I have read poetry from many authors and I just love how different everyone’s writing style is. Was this just any writing or was the author going through a lot of heart break and betrayals and just disappointments? Read this books of poetry and make up your mind your self.

I’ll admit that the idea of four sections of poetry being broken into phases of the moon was clever, but I couldn’t connect to the book. Some poems were repetitive adding a feeling of dejavu.

'Whispers From The Moon' is a beautiful book of poetry. I was planning to put some beautiful quotes and snippets from these poems in this review but that would honestly take up so much time and space! But at the end I will list some of my favourite poems. This book was filled with such deep and BEAUTIFUL poetry. I was just hit with a beautiful wave of emotion with every poem! I could feel the love and loss, joy and hurt, in every single poem. I could feel the impact of every single word.
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Some of my favourite poems in this book are:
-‘The Language of Love’ - I LOVED this one so much
-The poem: ‘Good Morning’ really resonated with me! Beautiful!
-‘Hard Rain’
-‘My Women’
And –‘Paper and Plastic’
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If you are a lover of Poetry I would highly recommend this book to add to your poetry collection.
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[I received this book from NetGalley for my honest opinion and review]

This collection of emotional poems forms itself around the moon's cycles, and is divided thus.

Lee Broda has a beautiful voice. Her poetry is colourful yet honest, and expresses a depth of feeling and thought that I find lacking in a lot of similar modern verse. She writes in the same segmented, snappy pieces made so popular by the likes of Rupi Kaur, but the short length of the poems does not mean that they are all simplistic or shallow. She manages to condense a whole field of thought and emotion into a few short phrases, and the results are beautiful.

Having said that, as I read I wished for less of the heart-broken romantic poems about the pain and loss of love, and more of the empowered and inspired pieces, They were there throughout, but always quickly left behind with another piece about pain. I understand that pain is a powerful and stimulating inspiratus, and that presumably that is what the author was dealing with as she wrote this book, but I found the pieces about her power and bravery through it all to be the most inspiring and firey.

I hope she continues to write from the point of healing and fierce self understanding that shows through in this book, that would make a truly inspiring piece of writing.

Finally, I was a little bit confused by the sections in this book. It advertises as corresponding to the phases of the moon, which should be Waxing, Full Moon, Waning and New Moon, but she swapped out New Moon for Eclipse, which I wouldn't have called a moon phase, per se. But hey, maybe I'm being nit-picky here now.

Thanks to Netgalley for an advanced reader copy.

I really liked the poems, but they felt out of order to me. But overall there're some beautiful poems that I enjoyed and they felt very honest.

Wasn't particularly moved by the poems or enjoyed them as much as I thought I would. I would often skim or skip through the poems because it just didn't have much affect on me like other poets. Sorry to say but I wouldn't have this as one of my coffee book reads.

I  received a free digital copy of this book from Netgalley for an honest review.

Honestly, I didn't enjoy this poetry book as much as I thought I would. It has some good poems mixed in with others.

"I promise to honor
The woman in me,
Even when poison pours from her lips,
Searing holes of insecurity
Into her beautiful skin."

"I will invite you to dance with me,
on our faded pages of the past,
let you live on in them until forever,
pressed tightly
in my heart"

Whispers From The Moon is a short poetry collection about love, loss, grief and heartache. This is the first time I’ve read Lee Broda’s poems, and some of them were really beautiful. Some of the other poems didn’t really grab my attention or didn’t mean something to me.

"I miss the days you used to
cup my melting heart.

I wish you still got me,
like you did at the start."

My favourite poems:
hard rain
the vow
my child
a picture book of you
a hive
the way he looks at me
empty
my ocean
do you choose love
this morning
cutting ties
entranced
a second skin

Overall I liked this book. The poetry was evocative and the imagery was beautiful, but in some places it felt like I was reading a story out of order. The poetry could also get pretty repetitive in places but I'd still recommend checking it out.

At first sight I thought I’d love this book; but turns out it didn’t quite meet my expectations. Maybe because of my emotional state, because there was absolutely nothing wrong with the poetry itself. It was beautiful and raw and I’m sure that I’d be super enthusiastic about it

I have read a lot of poetry collections over the last few days, and this has to be my least favourite. I'm not trying to take away from the fact that this is evidently a very personal expression of emotions, but it just didn't hit the mark for me. Where I should have been able to connect to the poetry, I just felt like I was reading page after page of repetitive teenage heartbreak drivel. This had the potential in terms of how it was set up and the phases of the moon representing the phases of getting over heartbreak, but it just didn't quite fulfil that potential.

I wanted to like this collection of poetry. The formatting was clever with the sections following the phases of the moon, but I just never felt like she actually made any points. It felt like a diary of her heartbreak but nothing to actually draw the reader in and connect them to her pain. Just not for me. Thank you to Netgalley for the advanced copy.

At times this collection was moving and heartfelt but most of the time I kept waiting for something to be actually said; it also suffered from being about 20 pages too long. Ultimately, just middle of the road.

4.5 stars, rounded up to celebrate a fresh voice in poetry.

This collection is familiar in that it speaks to themes and experiences we’ve all had, but shows them in a new light. There seems to be a very fine line between the author and her work, which gives the sense of it being more autobiographical than not.. It’s almost like a moment of voyeurism, a glance into her personal diaries, or into her head. Where there exist “imperfections”, or phrases that could easily have been more romanticizes or carefully honed, it only adds to the realism. I also think Broda’s multicultural heritage lends this collection an exoticism or else a perspective we don’t often get a chance to see in English.

This heartfelt, coming-of-age collection will appeal most to young women. It is more accessible than most poetry— neither stuffy nor excessively colloquial or simplistic (looking at you, Rupi Kaur). It’s actually the sort of thing that I think a lot of people who sought out Kaur’s work, looking for personal, modern, feminine poetry but were turned off by the too-loose writing, will appreciate this work.

Very touching and vibrant collection. All the poems have a freshness that is inspiring and the entire collection is a breath of fresh air in a morbid world.

That collection of poetry was very beautifully written. It was full of heartbreak and healing, and it was full of very vivid and beautiful poems that made you both fall in love and help you on the path to healing. It was all very stunningly done, and I loved it <3

3.5/5

A very relatable poetry book! Some even particularly speak to me. I wish it wasn't this short because I can see the appeal of her writing.