Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

8 reviews

lakinglaze's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

_gabi_'s review

emotional reflective fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Fatphobia, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

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: Sexual content and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Grief, Infidelity, and Pregnancy

catreads247's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

This was the only collection I hadn’t read yet and it didn’t disappoint. Her poems hit every time I read a collection. One of my all time favs! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual assault

Minor: Infidelity

_savannahreads_'s review

emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

mariasilva's review

dark emotional fast-paced

2.0

 i snuggled in bed after a long day today and read this book! :) it consists of four chapters of small poems. its goal is to touch on "love, loss, trauma, abuse, healing, and femininity". this book was both written and illustrated by Kaur and self published in 2014.

some passages made me feel a pit in my stomach in the first chapter, where topics can be very heavy, so trigger warning for abuse, sexual assault. caution if you're under age, maybe skip this one.

i like how cut & dry the feelings of the author are displayed but the poems are too short and simple for my personal preference. with two stars i'm not saying it wasn't enjoyable: i enjoyed reading it! »» 2 stars means it was okay. it's very clear the author poured their soul into these poems. her poems read like thoughts.
personally i do wish they were a little more "edited". for example, i wouldn't mind if the book didn't include those really simple poems like: "i have / what i have / and i am happy / i've lost / what i've lost / and i am / still / happy" cuz those really lowered the quality of the book for me.

passages that i wanted to see more of from Kaur: "the only reason you know / you're still alive is from the / heaving of your chest". "perhaps / (...) / i am paying / for sins i don't / remember". "bloom beautifully / dangerously / loudly / bloom softly". "he had the smell of / starvation on his lips" "every time you / tell your daughter / you yell at her / out of love / you teach her to confuse / anger with kindness".

i can see why this book is attractive to those who can unfortunately relate to Rupi, to survivors of abuse and negligence or suffocation and i think the author has great potential! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

erikabee's review

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.0

I don’t think it’s bad, overall, but I don’t feel like it reads as poetry. While some “poems” are inspiring and resonated with me, and you can tell Rupo Kaur really put a lot of raw and vulnerable stories in here, some things read as just cliché words of wisdom. There doesn’t appear to be any structure and minimal flow to the poems, which make it awkward to read, but I still enjoyed and bookmarked pieces where the message was really thoughtful and impactful for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Body shaming, Sexism, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Incest, and Infidelity

confusedmuse's review

challenging dark funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexism, and Sexual content