Review: Mori Hoshi - Everything Becomes F

 

Biasanya sih nunggu beberapa bulan untuk beli buku barunya Penerbit Haru, tapi pas dapet diskonan di tanggal kembar, jadi langsung beli. Buku ini masuknya cetakan pertama bahasa Indonesia, jadi aku masih memaklumi kalo di buku ini ada banyak typoo-nya. Baaaaaaaaaaanyak banget typoo-nya. Aku merasa ini buku terbitan Haru yang paling banyak typoo-nya, entah kenapa.

Sebenarnya ceritanya bagus banget. Tokoh utamanya dua orang, tapi yang lebih dieksplor adalah proses berpikirnya Sohei Saikawa. Untungnya ini novel, segala sesuatunya harus dibayangkan. Karena baca Saikawa-sensei merokok dimanapun, kapanpun, rasanya... Sesak napas. Tapi... Karena rokok itu dia bisa berpikir luar biasa. Bukan sebuah pembenaran, tapi... Memang begitu jalan ceritanya. Rokok itu buruk bagi kesehatan, Saikawa-sensei juga ngomong begitu kok. Bahkan saat Moe Nishinosono mau nyoba, ga pernah diizinin.

Kalo ngomongin jalan cerita, sperti kebanyakan novel iya-mishu dari Penerbit Haru lainnya, buku ini juga punya plot twist yang bikin melongo. Nggak kepikiran sampe sana kalo ceritanya bakalan begitu. Dan aku sih nggak berusaha menebak karena aku tipenya yang menikmati kecurigaan dan menikmati proses, jadi lanjut aja terus bacanya sampe halaman 444.

Yaaaaa... Ini novel tebel, walau termasuk page turner (nggak berasa 15 menit bisa baca 20-30 halaman atau lebih, aku nggak ngitungin sederil itu). Jadi emang kalo dibawa jalan-jalan rasanya berat banget, tapi untuk dinikmati jalan ceritanya, buku setebel itu emang mendarangkan kepuasan sendiri. Cuma memang karena settingnya lab riset yang penih dengan komputer, jadi banyak percakapan melibatkan bahasa pemrograman. Aku sendiri agak pusing di bagian itu, tapi ga papa. Nggak perlu dipahami semendetil itu. Percaya aja sama apa yang diomongin sama tokoh-tokohnya.

Kesimpulannya, untuk bilang ini buku Penerbit Haru yang paling bagus sih... Nggak ya. Masih ada yg lebih dibandingkan ini. Tapi buku ini worth to read. Saaaangat worth to read. Sangat menghibur, nggak ngebosenin dan nggak slow paced. Kalau memang pencinta novel Asia Timur, bergenre mystery/thriller, buku ini cocok buat jadi TBR selanjutnya.

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Challenge Day #13: Favorite Book

Favorite book? Fiction book? Or a non-fiction book? Ah… I never do a non-fiction review before this. I need time for preparing to write those review. So instead, I will write about my favorite fictional books.

I used to say that my fave book of all time is Sidney Sheldon’s Nothing Lasts Forever. I love most of his books but Nothing Lasts Forever is an absolute mind blowing to me. It’s about three women doctor that involve in a murder case. Full of twist and unexpected ending.

There some reasons why I love Sidney Sheldon’s books all the time. First reason is 99% of Sidney Sheldon’s books have women as the main character. He always potrait all of his main characters as a strong independent woman that stand up for live. And he really good at making a female point of view.

Second reason is he really do his research for each of his books. He never publish a book with short break. Because he really dig deep in every single setting and background story of each books. And lastly, speciall for Nothing Lasts Forever, this books really feels like a med TV drama. The details, the intense emotion, everything feels real even just by read at it.

But for now, I have several new fave books. It will be Jodi Picoult’s My Sister Keeper, Akiyoshi Rikako’s Giselle and Minato Kanae’s Confession. Those books have a similarity with Sidney Sheldon’s Nothing Last Forever. It is those books using a multiple point of view to help readers understand the single situation happened through the book. I turned out love this style of writing better than author point of view of single character point of view. Giselle and My Sister Keeper is the first book I read from each of those author and the books makes me actually fall in love with the authors way on story telling. Since then, I try my best to buy every books from the author (this makes me remember I haven’t buy Minato Kanae’s Penance 🤭🤭🤭).

Each of those books have a quite different theme, but still as equal attracting as others. And… Guess what! Those books have another similarity with Nothing Last Forever. It is…

PLOT TWIST!

I didn’t expect to get a plot twist when I read My Sister Keeper since it is a family drama book. But… Yeah… You have it. That book have unexpected plot that you will definitely enjoyed. As I enjoyed how 5 of the family members show their thought throught each chapter (plus 2 additional members, the social worker who assisst the youngest child and a lawyer that handle the case), the story comes ups and downs and then twisted… Like you’ve never imagine it would happened. Don’t compare it with the movie version. You wouldn’t get the excitement that I mention here.

As for Confession, I know that this mystery book must contain a twist. That’s why when I read it, I didn’t expect anything or thinking what would happen next. I just go with the plot and still… I GOT SHOCK WHEN I REACH THE END OF THE BOOK!!! Indeed! This books is masterpiece. And… Thank God I didn’t know that this book already have a movie version. I don’t know how good they picture the story, but I am a believer on ‘books will better than the movie version’.

For Giselle, this book isn’t the first book of Akiyoshi Rikako that I read. I had her others books. But this one really blow my mind. This is also a mystery book. But it has a beautiful-horror setting, which is a preparation on ballet stage of Giselle. Just like when I read Confession, I try not to think about what would happen and what kind of twist I might get. And because of this, I spend around 4 hours on Starbucks just to finish this book (because I can’t take my hands off this book). This book is ABSOLUTELY THE BEST STORY of Akiyoshi Rikako-sensei (my sister told me to read Holy mother first before make this judgement, but I need to say this though).

As for now, all of those 4 books I mention above are my favorite books. If you ask me later, this might be change. Jody Picoult has another book with multiple point a view like My sister Keeper, I will read Akiyoshi Rikako’s Holy Mother and Memory of Glass. Plus… I will order Minato Kanae’s Penance. Or I might get another favorite from other author. Let’s see again soon if this list change or not. Until then… Try to read those books yourself so you can feel what I feel from reading them.

Have a happy reading!

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