Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

25 reviews

sophia_m1tchell's review

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: Rape, Sexism, and Sexual content

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

lakinglaze's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, and Gaslighting

giuliii's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

2.5

I honestly expected this book to be a tad different, surely not as full of rancorous emotions and sexual content in some poetry. I would have enjoyed if the poems were in somewhat of an order

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Sexual content

Moderate: Infidelity, Grief, and Pregnancy

michaelion's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

2.5

This came out when I was in high school and even then people were making fun of her. Recently I saw a video of her reading a poem (the one on page 101) and thought it was kinda cute and mostly corny, so I figured like the Brits say "Wot IS all this then?" What's all the hullabaloo, what's all the fuss about, why don't people like her? I should find out for myself.

So anyway I get it. Very corny, very basic, I still think it's a waste of a tree and a waste of paper. But not necessarily a waste of ink... Plenty of the pages are pretty moving. Sometimes basic is resounding and renowned for a reason. Now that I've read this though you can really see the influence she and others like her have had on pop culture in general. Is that good or bad? The answer is yes. (But mostly it's bad.)

I don't like making reviews like this but here I goes. The "poems" aren't really rhythmic or present with the flow of things I usually associate with the term "poetry." Like, yes, arguably a lot of poetry is like this but I personally don't like that. Just because you put several line breaks in something that in any other case would be considered a run on sentence I'm supposed to clap for you? And there are some instances where even when there is a line break it's still a run on sentence? No punctuation at all girl? Not even a comma? An em dash? A semi colon? It's confusing. Pick a struggle.

On a positive note, there's kind of a storyline here. This book couldve been improved if the "poems" weren't placed in the same theme in random order but in a way that better connected them, because it's clear many of the poems are about different people, not just one ex or how that ex connects with a parent or family member. All those people have different feelings and memories attached to them. But alas. Rupi Girl, you'll never be Sandra Cisneros. You'll never be Mitski Miyawaki's Magnificent Musical Melodrama now available on Spotify.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, and Gaslighting

Minor: Incest, Pedophilia, and Suicidal thoughts

tinkithesquirelll's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

Beutifull work., 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

sillih28's review

emotional inspiring reflective relaxing fast-paced

3.0

I really really love poetry! I went into this book knowing that it's main focus is relationships of romantic nature rather than friendship or family -- a topic i don't quite relate to. Nonetheless, the poems were incredibly touching and there were way more self-reflecting pages than I expected which made me really happy!! It's also so beautifully illustrated,, honestly this book is a go-to and an awesome starter for poetry babies! <3

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Grief

Minor: Alcoholism, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

_savannahreads_'s review

emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Grief

lizziertaft's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Abandonment

andrikkk's review

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Grief, and Sexual harassment

fujo_cat's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

3.25

While I couldn't relate or understand a lot of the struggles of lusting for someone you shouldn't be with (as an autistic aroace and previously only ace person, it's hard to me NOT to distinguish sexual attraction from romantic attraction), I can see the beauty of the book as a whole and I would recommend it to a lot of people going through a harsh breakup.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Toxic relationship

Minor: Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Grief, and Pregnancy