DADDY ISSUES
“This collection cut close to my soul.”
—Kat Savage, USA Today bestselling author
“How can you love a monster when so much was taken?”
In Daddy Issues, three-time Goodreads Choice Awards nominated poet J. R. Rogue examines how fathers—absent, abusive, violent—can shape our minds and hearts during our formative years and beyond.
Wading into the dark waters of familial trauma, this collection reopens wounds closed, scarred, and fresh, and is dedicated to fathers breaking cycles and mothers playing both roles,
★★★★★
The words were heavy and cut like knives. They encompassed all the pain and sorrow and even as someone who has never experienced this I could feel the gravity in these poems. That’s Rogue’s gift. The ability to make you experience something you’ve never experienced before. To draw you into world’s you have no part in and capture you.
— GOODREADS REVIEW
★★★★★
Rogue doesn’t hesitate to deep dive into painful and very open wounds, some that time may not fully heal. She carefully dissects different relationships, allowing the heartbreak to spill onto the page.You won’t leave this collection unscathed. I mourned with some of the pages that struck me hardest.
— GOODREADS REVIEW
★★★★★
I can feel the pain with every word on the page. Deep and dark and moving. J.R. Rogue knows how to put feelings into words unlike anyone else.
— GOODREADS REVIEW
★★★★★
These poems connected with me on so many different levels, that when I had finished reading I had to stop and take a moment to let it all pour over me. Until I was okay again. So powerful.
— GOODREADS REVIEW
★★★★★
J.R. Rogue gives us such raw honesty in her words that you have to sit with each poem and take in all the gravity of that moment. It’s heart-aching and beautiful, it lets others know that they are not alone.
— GOODREADS REVIEW
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