SOS: Serious Overload of Series discussion

Other by Karen Kincy
Release Date: July 1
Series Info: Other, Book #1

Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Gwen hides a dangerous secret: she’s Other. Half-pooka, to be exact, thanks to the father she never met. Most Americans don’t exactly roll out the welcome mat for Others, especially not the small-town folks of Klikamuks, Washington. As if this isn’t bad enough, Gwen’s on the brink of revealing her true identity to her long-time boyfriend, Zack, but she’s scared he’ll lump her with the likes of bloodthirsty vampires and feral werewolves.

When a pack of werewolves chooses the national forest behind Gwen’s home as their new territory, the tensions in Klikamuks escalate-into murder. It soon becomes clear a serial killer is methodically slaying Others. The police turn a blind eye, leaving Gwen to find the killer before the killer finds her. As she hunts for clues, she uncovers more Others living nearby than she ever expected. Like Tavian, a sexy Japanese fox-spirit who rivals Zack and challenges her to embrace her Otherness. Gwen must struggle with her own conflicted identity, learn who she can trust, and-most importantly-stay alive.

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Just a heads up that Sisters Red came out a couple of days ago, at least it did in the UK. Not sure about elsewhere.

Laura Lulu wrote: "Steph, Sisters Red came out June 7th--I just got the email this morning from my library that they have it waiting for me. :)"

Lemme know how it is. I have it on my "try to find" list.

Amy or "Ames" wrote: "Just a heads up that Sisters Red came out a couple of days ago, at least it did in the UK. Not sure about elsewhere."

It's strange how some times bks are released first in the UK, then others first in the US. You'd think it would consistently be one or the other. But I guess it comes down to the publisher and many other things I have no idea about.

Thanks for the update though - I love to catch early rls bks on BookDepository. :)

Laura Lulu wrote: "Steph, Sisters Red came out June 7th--I just got the email this morning from my library that they have it waiting for me. :)"

Thanks, Laura & Ames! + I removed it since it's on the June page. I was a bit dense and it took me a while to realize it didn't belong here. LOL! :)

Even Angels Fall by Sherry Hall Mauro
Release Date: 06 July
Series Info: Ghost Huntress, Book #1

Summary:
After she finds out that she's a ghost hunter, Sabrina Devour learns that she is no average teenager. She hates that she's been chosen to help ghosts with unfinished business before they can cross over, but for women born into the Devour family-it's their destiny and their curse. When Hunter Ravenwood, the hottest guy in town, asks Sabrina out on her first date, she is so excited that she's willing to ignore her suspicions about Hunter, particularly the fact that he owns an infamous haunted house. Though she is apprehensive of him, neither can deny the strong attraction that draws them together...even when she enters his house, and discovers an unsolved murder mystery. What Sabrina can't ignore, however, is the ghost of a woman whose death seems directly connected to dark secrets hidden in none other than her own family's past. Now Sabrina must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny-with a little help from her friends.

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Legacies by Mercedes Lackey
Release Date: 06 July
Series Info: Shadow Grail, Book #1

Summary:
Spirit White has survived from a deadly car crash that has killed her mother and father and her sister. She has been discovered by a school with special talents, called magic. A couple of months after staying, people begin to disappear, some vanish to be never seen again, so Spirit and her new friends begin the investigation. But will they find out the truth of what is going on? Or will Spirit and her friends suffer a terrible fate from which they don't know about yet?

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By Midnight by Mia James
Release Date: 15 July
Series Info: A Ravenwood Mystery, Book #1

Summary:
April Dunne is not impressed. She's had to move from Edinburgh to Highgate, London, with her parents. She's left her friends - and her entire life - behind. She has to start at a new school and, worst of all, now she's stuck in a creepy old dump of a house which doesn't even have proper mobile phone reception. Ravenwood, her new school, is a prestigious academy for gifted (financially or academically) students - and the only place her parents could find her a place, in the middle of term, in the middle of London, on incredibly short notice. So she's stuck with the super-rich, and the super-smart . . . and trying to fit in is when the rest of the students seem to be more glamorous, smarter, or more talented than she is, is more than tough. It's intimidating and isolating, even when she finds a friend in the conspiracy-theorist Caro Jackson - and perhaps finds something more than friendship in the gorgeous, mysterious Gabriel Swift. But there's more going on at Ravenwood than meets the eye. Practical jokes on new students are normal, but when Gabriel saves her from . . . something . . . . in the Highgate Cemetery, and then she discovers that a murder took place, just yards away from where she had been standing, April has to wonder if something more sinister is going on. . . . and whether or not she's going to live through it . . .

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Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love by Trisha Telep (editor) +13 YA Authors
Release Date: 27 July
Series Info: Anthology

Summary:
Full of dark seduction and modern romance, this short story collection presents a variety of talented voices sure to satisfy every werewolf, ghost, fallen angel, zombie, and shape-shifter’s dark desires.

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