Wednesday 27 December 2017

The Girl on the Train


Judul : The Girl on the Train
Penulis : Paula Hawkins
Tebal : 440 halaman
Penerbit : Noura Books

Rachel menaiki kereta komuter yang sama setiap pagi. Setiap hari dia terguncang-guncang di dalamnya, melintasi sederetan rumah-rumah di pinggiran kota yang nyaman, kemudian berhenti di perlintasan yang memungkinkannya melihat sepasangan suami istri menikmati sarapan mereka di teras setiap harinya. Dia bahkan mulai merasa seolah-olah mengenal mereka secara pribadi. “Jess dan Jason,” begitu dia menyebut mereka. Kehidupan mereka-seperti yang dilihatnya-begitu sempurna. Tak jauh berbeda dengan kehidupannya sendiri yang baru saja hilang.

Namun kemudian, dia menyaksikan sesuatu yang mengejutkan. Hanya semenit sebelum kereta mulai bergerak, tapi itu pun sudah cukup. Kini segalanya berubah. Tak mampu merahasiakannya, Rachel melaporkan yang dia lihat kepada polisi dan menjadi terlibat sepenuhnya dengan kejadian-kejadian selanjutnya, juga dengan semua orang yang terkait. Apakah dia telah melakukan kejahatan alih-alih kebaikan?

Last Forever


Judul : Last Forever
Penulis : Windry Ramadhina
Tebal : 384 halaman
Penerbit : Gagasmedia

“Seharusnya, aku tidak boleh mengharapkanmu. Seharusnya, aku tahu diri. Tapi, Lana..., ketakutanku yang paling besar adalah... aku kehilangan dirimu pada saat aku punya kesempatan memilikimu.” — Samuel

“Untuk berada di sisimu, aku harus membuang semua yang kumiliki. Duniaku. Apa kau sadar?” — Lana

Dua orang yang tidak menginginkan komitmen dalam cinta terjerat situasi yang membuat mereka harus mulai memikirkan komitmen. Padahal, bagi mereka, kebersamaan tak pernah jadi pilihan. Ambisi dan impian jauh lebih nyata dibandingkan cinta yang hanya sementara. Lalu, bagaimana saat menyerah kepada cinta, justru membuat mereka tambah saling menyakiti? Berapa banyak yang mampu mereka pertaruhkan demi sesuatu yang tak mereka duga?

Friday 22 December 2017

The Girl with All the Gifts


Judul : The Girl with All the Gifts (The Hungry Plague #1)
Penulis : M. R. Carey
Tebal : 460 halaman
Penerbit : Orbit

Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh.

Melanie loves school. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children's cells. She tells her favorite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up. Melanie doesn't know why this makes Miss Justineau look sad.

The Sword of Summer


Judul : The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #1)
Penulis : Rick Riordan
Tebal : 499 halaman
Penerbit : Disney Hyperion

Magnus Chase has always been a troubled kid. Since his mother's mysterious death, he's lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, keeping one step ahead of the police and the truant officers. One day, he's tracked down by an uncle he's never met—a man his mother claimed was dangerous. His uncle tells him an impossible secret: Magnus is the son of a Norse god. The Viking myths are true. The gods of Asgard are preparing for war. Trolls, giants and worse monsters are stirring for doomsday. To prevent Ragnarok, Magnus must search the Nine Worlds for a weapon that has been lost for thousands of years. When an attack by fire giants forces him to choose between his own safety and the lives of hundreds of innocents, Magnus makes a fatal decision. Sometimes, the only way to start a new life is to die . . .

The House of the Spirits


Judul : The House of the Spirits
Penulis : Isabel Allende
Tebal : 448 halaman
Penerbit : Dial Press Trade Paperback

Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherworldly hand. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Esteban has deemed unworthy infuriates her father, yet will produce his greatest joy: his granddaughter Alba, a beautiful, ambitious girl who will lead the family and their country into a revolutionary future.

Wednesday 20 December 2017

The Winner's Curse


Judul : The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy #1)
Penulis : Marie Rutkoski
Tebal : 359 halaman
Penerbit : Bloomsbury Children Books

As a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. But Kestrel has other intentions. One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in a young slave up for auction. 

Arin’s eyes seem to defy everything and everyone. Following her instinct, Kestrel buys him—with unexpected consequences. It’s not long before she has to hide her growing love for Arin. But he, too, has a secret, and Kestrel quickly learns that the price she paid for a fellow human is much higher than she ever could have imagined. 

Recollection


Judul : Recollection
Penulis : Shienny M. S.
Tebal : 460 halaman
Penerbit : Elexmedia Komputindo

Saat berburu, Elya menemukan seorang pemuda sekarat di antara jasad prajurit Legiun Falthemnar dan membawanya pulang untuk dirawat. Karena pemuda itu tak ingat jati diri atau bahkan namanya sendiri, Elya memanggilnya Lucca, yang artinya anak hilang.

Sementara itu, pembunuh misterius berkeliaran di Dominia dan mengancam jalannya Festival Musim Kemarau. Keadaan semakin pelik dan berbahaya. Elya harus berpacu dengan waktu untuk mengembalikan ingatan Lucca, sebab keselamatan semua orang yang disayanginya bergantung pada misi yang tidak bisa diingat pemuda itu.

Ketika akhirnya potongan demi potongan ingatan Lucca mulai kembali, Elya menyadari sesuatu. Bukan saja mengembalikan masa lalu Lucca, tetapi Elya juga berhasil mengungkap sejarah kelam Bangsa Elvar, aib yang terjadi dalam era Perang Besar lebih dari lima belas abad yang lampau.

Interlude


Judul : Interlude
Penulis : Windry Ramadhina
Tebal : 380 halaman
Penerbit : Gagasmedia

Hanna harus menanggung malu karena semua orang di kampusnya tahu tentang tragedi pemerkosaan yang dialaminya. Dia menutup diri dan menjauh dari semua orang, menyimpan kesedihannya sendirian. Ditambah lagi hari-hari terus berjalan. Dia harus tetap bersikap normal dan kuliah seperti biasa.

Di sisi lain, ada Kai. Cowok playboy dan nakal yang kuliahnya asal-asalan. Semua itu demi pemberontakannya kepada orangtuanya yang ingin bercerai. Saat pertama kali dia bertemu dengan Hanna, ia menganggap perempuan itu bisa dipermainkannya seperti orang lain. Tapi ternyata Hanna tidak sama seperti perempuan-perempuan lain yang dikenalnya.

Monday 18 December 2017

Murder on the Orient Express


Judul : Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot #10)
Penulis : Agatha Christie
Tebal : 315 halaman
Penerbit : Harper

"The murderer is with us–on the train now . . ."
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer.

Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again . . .

Flame in the Mist


Judul : Flame in the Mist (Flame in the Mist #1)
Penulis : Renee Ahdieh
Tebal : 402 halaman
Penerbit : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

The daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko has long known her place—she may be an accomplished alchemist, whose cunning rivals that of her brother Kenshin, but because she is not a boy, her future has always been out of her hands. At just seventeen years old, Mariko is promised to Minamoto Raiden, the son of the emperor's favorite consort—a political marriage that will elevate her family's standing. But en route to the imperial city of Inako, Mariko narrowly escapes a bloody ambush by a dangerous gang of bandits known as the Black Clan, who she learns has been hired to kill her before she reaches the palace.

Dressed as a peasant boy, Mariko sets out to infiltrate the ranks of the Black Clan, determined to track down the person responsible for the target on her back. But she's quickly captured and taken to the Black Clan’s secret hideout, where she meets their leader, the rebel ronin Takeda Ranmaru, and his second-in-command, his best friend Okami. Still believing her to be a boy, Ranmaru and Okami eventually warm to Mariko, impressed by her intellect and ingenuity. As Mariko gets closer to the Black Clan, she uncovers a dark history of secrets, of betrayal and murder, which will force her to question everything she's ever known.

Sunday 10 December 2017

The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband


Judul : The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband (Rokesbys #2)
Penulis : Julia Quinn
Tebal : 352 halaman
Penerbit : Piatkus Books

While you were sleeping... 

With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead, she chooses option three and travels across the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. But after a week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend, the handsome officer Edward Rokesby. He's unconscious and in desperate need of her care, and Cecilia vows that she will save this soldier's life, even if staying by his side means telling one little lie...

I told everyone I was your wife 

When Edward comes to, he's more than a little confused. The blow to his head knocked out six months of his memory, but surely he would recall getting married. He knows who Cecilia Harcourt is—even if he does not recall her face—and with everyone calling her his wife, he decides it must be true, even though he'd always assumed he'd marry his neighbor back in England.

If only it were true... 

Cecilia risks her entire future by giving herself—completely—to the man she loves. But when the truth comes out, Edward may have a few surprises of his own for the new Mrs. Rokesby.
 

Girl Meets Boy


Judul : Girl Meets Boy
Penulis : Winna Efendi
Tebal : 391 halaman
Penerbit : Gagasmedia

Ava selalu menjadi bayang-bayang Rae. Kakaknya itu lebih cantik, supel, populer, berbakat, dan disukai banyak orang. Walaupun begitu, dia sangat menyayangi Rae dan mengagumi kakaknya itu. 

Lalu Rae meninggal.

Ava merasa sangat kehilangan. Dia masuk ke sekolah musik yang sama dengan Rae dan itu sama sekali tidak membantu. Ada banyak jejak yang Rae tinggalkan di sekolah itu. Prestasi, pujian, kenangan... Ava tidak bisa berlari dari Rae dan bahkan ia selalu dibanding-bandingkan dengan kakaknya itu. Yang jelas dia tidak seberbakat Rae.

Di sisi lain, ada Kai, cowok playboy dan populer yang disukai banyak cewek di sekolah itu. Awalnya, Ava penasaran pada sosok itu karena nama Kai sempat disebut-sebut di dalam diari Rae. Tampaknya Rae sangat mencintai Kai.

Tapi Kai juga punya rahasia. Rahasia yang disimpannya selama berpacaran secara sembunyi-sembunyi dengan Rae. Dan rahasia itu terus menghantuinya dan tidak bisa dilupakannya.

Crooked Kingdom


Judul : Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows #2)
Penulis : Leigh Bardugo
Tebal : 546 halaman
Penerbit : Hodder and Stoughton

Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn’t think they’d survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they’re right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and left crippled by the kidnapping of a valuable team member, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge Kaz’s cunning and test the team’s fragile loyalties. A war will be waged on the city’s dark and twisting streets―a battle for revenge and redemption that will decide the fate of the Grisha world.

Saturday 9 December 2017

The Iron Warrior


Judul : The Iron Warrior (Call of the Forgotten #3)
Penulis : Julie Kagawa
Tebal : 330 halaman
Penerbit : Harlequin Teen

The Iron Prince—my nephew—betrayed us all. 

He killed me. 

Then, I woke up. 

Waking after a month on the brink of death, Ethan Chase is stunned to learn that the Veil that conceals the fey from human sight was temporarily torn away. Although humankind's glimpse of the world of Faery lasted just a brief moment, the human world has been cast into chaos, and the emotion and glamour produced by fear and wonder has renewed the tremendous power of the Forgotten Queen. Now, she is at the forefront of an uprising against the courts of Summer and Winter—a reckoning that will have cataclysmic effects on the Nevernever. 

Leading the Lady's Forgotten Army is Keirran himself: Ethan's nephew, and the traitor son of the Iron Queen, Meghan Chase. To stop Keirran, Ethan must disobey his sister once again as he and his girlfriend, Kenzie, search for answers long forgotten. In the face of unprecedented evil and unfathomable power, Ethan's enemies must become his allies, and the world of the fey will be changed forevermore.

Six of Crows


Judul : Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1)
Penulis : Leigh Bardugo
Tebal : 465 halaman
Penerbit : Henry Holt

Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone...
A convict with a thirst for revenge
A sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager
A runaway with a privileged past
A spy known as a Wraith
A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums
A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes
Kaz's crew are the only ones who might stand between the world and destruction—if they dont kill each other first. 

The Iron Traitor


Judul : The Iron Traitor (Call of the Forgotten #2)
Penulis : Julie Kagawa
Tebal : 342 halaman
Penerbit : Harlequin Teen

IN THE REAL WORLD, WHEN YOU VANISH INTO THIN AIR FOR A WEEK, PEOPLE TEND TO NOTICE 

After his unexpected journey into the lands of the fey, Ethan Chase just wants to get back to normal. Well, as "normal" as you can be when you see faeries every day of your life. Suddenly the former loner with the bad reputation has someone to try for—his girlfriend, Kenzie. Never mind that he's forbidden to see her again. 

But when your name is Ethan Chase and your sister is one of the most powerful faeries in the Nevernever, "normal" simply isn't to be. For Ethan's nephew, Keirran, is missing, and may be on the verge of doing something unthinkable in the name of saving his own love. Something that will fracture the human and faery worlds forever, and give rise to the dangerous fey known as the Forgotten. As Ethan's and Keirran's fates entwine and Keirran slips further into darkness, Ethan's next choice may decide the fate of them all.

The Lies of Locke Lamora


Judul : The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard #1)
Penulis : Scott Lynch
Tebal : 722 halaman
Penerbit : Del Rey

The Thorn of Camorr is said to be an unbeatable swordsman, a master thief, a ghost that walks through walls. Half the city believes him to be a legendary champion of the poor. The other half believe him to be a foolish myth. Nobody has it quite right.

Slightly built, unlucky in love, and barely competent with a sword, Locke Lamora is, much to his annoyance, the fabled Thorn. He certainly didn't invite the rumors that swirl around his exploits, which are actually confidence games of the most intricate sort. And while Locke does indeed steal from the rich (who else, pray tell, would be worth stealing from?), the poor never see a penny of it. All of Locke's gains are strictly for himself and his tight-knit band of thieves, the Gentlemen Bastards.

Locke and company are con artists in an age where con artistry, as we understand it, is a new and unknown style of crime. The less attention anyone pays to them, the better! But a deadly mystery has begun to haunt the ancient city of Camorr, and a clandestine war is threatening to tear the city's underworld, the only home the Gentlemen Bastards have ever known, to bloody shreds. Caught up in a murderous game, Locke and his friends will find both their loyalty and their ingenuity tested to the breaking point as they struggle to stay alive...