Novel Dear Nathan

a. Book identity
- Book title: Dear Nathan
- Publisher: Best Media
- Year of Publication: March 2016
- Number of Pages: 528 p
- Edition Number: ISBN 978-602-6940-14-8
b. Author profile

Yep, She is Erisca Febriani. This beautiful girl from Lampung is increasingly known in the
world of literature in the country. Erisca, her nickname, had shared his story with Lampung
Netizen. He told me about the story in her phenomenal novel. "Dear Nathan, this is a story of
a 70% high school kid whose story is real at my school. The story is about Salma, a stiff girl
and has never been dating. She met Nathan, a delinquent student who immediately
experienced love at the first sight with Salma," said the girl born March 25, 1998. In addition
to schoolgirl drama, there are also friendship conflicts and family conflicts, so many teenage
readers feel close to the story in this novel.
Erisca began writing professionally when she was in grade 2 of junior high school. "The
initial writing that I made to share with my schoolmates. It turned out that the response was
good and they gave motivation to keep writing," he said. Before being known through the
Wattpad application, Erisca used Facebook's social network to distribute her writing. start
writing through the wattpad. "Well, at that time the response from the readers was really good
until there was someone who was waiting to be published," he continued.
Finally, Erisca began trying to publish her novel. For the initial line, she tried self-publishing.
Instead of publishing, Erisca was actually cheated. However, at the third publisher he finally
managed to print his first novel. The novel which became a best seller began to glance at
several production houses to be appointed to the big screen. In the film Dear Nathan, Erisca
was directly involved in the screenplay maker and also casting the character selection. The
writer who idolized Jane Austin admitted that she was proud of the achievements she could
achieve at a young age. "When other children my age spend time for fun, I already have
something useful for me going forward. I think I already have provisions that I will develop
continuously," said the alumni of Bandarlampung 2 SMA Muhammadiyah.
Next project, Erisca will make a collection of illustrated short stories and continue the sequel
from Dear Nathan. The busyness of being a writer doesn't seem to interfere with his academic
achievements. Erisca even managed to enter state universities through invitation channels.
Precisely at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Lampung. Wih! Erisca also advised the
novice writers to not hesitate to publish their work.

c. Synopsis
Novel Review Dear Nathan - Novel Dear Nathan is a romance genre, which tells a story in
the days of white gray. In the story there are 2 people who have very different personalities
like heaven and earth. Call it Salma, an innocent girl who is very scared if she makes a
mistake to move to a school where there are lots of students who have a background in
history. Really this makes Salma feel uncomfortable. Moreover, on the first day Salma moved
to her new school and she had had a problem because she was late for her new school. But
there was a man who helped Salma escape the late sentence at that time, he was named
Nathan, a guy who was very famous for his character who often caused tantrums at school.
But as time went on Nathan felt that there was something different in him, he felt that Salma
could provide positive things for him and while he was near Salma, Nathan often felt a
strange feeling enveloping him. After a lot of time he spent with Salma while at school
Nathan experienced a lot of changes, he is famous for his nature who likes to make after
knowing Salma he becomes a better person, but does Salma feel the same as what Nathan
felt? Nathan was afraid to express his true feelings to Salma because all this time Salma had
always been lazy and ignorant of Nathan.

D. Strengths

Novel Review Dear Nathan - This novel tells the story of the era of white gray which is very
epic because of the presence of a unique character Nathan, the author deliberately made
Nathan as a guy who has a rather difficult character to predict, but who is special even though
Nathan though he many people were labeled bad by their school, but Nathan was not a
typical guy who likes to hurt girl feelings, it was seen from the attitude he did and the words
he made to the novel Dear Nathan that is. And the author is very smart because it makes all
the characters who play a role in the novel Novel Dear Nathan has a strong character.

E. Weaknesses

Novel Review Dear Nathan - The use of literacy rules in this Dear Nathan novel is not well
organized. Readers often find a diction that is not right and the words used are fairly standard
and efficient. This disadvantage is understandable because the novel Dear Nathan was taken
from Wattpad. The reader feels that it is not suitable for the use of the language used by
Nathan's role when he uses my word-you, it seems that it is not in accordance with Nathan's
personality who has a bad guy character.
F. Book Value

Novel dear Nathan is perfect for all ages to read. This novel contains social values such as
help. Besides that there is always loving and caring.