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Book Review : Once Gone (Part 1)

Hello assalamualaikum. Ramadan kian tiba di penghujungnya. Semoga semangat beribadah makin membara dan semoga semangatnya dibawa ke bulan-bulan mendatang.

Harini aku akan buat review tentang sebuah buku yang aku baca sepanjang bulan puasa ni. Hakikatnya aku start baca buku ni lewat berbanding buku-buku lain tapi akhirnya buku ni yang aku habis baca dulu. Adakah ini bermakna buku ini best? Hm let's see 😌

I first discovered about this book when I was browsing through Google Play Books. Oh lupa nak bagitahu, Once Gone ni aku baca in e-book version and what I like about it the most is that it's free. The genre of this book is mystery which kinda excites me because yeah I love books with this genre. Last time around I read The Ice Princess by Emilia Lackberg (yang ni memang torbaik, lain kali aku cerita). So macam biasa, daya tarikan pertama buku ni ialah the cover. Cover dia biasa je sebenarnya. Nothing extraordinary. It's just a normal cover that fits the story. I never heard the author's name before tapi aku sempat la scroll dekat bahagian reviews, ramai la juga yang kata karya dia ni mostly best. And in fact, Once Gone ni actually ada banyak gila series dia. It's just only Once Gone that is available as free, the other series, you have to purchase to read them kahkah.

Okay so cerita dia ni mengisahkan tentang pembunuhan bersiri yang mana si pembunuh ni biasanya target perempuan sebagai mangsa. Modus operandinya, mangsa pada mulanya akan diculik dan dikurung selama beberapa hari dan kemudian dibunuh dan ditinggalkan di tempat-tempat tertentu. Yang menariknya adalah setiap kali mayat mangsa ditemui, mayat tersebut akan ditinggalkan dengan satu gaya yang lebih kurang sama. The killer would place a plastic rose in front of the corpse, with the eyes being stitched open (gerun woii), wearing a cheap wig and a pink ribbon. By the time cerita ni bermula, it's been the third case already. So FBI yang in charge kes ni nama dia Bill. Bill ni macam mati kutu gak la sebab kes ni rumit, pembunuh tu memang tak tinggal jejak langsung, mangsa2 tu pulak macam dipilih secara rawak so memang pening la Bill tu nak cari jalan penyelesaian. Bill ni dulu ada sorang partner perempuan yang selalu kerja ngan dia iaitu Riley. Riley is currently on leave sebab dia still trauma dengan satu peristiwa hitam yang memusnahkan hidup dia. However Bill harap sangat yang Riley boleh bekerja balik dengan dia sebab Riley is a really good cop sebab dia ada sharp instinct and she's smart.

So apa yang berlaku pada Riley sebenarnya adalah dia diculik oleh seorang penjenayah time dia cuba nak selamatkan seorang mangsa ni (mangsa tu nama Marie). Penculik ni memang psycho gila, cara dia seksa mangsa tu memang zalim yang amat. Walaupun Riley berjaya bunuh penculik tu akhirnya dan dia bebas, tapi Riley still takleh lupa apa yang dia lalui until she was diagnosed with PTSD. Sejak peristiwa tu juga, Riley start berkawan rapat dengan Marie sebab mereka berdua share the same experience, same pain and same struggles. Lepas Bill datang pujuk Riley untuk bekerja semula, mula2 Riley macam tak nak sebab dia tak yakin yang dia boleh bagi komitmen macam dulu. Tapi lepas Marie mengadu kat dia yang Marie ada dapat strange calls from unknown person, terus si Riley tu macam terbuka hati nak kerja balik. Why? Sebab dia rasa macam penculik tu hidup lagi. So dia tekad nak cari penjenayah sebenar untuk pembunuhan bersiri tu and dia nak cari jawapan, betul ke penculik tu dah mati sebenarnya. The rest, korang kena baca macam mana Riley and Bill solve this case.

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