Tajuk : Curtain

Penulis : Michael Korda

Tahun terbit : 1991

Sinopsis :

He is Robert Vane - the greatest actor of the English theater in a generation, dashing, handsome, clearly touched by genius.

She is Felicia Lisle - the most glamorous, beauriful and romantic of actresses, his partner onstage, his lover in life, whose career suddenly brings her new fame and an Oscar as she stars in Hollywood's most successful movie.

Together they are the greatest theater coupleof the age, their romance, onstage and off, captivating the world for nearly twenty years. But their public performances express their love and desire for each other better than they ever can in private. For behind the scenes, their lives are full of dangerous secrets and broken promises. At the moment of her greatest triumph, Felicia Lisle is overcome by her own fears and by the horrors of a past she knows she cannot keep hidden forever.

And Robert Vane, driven by his enormous ambition and haunted by the fear that he has failed to give Felicia the love she needs and demands, plunges into a close friendship with Randy Brooks, America's most beloved comedian, and into a fatal business relationship with Marty Quick, showman, vulgarian, and full-time womanizer.


Ulasan :

Nerves bagi aku masalah yang bukan main-main. Dalam cerita Agatha Christie banyak ditimbulkan bila penyakit ni menyerang. Aku rasa faktor umur buat Felicia tak stabil. Ditambah pulak dia perempuan. Aku perhati dia tak perlukan kawan (perempuan) dalam hidup dia. Mungkin sebab tu aku suka dengan watak dia.

Bukan senang nak jadi popular (gitu). Anak dia sendiri tak suka pada dia. Pakcik pun tak guna. Ayah sendiri pun tak boleh harap. Jadi, kebergantungan dia dengan Robby tu perlu bagi dia walaupun dia lebih popular dari Robby.

Tersentuh jugak bila Robby still masih sayangkan dia walaupun dia dah membunuh Marty. Aku faham kenapa watak Robby.

Aku bagi 4🌟/ 5

Tajuk : The Mysterious Benedict Society and The Perilous Journey

Penulis : Trenton Lee Stewart

Tahun terbit : 2008

Penerbit : Little, Brown and Company

Sinopsis :


The Mysterious Benedict Society is up against a new mission, significantly closer to home. After reuniting for a celebratory scavenger hunt, Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance are forced to go on an unexpected search--a search to find Mr. Benedict. It seems that while he was preparing the kids' adventure, he stepped right into a trap orchestrated by his evil twin Mr. Curtain.

With only one week to find a captured Mr. Benedict, the gifted foursome faces their greatest challenge of all--a challenge that will reinforce the reasons they were brought together in the first place and will require them to fight for the very namesake that united them.

Ulasan :

Pertama kali baca. Ini buku kedua siri Benedict Society. Bagus. Cuma tak cukup misteri ke? Aku baca hingga ke akhir tapi confuse dengan beberapa watak seperti Captain Noland, Mr Curtain dan Mr Benedict sendiri. Kalau Potter atau Narnia ada guna kuasa magik, dalam ni takde cuma instinct saja.

Tapi masih menyeronokkan. Aku beri 3 🌟/ 5

Tajuk : Matilda's Game

Penulis : Denis Kilcommons

Terbitan : Bantam Press

Tahun terbitan : 1992

Sinopsis:

Peter Lacey's orders seemed clear enough : go to Lisbon and get the file of secret papers known as ' The Blunt Legacy', recently offered for sale in a Personal Column ad - buy it if you have to, take it for nothing if you can. With Lacey on his mission go four million pounds and a man he's never met, called Lamont-Smith really working for? And when the Lisbon connection is murdered and the trail goes dead, what should Lacey's next move be?

'The Blunt Legacy' uncovers the sort of past history that goverments would prefer to stay hidden, but not in the way Lacey had been expecting. It takes a not-so-accidental hanging in London, a murderous pervert in Oregon, a quiet conversation in Malta and a violent shoot-out in Ireland before he discovers what the file really contains, and just how many players there are in Matilda's Game.


Ulasan :

Buku ni susah difahami kalau orangnya adalah aku. Banyak bahan tambahan yang kena dibaca contohnya karya Peter Wright's. Ya, ada di rak buku dekat rumah aku tuuu.

Tapi aku seronok je baca. Sebab ia melibatkan salah guna kuasa. Bila kau baca, rasa macam diri kau hero tu pulak. Ada cerita pasal JFK dan kroninya, Marilyn, Hitler, Duke of Winsor dan macam-macam lagi. Haha.

Ia berdasarkan cerita sebenar yang ditambah ajinomoto sikit.

Aku bagi 4 🌟/ 5