Lila Danisa
The book started with Casper woke up startled by guinea fowls somewhere vast. I had no idea who Casper was and where she was because this is my first book by this author. The book just started like that without the explanations on the story and carried on like that. Though I ended up understand the background story of Casper (she was a black home cat, by the way), I wish there was little bit detail on who she was and she lost in the jungle so a first time reader like me don't get confused right on the first page.
I needed to get used to the writing style because I reckoned the author like to throwing names to every characters without proper introduction. Aside of that, the story was actually fun. Adventurous and full of hidden values.
I hope I am wrong, but the illustrations gave me AI-made vibes. My son, who I read this book to, also said the illustrations kinda looked like AI and he was only 5 years old.
My son and I loved the facts about animal mentioned in the story by the end of the book. TMI: In Indonesia, we also have antlions. We called it "undur-undur". When I was little, I used to "hunt" for them. The mentioned of them instantly brought me back to my childhood memories. I shared this memory to my son and he would love to catch them too if we go to my childhood village since we currently live in the city and I doubt they have them here.
Thank you to Jennifer Ussi, BooksGoSocial, and NetGalley for the ARC.
Originally posted at www.goodreads.com.
The book started with Casper woke up startled by guinea fowls somewhere vast. I had no idea who Casper was and where she was because this is my first book by this author. The book just started like that without the explanations on the story and carried on like that. Though I ended up understand the background story of Casper (she was a black home cat, by the way), I wish there was little bit detail on who she was and she lost in the jungle so a first time reader like me don't get confused right on the first page.
I needed to get used to the writing style because I reckoned the author like to throwing names to every characters without proper introduction. Aside of that, the story was actually fun. Adventurous and full of hidden values.
I hope I am wrong, but the illustrations gave me AI-made vibes. My son, who I read this book to, also said the illustrations kinda looked like AI and he was only 5 years old.
My son and I loved the facts about animal mentioned in the story by the end of the book. TMI: In Indonesia, we also have antlions. We called it "undur-undur". When I was little, I used to "hunt" for them. The mentioned of them instantly brought me back to my childhood memories. I shared this memory to my son and he would love to catch them too if we go to my childhood village since we currently live in the city and I doubt they have them here.
Thank you to Jennifer Ussi, BooksGoSocial, and NetGalley for the ARC.
Originally posted at www.goodreads.com.