Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

The Immortal Soul Salvage Yard by Beth May

2 reviews

daniandsn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.75

Gardens grow salty over the fued in their roots

The pieces I found most compelling in this book are Emails To A Professor In 2011; The World Is Ending And I Have To Tell The World; There Never Was A Hat; 3. Rhyming Dictionary; and May.

This book details a history of struggling to grow up, struggling with mental illness, and loss. It brings light (shadow?) to the reality of this pain.

To me, the poems in this book read as if they were meant for spoken word. I think hearing these poems read out loud would do a lot of good for the experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual assault and Suicide

adrienanthony's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Love Beth May’s work. 
Her poetry is gorgeous and catches my attention and holds it more than most poetry i’ve read. She has an excellent mix of crude relatability and devastating vulnerability throughout and it somehow keeps catching me off guard in either direction every time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail