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Poetry is always a very difficult thing to rate especially since some poems and collections just might not resonate. Sadly, I found I did not resonate with this collection as much as I had resonated with Kaur’s previous work.

This collection did not have as cohesive of a flow as her previous works did and so I struggled to read the collection as topics would bounce and did not seem to flow with the chapter titled themes. There were some more of the phrases found within the collection which is popular within modern poetry. While there were full length poems in this collection I was a little bummed to see so many phrase poems. This being said, there were poems I resonated with and found very beautiful.

Do be aware that Kaur discusses many sensitive topics in this collection that may be triggering. I had to skip a few poems and put down the collection multiple times as they were too difficult and triggering for me to read.

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dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

I really enjoyed like all of these poems. I mean some of them I feel weren’t a poem but I’m not a poet so. Some of them I couldn’t relate to so they weren’t that impactful, but the ones I could I really enjoyed/felt.

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this definitely feels like the strongest of kaur's three collections. as with her previous work, there's a big focus on self love/care, mental health, and trauma, as well as on immigration, feminism and intersectionality. i also felt like she branched out a little more in this one which was nice. i particularly liked some of the longer poems (of which there were... not many) and found some bits that really resonated throughout.

still, a lot of the poems just read like one or two line value statements or the kind of self love slogans you can find on mass produced t-shirts. not bad, just repetitive and simplistic. i was a fan of this style when i first read milk and honey at eighteen, but it's just not to my taste anymore.

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