A review by mialikesreading
Plum by Hollie McNish

4.0

I am in my McNish era! McNish’s poetry is the perfect blend of witty and sharp, and heartfelt and wise. It’s a balm in the heart when you are an overthinker by nature, and want to remind yourself what important is almost always not what is being forced upon us. That I look at my friends and see nothing but beauty in what they feel are imperfections and that politicians talk a lot of shit, and actively make worse the things they are about to blame on minorities hit the hardest by these problems. That loving your children doesn’t make parenting perfect, but her love for her daughter shines in all the poems she writes. 

I adore the melody in her poems and love to read them aloud to really feel the words forming in my mouth. I feel like I would love to be able to express myself like that.