My Best Books Review

Confessions by Kanae Minato My rating: 5 of 5 stars 1. Premis cerita dan tragedi awal Ini adalah novel yang bikin aku langsung bisa membayangkan semencekam apa kalau dijadikan versi film Jepang. Sekolahnya, suasana mencekamnya, sampai kesunyiannya terasa sangat hidup. Tidak ada yang rela seorang anak pergi meninggalkan dunia lebih dulu dari orang tuanya, apalagi jika orang tua tersebut adalah seorang ibu tunggal yang sudah memiliki banyak rencana masa depan cerah untuk putri semata wayangnya, Manami. Bahkan untuk lahir ke dunia saja, Manami sudah harus menghadapi banyak ketakutan. Keluarga ini sebenarnya hanya ingin mencari kebahagiaan, tapi justru tragedi demi tragedi terus muncul. 2. Struktur cerita: multi POV dan kebenaran yang berubah Sejak awal, narasinya terasa seperti sebuah pengakuan yang sangat personal. Bab pertama menggunakan POV orang kedua dan langsung memberi sinyal bahwa cerita ini tidak hanya akan datang dari satu perspektif. Ada banyak POV yang mu...

Seminggu Sebelum Aku Mati - 내가 죽기 일주일 전 by 서은채 My rating: 5 of 5 stars Aku baca novel ini udah nangis dari halaman 50an sampai belakang nggak kehitung berapa kali. Dan aku menyelesaikan novel ini dalam sehari saja. Karena selain narasinya yang pendek-pendek setiap bab, novel ini juga page turner, dan tipis. Bercerita tentang bagaimana 6 Tahun setelah kepergian orang yang dicintai, hidup Hee Wan berjalan seperti mayat hidup. Tidak ada gairah, tidak ada arti, hidup hanyalah sekedar bernafas saja. Jadi adanya sebuah kenyataan bahwa ia akan mati seminggu lagi, juga tidak memberikan dampak yang berarti. Kecuali ketika orang yg seharusnya sudah tiada 6 tahun lalu itu, kembali hadir dalam kehidupannya tepat seminggu sebelum kematiannya. Dan selama seminggu itu, Hee Wan untuk pertama kalinya kembali bisa kembali merasa hidup. Dari judul saja kita sudah berekspektasi akan ada yang pergi kan tapi ceritanya nggak sesederhana judulnya. Kejadian yang diala...

Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise by Lin Yi-Han My rating: 4 of 5 stars 107 halaman Saat membbicarakan Si-Chi dari novele ini, aku sangat merasa sedih. Sakit banget membayangkan kehidupan yang ia ceritakan di novel ini. Apalagi kita mendapatkan POV kebejatan dari guru Lee itu. Si-Chi, karena dia masih muda dan masih remaja, ada beberapa hal yang menurutku gagal dia cerna, karena kejadian di hidupnya itu sangat abnormal. Cara dia mengartikan cinta, cara dia merasa, menurutku diproses dengan kemampuan yang bahkan tidak mencapai bare minimum yang selayaknya seseorang dapatkan dalam hidup. Dia bahkan tidak bisa mendapatkan perasaan tenang, dan damai yang layak sewajarnya manusia. Usianya masih 14 tahun, dan novel ini menunjukkan bahwa Si-Chi sudah kehilangan hidupnya. Setanpun minder melihat kelakuan bejat guru Lee Guo di novel ini. Buku ini berhasil bikin aku merasakan banyak perasaan benci, muak, jijik, hinggara sanya berkali2 aku ingin lemp...

Beautiful Redemption by Jamie McGuire My rating: 5 of 5 stars I always love the story about second best as an heroin, because there she will struggle to make the hero make her as the first. Finish the book i love so much is not easy, because it means that i finish to read the story of couple i love the most. It also means that i still need more. And i need more conflicts of Liis and Thomas. I feeling a little sad right now, because i can't see their moment again, and i suddenly miss them. I usually read the book before i sleep at night. But this, i always tried to find a time to read this story. Only because i wanted to know every Liis's decisions when it was about Thomas. So, we knew Thomas since the previous book. About how heartbroken he was. Honestly, i read Beautiful Oblivion only wanted to know Thomas deeper. It was success to make me feeling so much heartbroken when he still had the feeling so deep toward his ex when there was ...

Beautiful Oblivion by Jamie McGuire My rating: 3 of 5 stars well, i'm not sure how to review this book. I knew that I would actually loved Trenton. But, i read endlessly beautiful first and knew what his story about. I had expected about what i would find when reading this book, and i knew that in a big part, i would not like it. That's right. Even if the story was cute enough, even if Trenton was charming as well, and this was a good book from the start, but i never could accept story about cheating. Okay, Cami was not cheating, she just had a friend that really close with her. It just hard to like the heroin... maybe because T.J was a good, or really good boyfriend. There was nothing wrong with him, but their relationship just could not work out. Cami was the one who felt different, especially after Trenton chase her. Then, she just... tried to pretend that Trenton only a friend when her heart saying the opposite. And all about the lying. Well, maybe ev...

Onyx by Jennifer L. Armentrout My rating: 5 of 5 stars Huaaa kalau ini aku nangis sih ya. Banyak sedihnya di akhir-akhir, apalagi waktu dua-duanya mengungkapkan perasaan mereka. Banyak hal sedih di cerita ini. Banyak kehilangan, dan banyak pengorbanan juga. Buku kedua bisa kubilang merupakan turning point. Tidak hanya hidup Kat berubah, tapi lingkungan sosialnya juga. Malah dulu yang dia benci-bencian sama Daemon malah jadian, sedangkan sahabatan sama Dee yang jadi alasan awal malah jadi bubar jalan. Trus memang, si Blake ini sama sekali nggak ketauan niat aslinya. Kat sama Daemon tetep so sweet sih, tapi si Blake memang cukup mengganggu. Di bagian klimaks, ketika Kat diserang di rumahnya, dan dia merasa bahwa Daemon kali itu benar-benar membencinya bikin miris. Secara Dee sudah benci sama dia, ditambah Daemon ya semakin sedih dong si Kat. Kasian banget, dia wajar merasa bersalah, karena faktanya memang mengarah ke dia semua, Wajar juga kalau kemu...

Step into New York Times bestseller Nalini Singh’s explosive and shockingly passionate Psy-Changeling world… A dangerous, volatile rebel, hands stained bloodred. A woman whose very existence has been erased. A love story so dark, it may shatter the world itself. A deadly price that must be paid. The day of reckoning is here. From “the alpha author of paranormal romance” (Booklist) comes the most highly anticipated novel of her career—one that blurs the line between madness and genius, between subjugation and liberation, between the living and the dead.

Adria, wolf changeling and resilient soldier, has made a break with the past—one as unpredictable in love as it was in war. Now comes a new territory, and a devastating new complication: Riaz, a SnowDancer lieutenant already sworn to a desperate woman who belongs to another.  For Riaz, the primal attraction he feels for Adria is a staggering betrayal. For Adria, his dangerous lone-wolf appeal is beyond sexual. It consumes her. It terrifies her. It threatens to undermine everything she has built of her new life. But fighting their wild compulsion toward one another proves a losing battle.  Their coming together is an inferno…and a melding of two wounded souls who promise each other no commitment, no ties, no bonds. Only pleasure. Too late, they realize that they have more to lose than they ever imagined. Drawn into a cataclysmic Psy war that may alter the fate of the world itself, they must make a decision that might just break them both.   Tangle of Need ...

She is pretty and talented - sweet sixteen and never been kissed. He is seventeen; gorgeous and on the brink of a bright future. And now they have fallen in love. But... they are brother and sister. Seventeen-year-old Lochan and sixteen-year-old Maya have always felt more like friends than siblings. Together they have stepped in for their alcoholic, wayward mother to take care of their three younger siblings. As defacto parents to the little ones, Lochan and Maya have had to grow up fast. And the stress of their lives—and the way they understand each other so completely—has also brought them closer than two siblings would ordinarily be. So close, in fact, that they have fallen in love. Their clandestine romance quickly blooms into deep, desperate love. They know their relationship is wrong and cannot possibly continue. And yet, they cannot stop what feels so incredibly right. As the novel careens toward an explosive and shocking finale, only one thing is certain: a lov...

Priceless by Linda Kage My rating: 5 of 5 stars Akhirnyaaaaaa... setelah bersabar dengan 8 buku seri ini, aku dapet lagi yang bisa diganti fullstar! Awalnya agak pesimis takut nggak begitu bagus ceritanya, karena ini tentang Sarah, yang aku terakhir lihat dia memang kayak nggak bisa apa-apa. Oh! But this story is about that vulnerable girl and about how insecure she is. Dan aku selalu jatuh hati dengan cerita semacam ini. Well, aku cuma butuh baca sekitar... yah... satu chapter pertama dan aku langsung merasa akan memberikan novel ini full stars! Syukurlah novel ini sama sekali nggak mengecewakan. Karena sampai terakhir pun novel ini nggak berhenti bikin aku pingin jejengkrakan. Bagus bangeeettt... Nyaris ngingetin aku sama frigid, seriously, tapi yang frigid masih ada kekurangannya, sedangkan ini.. ewww nggak nemu kurangnya. Bawaannya aja habis baca cuma pingin muji-muji doang. Titik.

More Than Him by Jay McLean My rating: 5 of 5 stars Baru sadar bahwa dari seri ini, buku kedua dan ketiga adalah sekuel, jadi aku review langsung dibuku kedua aja yaa.. Mau curhat dikit deh(yang gak mau baca skip paragraf ini). Belakangan ini banyak buku yang udah aku baca hampir setengah buku dan berhenti bacanya trus statusnya di GR aku ubah jadi 'pending'. Padahal buku-buku itu hitungannya udah rekomended banget, maksudnya: waktu aku baca reviewnya aja aku jadi pingin baca bukunya. Tapi sayang, name it: rock chick, Kulti, my life next door, trilogi gabriel inferno, semuanya punya rating buku di atas 4, dan temen2 GR lain juga banyak yang kasih bintang 5. So i think, why can't i feel good when read it? Bukan berarti aku merasa bahwa cerita-cerita di buku itu nggak bagus ya. Cuma belakangan karena terlalu banyak kesibukan dan hal yang bikin kepala ruwet, dan pilihan buku di santero dunia ini ada banyak banget, ditambah kesadaran kayaknya buku2 i...

Seduction and Snacks by Tara Sivec My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is hilarious. Seriously. I laugh too much because of this piece of book. I do searching for comedy romance book lately that can make me laugh so much. There are some really funny and and I happen to love this book! There are many things make this book worth to read and why this book is really funny. Single mom's issues was the first thing catch my interest to read this book. And it's not only because the heroin was a single mom. But the hero happened to be her Dad's Son. So I really wanted to figure how the story would became. Honesty, I couldn't put this book down before I really finished it. Every scene inside only brought me to read more. Every moments was interesting and hilarious that I couldn't stop reading it.

Love and Lists by Tara Sivec My rating: 4 of 5 stars Dari baca serinya si Claire aku emang udah jatuh cinta banget sama nih anak. Baca ini serasa harapan dikabulkan karena melihat Gavin besar. Dan itu berarti aku lihat dia waktu masih 4 tahun, 5 tahun, 9 tahun, 10 tahun... iya trus langsung loncat aja ke 25 tahun biar dia ada cerita sendiri gitu gedenya kayak gimana. Ya nggak? Sebenarnya aku masih kangen sama Gavin kecil. Yaampun dia itu lucu banget,, mulutnya tu lho nggak bisa diem, udah gitu celetukannya selalu bikin ketawa. Sekarang dia udah gede sih, udah pinter. Ehmm... sebenarnya aku lihat si Gavin kecil ada bayangin gedenya kayak gimana hehehe. Agak gak sesuai ekspektasi sih tapi ya ini udah imajinasinya si penulis oke aja sih. Soalnya aku kepikiran Gavin ini gedenya cool dan jenius gitu. Gatau deh kenapa mikir gitu, habis kecilnya dia bener2 unik banget, jadi agak berharap sama uniknya.

Kiro's Emily by Abbi Glines My rating: 5 of 5 stars I didn't intended to read this book. Really. I had known how this story would be end, that there will no happy ending. I had catch a glimpse about Kiro and Emily in Harlow's story and it hurt so much. It hurt saw how her Dad adored her Mom so much when Emmy practically couldn't do anything. How she finally saw another side of her Dad, that was so sad when in whole book I annoyed with Kiro then he asked Harlow to follow and witness his only love for her Mom. Emmy was died outside and saw it and the way Kiro in front of Harlow's Mom was hurt so much. So when Harlow went to bathroom and cried because she never thought that Kiro was still in love in her Mom, i cried too. Even now when i remembered how sad that scene in Harlow's book i felt like i wanted to cry again. And here i just read the love Emmy had for Kiro. It made so much worse because I knew who was Emily, really known her, so ...

Puddle Jumping by Amber L. Johnson My rating: 5 of 5 stars Finally found another favorite book! OMG. I love this book. So. So. So much. Maybe i will read this book again. I have missed Colton and Lilly anyway. I don't know why I finally took this book (and i always have this kind of reason every time i read a good, perfect book for me), i just remember ever saw this book and passed it. Then i was searching list of comedy romance book, there was this book. I was searching about Aspergers and there was this book. I searched about unrequited love, and also about childhood love and always cought this book. I didn't have any idea about this book. My friends like this book so much, and this book have a good rating. That's enough reason for me to read this book right? So i read this book.

Rule by Jay Crownover My rating: 4 of 5 stars hmmm seru-seru.. berhubung aku suka sama cerita2 yang heroinnya bertepuk sebelah tangan jadi bagiku cerita inipun sama bagusnya dengan cerita cinta sebelah tangan lain yang pernah aku baca. Mana karakter Rule ini kan bad boy ya bertolak belakang sama Shaw. Ih, tapi aku sukaaa. Waktu dia akhirnya ngelihat Shaw dia bener-bener berubah, jadi lebih sweet lebih protektif dan lebih perhatian gitu. Kalo katanya Shaw si Rule ini kan dulu cuma nganggep Shaw suka ngintilin si Remy ya. Masalah di dalam cerita ini juga seru. Bagus sih ya aku suka ... ehm, ada tapinya sih. Mungkin akan lebih baik kalau diceritakan hari2 si Shaw cuma bisa melihat Rule dari jauh, yaa biar lebih kerasa gitu hurtnya dia cinta bertepuk sebelah tangan. Soalnya di awal cerita sampai sekitar 30 atau 40 persenan gitu aku masih nggak dapet sama karakternya. Si Shaw nggak terlihat vurnerable malah kelihatan cool di mata Rule. Trus Rule di awal jug...

Wallbanger by Alice Clayton My rating: 4 of 5 stars Ceritanya lucu, dari awal udah diceritain konfliknya kayak apa dan emang bikin gedeg banget deh. Aku juga kalo jadi Caroline pasti kesel banget deh kalo tiap malem dengerin suara2 zina kayak gitu hahahhaha udah gitu sampe bikin dinding bergetar kan gimana gitu yakkk... Suka banget waktu akhirnya Caroline labrak si Simon langsung... Kyaa kyaa gitudeh pertemuan pertama mereka. Pertemua kedua okelah.. trus mereka genjatan senjata dan lama2 mereka jadi teman... Ceritanya kayak biasa lebih ke temen jadi pacar gitu sih, dan disini perkembangan hubungan mereka juga manis banget. Aduh si Simon juga ya kalo sama Caroline tu bikin deg-degan mulu. Dia nggak kayak yang Caroline pikirin dulu, Simon itu baiiiik xD

Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella My rating: 5 of 5 stars So i have known for a long time that Sophie Kinsella is one of popular authors. I often see her books but i haven't really want to read them. I don't know. Maybe because she write book with 'chicklit' genre and i never read that genre so i don't put interest with her books. Now, after reading this book, i don't really understand what the different betweet chicklit and contemporary romance. No idea. Anyone can explain to me? Anyway, I looooveeee this book. I'm searching for humor and funny romance book in goodreads, and I always see this book on the top list. I never read Kinsella's books but my GR friends's review of her books are positive, and i check the blurb and i feel like... 'it's okay, i will give it a try' and i read it. Now I know why this book is put on the top list. This book is really hilarious, funny, light, i smile a lot, then i als...

Making Faces by Amy Harmon My rating: 4 of 5 stars SPOILER IN SOME PARTS BUT I FORGET WHERE. to be honest, i think i took a wrong book for my currently emotional state. Yes, i have my own problem and this book is really full of upside down parts. i didn't expect that the story would bring so much emotions. I didn't think that there were so much heartbreaking in the story, and this book overwhelmed me in most of parts. The first maybe we would see about someone who fell in love with a boy with so much charm. Some cute parts at first and i myself thought the story would keep light until the end. However, the story was getting dark and i cried a lot. i found some of turning point in this book. And they were always depressed me. in the first turning point, it felt time passed so long until that tragedy. In one part we felt the senior high school. Full of students, party, drink, etc. Fun. But on the next part, we would face the reality, abo...

The Redemption of Callie & Kayden by Jessica Sorensen My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book is good. Hey, i even cried a lot when i read it. But why 3 stars? Maybe bcause i don't really satisfied how the story turn from quite light in the first book and become so heavy in the 2nd book. I cannot bear the heavy issues this book bring. Maybe it's bcause me. Not bcause the story. Blame my recent mood anyway. The story is really good enough and omg, the part i cried a lot, bawling like a baby was when finally Callie told her family about her tragedy. How her family respond to her story and after these a long time passed, hhhh, maybe bcause i didnt know what Callie's mother thought at that time except that it really something she would never get through. Knew her little daughter broke from still a little girl and, bcause she knew nothing at that time, and the story like a shocking bomb for her. Maybe for a mother it was really something that broke her....