Gloomy Gift

Pengarang: Rhein Fathia

Penerbit: Bentang

Tahun terbit: 2015

Halaman: 283

Aduh, aduh, maafkan muka saya dan Jiji si Jerapah yang ikut nimbrung di foto bukunya yaaa.. Soalnya kami berdua sama-sama excited bangetttt abis baca buku ini. Kenapa? Saya ceritakan pelan-pelan yaaa....

Gloomy Gift, secara singkat, bercerita tentang seorang gadis bernama Kara yang pesta pertunangannya terpaksa rusak oleh sesuatu yang bahkan dia sendiri tidak mengerti. Tiba-tiba, rumahnya diserang segerombolan orang tak jelas, dan ia malah dibawa kabur tunangannya, Zeno. Tidak cukup sampai di situ, Kara juga mencuri dengar Zeno berkomunikasi dengan menggunakan sandi-sandi, dan sempat pula Kara hampir mati diberondong peluru. 

Sampai beberapa jam sebelum kejadian penyerangan itu, Kara hanyalah seorang gadis sederhana pemilik gift shop di sebuah mal. Dan tunangannya, Zeno, adalah seorang arsitek yang cuek namun sangat menyayangi Kara. Kini, kenapa tiba-tiba Zeno terlihat menakutkan dan memiliki senjata api? Sebenarnya Zeno terlibat apa sih? Bagaimana nasib Kara selanjutnya?

Let the Sky Fall

Author: Shannon Messenger

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Year Published: 2013

Pages: 409

Vane Weston was an orphan. When he was 7 years old, his parents had died from a category-five tornado. Vane was the only survivor. Not long after, Vane was adopted. Vane could not remember anything about his past before the tornado except a brown-haired girl. This girl always appeared in his dreams but Vane could not tell if the girl was just his imagination or she really existed in reality and somehow related to his past.

As a common 17 years old teenager, Vane wanted to date and kiss a girl. So, when his best friend, Isaac, asked Vane for a double date, Vane decided to try his luck. Unfortunately, the date was disturbed by the appearance of a girl who has haunted his dreams in the restaurant. The second date was also a failure because of sudden wind that blew near Vane.

The girl from Vane's dream finally appeared before Vane after penetrating into his dream and laid unconscious in Vane's bedroom floor. The girl's name was Audra, and she brought bad news for Vane. Apparently, Vane was not a human but a Sylph--an air elemental--and he had been hidden by the Sylph guards named Gale Force from Raiden, an evil Sylph who wanted to rule the world by taking the power of the West Wind possessed only by Vane. Audra was his guardian and now she wanted Vane to learn the language of three winds: Southerly, Northerly, and Easterly, and hopefully those three winds would finally summon the last language of wind, the Westerly, to face Raiden, who also have possessed the language of three winds. But how could Vane remember how to speak Westerly while he couldn't remember anything about his past?