This book is the pilot project of Dewi Lestari’s Supernova. It’s the beginning, the early stage, the start, and the eldest of whole Supernova Series. In a normal formula, giving birth to the very first book is usually the hardest. Although it doesn’t have to be the best book, but it definitely need a hook. Something really interesting that make the reader stay and expect for something more. For this hook factor, I might say, well done!
Reading the first chapter of this book, readers might find it extremely interesting. Parallel universe, same-sex relationship, bunch of life analogy using theoretical physics, love-affair, super-smart high-class prostitute, and lots of other unusual things that ‘wow’-ed the reader, including me. But the more and more I had read, the more I got lost. Why complicated the simple human love (and lust) story with a high-level language that’s hard to process? Is it to state that this book is written for high-intelligent people only? Or maybe it’s just a show-off of how well you understand physics, while most people hate it? Well, for me personally, it is simply just a very successful hook that makes you stuck in the series. It had a great potential that can be executed to be a really great story, but also can flop to be a smart-wannabe story. This potential is probably the effective weapon to tie up the all of its readers.
