Book Review:

Wild Embers was a book that if I am honest I attracted by the cover let's face it, it's beautiful. But I didn't expect the inside to be as beautiful. Wild Embers was a beautiful poetry read that is such an important read for today.

Nikita Gill links to other poetry at the time often speaking about beauty, relationships but these often have an out of world feel that translates so wonderfully on the page. Gill is such a great writer and I think that I did connect to this on a deeper level than say bone which I just mentioned. I feel like this is a book that I connected to on an emotional level and I will come back to in years to come. It is a must read.

The Verdict:

Wild Embers is an important poetry book in the vain of Milk and Honey and should be read by everyone.

I really enjoyed this poetry collection. Poems about Disney princesses and Goddesses, told with a female empowerment slant. Poems about recovering and healing from trauma. Poems encouraging self-love and self-care. It's like much of this book was tailor written for me.

I'm really exploring and figuring out what my personal taste in poetry is and while I don't think any one collection is going to be an absolute home run, this one came pretty close. Written in the style I'm learning that I prefer and written about subjects I'm interested in or have personally experienced, I found a lot to love in here.

The problem I had with this book were that there were a few poems that seemed to dwell on the writer's assertion that men in general cannot be trusted, that only women care about women's issues and struggles and that we must unite against men. While I understand that this may very well be the writer's experience, it is not mine. Personally I have never been made to feel lacking or victimized by a man purely because of my gender, but I do realise that I am very lucky that this is my experienxe. I truly believe there is a place for the male voice in female empowerment and I was sad to see that view slightly implied to be invalid. In saying that though I find most of this book does not generalize and the issues I had were really only with a few lines of a few poems.

Standout poems: Toxic People, Snow White, The Epiphany, Precipice of Loss.

These poems were simply beautiful, but a little out of my depth which I struggled with. To someone else this would be divine to read, just maybe not for me

I have been a fan of Nikita Gill for so long and i was thrilled to read her latest work. She is an amazing poet and i'm blown away by her talent. She evokes such powerful emotions in just a few sentences and it one of favorite poets.

From one of our greatest modern day poets, we get a complete new set of poems about love, trauma and mental illness as well as the magic and wonder of the world being thought about through these works too we also see a spin on the idea of self worth with a back and forth narrative in some poems on the idea of arguing and disagreeing with how we see ourselves and the male vs female divide in the world around attitudes surrounding modern life.

The poetry addresses many topics from abuse to love in varying forms which will make you feel moved as we read on through these accounts and hear a spin on Disney princesses stories too which was pleasant and unexpected.

A fantastic new collection by Nikita Gill once again!

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

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When I first begun reading this I did think it was a bit cliche, to a point where I was thought it was a little bit, cheesy, however I was very very wrong.

I think this is the first poetry book that has made me cry.

The words are so powerful and so real throughout this book, they get into your head and they make for incredible reads. A poem that makes me think of that genuineness is Secret Language - a poem that makes me think of my best friend whom I tell to text me when she gets home just to make sure she’s safe and Dragon’s Breath - which is just such a powerful but short poem that will make you feel like a khaleesi.

The poems about the Fairy Tale princesses are what I live for. I need someone to write empowering Fairy Tales and I am totally okay with Nikita Gill taking and running with them if these poems are anything to go by. Particularly Sleeping Beauty, we need a empowering version of that story and the seed of a great new tale is in this book.

Wild Embers lives up to its subtitle to perfection in this book, rebellion and fire and beauty exude from this book and I consider it a must-read book for anyone who is ready to burn a little bit brighter now.

A stunning collection of poetry that ignites, unites and inspires from Instagram sensation Nikita Gill.
Full of wonderful words dealing with pain,love, loss, feeling overwhelmed or powerless, and so much more. It's a celebration of strength and how much a human spirit can endure. Ideal for fans of Maya Angelou, Clarissa Pinkola Estés and Rupi Kaur. I would love to be given this as a gift and hope to pass it on to others who need it.

This is a beautiful collection of poems reflecting on life and its impermanence and how that makes it precious. Strangely I connected more with the themes than the verse which in plays felt a little clunky and like it could be trimmed down. This may be personal preference. I did enjoy the allusions to the cosmos - don't think I've ever seen physics displayed in poetry before and I loved it. Adding to my restored faith in contemporary poetry.