Reviews with content warning for Sexual assault - The Sun and Her Flowers

I wanted to read this book because I read Milk and Honey back in 2021 and I enjoyed it, I’ve been reading to Rupi’s recent work and it just got lost on the TBR, so this year I'm determined to go back to authors I've enjoyed and read some of their newer work. Rupi has a way of getting in your brain and just mixing your thoughts in a mixing bowl.

This is Rupi’s second collection of poetry and it’s a vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honouring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself. This book is divided into five chapters and has beautiful illustration. The sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising and blooming. It is a celebration of love in all its forms.

I love how these poems are a mixture of brutal truth and compassion, the illustrations are gorgeous and add so much more to these poems. These poems covered a lot of topics that are forgotten or “the same old” news in this day and age and they shouldn’t be the same old news. They should be talked about more often. This book was inspiring and took you on a journey of growth and I related to parts of this book and wanted to hug the author for the words she wrote on the pages.

I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a quick read or who wants to read a beautiful and brutal book. I cannot wait to read Rupi’s next book and this time it won’t take me three years to read it.

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slow-paced

2.0

Full disclosure, this book was not written for me, I read it as a librarian be informed about the books in my library.

I found the poetry to be overwrought and over dramatic. I absolutely understand why my high schoolers love it, though.

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hopeful reflective tense fast-paced

4.5

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

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emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

I don't read much poetry but I've had this book forever and decided to pick it up. I really enjoyed reading these poem. Many of them I could relate to especially feeling like I've kind of been in this period of growing after having to go through a lot of hard periods of hurt and learning. I think while I really loved some of the poems, many of them also weren't wildly life changing. I think Rupi Kaur does a great job of personifying feelings we all have, especially as women, and I so appreciate her sharing her story so I gave this book a 3.5, I enjoyed it and I would recommend it but it isn't something that I fell head over heels for.

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3.25

how had i ever convinced myself that rupi kaur is a bad poet?
this collection is exquisite.
poetry written in freeverse, and with an accessible language isn't below me, it is still above me.

rupi kaur deals with a multitude of topics in here, ranging from love, relationships, family, to her personal experiences with abuse and sa, self-hatred, growing out of the toxicity to love herself, culture, immigration, feminism, and a myriad of other political issues that need to be talked about. i am so glad i read this.

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