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Tell Me What You See by Zoran Drvenkar is a strange book, in a good way.  In the middle of a Christmas snowstorm, Alissa and her best friend, Evelin make the pilgrimage to her father’s grave.  Alissa falls down a hole into a crypt where she finds a child’s casket with a strange plant growing out of it.  When she opens the casket, she finds that the plant is coming straight from the child’s heart.  She pulls out the plant and against her will, eats it.  Evelin runs to get her father and they recue Alissa from the crypt.  But Alissa starts to act strangely after eating the plant.  She can see people who no one else can see, her abusive boyfriend has become even more obsessive after kissing her, and she breathes life into a tiny kitten. 

Written by a German author and set in modern-day Berlin, this is a modern gothic teen novel.  The book is a puzzle, a strange ride of a novel that is impossible to put down until the puzzle is solved.  And unlike some puzzling books, the ending is very satisfying. 

Share this with teens who like dark books filled with mystery and don’t mind a lot of strange things going on in their books.