Dear Girl

This book is a very powerful book. As Mayrock says in one of her poems:
“You might believe the words you speak are weak,
but the echoes of words
can start revolutions.”
This is a quote that very much speaks to the book.
I really appreciated the poems in this book, however some of them didn't speak to me.
I give this book 3 out of 5 stars.

I requested an arc for this on NetGalley.

I do like to read about books that empower women, since I am one. So when I saw this poetry book on Netgalley I was intrigued. 
However I wasn't completely satisfied at the end of it. 
It was nice that the audiobook was narrated by the author herself and that it was spoken word.
The book is definitely about empowering women and also about consent and some of the societal pressures on women. 

However I felt that the book was too general about the themes it was trying to include.
This left the experience after this audiobook a bit hollow, which is quite frankly a shame.
I also felt that a lot of experiences of women were left out, so it kind of focused more on the general experiences of womanhood and definitely lacking of inclusivity in something that could be a great poetry book that empowered women. 

Not that that the specific topics that were tackled don't need to be talked about more, of course they do.
However when you put them in such a broad way without narrowing it down made me not connect to it. 
I felt that there were also some cliches in the book like per example, how after you fall down you should get back up which is a good message, but without personal or otherwise fictional examples the message gets kind of lost on me. Since it felt like nothing was being shown to me qua imagery.

Also the fact that in the poetry there was a lot of rhyme like assonance of certain words that are on their own quite powerful made those words when they were put together like that actually less impactful to me. 
I do get that it's an audiobook of a little bit over an hour, but it felt kind of slow. 
Especially since a lot of the poems sounded very much the same, although certain ones did have music which set them apart.