Here is also rage and sorrow at the limitations and restrictions of a woman’s given role and taken rights at the expectations heaped upon the female form and spirit of the false representations used to define womanhood and thus control it. This is love borne in blood and sacrifice, enduring and often painful. This is not a representation of love as romance – all hearts and flowers and frilly words. Scattered between the explorations of weighty emotions are lighter notes, in the form of motivational quotes and illustrations, linked to the theme of that section. 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. By the end of this book, Aphrodite will make you believe in the possibility of your own healing.Īphrodite 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. In this empowering retelling, she uses the mythology of the goddess to weave a common thread through the past and present. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.*īlurb: Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer takes an imaginative approach to self-care in this new poetry and prose collection, Aphrodite Made Me Do It. *I received a free ARC of this book, with thanks to the author, Central Avenue Publishing and NetGalley.
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