by Seanan McGuire
If you ever told ghost stories around a campfire, you've heard some variation of this one. That combined with the intriguing blurb for this caught my attention. I expected something a bit creepy and possibly some action. I didn't find much of either, but that's on me and my own assumptions. On the w...
Rose Marshall died in 1952 in Buckley Township, Michigan, run off the road by a man named Bobby Cross—a man who had sold his soul to live forever, and intended to use her death to pay the price of his immortality. Trouble was, he didn’t ask Rose what she thought of the idea. It’s been more than sixt...
Rose has been a ghost since 1952 when, as a 16 year old prom date, she was driven off the road by Bobby Cross one of the darkest and most sinister figures on the Shadowroads She’s now a hitch hiker ghost, walking the highways – both real and shadowed – of America stealing chunks of life while she ...
2.75 stars rounded up Sparrow Hill Road contains several short stories categorized into Four "Books" -- all featuring Rose Marshall, who died in 1952 after being run off the road by Bobby Cross, a man who have sold his soul at the crossroads so he could live forever. Book One, Campfire Stories are ...
Damnit. This book kept me up til 4 a.m. on a work night.Honestly, that's all the review it really needs, in my opinion, and this is the morning after, so some (groggy) thoughts:- I got an American Gods vibe off of this. If someone hasn't done it already, someone ought to mail Neil Gaiman a copy of t...
I found Sparrow Hill Road at the bookstore when I was picking out books for my birthday present from my parents. I've read and loved several of Seanan McGuire's other books, and I definitely don't regret one of her books being a birthday buy. :DFor those familiar with the InCryptid books (Discount A...
A rather out-of-the-ordinary afterlife fantasy, distinguished by gorgeous writing and an elegiac tone. Its mythology is probably not much more coherent than others in the genre, but it manages to sound coherent by force of poetry.
Well, I am somewhat disappointed with this story, due to it's promising premise! I loved how in the short "Ghosts of Bourbon Street", this ghost world, and its characters were presented to us readers; but I'm afraid that as a full length book, this became quite repetitive. Apparently this was wri...
(Description nicked from B&N.com.) “Rose Marshall died in 1952 in Buckley Township, Michigan, run off the road by a man named Bobby Cross—a man who had sold his soul to live forever, and intended to use her death to pay the price of his immortality. Trouble was, he didn't ask Rose what she thought...
So, everyone's heard of The Phantom Prom Date, or The Girl on the Side of the Road. She's distinct from Chicago's Resurrection Mary in that she can pop up just about anywhere, while poor Mary seems to be bound to the area around Resurrection Cemetery (which I have passed, and one day want to stop at...
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