Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

80 reviews

alyssapusateri's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Sexual content

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

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

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

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

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

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

lottie1803's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, and Eating disorder

pravallika_manju's review

sad fast-paced

1.5

I understand that milk and honey is a very popular yet divisive book. I personally found the poetry in the book underwhelming. The line breaks seem to be placed randomly and feel like they exist just to give the text the appearance of a poem. There were a few lines sprawled across the pages that did make me pause and think but they were too surface level and did not explore the depth of abuse. Overall, it just feels like a gimmicky cash grab.

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Content Warnings

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

melist6's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Racism

bethaniesherwood's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

1.25

Despite owning this book since its release, I didn’t read it until this morning.

Normally, I love poetry but this didn’t do it for me. I read the whole thing, hoping my opinions would change but it just felt more and more like Tumblr posts from the early 2010s. It was really hard to finish. 

As far as themes and topics go, it’s right down my ally. There’s just something about it that misses the mark. At least for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Child abuse