Book Review : Ashes to Embers

Book Review : Ashes to Embers

Title - Ashes to Embers
Author - Pooja Pathak
Publisher - Notion press
Genre - poetry
Pages - 156
Format - Kindle

Ashes to Embers is a collection of simple, beautiful, heartfelt and piercing poems. This book is a journey of heart and soul towards realising it's true worth.

Review :

1) The cover of the book could have been better and the title of the book is totally apt to the content.
2) The content of the book is enthusiastic and emotional.
3) The book deals with 4 main topics love, hurt, heal and hope and all these emotions are amazingly narrated by the poetess.
4) I liked the poetic touch used by the poetess in this book which has the power to touch one's heart and soul.
5) Hats off to the poetess for her imagination.
6) The language used in this book is simple and the writing style of the poetess is perfect.
7) This book is an inspiration for everyone who are seeking for heal and hope or we can say this book is a practice for self healing.
8) Overall, an easy read.

Rating - 5/5

I recommend this book to all.

Thanks for reading.

Book Review : Pristine Verses

Book Review : Pristine Verses

Nature isn't biased
like we humans ,
it pours it's love
equally and awendantly
even on the dead flowers.

Title - Pristine Verses
Poetess - Bhavani Krishna
Publisher - Raindrops
Genre - poetry
Pages - 134
Format - paperback

Blurb -

Pristine Verses as the name suggests is a collection of poems depicting various emotions in its purest form. The words in these poems slightly represent some of the incidents happened in poetess's real life with a touch of positivity.

It is a collection of beautiful poems which talk about various human emotions, nature, poetry, love etc. My favorite ones from the book are -
a) My days - my relatives
b)  Birth of a poet
c)  My God
d)  Age is just a number
e)  Sweet home
f)  Who am I?
Grab the book and let me know your favorite poems in the comment section below.

Review -
1) The cover of the book is sober and soothing. The title of the book is apt.
2) This book contains five themes such as - a)Beauty of nature b)World of poetry c) Being a woman d)With Love e)Thoughts about life and each of them has its own charm. Each theme has many poems which are filled with wisdom and emotions that has the power to touch one's heart and soul.
3) The poems in this book are crisp and with deep meanings which came straight from her heart.
4) The language used in this book is mesmerizing. She weaved her words like a magic.
5) The writing style of the poetess is captivating.
6) Illustrations used to describe each poem add beauty to the book.
7) The flow of each poem is engaging which keeps the readers hooked till the end.
8) Favorite lines are -
Fight for your victory,
achieve and move forward,
Never expect the crowd to
feel happy for you.

The two phases of the moon
never fail to prove that
the descend is common and
       the growth is certain.

Rating - 5/5

This is one of the best book I have in my collection right now. It's truly a blessing to read this one. Highly recommend it to everyone especially poetry lovers.

About the author -

Bhavani Krishna is a freelancer based in Chennai. She holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Application after she quit her Medicine course. Her Dad is a poet and has written songs for Tamil movies (uncredited) and her Mom always motivated her to develop her writing skills. She is interested in reading short stories and poems for many years, and has decorated her book shelf with variety of books. She got the much-needed inspiration and motivation to write only because of her friends, mostly online ones. Their constant support urged her to write more and her poems got featured on many Instagram featuring pages. Her poems are published in 5 anthologies including Love Sparks 1 & 2 and Dear Future Soulmate under Raindrops Publishers. She is interested in learning new things and in her free time makes craft works.

Thanks for reading.

Book Review : The Art of Letting Go

Book Review : The Art of Letting Go

They say when you tell your dreams to the world
The universe makes them come true.

Title - The Art of Letting Go
            (poetry for the seekers)
Poetess - Sanhita Baruah
Publisher - notion press
Genre - poetry
Pages - 79
Format - paperback

In 'The Art of Grieving', you embraced the comfort of sadness. It's about time to not hold on to the melancholy for too long and knowing when to let go.

'The Art of Letting Go' is a collection of poems- all about making peace with loss, accepting the absence and moving on.

It's for the seekers searching for a new home, for the wanderers leaving their old homes, for the lovers creating a home wherever they are. Sometimes you hold on to what is left, sometimes you just let go to start afresh.

This book is a collection of more than 50 poems divided into three categories -
1) Hope
2) Closure
3) Love

My favorite ones are -
a) you're a poem
b) Take a risk today
c)  unique
d)  moonlit
e)  performance
Grab this poetry book and let me know your favorite ones in the comment section.

Review -

1) The cover of the book is gorgeous and the title of the book is apt to the content.
2) In this book, each and every poem have some deep meanings which everyone can relate to. Narration done by the poetess is so good that has the power to touch one's heart and soul.
3) I liked the title of each poem which are very much appropriate.
4)) Through these poems the poetess takes us deep down the Memory Lane and asks us to let go and make peace with the bad times.
5) Language used by the poetess is lucid and impressive.
6) The writing style of the poetess is captivating. She weaved her words like a magic.
7) The flow of each poem is engaging which keeps the readers hooked till the end. It is truly a blessing to read this one.
8) Overall,  a meaningful read.
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Rating - 5/5
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I highly recommend this book to all poetry lovers out there.

About the author -
Sanhita Baruah, born and brought up in Guwahati, Assam, has been writing poems since the age of ten. She has been embracing poetry ever since and has started her blog 'Pens and Pages' in 2011. With an MBA in marketing from MDI Guessing, she is a business development professional by the day and a poet by the night. Her short stories and articles aim to connect to the masses and have been published in various anthologies and magazines.

Thanks for reading.