『Book Review』 - Gerbang Dialog Danur by Risa Saraswati

I'm a person who's judging the book by its cover.
I also judge people by how they look.
I am not ashamed of that, and I already know that it is not good, but I'm trained to judge by the cover as a person who's graduated from design institute.

Beautifully drawn cover illustration

So, I buy this Gerbang Dialog Danur book because I'm interested in the cover. Five young handsome aristocrat boys, and they are ghosts. It reminds me of a friend of mine, back in Middle School. No, no, he's not a ghost, but he is my friend's alter ego. A pale and handsome European man, but he's perverted as fuck.

Anyway, I bought this book in a mili second decision. Yes, because its cover. Cover.

I didn't even bother to try reading a book that's having a cover that I don't like.

So, as you can see, the cover of this book is well drawn. Soft and scary. But I'm a little bit disappointed by the cover's paper quality. Since it's only plain 260 gr Art Paper without lamination at all so it's easily damaged when I read the book too much.

Right, so I'm disappointed with the packaging but satisfied with the cover illustration and layout.

Let's go in to the book itself.

It's based on a true story, the story of the author, Risa Saraswati with her ghost friends. The book itself is really light, you can read the 200+ pages in less than a day, and what's cool about that, is that you won't feel tired at all. Usually after reading a book non-stop I will feel weary and decided to sleep, but not with this book. Probably because it's really easy to read, the language that's used by Risa is not hard to devour, unlike George Orwell's 1984 which made me almost give up understanding his words, and tried not to eat it for a while.

Risa told us about her experience with the ghosts, from the beautiful one to the scary one. Reading Risa's book at night is not that good, because some part of it is quiet scary, telling us about deaths of some girls, eerie deaths.

My favorite character in this book, William.

The book have so many characters to read, and those characters are interesting, each one of them. Sometimes we're seeing them in Risa's PoV, sometimes in their own.

But that's the flaw of this book, I guess.

Since the PoV of each of the ghosts looks, same. The way the talk might differ a little, but as a reader, I can't see their personality in this book. They are all look the same for me. They look like Risa.

It's probably because I ate too much George RR Martin's characters' PoV. They have a rich personality, their own soul, their own way of thinking. So when I read them, it's like, I'm seeing them as a different person. Not like GRRM.

But this book is Risa's first book, and it's not that bad. If you're fond of ghost stories you might want to read it. But if you're looking for a book with beautifully written words, this book is not the book for you.