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Love is Lethal
This collection of poetry is an homage to love and to those who do not fear it. In it you will find poems written and dedicated to only a few of the many admirers of David Chios of the book Creatura by Nely Cab. They love him enough to give him life.
65 pages, Paperback
First published February 28, 2013
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David Chios
1 book15 followersDavid Chios was born into a little girl s dreams when she was 10 years old being about the same age as she. Through the years, he resided in the girl s mind as only a dream. It wasn t until the birth of the novel Creatura that David set foot in the real world to tell Isis s and his story. Today, David resides within the reveries of many, working diligently to take over their hearts. Occasionally, David still drops in to visit Nely Cab in her dreams.
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April 4, 2013
Thank you to Nely and David for sending me this book!!
When I received an e-mail from Nely sayin that I won a copy of ‘Love is Lethal’ and a poem that will be included in the book, I screamed.And jumped. I loved ‘Creatura’ and David is one of my favorite character EVER. Plus, I’ve always wanted a poem written by David. And now I have it. And it’s melting my heart.
“Love is Lethal” is a short collection of poems that David wrote for fans of “Creatura”. Breathtaking poems, with beautiful phrasing and the cheeky and romantic tone of David’s. It’s easy to read. I read it in 15 minutes.
I recommed “Love is Lethal” to every lover of poems. It’s amazing,I loved it!!
5 stars out of 5
When I received an e-mail from Nely sayin that I won a copy of ‘Love is Lethal’ and a poem that will be included in the book, I screamed.And jumped. I loved ‘Creatura’ and David is one of my favorite character EVER. Plus, I’ve always wanted a poem written by David. And now I have it. And it’s melting my heart.
“Love is Lethal” is a short collection of poems that David wrote for fans of “Creatura”. Breathtaking poems, with beautiful phrasing and the cheeky and romantic tone of David’s. It’s easy to read. I read it in 15 minutes.
I recommed “Love is Lethal” to every lover of poems. It’s amazing,I loved it!!
5 stars out of 5
March 2, 2013
Breath takingly beautiful...these poems grasp your heart and whisk you away to a magical, whimsical place...
LOVED IT!!!
LOVED IT!!!
March 2, 2013
Okay, so I downloaded this right when it came out because I read Creatura in 2012 and I really want to read how the story progresses, and as this seems to be the only thing available, I picked it up and started reading without really knowing what I got myself into.
The description said something about poems written by David Chios (protagonist of Nely Cab's book "Creatura") for his fans.
I wasn't sure what that entailed - would I get to read some of David's thoughts?
First of all, let me say that while I really liked Creatura as a book, David's cheesy lines annoyed me to no end. I'm all for romance, but he's overdoing it so much I feel like throwing up rainbows every time I read his letters to Isis.
So, I'm not a fan of his "romantic talk" that so many other readers seem to have enjoyed.
On the other hand, I am a huge fan of Lyric. That is, good lyric. My favorites are Schiller, Rilke and Goethe (all Germans which I read in the original versions), and I admire great poets.
All of them have written great poems about love and what it is about, and this is what I expect when I open a book with poems in them. I expect intricate quality and also a deeper meaning, some kind of sense in it.
Nely Cab writing as David Chios gives us a bunch of poems dedicated to making a few selected Fans (whose names are incorporated in their respective poems) feel pretty. And maybe loved as well, but mostly pretty.
There were a lot of poems, but they all felt more or less the same. Anne is pretty, Natalie is a (pretty) mermaid, X is stunning, Y has lips that ressemble budding roses and so on.
The language was stilted and felt like the author tried really hard to sound like Shakespeare, but, having read Shakespeare's sonnets, I can't say any of them could compare even remotely.
The flow was partly unnatural and many words seemed to be used for only one reason: so that the lines would match in rhyme.
All in all, there was a lot of cheesy poetry in this work, and most of it felt really flat and lacked real emotion or longing. It seemed like the writer struggled to find something great and individual for every girl, but it eventually ended in every single one of them being one thing: beautiful.
Love is Lethal is basically a collection of all the things I hate about YA: it's shallow and without meaning, it's cheesy and the focus pretty much lays on outer beauty.
I can't say I liked it, but I hope that I could at least state my reasons for not liking it.
The description said something about poems written by David Chios (protagonist of Nely Cab's book "Creatura") for his fans.
I wasn't sure what that entailed - would I get to read some of David's thoughts?
First of all, let me say that while I really liked Creatura as a book, David's cheesy lines annoyed me to no end. I'm all for romance, but he's overdoing it so much I feel like throwing up rainbows every time I read his letters to Isis.
So, I'm not a fan of his "romantic talk" that so many other readers seem to have enjoyed.
On the other hand, I am a huge fan of Lyric. That is, good lyric. My favorites are Schiller, Rilke and Goethe (all Germans which I read in the original versions), and I admire great poets.
All of them have written great poems about love and what it is about, and this is what I expect when I open a book with poems in them. I expect intricate quality and also a deeper meaning, some kind of sense in it.
Nely Cab writing as David Chios gives us a bunch of poems dedicated to making a few selected Fans (whose names are incorporated in their respective poems) feel pretty. And maybe loved as well, but mostly pretty.
There were a lot of poems, but they all felt more or less the same. Anne is pretty, Natalie is a (pretty) mermaid, X is stunning, Y has lips that ressemble budding roses and so on.
The language was stilted and felt like the author tried really hard to sound like Shakespeare, but, having read Shakespeare's sonnets, I can't say any of them could compare even remotely.
The flow was partly unnatural and many words seemed to be used for only one reason: so that the lines would match in rhyme.
All in all, there was a lot of cheesy poetry in this work, and most of it felt really flat and lacked real emotion or longing. It seemed like the writer struggled to find something great and individual for every girl, but it eventually ended in every single one of them being one thing: beautiful.
Love is Lethal is basically a collection of all the things I hate about YA: it's shallow and without meaning, it's cheesy and the focus pretty much lays on outer beauty.
I can't say I liked it, but I hope that I could at least state my reasons for not liking it.
December 31, 2016
Love these poems now to read the book.
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