Title: Malice
Author: Pintip Dun
Genre: YA, Thriller, Fantasy
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Release Date: 4th February 2020
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What
I know: a boy at my school will one day wipe out two-thirds of the population
with a virus.
What
I don’t know: who he is.
In a
race against the clock, I not only have to figure out his identity, but I'll
have to outwit a voice from the future telling me to kill him. Because I'm starting
to realize no one is telling the truth. But how can I play chess with someone
who already knows the outcome of my every move? Someone so filled with malice
she’s lost all hope in humanity? Well, I'll just have to find a way―because now
she’s drawn a target on the only boy I've ever loved...
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pintip
Dunn is a New York Times bestselling author of young adult fiction. She
graduated from Harvard University, magna cum laude, with an A.B., and
received her J.D. at Yale Law School.
Pintip’s
novel FORGET TOMORROW won the 2016 RWA RITA® for Best First Book, and SEIZE
TODAY won the 2018 RITA for Best Young Adult Romance. In addition, her books
have been translated into four languages, and they have been nominated for the
following awards: the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire; the Japanese Sakura Medal;
the MASL Truman Award; the Tome Society It list; the Romantic Times Reviewers’
Choice Award; and a Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Book of the Year. Her other
novels include REMEMBER YESTERDAY, THE DARKEST LIE, GIRL ON THE VERGE,
STAR-CROSSED, and MALICE.
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EXCERPT
5:58
a.m.
Most
Obnoxious Boy Alive: Black flannel shirt, sleeves rolled up. Black jeans. White
canvas sneakers
Me:
???
Most
Obnoxious Boy Alive: Ur imagining what I’m wearing, amirite? Don’t lovesick
girls fantasize bout this every morning?
Me:
Hate to break it to you, Bandit, but the only “sick” I’m about to be is all
over my phone.
Most
Obnoxious Boy Alive: Could u plz not call me that?
Me:
What? Bandit? But it’s your name.
Most
Obnoxious Boy Alive: Yea, but when u say it, w all ur proper spelling, it
sounds like ur scolding me
Me:
What should I call you, then?
Most
Obnoxious Boy Alive: How bout babycakes?
Me:
How about Most Obnoxious Boy Alive? That’s how you’re listed under my
Contacts.
Most
Obnoxious Boy Alive: Ur giving me pet names already? Aww, honey oats, that’s
sweet. Not sure I’m ready 4 this level of commitment tho
Me: You
started it!
Most
Obnoxious Boy Alive: Ur rite. I did. Ok fine. 2 eggs over easy. Bacon. Toast.
What I’m having 4 breakfast
Me:
Told you already. Utterly uninterested.
Most
Obnoxious Boy Alive: Chrysanthemum tea too. Cuz it reminds me of my khun yai.
She used to make it 4 me every morning w loads of brown sugar
My
fingers hover over my cell phone. I can’t bring myself to shut him down. Not
now. Because I know from Lalana that “khun yai” means “grandmother.” And…he
spoke about her in the past tense.
I
remember, too, that Lalana attended a funeral last year. And I’m pretty sure it
was for Bandit’s grandmother.
Me:
Of course you would like your tea super sweet.
Most
Obnoxious Boy Alive: I don’t. but that’s how my khun yai liked it, so that’s
how I drank it
Me:
And that’s how you still make your tea?
Dots
appear. And then disappear. And then appear again, as though he can’t decide
how to respond. I meant the question as a throwaway, but now I’m gripping my
phone like our very future depends on the answer. Finally, his response pops
up.
Most Obnoxious Boy Alive:
yea. that's how I still make my tea
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