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miiickxx's review
4.0
Minor: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Rape, Pedophilia, and Mental illness
marla_a's review
2.5
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship
ashleycmms's review
3.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Genocide, Rape, Death, Grief, Medical content, Misogyny, and Mental illness
glitterpricked's review against another edition
2.0
like with her past poetry, Rupi Kaur loses stars from me in that there are still plenty of "poems" that read as Instagram captions that are reduced reused recycled. I spent more time wondering how this can be considered a complete book than I did thinking about her poetry. while some were definitely better than her last two collections, I still think a lot of them are very very surface-level and leave something to be desired. which is big considering I relate to her as a South Asian woman who has had some similar experiences to Kaur.
took 20 minutes to read altogether, which is a shame because it illustrates how little desire I had to go back and reread/analyse certain poems (something that I feel like poetry should do).
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Mental illness and Sexual content
kaitlinshares's review
4.5
Moderate: Mental illness and Sexual assault
neetis_bookshelf's review
4.5
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Physical abuse, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Mental illness
_mia_mia_'s review
Many of the poems are very raw and honest, almost brutally so. That is something I love about all of Kaur's work. And again, the style seems simple, some poems very short. But they are not 'everyone could have done that' poems, they are not 'simple' even though the style is. Because Kaur masterfully packs so much nuance and meaning into a single sentence and that is something not many can achieve. There is a lot of seemingly simple poetry that is pseudo-profound and laced with platitudes and overdone symbolism. But you will not find that in this book.
I think the poems invite readers to fly through the book with how short they are, but in my opinion you will get much more out of the book if you slow down and really let the individual poems sink in, if you take the time to reflect on them.
If you like modern poetry I highly recommend this book.
Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, and Sexual violence
mirgenmoo's review
3.0
Graphic: Sexual assault and Pedophilia
Moderate: Racism and Adult/minor relationship
Minor: Grief, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, and Toxic relationship
writingbookscoffee's review
4.0
Moderate: Incest and Mental illness
bookedbymadeline's review
5.0
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Islamophobia, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, and Misogyny
Moderate: Racial slurs
Minor: Genocide