Since hundreds of years ago, the Gargoyle’ve been hiding from human view. They live as “creatures from another world”. Although not visible to the human eye, but they exist everywhere. Only people with a sixth sense that is able to see where they are. People like this are called Hartide or Forecasters Future. They have superhuman vision. However, these benefits it brings danger, both in the human world and the world of the “other”.
Grim is a Gargoyle. A guard for the creatures of the world. His job is to take care lest people know of the existence of the Gargoyle. This is an old rule that they must comply. Grim completely unaware, what will happen to him, when one day he agreed to a request Moira to keep a boy named Jacob. Moira is a Gargoyle, like himself. Moreover, Moira is his old friend, mentor, once one of the world’s oldest Gargoyle them. But, Moira deliberately violate the rules of the old. He became acquainted with Jacob and gave a codex reads the letters that strange.
Since then Jacob, who is also a Hartide (Predictor of the Future), always being chased by Hybride (half human half Gargoyle). The Hybride apparently wanted to rob the codex. At the critical moment, Jacob gave the codex to his sister, Mia.
Meeting Mia (17 years), an ordinary man who is also a Hartide with Grim reality they were making in those adventures are dangerous. Mia himself realized that he apparently had the privilege to see the future. Together with the Grim Mia decided to try to discover the meaning of the codex. A manuscript which was sealed with fire. (Ufuk fiction)
It’s a great book, fantasy adventure book lovers will definitely love it. Mia, Grim, and Remis the kobold have a big amazingly adventure form Paris to Roma then back to Ghrogonia, the capital city for Gargoyle that located underground the Paris city itself. On their adventure they will meet a lot of unique creatures that will help them to read the parchment in the fire seal. The big plot twist at the end of book between Grim – Pedro – Seraphin really surprised me. From the first time Gesa made sure that we, the readers think that Grim is a Gargoyle that was born from a volcano but…. BOOOM almost at the end of the book we will find a big secret about Grim and whats behind all of this mess and war between Gargoyle, human, and Hybrid.
What I don’t like about this book is I can’t really feels the chemistry between Mia and Grim! Their relationship is weird, too plain and too simple. I know it’s not a love story but hey, at least give us a little feels what they’re feeling toward eachother. And when suddenly Mia said that she love Grim, I was like ‘Huh? What the hell was that?’ Just because Grim helped her to find a way to read that parchment and then yeah Mia love him and she wanted to destroy the spell to keep human forget about the war between human and Gargoyle, that just patethic.
Mia’s character is too ordinary not really great as a female lead character. There’s nothing special about her. And Mia’s ability to do all the magic thing is a little bit illogical. I mean it’s only a couple of days and voila she’s all doing the magic thing.
Grim’s character is still make me curious, his relationship with Moira especially. I mean there’s no explanation why he’ll do everything to keep Jacob (and after he died) and Mia safe just because Moira asked him to do that. I just love his alteration demeanor from time to time.
I give it 3 stars because of its amazingly adventure.
What makes me sad is this book isn’t translate to english. I’ve read the version of this book that translated to Indonesian but the second and third book aren’t translate soo yeah it left me hanging.
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