Review: Still Loved…Still Missed!

Still Loved…Still Missed! by Mridula
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is a set of 14 short stories and a poem. The stories are the short - short story variety – averaging 3 pages or so, except for a few exceptions. With these it is important the theme is strong as you cannot develop the characters with depth. This book does that well, and each of the stories has a nice theme reflecting largely on life and nature.

There is an undercurrent of philosophical exploration in all the short stories. The first story is about a sepal and it’s selfless nurturing of the flower. There is the other story about a girl who wants to chase her passion for paragliding at great personal risk. There are other stories which cover animals, death etc. “Still Loved, Still Missed” is the story after which the book takes it’s name, and yes – I liked the story and the story deserved to be the title one.

While the stories have good themes, are nice and easy to read, they are also forgettable. They leave you with faint impressions and had far more potential - if they had had more incidents/depth for readers to remember them by.

However, since short stories move along smoothly, they are recommended as light, easy and relaxing reads.

I received my copy of the book at no cost to me, to provide an honest review.


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