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

31 reviews

shadow_cat94's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

2.5

Halsey's first poetry book is written in free-verse touching on a variety of topics and a style similar to her music rather than more classic/lyrical poetry. I liked some of these poems more than others, but most of thems I personally felt like they could have used more work before publication or were starting ideas rather than whole poems (one was even a portion of a song of hers).

It travels from her childhood through adulthood touching between romanti  relationships, family dynamics, traumatic experiences, drug abuse from friends and partners, and the impacts of fame to sum up some of the overarching subjects. Please check the triggers before deciding to read this book if you struggle with any heavy topics.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Blood, Abortion, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

fadeddpages's review against another edition

emotional reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Body shaming, Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Abortion, and Alcohol

emmehooks's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Drug use and Miscarriage

mazeeee's review against another edition

2.0

Needed more editing in my opinion. This feels like a first draft pulled straight from hasleys notebook which like okay? May be your kind of poetry but not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

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

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

earlydecember's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Miscarriage and Abortion