Honestly, I had requested to review this based purely on the cover and then the blurb. And glad I did that. It is totally amazing how Mira has picked the darkest of human emotions and woven some hard hitting tales with them. Each of the stories has a grim aspect but does end with a definite ray of hope. It took me some time but I was eventually sucked into this whirlpool of emotions and ended up a jumbled mess of emotions ! But I totally loved reading this one.