"Falling apart doesn't make you weak
A strong heart is capable of breaking"

"The girls who love books
Have the sweetest love to give"

Again I am blown away by the power r.h. Sin has over painful raw poetry. Where I've been with my life recently suits this book so much just as the others also have. We have all experienced some degree of pain and I just feel my thoughts and emotions so beautifully echoed in the words of this book. Definitely something to come back and read again and again.

Decent Enough

I was pretty disappointed with this collection. Most of the poems were more like sentences and could have been pulled from anywhere. It wasn't very poetic or thought out for the most part.

I am in the worst reading slump I have ever been in so because of that I want to give this book a fair shot later

I will never have anything negative to say about r.h. Sin. His poems are quite honestly the most relatable poems I have ever met. Even though I am currently in a healthy place mentally, I still found myself being able to relate to multiple works in this collection. My favorite poems include "sine sensu", "4:23:08 p.m.", and "anima II". I will continue to read Sin's poetry and I suggest you do yourself a favor and read some too.

I found this book to be supremely disappointing, given the acclaim I’ve heard regarding R.H. Sin’s talent. To begin - I love poetry. I love free verse poetry. Poetry without any punctuation whatsoever isn’t art - it’s laziness. His periodic use of rhyme is half-hearted. Some of his poems aren’t really poems, but random thoughts, and he writes the same thing over and over. There’s no real structure to the order of poems in the book. R. H. Sin is a self-proclaimed feminist poet, but I found this label to be a falsehood. As a man, writing from the perspective of women/ describing how you believe women should feel regarding their relationships doesn’t make you a feminist - it makes you the author of pretentious platitudes (I saw another reviewer use the word “platitudes” to describe this book, and I found it extremely apt). Finally, Sin often goes into detail about how incredible his work is, and how the people no longer in his life will miss him because he’s the best thing that ever happened to them. He even talks about how amazing he is at sex. It’s very self-serving, and I did not like his tone. I look forward to reading his other poetry, and I hope they will be more well thought-out representations of his work.

I waffled a lot on this one, between 3 and 2.
TL;DR - strongest when speaking from his own pain rather than for another gender.

Some really poignant and pointed poems, short and sweet. As in:

potion.
she refused to be anyone's cup of tea
she was more so the finest glasses of whiskey

He writes spot on of pain and broken relationships.

Weaknesses:
Needed stronger editing. A couple times a poem was just a couple lines off of an earlier poem, would have been strengthened by placing them right after each other or eliminating one. In general it felt repetitive.

Finally, he speaks FOR women a couple of times in ways that just rubbed me wrong. The tone of "Now let me tell you how to appreciate a strong woman.." just could have done without.

As in:

kingless.
she's single
which makes her
a kingless queen
and that's okay

Um...nope. She's not "less" anything. She's complete as she is.