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emquartz15's review
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This book is a deeply vulnerable invitation to see what it looks like when you turn your life upside down, in hopes that it will actually make things right side up again.
Millner’s couplets flow with urgency in the spirit of exploring the speaker’s relationship with herself and others. This read surprised me in the best way. It’s honest, erotic, and insightful. I love how Millner includes other strong, non-cis-male voices like Audre Lorde and Louise Glück to lean on and pull from both in a literary and personal sense.
There are really strong individual poems in here that add to the fabric of the story as a whole! Definitely would recommend this book.
Millner’s couplets flow with urgency in the spirit of exploring the speaker’s relationship with herself and others. This read surprised me in the best way. It’s honest, erotic, and insightful. I love how Millner includes other strong, non-cis-male voices like Audre Lorde and Louise Glück to lean on and pull from both in a literary and personal sense.
There are really strong individual poems in here that add to the fabric of the story as a whole! Definitely would recommend this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
lilawsahar's review
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
I feel like I was introduced to a lot of niche people in a short amount of time. The author references a lot of people prominent in the literature community that I have never heard of. They also reference a lot of literature theory. It was hard to understand what was being communicated due to these niche references.
I enjoyed her advice on love and her pov of what it’s like to come out, leave a relationship, start a new relationship, etc
Favorite line, “let me say that love has been, above all things, the engine of self-knowledge in my life—and even after everything is still what makes the rest worth suffering.”
I enjoyed her advice on love and her pov of what it’s like to come out, leave a relationship, start a new relationship, etc
Favorite line, “let me say that love has been, above all things, the engine of self-knowledge in my life—and even after everything is still what makes the rest worth suffering.”
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity and Sexual content
clairephillips's review
emotional
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Grief
Minor: Animal death, Child death, Drug use, Blood, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic
sarahdenn27's review
challenging
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.75
It made me think a lot about how our relationships shape our lives in large and small ways.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
bek_p87's review
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
I'm not a fan of poetry, but I did mostly enjoy this - especially as an audiobook read by the poet. This short collection of short poems chronicles the beginning, middle, and end of a life-altering relationship, and touches on themes of female desire, queer relationships, the pandemic, and literature. Many of the references went way over my head, and the constant switching between first and second person perspectives was confusing. My favourite lines are from 4.11:
"In poetry, then, let me say that love has been, above all things, the engine of self-knowledge in my life, and even after everything is still what makes the rest worth suffering."
"In poetry, then, let me say that love has been, above all things, the engine of self-knowledge in my life, and even after everything is still what makes the rest worth suffering."
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
beanypole's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Minor: Homophobia and Mental illness
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