Hearts & Other Body Parts

Esme, Katy and Ronnie are smart, gorgeous, talented and witches, and they have their high school comfortably wired. Then two new students arrive.

The first is Norman: almost eight feet tall, apparently assembled from bolts and mismatched parts, and possessed of an oversized brain and an oversized heart that Esme finds herself drawn to. The second is Zack, a late transfer from the UK so handsome the whole school is mesmerised, and soon all three sisters are in a flat-out hex war to win him.

While the magic flies, only Norman notices that the students who wander off alone with Zack come back with crushed bones and holes in their memory — or do not come back at all. Ira Bloom's debut is a YA novel of love and monsters, with a corpse-eating demon cat for good measure.