This was a great poetry book. I always absolutely enjoy her work and I can't wait to read more in the near future. I highly recommend it.

The poetry collection was heartfelt and definitely worth the time, effort, and money required in acquiring it.

this collection of poetry couldn't keep my interest. I was quite bored and I did not like it at all. I was not a fan

A beautiful collection of poetry focusing on heartbreak, and how we heal from it. I love the part at the beginning that states 'some spend a lifetime healing, and some spend a lifetime wanting to heal'. It's pointed out not everyone heals the same, and there will be setbacks in any healing, and that's okay. Recommended for any who love poetry.

I liked this book. There was definitely potential in the prose, but most often than not, something felt missing. There were all these random images the author kept portraying that I had hoped would all slowly tie up but it rarely ever did, and for that alone I am quite disappointed.

I follow Najwa on Instagram so I was really grateful to get a copy of her book. I absolutely loved it. This young lady has such a way with words and her poetry is so lifting. Thanks for an arc copy!

I have followed Najwa on social media for a while and I have previously read her book Mind Platter so I was excited to read The Nectar of Pain. It is a beautiful collection of poetry, I highly recommend it.

Amazing work ! I wonder how she does it every to led a broken heart to victory and peace. Amazingly written. Loved it.

Author Najwa Zebian transports us to different times and experiences.
Each Poem is compelling. We have no choice but to respond. We will feel different emotions as we keep reading. I love it.

The Nectar of Pain by Najwa Zebian is a poetry collection that follows Najwa as she cleanses herself of heartbreak. The road, while unstable and often unforgiving, is painful but also rewarding in the end. The poetry she provides are bleed with her pain and her strength to heal and grow beyond the heart ache.
While the formatting of the poems felt confusing and a bit odd, it did give a unique experience to the collection. Sometimes, it was difficult to get through the collection because of all the pain that was in the collection, but it was a rewarding experience that made me grateful that I stuck with her words. Several of her pieces struck chords with me that made tears spring to my eyes, or made me smile and nod. Of her poems, there was this one section that I'd fallen completely in love with. It went like this:
The sun is closer to you
than I will ever be.
So burn,
if you wish.
You will not
see the shadow of me
even if you become
the sun
yourself.

You see, in love you don't ge what you want

You get what you think you get'.

A poetry obsessive exploration of painful hearthbreak, The Nectar of Pain is a journey through the lows and highs of relationships with no future. Most of us been there at least once and going through the diversity of feelings ignited by such encounters is what a writer can offer as an alternative to being stuck in desperation.

'Homes stay

But you walked away'

After all, a heartbreak may be just the acknowledging of the fact that nothing stays the same and saying - or being said - 'good bye' is all for the good. It's what saved your self from being completely obligerated, changed, transfigured, desfigurated, destroyed by someone else's intrusion.

Feelings are often projections of our own wishes and expectations, hopes and dreams. Feelings are delicate butterflies and we suffer, but understanding what are we going through and how to use this experience as a way to know ourselves and the human world in general is what poetry can do. There are many poems in this book which simply helps you better see and understand a full range of feelings that heartbreak tends to obliterate. At first, there is only suffering and that feeling that your heart really broke. But hearts are strong muscles though that can overcome bigger life shocks. Hence, the name of the book The Nectar of Pain, as it has to do with that secret pleasant feeling at the end of a heartbreak where you are far beyond the suffering, a new person, ready for more, better, different.

Besides being a trustworthy companion through hearthbreaks, The Nectar of Pain reveals hidden meanings and different, unique interpretations and a hopeful, yet realistic approach on dramatic life events. Maybe after you go through half of the book you may think it is a bit too much and there are only different variants of the same thing, but you don't have to read this book in one sitting. Take your time, one heartbreak to heal at a time.

The thing with this collection was that a lot of the poems didn't make me feel anything, which was really disappointing. This particular poetry collection explored loss and heartbreak and trauma and I assumed that this would mean a collection filled with emotional and powerful poems but I was left wanting so much more.

The Nectar of Pain

by Najwa Zebian

Andrews McMeel Publishing

Poetry

Pub Date 02 Oct 2018

I am reviewing The Nectar Of Pain through Andrews McMeel Publishing and Netgalley:

Celebrated Lebanese Canadian Poet Najwa Zebian’s Second Collection Of poetry is a powerful and beautifully written collection!

In this collection of poetry we are taken through the poets painful heartbreak as well as the path to healing. Zebian writes with power and warmth, as well as compassion, taking us on an often painful and yet healing journey.

I give The Nectar Of Pain five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!

I just finished reading this book. Over all the book is pretty wonderful. Sometimes when I turned the pages from one to another, I feel like the book was written for me. I found lots of things or sentences which was so relatable with me and my life. All I can say is the book is literally for me

Thank you Andrews McMeel Publishing for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

After enjoying Najwa Zebian's Mind Platter, I am excited to read her first work The Nectar of Pain. This collection is about heartbreak, loss and recovery. The poems here are pretty standard and it didn't move me. I guess the repetition affected my mood because it's tiresome and I'm looking for variety. I'm kinda bummed because I like her writing.

The strength of this poetry collection is that it reflects how obsessive one can be after a heartbreak, and how paradoxical things you think and feel can be in that situation. Additionally, there are some powerful lines and poems throughout the collection.
But here's the thing: I only rated this two stars for a reason. That reason is that it is a 300-page poetry collection about a single breakup. The ways she'd explored that would have felt a little much if this clocked in at a third of that length, so I went from enjoying this collection to being annoyed. Yes, heartache is the WORST, but 300 pages of pretty samey-feeling poetry makes me step back and worry about the mental health of the writer. Plus, many of the poems just circle the same ideas over and over without really adding anything new-- for example, there are multiple poems with "gaslighting" in the title.
So, I feel like this is a poet of some skill who severely needs a firm-handed editor to help trim this down a ton and maybe encourage the poet to explore a few more topics.

The Nectar of Pain captures exactly what the title says. The book is filled with a liquid jar of regret and words that show pain and suffering at the hands of heartbreak. I appreciate the author's dedication to creating this poetry book but this poetry book did not have a lot of points that stood out as extremely remarkable in my opinion. Overall, I did enjoy this book quite a bit, but I felt that the author said in three hundred pages what they could have said in one hundred to two hundred max. I began to lose some attention and found myself trying to dwell on deeper meanings behind the poetry. I had some moments of "oohs" and "ahhs" whilst reading due to the beauty in some of the author's lines but I ended up rushing in my reading towards the finish.

Filled with elegant prose and verses, The Nectar of Pain writes about heartbreak and healing. The writing is beautiful, but I found it quite repetitive sometimes. All in all, it was an enjoyable read.

Thank you Netgalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review

A beautiful collection of heartfelt poetry. This is my first experience with Zebian's poetry, but it will not be my last.