Out of Salem - BookWyrm

Hardcover, 432 pages

Published March 4, 2019 by Triangle Square.

ISBN:: 978-1-60980-901-0

(1 review)

When genderqueer fourteen-year-old Z Chilworth wakes from death after a car crash that killed their parents and sisters, they have to adjust quickly to their new status as a zombie.

Always a talented witch, Z can now barely perform magic and is rapidly decaying. Faced with rejection from their remaining family members and old friends, Z moves in with Mrs. Dunnigan, an elderly witch, 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 in an apparent werewolf attack, 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 …

When genderqueer fourteen-year-old Z Chilworth wakes from death after a car crash that killed their parents and sisters, they have to adjust quickly to their new status as a zombie.

Always a talented witch, Z can now barely perform magic and is rapidly decaying. Faced with rejection from their remaining family members and old friends, Z moves in with Mrs. Dunnigan, an elderly witch, 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 in an apparent werewolf attack, 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.

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Kathrin Passig reviewed Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve

Review of 'Out of Salem' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Vier Sterne ist ein bisschen großzügig, denn auch dieses Buch hat wieder das Problem, dass die Magie alles und nichts kann, je nachdem, was gerade den Plot besser voranbringt. In der ersten Hälfte des Buchs kann Magie nichts und alle haben die Probleme, die man halt so hat, wenn man 14 und nonbinary und ein Zombie ist oder ein Werwolf oder trans oder beides, aber in der zweiten Hälfte lässt sich alles irgendwie durch Anwendung großer Mengen von Magie lösen. Ich fand es trotzdem ganz gut.