Sparrow Hill Road, Seanan McGuire
Sparrow Hill Road, Seanan McGuire
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Sparrow Hill Road

Author: Seanan McGuire

Narrator: Amy Landon

Unabridged: 11 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/06/2014


Synopsis

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 sixty years since that night, and she's still sixteen, and she's still running.

They have names for her all over the country: the Girl in the Diner. The Phantom Prom Date. The Girl in the Green Silk Gown. Mostly she just goes by "Rose", a hitchhiking ghost girl with her thumb out and her eyes fixed on the horizon, trying to outrace a man who never sleeps, never stops, and never gives up on the idea of claiming what's his. She's the angel of the overpass, she's the darling of the truck stops, and she's going to figure out a way to win her freedom. After all, it's not like it can kill her.

You can't kill what's already dead.

About Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire lives and works in Washington State, where she shares her somewhat idiosyncratic home with her collection of books, creepy dolls, and enormous blue cats. When not writing-which is fairly rare-she enjoys travel, and can regularly be found any place where there are cornfields, haunted houses, or frogs. A Campbell, Hugo, and Nebula Award-winning author, Seanan's first book Rosemary and Rue, the beginning of the October Daye series, was released in 2009, with more than twenty books across various series following since. Seanan doesn't sleep much.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Choko

*** 3.33 *** A buddy read with my friends at BB&B's UF Wednesday group! I love the way Seanan McGuire can weave a tale seemingly out of thin air! In this case, she did - this is a new series about Ghosts! I have to make a confession - out of all UF creations, Zombies and Ghosts are my least favorite.......more

#1 Sparrow Hill Road ★★★★★ #2 The Girl in the Green Silk Gown ??? I’ve yet to meet a Seanan McGuire story that I don’t like, and Sparrow Hill Road sure isn’t going to be the first. The recipe for this story includes a tablespoon of creep factor, a pinch of humor, a healthy dose of sadness, and a heapi......more

Goodreads review by Bradley

I need to be very clear about this: I read it mainly because it is written by Seanan McGuire, not because I was particularly enthralled by the subject matter. I prepared myself for merely *liking* the book, not loving it. At first, it just appeared to be a rather good character study of an already de......more

Goodreads review by Tamora

Most people grew up with stories of the girl on the side of the road, the girl who was killed on prom night, the girl in the diner, the girl who wants to get home. Seanan McGuire, aka Mira Grant, who's also what's called a filksinger on the science fiction/fantasy convention circuit, has strung toge......more

Goodreads review by Carrie

Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire is the first book of the paranormal fantasy Ghost Roads series. This series was originally released back in May of 2014 but is now being re-published. It centers around the stories of a ghost of a sixteen year old girl who many have claimed to have contact with ov......more