The Last Time I Waited for You: Words for Letting Go of a Love Without Leaving Yourself Behind by Matias Sebastian Gemelli

This was a beautiful poetic prose telling of how life remains continuous after heartbreak, the mundane way of life continues but how to you, everything that was your normal has altered. Some stand out poems to me were: The Phone Face Up, was such a relatable poem of hoping, wishing and waiting for the text or call from them that may or may not arrrive. Bargaining With The Past, about revisiting old messages as if evidence to trawl through of when things changed was again, so relatable. Your Name In Other Voices, was another poem of the easy way names can trigger thoughts, feelings, memories and alter your mood. Breadcrumbs, how a simple little sentence, a question, can make you crave more, not receive more nor the proper commitment you desire. Online, about the way digital presence can feed us slivers to stay hooked until no contact becomes solidly and silently the way the connection remains. A real, honest and raw account of life loving and losing the one you adored most.

The Shape Of What Stayed by Cassandra Jaye

This poetry collection focuses on the way that a parent can shape your life, positively or negatively and in this case too, how a narcissistic mother can affect a child growing up into adulthood. The collection also discusses how grief of your beloved can affect you forever in every day life from mundane shopping habits daily to the inevitability of you growing older and aging which they never got to and the future you never got to have together either and the ways life remains the same but altered forever beyond that moment of deepest loss and lingering grief.

Broken Scabs by L.Q. Murphy

Some fun rhyming poetry of ideas of bad things that could happen and ways to heal and adapt from them as well as trying and relying on only yourself in life, trying and failing multiple time but keeping going. The book was also illustrated with simple little drawings to bring each poem more to life vividly.

Poetry Tales Reflections In Rhyme by Bridget Ziana

This collection of poems are reflections of times in life and set over time around the covid pandemic, how it changed life in every way, in work, love and daily living from home too. Documenting life following the pandemic and the aftermath, Here We Are, was a poem which really spoke of how the world witnessed the chaos of the pandemic. Transportation Tribulations, is a poem that will make you laugh, guaranteed about how wild a tube journey can be with a menagerie of characters causing a riot. Over all, this collection is a great mix, lots of longer poems with a lot of great rhyming too, which not always all poetry does or has to rhyme so it was great to read a classic poetry style set in stanza's and verse.

Peanut Butter Chocolate: A Collection of Love Poems by Ezymoney

The dedication alone in this book of poetry was so sweet to read let alone the poetry! Showing such a dedication and bond between two people it made me smile thinking a guy can write so openly about his feelings, to me that is rare and a special thing indeed, Amara I hope you see how wonderful this relationship you two have is sharing time, moments nurturing connection souls aligning thinking alike, truly beautiful collection of poetry!

The Devil's Sister by Kate J. Blake

When vampire Raphael refuses to accompany his sister, Beatrice, to a masquerade ball, as she wants to find her mate, she is put in a position, yet her desire for love wins. However, Leonardo and Darius are two brothers, ruthless in thinking of how to avenge Raphael for their parent's death's caused by him. A book full of twists and turns in the plot whilst being about love and family at heart, the irony of them being vampire's and all that! Seriously for a quick story it was really well set out and flowed easily and Beatrice's handling of her situation so relatable torn between love and family, a brilliant quick read for an evening.

An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping a Pet Rabbit: Handling, Feeding, Housing, and Grooming by Adriana Cinteza

As a rabbit owner from being born to parents who owned two little rabbits before I even came along, I've always loved reading and learning about them more as each rabbit has taught me something I haven't known before and this guide was great for covering most things. I particularly liked that the book was laid out into sections from finding where to buy a rabbit, costs of lifelong care, of which my last and eldest boy Splodge was ten, people often overlook the longterm vets bills and just focus on food and hay whoch can be cheap but thats only basic care as the book details. There's even tips on care and socialising rabbits which we've had both singular rabbits living in home and duo's that did and didn't get along. This guide really does prepare you as a beginner for everything you can expect to face and coming from growing up with rabbits if I was a new owner with no experience it's really detailed for all ages to be able to use and learn what to expect.

25 Roses by Stephanie Faris

As Valentine's day approaches Mia and her best friend Ashleigh sell chocolate roses in school.

Popular girls always get then so Mia buys extras and adds to the list making less popular people happy to receive one for once only when they want to know who sent them does trouble start

She has a crush on Alex her best friend while Ashleigh is her best friend with a secret crush then she sends roses to Sun a girl who needs a make over...

She gets asked to help do make overs especially by school mean girl who wants everything to go her way all the time including getting a guy.

This was a great book highlighting the good and bad that Valentine's can cause and how friendship means more than any action can show.

In the Beginning There Was Only Darkness by Soraya

Split into four big poems reading as stories, talking of life and death and the fragility of life and how we grow up dealing with all our feeling and emotions, a poetry collection to get you deep thinking.

The 30 Day Reset For The Anxiously Attached by Noah Grey

Noah has written another great guide to read and reflect along to with many good points raised. Stand out parts to me of this collection to me were: Day 11, about building the idea of a future with someone who isn't always present with you in some way. Day 22, about the bare minimum of basic respect, like a text back being met without you questioning or them leaving you hanging. I really enjoy Noah's books they always get me thinking deep about situations in life past and present and relate a lot to many points he get you reflecting on opening thinking and growing from your thoughts and reactions of the past to present.