Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

83 reviews

mirandyli's review against another edition

emotional relaxing fast-paced

3.5

Pretty cliche and painfully cisheteronormative at times. Beautifully written though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

leechachatotheright's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

This is my second read through of this book. I would definitely recommend it to people who enjoy reading poetry. There is a rawness to the way the words are written and how the story is told between the sections of the book that I find so sad yet hopeful. It is probably also very relatable to lots of women just making their way through life. It is bittersweet. 

I've also read Kaur's "the sun and her flowers" and I would say I prefer "milk and honey" if you want to read more on love, loss, heartbreak, and self acceptance. "The sun and her flowers" is a poetry collection that is so much more graphic and deals with sexual trauma, which may be a triggering. "Milk and Honey" discussed these topics as well, but it was not the main focus in my opinion nor as detailed.

The 4 was because I'd recommend the book and that .25 was how much it resonates with me, I cried the first time I read it.

Note: I haven't read "the sun and her flowers" in 5 years now so my comparison might be off. I'm just going based off what I remember from reading the two books back to back at that time.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

The trigger warnings I put are because there are some hints to these topics in the poetry and they might trigger people even at a mild and non-descriptive mention.

jazzy_cat's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Violence

wad3mil3sgarru2's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

alyssapusateri's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Alcoholism, Infidelity, and Alcohol

literarywhore's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

never before have i experienced a collection of poems so deeply raw. kaur has earned my utmost respect and gratitude for her confirmation of one’s worth. beautiful work. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Body shaming

blitz_ramna's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

3.75

I feel that some of the poems were relatable to me, so I actually did enjoy reading. It helped me a lot to reflective that I annonated my physcial copy. 
I also did like the artwork. I thought some of them were lovely. The artwork for the emotional poems were deeply creative and gave the poem more depth. The erotic ones were nicely sketched. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Grief

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

inumaki's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse

lucekl's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Rape

Minor: Sexism