Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

14 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

lala_reads_too's review against another edition

slow-paced

0.25

Not 
poetry. 
Just words 
and cringy
 “art”
Written like this.  

With drawings 
That
My
12 year old 
Cousin 
Could draw. 


Such a waste of paper. 
Think about the planet 🪐


- LalaReadsToo

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Gaslighting

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

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

filipa_maia's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

This book is a slap across the face.

some poems are very raw and detached, others are more kind and self-forgiving.

Every women should read this book. Loved it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, and Sexual assault

lbarnes011's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad

5.0

I loved this book. this book is about poetry and its a deep dive on the authors challenging life experiences and talks about how poetry saved her life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Rape, Suicide attempt, and Gaslighting

megan_danyelle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Child abuse, and Rape

sarahsbooklife's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

1.25

I started off liking the poetry in this book, but I found as I kept reading that I just didn't really connect to it. 
This book just wasn't for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Incest, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Rape, Sexual violence, and Sexual content

lakinglaze's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, Grief, Blood, Infidelity, Rape, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Sexual content, Body shaming, Incest, and Emotional abuse

kittykatruin's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexism, Dysphoria, Rape, Misogyny, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Addiction, and Adult/minor relationship

michaelion's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

2.5

This came out when I was in high school and even then people were making fun of her. Recently I saw a video of her reading a poem (the one on page 101) and thought it was kinda cute and mostly corny, so I figured like the Brits say "Wot IS all this then?" What's all the hullabaloo, what's all the fuss about, why don't people like her? I should find out for myself.

So anyway I get it. Very corny, very basic, I still think it's a waste of a tree and a waste of paper. But not necessarily a waste of ink... Plenty of the pages are pretty moving. Sometimes basic is resounding and renowned for a reason. Now that I've read this though you can really see the influence she and others like her have had on pop culture in general. Is that good or bad? The answer is yes. (But mostly it's bad.)

I don't like making reviews like this but here I goes. The "poems" aren't really rhythmic or present with the flow of things I usually associate with the term "poetry." Like, yes, arguably a lot of poetry is like this but I personally don't like that. Just because you put several line breaks in something that in any other case would be considered a run on sentence I'm supposed to clap for you? And there are some instances where even when there is a line break it's still a run on sentence? No punctuation at all girl? Not even a comma? An em dash? A semi colon? It's confusing. Pick a struggle.

On a positive note, there's kind of a storyline here. This book couldve been improved if the "poems" weren't placed in the same theme in random order but in a way that better connected them, because it's clear many of the poems are about different people, not just one ex or how that ex connects with a parent or family member. All those people have different feelings and memories attached to them. But alas. Rupi Girl, you'll never be Sandra Cisneros. You'll never be Mitski Miyawaki's Magnificent Musical Melodrama now available on Spotify.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Gaslighting, Self harm, Mental illness, Racism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, and Incest