Saya tidak banyak membaca fiksi YA (Young Adult) realistis justru karena buku-buku seperti ini: buku-buku yang berniat baik, penuh kecemasan, dengan Pesan yang agenda tulusnya sangat jelas bagi siapa pun yang sekilas membaca sampulnya. Lucu sekali bahwa novel karya **Justina Chen**, **Melampaui Cantik**, yang sangat ingin orang-orang melihat melampaui tanda di wajah Terra ini justru kesulitan untuk fokus pada hal lain selain itu.Meskipun merupakan novel dengan ukuran yang lumayan, entah mengapa ...

Terra Cooper adalah gadis pirang, cantik, seniman berbakat, dan berpacaran dengan seorang laki-laki populer dan atletis. Dia memiliki segalanya, atau benarkah demikian? Yah, dia punya satu cacat fisik, tanda lahir bercak anggur berbentuk Bhutan di pipi kanannya. Bersamaan dengan rutinitas olahraganya setiap hari, Terra dengan terampil mengaplikasikan berbagai macam kosmetik dan pelembap untuk menyembunyikan noda merah yang membuatnya malu. Dia tinggal di kota kecil yang membosankan di Washingt...

Dengar ya teman-teman! Jika Anda mencari rekomendasi buku yang memukau, ulasan buku Melampaui Cantik karya Justina Chen ini akan menjelaskan mengapa ia begitu istimewa. Ada alasan mengapa buku ini mendapatkan begitu banyak ulasan positif; buku ini sungguh luar biasa. Setelah menyelesaikannya, saya benar-benar duduk selama 30 menit di tempat yang sama, merenungkan isi buku ini dan semua pelajaran yang saya dapat darinya. Begitu besar dampaknya bagi saya.Ceritanya seperti sebatang balok kayu yang ...

NoB was a birthday present from one of my best book buddies, @SarahO97 - she didn't tell me anything about it, but Sarah has great taste in books. I can definitely say that I wouldn't have picked up NoB if it hadn't been for Sarah....but boy, am I glad I did.When I first started North of Beautiful, I expected it to be fairly light-hearted, with lots of self-discovery and a cute romance with some self-esteem stuff. Not so. This book surprised me with its depth and its honesty. But be warned: this...

I'm sure this must get better as it goes on but the opening was too dull for me to want to spend any more time finding out.

Once upon a time, I stayed up into the wee hours of the morning while sitting under the covers in a darkened air force base hotel, watching a PBS Nova special about the magnetic poles. (hold on while I push up my nerd glasses) The people I was with were all asleep but I was watching it, flabbergasted, and wanting to wake them up--because I never knew, until that moment, that what we know as magnetic north and south have changed several times in the history of Earth. Can you imagine? Obviously it...

“Terra, a sensitive, artistic high school senior born with a facial port-wine stain, struggles with issues of inner and outer beauty with the help of her Goth friend Jacob.I was initially dismayed by the first few chapters of this book because of the intense amount of references to maps and cartography, of which I was not well-versed in, making it feel like I was reading an encyclopedia and in need of constant referencing with a dictionary to find the meaning of certain words. The cartography me...

TBR Pile Reduction Challenge #3 - KristyNorth of Beautiful and I were off to a rather rocky start. After about 50 pages in I was contemplating giving up on it because what I had read so far had either bored me or had made me uncomfortable to a great extent.Terra’s family is more than shattered. Her father is a real bully and all those mean and hurtful things he said to either Terra or her mother hurt me so much that I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to stick with the story or not. I guess the fact ...

North of Beautiful is about Terra Cooper, the blond bombshell with a killer body and perfect boyfriend whose life would be unblemished if not for the port-wine stain encompassing the entire left side of her face. There is a saying that goes "Humans only take into account bad deeds, and once a bad deed has been committed, the good will forever be ignored." This is true for Terra, for when most people think of her, they forget that she works strenuously to keep in shape and that she has promising ...

The first thing people notice about Terra Cooper isn’t her gorgeous blonde hair or killer body: it’s the port wine stain that spreads across her cheek, marking her face. Terra is desperate to escape her tiny Washington town, and plots to attend a small liberal arts college on the East Coast, but her controlling father dashes her plans. When she meets Jacob, a Goth Chinese boy, after she nearly hits him with her car, things begin to change. Jacob gets her. For the first time in her life, Terra is...