{"id":35990,"date":"2025-07-02T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=35990"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T05:19:14","slug":"thorns-in-the-rose-by-rebecca-torrellas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=35990","title":{"rendered":"Thorns in the Rose by Rebecca Torrellas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Powerful and intimate…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Torrellas charts nearly thirty years of emotional survival, raw heartbreak, and eventual healing in this poignant collection. The book unfolds in thematic chapters, each capturing a stage in the poet\u2019s emotional evolution. The early poems, filled with heartache, confusion, and unmet longing, reflect the voice of a woman still within the grip of her abusers. In \u201cThe One,\u201d she writes: \u201cIs it yes, or is it no?\/ If you love me, tell me so.\u201d Gradually, the tone shifts. As the poet reclaims the narrative of her life, anger surfaces\u2014not unthinking rage, but a righteous clarity. In \u201cNothing,\u201d she writes: \u201cI was in a cage I never noticed\/ Was in the room,\u201d and then, with stark repetition: \u201cYou made me feel like I was nothing.\/ Nothing. Nothing. NOTHING\u201d\u2014a refrain as much as an indictment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In later sections such as \u201cRestoration\u201d and \u201cEnd of the Tunnel,\u201d she turns her gaze toward family, new love, motherhood, and creative rebirth. \u201cIt feels good to want to be home,\u201d she writes in \u201cRestoration,\u201d where love is finally safe and mutual. Though the emotional weight of the book can feel overwhelming when read in one sitting, it\u2019s a necessary immersion. Torrellas asks the reader to sit beside her, not to look away. And in doing so, she extends a kind of quiet invitation: to reckon with our own stories, to name our own wounds, and perhaps, to believe in our own healing. A stunner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buy now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pub date July 1, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ASIN B0FB2VC8RP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price $34\/99 (USD) Hardcover, 13.99 Paperback, $3.99 Kindle edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Powerful and intimate… Torrellas charts nearly thirty years of emotional survival, raw heartbreak, and eventual healing in this poignant collection. The book unfolds in thematic chapters, each capturing a stage in the poet\u2019s emotional evolution. The early poems, filled with heartache, confusion, and unmet longing, reflect the voice of a woman still within the grip of her abusers. In \u201cThe One,\u201d she writes: \u201cIs it yes, or is it no?\/ If you love me, tell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":36144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7223,91,3328,178,1136176,422,1473,723769947,1008073,856121,309,723770992,349],"class_list":["post-35990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-author","tag-blogging","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-indie-books","tag-poetry","tag-reading","tag-rebecca-torrellas","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews","tag-thorns-in-the-rose","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-9mu","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/thorns.jpg?fit=280%2C445&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36146,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35990\/revisions\/36146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}