When The Dark Spoke To Me

Details:

• author: Christabelle Marbun
  
• full title: When The Dark Spoke To Me
  
• narrator: Christabelle Marbun
  
• genre: poetry
  
• topics: #death #love
  
• publisher: Andrews McMeel Audio
  
• publish date: 11 Oct 2022
  
• timing: 1:12:00
  
  

My Rating of the Audiobook:

• content: 💙💙💙💙
• narration: 💙💙💙💙💙

 

 

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My Thoughts: 

In this case, you can judge a book by its cover. Poetry is both beautiful and quite dark. Be sure to check the content warnings! There’s a lot of death and suicidal ideation.

The book consists of five chapters: Death, Madness, Love, Threshold, and Requiem. Most poems are sad and heavy, but we can also sense hope. The author reads these poems in the audiobook edition.

About the Author:

Christabelle Marbun was born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia and currently resides in California. Christabelle has starred in over 100 movies and was nominated for Best Child Actor in the Indonesian Oscars for the Indonesian Film Festival in heart of her home country Jakarta. After writing and self-publishing two poetry collections at just 16 years old, her first book, The Hard Part is Living, hit the #1 Amazon Bestsellers List in Asian Poetry. Christabelle writes about trauma, pain, heartbreak, and healing and, through her art, she has slowly found a way to fall in love with being alive again.