Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Love, Hope and Magic by Ashish Bagrecha

Some books don’t just sit on your bedside table — they sit inside your soul, quietly rearranging the pieces you thought were too broken to mend. Love, Hope and Magic by Ashish Bagrecha is one of those rare books that doesn’t shout wisdom; it whispers it. Like a soft rain after months of drought, it seeps into the cracks of your heart, making something bloom again where you thought nothing could grow.

I still remember the first time I stumbled upon Ashish’s words — a four-liner on Instagram that stopped my mind mid-scroll. “You handed me all your broken pieces…” it began, and I remember thinking, this man understands pain like it’s poetry. Soon after, I discovered his earlier work, Dear Stranger, I Know How You Feel, and it felt less like reading a book and more like being gently held by a friend who’s been to the edge and made it back, just to tell you how. So when Love, Hope and Magic arrived, I didn’t just open its pages — I opened a part of myself I’d kept guarded for too long.

Ashish, a survivor of depression and a believer in the universe’s quiet miracles, doesn’t write to impress; he writes to heal. Divided into six chapters, this poetry collection walks you through the stages of loving deeply, breaking apart, losing faith, and learning to believe again. His poems don’t offer grand philosophies — they offer tiny, glowing truths. Each verse feels like a candle flickering in the dark, small but stubbornly alive.

There’s something unhurried about his writing — an elegance in simplicity. No over-polished metaphors, no complex rhymes trying too hard. Just clean, honest emotion. His four-liners are like little heartbeats — brief, rhythmic, and vital. You find yourself rereading them not because you didn’t understand them the first time, but because you want to feel them again.

Reading Love, Hope and Magic feels like walking through a dimly lit room where each poem switches on a light. One speaks of heartbreak — not in dramatic flourishes, but in quiet ache. Another talks about self-belief, and suddenly you realize you’ve been starving for those words. He doesn’t tell you to “move on.” He tells you to “move through,” which is an entirely different kind of healing.

The structure of the book flows like the arc of emotional recovery. You start in the ruins of love, crawl through the labyrinth of loss, and slowly find yourself in the wide-open fields of hope. And by the end, you’re not just reading about magic — you’re feeling it.

What stayed with me most was not a particular poem but a particular feeling — that someone out there has turned their scars into signposts for the rest of us. Ashish doesn’t preach positivity; he personifies perseverance. He doesn’t glorify pain; he gives it purpose. There’s an intimacy in his writing, the kind that makes you want to underline every other line and whisper, “yes, exactly this.”

If I were to point out a minor flaw, it would only be that the brevity of some poems left me craving a little more — like tasting honey from a teaspoon when you want to drink straight from the jar. But perhaps that’s the point. Healing, too, comes in small doses.

Reading this book reminded me of something simple yet profound — we don’t need to wait for grand miracles; sometimes, the magic is already within us, quietly humming beneath the noise of everyday life. As Ashish writes, “Love comes, leaves and pains, but magic happens and stays, and all we need is a little hope in between.”

So, if you’ve ever loved and lost, if you’ve ever felt like your soul has forgotten its way home, let Love, Hope and Magic be your compass. Read it on a quiet evening. Read it when you can’t sleep. Read it when you think you’re done believing. Because maybe — just maybe — this little book will remind you that you never stopped.

✨ Pick it up. Let it sit with you. Let it fix you softly.

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