Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry by Halsey

64 reviews

siriface's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

jbabbm's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

I enjoyed reading this but the experience could've been better.

I read this while also listening to it at the same time which allowed me to experiment how Halsey actually meant the poems to be read instead of just providing a rhythm for them myself.

Halsey is actually, from my opinion, a great songwriter and singer and a lot of her poems were reminiscent of her songs for me. However, some of the poems in here did seem to me to diverge from the common theme and mood of the collection. Additionally, the audiobook version does add or skips words as well as excluding one whole poem from the narration.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Miscarriage

bashsbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

2.5

Halsey writes poetry like she writes songs. Therefore, I would say you will like this if you like Halsey songs, and you will not like this if you like standard contemporary poetry. I have song and poem related brainrot, so I was FASCINATED to see a book that so clearly showed me what the differences are between the two. But if that doesn't really interest you, then I would not really recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Grief, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Body shaming, Miscarriage, and Vomit

cavallonee's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

Moderate: Death and Miscarriage

Minor: Drug use

itszosia's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Miscarriage

pagesofnectar's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

You wish to burn alive 
in the flame of a love unrequited.
It's simple.
Write.

Sooo, let's say this is maybe an actual 3.5, since that's more representative of the percentage of poems I liked, but I rounded it up to a 4, because:

•  I'm a nice person 

and 

• you know what, I'm not at all ashamed to say that I had a great time with this poetry collection! 

I found many lyrics relatable and touching and the ones I couldn't relate to 100% were conveying very important experiences and it's chilling to think that some of them are autobiographical. I actually found some parts to be very well crafted and poetically powerful and some of them really moved me and made me appreciate her writing! What I loved most was how honest, spontaneous and heartfelt I found all of it to be. It feels like this woman wears her heart on her sleeve and it's nice to get that from "celebrities" - what I mean is, I guess, that reading her poetry you get that she feels deeply and expresses herself honestly and I loved to see that!
A big part of the poems read a bit too much like songs for my taste as if she couldn't release all of them as songs and put them into this poetry collection instead!
Overall a very pleasant reading experience, with quite a few lyrics that I appreciated a lot!

Has my heart,
once so full of love,
finally drained itself like a yellow raisin?
Will the children begin to notice?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Infertility, Abortion, and Alcohol

silverhastings13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

cosmic_blooms's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

nat_kiverse's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

becksusername's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Praise Halsey 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Abandonment