Thank you, Button Publishing Inc, for the advance reading copy.

This is my personal favourite! I wish I read this collection before I read the author's other poetry collection.

This collection hits home more for me as I can relate and connect to most of the issues expressed in between the lines.

This collection is rather outspoken and straightforward. I love how the author speaks to the different people in our so called society regarding the disrespect shown to the younger disregarding our wants and needs and forcing their ideas on them. The best part is there when the author speaks up about the gender role discrimination.

The general themes cover racial/skin colour discrimination, gender discrimination, body shaming, sexual orientation and mental health.

However, for the Covid pandemic part could have been better and the usage of strong language in some parts could have been toned down a bit.

A nice quick read.

Not a fan. Out of the books of hers that I have read, this was my favorite, but that isn't saying much. I don't feel I am her target audience.

This was an eye-opening poetry collection covering topics such as growing up black and the trials and tribulations and utter barbaric treatment people of colour experiences.

I didn’t get on with some of the poems, but that is my subjective interpretation. I found some hard to process as they were quite long and didn’t make sense in my head. However, poetry is subjective so what I find hard to read, others might love. I still enjoyed it.

This collection of poetry touches on many different topics from female empowerment, racism, mental health, losing a loved one, suicide, etc, and the main focus of this collection of poetry is of women of colour. I really enjoyed this collection of poems and I think this book will end up in a lot of people’s homes along with schools and colleges when it’s released next year.

Thoroughly recommend reading this one. Thanks NetGalley for an e-arc in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you netgalley for the chance to read and review this ARC!

Poetry is an entirely subjective thing and I may not be the right person to rate this collection. As a whole it was a decent one and I will read this poet again; or hear them speak.

This collection spans many topics, including mental health, losing a loved one to suicide, racism and colorism, female empowerment and misogyny, but its main focus is Black womanhood.

I really enjoyed this collection, the poem about Christianity and its views on queer love was my personal favourite, and I also really enjoyed the exploration of losing a loved one to suicide, as someone who has experienced a close family loss that way, I found that poem comforting.

I thoroughly enjoyed these poems about Black women and the trauma they experience throughout their life. This is a book I can see being analyzed in a college class and I could write essays diving into the language and meaning behind each piece. My favorite piece was the comparison of Heart Failure to a Black woman and how the heart fails due to being overworked being compared to how much suffering women go through to harden themselves, sometimes without their own choice. Definitely recommend!