This is a great book. This was my first time reading Sin’s work, and I wasn’t disappointed. I love the thought and the power that he evoked into his work. I can’t wait to read more of his books. I would recommend this to someone going through a rough patch because it’s very empowering.

I really do appreciate what Andrews McMeel does for young, fresh poets like this--I gave Rupi Kaur's "Milk and Honey" 5 stars without even really considering it a great work of poetry. What it does for teenage girls is invaluable, it feels so universal, and the fact that the bookstore where I work has sold so many copies to young women makes me hopeful for this movement of self-love.

This book, however, is a bland imitation of that, and I can't for the life of me remember a single word from half an hour of reading this in Barnes & Noble. Maybe in another book of Sin's this is successful, but the badass cover art doesn't even save this from feeling like 3am iPhone notes you wake up and delete.

I think my problem was that some of the poems felt like some on the previous books, but others were really good.

loving yourself


will save your soul