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maya_babe's review

5.0
inspiring relaxing medium-paced
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dcr2959's review

3.0
dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

morganvmains's review

3.5
challenging emotional medium-paced

izzy_reads7's review

2.75
dark emotional reflective medium-paced

I really loved the Drake parts, as they showed that we all go through similar experiences as humans. Now, these are already a lot of things I have come to terms with, but if you are just starting that journey of trying to find yourself or if you are younger than me, maybe in your late teens, I do think this would be the perfect collection to read. However, I really did not like Sin's parts. They just overall felt more negative, like they were weighing you down, and I don't want to read that when I'm reading poetry, so it just wasn't for me. This is a good collection, but I don't see myself really reading it purely because of the Sin parts.

Rating: 2.75 out of 5.
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witchylily's review

3.0
relaxing

brittanydawn's review

3.75
emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

I really liked one book, but not the other. These guys are well known and for good reason so it's not necessarily a bad read. I just like the super sad stuff and one was a little too hopeful for my taste. 
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allyguay's review

4.25
inspiring reflective fast-paced

ginnylee's review

1.0
sad fast-paced

I feel like giving this 1 star may feel a little generous if I think too hard on it. I'm familiar with r.h. sin's work, for a long time I was hooked, I collected his work. As soon as a new book dropped I was there, but as I grew up I stopped resonating with it. When I saw this I was taken by the artwork on the cover, it's haunting and beautiful and I thought I may as well give it a shot.

Beautiful Sad Eyes-
     I can't even begin to explain just how angry I am. The book starts with R.M. Drake so let's start there. He's now my nemesis, the type of guy that claims to be a "nice guy." He uses vulnerable, sad girls for content; he has a savior complex and it immediately turned me off reading any more of his stuff but I thought maybe I was being quick to judge so I kept going.
He doesn't stick up for a woman his friend is actively emotionally abusing but he'll write a poem about how he told said friend that that was not ok.
Now R.H. Sin's work before this I started to feel was too repetitive, too "insta-poetry." His first piece in this collection is hauntingly beautiful
casting her inner light against the horizon like a beautiful lighthouse searching for something more
and never happens again. It almost feels like it was written by someone else entirely. 

Weary Waiting For Love- 
    This one made me blissfully less angry, because I wasn't feeling much of anything anymore. It's all entirely repetitive, regurgitated, tired, self-help bs. I wanna know why R.M. Drake's woman friends are always crying and his man friends are always fumbling some "good woman"? R.H. Sin's stuff was just boring, same-y. Felt a bit "I was cheated on and now it's my entire personality while I refuse to grow and 'let go' like I continuously preach." Contradictory and kind of just sad that any beautiful or genuine piece is going to be lost to a collection that I'll only remember in anger. 
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heyitsmetris13's review

4.0
emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

christinao90's review

2.5
challenging dark hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad tense slow-paced

These poems tend to be more depressing than happy.