Wah tahun 2016 berakhir juga. Itu artinya challenge ini juga harus ditutup. Tahun 2016 ini aku menantang diriku sendiri untuk membaca buku bergenre Fantasi, Scifi, dan Distopia. Tantangan ini diadakan oleh Raafi di Ough, My Books!.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two by John Tiffany, Jack Thorne & J.K. Rowling
Published: 2016
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
E-book, English Edition, 343 pages

Blurb:
It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children.

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.

Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London’s West End on July 30, 2016.

Review:
A really great holiday read.

Sebetulnya aku mau membaca ulang seri Harry Potter berurutan dan akan diakhiri dengan buku ini. Tapi baru sampai buku ketiga, aku sudah nggak sabar untuk membaca buku ini. Kapan-kapan akan kubaca ulang lagi urut dari awal. Hahahaa... Baca Harry Potter nggak akan pernah membosankan.

Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
Published: 2016
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
E-book, English Edition, 444 pages

Blurb:

If there’s one thing Mare Barrow knows, it’s that she’s different.

Mare Barrow’s blood is red—the color of common folk—but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control.

The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince—the friend—who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind.

Pursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors.

But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat.

Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever?

The electrifying next installment in the Red Queen series escalates the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they’ve always known—and pits Mare against the darkness that has grown in her soul.

Review:
Setelah twist sadis di buku sebelumnya, sekarang penulis memberikan cliffhanger tanpa ampun di buku ini.

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Published: 2015
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
E-book, English Edition, 383 pages

Blurb:

This is a world divided by blood – red or silver.

The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change.

That is, until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace. Here, surrounded by the people she hates the most, Mare discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. One that threatens to destroy the balance of power.

Fearful of Mare’s potential, the Silvers hide her in plain view, declaring her a long-lost Silver princess, now engaged to a Silver prince. Despite knowing that one misstep would mean her death, Mare works silently to help the Red Guard, a militant resistance group, and bring down the Silver regime.

But this is a world of betrayal and lies, and Mare has entered a dangerous dance – Reds against Silvers, prince against prince, and Mare against her own heart.

Review:

Aaarrrggghhhh!!! Brutal. Twist-nya amat sangat brutal.

The Hollow Boy - Pemuda Berongga by Jonathan Stroud
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Judul Asli: The Hollow Boy (Lockwood & Co. #3)
Alih Bahasa: Poppy D. Chusfani
Editor: Primadona Angela
Desain Sampul: Olvyanda Ariesta
Penerbit: PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama (2016)
Paperback, Edisi Bahasa Indonesia, 440 hlm.

Blurb:

Review:

Lockwood: “Aku tidak tahu di mana Sumber-nya. Ada gagasan?”
George: “Ya. Aku lapar. Sebaiknya kita makan.”
Lucy: “Bagaimana mungkin kau bisa memikirkan makanan sekarang?”
George: “Mudah saja. Ketakutan meningkatkan seleraku.”---hlm. 41

Hani masih gemetaran ketika menulis ini. Jantung masih berdetak cepat, adrenalin membanjir, dan keringat dingin mengucur deras. Maaf agak lebay, tapi hal itu sepenuhnya benar. Sejauh ini, buku ketiga seri Lockwood & Co. adalah yang terbaik. Hani sangat menyukainya.

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