sandramarinis's review
3.25
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Rape, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence
seekmyants's review
3.75
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Racism, and Physical abuse
absolutely_court's review
2.0
Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault
emmoon's review
3.0
Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Cultural appropriation, and Emotional abuse
emoryscott's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Classism, Deportation, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Abortion, Sexual content, Cursing, Racism, Eating disorder, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Pregnancy, Fatphobia, Rape, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Grief, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Biphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Ableism, Mental illness, and Homophobia
hereforthefunofit's review against another edition
2.0
2. A few gems here and there but hardly mediocre most of the time. Most of the gems are just things I related and were therefore partial to, but most weren't great.
3. Something about the tag at the bottom that names what was better left unamed really irks me.
4. Some of the more feminist leaning 'poems' remind me of things I would repost/retweet when I was 14 and there's nothing wrong with that I guess. Everything she's saying is right. I just find it a little corny now that I'm older. We don't need the word play or metaphoric insults; we can talk about injustice upfront. Therefore, I just don't they have much place here...it sounds like an Instagram caption and it cheapens the cause imo.
5. It is quite similar in theme and style to one of her previous collections, that I read and enjoyed marginally more, Milk & Honey. This one is not as good and very repetitive.
6. I did like the separation of mind and body and it being a running theme in the first chapter. However, the mention of that distinction and how it affects people doesn't really come up after that which is disappointing...
Graphic: Rape
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Rape, and Sexual violence
Minor: Mental illness
abbyj_04's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Classism, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Colonisation, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, and Racism
caitlyn_baldwin's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Rape, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault
Minor: Racism and Misogyny
arsenic_'s review against another edition
2.25
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Colonisation, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Classism, Child abuse, Sexual violence, and Emotional abuse
annoyedhumanoid's review
4.0
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Transphobia
Moderate: Abandonment, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content
Minor: Classism, Death of parent, Self harm, Blood, Body shaming, Genocide, and Toxic friendship