Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

18 reviews

tinkithesquirelll's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

Beutifull work., 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Mental illness, and Suicide

roreads28's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

3.0

I had picked this up in the shop before but after the few proms I read decided not to buy it. But I was able to read it for free a while later. I’m glad I didn’t buy it. There were a few quite confronting moments, some I enjoyed but for the most part it wasn’t my style of poetry that I enjoy reading. I found most of them in a way a little superficial, or things I have already heard elsewhere. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Minor: Abandonment and Rape

lizziertaft's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Misogyny, Grief, and Child abuse

laurenreads_2204's review against another edition

emotional reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Abandonment

sometimes_samantha_reads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

I've had this book on my shelf for years. I haven't picked it up because poetry isn't always for my current mood and because there has been so much parody and satire around Kaur's poetry that I was kind of turned away from it. Well, having read it, I'm kicking myself for waiting! So many poems resonated with me. Made heart race and think "hm, maybe I'm not as over that as I thought". It was a reflective experience. I felt both seen and heard, and by the end I felt confident. I don't often mark the pages of my books but I added tabs to all the poems I thought I would like to revisit in the future. 

I really enjoyed Milk and Honey.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Rape, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Abandonment and Alcoholism

Minor: Misogyny

cbergen's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

scrucca's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

read it really fast, I really like her poetry, a lot of themes to reflect on

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Rape

illiterateliz's review against another edition

2.0

I honestly feel bad for leaving such a low review but this book disappointed me beyond belief. 

"Milk and honey is a collection of poetry about love, loss, trauma, abuse, healing and femininity. It is split into four chapters, each chapter serves a different purpose,  deals with a different heartache. It takes readers through a Journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in everywhere if you are willing to look"
 I read this and was beyond excited to say the least. However, when I started reading I was let down more than ever before. Some of the themes are very present in this collection like trauma & abuse but overall the collection didn't seem to stick with the theme it promised. (Of course this is my personal opinion and based on how I understood everything.) Some poems I have to admit I enjoyed greatly and I adored the sketches but as many reviewers have pointed out the pages were too empty and the poems felt a bit like instagram or tumblr quotes

. To add to the above I really cant see how you can write a book about femininity and feminism with a poem like the one of page 88. (amongst others I fail to recall) It says and I quote "the woman who comes after me will be a bootleg version of who I am" It then continues this kind of narrative....I almost stopped reading. How can you include such a hateful view on women in a poem collection which is otherwise aimed at empowering them? I also had a problem with many other poems but another one that bothered me the most was on page 103. "When you are broken and he has left you do not question whether you were enough, the problem was that you were so enough he was not able to carry it." Or maybe, just like another line in the collection "I have been the abused and the abuser ", you were the shitty person that needed to change? There is no such thing and being too good for somebody....There are a few more I could take apart but there is no point analyzing them further.  But for a book I was trying to buy for 2 years it was really not worth it

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Sexual content, and Mental illness