Bubblegum Heart by Quazaye Konkel is a beautifully vulnerable and evocative poetry collection that lingers long after reading. The poems capture the ache of love, heartbreak, and resilience with striking imagery and emotional honesty. I was moved by the tenderness and strength woven through each piece, and I truly enjoyed this collection. I rated it five stars.

Bubblegum Heart is a poetry collection that beautifully captures the journey through love, heartbreak, and healing. Each section—Loving, Losing, Letting Go, and Learning—feels like stepping into a new emotional season, where raw vulnerability is met with both pain and resilience. What struck me most was the way small, everyday details—like earrings, yellow paint, or even chewing gum—became powerful metaphors for the intensity of feeling too deeply. I enjoyed reading it because the poems made me pause and reflect on my own experiences with love and loss, reminding me that tenderness itself can be an act of strength.

4.5/5
Love and loss.
This poetry collection is about love, loss, heartbreak from your first loves.
The book has 4 parts: Loving, Losing, Letting Go and Learning. Many of the poems focus on the heartbreak. They’re relatable and visceral. I loved the author’s style.

Okay, listen up: this book wrecked me in the best way. 💔💖 Bubblegum Heart is like spilling your guts on a pink notebook while blasting sad songs and still daring to believe in love anyway. Quazaye Konkel doesn’t just write poems—they hit you with confessions that feel like your own diary pages. I laughed, I cringed, I cried, and I highlighted so many lines it looks like a neon rave in my copy. If you’ve ever had your heart chewed up and spit out but still wanted to love again, you need this book in your life. 🌙🍬✨

A delicate recanting of a love story lost. It’s nostalgic at times, and somehow the lines breathe new life into the feeling of losing so much precisely because you loved so much.

Sticky, Sweet & Softly Savage

bubblegum heart is a sugar-rush of poetry—sweet, messy, and heartbreakingly addictive, with lines that stick to your ribs long after the last page.

This book of poetry is absolutely incredible, it grabs you from start to finish. It deals with love and also heartbreak. These were all so eloquently written and I will be buying this book when it is released. Thank you NetGalley for this ARC. Fabulous writing Quazaye Konkel.

This poetry collection is set across four parts, Loving, Losing, Letting Go and Learning.

Memory Box was a touching poem about remembering your shared times and memories that mean so much or meant so much looking back.

Bubblegum Heart, the titular poem of the collection was built on such a simple but much felt concept about when love falls apart and the feelings you endure.

The Hardest Goodbye, was a stunning poem summing up how a break up can leave you feeling changed from the person you were before and how it's hard to let a version of you go too that you became foe better or worse.

It was a beautiful collection of poetry tellign the story of falling in and out of love the effects and emottions felt and you have to deal with in the aftermath of it falling apart.

A deep feeling collection of poetry.

I won’t pretend to know much about poetry but Bubblegum Heart pulled me in from the very first page and did not let me go.
Quazaye Konkel has captured something I find so hard to articulate; the journey of loving, of losing, and of slowly piecing oneself back together without losing who we are in the process.

The collection feels like a memory box cracked open, each poem a letter folded and tucked away, carrying with it the sweetness, the ache, and the healing. I read it in one sitting, completely hooked, and I found myself drifting into my own memories of past loves, tender beginnings, shattering endings, and the quiet process of rebuilding.
What struck me most is how eloquently Konkel maps out the emotional landscape of a relationship: the dizzying joy, the heartbreak, and the resilience that follows. The poems feel at once intimate and universal, as though they were written from my own hidden corners yet gifted to the world in words I could never quite find. I am in awe, and slightly jealous that Konkel found the words to describe what so many of us feel, yet struggle to describe.

Bubblegum Heart is truly beautifully crafted; lyrical, raw, and deeply human. It is a rollercoaster of love, heartbreak, and healing, and I am in awe of the journey Konkel has led us through.