Her novel FORGET TOMORROW won the 2016 RWA RITA® for Best First Book, and SEIZE TODAY won the 2018 RITA for Best Young Adult Romance. She graduated from Harvard University, magna cum laude, with an A.B., and received her J.D. Pintip Dunn is a New York Times bestselling author of young adult fiction. These two and a boy named Bandit are all crucial to the plot and, although I pegged the future creator of the global virus early on, that certainly didn’t keep me from wanting to see how everything would pan out. In fact, Alice is the steady one in this family, especially in looking after her older brother, Archie, a prodigy who definitely has a few screws loose and a deep distrust of people. By offering a look at certain characters during different stages of their lives that haven’t happened yet, the focus can be on those characters and not so much on the setting or worldbuilding.Īlice is a perfectly normal teen or, at least, as normal as possible for a girl whose mother disappeared years ago and whose father has been emotionally distant ever since. The beauty of time travel is that there’s so much you can do with it, so many ways to make it the core of an intriguing tale and that’s true here.

That doesn’t mean they’re weak, by any means, just more accessible and I appreciate that. Pintip Dunn has a knack for coming up with young adult science fiction stories that are interesting and creative but are not hardcore science fiction so they appeal to a wider readership that prefer scifi-lite, so to speak. But how can I play chess with someone who already knows the outcome of my every move? Someone so filled with malice they’ve lost all hope in humanity? Well, I’ll just have to find a way-because now they’ve drawn a target on the only boy I’ve ever loved…. Because I’m starting to realize no one is telling the truth. 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. What I know: a boy in my class will one day wipe out two-thirds of the population with a virus. Barnes & Noble // Kobo // iTunes // Google Books

Malice by Pintip Dunn