4/5 stars

This is like a 4 stars overall for everything- the style, the content, etc.-, but emotionally I'm rating this about 5000 stars? Roundabout? Some things were a miss (it felt like things were repeated, this felt really long after a while, the sex poems made me uncomfortable but that's just a general thing I'm not used to in poetry, etc.) but overall I loved this.

I've been going through a really difficult time with a lot of friendships I made in my first year of university falling apart based on their reactions to minor mistakes I made- nothing life threatening or things I've done out of malicious intent, just making the wrong decision to not tell people things when I should've, and after apologising, found them pretending to like me while they said awful things about me and several other people behind our backs. The poems in this helped me recognise the mistakes I made and then confront the reality: I made a mistake, and I apologised more than once, but the friendships I had were toxic and in reality I wasn't seeing what these people were really like the whole time I knew them because I wanted them to like me so, so badly. I will never get apologies from these people for the way they treated me after I apologised for something that wasn't even that bad, and I need to stop letting that dominate my thoughts and become strong enough to form friendships in my second year that aren't with people so willing to treat other people like shit.

Thank you, R.H. Sin, for making the fallout just that bit more bearable. The path of recovery doesn't seem so daunting and lonely anymore.