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- lifestyle@thestar.com.my Compiled by ROUWEN LIN

Go Hunt Me

Author: Kelly devos Publisher: Razorbill

Alex and her friends are horror buffs who have made some films together in high school. Now that they are going to different colleges in a few months, they decide to shoot their last short film at a remote castle in Romania. It is going to be romantic, rustic and spine-tingling. Or so they think. When they get there, it is hardly the majestic castle dreams are made of. It is secluded and abandoned, nothing much to write home about. Until someone sees a cloaked figure and people start dying.

The Gravity Of Missing Things

Author: Marisa urgo Publisher: entangled Teen

The unthinkabl­e has happened. A plane has disappeare­d. There is no distress signal, no warning and no wreckage. It has simply vanished into thin air. The pilot, who is Violet’s mum, is suspect number one. Everyone seems to think she intentiona­lly crashed it. Or spirited the plane away. Violet wants to stick up for her mother, but the note that her mum left behind for her, written before the flight, makes her hesitate. The note says, “Trust me”. Violet wants to clear her mother’s name but she isn’t sure that she will like the truth.

Our Crooked Hearts

Author: Melissa Albert Publisher: Flatiron Books

Ivy suspects her mother was quite a wild thing when she was in her teens. Not only did she dabble in the supernatur­al but the things she did in the past have now come back to haunt her family. On the way home one day, Ivy nearly runs over a young woman standing in the middle of the road. She then finds a dead rabbit in the driveway and a mysterious box hidden in her parents’ closet. Her mother has also buried a concoction of sorts in the backyard, no doubt to hide it from prying eyes. What is going on here?

A Year To The Day

Author: Robin Benway Publisher: Harperteen

A year has passed since Leo’s sister, Nina, died. All Leo remembers about that night after the party is getting into a car with Nina and her boyfriend, East. She knows that East knows more, but he refuses to talk about what happened that day, leaving her to speculate about what might have been. Between her mother’s depression and her own grief, Leo tries to piece together the puzzle that has been bothering her for a year. While she finds a sympatheti­c friend in East, there are some battles that she has to fight alone.

The Ghosts Of Rose Hill

Author: R.M. Romero Publisher: Peachtree Teen

In a forgotten Jewish cemetery, Ilana meets the ghost of a boy named Benjamin who died over a century ago. Torn between her dream of becoming a violinist and her parents’ wishes for her to find a more stable career, she confides in Benjamin while she restores his grave. He shows her the enchanted side of Prague, a place where ghosts walk the street and where Ilana can truly be herself. But Benjamin isn’t the only one who is interested in her – there is a man with no shadow who offers to share his magic with her so she can pursue her dream and be with Benjamin forever.

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