Bakar sampai GOSONG—buku ini benar-benar sampah! 📖🔥->🗑️Lois, semoga dia menghantui jiwa editor bodoh yang mengerjakan ulang buku ini dan mencoba "memodernkannya". 👻 Email dan surat tidak berfungsi sama, dan "kertas hilang" itu hal tahun 80-an, plotnya tidak berfungsi ketika Anda mempercepat 30 tahun dan komputer memiliki sesuatu yang disebut "file". File adalah sesuatu yang dapat Anda salin dan tempel—editor idiot itu TIDAK mengerti itu!! 🤦Apakah Romeo & Juliet akan lebih keren jika mere...

"Mengapa seorang wanita menertawakan konsep sesuatu yang begitu mulia dan memuaskan seperti seorang ibu yang memiliki anak-anaknya selamanya?"Terjebak dalam Waktu karya Lois DuncanSalah satu karya terbaik Duncan.Dia merangkai misteri yang luar biasa menggunakan premis yang indah, menggabungkan unsur sejarah dengan masa kini dan ini adalah buku yang membuat Anda terus ingin membacanya!Pertama-tama, keseluruhan cerita terjadi di Louisiana, dan seluruh elemen gothic selatan di sini dibuat dengan in...

01/2016

Sebuah kisah gothic tentang terjebak dalam kehidupan abadi. Tentang voodoo, bukan vampir. Buku ini, *Terjebak dalam Waktu* karya Lois Duncan, sangat penting dan formatif bagi saya. Rasanya pertama kali saya membacanya ketika berusia 10 tahun, lalu sekitar empat kali lagi antara usia 10 dan 13 tahun. Sebuah bacaan yang membekas dan membuat saya menyukai genre misteri remaja.

Entah kenapa, buku ini benar-benar membuatku ketakutan saat kecil sampai-sampai aku menyembunyikannya di belakang rak buku orang tuaku. Aku tidak ingat ada sesuatu yang *sangat* menakutkan di dalamnya, tapi aku benar-benar takut pada bukunya itu sendiri.Dulu aku juga sempat berpikir bahwa hantu Abe Lincoln tinggal di lemariku. Kurasa bukan buku tertentu yang menyebabkan itu. Aku memang anak yang sangat aneh. Tapi, serius deh, *Terjebak dalam Waktu* karya Lois Duncan ini membekas banget! Buat yan...

Saya membaca semua buku AR (untuk sekolah) bersama putra saya supaya kami bisa berdiskusi dan saya bisa memastikan dia benar-benar membaca, bukan cuma membolak-balik halaman. Haha. Dia belum selesai membacanya, jadi akan menarik untuk mendapatkan perspektifnya. Bukunya menarik dan cukup cepat temponya sehingga membuat orang terus membaca, tetapi saya punya beberapa masalah besar dengannya. Pertama, keseluruhan buku didasarkan pada gagasan bahwa satu-satunya hal yang menjadi perhatian karakter pe...

Plot:Nore Robbins spends the summer in down south Louisiana in order to get acquainted with her new step-family. She's a bit bitter that her father decided to remarry so soon after her mother's death, but tries to approach her step-mom and step-siblings with an open mind. Step-mom is a beautiful woman named Lisette Berge who has a teenage son named Gabe who clearly has the hots for his new stepsister and a young daughter named Josie, who's a sullen thirteen-year-old prone to throwing tantrums. T...

Lois Duncan is good with building atmosphere, both environmental and emotional. The story was set in Louisiana and the descriptions of the surroundings and even the weather were very well done. Duncan also created a very creepy feeling from the very beginning, but I found the foreshadowing to be a bit heavy-handed.I might have really liked this book had I read it when I was in middle school. It doesn't seem childish or anything, but maybe shallow is how I would describe it. There's not much dept...

Fun fact: this is easily my favorite Lois Duncan book and it was the first one I read.It's just as suspenseful as her others, but it also is a little more Gothic. There's a big question (at least as I read it) about how much is real and how much is in Nore's imagination. (I love stories like that, where you're not entirely sure what the true story is.)And when I re-read it for this feature, it was so much scarier than I remembered it being. I feel like one of the creepiest things is the fact tha...

This is my least-favorite of Lois Duncan's books. It's also the only one I DIDN'T read as a teen since it was published after I had graduated from the YA section (and yes, there was a YA section at my library back in those olden days. YA DID exist pre-Twilight, you know). I don't know if this one packs less of a punch than her earlier works because it was written later in her career, or if Lois Duncan is best read when one is young and just discovering supernatural suspense fiction.I still LOVE ...

So I've talked about my Joan Lowery Nixon phase before. I actually think I discovered Lois Duncan right before Nixon, but the two will always go hand and hand in my mind. Together they perfectly satisfied my twelve-year-old thirst for a light blending of suspense and the macabre. And no Duncan book did that better than the deliciously creepy LOCKED IN TIME. I enjoyed all of her books and they all succeeded in giving me the chills at one point or another. My old copy of I Know What You Did Last S...