[Review] Cress by Marissa Meyer

Title: Cress
Author: Marissa Meyer (Goodreads Author)
Series: The Lunar Chronicles #3
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Published: February 2014
ISBN: 9780312642976
Pages: 550



In this third book of the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army.

Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl imprisoned on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker. Unfortunately, she’s just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.

When a daring rescue of Cress goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a high price. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing prevent her marriage to Emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only hope the world has.

[Review] Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

Title: Scarlet
Author: Marissa Meyer
Series: The Lunar Chronicles #2
Publisher: Feiwel and Friends
Published: February 2013
ISBN: 9780312642969
Pages: 452

 
Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She's trying to break out of prison--even though if she succeeds, she'll be the Commonwealth's most wanted fugitive.

Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit's grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn't know about her grandmother or the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother's whereabouts, she is loath to trust this stranger, but is inexplicably drawn to him, and he to her.

As Scarlet and Wolf unravel one mystery, they encounter another when they meet Cinder. Now, all of them must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana, who will do anything for the handsome Prince Kai to become her husband, her king, her prisoner.

[Review] Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Title: Cinder

Author: Marissa Meyer
Series: The Lunar Chronicles #1
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Published: January 2012
ISBN: 9780312641894
Pages: 390



Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.

[Review] A Thousand Pieces Of You by Claudia Gray

Title: A Thousand Pieces of You
Author: Claudia Gray
Series: Firebird #01
Publisher: Harper Teen
Published: November 2014
ISBN: 9780062278968
Pages: 368



Marguerite Caine’s physicist parents are known for their radical scientific achievements. Their most astonishing invention: the Firebird, which allows users to jump into parallel universes, some vastly altered from our own. But when Marguerite’s father is murdered, the killer—her parent’s handsome and enigmatic assistant Paul—escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him.

Marguerite can’t let the man who destroyed her family go free, and she races after Paul through different universes, where their lives entangle in increasingly familiar ways. With each encounter she begins to question Paul’s guilt—and her own heart. Soon she discovers the truth behind her father’s death is more sinister than she ever could have imagined.

A Thousand Pieces of You explores a reality where we witness the countless other lives we might lead in an amazingly intricate multiverse, and ask whether, amid infinite possibilities, one love can endure.

[Review] Attachment by Rainbow Rowell

Title : Attachment
Author : Rainbow Rowell
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Published : January 2011
ISBN : 9780525951988
Pages : 323

"Hi, I'm the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you . . . "

Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It's company policy.) But they can't quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other endless and endlessly hilarious e-mails, discussing every aspect of their personal lives.

Meanwhile, Lincoln O'Neill can't believe this is his job now- reading other people's e-mail. When he applied to be "internet security officer," he pictured himself building firewalls and crushing hackers- not writing up a report every time a sports reporter forwards a dirty joke.

[Review] After D-100 by Park Mi Youn

Tittle : After D-100

Author : Park Mi Youn

Penerbit : Penerbit Haru

Penerjemah : Putu Pramania Adnyana

Tanggal Terbit : June 2013

Halaman : 382

WANITA:
Aku mencintai laki laki itu dan menikahinya.
Akan tetapi setelah hari itu,
Aku memutuskan untuk bercerai dengannya

PRIA
Sampai sebelum hari itu,
Aku tidak mencintai istriku.
Akan tetapi setelah hari itu,
Aku mulai mencintai istriku

Wanita yang jatuh cinta dan lelaki yang tidak jatuh cinta.
Akan tetapi setelah hari itu, perasaan keduanya berubah drastis.

D-100,Apa yang terjadi kepada keduanya setelah hari itu?

[Review] The Giver by Lois Lowry

Newberry Medal Winner - 1994

Judul : The Giver - Sang Pemberi
Pengarang : Lois Lowry
Penerjemah : Ariyantri E. Tarman
Penerbit : Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Tanggal Terbit : 18 Agustus 2014
Tebal : 232 hal
ISBN : 9786020306681

Dunia Jonas adalah dunia yang sempurna. Semuanya terkendali dan teratus. Tak ada perang, ketakutan, atau kesakitan. Juga tak ada yang namanya pilihan. Semua orang memiliki peran di Komunitas. Saat Jonas menjadi Dua Belas, dia terpilih menerima ingatan khusus dari Sang Pemberi.

Selama ini Sang Pemberi memegang ingatan akan rasa sakit sejati dan kenikmatan hidup. Sekarang saatnya bagi Jonas untuk menerima kebenaran. Dan tak ada jalan untuk kembali.

Saat itu menjelang Desember, dan Jonas mulai merasa takut...

[Review] The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Title: The Hunger Games

Author:  Suzanne Collins

Series: The Hunger Games #01

Publisher: Gramedia Pustaka Utama

Published: Jan, 2008

ISBN13: 9789792250756

Pages: 408 

Dua puluh empat peserta.
Hanya satu pemenang yang selamat.

Amerika Utara musnah sudah. Kini di bekasnya berdiri negara Panem, dengan Capitol sebagai pusat kota yang dikelilingi dua belas distrik. Katniss, gadis 16 tahun, tinggal bersama adik perempuan dan ibunya di wilayah termiskin di Distrik 12.

Karena pemberontakan di masa lalu terhadap Capitol, setiap tahun masing-masing distrik harus mengirim seorang anak perempuan dan anak lelaki untuk bertarung dan ditayangkan secara langsung di acara televisi The Hunger Games. Hanya ada satu pemenang setiap tahun. Tujuannya adalah : membunuh atau dibunuh.

Ketika adik perempuannya terpilih mengikuti The Hunger Games, Katniss mengajukan diri untuk menggantikannya. Dan dimulailah pertarungan yang takkan pernah dilupakan Capitol.

[Review] Wake by Amanda Hocking

Title: Wake

Author: Amanda Hocking

Series: The Watersong #01

Publisher: TOR

Published: August, 2012

ISBN13: 9781447205722

Pages: 309 

Beautiful. Fearless. Dangerous. 

The kind of girls you envy. The kind of girls you wanted to hate.

Strangers in town for the summer, Penn, Thea, and Lexi have caught everyone's attention, including the eye of practical Harper. But it's her sister they've chosen. Sixteen-year-old Gemma seems to have it all - carefree, pretty and falling in love with the boy next door. But her greatest passion is the water. She craves solitary late-night swims under the stars, where she can belong to the sea. But lately she’s had company.

Penn, Thea, and Lexi spend their nights dancing and partying on the cove, and one night Gemma joins them. She wakes, groggy, on the beach the next morning and knows something has changed. Suddenly Gemma is stronger, faster, and more beautiful than ever. And as she discovers her new mythical powers, Gemma is forced to choose between staying with those she loves - or entering a dark world brimming with unimaginable secrets.

[Review] Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Title : Obsidian

Author : Jennifer L. Armentrout

Series : Lux #01

Publisher : Entangled Teen

Published : November 1st, 2011
ISBN : 9781620610077

Pages : 335

Starting over sucks.

When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I'd pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring... until I spotted my hot neighbor, with his looming height and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up.

And then he opened his mouth.

Daemon is infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. We do not get along. At all. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes time with a wave of his hand, well, something... unexpected happens.

The hot alien living next door marks me.

You heard me. Alien. Turns out Daemon and his sister have a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal their abilities, and Daemon's touch has me lit up like the Vegas Strip. The only way I'm getting out of this alive is by sticking close to Daemon until my alien mojo fades.

If I don't kill him first, that is.

[Review] Only With You by Lauren Layne

Title: Only With You
Author: Lauren Layne
Series: The Best Mistake #01
Publisher: Forever
Published: January 1st, 2014
ISBN: 9781455546084
Pages: 260

Love is the Biggest Gamble of All . . . 

Cocktail waitress Sophie Dalton doesn't exactly have a life plan. She's perfectly happy being everyone's favorite party girl.

But when a Las Vegas bachelorette party goes awry and an uptight businessman mistakes Sophie for a prostitute .
. . well, Sophie wonders if it's time to reevaluate her priorities. Swearing off her thigh-high boots for good, Sophie slinks back home with damaged pride-and a jackpot of a hangover.

Yet what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay there. On a trip to Seattle to open a new office, Grayson Wyatt meets his latest employee-who turns out to be the same woman he recently called a hooker. Wealthy and gorgeous, Gray is a man used to getting what he wants. And it doesn't take long to figure out that smart, sassy, sexy Sophie is everything he's been looking for. 

As their late nights at the office turn into hot morning-afters, they realize their Vegas misunderstanding may lead to the real thing . . .

[Review] The Scorch Trials by James Dashner

Title : The Scorch Trials
Author : James Dashner
Series : The Maze Runner #02
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Published : October 12th, 2010
ISBN : 9780385738750
Pages : 360

Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. 

Thomas was sure that escape from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. But WICKED isn’t done yet. Phase Two has just begun. The Scorch.

There are no rules. There is no help. You either make it or you die.

The Gladers have two weeks to cross throug the Scorch—the most burned-out section of the world. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variablhes and stack the odds against them.

Friendships will be tested. Loyalties will be broken. All bets are off. 

There are others now. Their survival depends on the Gladers’ destruction—and they’re determined to survive.

[Review] Mortal Danger by Ann Aguire

Title: Mortal Danger

Author: Ann Aguirre

Series: The Immortal Game #01

Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

Published: August 5, 2014

ISBN: 978-1-250-02464-0

Format: Ebook

Pages: 288

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

In Ann Aguirre's Mortal Danger, Edie Kramer has a score to settle with the beautiful people at Blackbriar Academy. Their cruelty drove her to the brink of despair, and four months ago, she couldn’t imagine being strong enough to face her senior year. But thanks to a Faustian compact with the enigmatic Kian, she has the power to make the bullies pay. She’s not supposed to think about Kian once the deal is done, but devastating pain burns behind his unearthly beauty, and he’s impossible to forget.

In one short summer, her entire life changes and she sweeps through Blackbriar, prepped to take the beautiful people down from the inside. A whisper here, a look there, and suddenly . . . bad things are happening. It’s a head rush, seeing her tormentors get what they deserve, but things that seem too good to be true usually are, and soon, the pranks and payback turns from delicious to deadly. Edie is alone in a world teeming with secrets and fiends lurking in the shadows. In this murky morass of devil’s bargains, she isn't sure who—or what—she can trust. Not even her own mind.

[Review] The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Title : The Maze Runner

Author : James Dashner
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Published : October 2009
ISBN: 9780385737944
Pages : 374

If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human.

When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone.

Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade.

Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive.

Everything is going to change.

Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying.

Remember. Survive. Run.

[Review] Shameless by Nina Lemay

Title: Shameless

Author: Nina Lemay
Published: August 2014
Pages: 228

Girls like me don’t get happy endings.

I know what I am. At worst a cliché, at best a cautionary tale. I put an international border between me and my past, only to wind up working in a low-end titty bar. Even my excuse is as lame as it gets: I’m paying for college, getting my art degree from Montreal’s most prestigious school. Although some days it becomes confusing: am I just a student who moonlights as a stripper, or a stripper who masquerades as a student?

But the inevitable happens and my two lives collide. And now there’s one other person who knows both the quiet, antisocial Hannah and the sensual, shameless Alicia. One person who keeps my secret.

He’s beautiful, he’s sophisticated. He comes from the other side of life, the one where I’m not wanted or accepted. But he calls me la petite Américaine, and his hot, hot hands on my skin promise me things I long ago gave up on.

The problem? He teaches my Classic Photography class.

[Review] Anatomy Of A Misfit by Andrea Portes

Title : Anatomy Of A Misfit
Author : Andrea Portes
Publisher : Harper Children’s
Published : September 2014
ISBN : 9780062313645
Pages : 336

Outside, Anika Dragomir is all lip gloss and blond hair—the third most popular girl in school. Inside, she’s a freak: a mix of dark thoughts, diabolical plots, and, if local chatter is to be believed, vampire DNA (after all, her father is Romanian). But she keeps it under wraps to maintain her social position. One step out of line and Becky Vilhauer, first most popular girl in school, will make her life hell. So when former loner Logan McDonough shows up one September hotter, smarter, and more mysterious than ever, Anika knows she can’t get involved. It would be insane to throw away her social safety for a nerd. So what if that nerd is now a black-leather-jacket-wearing dreamboat, and his loner status is clearly the result of his troubled home life? Who cares if the right girl could help him with all that, maybe even save him from it? Who needs him when Jared Kline, the bad boy every girl dreams of, is asking her on dates? Who?

[Review] The Selection by Kiera Cass

Title : The Selection
Author : Kiera Cass
Publisher : Harper Teen
Published : April 2012
ISBN :  9780062059932
Pages : 336


For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon.

But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.

Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself--and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined.

[Review] My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Title : My Life Next Door

Author : Huntley Fitzpatrick

Publisher : Dial Books

Published : June 2012

ISBN : 9780803736993

Pages : 394

"One thing my mother nerver knew, and would disapporve of most of all, was that i watched the Garretts. All the time"

The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, messy, affectionate. And every day from her rooftop perch, Samantha Reed wishes she was one of them. ... until one summer evening, Jase Garrett climbs up next to her and changes everything.

As the two fall fiercely for each other, stumbling through the awkwardness and awesomeness of first love, Jase's family embraces Samantha - even as she keeps him a secret from her own. Then something unthinkable happens, and the bottom drops out of Samantha's world. She's suddenly faced with an impossible decision. Which perfect family will save her? Or is it time she saved herself?

A transporting debut about family, friendship, first romance, and how to be true to one person you love without betraying another.

[Review] Girls In The Dark by Akiyoshi Rikako

Judul : Girls In The Dark

Penulis : Akiyoshi Rikako

Penerjemah : Andry Setiawan

Penerbit : Penerbit Haru

Tanggal Terbit : May 2014

ISBN : 9786027742314

Jumlah Halaman : 284

Apa yang ingin disampaikan oleh gadis itu?

Gadis itu mati.

Ketua klub sastra, Shiraishi Itsumi, mati. Di tangannya ada setangkai bunga lily.

Pembunuhan? Bunuh diri?

Tidak ada yang tahu.
Satu dari enam anggota klub sastra digosipkan sebagai pembunuh gadis cantik berkharisma itu.

Seminggu sesudahnya, klub sastra mengadakan pertemuan. Mereka ingin mengenang mantan ketua mereka dengan sebuah cerita pendek. Namun ternyata, cerita pendek yang mereka buat adalah analisa masing-masing tentang siapa pembunuh yang sebenarnya. Keenam gadis itu bergantian membaca analisa mereka, tapi...

Kau.. pernah berpikir ingin membunuh seseorang?

[Review] Isla And The Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins

Tittle : Isla And The Happily Ever After

Author : Stephanie Perkins
Publisher : Usborne Publishing
Published : August 2014
Pages : 384
ISBN : 9781409581130
Price : $ 11.98

From the glittering streets of Manhattan to the moonlit rooftops of Paris, falling in love is easy for hopeless dreamer Isla and introspective artist Josh. But as they begin their senior year in France, Isla and Josh are quickly forced to confront the heartbreaking reality that happily-ever-afters aren’t always forever.

Their romantic journey is skillfully intertwined with those of beloved couples Anna and Étienne and Lola and Cricket, whose paths are destined to collide in a sweeping finale certain to please fans old and new.