FEBRIANI KARTIKA MADUSARI

5 stars...it's Phillip Pullman... Excellent for everything, the world building, the story, the face paced plot, the characters... sayang filmnya waktu itu flop.

Baca buku ini spt de javu nonton serial fringe, walau fringe alternate universe nya cuma 1, sedang buku ini banyak other universe. Kalau buku 1 blm ngerti apa maksud his dark materials, di buku 2 udh mulai ngerti, ternyata his nya capital h i s. Krn backgroundku fisika ngerti2 dikitlah, kalau bingung buka lagi halaman sblmnya dibaca lagi bbrp kali hehehe, hasilnya selesai bacanya lama krn pakai mikir...

Akhirnya selesai juga baca ini... Tapi kok endingnya sedih ya... seperti Championnya Marie Lu, tp setdknya kedua main protagonistnya ketemu lagi, tapi di Amber Spyglass ini pisah selamanya... Ouch my heart, break into pieces for Lyra & Will. Bakalan lama nih move on nya.... Helep, helep...

My expectation is low from the start. Turns out exceeding my expectation, I enjoy this more than I thought I will.

Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years—or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century.

When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose the person who’ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice’s head in the game.

One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over.

Two: She’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication.

Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.

But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room.