eBook Review: My Name is Rapunzel by K.C. Hilton

Synopsis:  My tale has been told again and again, and I’ve heard each one. Except for my hair, I barely recognize the pitiful renditions. Muddled versions, crafted to entertain laughing children…but the children wouldn’t have laughed if they’d known the real story. It wasn't their fault. They didn't know the truth. Nobody did. My name is Rapunzel. I will tell you my story. I will tell you the truth.

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It is another story about Rapunzel. Rapunzel in this book is described as a teenager, she was 16 years old, and she was fall in love with a guy named Henry. At first, she expected that Henry will be her only love of her life. She wanted to marry him, and he wanted to propose her to be his wife. Their charming love story was not that easy to be true. The day when Henry proposed Rapunzel, something horrible happened. There was a weird storm approaching then Henry was gone. And something left behind after the storm was only the Witch with a suspicious Dragon standing in front of Rapunzel.

eBook Review: Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu

Synopsis:

Once upon a time, Hazel and Jack were best friends. They had been best friends since they were six, spending hot Minneapolis summers and cold Minneapolis winters together, dreaming of Hogwarts and Oz, superheroes and baseball. Now that they were eleven, it was weird for a boy and a girl to be best friends. But they couldn't help it - Hazel and Jack fit, in that way you only read about in books. And they didn't fit anywhere else.

And then, one day, it was over. Jack just stopped talking to Hazel. And while her mom tried to tell her that this sometimes happens to boys and girls at this age, Hazel had read enough stories to know that it's never that simple. And it turns out, she was right. Jack's heart had been frozen, and he was taken into the woods by a woman dressed in white to live in a palace made of ice. Now, it's up to Hazel to venture into the woods after him. Hazel finds, however, that these woods are nothing like what she's read about, and the Jack that Hazel went in to save isn't the same Jack that will emerge. Or even the same Hazel.

Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen," Breadcrumbs is a story of the struggle to hold on, and the things we leave behind.

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Tutorial: Menyampul Buku dengan Sampul Plastik Non-Destructive

Hi readers!

Lagi baca buku apa hari ini?
Ngomong-ngomong soal buku, kalian yang suka membaca pasti juga suka mengkoleksi buku kan? Sudah tahu belum salah satu cara merawat koleksi buku kalian agar awet dan tetap bersih? Bener banget! Caranya adalah memberi sampul pada buku. Dan sampul yang paling tepat untuk menyampul buku/novel koleksi kalian adalah sampul plastik. Mengapa demikian? Karena sampul plastik bisa menjaga buku agar tetap awet, bebas jamur dan rayap, namun halaman cover buku tetap terlihat dengan jelas. Lebih-lebih, sampul plastik juga replaceable alias bisa dilepas-pasang atau diganti tanpa membuat buku menjadi rusak/sobek.

Di post kali ini aku akan share cara menyampul buku dengan sampul plastik dengan baik. Caranya gampang banget kok, tidak memakan waktu lama, dan yang jelas murah meriah. Oke, langsung ke step-stepnya aja ya.

Tips Menulis Resensi Buku

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How are you doing? Good?

Readers yang gemar membaca buku pasti pernah kepikiran untuk menulis resensi dari buku yang kalian baca, ya nggak? Awal mula aku membuat blog ini juga karena aku suka membaca dan sering berpikir kenapa aku hanya menikmati sebuah buku untuk diriku sendiri tanpa membagikan pendapat/pengalaman mengenai buku yang aku baca tersebut pada orang lain. Selain itu, aku juga sering membaca resensi beberapa blogger buku ternama yang sudah membaca ratusan bahkan ribuan buku yang hampir semuanya mereka share dalam bentuk resensi di sebuah blog, forum, atau website dan tertarik untuk melakukan hal yang sama.

Tahukah readers kalau menulis resensi dapat menjadi sarana untuk membagikan pengalaman atau pendapat atau rekomendasi kalian mengenai suatu buku pada banyak orang? Lebih-lebih menulis resensi juga memberikan manfaat lho. Masih ingat dong ya apa saja manfaat menulis resensi buku. Kalau lupa, boleh intip lagi disini. Nah, di post ini, aku akan share sedikit mengenai tips menulis resensi buku. Simak baik-baik ya!

eBook Review: Entwined by Heather Dixon

Sinopsis:

Azalea is trapped. Just when she should feel that everything is before her . . . beautiful gowns, dashing suitors, balls filled with dancing . . . it's taken away. All of it.

The Keeper understands. He's trapped, too, held for centuries within the walls of the palace. And so he extends an invitation.

Every night, Azalea and her eleven sisters may step through the enchanted passage in their room to dance in his silver forest.

But there is a cost.

The Keeper likes to keep things.

Azalea may not realize how tangled she is in his web until it is too late.

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eBook Review: Splintered by A.G. Howard

Sinopsis:

This stunning debut captures the grotesque madness of a mystical under-land, as well as a girl’s pangs of first love and independence. Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers—precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alyssa might be crazy, but she manages to keep it together. For now.

When her mother’s mental health takes a turn for the worse, Alyssa learns that what she thought was fiction is based in terrifying reality. The real Wonderland is a place far darker and more twisted than Lewis Carroll ever let on. There, Alyssa must pass a series of tests, including draining an ocean of Alice’s tears, waking the slumbering tea party, and subduing a vicious bandersnatch, to fix Alice’s mistakes and save her family. She must also decide whom to trust: Jeb, her gorgeous best friend and secret crush, or the sexy but suspicious Morpheus, her guide through Wonderland, who may have dark motives of his own.

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eBook Review: The False Princess by Eilis O'Neal

Synopsis:

Princess and heir to the throne of Thorvaldor, Nalia's led a privileged life at court.  But everything changes when it's revealed, just after her sixteenth birthday, that she is a false princess, a stand-in for the real Nalia, who has been hidden away for her protection.  Cast out with little more than the clothes on her back, the girl now called Sinda must leave behind the city of Vivaskari, her best friend, Keirnan, and the only life she's ever known.

Sinda is sent to live with her only surviving relative, an aunt who is a dyer in a distant village. She is a cold, scornful woman with little patience for her newfound niece, and Sinda proves inept at even the simplest tasks.  But when Sinda discovers that magic runs through her veins - long-suppressed, dangerous magic that she must learn to control - she realizes that she can never learn to be a simple village girl.

Returning to Vivaskari for answers, Sinda finds her purpose as a wizard scribe, rediscovers the boy who saw her all along, and uncovers a secret that could change the course of Thorvaldor's history, forever.

A dazzling first novel, The False Princess is an engrossing fantasy full of mystery, action, and romance.

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