New review

I'm working on my review of Book of Beasts, a poetry collection of creatures set up much like the bestiaries of Dungeons and Dragons and ancient texts written by notables like Pliny and Herodotus. The collection contains 2 poems for each letter of the alphabet, each letter being assigned to a different creature. But the poems aren't about the creatures themselves, or are least only tangential to the beasts. That's not to say it's good or bad, but I'm having a tough time deciding whether I like the collection or not. It stands together well, and some of the poems are decent, but--I don't know. Something just feels--off.