Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

24 reviews

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

el_wheel's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Rape, Incest, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

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

tillynancy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body shaming and Adult/minor relationship

ruthhelizabeth's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Incest

Moderate: Sexual violence, Grief, Rape, and Racism

Minor: Toxic relationship

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

stephanieluxton's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Grief, and Sexual content

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Incest, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Misogyny, and Sexual violence

Minor: Pregnancy

The whole first section is about being sexually abused. The rest of it is about daddy issues, sex, toxic relationships, bad breakups, and modern day feminism.

stormeno's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, and Rape

Minor: Grief and Body shaming

laurenn1993's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Grief

sophia_m1tchell's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

2.0

This was very hard for me to rate considering that I don’t read much poetry. I understand that Kaur was being honest and reflective about experiences with sexual trauma/assault. However, I really didn’t appreciate nor enjoy reading about it considering that at the end of each poem theres ‘no hope’ to get out of these situations. Like it seemed that these rapists had no accountability for their actions and got away with it. It just made me feel very empty and defeated (poetry is suppose to bring you emotions… however feeling depressed after the end of each poem isn’t exactly something I’m wanting here ykwim?). There were too many poems on cruelty and trauma instead of women empowerment and self-love (which was the reason I actually picked up this collection of poetry in the first place). Overall, I guess it’s okay but I’m probably not going to read more of Kaur’s work. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Rape, and Sexism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Grief