Even if you don’t immediately recognize the name r.h. Sin, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with his work. His poetry has taken Instagram and the poetry world by storm, popularizing the writing form in a way that the world hasn’t seen in quite some time.

A Beautiful Composition of Broken is r.h. Sin’s sixth collection and serves as an ode to the beautifully broken. His words touch on women finding strength within themselves, the brokenhearted mending their wounds, and the insecure learning to find the confidence they’ve always had.

I had pretty mixed feelings about this collection. On one hand, it felt a little thrown together with no real order or true theme, aside from a few multi-part poems. There was a lot of repetition, and a lot of poems that were really just a few words separated by line breaks. On the other hand, there were several absolutely stellar poems that made me want to shout from the rooftops and tattoo the words across my entire body.

It was definitely worth it for the handful of phenomenal poems, but overall wasn’t my favorite collection.

3 stars.

Note: I received an ARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This book made me be on the verge of tears. Just the way he puts his heart on the table so open and raw is amazing. Only took me an hour to finish. My book is all dog tagged amd underlined my favorite parts. Love love love RH Sin

i thought
a big book
of quick poems
would be fun.

i was wrong.

the words
on the surface, at least
carry truth
but they seem more empty than inspiring

So I was a huge fan based off of the first book I read by R.h. Sin, but this one just didn’t do it for me.

I didn’t feel like I connected. Some of what was written was off, the lines were blurring together and I didn’t feel some of it even made sense.

I get it; “you have to dig deep.”

I reached all the way into the side of my big black cold heart and I didn’t feel anything. The only thing I felt during this book was how nothing related to me, nothing really spoke to me.

I just didn’t like it, but you may, so if you’re thinking about reading it then go for it. I just didn’t find comfort in this one at all.