Thursday, 26 December 2024

Paper Princess


 Judul : Paper Princess (The Royals #1)
Penulis : Erin Watt
Tebal : 364 halaman
Penerbit : EverAfter Romance

THESE ROYALS WILL RUIN YOU...

Ella Harper is a survivor—a pragmatic optimist. She’s spent her whole life moving from town to town with her flighty mother, struggling to make ends meet and believing that someday she’ll climb out of the gutter. After her mother’s death, Ella is truly alone. 

Until Callum Royal appears, plucking Ella out of poverty and tossing her into his posh mansion among his five sons who all hate her. Each Royal boy is more magnetic than the last, but none as captivating as Reed Royal, the boy who is determined to send her back to the slums she came from.

Reed doesn’t want her. He says she doesn’t belong with the Royals.

HE MIGHT BE RIGHT.

Wealth. Excess. Deception. It’s like nothing Ella has ever experienced, and if she’s going to survive her time in the Royal palace, she’ll need to learn to issue her own Royal decrees. 

Never A Husband


 Judul : Never A Husband
Penulis : Dahlian
Tebal : 453 halaman
Penerbit : Twigora

Akuisisi perusahaan furnitur milik Chiara terancam tersendat akibat masa lalu yang muncul lagidi permukaan. Masa lalu itu berwujud sosok tinggi dan tampan bernama Gavin, adik ipar dari pernikahannya yang telah lama kandas, juga lelaki yang tak seharusnya diam-diam dia cintai.

Chiara tahu dirinya telah melakukan kesalahan besar dan satu-satunya yang harus dia lakukan adalah melupakan semuanya--termasuk Gavin. Namun, ternyata sulit sekali menyangkal cinta yang pernah membuatnya teramat bahagia.

Gavin mengira menjaga jarak yang sehat dengan Chiara bisa menhindarkan kemungkinan terluka dua kali oleh orang yang sama, malah tak kuasa mengingkari perasaan yang dulu pernah mendekatkan hati mereka.

Keputusan ada di tangan mereka berdua, mau dibawa ke mana perasaan yang menggebu-gebu ini? Ataukah lebih baik memilih untuk bahagia sendiri-sendiri karena cinta nggak selalu harus memiliki?

In the Afterlight


 Judul : In the Afterlight (The Darkest Minds #3)
Penulis : Alexandra Bracken
Tebal : 592 halaman
Penerbit : Quercus Children's Books

Ruby can't look back. Fractured by an unbearable loss, she and the kids who survived the government's attack on Los Angeles travel north to regroup. With them is a prisoner: Clancy Gray, son of the president, and one of the few people Ruby has encountered with abilities like hers. Only Ruby has any power over him, and just one slip could lead to Clancy wreaking havoc on their minds.

They are armed only with a volatile secret: proof of a government conspiracy to cover up the real cause of IAAN, the disease that has killed most of America's children and left Ruby and others like her with powers the government will kill to keep contained. But internal strife may destroy their only chance to free the "rehabilitation camps" housing thousands of other Psi kids.

Meanwhile, reunited with Liam, the boy she would-and did-sacrifice everything for to keep alive, Ruby must face the painful repercussions of having tampered with his memories of her. She turns to Cole, his older brother, to provide the intense training she knows she will need to take down Gray and the government. But Cole has demons of his own, and one fatal mistake may be the spark that sets the world on fire.