Love Life, Ray Kluun

Buku ni adalah prequel kepada The Widower. Tapi jodoh saya terlebih dahulu dengan The Widower, dah baca baru sedar, ada buku pertama iaitu Love Life. Pertemuan dengan Love Life sangatlah penuh cabaran. Tak kisah, akhirnya ketemu juga.

Buku ni, mengisahkan kepada kehidupan Danny dan isterinya, Carmen. Mereka hidup bahagia, dengan kehadiran seorang baby girl, Luna. Hidup mereka turut ditemani dengan rakan-rakan yang memahami, yang sentiasa berusaha untuk berada di sekitar mereka ketika diperlukan.

Carmen disahkan menghidap penyakit kanser. Dengan jangka masa yang terhad seperti diramalkan oleh Doktor, Carmen sentiasa positif dan mahu meneruskan kehidupan seperti biasa, dengan gembira bersama-sama kawan2 dan keluarga.

Danny walaubagaimanapun, mempunyai isu tentang monogamy. Tambahan pula dengan Carmen yang menghidapi breast cancer. Memang susah untuk mempertahankan monogamy. Carmen menyedari tentang itu dan cuba bertoleransi dengan perangai Dan. Dan cuba untuk merahsiakan semua tu tapi, sudah namanya isteri, semuanya terhidu, dan terbuka dengan sendiri. Dan, despite all of the bad things, tried his best to always be by Carmen's side.

Sehinggalah Dan bertemu dengan Rose, perasaan dia menjadi lain dan peliknya, dia boleh mengamalkan monogamy dengan Rose. Tapi masih tetap menyayangi Carmen.

Carmen berusaha dan berjaya membuat Danny berjanji untuk tidak curang sepanjang masa-masa terakhir Carmen. Masa ni, paling sedih. Mr. Kluun pandai sekali mengekspresi segala perasaan sampaikan I pun turut mengalirkan air mata towards the end of the book.

It is a usual story, tapi gaya penceritaan tu berjaya membuatkan ia lain dari yang lain. Menarik, deskripsi semua perkara adalah lengkap.

Sesuai untuk dibaca oleh husband2 yang susah nak monogamy. Harap2 takdelah di sekeliling kita. HUHU.

Sekian. :)

The Widower by Ray Kluun

"When honesty is too much"

The Widower evolves around Dan and how he copes with the death of his wife. The story is written in a beautiful chronology, from their early days as couple, to the day they married, and up until the death of Carmen. (Dan's wife).

Basically it was a reminisce for Dan, on how he started to remember everything good and bad, the people whom he had hurt, the broken things he had done, since the day he knew Carmen will be leaving him, the after Carmen's death days, in recovering his strength and his life.

Dan had involved himself in a wild life, darker side of him was revealed after Carmen's death. It's his way of grieving, it seems. He had neglected his daughter, and many more people that love him.

It was until he planned to go traveling with Luna, his daughter he started to realize what a waste his life had been and who had actually been by his side, all along. He tried to establish new relationship.

It's a good read, and full with nice quotes. It will make you want to appreciate all the people around you. I would suggest this, if you are mending a broken heart. :) HAHA.

That's all.

Anyway, this is my favourite quote;

There are often a hundred reasons not to do something, but, just one reason to do it should be enough

-From Carmen to Luna.