Avalin’s Nighmare (Twined Review)

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a.l collins, english, twined, young adult

Title         : Twined
Author     : A.L. Collins
Publisher : CreateSpace (Self Publishing)
First Date : March 25th 2012
Format     : PaperBack (258 pages)
Target      : Young adult

What if yourmother diagnoze with schizoprenia and for some action you began to see and hear something that you believe they were not? Scare, paranoid,or you trust that you’r insane too…And it’s all happened to Avalin.

The nighmare stared when Avalin was celebrating her elevent birtday. She show hermother kill a woman in their kitchen. After the murdered, life was too hard for Avalin. Her mother diagnoze with Schizoprenia and herfather has lived in trouble. By thats reality, Avalin growth as a strong girl.

Now, Avalin was a high sholl student and accident about six year a go has not talken again by everyone. But, then Avalin began hear a voice in hermind. More terrible she looked on of cherleaders morph into a monsteur right infront of her. Avalin was paranoia that she may be insane just like her mother. A new mysterious class mates named Albert said that all Avalin hear and see is exactly true.

He, Albert knew who Avalin was and who hermother, Abigail Marsh. Without knowing anything about Albert, Avalin had to trust him when they both stuck to a pararel world. Then, Jessica, the girl who morph into a monsterur came with more scariest look. Albert said it’s all a trap by an illusionist called the twined. Who is the twined? Why does he want Avalin? And Who is Albert?

On 258 pages of this book, we bought to scarie world of Avalin. With point of view of Avalin, it’s help us to have more emphatyze to Avalin. Yay, since the firs chapter i’ve liked Avalin so much. She is a smart girl and so strong. And collins also can make characters of Albert seem so mysterious.

By the way i am not native in English. But lucky for me, the literate used by collins on this novel so simply. So i can get it easyly. About layout and font of content, it’s not bad. And the cover which dominated with dark purple looks sweet gothic. I like that.

When Avalin see Albert first in the class is nice part for me. What did Albert say about meaning of life exactly cute. I amnot memorized it exactly, but it’s something like … “The aim of life is to being complete, being complete. Being complete is to find someone”. Very like this quote 🙂

So i rated it 4 stars in GoodReads, very recommended for young adult reader. can’t wait for the sequel : Twined part 2.

About the author

  A.L. Collins lived in Manchester, Maryland. Writing since 18. He has publish many books, include : Bastian : Prequel to War, twined, Scarlett. He also has prepared more books to publish in 2012, one of them are Twined part 2.

New Goal : Read & Review Book in English

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a.l collins, bhavna khemlani, maples rejuvenating cocktail, scarlett''s, twined

I love Goodreads……………………

Memang benar yah, Goodreads  itu emang surganya bagi book lover. Selain banyak giveaway dan panduan buat ngeliat bacaan-bacaan bagus, juga bisa kenalan sama penulis-penulis dari luar. 😀 Syukur-syukur bakal dikasih bukunya gratis.

Yang terakhir ini beneran, saya dikasih langsung sama penulisnya. Gak pakai ikut-ikutan giveaway, (sebenarnya selal enter semua giveaway yang available sih, tapi baru menang satu kali ).  Penulis pertama  yang berbaik hati mengirimi saya bukunya adalah A.L Collins. Mulanya kita cuma sekedar menyapa melalui message di goodreads. Eh ternyata, dia nawarin bukunya buat dikirim ke saya. Dan tara… ternyata buku yang dikirimnya sudah ngendap selama sebulan dulu di kantor post karena ga nulis no HP. Padahal udah ada nomor rumahnya. Beruntungnya buku yang dikirim Bhavna Khemlani ada no HPnya. Karena alamatnya sama, jadilah buku dari Collins baru saya ambil kemarin bersama paket dari Bhavna.

Berikut penampakan bukunya :

Buku ini bergenre young adult, tapi gak seperti kisah young adult yang kebanyakan romance, scarlett’s lebih inspiratif dengan selipan humor khas Amerika. Saya bariu baca chapter awalnya, udah langsung disuguhi adegan yang lucu 😀

Buku kedua twined baru saya baca halaman belakangnya, seperti bergenre Thriller. Berkisah tentang Avalin,  seorang gadis yang pada saat ulang tahunnya yang kesebelas melihat Ibunya membunuh seorang wanita di dapur mereka. Hal ini menghantui kehidupan Avalin bertahun-tahun berikutnya. Terlebih ketika ibunya didiagnosis menderita schizofrenia. Lalu muncul pemuda misterius bernama Albert . Bersama Albert, Avalain berusaha menyingkap tabir gelap yang menimpanya.

Sinopsisnya, sound nice…buku ini akan ada sekuelnya yang akan terbit akhir tahun 2012 ini.

Yang aling kerennya dihalaman depan kedua buku ada tanda tangan dan note buat saya,. Gak panjang-panjang, cuma kalimat singkat kayak “To Gea, Hope this story make you happy” dan “To Gea, thanks for the support“. Simple kayak gitu, tapi keren dah dapat catatan kayak gitu dari penulisnya langsung.

Penulis berikutnya yang berbaik hati mengirimkan bukunya pada saya adalah Bhavna Khemlani. penulis asal India yang kini menetap di Thailand.

Ia mengirimi saya satu paperback “Maples rejuvenating Cocktail”. Novel bertema romance yang berkisah tentang kehidupan empat manusia yang akhirnya memiliki takdir yang terhubung. Saya baru baca tiga chapter pertama, jadi baru diperkenalkan pada dua tokoh sentral : Ryan dan Melina. Di awal chapter kita disuguhi panorama Thailand yang memukau, lalu setting berpindah ke London tempat Ryan menetap bersama pamannya.

Mengingat bahasa inggris saya sangat pas-pasan akan butuh waktu cukup lama menyelesaikan ketiga novel ini. Namun saya mulai merasa ini menarik dan menambahkan daftar baru dalam kegiatan saya tahun ini. Yaitu membaca buku dalam bahasa aslinya dan mau coba-conba bikin review dalam bahasa Inggris juga.        *padahal, banyak buku yang belum dibikin reviewnya. Semangat…semangat… 😀

semoga aja ntar, para senoir BBI mampir buat ngasih kritikan review berbaghasa asing saya.