Review: The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

Hi everyone!
FIRST OF ALL MERRY CHRISTMAS 💕!
After four months I finally finished reading this and I quite enojyed it, so this is my review! By the way I read this with the best buddy-reader ever Chloe @Blushing Bibliophile!

The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

Genre: Poetry
Pages: 256
My rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ out of 5!
Plot: this is the recipe of life
said my mother
as she held me in her arms as i wept
think of those flowers you plant
in the garden each year
they will teach you
that people too
must wilt
fall
root
rise
in order to bloom.

REVIEW

So this is the new book by Rupi Kaur author of Milk and Honey and I waited soo much for this book to be published! This book, like Milk and Honey, is divided into chapters: wilting, falling, rooting, rising and blooming.
It’s a poetry collection about grief, self-abandment, honouring one’s roots, love and empowering oneself according to the book… But it’s so much more: it’s about loss, heatache, self love, femminism and immigration as well.

I think this book is really inspiring in fact I wrote notes in it, I don’t know why but there I felt free to write poems that were inspired by her poems and to doodle whatever came into my mind (okay not actually whatever but all the things linked to the poems).
The writing is amazing: I love her voice and the litotes she uses. I also liked most of the poems.

Reasons why it isn’t a 5/5 stars book:

Sometimes there are poems that are more like thoughts than a developed poem:

never feel guilty for starting again

Too esplicit. Maybe I’m too young, for my taste there were too many illustrations and poems about sex.
Some poems were a little bit cliche, in fact some seemed took straight out of tumblr, I have nothing against tumblr, I love it, but she could have developed them more. But luckily there are just a few like this.