Book Review : Critical Eleven by Ika Natassa *no spoiler*

Somewhere between Jakarta-Depok in commuter line train, which I rarely take, I had an idea to write a book review.  I just bought 2 books, 2 weeks before. One of them was Critical Eleven by Ika Natassa. I never read any of Ika Natassa book before, that make Critical Eleven is the first book of Ika Natassa that I read.  Let's start the book review ala Kimi, Book Review without spoiler. :)

At first I had to admit that this book can make me cry. Maybe because the story close enough to my personal life.  Lost, lost of something that we love, something that we had waiting for, something that we expected to come.  Anya (Tanya Baskoro) and Ale (Aldebaran Risjad), the two main characters in this book, feel very devastated but then they just express it in a different way that make both of them loss each other.

For me the story a little bit too cliche.  A single, beautiful and successful women met a single, handsome and successful man. Just like a fairytale. The conflict began when Anya can't accept Ale accusition and decide to move away from it instead of deal with it. Anya and Ale trying to get justified on how they feel and behave. Ale's family make the story more lively but somehow Ika didn't tell us much about Anya's family. I got a feeling of Sex and the City about Anya, when you are close to your friend than your family.

Ika writes the book from 2 different angle, Anya and Ale. But sometimes, repetition happened, and it just feel like dejavu. Anya already described a situation and then you read the same line all over again from Ale. The feeling that each of them feel, the emotion, the thin line between right and wrong, uncertainty of feeling are well described by Ika. Detail of location and place and detail information on related things such as part of brain or critical eleven minutes in aviation world are not too much to get us iritated but just enough for us to get the context and knowledge. The boorkmark is very unique, a boarding pass, love it.

Overall, a nice book to read to spend your lazy weekend. ***