Moonlit Matinee : A Review

On The Jacket –

Welcome this ‘Season of Love’ with a never before effort by twelve resplendent writers to pen most fascinating love tales. Cheer the feeling of love with ‘Moonlit Matinee,’ coming up on this Valentine. This is a unique concept which is a blend of Prose, Sonnet, Ballad and Poetry. It contains tales of Love, Emotions, Lust, Passion and Relationship. This is a perfect gift which you can give to your Valentine or you best friend.

Book  Review –

Moonlit Matinee is a collection of 14 short stories. Plus point of this book is that every story is different. Each story is more overwhelming than the last. Each story is written in more perfect way than the last one. 

Bon Voyage (Harshita Shrivastava) – I loved the way author has portrayed the story. It created magic. It’s an impressive story

Emptiness (Pulkit Gupta) – This story is about a guy, Rachit who is loves nature. This story catches your attention from the very starting. Narration skills are good.

Rasgulla (Abhishek Atul) – This story is about two lovers who are separated by a rasgulla and then after years they meet. This story keep switches between past and present and this is whole down side of the story as it confuses reader at times.

Wish You Were Here (Ila Garg) – This story is about Aakash and Vaani. This story leaves you with tears. Well written.

The Rosemarry Letters – This is first poem of the book and it’s written with heart as one could feel it. Overall good attempt.

All I want is you (Sonia Kundra) –This was an interesting read and you can easily relate yourself with it. So many characters but an impressive story. 

The Love Story (Harpreet Makkar) –This story was simple but couldn’t create much magic as it sounds filmy from the line one to the last one. Honestly, I didn’t like this story.

The Gifts (Ishita Bhown) – This story is one of the best story I read in this anthology. The feelings, narration, and characterization everything was perfect. 

Bollywood Affairs (Ayaan Basu) – I have read authors debut book and was expecting much from him. And he didn’t disappoint me. The story picturize darker side of Bollywood. Narration added charms to the story. Must Read.

Flavored Smoke (Prantham Devang) – This story was written in very simple yet effective language. This was happy ending kind of story. This worth a read.

Lyrics of lavish rain (Rachna Seth) – this is one the the beautifulest poem of this anthology. You can imagine it in mind while reading it. Every prose is written to the perfection. 

Cupid’s arrow, Bull’s eyes (Siddhartha Yadav) – this is the story of passion, desire, love and revenge. But the ending disappointed me as it was flat. I was expecting something different to come. Overall a good attempt. 

Ehsaas – The feeling (Pulkit Gupta) – this story is about an orphan couple and how they want to complete their home. The story is good and an eye opener.

An ode to relationship (Nandini Garg) – This is sweet, romantic last poem of this anthology which added charm to this anthology before finishing the book.

Moonlit Matinee is an unique book. In past few months, I have seen the trend many authors are coming with short – story books. But every book doesn’t strike chord with readers. But surely this is the book which connects wells and well written. Cover design is good. This book will leave you thinking once you are done reading it. I would like to rate this 3.5/5. Moonlit Matinee stands recommended by Read In Park!