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by S. Hati
An ambitious teen enrolls at an elite science institute in Morbid Curiosities, a young adult thriller from author S. Hati.
When the Institute's invitation arrived at my doorstep, it felt like it had been inked in my blood, sweat, and tears.
Aarya's life plan has been set for as long as she can remember: finish high school with a bang, attend the best college she can get into, then land a prestigious biology research job. Her ticket to this dream is a one-year program at the Elizabethan Institute, the preeminent organization for life sciences in the United States, currently on the cusp of revealing a major project that could transform the worlds of biology and medicine.
But as Aarya tries to settle in to a school with sky-high academic expectations and research cloaked in mystery, it becomes clear that someone doesn't want her there. As the scholarship student surrounded by rich, cutthroat peers who seem all too willing to torment her, she never expected to make friends, but the notes warning her to run rattle her to her core. She finds an ally in Sofia, a mysterious girl who claims to be the subject of closed-door Institute experiments and begs for Aarya's help in discovering the Institute's true goal.
As rumors of mutated flora and fauna in the nearby city circulate and a murder investigation rocks the Institute, Aarya must navigate Sofia's growing paranoia and her own increasingly unreliable memory to determine which classmates she can trust―and which would rather see her dead.
"Cerebral, atmospheric, and genuinely unsettling―science thriller gold." ―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Smart twists propel this slow-building and provocative mystery." ―Publishers Weekly
"Hati's academic thriller is full of twists and lightly laced with romance to form a compelling tale that will have readers on the edge of their seats. Sci-fi fans and mystery readers alike will be drawn into Aarya's unsettling story." ―Booklist
"Clever and thoroughly compelling, this is the perfect combination of academia, mystery, and darkly thrilling twists. The characters delivered a prickly academic-rivals-to-allies dynamic that I adored and each page had me hungry for more." ―CG Drews, New York Times bestselling author of Don't Let The Forest In
"S. Hati delivers a dark academia-esque thriller that trades spells and secret societies for mutated creatures, secret experiments, and the haunting price of genius. Smart, eerie, and utterly gripping, this is the kind of book that gets under your skin and stays there." ―Kalynn Baron, New York Times-bestselling author of You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight
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S. Hati writes speculative fiction about brown girls in strange worlds that straddle the line between magic and science. She is the author of And the Sky Bled, a starred-review cli-fi fantasy, Morbid Curiosities, a YA thriller, and The Carousel of Forgotten Places, an adult romantasy.
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