Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Home Body by Rupi Kaur

37 reviews

kirbybeaton's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

livciotta's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

bethsbookshelf's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Grief, Islamophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

frumpkin_'s review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I devoured this. It’s really a book that should be savoured. Don’t think one read will be enough though. This is now my go to poetry, Rupi and pick me up book. LOVED IT.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

baka's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

I didn't like most of her old books but this one shows how much she's grown, how she's become more confident and daring. I personally enjoyed the first part of the book which went into kind of gruesome detail about her abuse and depression.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, and Mental illness

Minor: Transphobia and Emotional abuse

herk's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Racism, Xenophobia, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Rape, and Misogyny

robiok's review

dark hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

Mind: this section felt an overly semplification, maybe better a distillation, of Kaur’s usual style...and seeing the subject matter the stylistic choice makes sense. The matter is brutal and dark and its darkness and rawness are better reflected in a style that simply does not have the time or the energy to be beautiful. It’s about substance and about recognizing that there are things that cannot and should not be made beautiful. They are horrors and as such we should know them and talk of them. 

Heart: as usual the part of the collection that focuses on romantic and erotic love is where i struggle to connect with Kaur. No fault of the author or flaw of the work per se, im just completely disinterested in and disconnecred from the topic.

Rest: I enjoyed this section very much, especially in the reflection on the ‘hustle’ of life, the obsession with productivity and capitalism/environmentalism. The best pieces though for me will always be the ones about her identity as immigrant ans daughter of immigrant. The piece on Kaur’s father ‘a life on the road’ was stunning and emotional.

Awake: the more political part of the collection alternates empowerment hymns and straight out statement such as ‘im not interested in a feminism that exclude trans women’. It’s a collection of pieces that form a statement on the political ans ideological affiliation of Rupi Kaur, which i think overlaps intersectional feminism to a T. I appreciated it even when it’s not the strongest moment of the collection, lyricslly speaking. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness