Love, Hate and Hocus-Pocus, a novel by Karla M. Nashar

Hate at first sight. Exactly those are words to describe Troy Mardian and Gadis Parasayu. They are good partners – as good as their rivalry.

According to Gadis: Troy Mardian is a perfect human figure who forgets his roots. He is Indonesian, but why he acts like western people? Brunettes, speaks English, brand-minded and do whatever he can to show himself as metrosexual people so The Indonesia Most Eligible Bachelor is still him.

According to Troy: Gadis Parasayu is the funniest name he ever heard. He spent most of his life in America and there are no crazy parents named their daughter Beautiful Face Girl. So narcissistic! Yeah, her face is exotic and her body is as perfectly as JLo, but she is local minded, isn’t she? Come on, that’s not cool!

They have one in common. Don’t believe in hocus-pocus, fortune telling, psychic, astrology, tarot card, feng shui or whatever in world of fortune reading.

But what happen when they woke up in a sunny Sunday and got themselves in the same bed like Adam and Eve expelled from Eden – naked, ring in their fingers and blurry memories from their marriage 13 days before?!

It’s very funny story. I can’t just smile. I laughed a lot at Gadis’s and Troy’s life after their sudden marriage. They are so different. One of them is Indonesian minded, the other is western-style minded. The woman doesn’t care with body treatment while the man do care so much. He has his own cosmetic bag. Ckckck… All I say is “Oh. My. God.” I can’t imagine there is a man like him. So narcissistic and he do realize he has the look and brain to get fans.

It’s an interesting and amusing story. After reading this, I guarantee tears come out of our eyes because of too much laughing. Unfortunately, I read this book after incidentally, I watched TV movie few weeks before. That film had the same theme and plots. I think it is “Jamu something” with an old man as medicine man instead of gypsy woman in the book.

Actually, it’s decreasing my 4-star rating into 3-star rating. If he production house wanted to make this book into film, why didn’t they ask the writer or the publishing house? Why they imitate the story? This is plagiarism, isn’t it? *shake head* But, maybe the production house had asked permission and Ms. Nashar or the publishing house didn’t say OK. So they did this. Who knows?

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