Using the Goodreads rating system, I have to rate this at 1 star because I "did not like it". There were some parts that I did like, such as the thoughts (I can't really call them poems) on immigration. Although I like the idea Rupi Kaur tried to get at, I feel that the execution fell short. This book is better than Milk and Honey, so at least there is progress. However, I still feel like this isn't poetry, the thoughts are sometimes near word for word copy and pastes of other authors' works, and the flow is confusing. Sometimes poems of loss, and love, and healing, are jumbled up together, and although I realize this is how life works, it doesn't make sense to the reader. My students wound up confusing the hurt with the love, and that's the absolute last message any reader should get out of a book.

I hated Milk and Honey, but wanted to give the author another try, because I do feel like her voice is important and her experiences deserve to be heard. I just can't behind the way she tells them.

This author just isn't for me.