Love Shorts-Shashwath Sanil

Book: Love Shorts
Author: Shashwath Sanil
Publisher: Notion Press

Love Shorts by Shashwath Sanil is a book that has 4 stories that encompass emotions such as marriage, friendship, destiny, dreams, revenge and more. We meet a girl whose name meant that she was born to fly, and how one meeting changes her life forever. We meet Nabha who is stuck in the wheel of looking for grooms in an arranged marriage system and how leveling her score of rejecting 3 prospective grooms and being rejected by 4 is important for her. Sometimes a meeting a person just once is not enough, and when destiny intervenes, you realise that existence of some people is for a larger purpose. When 4 people take a short, accidental trip from Delhi to Dharamshala, they don’t realise how this trip is going to change their lives forever, a story that is all about realizing dreams, overcoming one’s fears and experiencing love.

The storytelling is interesting and the across the 4 stories, time plays an interesting role in all. The language is quite simple and easy to understand. The first story, Kullu-Manali was a heady journey of wordplays that exhibit the thought process that Shashwath has. The story of love and revenge was quite interesting though the story became a bit confusing towards the end. From an Arranged Marriage Diary was a heady story of Nabha and Akash as they battle the intricacies of the arranged marriage system and how they come out of the maze and find what they are looking for. A Handful of Love was the favourite story of mine in the book as it dealt with quite a lot of topics in one plot. Dilli-Dharamshala as a story did not work much for me as I felt it was quite confusing with a lot of unnecessary details. Overall, the book gives a good feeling when you read it and the stories have moments that would make you smile as well.

Coming to the characters, each one of them had their own individuality and were quite fresh yet relatable. From Kuldeep to Nabha to Taksh, as a reader, associating with them was easy and one could definitely take a lesson or two from their actions.

The book scores a 3.13/5 from me.

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