Resensi Novel Jingga Dan Senja

Hari itu adalah perayaan ulang tahun Ryan ke-70 tahun. Aku baru pulang dari stasiun kereta api di tengah hujan lebat. Sesampainya di depan pintu rumah, aku menemukan pintu rumah terkunci. Ketika mendengar suaraku, tetangga seberang rumah berkata dengan ekspresi bingung, "Tante Elita, kenapa Tante pulang? Om Ryan hari ini menikah, dia dan istrinya sekarang masih menginap di hotel!" Aku tertegun. 'Menikah?' Aku cerai dengan Ryan sebulan lalu. Namun, Ryan memberitahuku bahwa sahamnya rugi banyak dan memiliki utang. Agar tidak memengaruhiku, dia menceraikanku tanpa pisah rumah. Dengan dalih menghindari penagih utang, putraku mengantarku ke rumah lama dan memintaku tinggal di sana selama satu bulan. Ternyata sekarang Ryan sudah menikah lagi?

Di hari ulang tahun pernikahan kami, aku membersihkan rumah dan menemukan sebuah album foto. Ternyata, setiap tahun di hari ini, suamiku selalu mengambil foto pernikahan bersama cinta sejatinya. Dari usia 40 hingga 60 tahun, dari rambut hitam hingga beruban, selama dua puluh tahun dia tidak pernah absen. Di balik setiap foto ada tulisan tangan suamiku: "Cinta abadi selamanya." Jika yang dia cintai bukan aku, aku tidak perlu lagi mencucikan bajunya, memasak untuknya, mengurus anak, hingga merawat cucu. Setengah hidupku telah kujalani dengan sia-sia, tetapi tidak ada kata terlambat untuk berubah sekarang.

Empat peneliti muda terlibat dalam satu penelitian paling rahasia di kota Wu Chan. Sebagai mahasiswa terbaik dari bidangnya masing-masing, James, Chou, Chen, dan Angel mendedikasikan masa depan mereka demi penelitian yang diharapkan bisa merubah wajah dunia menjadi lebih baik. Penelitian yang awalnya bertujuan untuk mencari virus penangkal Virus MERS yang diketahui telah bermutasi, ternyata menjadi ajang percobaan menciptakan senjata biologis paling mematikan di dunia pada abad ini. Pertemuan Angel dengan sang kakak setelah terpisah selama lebih dua puluh tahun membuka semua rahasia penelitian mereka. Tidak hanya bahagia, tetapi mereka juga harus menghadapi penguasa yang marah karena proyek mereka dibongkar oleh kakak Angel. Mereka membutuhkan penjelasan, karena mau tidak mau mereka merasa bertanggungjawab atas apa yang terjadi di Wu Chan. Setelah korban-korban berjatuhan dan semakin luas penyebaran virus yang belum diketahui penyebabnya itu. Chou merasa bertanggung jawab penuh, oleh karenanya dia berniat meminta penjelasan ke beberapa orang yang terlibat. Namun, semuanya akhirnya tewas tanpa sempat menjelaskan secara detail apa yang terjadi. Semua berpacu dengan waktu, untuk menghentikan sepak terjang orang-orang berkuasa yang serakah atau dunia akan terkubur dalam kubangan virus mematikan.

WARNING: THE STORY CONTAINS EXPLICIT SEXUAL SCENES. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. Senator Phoenix McIntyre is a respectable politician. Everyone thought that he's a perfect man with a crystal-clear reputation. But behind that perfection lies a dirty secret: he has his own personal whore who fulfills all his sexual fantasies. What can he do? Ever since he saw Brianna Wilson or Eve dancing seductively on stage, his whole body burned with intense desire, the kind of desire he never felt before. She haunted him in his dreams, and he would always wake up with a massive hard-on. That's when he decided to have her. Damn his reputation, he had to taste that sweet pussy. What will happen if his ultimate secret is exposed? What would happen to him if the whole world happened to take a glimpse of how nasty and dirty he is in bed?

Elise is an unemployed woman from the modern world and she transmigrated to the book "The Lazy Lucky Princess." She hated the book because of its cliché plot and the unexpected dark past of the protagonist-Alicia, an orphan who eventually became the Saint of the Empire. Alicia is a lost noble but because of her kind and intelligent nature the people naturally love and praise her including Elise. When Elise wakes up in the body of the child and realizes that she was reincarnated to the book she lazily read, she struggles on how to survive in the other world and somehow meets the characters and be acquainted with them. She tried to change the flow of the story but the events became more dangerous and Elise was reminded why she hated the original plot. Then Alicia reaches her fifteen birthday. The unexpected things happened when Elise was bleeding in the same spot Alicia had her wound. Elise also has the golden light just like the divine power of the Saint. "You've gotta be kidding me!"

"I, King Zachariah Fenrir, pack Alpha to the Alpha pack, cast you, Aurora Fenrir out. From this moment forth, you are no longer worthy." A strangled cry rang out across the silence, it took me a moment to realize it was coming from me, my knees buckled and I hit the soft grass in the pasture. It felt as if someone was sticking a white hot branding iron into my chest, I was struggling to breathe. My fathers voice cut through the silence once more. "Run my child, because when we find you, there will be no saving you." And I did run, I ran as fast as I could.

We love reading novels, fall in love with the characters, sometimes envy the main girl for getting the perfect male lead... but what happens when you get inside your own novel and get to meet your perfect main lead and bonus...get treated like the female lead?! As the clock struck 12, Arielle Taylor is pulled inside her own novel. This cinderella is over the moon as her Prince Charming showers her with his attention but what would happen when she finds herself falling for her fairy godmother instead? Please read my interview with Goodnovel at: https://tinyurl.com/y5zb3tug Cover pic: pixabay

Haunted and tortured by her past and living with the belief that her mother is dead, Kaitlyn navigates a world where only 500 years ago an ancient race declared war with the warriors known in Asgard as the Valkyries. Now in the present those same whispers are resurging with deadly precision. Kaitlyn must now embark on a journey with her girlfriend Samantha, and her sisters Olivia and Brittany, along with the assistance from another person, to uncover the truth about not only her past--but also learn how to prevent the extinction of her fellow Valkyries as they get caught up in the midst of the Olden War. In order to survive, she will have to call on not only her physical abilities but others as well as she decesdends deeper into the Darkness--a dark and troubled web of lies and deceit in order to solve the riddle of her dark and troubled past. But there's also something that she must ask herself. Just how far will she allow her trust to go, before she can't trust anyone ever again?

Valeria Sienna, gadis berumur 18 tahun masuk ke dalam novel yang dibacanya setelah menjadi korban ke 11 pembunuh berantai saat pulang berbelanja. Menjadi pemeran utama bernama Elleonore tidaklah mudah. Kehidupan yang jauh dari kata bahagia harus dijalani detik itu juga. Sosok papa Elleonore yang menyayangi anak angkatnya dibanding anak kandung, menjadi tantangan sendiri untuk Sienna. Di tambah obsesi gila teman papanya bernama Izekiel yang berusaha melakukan apapun agar Elleonore menjadi miliknya. Tidak segan-segan menyingkirkan orang di sekeliling Elleonore agar obsesi itu tercapai. Ending cerita, Elleonore mati dibunuh kakak angkatnya. Untuk itulah, dengan sekuat tenaga Sienna akan merubah ending ceritanya.

Devyn Reilly isn't a socialite or mafia princess - she's down on her luck and it shows. Her rent is due, bills needed to be paid and she just got fired. Her singing career was going the same way as her life was - nowhere. But would all this be enough to make her go down The Rabbit Hole? Kieran Teague is a ruthless Irish mob boss, known to be so callous that even the Russian Pakhan of New York was wary of him. Stepping into his newly opened BDSM club, The Rabbit Hole, he did not expect to be intrigued by a lowly new dancer. However, the second she opened her mouth to sing, he knew he had to have her. Will the ruthless mobster be softened by the submissive siren? *Book 3 of The Mafia Trinity Series of Novels*