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52 laws of love by Himanshu Goel

ne5on5's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

3.25

forrestdaisy's review against another edition

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fast-paced

0.25

Very repetitive

pep_pooja's review

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5.0

HIGHLY recommended poetry book

52 laws of love is written by Himanshu goel . It is a collection of 52 poems that show to us shades of love.
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Other then love this book also has poems on sacrifice, breakup and betrayal. All the poems are written with deep connection to one's heart. The feelings are placed into words with such beauty that can leave you and enchanted and make you carve for more such poems.
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Each poem carries its own significance. We may not have underwent situation similar to that of the poem but you still can connect to it. I completed the book in just one sitting because once you start reading you can't just stop without completing the whole book. This is one such book that is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

deepanshu's review

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2.0

20 minutes of insta poetry about love

A sweet short read of love phrases that describe different phrases of one's love life. The book has some really good one-liners.

singh_reads_kanwar2's review

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3.0

This short poetry is a two way conversation short book, which lover are deciding to make laws According to them so that they can have right over and what they did and why the laws are made. Both the parts talk about shortcomings and how to bear it. Talk about emotions they both have for each other smile laugh, cry , tears , pain and then author talk about the memories they build together. Author do choose metaphor of nature beautifully to present his love, its a two way conversation and every question is getting answered . Author show his idea and journey of love accordingly , they make law to keep it according to them, thats quite flexible to there love. They talk about journey from stranger to lover, and preach not to leave her side because many can come but she will find nobody like him. They share dreams and aspirations of there life and what they gonna do about there dreams, as they are comfortable around each other, they share a bond like no other and consider themselves lucky.
That's the whole what author said in this short book.

deepan2486's review

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4.0

As the name suggests, ‘52 Laws of Love’ is the outpour of the author’s subtle romantic feelings on paper—in the form of 52 bite-size little poems. Each poem reflects upon raw feelings, which often seem to be transitory. It’s more like silent one-sided conversations that run around in the mind of the ones who are thinking about their love; with the same frenzy and friskiness involved.
Some of the poems are very unidirectional and trigger the same line of thought almost always, like:

“Aren’t we all chasing
those damn butterflies
that warm blanket
in the coldest of days
when we catch them
we have found our love.”

But the real beauty of the books lies in the poems which are multi-layered and colourful and which almost feel illusory if we try to grasp them too hard. For instance,

“If the time has come
we must learn to be whole
we must learn to be friends again
and then back to strangers.”

“screw shakespeare
and screw the skies
our love, our truth
even the stars can’t deny
because you are
worth the happy ending.”

Moreover, the book has very pretty illustrations to enhance the reading experience. The poems tilt towards the blank verse style but then breaks free of all defined structures of poetry to limitless have only one motive—to express a melancholy heart and to feed other craving souls. I highly recommend this collection, it won’t take much time to flip through, but will leave behind a lasting thought-provoking impact.


Disclaimer: This review is in lieu of a review copy


Originally published on my own blog: https://deepansbookshelf.blogspot.com/2020/05/review-52-laws-of-love-himanshu-goel.html
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