Book Review

Raksasa dari Jogja

Raksasa dari Jogja is the one of best seller novel which is written by Dwitasari, the famous novel’s writer from Jakarta. Raksasa dari Jogja in English means “A Giant from Jogja”. The giant actually is not a real giant, but it is used to describe a man from Jogjakarta who has tall body. This epithet came from a girl as the main character in the novel. The novel published in October, 2012 and has 271 pages. There are some characters in this novel and the main characters are Bianca and Gabriel.
 
Bianca is a girl who life with anguish. Every day she should heard and saw her father got angry to his mother, and she never show how she feels hurt. She still holds on although she feels very hurt and should saw her mother had bruise in her face because of her father’s hit. Her pain still continues after she saw her close friend Letisha had relationship with Joshua, a boy who always in her mind and pray. She should let her first love go, because of her close friend.

Bianca doesn’t believe about love, she feels too hurt because of love. She thinks that love just a pain, because she often saw dispute between her parents.

Then, Bianca decides to continue her study in Jogjakarta, well known as the special town which gives nice memories to the people who come there. Bianca met Gabriel, the boy who has very tall body. She feels comfortable with him although she doesn’t believe about love before. After that meeting, Bianca always thought about him, and she fall in love with him slowly.

The story of the novel is very interesting and the plot is clear, because the novel tell the setting of Bianca’s life until she met with Gabriel in Jogjakarta. The novel is series novel, so the story is continue to the next novel. The newest novel is released in this year 2016.