Monday, March 16, 2009

Aerial, a novel by Sitta Karina

“You’re familiar. Your blood scent is familiar.”
“I don’t know you at all.”
“You do know me, Princess.”

Sadira, the Princess of Sun and Hassya, the Prince of Darkness are enemies from two different lands; one uses sun as the energy of life, the other will burn if they’re affected by it. At first, Sadira thought the Darkness clan is a bunch of monsters. Until one day, she is saved by pale skinned, handsome, cold but having honest look in the eye, Hassya.

According to ancient prophecy, if they’re together, those two clans will face destruction. But Hassya wants to fight everything that stands between them and be Sadira’s protector.

Preventing that destruction, Antya, Sadira’s sister and Linc, the white pegasus try to call saviors from another world – Laskar and Sahika, students of Surya Ilmu High School – world which isn’t as beautiful as theirs and full of skyscrapers.

The world that will fully support Sadira’s dan Hassya’s love.

Classical Romeo and Juliet forbidden love in new form: Light and Darkness fall in love in far far away land as setting with the arrival of two outworld saviors. This book has two forbidden love stories: Sadira-Hassya and Laskar-Sashika as the minor one. Those two love stories is like Romeo and Juliet, two families that hate each other.

Sailendra and other characters from previous and next book show up a little, too. I feel surprised when two main protagonists are killed. I think they will live longer (that will happen IF I write this book). Afterall, writer has to dare doing anything to make readers touched by the moral of the story.

COOL! ASTONISHING! SUPERB! I don’t know anymore words that can describe this. Visualizing this book is challenging. What does Aerial look like? What does those two lands look like? Sitta Karina’s great imagination flows through my mind. My eyes are widened and I feel astonished. She is great in arranging and binding sentences. She is one of Indonesia’ J.K. Rowling, indeed.


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