To be honest, i was postponing to read this book for a lot of time before i finally decided that i will read it.  It has been in my shelf when i bought it in big bad wolf event back in 2019 so it has been 2 years. I do plan to read books by the sequence, but somehow i keep pushing this one back. I saw this book in instagram few years before and it's totally a cover buy to me, because as always i do judge book by its cover, and now when it's time to read it i was hesitating a lot since i saw some rating (but not the review) of people who have read this one. But enough for the intro, let's go!

 

 

Synopsis

 The story start with our main character Kol, who narrating the story about the first encounter with the one he tells the story to, which is the girl from another clan, Mya. Kol is from Manu clan, he has 4 other younger brothers, he and Pek (his younger brother) are facing a bit problem because there's no woman in their age in their clan, not until May and her sister and her brother who is the Elder of Olen clan come to visit.

Seeing Mya for the first time he got the impression that she didn't really like her. Seeri, her sister in other hand is showing a lot of interest to Pek. They were going to hunt for mammoth but it end up Kol is chased by a saber-toothed cat, and Mya killed it. Their visit ends shortly although Kol's clan already built a hut specially for them, finding out that Chev, Mya's brother is already promised Seeri to betrothed to his friend in his clan, and seeing Pek has a big interest in her made Chev decide that they should stop that visit soon and go home.

Pek who's can't help with his feeling just decide to visit Olen's clan, but it has been days since he gone, and his mother become worried. Kol decided to go to Olen clan by walk. Mya's attitude just didn't help him to like her although he tried a lot to give a lot of good impression. The mysteries of Mya's attitude revealed after he met another girl, Lo who used to be in same clan with her. 

 My Review

Okay, by the synopsis you probably guess, oh this is a book about a man who has problem about his love life. Well.. i can't really disagree with that, but it's absolutely more than that. I love the writing style, how the story takes from Kol's point of view, to "you" referring to Mya. At first i was impressed by this setting of writing style because i never encounter this kind of writing style, we are the Mya who listen to Kol's story in this part. And it's one of the point why i love this book a lot.

Kol is one of the type of main male character that i love, the kind of soft and sweet boy, but also a strong one. The way he tried to fulfill his duty, although he hates to kill mammoth, unlike his younger brother Pek, who is such an excellent hunter, he like hunting others, Honey. I got the glimpse of how honey is so precious in this stone age (oh yeah did i mention that the plot set in stone age?). He is also compassion about being helpful, at some point when he think he didn't do much to help, he tried other thing to help, because of his sense of responsibility is so huge. 

“Let me take a turn,” Pek says.
I wave him off. “You brought down the kill; I’ll put up the hut.”

Kol is probably one of my fave male character now by how sweet he is. Of course he got some mood swings from how Mya treated her, but i just can't help to support his efforts every time when it comes to get Mya's feeling back to him. He just deserves more love! And of course we can see how he start form the shadow of his younger brother in everything in his clan, to the hero in Olen Clan.

I have no other choice. If I stop, I could die.If I stop, you could die. [...]
I cannot let you die, because I cannot face a future without you.
― Kol ―