It's really inspiring and empowering. Poetry is one of the genres I read the least. This one is so unique and special. It's about the journey from girlhood to womanhood. Every girl should read this book.

Dear Girl is a collection of poetry in the popular Rupi Kaur free verse style meant to empower women. While I found myself agreeing with many of the words in this collection of poetry, I found that it didn't really say anything new. With very pithy, instagram-worthy quotes, many of the poems were simply too generic for my taste. It doesn't lack cliche in the slightest, with every line containing some sort of second wave feminist motivational saying that I probably saw on Tumblr in 2014. I will say, however, that the audiobook elevated this book in my opinion. The narrator's sharp, taut reading style made for a very engaging listen.

2.5/5
I was waiting to read this book since long, and since I have followed the author while listening to her Spoken Poetry. I wanted to love this one, but this one felt a bit short of new ideas, or something new.
Dear Girl, is collection of poetries those are based on general experience of women, and womenhood (girl-hood in this case).

I left as the author is young, she hasn't (or may be I am wrong) gone under difficult situations of life as a women, As many poems felt like just words, and not well deep enough to cut thru.
The book is divided in 5 parts, and I liked 1st(The search of truth in silence) and 3rd (Deep wounds, deep healings) the most.

In the end, I read that an audio book is available of this book as well. May be I will give it a go, as I love Aija speak the words more than reading them. :)

Dear Girl is a poetry book by Aija Mayrock. This collections of poems are written for and about women and the experiences they face due to gender inequality.

I absolutely adored this collections of poems. They were power and well-worded. They hit the mark they were trying to accomplish without being a whiny or condescending. They were filled with emotions. They were relatable. Aija does a great job of writing experiences that women all face. There is so much of these poems that is relatable.

I will definitely be recommending this collection of poems to my friends and family.

I wanted to love this book so much! Unfortunately wasn’t as powerful to me as I expected it to be. Was looking for more woman power in all aspects of life and I felt like it was one area.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with both the e-ARC and the audiobook for review. I enjoyed listening to the audiobook especially since the author Aija Mayrock narrates it herself. However, I liked reading the poems myself more. Possibly, because instead of the spoken word which is over so quickly, you can reread the verses and stanzas you particularly like.

I recommend Dear Girl to those who has enjoyed The Princess Saves Herself in this One and anyone who likes poems about sisterhood.

I never read any poetry before and I used to think that it could be complex and difficult to understand but after reading Dear Girl, my opinion changed. It was so easy to read and so beautiful, I really enjoyed it. I picked it up on NetGalley because of the cover that I found really pretty and I did not regret it. The voice is powerful. It is about empowerment and it really is uplifting. I think every girl and woman can relate to most of the poems, they are just so simple and yet so full of truth. As said in this poetry collection, we need to support and help each other, so let’s do it; it’s about women everywhere. The poems are a call for women all around the world to rise up and be heard. This collection is not about reading something you have never heard before, but reading about something you have maybe not been able to formulate before, about something you may have not been told before. I don’t know what I was looking for when I started reading but I definitely feel like I got more strengths after.

I loved the poems in this book, and especially the variety of topics that they entail. They are truely uplifting, playful and serious at the same time. It was great exploring the words.

Content Warning: Rape, Body shaming, Misogyny, Abuse, and Mentions of metaphorical cutting

There was one poem I really liked. The line, "For the women I come from do not run with the wolves, they lead the pack." That was such a good line and I was really looking forward to the rest of the book.

However, the rest didn't do it for me. It's great if you are just figuring out feminism. The idea of "Raise your daughters like you raise your sons" and women raising their voices.

There are statistics and allusions to current events (#MeToo, for instance). The poetry itself is really uninspired. There's not really a flow. The book is composed of stream of conscious poems which is not a bad thing on its own. It can be done well.

This just wasn't for me.

So often women are told not to share their experiences and made guilty for doing so. Mayrock attempts to break this pattern through her poetry. Unfortunately, I couldn't get into her style of poetry. It is very much in the vein of Rupi Kaur cliches of comparing women to a phoenix, a flame, a warrior, a constellation, etc.
It just didn't feel like anything that hadn't already been done before. It was all a bit cringe if I'm being honest. #deargirl#netgalley

Perfect for fans of Kaur and Atticus.
This book is a collection of poems with passion embedded with them. The experiences portray in this book and the emotions given are beyond amazing! This is so compelling and easy to read!

"What should every girl know?", Mayrock asks.
And I think that the proposal of this collection of poems is to tell us the answer.

Aija Mayrock writes about being a girl in a society that recriminates every day the fact of born a woman. She talks about patriarchy, sexism, abuse...
But she also talks about the strength that emerge of these awful things that every woman lives/lived/or will live.

Reading these poems gives rise to a feeling of immense understanding, knowing that we, girls, are not alone.

I loved it and I really recommend it for every girl, so they can know their value and cultivate self-love and self-care

This book of poetry definitely had some very truthful poems that packed a punch. Being that collection had themes of womanhood and the inequalities that women face there was much that I could relate to and empathize with. I found that my favorite poems were the ones that had a rhyming cadence to them. I think this amplified the impact of the words and brought the messages across in a striking way. Poetry as always is difficult for me to review because the way that poetry can be interpreted is so vastly different among people. As I mentioned, I enjoyed the writing style for the most part, although there were a few poems that I felt like were punctuated and styled in a way that I personally didn't love. Additionally, these topics have been touched by many people, sometimes it can be hard to differentiate work from other works. This is no fault of the authors, just something that is the case when a popular topic is written about frequently in literature. As a whole though, I enjoyed the writing, I enjoyed that topics such as rape, generational trauma, double standards between men and women, and much more were addressed. All of these are really important topics that everyone should be educated on and I think this book does a good job sharing a piece of what woman go through.

Dear Girl is a powerful feminist collection of modern poetry dealing with a number of issues with lyrical beauty. It muses on gender inequality, rape, and other feminist issues. The poems are unapolagitic and empowering, and inclusive, and important.
There is so much truth in the verses, along with a lot of humor and heart- which juxtaposed with the heavy topics is nothing short of breathtaking.
Many thanks to Andrews McMeel Publishing and NetGalley for the advance copy!

“Dear Sister,
I will never judge you for staying
You know best
how to care
for your wounded parts.
I only hope you follow
the voice
that tells you
when it’s time
to go.”

So, here we are reading yet another poetry book. I know we’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but “Dear Girl” seemed so beautiful and had this softness to it that I had to give it a try. And I’m thankful I did.
Aija Mayrock’s debut poetry collection is split into 5 main parts: the search for truth in silence; the freeing of the tongue; deep wounds, deep healing; with love; and to the sisterhood.
These last two parts are the ones that really stood out. There are a couple of poems that resonated with me, even tho sometimes it seemed like the same message being told with different words, especially during “the search for truth in silence”.
What you can expect is a beautiful celebration of women. Empowering messages and little reminders of your own strength and ability to heal and fight gender inequality. What I liked most is the fact that it was inclusive to women of colour and of the LGBTQ+ Community.

Dear Girl is a collection of poems on feminism, equality, girlhood, and womanhood. Description of the book says: "Dear Girl is a journey from girlhood to womanhood through poetry...". Younger women and girls will probably like it.

I listened to the audiobook first, and I recommend that version too. The author herself reads it. It is very challenging to rate poetry. While it resonates with some, with others it won't. I liked the poems and design of the book.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read to this! All opinions are my own.

Every girl/woman needs to read this poetry collection. What a beautiful collection of powerful works all about what it is to be a woman and the struggles we face every day. If you are not one for poetry check out the audiobook. It is beautifully spoken with the correct cadence. I would prefer to listen to poetry because you get the true emotion out of the text. However Aija does a beautiful job at bluntly telling the relatable truth that woman face every day.

“Dear girl” is more than a poetry collection, is a very relatable journey from girlhood to womanhood. It’s a collection of empowering poems about feminism, sisterhood, healing, and resilience.

‘Dear Girl’ is a brief, empowering collection of feminist poems that document the life from girlhood to womanhood in contemporary society. Some of the subject matter included aesthetic expectations, double standards, and sexual assault. The poems and narration were strong and inspiring at times. I think it would have resonated more with me if the poems were more autobiographical. They were often more about general experiences. It was a good collection, but I wanted more depth and vulnerability.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for providing this ARC.

ARC provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoyed this empowering collection of poetry from an emerging poet. There was such a strong sense of voice throughout, I could definitely feel the spoken word influence. These are poems for protests, poems to combat years of silence, poems to get you on your feet and make your voice heard. The title, Dear Girl, is apt—I think these would be great to recommend to college and high-school aged girls coming into their own and starting to question what society often expects of them. These poems ring necessary and true, and I'm excited to see such a young voice emerging in the world of poetry.