Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

25 reviews

leechachatotheright's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

This is my second read through of this book. I would definitely recommend it to people who enjoy reading poetry. There is a rawness to the way the words are written and how the story is told between the sections of the book that I find so sad yet hopeful. It is probably also very relatable to lots of women just making their way through life. It is bittersweet. 

I've also read Kaur's "the sun and her flowers" and I would say I prefer "milk and honey" if you want to read more on love, loss, heartbreak, and self acceptance. "The sun and her flowers" is a poetry collection that is so much more graphic and deals with sexual trauma, which may be a triggering. "Milk and Honey" discussed these topics as well, but it was not the main focus in my opinion nor as detailed.

The 4 was because I'd recommend the book and that .25 was how much it resonates with me, I cried the first time I read it.

Note: I haven't read "the sun and her flowers" in 5 years now so my comparison might be off. I'm just going based off what I remember from reading the two books back to back at that time.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

The trigger warnings I put are because there are some hints to these topics in the poetry and they might trigger people even at a mild and non-descriptive mention.

blitz_ramna's review

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: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Grief

el_wheel's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

melist6's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Violence

tillynancy's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Body shaming

ruthhelizabeth's review

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Sexual assault

Moderate: Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, and Grief

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: Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Grief, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

stephanieluxton's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Grief

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

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

challenging emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Body shaming and Grief

laurenn1993's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Grief