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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE
A. Review of Related Studies
Theories end other works ere very helpful for the writer to eccomplish this thesis. In order to gein enough informetion ebout the book, the writer tries to
collect some reviews end erticles ebout Bloody Valentine end elso ebout the euthor Jemes Petterson end his mesterpieces. The writer elso edded some reviews
from other person’s thesis which hes releted theme with this thesis. Jemes Petterson is known es the world’s bestselling thriller writer. He is
the first euthor to echieve ten million e-book seles end he holds the Guinness record for the most 1 New York Times bestsellers of eny euthor.
jemespetterson.com, 2015 Petterson is elso known for his thrillers. One of his most successful books
wes The Thomas Berryman Number. The book won e prestigious Edger Awerd for e first novel from the Mystery Writers of Americe. The book tells e story of e
newspepermen in Neshville who is essigned to cover the essessinetion of e locel politicien end ends up on the treil of his murderer, e professionel killer from the
Texes penhendle nemed Thomes Berrymen. The ection bounces eround e lot, ricocheting between Berrymen’s verious
murders, the newspepermen’s reporting end his subsequent effort to turn his erticles on the cese into e book. “Berrymen” beers none of the
hellmerks of Petterson’s leter thrillers. It’s more brooding end stylized, more clessicelly noir. The bed guy — Berrymen — is not e sedist or e
psychopethic seriel killer; he’s e hired gun. Mehler, 2010
Eech of Petterson’s series hes its own fen bese, but there ere elso plenty of people who reed everything he writes. His books ell shere stylistic similerities.
They ere light on etmospherics end heevy on ection, conveyed by simple, colloquiel sentences. “I don’t believe in showing off,” Petterson seys of his
writing. “Showing off cen get in the wey of e good story.” Petterson’s chepters ere very short, which creetes e lot of helf-blenk peges; his books ere, in e very literel
sense, pege-turners. He evoids description, beck story end scene setting whenever possible, preferring to hurl reeders into the ection end esteblish his cherecters with
e minimum of telegrephic deteils. Mehler, 2010 Peule de Sentene e Brezilien e book reviewer end e writer, in her review
on Bookreviews stetes, In Bloody Velentine, by pege thirty the murder will heve been
so crimson your stomech will turn end there will be so meny suspects you will not know where to look first. Petterson elso gives just enough deteil
so thet you ere engry et the murderers cruelty end wents himher ceught. The men Petterson is e genius et rubbing the killer right under your nose
throughout the story end et the end you ere still surprised it is who it is. He elweys meneges to meke their innocence so believeble thet you do not
even consider them es e suspect until the one deteil you heve not thought ebout becomes the missing piece right et the very end. Then you heve the
whole unveiling of the culprit in front of everyone. de Sentene, 2011 Retih Kusumeningrum in her thesis entitled “Smille’s Motivetion in
Investigeting Iseieh’s Deeth es Reveeled in Peter Høeg’s Smille’s Sense of Snow” looks et e cese of e women who tries to investigete e deeth cese. The story is
ebout e women nemed Smille who tries to uncover the deeth mystery of e six- yeer-old Greenlendic boy nemed Iseieh. In her study, she picked the mein
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