Pandangan Pengarang Dalam Novel Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk

Meninggal akibat kecelakan mobil, Gisella tidak menyangka akan hidup kembali sebagai istri angkuh dan jahat bernama sama di sebuah novel yang pernah dibacanya. Bahkan, berakhir tragis di tangan William, sang suami. Lantas, bagaimana Gisella yang sekarang, bertahan? Belum lagi, kepribadian tokoh "Istri William" ini sangat bertolak belakang dengan kepribadiannya!

I woke up inside a novel, and not even as an important character. I became a pretty background extra in a smut novel. My brother, however, was the only normal person in the entire story. His character setting was the one man the soft, delicate heroine could never win over. He was the cold, unattainable Prince Charming she could never conquer. When the heroine cried and confessed her love, he was studying. When she offered him her whole heart and body, he was busy starting a company. When she spiraled into scandals and nightlife, he was already a billionaire, calm and untouchable. I thought he would live a quiet, ascetic life forever. Until one night, I walked in on him at midnight… holding a piece of clothing I recognized all too well, murmuring a name over and over, a name so familiar that my scalp tingled.

Saat aku menungging untuk mencuci pakaian, tiba-tiba Ayah Mertuaku mendesakku masuk ke dalam mesin cuci dari belakang. Bokongku yang memikat terpampang dan dipegang oleh tangan seorang pria. Aku tak bisa bergerak sedikit pun. Sebuah tangan besar membelaiku dengan nakal dari belakang. Tubuhku memanas tak terkendali dan kenikmatan itu membuat kakiku gemetar. Aku pun menoleh dan ternyata orang itu adalah Ayah Mertuaku...

After being humiliated by her fated mate, the Alpha’s golden son, and called a worthless omega in front of the entire Moonglow pack, Tiara’s world collapses. Even her favorite comfort, reading her beloved comic Hockey Star is Obsessed With Me, can’t save her from her pain. But one wish, saved through tears, changes everything. Tiara wakes up inside the comic’s story, in the body of the tragic heroine doomed to fail the one man who ever loved her: Luke Thorne, the immortal hockey star who hunts under the moon. She knows this story. Every twist. Every betrayal. Every heartbreak. But this time, she’s determined to rewrite the ending, to save Luke and maybe heal her own shattered heart. But Tiara soon discovers she’s not the only soul who doesn’t belong in this world… and some people will do anything to keep the story playing out as it was originally written.

I was never a novel person. Honestly? I couldn’t care less about them. That is, until “Three Hearts, One Love”... the reverse harem novel that took over the world… shoved itself into my life. Everywhere I turned: malls, newsfeeds, radios, TVs… Even the old lady at the bus stop was raving about it. Out of pure annoyance… and a little curiosity… I bought a copy, planning to skim it just enough to say it was overrated. Big mistake. Huge. One minute I was rolling my eyes at the melodrama, the next I woke up inside the story — not as the beloved heroine, of course. No, fate made me Luna Graves: the pathetic and miserable, jealous best friend doomed to crash and burn spectacularly by the end of the novel. With no way out, I figured I'd play my part, die dramatically, and call it a day. But then something weird happened. Scenes shifted. Strangers walked onto the page. And the swoon-worthy male leads? They stopped chasing the heroine... and started chasing me. Me. The villain. This wasn’t in the script... and I was definitely not ready.

Tiga bulan sebelum cerai, dia mengajukan permohonan pindah kerja. Sebulan sebelum cerai, dia mengirimkan surat perjanjian cerai pada Jason. Tiga hari sebelum cerai, dia membereskan semua barang-barangnya dan pindah dari rumah mereka. ... Hubungan enam tahun kandas begitu saja. Clara tersadar sepenuhnya di saat Jason muncul di hadapannya bersama cinta pertamanya. Anak cinta pertamanya juga memanggil Jason dengan sebutan 'Ayah'. Lantaran Jason terus membuat Clara menoleransi kehadiran cinta pertamanya beserta putranya, seolah-olah Clara itu simpanan yang hanya bisa disembunyikan, lebih baik dia mengakhiri pernikahan mereka dan merestui Jason dengan cinta pertamanya. Namun di saat Clara sepenuhnya menghilang dari dunianya, Jason menjadi gila. Dia mengira Jason akan mendapatkan apa yang diinginkannya dan menikahi cinta pertamanya. Namun, Clara tidak menyangka pria yang begitu arogan itu akan mengemis cinta padanya di depan media dengan mata merah. "Aku nggak selingkuh. Aku juga nggak punya anak haram. Aku cuma punya istri yang nggak menginginkanku lagi. Namanya Clara Sengadi. Aku merindukannya!"

Dilema dengan status sebagai istri simpanan membuat Maura menagih janji Arshel yang mengatakan akan menikahinya secara hukum dan menceraikan istri pertamanya setelah anak mereka lahir. Tapi ternyata, Arshel mengkhianati Maura. Dia hanya memanfaatkan Maura untuk mendapatkan keturunan. Arshel meninggalkan Maura dan membawa anak mereka. Maura sakit hati dan ingin balas dendam. Dia kembali pada keluarganya yang kaya raya dan mengambil kembali status anak konglomerat yang sempat ia sembunyikan dari semua orang. Lebih dari itu, Maura berniat untuk menghancurkan perusahaan Arshel dengan kemampuan rahasia yang dimilikinya sebagai seorang hacker.

Kesabaran Fathiyah dalam menjalani hidup masih harus diuji, setelah terlepas dari kekejaman Paman dan Bibinya. Ia menyangka hidupnya akan bahagia bersama laki-laki yang ia cintai. Namun, kenyataan pahit harus ia terima saat mengetahui kebenaran yang sangat menyakitkan. Arza, laki-laki yang ia cintai hanya memanfaatkan cintanya demi misi dalam pekerjaannya. Di saat itu pula rasa cinta itu berubah menjadi rasa benci. Ia pun meninggalkan pekerjaannya hanya untuk terlepas dari bayang-bayang Arza. Kepergian Fathiyah membuat Arza menyadari kesalahannya yang telah mempermainkan hati gadis itu. Akankah Arza dapat menemukan keberadaan Fathiyah? Mampukah Arza membujuk Fathiyah agar memaafkannya? Akankah cinta mereka bersemi? Mau lanjut baca? Jawabannya ada di dalam novel ini. "Cukup aku menjadi gadis yang bodoh selama ini hanya karena terobsesi akan cintanya, sekarang tidak akan! Bahkan saat ini aku sangat membencinya." -(Fathiyah) "Aku salah sudah menyakitinya. Apa pantas aku mendapatkan maaf darinya setelah semua yang terjadi? Dan apa ini, kenapa aku selalu memikirkannya. Apa aku jatuh cinta padanya?" -(Arza)

"Her mom's a witch. Her dad's a demon.And she just wants to be ordinary.Being part of a demon raising is way less exciting than it sounds.Sydlynn Hayle's teen life couldn't be more complicated. Trying to please her coven is all a fantasy while the adventure of starting over in a new town and fending off a bully cheerleader who hates her are just the beginning of her troubles. What to do when delicious football hero Brad Peters--boyfriend of her cheer nemesis--shows interest? If only the darkly yummy witch, Quaid Moromond, didn't make it so difficult for her to focus on fitting in with the normal kids despite her paranormal, witchcraft laced home life. Forced to take on power she doesn't want to protect a coven who blames her for everything, only she can save her family's magic.If her family's distrust doesn't destroy her first.Hayle Coven Novels is created by Patti Larsen, an EGlobal Creative Publishing signed author."

Her name was Cathedra. Leave her last name blank, if you will. Where normal people would read, "And they lived happily ever after," at the end of every fairy tale story, she could see something else. Three different things. Three words: Lies, lies, lies. A picture that moves. And a plea: Please tell them the truth. All her life she dedicated herself to becoming a writer and telling the world what was being shown in that moving picture. To expose the lies in the fairy tales everyone in the world has come to know. No one believed her. No one ever did. She was branded as a liar, a freak with too much imagination, and an orphan who only told tall tales to get attention. She was shunned away by society. Loveless. Friendless. As she wrote "The End" to her novels that contained all she knew about the truth inside the fairy tale novels she wrote, she also decided to end her pathetic life and be free from all the burdens she had to bear alone. Instead of dying, she found herself blessed with a second life inside the fairy tale novels she wrote, and living the life she wished she had with the characters she considered as the only friends she had in the world she left behind. Cathedra was happy until she realized that an ominous presence lurks within her stories. One that wanted to kill her to silence the only one who knew the truth.