Friday, March 28, 2008

Where are My Children?

By Mary Higgins Clark


Seven years ago, Nancy has lost her children, and she's been accused murder her own children. Fortunately, the only witness has been disappeared when she is on judicature, so she can avoid to be punished in a gas chamber.

Seven years later, she has a happy family again with two little children and a husband that really loves her. She tries to begin a new life and happy family in a new place, so that nobody else know about her past.

But she never knows about one person that follows her to that town. He wait until her birthday to do his big plan. He wants to repeat seven year's ago case, kidnap her children then kill them.

It happened again, her children have been disappeared and she's gonna be accused again as the murderer. But, she never do the same thing as before. She try to find her children, she has many person that truly want to help her.
Who is the real kidnapper and murderer?
Nancy herself, the missing witness, or other person that want to take a revenge to Nancy?

Want to know how this story ends? I recommend you to read this thriller novel. Really interesting and genius novel. A pedophilia villain, that makes me feel so thrilled. Great novel.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

The Mirror Bride

By Robyn Donald


Five years ago, Olivia takes her step brother to run away from her cruel step father. She tries to live independently and tries in so many ways to fulfill their everyday needs.

Five years later, she's surrender, when she knows that her brother, Simon, needs a surgery to cure his incapability to hear (if not, he might be deaf forever).

She encourage herself to write a letter to Drake, Simon's real father and ask him to finance Simon's life (including surgical cost). Drake agree to finance Simon's life with one condition, Olivia and Simon must stay at drake's house.

One day, her step father come and threaten to take over Simon as a guardian. Olivia is so afraid and she offers Drake a marriage to make their position stronger in front of court. Then they do a fake marriage in order to make Simon safer.

What happened then, because both of them ever involved each other five years ago.
Is it true that Drake is Simon's biological father?
If he's not Simon's biological father, then why Drake agree to take all of responsibility about Simon and marry Olivia?
Is Drake has other motivation in that marriage?
Can they win in the court against Olivia's step father?
Find out the answers by reading this romantic novel.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

All Through The Night

By Mary Higgins Clark



Seven years ago, she laid her new born baby girl in front of the church and she called the church to tell about it (she hopes that girl daughter can be adopted by a good family that can love her, something that she can't do), but when she hears that the police come to the church, she thinks that her baby has been found.

But, she absolutely wrong, the Bishop Santorini's cup has been stolen. And her baby is took by the thieve.

Seven years later, she wants to meet her missing daughter. She went back to this town, but she is so disappointed when she knows that her daughter never found in front of the church.

The other case is about the deceiver (husband and wife) that forge Bess's last will and testament. Before it's been happened, she inherit all of her wealth to her sister Kate, but those husband and wife show a newer version of testament that inherit Bess's house to them.

Alvirah and Willy (Mary Higgins Clark's two favorite character)-two amateur detective that loves Hercule Poirot- wants to reveal all truth about the missing little girl, missing Bishop Santorini's cup, and the forge of Bess's last will and testament.

Will they find the truth there?
Can their grey cells help out to find all the truth?
Find out the answers of this mystery, a little mystery at Mary Higgins Clark novel (because she usually tells us very big mystery in her novel, so I can call this novel a little mystery).

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Prime Time

By Sandra Brown


Andrea Malone (Andy), a journalist of Telex Television wants to get an exclusive interview with General Rattclif. A soldier retirement that decide to retire just after he got a big name in some wars (retired in a young age for a soldier). He never want to be interviewed for a long time and Andy struggles to get this exclusive interview.

His only son, Lyon, feels so disagree about this interview plan, but Andy never surrender. She sneaks to General's house and succeeded in meeting him personally. She never expected that he accept her proposal and he feels delighted to be interviewed, because he thinks that Andy's motivation is genuine. He offers Andy to stay in his ranch, also all of her crews.

Andy's trapped between her duty (as an interviewer to get all the real facts about General Rattclif) and her real love to his son, Lyon. That conflict reach the crest after she knows the real reason, why General Rattclif take the pension in a young age.

Will she reveals the real story to the public or she can keep silent forever?

One romantic novel that uses journalism as a background, quite successful romantic novel. Very Sandra Brown's novel, that can create high sexual tension between Andy and Lyon.

Friday, March 21, 2008

Scarlett Lady

By Sara Wood


Ginny and Leo are a couple that really love each others. But after many gossip (that said Ginny often cheats him with many other men) that attack Ginny (as a successful supermodel), Leo starts not to believe her anymore. Until one day, after losing in a court against the gossip tabloid, Leo throws the other dynamite that destructs Ginny, he wants to get divorce.

After two years of separation, Ginny read an advertisement in the newspaper, about a man (Vicente St Honore) that searches her missing daughter that has many similarities to her. So, she tries to answer the advertisement and goes to St Lucia to meet her father. She decides to search her real father in order to get someone to love her (because she still love Leo very much and need other person to love her unconditionally).

At St Lucia, she meets again with Leo. He tells Ginny about Vicente St Honore (the man that maybe her real father), he is a cruel man that neglect her wife and child, a pervert man that still search a beautiful woman to be his mistress. Leo insist to accompany Ginny and pretend to be a very jealous husband for protecting her from Vicente.

What Leo's motivation?
He only wants to be a good ex-husband to Ginny and try to protects her.
He wants to make a revenge to Vicente (his enemy), because Ginny have a great possibilities to becomes her daughter.
Or he wants to be her real husband again, because Ginny still his real love of his life.

Read this romantic novel to know, how this story ends. It makes me swept away on their love story, and imagine myself as Ginny that has Leo as my lovely hubby. So romantic.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Skipping Christmas

By John Grisham


After her only daughter goes to Peru, to join some kind of charity program, Luther and his wife feel their life will never be the same again. So, Luther decide that this year's Christmas gonna be different from last year's or even the previous years. He decide to skip this Christmas. Every year he always suffer every Christmas comes, mostly because of much money that their family have to spent for celebrating Christmas. Imagine $6,100 every Christmas, what a waste?

Then this husband and wife decide to skip this Christmas. There is no party, no Christmas accessories (included no Christmas tree and that horrible Frosty Frost at the roof), no Christmas gift, and no other craziness for Christmas. They plan to take a wonderful trip to Bahamas on a cruise ship on Christmas. They try to enjoy their money better than waste it for Christmas celebration.

But what happens then? There is more mess happened than before when they try to skip this year's Christmas, mostly from their own neighbourhood. Why trying to skip this Christmas becomes so hard? Just read this book to know how it ends. A light book to read to enjoy your spare time.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

While My Pretty Ones Sleeps

By Mary Higgins Clark


When a successful writer, Ethel Lambsford not comes to Neeve's boutique to take her orders, Neeve begins to feel suspicious, there is something happened to Ethel. Then Ethel has been found died in the park with her neck being stabbed.

Neeve begins to feel suspicious, because Ethel never wear clothes in a wrong combination, just like when she was found murdered. Her investigation makes the real murdered think that she is endangered. She has to be eliminated. A plan of Neeve's murder has been prepared.

Who is the real killer?

Ethel's ex-husband, that will be very happy for her death, because he will be released from the obligation to pay the divorce subsidy.

Ethel's nephew that often steals her money and will be very rich because of her death (she inherits all of her wealth to him).

Or the killer is the same as Renata's (Neeve's mother) killer?

This is the latest novel I have read, and I think Mary Higgins Clark has done a great job that makes me feel curious until the end. It is so exciting when I read it, it pushes my adrenalin. I am really surprised with the end of the story. It is out of my expectation.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

And Then They Were None

By Agatha Christie


This is one of my favorite novel by Agatha Christie. It tells a story about a serial murder that have been done perfectly. He invites 10 person (included himself and 2 servants) to an isolated island (all of them have done a crime but they never been punished for it). After they arrived there, the murder starts. It begins from the person with a little crime until the last one with the heaviest sin. It is a smart murder plan, even the police never knew who is the real murder and about the order of the murder. The murderer has been known after the real murderer admit this serial killer by using a letter that has been sent to the police.

It is very bright crime novel by Agatha Christie, I've even can't guess who is the real killer. Many other detective novels have been inspired by this novel, especially Japanese detective comic (just like detective Kindaichi and detective Conan).

I think, this crime novel is worth to be collected in your library. Especially if you love crime novel or you are one of Agatha Christie's novel lover. This is truly one of the best Agatha Christie's novel beside her primary character like Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, or Tommy and Tuppence.

Monday, March 17, 2008

The Final Proposal

by Robyn Donald


This romantic novel tells a story about Jan Caruthers, a fashion consultant that receive legacy from her unknown grandfather. But, to claim the farm land, she has to live there for at least one month. The main problem is the land has only one hut that really in a very poor condition and facilities (there is no electricity).

Fortunately she has a handsome neighbour, Kear Lannion, that always ready to help her. From helping her to light the fire, calm her down when she hears strange noise outside the hut, clean out the mess when the flood comes, and ask her to stay at his house when the hut been broken by the flood.

What is Kear's motivation?
Just want to be a good neighbour and helping each other, or he want to buy Jan's farm in order to expand his farm, or he falls in love with her?
If you want to know the answers, just read this novel.

Friday, March 14, 2008

Sybill

By Flora Rheta Schreiber


This is a psychological book, about Sybill Isabel Dorsett that suffer double personality (actually not double personality, but the personality splits to 24 unique character that each has a name and it's own character). It tells us about Sybill's struggle to be cured from this psychological problems.This book tells us about Sybill's problem, from her childhood until her middle age (when she has been declared 100% cured from her personality disorder). Any kind of abuse from physical abuse until sexual abuse that has been done by her mother have caused the split of personality (every time she has problem that can't be faced, her personality splits to face the traumatic events). It becomes more serious because she has an apathy father, he seems so far from her (although he knows about his wife's habit, he keeps silent and let it happen).All of this thing has caused Sybill's personality split and split until become 24 personality that independent. Sybill very often lost herself (a blank period) almost in the entire of her life.This book is very unique and it is so interesting, especially for the psychology lover or the psychology student (they can learn the methods that have been used there, although you are not the Freudian).

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Send Me No Flower

by Kristin Gabriel


This is one of the funniest romantic novel I've ever read. I will guarantee that all of you will laugh a lot.
This novel tell a story of a therapist named Rachel Grant that has been disappointed by his fiancee. He left her only one month before their marriage and it's more tragic because he left her on the Valentine's day.
One year later, she and her group have a commitment to boycott the Valentine's day event on their town Love at Michigan. Of course it makes the town board feel so disturbed, then they use their new, young, and handsome mayor to convince her to stop their boycott.
He think that Rachel is a middle aged scientist that is insane, but when he meet Rachel and see that she is a gorgeous girl, his mission has been changed.
What happened then? Are the boycott still running or they will forget all of the boycott and live happily ever after? This question can be answered when you read the novel.

The Most Powerful Prayer On Earth

By Peter Horrobin


After you read this book, you can start to review your entire life. Why we suffer some illness, lost, pain, and everything bad in our lives? It is because you can't forget other's fault (that maybe ever happened in long time ago, sometimes you can't remember it). It makes some kind of barrier that hamper God's bless. You can release all of this barrier just by forgiving other's fault to you. Maybe it's a hard thing to do, especially to forget other's fault that responsible to a traumatic event in you life (just like childhood abuse, sexual harassment, or other traumatic events).
But, this step can make a big thing in your life. It can cure all of your illness, because God can give His bless to you, there is no more barrier that hamper His love.
This book is suitable to all of Christian that still confusing our God's love. Read this book and try to do it in our everyday lives. I believe that more and more good thing will be happened in you life.