Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

17 reviews

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

samcsmith's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Rape, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, and Pedophilia

annagrace43's review against another edition

I didn’t how much it talked about SA

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Incest, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Rape, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Violence

autumnwitch14's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

A beautiful poetry book where the emotions and struggle comes out clearly on every page. The line drawings add to the book but still keep the focus on the words. Some of these are just so powerful I think I'll use them in collage art journals. These books must take so much strength from the author to write and publish.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Pregnancy

camoo3032's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Alcoholism and Pregnancy

ziuzia's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, Fatphobia, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Body shaming, and Sexism

poirot's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Racism, Sexual harassment, and Alcoholism

layla_reads2411's review against another edition

dark emotional relaxing sad tense fast-paced

3.0

I went into this book blind, and I was not expecting that. Towards the beginning it was just kind of okay but a bit towards the end there were a couple of good quotes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Rape, and Trafficking

Moderate: Pregnancy, Pedophilia, and Sexism

ktv's review against another edition

1.0

I've seen a bunch of people make fun of these poems since this was released years ago so my expectations weren't that high to begin with. But it's literally not even poetry most of the time, she's just stating things. Thanks to Wikipedia, I know that's her style but like. seriously? I could do better than that. I had to skip the long paragraphs too. I just wasn’t interested in anything else but getting thru it so I can catch up on my reading goal. 
"baby lick me" and "manhood" made me cringe so hard that I had to take off .5 stars from the 2 star rating I'd established about a third of the way thru.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Rape, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Pregnancy

jakeaboi's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

2.5

This thing started off so strong-- the first section is very well done and conveys the trauma really well. From then on, everything goes downhill. By the end every poem is hee spitting self-love advice constantly to the reader. There is a complete shift in the perspective, going from tales about her life to trying to help us. It does not work. I will not deny the bright spots in this little collection though. The longer poems are clearly well written and are great to read. And her use of specific words in some poems are really well done and powerful. And the apology poem to all women she called pretty was great too. There is clearly talent in here, but I feel like it is wasted trying to be preachy. Similarly, some of the poems in here are pretty solid-- I consider them poetry-- but some others are barely poetry. There is absolutely no structure, no rhyme, and oftentimes only lines "show" they are poems. When she talks about her father analyzing single stanzas at a time for meaning, I wonder how some of the stuff in here can be as shallow as it is.

I know this review is all over the place and pretty negative-- but you cannot deny the positives, and I know tons of people relate to this. If it sounds like your cup of tea-- give it a shot, it's a short read. But, don't expect anything groundbreaking. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Pregnancy and Body shaming

Minor: Cursing