Rating: ★★★★
I received this book for free from the author in exchange for an honest review.
This was a very emotional collection of poetry that centers on the 5 stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
After reading the first two sections (denial and anger) I was a bit unsure whether I was going to like the collection. I didn’t connect to many of the poems in those sections. But I ended up loving the last three sections. The last one, acceptance, was my favorite. I had so many favorites from that section.
One thing that was unique about this collection was the paired poems. I’m not quite sure what to call them but after some poems there would be a, “go to page __” and that poem would be a sort of response to the original one. Sometimes, there would even be another page direction on the response poem. I haven’t encountered that before and thought it was a clever touch. It made the book very cohesive and managed to tie all the sections together in a subtle way.
There were also illustrations throughout the collection and I loved them. They complemented the themes of the poems well.
Overall, this is a wonderful collection. I recommend it for fans of Amanda Lovelace and Rupi Kaur.
Odd and Bookish 
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