3 stars

A much better collection than the first one in this series, it felt very preachy but I understood why. The poetry here is about providing some form of hope and assurance that wrongs will be righted, and because in reality in this life many women will not get their justice, this book provides escapism and assurances that they will get their justice, that the perpetrators will be haunted.
Personally for me it was a bit too preachy, I wish there were more poems that were open to interpretation but still had a feminist core to it.

I don't think this book 'generalizes men'. It's very clear from the tone and themes in the poems that it talks about men who hurt women, who rape them and engage in rape culture. And I think it's a bit weird if every critique of men needs to be prefaced with disclaimers on it not being about every man. I think it assumes that reader isn't capable of critical thinking. It's like demanding a book with themes on class inequality and empowering the lower classes needs to be prefaced with disclaimers that this is not a generalization of rich people. Of course it is not, it is a critique on the system that puts them in that position that relies on the exploitation of others. Much like this book is a critique on the patriarchy.

Overall, this was a good read, it was a bit too preachy for my taste but I understand why. Again I wish the poems were longer so we could explore topics in even more depth (even though there were more long poems in this book than in book 1 of the series). I would have even preferred if we had less poems, but longer ones. I enjoyed the motif of witches and those who try to burn them being much more prevalent and consistent in this book than in book 1. And I'm interested to see what book 3 will be about.