Published: 2018, Picador Genre: Fiction Themes: Singapore, teenage friendships, ambition, loss My rating (out of 5): ❤❤❤ Reading this book is rather like looking through a kaleidoscope as the key elements are shown from many different perspectives, but new pieces of information are constantly falling into place. The time-line flips backwards and forwards as we follow teenage school friends Szu and Circe and discover how their lives have been influenced by a set of three horror movies staring Szu's mother, Amisa. When Amisa was a teenager herself, she was spotted by a wealthy man who wanted to make a film about a Pontianak, which is a mythical female ghost from Singaporean folklore. The man chose Amisa because of her classic beauty and promised he would make her a star if she would agree to leave her job and come and take the lead in his film. In the end they made three films about the Ponti, but they were not successful as audiences had tired of traditional stor...