Monday, 14 July 2025
The Lover And Her Human by Winnie Nantongo
These poems are stunningly beautiful at capturing love in all forms good and loving, but also drowning, draining, toxic and harmful.
Set into four parts, Fall, Break, Heal and rise summing up stages of a relationship as it progresses.
I Have Questions You Will Never Answer is such a truthful poem about laying awake unable to figure why someone left leaving you wondering unable to sleep, so relatable to many of us. It also reminded me of the Camila Cabello song, I Have Questions.
Poetry Is My Escape, is a poem I really relate to, writing is a truly good way to cleanse your soul and clear your mind and poetry a great outlet to shed the feelings weighing you down as well as finding others who just get how you can find yourself feeling in any situation.
Sunday, 13 July 2025
Time Is Running and Distance Is Shortening by Adriana Rocha
This poetry collection was writeen so captivatingly discussing topics of love and sex especially really making the passion developing in a relationship felt.
Stand out poems of this collection to me were:
I Am Art, a beautiful poem about the reality of life, living in our unique bodies each beautiful and different to each others.
I Want To Be His, a simple yet beautiful poem of yearning to be with their crush admiring and adoring them from afar. So relatable!
Music, as well, so relatable about in a relationship trying to find how you two work together, harmoniously, rhythmicalluy or otherwise coming together.
The Last Kiss Of Goodbye too, about choisng yourself over someone afraid to commit to anything and remembering to love and put yourself first, it's their loss if they can't commit!
Overall, as a young woman I found this collection as if a big sister were explaining sex and relationships and how they can play out good and bad, the passion and the chase and it was a great read.
Saturday, 12 July 2025
How To Be Ok When Nothing Makes Sense by Noah Grey
Noah always has a way of writing as if his words reaching you through the book are a friend reaching out saying I see you, you'll be ok.
A sort of companion book through life not to guide you but to reassure you that you're doing great whatever situation you find yourself in at that moment. A couple of great points that stood out to I have quoted below:
"Even the ones who look like they’re gliding are often dragging quiet chaos behind them like a broken kite."
Another quote from the book because it hits hard after losing my friend,
"grief is a translation. It’s your heart trying to understand how to keep loving something that’s no longer here." Is such a sad and true
Chapter 16, talks about a simple life and how it can be fulfilling to not be always in a rush in a busy world and finding your joy in living in a way which makes you happier and relaxed not worried or on edge constantly wondering how to do more, in a world that always seem to be rushing round it's a great reflection to read and sit with.
A beautiful book that will make you feel seen and understood whatever you are facing just taking a few minutes to read and sit with the words and reflect on how you feel and how much you have lived through good and bad so far in life.
Friday, 11 July 2025
Glass Girl by Jessyca Thibault
This is a great poetry book for anyone who has been through a relationship that broke down especially through cheating as the author sadly was, I can also relate too unfortunately as well here.
So many poems stood out to me in this collection but mostly, Super Glue and Duct Tape about making time for each other followed by, How It Goes and Why are simple in impact about relationships about how easily you seem to come together then thinking and questioning why they have or you hope they will stick around. Like a ghost too relating to crying in the car to sad songs the real emotions felt in Your Call Has Been Forwarded and Teardrops too because I have been there and felt that completely, liking a guy who went on to ignore me, made me sad then inspired my own writing, much alike the author, Jessyca here, so the joke ended up on the guy's who made us feel low and inspired us to do good from their rubbish actions!
Thursday, 10 July 2025
To Whom This May Apply, A Poetry Collection by J.B Gabriel
A poetry book short and sweet with observastions of life in all aspects of it.
Mother year I found relatable and so true, our mother's wrap us up tight protecting us while they can.
Great little collection to read!
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Collide by Lola Lawrence & Rhett Lawrence
This couple has perfectly made a poetic collection born from love seeping into each page.
I especially loved the layout with backgrounds of some pages bold, bright, detailed, a riot of colour to match the passion in the writing.
Sometimes black on white type when a more powerful pointed message but, still a beautiful look and insight into soulmates and love, colliding and uniting.
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
The Grief Of What's Gone by Sheryl Owens
I was drawn to this book after losing a loved one who would've turned thirty next year, same as me, it seems unreal we won't celebrate together.
The book feels like a friend who understands, as the author does, set across different sections, The Quiet Hours the part of the book I found the most completely relatable to the times I have laid awake thinking of him, many tears, many nights writing thoughts, reading as I did this book in part in the early hours to feel a bit calmer and able to drift into sleep.
Grief truly comes in random waves, I expect him to come home and be never will do again.
The Firsts poem, about doing anything for the first time since they passed away is so heartbreakingly true as well,
I've cried driving and had to pull over, I've cried at home and before losing him, no one in my friend group had even seen me cry, grief changes you and hits you randomly.
There's a beautiful poem about carrying them with you in your mannerisms and I totally speak sometimes how he did with odd words and phrases he used I adapted to as well, in those times I feel love is reminding me he lives on in certain ways.
A song for loss I found helpful is When You Lose Someone by Nina Nesbitt, I hope it helps if you listen to it to feel others get it and are here existing day to day learning how to live again after loss.
A truly beautiful poetry collection.
Monday, 7 July 2025
Texts I Never Sent by Ariel Day
Heartbreakingly beautiful texts that have been typed and remain unsent to an ex.
A simple yet effective way to find some closure and freedom from your thoughts and emotions for sure.
I think many if us can relate to the thoughts and feelings captured in the messages and concept of the book.
Beautiful and heartbreaking words.
Sunday, 6 July 2025
Where No One Looked: 30 Quiet Days of Self-Return by Noah Grey
This was such a great book, one again I found myself nodding along feeling my thoughts heard right from the beginning.
The book is set across 30 days, so thirty poems and writing about life and the very first one myself I have realised over the years becoming an adult, I was emotionally neglected growing up becoming quieter and never reaching out. I am glad to say as an adult, family is who I've met and made so with my friends now in my twenties who see me for the person I am and have my back whenever I need them, reflecting on my own past readng this book makes me thankful for them.
It is a beautiful book to make you think deeply and question life and moments you have lived through as I found myself reflecting and sharing here definitely worth a read!
Saturday, 5 July 2025
Sunsets & Cliffs by Dominika Stančíková
This was a beautiful poetry book and the poems were written like stories, snapshots in verse of a relationship thriving and sadly breaking down.
Gentle fortress was my favourite poem so emotive about coming together as a duo in love.
I also have to say I love the cover design simple in colour but impactful nonetheless showing a girl standing tall solo overlooking the world around and below.
Friday, 4 July 2025
Broken Petals by Stephanie Rose Correa
As flowers grow so do we through life dealing with love, loss, longing and poems too about dealing with anxiety and depression trying to deal with the daily struggle of life these poems were really touching and relatable.
I really liked them being longer poems, each line and verse captured so much feeling to visualise as well.
Thursday, 3 July 2025
Love Story In My Notes App by Rommela Marie Panal
Well, I was drawn to read this collection of poetry just from the title I write lots in my own notes app too and thought here's one I can relate to already!
Push and pull was my favourite poem easily here so relatable about having a crush, becoming friends, wanting more and feeling torn between telling them or just keeping them in your life, been there and been through that!
Simple yet beautiful poems documenting life's rough and tough times.
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Black Roses by Ariel Day
A great collection, as I call, of common sense poetry, you read each word or each line, reflect on it and I find myself nodding along agreeing, it makes so much sense, someone else gets how it can feel in certain situations.
Poetry about parents and love situations I really related to again agreeing along on how much someone else feels how I too have felt in trying to feel you are enough.
The poem, The most popular guy at the funeral, was easily a favourite and made me reflect on my own relationship and how lucky I feel I have someone now who could reply with 20 things I like as Ariel asks her guy in the poem, but, previously I have been in a relationship to realise they dont actually know me, this isn't love, hard as it was and again the poem following it, Naive cynic, was similar again to a situation I went through and generally I love a collection like this that is really relatable and being a shorter collection stans out all the more so impact wise.
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
The One Who Kept Running by Noah Grey
Gentle words written with care of fond memories and telling the story of a relationship breaking up with tender words and aching lines of longing for things to work out differently.
We could've lived a quiet life was a beautiful hopeful poem about imagining a future growing old together which I think all of us could relate to in some way, dreaming or realistically.
Stay, as well as a tender poem, from the title you can imagine why that word words packs in a punch in that one word alone and reminded me of the singer Bank's last album and highly recommended giving that song a listen too, a sort of companion to the poem if you will.
Tender poetry to be a companion through heartbreak or heart ache.
Monday, 30 June 2025
The Hours I Struggle To Talk About Now by Isobel Raine
Isobel is easily one of my favourite poets I have found as my love of poetry has grown.
This collection focuses on poetry born from the late night and early hours when sometimes we feel our emotions strongly especially in a love situation of some kind, it hits different in the night hours when the world slows and you may wait for a message, that may never arrive which she's captured the feelings of love and longing perfectly in this collection.
Sunday, 29 June 2025
Subject Unsent by Isobel Raine
This collection of poems was a raw honest look at heartbreak and the aftermath of dealing with the feelings and emotions written as unsent emails born in the early hours contemplating feelings and processing the emotions in the early hours which can be long dark times unable to sleep from overthinking.
If you've ever written messages to anyone you felt anything for and deleted it this poetry collection is one to relate to for sure worth a read to sit and contemplate.
Saturday, 28 June 2025
Useless by Tanya Landman
When Rob gets a new stepdad he hates him as he feels his dad's been replaced however soon he realizes that his dad chose to leave and the things he liked best about him made him harder to be around...
All about trouble at home and parental issues this is a quick read all about the topic of living but not having that parent be around or reliable and the effect that has on your life growing up.
All about trouble at home and parental issues this is a quick read all about the topic of living but not having that parent be around or reliable and the effect that has on your life growing up.
Friday, 27 June 2025
Butterfly Soul by Michael Patton
A deeply moving collection of poems, after losing someone I cared deeply about these resonate so much in the longing for them not to be forgotten but remembered for who they were not just a marked stone in the ground.
The poem, Prayer After Death, especially encapsulates the feelings of being there at the end to witness the passing but feeling useless and unable to help in a physical save your life way more a hope it's an easy not painful slip away, this collection really felt like grief being understood and shared feelings that we are all not alone losing someone even when it can feel that way.
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Held By Words by Ruel Fordyce
This collection starts with an instant relatable poem, The Weight We Carry, a beautiful way to sum up how I have felt about anxiety, depression, grief and just coping eith life too.
Another poemthat moved me deeply too, The mirror doesn't lie, too is achingly real to how I have and many others I think have often felt growing up and in general everyday life too.
Simple, stunning poems you with surely find make you think and find one at least you can relate too.
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Of Darkness & Light by Despoina Kemeridou
This collection of poetry does have a dark theme mentioning suicidal thoughts and idealisation so trigger warning here please do not read if it will upset you, take care.
This collection of poems were sadly beautifully relatable as someone who has struggled with depression for years and dealt with suicidal thoughts at times and losing someone very close to me, these poems really resonated with me.
The poem Painting smiles, was easily my favourite about overcoming the dark times together if possible before it overwhelms you and drastic action from the pain is taken. The book was dark but through the darkness can come light as perfectly portrayed here in this collection of poems.
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
Verses Of The Heart by Aakanksha Nileshkumar Chauhan
This book was beautiful a collection of longer poetry that was woven together so carefully especially the poem Kindness which mirrors exactly how I feel about treating others and hoping to be reflected back.
Hug and Trust, again, two poems beautifully woven to capture the feeling of appreciation and giving love and The Sun and Moon is stunning too.
Beyond The Rain was so relatable about faking smiles daily despite pain of any kind too.
Poems with good common sense messages of how to appreciate and treat yourself and others well and equal.
Monday, 23 June 2025
Showerthoughts By Carrie-Anne Riding
A great collection of poetry from how we view ourselves harshly trying to love our bodies and the person we are, to bullying and depression too as a passing season that returns, relatble truth I felt right there how it can come with a mixture of emotions and feelings the wild weather often matches in seasons!
Great little snippets of poetry, nonetheless impactful but, shows the power even a couple of lines of poetry can have with such impactful ways with words.
Villains dressed as heroes was a playful painfulful twist on love and lust too which I particularly found clever and relatable.
Sunday, 22 June 2025
The Essential Guide To Bulbs by Jenny Rose Carey
The cover of this book drew me in as someone who does enjoy photographing nature, I was hoping and was happily so surprised by some beautiful detailed photo's of flowers blooming from bulb.
Packed with chapters of detail about how to plant and nurture bulbs as a beginner with only a few mere daffodils, a pineapple plant and a passionflower in my garden so far this was a great guide for learning more about how to plant and nurture the bulbs to be strong beautiful flowers definitely a handy book to refer to.
Saturday, 21 June 2025
Like I Don't Exist by Kaitlan C. Farrior
A beautiful poetry book, as every poetry book often is there's multiple poems I found so relatable.
I love the poem The Shadow Author as it can feel like our life has a set story we're following along living what someone else had planned for us and not what we desire to live through and experience in any way.
It is well set out and each poem is often set out in verse talking about a range of subjects such as, toxic relationships, lost love, grief and how it feels like the world has fallen apart around you how it altered that world around you forever too.
Friday, 20 June 2025
This Is Why I'm Tired by Faith Hubble
This collection of poetry focuses on Faith herself and the pressures she feels in daily life especially as a mother keeping everyone in the family and the house and daily tasks on track.
A real eye-opening collection of poems how a busy house and family life can lead to feeling unnecessary mental loads.
I myself am not a parent, however, the poem about mental tabs being open in your brain like a computer I have often said to people myself in my work, I've felt like there's too much on my shoulders to get through and I can fully relate to Faith feeling like tasks are never ending on many days it can make you stressed and lose sleep alike Faith herself wrote.
This was an intriguing but nonetheless, honest look into life as an adult adapting to be a wife, mother, anchor for the household and shows how much mothers and parents take on in their households.
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Don't Let Go by Autumn Graves
Firstly, the cover, simple and obvious imagery, don't let go of life or each other, who may be struggling, beautiful and simple design.
Secondly, the actual poetry, is all about finding purpose and joy in dreaming and acting on to make a new brighter future happen by dreaming yourself there in the future with some positive thinking and actions.
The nights can be dark, long, feel lonely but out there if you are awake struggling just remember, others are too out in this world, you are never alone, even if it feels like that sometimes.
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Accumulated Poems by D Ortega
Beautiful poetry collection summing up growing up and life's events we can encounter over the years.
My favourite from this collection was easily Broken Reflection I find it really true and relatable as well as the ending poem to poets and poetry lovers was a lovely note to us readers, writers and lovers of poetry indeed too.
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Radio Boy by Christian O'Connell
Spike hosts a show on a hospital radio station only after getting fired as his show isn't very popular, he finds out he's being replaced by Graeme's gardening hour show!
Feeling down as radio is his passion, a dedicated member of his schools A/V club alongside friends Holly and Archie and encouraged by Mr Taggard his teacher, he sets up his own radio station from his shed at home thanks to his dad's credit card and permission.
Up against the school radio show which is pathetic as the head masters son runs it with no passion, Spike uses his pseudonym Radio Boy and it rockets him to popularity amongst the pupils even when he starts to let it all go to his head and demand no more homework and a protest that suddenly turns on its head to make them hunt Radio Boy and find out his true identity!
Full of hilarious antics, kooky characters including the headmaster and Graeme the gardener the book is a unique children's read with regular children as the protagonists. We witness all the antics and challenges Spike and his friends face and I hope it inspires future radio hosts and dj's as Spike makes it super fun!
Feeling down as radio is his passion, a dedicated member of his schools A/V club alongside friends Holly and Archie and encouraged by Mr Taggard his teacher, he sets up his own radio station from his shed at home thanks to his dad's credit card and permission.
Up against the school radio show which is pathetic as the head masters son runs it with no passion, Spike uses his pseudonym Radio Boy and it rockets him to popularity amongst the pupils even when he starts to let it all go to his head and demand no more homework and a protest that suddenly turns on its head to make them hunt Radio Boy and find out his true identity!
Full of hilarious antics, kooky characters including the headmaster and Graeme the gardener the book is a unique children's read with regular children as the protagonists. We witness all the antics and challenges Spike and his friends face and I hope it inspires future radio hosts and dj's as Spike makes it super fun!
Monday, 16 June 2025
To the Man I Loved Too Much by Gabrielle G
This poetry collection was relatable about love for a guy who doesn't love you right or the way you should be, toxic relationships, dealing with the hurt and jealousy that can leave you feeling and coping with.
I C U, was such a clever play on words/letters and was my favourite from this collection of poetry about loving someone for everything flaws and all.
Sunday, 15 June 2025
More Than Just Love by May L
Detailing all the little ways love has grown and been nurtured over time from accepting each other, making time and holding space for each other, this book details all the little intricacies we fall in love with in our partners that makes the loving bond all the more deeper and accepted.
A short but sweet collection of poetry about feelings between two people in a loving relationship and appreciating them for all they are.
Saturday, 14 June 2025
When He Leaves You by Michaela Angemeer
Starting from childhood venturing through life from dealing with parents separating and love breaking down, to finding love with someone for the first time and experiencing the relationship fall apart over time this book was another moving collection of short poetry.
I found the most relatable poem in this selection, around the theme and idea of chasing bodily perfection with the author asking if she was smaller would he have stayed after losing her appetite after he left.
I found it heart breaking and so relatable as someone who struggle with anorexia as a teen and been through a rough heartbreak too, I can't lie when I say I have felt exactly the same way.
The take away from this book is to use it as a companion through heartbreak to realise the issues if he leaves are with him, though it may not feel like it, he would stay if he wanted despite you loving him without it being reciprocal you're better off keeping yourself happy l, someone else will appreciate and accept you for being you, wonderful as you are!
Friday, 13 June 2025
F*ckboy Love by Aria Hill
I will be honest I was completely intrigued by the title into reading this poetry collection having enjoyed Aria's last collection.
I really related to aspects of the poems wanting to feel seen and wanted in a situationship/relationship and not knowing where you stand. The hoodie poem really stood out to me the most I feel a lot of us have an ex or partner we loved their hoodie for a time!
A collection of poetry about acceptance of yourself deserving better than a waste of space relationship leaving you doubting yourself and desiring their attention when they look elsewhere, we all deserve healthy love.
Thursday, 12 June 2025
For When She's Feeling Blue by Edgar Holmes
What a touching book, written by Edgar for his partner dealing with depression, such emotive and realistic poetry about life effected by depression which I utterly relate to.
I particularly like the poem about men and Instagram, the relationship a guy liking other posts from other girls can effect their relationship with their parnet tremendously in this age. Such a simple yet impactful little poem that was to read and mull over and very much common sense that some guys overlook their real life relationship for the one with their phone.
It was a great poetry book for anyone struggling feeling alone and low, this book I feel sums up perfectly how our partners can feel about our silent struggle when it gets overwhelmingly dark for us.
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Breathless by Pam Withers
Beverly goes to Hawaii to stay with her Uncle Tom and do some diving which she loves.
However wanting to be noticeable and desirable to guys, she doesn't eat anything wanting to lose ten pounds in ten days and as the crash diet takes hold of her accidents occur...
This book was very realistic about the effects on your body from not eating anything for a long stretch of time. The struggles she goes through with her health is very real and the repercussions made this book a gripping quick read. The relationship with Garth, a diving instructor to me was unclear whether e was trying to push her or even harm her but by the ending seems doubted by Beverly herself despite her struggles. Overall it was still worth a read.
However wanting to be noticeable and desirable to guys, she doesn't eat anything wanting to lose ten pounds in ten days and as the crash diet takes hold of her accidents occur...
This book was very realistic about the effects on your body from not eating anything for a long stretch of time. The struggles she goes through with her health is very real and the repercussions made this book a gripping quick read. The relationship with Garth, a diving instructor to me was unclear whether e was trying to push her or even harm her but by the ending seems doubted by Beverly herself despite her struggles. Overall it was still worth a read.
Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Hello Grief by by Alessandra Olanow
I had to read this book after discovering it after a loss of a beloved friend in my life that came from nowhere.
It was completely unexpected and so finding a book to relate to my feelings someone else had felt to some part too felt natural to me.
I have to say it was a great book to read with short snappy poetry, illustrations showing how you may be feeling, from regrets and things left unsaid to just learning how to adapt and cope in the new situation without that person you're missing.
The drawing that got me most, was the desire to hug the person and now you can't and never will again and regretting being unable to tell them what they meant to you, so badly, it honestly made me tear up thinking of times I've gone to text my friend new songs or funny videos and now can't.
An astonishingly relatable book and a companion book to realise your grief is valid for the person you are missing most reach out and give this book a go if you are feeling alone in your grief and be kind to yourself.
Monday, 9 June 2025
Learning To Love Myself by Alex Aubrey
This was a great collection of short but impactful poetry of common sense and advice, real straight talk. If a relationship doesn't make you happy, walk away because someone else, even yourself can love you better.
As Alex also says, never change yourself to make someone love you, put yourself first being you, someone will love you for that and who you are, learn to walk away from any situation you aren't happy in and you are capable of the right love, self love.
Sunday, 8 June 2025
Even Flowers Don't Like Being Steeped On By Kaitlan C. Farrior
This book really personified flowers in each poem they were described as bwing human like in character which was really fun to think about and how nurturing flowers alike checking in on people can help them be supported to grow and be strong and resilient.
A beautiful idea for a collection of poetry.
Saturday, 7 June 2025
We Bloom In The Dark By Aria Hill
With themes of trying to please your parents born into a life of trying to be enough, good enough, for everyone else and trying to find your identity, struggles with depression and how it separates you from who you are at your core and who you crave to be yet yearn for that wanting to get well.
Aria's writing is so relatable and refreshing to me documenting feelings in short impactful poetry about the struggles life can give us in the background we grow from.
Friday, 6 June 2025
Breathing In Broken Spaces by Belinda Daou
This was a beautiful collection of poetry on love and feelings from the time in the relationship and how reflecting on love lost makes you feel.
How so deep into the relationship you can lose who you were as you become a team, a duo, so when that ends how your life can feel so much different to before, after giving that person and relationship your everything to keep the love alive and going.
The poems touch on themes of love to hate, hope to commiserations, endings and beginnings of relationships and the feelings that leaves you dealing with and how broken that relationship can leave you to grieve and heal alone from.
If you are going through a heartbreak and need a book to show you how you feel is valid and others get how you feel in their own circumstances, this collection of poetry is easily one to pick up and find instant relatability in feelings.
Thursday, 5 June 2025
Just Trying To Exist By Aria Hill
Well from the first introductory page from the author herself, Aria, explaining why and how she came to write this book I have to say I can relate to her struggles growing up she references as I think many people will do, I have to say putting her honest experience in the book made it feel all the more personal from the start.
The poems start from time before the pandemic, feelings during and feeling a sense of loss of life for how it was always so busy and friends and joy that seemed very far removed how social media became a sour, though once happy, place to turn to reminding you of old normal life.
There was also discussion I'm saying a trigger warning here for, domestic abuse, alcohol abuse, eating disorders and isolation, each showing their effects of the author and her life at the time.
Overall, this collection of poetry is one of my favourites I read it in one sitting to feel it then again to gather my thoughts and feel mu relatable feelings with the authors story.
The final poem, You Made It, was easily the most truest reflection of past and hope for future and present, a poem of sorts to is all reading to realise life can get better.
An astonishingly wonderful, emotion rich debut for an author I will absolutely be keeping up reading poetry from.
I will end by saying this, love is in the little actions repeatedly showing you how well you are seen and loved for how and who your are which is unique, a whole message I have always felt close to telling others hence my online social handles, a message I can totally get behind pushing everyone to realise their unique person they are is special and wonderful, remember that today, read of this review.
Wednesday, 4 June 2025
Chasing Euphoria by Nicole Mcallister
All about falling in love and the pain when it comes apart at the seams of the relationship breaking down from the happy place you were in.
That being said, the author depicts the beauty in finding a love within yourself that is enough to carry on and enjoy the simple beauty the world around us brings everyday which I feel all the more is aided by the simple lovely cover for the book.
After all, the sky and clouds are works of nature's art we are all lucky enough to witness and can't create ourselves.
Tuesday, 3 June 2025
My Story & Me by Kate Rosewood
This was a beautiful poetry book by Kate, is very honest opening up about her feelings of never feeling enough which I'm sure a lot of us can relate to and how when trying to please others so often you forget to do what makes you happy most of all.
Each poem was powerful in it's writing tone and cleverly crafted to be so impactful and of course I can't not mention the use of colour, images and drawings to annotate many of the poems and give them even more of a personal touch too.
Monday, 2 June 2025
Love In Bloom Volume 2 The Darkness & The Light by Cheryl Bradshaw
This book was a really raw read facing some dark painful topics of abuse, rape and miscarriage.
As someone who has friends who've deal with these separate situations this book hit me all the more honest each poem was at depicting each terrifying situation the author found herself in for the first part entitled The Darkness.
However, in The Light part after all the pain life has shown and brought, Cheryl we see how adventure and love can change your life and in one poem, a note to single women, which I really agree with letting in a guy who you randomly meet and connect with, it does happen at some point I can agree!
Another moving and emotional poetry book but definitely a trigger warning here for anyone who may find the subjects mentioned upsetting.
Sunday, 1 June 2025
She Deserves Better by Anika Kaur
Great poetry collection full of candid raw poems of love, lust and coping with relationships breaking up and the aftermath.
Wtitten in a mix long and short poems this collection may have varying lengths of poems but still pack so kuch emotion in each one a really beautiful collection of how love can near break you.
My favourite poems were by far these two, Vulnerable and Hope, the themes are strong and raw and just made me feel so seen and heard in how I've felt in love before.
Saturday, 31 May 2025
I Used To Love You by Emilia Miak
Such a great book working through emotional turmoil of loving someone and feeling the loss of them in your life how it impacts you with memories and flashbacks to happier times all completed with little hand drawn illustratiuons addimng to the raw emotion of the book.
My favourite poem was I used to love you, quite fitting being the title of the collection of poetry!
To me it swas a simple but emotional concept of love's effect on your heart
Agony too following directly from the former poem, of the impact of losing your cloest love directly impacting the rest of your life in situations, with how powerful love can be.
Simply beautiful collection of moving poetry.
Friday, 30 May 2025
By Popular Demand Gracie Dart Book 3 by Jess Vallance
In book three we see how Grace tries to become more popular and make new friends. However, we soon see you can't force these things as she comes to learns as she by chance falls in with a popular girl and so her friends do too.
As she helps her new friend to run her cake and entertainment party business she also deals with the crush she has on her, only her new friend is straight...
We also see how Grace comes to realise alike in the other books just how much true friends matter and how you should pay attention and help them in times of need. Gracie always has such an adventurous life and experiences some odd and hilarious at times too situations which this book didn't lack at all once again.
As she helps her new friend to run her cake and entertainment party business she also deals with the crush she has on her, only her new friend is straight...
We also see how Grace comes to realise alike in the other books just how much true friends matter and how you should pay attention and help them in times of need. Gracie always has such an adventurous life and experiences some odd and hilarious at times too situations which this book didn't lack at all once again.
Thursday, 29 May 2025
My Life Uploaded by Rae Earl
Millie and her female cat Dave are back in a fun but serious new book you will enjoy.
As Millie can't take her mum's boyfriend anymore, she moves into her dad's to get a break from the obsessive cleaning regime and get some proper peace and space.
Lauren is still suffering her arguing parents all the time at home though and encourages Millie to vlog proper for YouTube with Dave.
When Danny the new school hot boy and Bradley a fellow vlogger who helps her with her channel and they hang out a lot around escalators of all things, both start to notice he at school, Millie has a dilemma, who does she like and in what way?
She also starts her advice vlog only to have school bully/social media queen Erin try to take her down and make her quit...
Millie shows resilience throughout the book never giving up on her friends, family or vlogging due to bullies. A great role model but also humorous throughout especially with the crazy vacuum and Dave the cat too! If you loved Louise Rennisons books this is for you!
As Millie can't take her mum's boyfriend anymore, she moves into her dad's to get a break from the obsessive cleaning regime and get some proper peace and space.
Lauren is still suffering her arguing parents all the time at home though and encourages Millie to vlog proper for YouTube with Dave.
When Danny the new school hot boy and Bradley a fellow vlogger who helps her with her channel and they hang out a lot around escalators of all things, both start to notice he at school, Millie has a dilemma, who does she like and in what way?
She also starts her advice vlog only to have school bully/social media queen Erin try to take her down and make her quit...
Millie shows resilience throughout the book never giving up on her friends, family or vlogging due to bullies. A great role model but also humorous throughout especially with the crazy vacuum and Dave the cat too! If you loved Louise Rennisons books this is for you!
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Beautiful Ever After by Katie Piper
In this next book following Katie and her life following her horrific acid attack she tells us How she went through a struggle to find love and how her family dream of having a baby too came true as a heartbreaking fact made its self known and how she had too be strong as her mum fell ill and one of her attackers came up to appeal for parole this book is full of true life drama.
Katie is a strong and courageous woman and this next book from her sharing the next chapter in her life was truly inspiring and a great reminder to let nothing hold you back, ever.
Katie is a strong and courageous woman and this next book from her sharing the next chapter in her life was truly inspiring and a great reminder to let nothing hold you back, ever.
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Love Her Wild by Atticus
Poems all about Love, Her and being Wild in your joy and zest for life taking chances this collection of poetry has some of life's highest happy points as well as the lowest points of love in breaking up or choosing a new passion in life.
Be warned this book is utterly truthful in what each poem speaks and is super moving and emotion drawing.
Monday, 26 May 2025
We All Dare to Dream: Stories of Heartache and Hope from Your Fertility Journeys by Izzy Judd
As a lifelong McFly fan I have started to read the guys and their wive's books at long last.
Izzy has a story like mine, diagnosed with PCOS only she recalls her struggles to become pregnant while I'm not there to try yet!
This mini book brings together other readers and band fans writing their struggle and story down in this little book to share around to help other women to know they're not alone and the struggle to become pregnant can effect any one of us in differing ways. I personally relate to a lot of the stories knowing couples still trying IVF after failed rounds, couples easily fell pregnancy and in my situation expecting to need IVF due to PCOS health issues this was an open and informative book dealing with the subject sensitively.
Izzy has a story like mine, diagnosed with PCOS only she recalls her struggles to become pregnant while I'm not there to try yet!
This mini book brings together other readers and band fans writing their struggle and story down in this little book to share around to help other women to know they're not alone and the struggle to become pregnant can effect any one of us in differing ways. I personally relate to a lot of the stories knowing couples still trying IVF after failed rounds, couples easily fell pregnancy and in my situation expecting to need IVF due to PCOS health issues this was an open and informative book dealing with the subject sensitively.
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