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The Empress of All Seasons by Emiko Jean

Each generation, a competition is held to find the next empress of Honoku. The rules are simple. Survive the palace's enchanted seasonal rooms. Conquer Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Marry the prince. All are eligible to compete--all except yokai, supernatural monsters and spirits whom the human emperor is determined to enslave and destroy. Mari has spent a lifetime training to become empress. Winning should be easy. And it would be, if she weren't hiding a dangerous secret. Mari is a yokai with the ability to transform into a terrifying monster. If discovered, her life will be forfeit. As she struggles to keep her true identity hidden, Mari's fate collides with that of Taro, the prince who has no desire to inherit the imperial throne, and Akira, a half-human, half-yokai outcast. Torn between duty and love, loyalty and betrayal, vengeance and forgiveness, the choices of Mari, Taro, and Akira will decide the fate of Honoku in this beautifully written, edge-of-your-seat YA...
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Animorphs Book 36: The Mutation by K. A. Applegate

The Mutation brings a new level of revulsion and body horror to a series already full of both. It features a kind of believable and deeply terrifying portrayal of Atlantis. Jake is trying to be a good leader but it's getting really tough.

This whole series is dark, but for the last few books we've been treated to new and horrifying types of darkness. It's not so much that it's getting darker, as that it's spreading out to the sides in a pool of creepy stuff.

A boy (Jake) turns into an orca

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