(more like 1.5 stars) 
 I don't really know how I feel abut this ... underwhelmed and a little confused, maybe. 
 A little disclaimer at the beginning: This poetry collection is impossible to rate because it's about Rupi's experiences, her love life, her hurting and healing. Writing those poems is what got her through a hard time and who am I to judge that? It's none of my business how she deals with break-ups and therefore my rating is based off two things: 1. the language quality of the poems and 2. the feelings the poems evoked in me (the latter being quite irrelevant because it's just my very unimportant opinion). 
 With that being said, let's jump straight into the review. 
 I read this poetry collection at my local bookstore in about an hour which means I havn't spend much time analyzing the poems whilst reading because a) I found them to be very straight forward (contemporary language, easy to understand, no hidden messages) and b) quite repetitive (same use of words, several poems which at their core tell the same thing). I definetly plan on re-reading this poetry collection because there were a few poems or just simple one-liners that really resonated with me and which I like to write in my little book of quotes. 
 So this collection is split into 4 chapters: the hurting, the loving, the breaking and the healing. Whereas the first chapter deals a lot with Rupi's problematic relation to her dad (which resulted into her mistrust in men and sexuality/ femininity etc.) the latter three about her first love, the good, the bad, the ugly and how she managed to get over her first break up. 
 I'm not a romantic person, not at all. Not one bit. I get easily annoyed by cheesy romance, I found myself rolling my eyes a lot at those poems in the "the loving"-chapter but let's analyze this in a chronological order. 
 The Hurting 
 I had a lot of problems with this. It was just a weird start to the journey Rupi planned on taking me, the reader. She blames her father a lot, how he put her mother down and embodied that men are better than woman and woman are only there for the pleasure of men. In the same breath we have a poem about a little girl who was raped by her uncle and demonstrates on a doll where he touched her in a therapeutic session. This just confused me. Is Rupi the little girl? Why are those poems there? 
 The Loving 
 So, Rupi falls in love, leaving her bad childhood experiences behind and finally trusting a male. She is head over heels. She loves exploring her sexual and feminine side. Good for her, awesome. I just didn't necessarily need 15 similar poems which had a strong Tumblr-feel to them. Like I could just picture my 16-year-old Tumblr-Indie-self slamming the reblog button for one of those poems without having the poem leaving any impact on me or being of importance whatsoever. The poems felt a little pretentious. But as I said before, I am not the romantic type. 
 The Breaking 
 Things get ugly and they split. Rupi, a known embassador for woman's rights and equality and vocal about not shaving and no period-shaming (all [to me] obvious things of course but great that she is trying to be another voice for that movement), incorporates a lot of poems about her now ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend and how this girlfriend isn't as good as she (Rupi) is and how the new girl can't satisfy her boy as much as she could in the past. Competition much? How stupid and against the belief of women supporting each other instead of putting one another down is that? Those poems were just cringe-worthy. 
 The Healing 
 Suddenly Rupi has the realization that all women are equal and awesome and that she is better off alone and doesn't need male appreciation to be a full woman. Along the lines of the sterotypical "I need to love myself first before a man can love me". Not something I needed to hear again and definitely not 15 times in a row. 
 Nonetheless, there were some pretty remarkable poems in this collection which I will carry dear to my heart. My favorite (by far) goes at follows: 
 "Our backs tell stories 
 no books have the spine to carry" 
 -- women of color 
 As I said in the beginning I will re-read this, mark some brilliant quotes and if my thoughts change, I will let you know.