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Out of Salem
Out of Salem | Hal Schrieve
2 posts | 4 read | 6 to read
The best Teen Zombie Werewolf Witchy Faerie fantasy murder mystery you've ever read--by debut author, Hal Schrieve. Genderqueer fourteen-year-old Z Chilworth has to adjust quickly to their new status as a zombie after waking from death from a car crash that killed their parents and sisters. Always a talented witch, Z now can barely perform magic and is rapidly decaying. Faced with rejection from their remaining family members and old friends, Z moves in with their mother's friend, Mrs. Dunnigan, and befriends Aysel, a loud would-be-goth classmate who is, like Z, a loner. As Z struggles to find a way to repair the broken magical seal holding their body together, Aysel fears that her classmates will discover her status as an unregistered werewolf. When a local psychiatrist is murdered by what seems to be werewolves, the town of Salem, Oregon, becomes even more hostile to "monsters," and Z and Aysel are driven together in an attempt to survive a place where most people wish that neither of them existed. Rarely has a first-time author created characters of such immediacy and power as Z, Aysel, Tommy (suspected fey) and Elaine (also a werewolf), or a world that parallels our own so clearly and disturbingly.
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Out of Salem | Hal Schrieve
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One of the nominees for the YA part of the National Book Awards.

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Lauren.Archer
Out of Salem | Hal Schrieve
Mehso-so

Rounding up on this one. This started off with a lot of promise, but about a third in, it started to lose my interest. This does take on a lot of topics dealing with LGBTQ youth, but it unfortunately working this in with zombie and werewolves just did not totally work for me.