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Becoming Edward (2000)

by Faye Meredith(Favorite Author)

3.16 of 5 Votes: 4

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review 1: Rachel adalah penggemar fanatik novel Twilight terutama tokoh Edward Cullen. Impiannya adalah menemukan cowok seperti Edward Cullen yang cinta dan setia pada Bella Swan. Sampai kemudian dia bertemu Lewis, cowok keren dan kaya tapi juga charming yang tanpa sengaja dia temui di toko buku langganannya. Rachel akhirnya bertemu Edwardnya. Rachel nggak tahu kalau teman sekelasnya, Clave naksir dia sejak dulu. Tapi nggak punya keberanian mengutarakan. Setelah melihat pertemuan Rachel dan Lewis, Clave merasa terancam dan bertekad menyatakan cintanya pada Rachel. Sementara itu Lewis yang bosan jadi playboy jatuh cinta pada Rachel dan berusaha mendekatinya. Masalahnya ketika bersama Rachel, entah kenapa dia susah mengeluarkan pesonanya. Setelah minta pendapat adik perempuannya, Oliv... moreia Lewis menemukan jalan ampuh memenangkan hati Rachel, yaitu menjadi tokoh impian Rachel, Edward Cullen.Ide ceritanya unik. Memanfaatkan novel yang jadi pujaan para remaja. Gaya penceritaannya juga asyik dan nggak pasaran. Perkembangan karakternya juga menarik diikuti. Karena settingnya di Inggris, saya merasa ada perbedaan antara remaja Inggris dan Amerika. Kalau remaja Inggris kelihatannya lebih santai dari remaja Amerika. Refreshing sejenak karena biasanya baca novel Amerika.Bagi penggemar Twilight terutama tokoh Edward Cullen, pasti akan senang baca ini. Karena pastinya merasakan adanya kecocokan perasaan suka dengan seri novel kesukaan mereka.Novel dengan ide dan penceritaan menarik. Cuma kekurangannya cerita cintanya kurang greget. Tapi tetap enak dibaca di kala santai.
review 2: Let me just start off by saying I don't like Twilight. I didn't always start that way, either. When I first saw the hype, I was intrigued. A friend bought me book 1 and insisted I'd love it. Given my 14/15 year old penchant for poorly written fanfiction and YA literature, I figured I'd like it. But I didn't. Don't get me wrong, it draws me in. Even New Moon, there was a perverse need to keep reading [after DNF-ing on my first try]. (And yes, this is as far as I've gotten). The story hooked me, the characters didn't. And that's something I can't forgive enough to like. So my attention concentrates on the writing, which is pretty basic, blah, and nothing special. Even the world building could have used an editor.So why pick up a book that was clearly written for Twilight fans? Well, every now and then we all need a piece of trashy literature. I was intrigued to see how, for lack of a better noun, Twihard the book could be. I was expecting something not quite as mindnumbing as Fifty Shades, but still pretty bad.You see, the idea of a boy doing something for a girl, while done to death as a concept, is still something I love. As a teen, and even an adult, I'm the girl who tries a bit too hard to please. I went on a first date a little while ago and as the closet door creaked open on hundreds of items, I was faced with a crisis that Spice Girls blaring on my clock radio could only narrowly subvert - what was good enough for a first date with a beautiful boy?This book is a little like that moment. It tries a little too hard at times, but I like the multiple points of view. First of all, they're 3rd person - which isn't my favourite point of view, but unlike 1st, it's a lot harder to get wrong. Secondly, most of the characters have moments like mine in front of the closet door. What do I do? What happens next? And the all seizing terror, how do I keep it going right?Of course, the book, like the date's end, can be a little predictable if you know where to look. (I don't, which is why mystery novels are like chocolate coated gold for people with my ability to 'see-it-coming'). There's this neat little thing called resolution, or in the case of my date, it was too dark in the bar for him to notice anything but that my knee felt nice under the thin veneer of my I-swear-they-were-made-to-look-painted-on jeans. Because this book is all about young love - the crazy things it makes you do and feel, the blindness, the shallowness and stupidity of it all, the neat little characteristics that seem earthshatteringly awful to us but are cute quirks that are easily overlooked, the awesomeness we're all too willing to overlook.And really, it's not all about Twilight. Sure it plays a part and it's a crutch, probably written in there to sell a book, and there's tons of it mentioned to satisfy the fans. But for those who cringe with over it, Rachel's a cool girl. I wish I could have been more like her as a teen. There's a few scenes in here clearly trying to mimic the plot line of Twilight but the twists are AWESOME.So, what made this book bad? Well, it clearly needed an editor and some tidying. I highlighted a word almost every page. There was a lot of reptition of nouns and adjectives and, for me, it was done wrong and felt clumsy and awkward, like the author's vocabulary wasn't up to par to flesh the sentence out and make it more unique. Sometimes the British-icsms (which are awesome, by the by) made the novel's sentence structure grammatically incomplete. And there were a boat load of typos which reeks self-published hurry. Nevertheless, this author is GOOD. What she has got is a gift. She rises above the usual YA sound and, while not able to overcome all of the cliches, she gets over the ones that are more irksome than most and delivers tons of the stuff YA genre lovers want in their books. I look forward to seeing more by this author and think she's much better than a lot of what's getting published. I wouldn't be surprised to see if she makes it big someday. less

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