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Karen McMillan from NZ Booklovers has been reading Ponti by Sharlene Teo

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Set in Singapore, Ponti follows the story of three troubled central characters. Amisa, a once beautiful actress in a cult horror movie series, now lives in a rundown house with her sister who performs seances. Stunningly beautiful from a young age, in the Ponti movies Amisa is a beautiful but bloodthirsty Pontianak (a female vampire-ghost from Malay mythology) who lures men to their deaths in a series of three 1970s horror films. But her career never went further than these movies, and after her husband walked out leaving her to raise Szu on her own, Amisa seems something of a monster in real life in the callous way she treats her only child, and she seems to be consumed with unhappiness and anger.

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