F A T E

Fate by Orizuka

another Best Seller book that  re-appear with a new attractive soft pinkish or more to peaches color design cover that i finally can't resist to grab and buy it from the Gramedia bookshelfs ...

 nice soft color bookcover and also elegant looking texture book cover

the below one is the old cover version, 

soo much different khan ..
yg lama berasa kayak gambar buku anak2,
not soo much attractive

Since maybe a year ago (?) since i read the glimpse from the back of the cover, wasn't too interested to buy, because i thought it sounded something like another cliche Cinderella drama story (Cinderella, Upik Abu, yahh, cerita2 spt itu deh yg terbayang di pikiran waktu baca sinopsis di belakang buku )  where the Prince (in this case, 2 Prince)  fall in love with a buttler's daughter-- ... but then once i started to read it, i can't put the book down ... 

very nice story, maybe one of a kind that has unpredictable story lines (not just unpredictable endings) ... reading it, chapter by chapter, i keep guessing how the story would go, but always turn out different ... how smart Orizuka is ...

it's about the Jang family (to be more specific both sons of the Jangs, a korean indo family) and their lifes after the rich and wealthy father Jang Dae Gwan died and leave a weird 'inheritance letter'.  In addition to these two brothers of Jang, there is also Adena, the daughter of the Head Buttler of the Jang family.

interesting story about how Orizuka used the FATE among these three people.  Like i said, it's not one of our everyday Fate between  the rich, the poor and the regular fate, but it's much more complicated especially toward the middle to the end, one by one history or 'secret' is being revealed.

What I love about this book :

• Romance ~ Chemistry and its surrounding is not the only main thing 
• Feel the Deep Focus on Family ~ Friendship ~ Commitment and the varieties of it
• the character of Jang Dae Gwan , which is portrayed such as very wise , nice gentleman, one of a kind obviously in this world, although his character is questionable at the beginning.

One comment about this novel :

Beware of too many Korean phrases being put in here. 

Reading this novel feels like learning Korean, which is for me with the insertion of  Korean full sentences in almost every page make somewhat a distraction , because i have to keep peeping at the footnotes, and distract the mood.  Although in a way, it's probably the best way to improve your Korean phrases.

this particular book adds to my favorite novel list ...  LOVE IT