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Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

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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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blitz_ramna's review against another edition

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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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elliee_readsss's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

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emma_reards's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

3.0

I didn't really know what this poetry book was about prior to stepping into it, I had only seen things about it via social media as it was very popular when it came out.

I've been wanting to get into poetry for a while, and I think this was a good start but it is definitely not the most complex poetry out there.

Some of the poems were repetitive, and some of the trauma written in the book is specific to sexual abuse which I was not prepared for, nor do I have any personal understanding of.

I can see how this book can be healing and a guideline for those going through traumatic experiences of various sorts. There were several poems I really enjoyed:

"every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love you teach her to confuse anger with kindness which seems like a good idea till she grows up to trust men who hurt her cause they look so much like you"

"i am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut"

"loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself"

"who tricked you into believing another person was meant to complete you when the most they can do is complement"

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erica_rich's review against another edition

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emotional reflective fast-paced

4.25

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torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing fast-paced

5.0

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el_wheel's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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ardoby's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

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alisharose's review against another edition

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4.0

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simplyv375's review against another edition

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hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

3.0

I grew up looking at Rupi Kaur's work all over my social media feeds in middle and high school so I was really excited to finally be able to listen to one of her books. I definitely think that there should be more trigger warnings at the beginning of all books and this one is no exception even if it isn't super graphic imo. As for the poetry itself there were a couple that I liked that were about love or nature. Most of them had to do with what I believe is toxic relationships and abuse in some form that really isn't for me.

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