Title : Rumah No.33 (The Angel at No.33)
Language : Bahasa Indonesia
Author : Polly Williams @pollywilliams
Publisher : Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Year : 2013
Genre : Chick-Lit, Comedy, Romance
Lured by a blog that offered this novel as quiz-winner gift and also by its sweet cover, i didn’t think this is a chick-lit-like genre. I thought if it was, then maybe not like other chick-lit ones that makes me bored lately. I’m wondering why didn’t they put Chick-lit icon on the cover? It’s obviously that kind of genre but specializes in motherhood and marriage life...i guess?
I was kinda disappointed for the few first pages but eventually really enjoyed reading it until the last page. It's a mix of Desperate Housewives and Sex in the City plot but Sophie, the main character, tells story in a certain witty way.
Sophie Brady actually has a perfect family life; Olliver his handsome husband, Freddie her cute son, Jenny her loyal bestfriend, Ping Pong the lazy cat and a great house at the no. 33. Missing Jenny after Christmas racket, she went out for some chit chat at the restaurant with her and babbled about how her marriage life come to a dull and stagnant routine.
Fate has another plan, Sophie was hit by a bus in that rainy night while she was looking for taxi. But her spirit still haunts the earth. So basically you read this story from a third-person (ghost) point of view.
Could see and hear but couldn’t be seen and heard while watching her life goes on probably the hardest thing to do. Her husband is devastated and her son is still so young without a mother. There are many secrets that must be told to Jenny before it’s too late and many things to prepare before she can really let her life go.
My dissatisfactions are i couldn’t connect with its background details where Freddie told about Doctor Who movie or when Sophie describe that Jenny can finished Wolf Hall book and when Freddie has pile of Match Attax cards. What are these ‘animals’? Another is ridiculous translation of English parable like Pasukan Bantu Ollie.
Aside its witty way in describing Sophie’s life, it slightly poignant at the end. Sophie teach us to appreciate your life, do good things you should have do, loving your family and friends and let them know it before everything left unsaid, before it’s too late.
It was quite sad how Sophie watched that finally her husband can go on without her, how people stop mourning after her death and her world goes by without her in it. Making you thinking about what you should do when you still alive and be thankful of the life you have now.
‘Till this day Polly Williams already published seven novels all about being urban mama, wifey and marriage ups and downs. Although her novels theme are a little bit out of my taste her first novel The Rise and Fall of Yummy Mummy seems quite interesting.
So are you ever ready to say goodbye to your loved ones?
Language : Bahasa Indonesia
Author : Polly Williams @pollywilliams
Publisher : Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Year : 2013
Genre : Chick-Lit, Comedy, Romance
Lured by a blog that offered this novel as quiz-winner gift and also by its sweet cover, i didn’t think this is a chick-lit-like genre. I thought if it was, then maybe not like other chick-lit ones that makes me bored lately. I’m wondering why didn’t they put Chick-lit icon on the cover? It’s obviously that kind of genre but specializes in motherhood and marriage life...i guess?
I was kinda disappointed for the few first pages but eventually really enjoyed reading it until the last page. It's a mix of Desperate Housewives and Sex in the City plot but Sophie, the main character, tells story in a certain witty way.
Sophie Brady actually has a perfect family life; Olliver his handsome husband, Freddie her cute son, Jenny her loyal bestfriend, Ping Pong the lazy cat and a great house at the no. 33. Missing Jenny after Christmas racket, she went out for some chit chat at the restaurant with her and babbled about how her marriage life come to a dull and stagnant routine.
Fate has another plan, Sophie was hit by a bus in that rainy night while she was looking for taxi. But her spirit still haunts the earth. So basically you read this story from a third-person (ghost) point of view.
Could see and hear but couldn’t be seen and heard while watching her life goes on probably the hardest thing to do. Her husband is devastated and her son is still so young without a mother. There are many secrets that must be told to Jenny before it’s too late and many things to prepare before she can really let her life go.
My dissatisfactions are i couldn’t connect with its background details where Freddie told about Doctor Who movie or when Sophie describe that Jenny can finished Wolf Hall book and when Freddie has pile of Match Attax cards. What are these ‘animals’? Another is ridiculous translation of English parable like Pasukan Bantu Ollie.
Aside its witty way in describing Sophie’s life, it slightly poignant at the end. Sophie teach us to appreciate your life, do good things you should have do, loving your family and friends and let them know it before everything left unsaid, before it’s too late.
It was quite sad how Sophie watched that finally her husband can go on without her, how people stop mourning after her death and her world goes by without her in it. Making you thinking about what you should do when you still alive and be thankful of the life you have now.
‘Till this day Polly Williams already published seven novels all about being urban mama, wifey and marriage ups and downs. Although her novels theme are a little bit out of my taste her first novel The Rise and Fall of Yummy Mummy seems quite interesting.
So are you ever ready to say goodbye to your loved ones?
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