Blurb:
Love ignites in the City That Never Sleeps, but can it last?
Hopeless romantic Isla has had a crush on introspective cartoonist Josh since their first year at the School of America in Paris. And after a chance encounter in Manhattan over the summer, romance might be closer than Isla imagined. But as they begin their senior year back in France, Isla and Josh are forced to confront the challenges every young couple must face, including family drama, uncertainty about their college futures, and the very real possibility of being apart.
Isla and the Happily Ever After bercerita tentang Isla (baca: Eye-la)--murid SOAP yang sejak pertama kali masuk itu udah naksir banget sama Josh. Tapi sayangnya, Isla ini pemalu banget, dia enggak berani ngajak Josh ngomong duluan atau nyapa atau apa gitu. Padahal, Josh pernah ngajak Isla ngobrol duluan dan yang bisa Isla lakuin cuma cengo di depan gebetannya dan panik di dalam hati.
“Crushes are so awful. I wonder if they suck worse for the crush-er or the crush-ee. I consider my three years of watching Josh from afar. Yeah, definitely the crush-er.”
Sampai suatu hari, di suatu Summer, Isla abis ke dokter gigi dan pakai semacam obat yang enggak cuma ngeredain sakitnya, tapi juga bikin dia agak high gitu. Nah pas itu, Isla ketemu sama Josh dan Isla langsung nyapa Josh, ngajak ngobrol, yaa begitulah haha.
“It’s midnight, it’s sweltering, and I might be high on Vicodin, but that guy - that guy right over there - that’s him.
The him.”
Sampai besoknya... ketika efek obatnya udah abis... Isla tersadar dan dia langsung panik + malu + dll. wkwk.
“I can’t imagine Josh falling for someone vanilla.
Not that Josh would ever fall for me.
But I wouldn’t want to ruin any chance.
Even though I don’t have a chance.
But just in case I do.
Even though I don’t.”
Terus, pas mereka balik ke SOAP, Isla udah panas dingin bakal ketemu Josh lagi. Dia emang ketemu, tapi interaksi mereka masih gitu-gitu aja. Jadi, Isla menghabiskan hari-harinya di sekolah sama Kurt--temennya dari kecil.
Sampai ya, lama-lama mereka ngobrol-ngobrol (Josh ngajak ngobrol duluan) dan mereka jadi deket. Lama-lama, Josh mulai keliatan dia suka sama Isla juga.
“How does one proceed in a situation like this? If only the discovery of mutual admiration could lead promptly into making out. If only I could say, 'Listen. I like you, and you like me, so let’s go find a secluded park and touch each other.”
Nah, bisa ditebak, mereka kemudian jadian. Tapi tenang, ini bukan spoiler karena cerita ini sebenernya lebih ke gimana mereka mempertahankan hubungan. Kalau Anna and the French Kiss sama Lola and the Boy Next Door kan gimana memperoleh hubungan, kalau yang ini mempertahankan gitulaah hehe.
Okeoke, segitu dulu yaa. Ayo bahas bukunya! : )
Dari Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, dan Isla and the Happily Ever After, Isla adalah favorit sayaa! < 3
Saya sampai bingung gimana lagi caranya bilang kalau I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH : ""
Saya suka Isla dan Josh dan Isla-dan-Josh HAHA. IYKWIM.
Oke, bahas satu-satu dulu, ya.
Dibanding karakter Anna dan Lola, saya paling suka Isla! Maksud saya, bukannya saya enggak suka Anna sama Lola--mereka punya daya tarik masing-masing, tapi saya lebih suka Isla. Karena yah, dari dulu saya emang lebih suka sama karakter cewek yang begini--yang naksir duluan, panik-panik lucu kalau diajak ngomong sama gebetannya, ngomong apa yang ada di pikirannya kalau panik, dan lucu! Iya, Isla lucu banget parah saya ngakak hahaha.
“Josh grins. It’s wide and relieved and reveals a rarely seen pair of dimples. I could live inside those dimples for the rest of my life.”
Terus Josh!
OH.
MY.
GOD.
AAAAHH, SAYA MAU JADI ISLA DEH! DIA BERUNTUNG BANGET PARAH! : "" Dibanding St. Clair dan Cricket, saya paling suka Josh! Dia tuh lucu, charming, adorable, keras kepala, romantis (tapi bukan yang menggelikan gitu ya) dan banyaaak lagi. Terus Josh juga walaupun kelihatannya cuek banget, sebenernya dia enggak secuek itu.
“The lines are careful. They reveal he pays attention. People don’t think he does, because he daydreams and skips class and neglects his homework, but when I see his drawings, I know they’re wrong.”
Aahh, sini saya peluk kamu Josh!
Baca novel ini rasanya kayak pelan-pelan dibawa naik, terus dihempaskan dan dilambungkan lagi hahahaha : " AH SERU BANGET PARAAH.
Menurut saya, Isla and the Happily Ever After itu yang ceritanya paling sederhana dan enggak banyak drama kalau dibandingin Anna dan Lola. Tapi karena sederhana itulah, ceritanya jadi lucu dan seru dan aaahh saya pengin nyemplung ke dalam bukunya : "
yuk nyemplung |
Selain itu, yang saya suka lagi dari bukunya adalah, karakter-karakternya dan konflik-konflik lain selain konflik besar Isla-Josh.
Misalnya, konflik Isla dan Hattie, adeknya. Atau konflik Isla dan Sanjita, dll, dll. Saya suka bacanya! Jadi di buku ini enggak cuma romance aja. Tapi masalah lainnya juga ada--masalah pertemanan, keluarga, dan lain-lain.
“For once in your life, listen to your younger sister. She's taller, and she knows better than you."
Terus gUYS DI SINI ADA ANNA-ST. CLAIR DAN LOLA-CRICKET! : """"
“St. Clair gets a crush on Anna. He's torn between her and Ellie, and he spends so much time running between them that he hardly has time left for Josh. And the more time that Josh spends alone, the more he realizes how alone he actually is. All of his friends will be gone the next year. Josh grows increasingly antagonistic toward school, which makes Rashmi increasingly antagonistic toward him, which makes him increasingly antagonistic toward her. And she's upset because Elie dropped her as a friend, and Meredith is upset because now St. Clair likes two girls who aren't her, and Anna is upset because St. Clair is leading her on, and then St. Clair's mom gets cancer.
It's a freaking soap opera.”
Oh ya, dan apa saya udah bilang kalau cerita ini kocak parah? HAHAHA. Mulai dari asal namanya Gen, Isla, Hattie (ini kocak banget), tragedi abis ciuman pertama (AHAHAHAHA), sampai interaksi-interaksi antar-karakternya itu lucu! Wkwkw.
“We straighten , but our snickering is barely contained as we attempt to focus our attention on a picture of a discarded Coke can. "This guy's lady love is kind of a slob, don't you think?" he whispers.
I cover my mouth with my hands again.
"A reaaaaaaaal litterbug."
"Stop it," I hiss. My eyes are watering. "Ohmygod look at this one! How did he get her toenail clippings?"
"If you were my girl," he whispers, "I'd take creepy pictures of your trash when I knew you weren't looking."
"If you were my girl," I whisper back," I"d put the creepy pictures in a foreign museum so you wouldn't know that I take creepy pictures.”
Mungkin segitu dulu, ya. Ini saya mau naruh beberapa kutipan yang saya suka:
“I am hard on myself. But isn’t it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn’t it better to break it yourself?”
--
“There's no story,' I say. 'I saw you one day, and I just knew.”
--
“I’m…getting there. I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s okay to be a blank canvas. Maybe it’s okay that my future is unknown. And maybe,” I say with another smile, “it’s okay to be inspired by the people who do know their future.”
“It goes both ways, you know.”
I link his icicle fingers through mine. “What does?”
“Artists are inspired by blank canvases.”
My smile grows wider.
"A blank canvas," Josh continues, "has unlimited possibilities."
--
“Everyone is worthy of love."
--
--
“Take a risk. Take a fucking risk. If you keep playing it safe, you'll never know who you are."
I smile up at him "It's beautiful. But what comes next?"
"The best part." And he pulls me back into his arms. "The happily ever after.”
Kalian harus tahu. Saya selesai baca buku ini enggak berhenti senyum dan jingkrak-jingkrak sampai beberapa menit kemudian wkwk.
AHHH. 6 DARI 5 BINTANG BUAT BLANK CANVAS YA HAHA.
Duh dari ketiga buku di series ini, ak paling minat sama buku ini, sayang terjemahannya g pasti
ReplyDeleteHaha, ini emang yang paling bagus menurutku, Kak : D
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