is not often that you come across a book that seems to double as both a motivational book and an anthology of poetry. In Renaissance of Butterflies, Angel Ramos uses words to show us the importance of self-love, self-respect, and self-understanding.
This book is all about an emphasis on self. Do you truly understand yourself? Do you know what makes you happy? The author highlights that the key to happiness is not allowing our past to determine our future and robbing us of our present blessings. In this book, the author dwells on such themes as self, understanding, patience, love, and friendship.
I cannot highlight a single positive point that this book possesses. Being a great fan of poetry, I picked up this book with an earnest expectation to be satisfied, but I was in for a shocker. Within the very first page of this book alone, I discovered a minimum of ten errors. Safe to say that the author did not bother to have this anthology even slightly edited. Beyond the plethora of spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors that littered this work and made understanding remotely impossible, most of the sentences do not convey any meaning, and sentence structures and arrangements might fill readers with an intense amount of ire and exasperation.
How do you say that a book you have read is very poor without trying to sound too judgmental? This book is a book that the reader will endure like a marathoner to the finish line. Except that, in the end, instead of being filled with a deep sense of fulfillment, he will be filled with exasperation, frustration, and fatigue. Take, for example, the following lines on page 229, “The entity of origin is essence,” “The origin of a speak is present”(page 229). What do these sentences mean?
In the few lines that the author is able to pass on a readable strain of thought, the messages of self-love, self-respect, happiness, and the power of emotions are over-emphasized. This book will best be classified as a poor attempt at a motivational book instead of an anthology of poems.
Where were the poems? I could not locate a single poetic device, and the words kept flowing into each other unintelligibly. The absence of titles or chapter headings means that the reader is stranded like a wanderer in the desert, wondering what topic the author discusses. I regret to sound so dismissive, yet my conscience prevents me from shielding my utter disappointment after completing this book. I give this book a rating of 1 out of 4 stars, and this, in itself, flatters to deceive. This book would have gotten a worse rating if it was possible and if not for the need to encourage and commend one’s raw efforts. You do not need a soothsayer to decipher that I do not intend to recommend this book to anyone.
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