The instigating event in Malice lies in two different timelines–present where the agent needs stopping, and the future when the catastrophic results require alternate past resolutions.Įven if you read Malice first, I recommend her Forget Tomorrow series. Malice is more or less the ‘prehistoric’ landscape of that dystopian future. But Forget Tomorrow series is set in a dystopian future where much of the theoretical science regarding metaphysical plane and time travel/precognition are applied. It’s not necessary to read those books to understand Malice. The Forget Tomorrow series is an excellent introduction to Pintip Dunn because it lays the foundation for the science on which she bases this premise.
What motivates us right now can flip on a switch with a new catalyst. Couched inside the mystery is an ever-present reminder that there is no way we can know today what challenges to come will change us fundamentally. Pintip Dunn sets up this story with slow-rolling reveals which increase the pace and urgency of the evolving narrative. And this girl has her eyes on the prize she isn’t going to let boys distract her from surviving highschool. Alice is chugging along despite difficulties in a broken family, keeping a STEM preoccupied older brother anchored to the outside world. Who is Alice Sherman? She would say she’s a loyal sister, loyal friend, a person who sees the best in things, but admittedly, the worst baker. Malice is Pintip Dunn doing what she does best, testing her readers to see possibilities that lay just outside what we accept as possible. One of the existential questions Pintip Dunn’s asks of her heroine in her newest page-turning YA Sci-fi, Thriller.
Are you the same person now as you will be ten years from now?
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