This book was good but I couldn’t fully relate to the intention of the book but I interpreted it and altered the meaning to fit my life, I turned the abusive romantic partner, Sin intended the reader to heal from, into my eating disorder and how I needed to break up with it and stop abusing myself by continuing to engage in it. The poems were beautiful and at times I could feel Sin’s anger radiating through the pages, I could feel her pain and I could feel mine. I evoked painful and pleasant emotions and the best poems do that.
Two of my favorite poems in the book:
- “it’s hard
wanting someone
to know something
that you don’t
want to tell them” pg.22
- “look at how far you’ve walked
ran at times, felt stuck often
fighting the urge to go back
pushing your limits
to move forward.” pg.136