Meet Me At Table Twelve by Everly True

This was a great book full of humorous language and for the characters mixing literal business with pleasure for the two main characters working together closely trying to ignore their connection was brilliant to read and sweet to see their dynamic play out as they work closely together, it was a sweet and fun quick read with a great dynamic between the two main characters.

Ache And The Glow by Darshika Jain

This poetry collection focuses on during and after relationships and break-ups. Some stand out poems to me were: Guests Of The Soul, was a powerful poem alike how people fill rooms it's who stays after entering or chooses to return again and again who truly care and matter most. Half Naked Truth, about self perception from the mirror's reflection and how we can judge harshly our image over our personality within. For The Men Who Love Softly, talking how men are beautiful too in how they love gently, softly, caring for their family, partner, kids and being quietly caring in actions. More Than Flowers, how building a life starts with small gestures into larger commitments as time goes on, a bouquet over time choosing, becomes a garden to nurture together. A beautiful collection of becoming poems from the right love that makes you glow and shine bright when it's right.

To My First and Only Star by Salin Vishwakarma

This was a beautiful collection of poetry to first love and speaking directly to 'yew' their beloved in a series of poems of hope and wishes for them though they may now be apart, they can still wish them well for their now separate futures for what they did share at the time and the lasting meaningful memories from their moments together.

You Felt Like Home: Reflections On Love, Green Flags & Everything In Between by Amber Scott

This was a beautiful collection of poetic reflections of love how the right relationship and person makes everything softer, brighter, joyful, feeling the ease of being equal partners, plain simple mutual feelings with added sweetness, kindness, the beauty of a name being such a simple thing we say yet like music about the one you love and the way the beauty of the natural world speaks to you when comparing it to love and finding a half that feels complete with you blooming and growing, glowing and feeling like you're at home with the one you love.

I Laughed So Nobody Asked by T.Euke

This collection focuses on the quiet ones, the people that can be perceived as loud, happy etc but deep inside likes the quiet, the fragile truth masked, alike the cover of the collection was clever in showing with the use of the removed mask laid down. Talking of how depression isn't just visible crying and sadness and the way we pretend too often rather than being open and hoenst with struggles for fear of judgement, the way we can easily serve up compassion for others but not ourselves, instead often speaking harshly to our own self and the way depression takes small moment's and makes you feel like they're forecasts of the future, happy or sad and how frightening and daunting it can be to be honest and answer that deeply, you're not ok, how the mirror can feel like a liar when you look and see nothing special unlike how others see you and celebrate you easily and how depression can move in and swallow up space where things you loved and enjoyed and found joy in get taken away. I particularly enjoyed the final note reaching out to anyone relating to the collection in the words shared and honestly as a retail worker and someone who has experienced using antidepressants, I always look at everyone I encounter in daily life with kindness and compassion because it is so true that we don't know what each other cannot bring themselves to say aloud and is dealing with quietly.

Read This When You're Not Okay by T.Euke

I love a book that makes you think and reflect especially after facing rough and tough times and this book was absolutely one that reaches deep within your heart and mind to make you think about what you've faced, survived and continue to live, survive and maybe even learn to thrive after. From comparison and feelings that weigh heavy, this book is a companion style read to make you realise thoughts and feelings will pass they're not here forever and read this book when you need a hand to process how you're feeling and check in with yourself.

If Soul's Remember by T.Euke

This collection focuses on the way meeting someone can feel like a reunion though you've never met before timing was right and you crossed paths. Focusing on the concept's of making room, saving space to be ready when the right person arrives, unexpectedly right on time and the waiting, remembering and listening along the way including the tiny things and truths becoming you and making you who you are and how building comfort in smiles and silence that's peaceful and inevitably in me becoming we so easily.

Becoming Poems Of Wholeness by Evelyn Valehart

This poetry collection speaks of how the natural world, every light, every night, embraces the pieces of us, good and bad, broken and sad, a map to be whole again in a new way from healing and discovering how to be whole as we grow through life and situations.

Bloom Poems Of Healing by Evelyn Valehart

This was a beautiful collection of poems on slowing down and appreciating all the beauty of the natural world around us continuing on even when we're so busy and how alike flowers we are too needing water to nurture and sunlight to feel and heal through life.

Whispers Of Night by T.Euke

This collection is inspired by the night, the thought's and feelings that can creep in and settle with us. Some stand out poems of this collection to me were: Hunger Has A Voice, I Chose The Fall and What The Body Knows, are the three opening poems which map the way how we can feel the anticipation before the becoming and breaking of undeniable chemistry leading to action inevitably. Quiet Devotion and Moonlight Rules, about fitting easily amd the safety intimacy and softness can make you feel both seen and vulnerable in the tender dark hours. A collection that speaks of how the weight of night-time can lead to embracing the deepest thoughts and desires honestly.