Book Review : Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, Hollow City and Library of Souls


Hello.
This is like a feedback or spoilers or whatever. So I may or I may not tell the story in this post lol.

The story starts like this.....

Satu hari ni, saya dapat "greenlight" dari beliau saya untuk beli novel. Well, my mom knows that when I buy novels, I don't joke around. I must buy 5-10 books per visit to the bookstore HAHA #I'mSorryMomForBeingSelfish.

So, kami pergi ke kedai buku tanpa perancangan awal, tiba-tiba mummy saya mau pergi kedai buku, mood-mood novel katanya. For me, sebelum pergi kedai buku (satu hari sebelum hari kejadian), saya mesti survey dulu buku-buku yang menarik perhatian saya di web, especially Instragram. So, apabila sampai di kedai buku nanti, saya tak perlu lagi berdiri berjam-jam membaca sinopsis. 

Di sebabkan pergi ke kedai buku tanpa perancangan, so saya buatlah habit saya yang dulu, Judging A Book By It's Cover hahaha. Pertama sekali saya cari buku-buku yang saya sudah lama save di list Books-to-buy. 

Dan saya pergi satu section ni di mana buku-buku yang banyak di jual bulan tersebut dipamerkan, so saya ternampak this book... 


Mula-mula, saya baca sinopsisnya. Seriously talk, saya langsung tidak faham sinopsis nya. Too general. Saya macam tidak mau beli sudah. Lepas tu saya ternampak this book...


This is the second book: Hollow City.

Saya ni suka cerita yang panjang-panjang. plus cover nya sangat sangat menarik. so saya pun belilahhh. 

First-first baca, saya tertarik dengan gambar-gambar yang ada di dalam buku tersebut. So saya pun macam ternanti-nanti gambar seterusnya tapi tidak mau spoil, so saya kena baca juga keseluruhan novel supaya boleh tengok semua gambar di dalam. But kalau kita betul-betul mendalami novel ni, memang gerenti suka punya! Ni novel sesuai untuk orang-orang yang minat fantasy, adventure, romance pun ada juga sikit-sikit. Saya suggest kalau orang yang imaginasi tinggi, memang patut baca novel ni.

#KasihSpoilerSikit:
Semasa si Jacob masih kanak-kanak, datuknya Abraham Portman selalu bercerita dengannya tentang zaman dia masih muda. Abraham ni dulu tinggal di rumah anak yatim piatu masa zaman World War II. Dia bercerita tentang kawan-kawannya. Contohnya, kawan-kawan Abraham dulu ada yang invisible boy, fire making girl, levitating girl, strong brother and sister that can lift big rocks, a boy that have so many bees in his stomach that everytime he open his mouth bees comes out, a girl that have two mouth (front normal mouth and back monstrous mouth). So, awalnya masa si Jacob ni kanak-kanak, dia percaya cerita-cerita datuknya. Tapi semakin meningkat dewasa, dia pikir datuknya ni reka-reka cerita, berimaginasi or whatsoever.

Semasa si Jacob berumur 15 tahun, (time-time kerja di drugstore ibunya) datuknya call. Katanya dia perlukan kunci storenya dimana dia simpan segala senapang-senapangnya. Untuk pengetahuan, ayah si Jacob ni simpan kunci store tu sebab takut datuknya ni salah guna. Mereka cakap datuknya ni ada dementia. Bila Jacob call ayahnya, ayahnya suruh dia lawat datuknya di rumah tengok keadaannya sekejap. Tapi si Jacob lambat-lambat lagi sikit, sampai saja di rumah datuknya dia tidak jumpa datuknya di rumah, bila dia cari di hutan-hutan or semak samun di belakang rumah datuknya, dia ternampak datuknya terbaring, berdarah dan dalam keadaan parah. Di tangan datuknya ada butter knife. Apabila si Jacob berlari untuk dapatkan datuknya, dia ternampak satu figure, monster figure depan datuknya, monster yang bunuh datuknya. dari mulut monster tu macam ada kaki-kaki sotong gitu hahaha. Tapi kawan si Jacob kata dia tidak nampak pun monster tu. Lepas tu monster tu lesap. Dia cuba angkat datuknya, tapi datuknya sudah nyawa-nyawa ikan gitu so kata-kata terakhir datuknya "Find her" lah begitu-begitu. 

Tiada siapa pun percaya cakap si Jacob apabila dia cakap yang datuknya di bunuh oleh monster. Ibu bapanya hantar dia jumpa psychiatrist (Dr.Golan). Bincang punya bincang, psychiatrist tu suggest si Jacob pergi tempat datuknya membesar, pergi ke tempat yang datuknya suruh, di Cairnholm. 

Di Cairnholm, Jacob cari-cari lah rumah anak yatim yang datuknya membesar. Dia tanya-tanya orang kampung disitu tapi tiada siapa yang berani pergi, so akhirnya dia pergi rumah anak yatim yang jauh dari kampung tu, dalam-dalam hutan yang berlumpur. Masa dia sampai di rumah tu, rumah tu sangat buruk. Hancur akibat pengebom masa World War II. Tapi dia dapat juga masuk dalam rumah tu tengok-tengok bilik disitu. Dan.. dia terjumpa gambar-gambar lama sama seperti gambar yang datuknya tunjukkan masa dia kanak-kanak dan cerita-cerita datuknya. Masa dia pergi basement, dia ternampak jar-jar yang ada jantung, otak, dan tiba-tiba dia terdengar ada orang-orang bercakap di atas. Dan dia ternampak kanak-kanak. Salah satu daripada mereka ada api di tangan, ganti torchlight lah. Kanak-kanak tu lari selepas nampak si Jacob tapi si Jacob kejar juga. Dan akhirnya dia dapat berjumpa dengan Emma Bloom, firestarter girl (yang ada api di tangan) dan Millard Nullings, invisible boy. Mereka ajak Jacob masuk dalam "loop" dan lepas saja Jacob lalu loop tu, rumah anak yatim tu jadi cantik, tiada kesan-kesan bom, dan dia tengok kalender "3 September 1940". Emma beritahu hanya kanak-kanak peculiar saja yang boleh masuk ke dalam loop. 

Ok itu sahaja spoiler. Kalau mau tau sambungan, beli sendiri novelnya hahahaha.

Dan ini novel ketiga, which is masa saya di kedai buku dia sold out jadi habis saja saya baca Book 2 - Hollow City, saya terus order online (well saya tinggal di Tawau, tiada kedai-kedai buku yang besar seperti Popular, Times, Kinokuniya gitu). 


And this is the third book : Library of Souls.

Memang sangat puas hati lah ceritanya. 

dan September 2016 nanti, novel Miss Perergrine's Home For Peculiar Children akan ditayangkan di cinema. yeyyy!!

For me, disebabkan saya minat buku-buku yang fantasy, adventure dan membuatkan kita berimaginasi ni, saya bagi rating 9.99999/10. hahaha tidak boleh juga bagi rating penuh sebab ada juga part yang buat saya tertanya-tanya. 

Okaylah sampai disini saja. Siapa-siapa yang akan beli/baca novel ini, enjoy! 





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2015


Hi !
last entry was on 13 Septermber 2014. Wow. I was very very very busy though in 2015, haha. so imma tell you all what going on in 2015.

I was a Form 5 students okay in 2015. #spm2015
My days during those years were pretty hectic. 6.30am till 12.15pm (or 2pm on Tuesday), and then went home to clean myself and eat. After that around 2pm I have Physics tuition at Sri Fajar every Monday and Thursday (so no time to sleep mmmm). Went home around 5.30pm, clean myself again, eat, and then went to night tuition at Pusat Tuisyen BSM for other subjects such as Chemistry, Biology, Math, and another tuition place at my teacher's home for AddMath. After tuition, went home around 10pm, do homework, prepare for tomorrow and then zzzzzz. Really really sucks.

During SPM, i was very very thankful and blessed because my health during that month was superb! even i was extremely tired, but i didn't fell sick or slept during the exam. but during my SPM, my family went to my brother's convocation for about a week, and i was going to sit for AddMath, Chemistry, Physics and Biology papers!! i was really lonely that time because it was just me and my grandparents at home. my uncle will pick me up at home to go to school, tuition or study groups. i kept myself busy, i went to my friend's house or the tuition centre to study because i can't study at home without the noises i always occupied with. the exam was..... pffffft!! the hardest ever!! they change the format without informing the students. but i still did my best. the best i ever had to do during my Form 4 and Form 5 years.

For my SPM result, well not so good. not like what i wanted, but its still pretty high then the other results i had. yeah i'm still blessed. i hope i get a chance to go for further studies :D 

well okay for now. extremely tired qwertyuiopasdfghjk!!! its five in the morning!
OMG! i have a plan tomorrow, i was invited by my friends to watch a new movie. but i'm sooooo lazy. chauuu




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#20FactsAboutMe


1. Name was given "Melisa" only. No double S nor L 😊
2. Melisa actually means a bee (as busy as a bee?) 🐝
3. The only princess among my siblings πŸ’
4.  In a "funny" relationship. On-off-on-off but hey! 3 yrs 3 months is really unexpected haha πŸ’‘ 
5. Currently studying in Smk Twu in Science stream class 😭
6. Really really not into Mathematics. Recently i've made an analysis of my results since kindegarden till now, the most unbearable subject for me is maths. Ughhh. 
7. I might look like innocent, but i enjoy listen to screamo and rock 🎸🎢 Still listen to Apology by Alesana eventhough it is so yesterday's storiess. Ohh and i love Arctic Monkeys  (Alex Turner is so handsome 😍)
8. Shakira is my inspiration. A 5'3' tall Columbian girl with 140 of IQ level ( Albert Einstein's is 180) so Shakira must be very very genius. She owns a private island, 4 houses , a very cute baby Milan (she currently on the second pregnancy) and handsome Gerard Pique 😁
9. I dislike my Physic's teacher so much! Uhh! (bkn mau jd kurang ajar but like seriously dude!) 😀
10. I love to eat! Eat eat eat and eat! My favourite is squid! πŸ™ unfortunately, stiap kali makan sotong msti allergic tp mau makan juga 
11. I have a group of friends called 'Dmalaz'. But since the D went to boarding school and have misunderstanding with one of the member, so yeah, mcm xberkenal sudah. So sad πŸ˜ͺ 
12. Still confuse about my ambition. Since i was a kid, i really want to be a surgeon. But then, when i became a teenager, i want to be an engineer too! So i have two ambition now. and my plan is i will focus my study more to become an engineer, tapi kalau takda rezeki, i will make a U-turn and be a surgeon. Is that a good thing? Or i am making a crazy plan? Who cares! Haha πŸ˜‹
13. I am novel addict. Currently i have 48 novels. But now i am really busy with school and homeworks so i've not read them for half year 😭
14. I am a secretary for the school's prefect. And i have no experience on being a secretary, but i will try my best. For this 2 month i've been chosen to be a secretary, a 'wow' for me because to many work need to be done and what i hate the most is that i really done have time to do the work, so i didnt went to class for a whole day! But its really enjoying though eventhough so many work. πŸ™†
15. My favourite activity is camping. Omg i would never let a year passed without camping. I really like camping because we will have much time to be with our friends and being stress-free for a while. ⛺️
16. I usually listen to music before going to bed and then i will dream about the song. Hehehe 😴🎢🎢
17. I love fashion, but i dont wear it much. I just love seeing people's ootd. I'm a kind of person who wears t-shirt, black pants and flipflop. πŸŽ½πŸ‘–πŸ‘£
18. I love the colour of blue. πŸ’ŽπŸ’™πŸ’§
19. When i had passed my spm with flying colours, i want to go to asasi sains first and then go to London for degree πŸŒ‰✈️
20. Im an Iphone user. And im currently typing this post using my phone and i put some emojis there maybe they wont appear on pc nvm then hahaha πŸ“±

Thank you for reading this. Its such an honor for me. Love you though xoxo. Keep in touch. Sorry for the bad grammar. Trying my best here hahaha ✌️



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