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A review by cait_s
Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire
4.0
This book is written in installments, so it has an episodic feel to it.
Sixteen-year-old Rose Marshall is dead. She's been sixteen for sixty years. She was run off the road by a man who sold his soul for immortal youth--Bobby Cross, who uses souls to keep going. Rose ran from him, and is still running, so he can't claim her soul.
She's a legend, in some cases a dark one, accused of leading souls to death, though she tries to save who she can. She's trapped hitchhiking across the country, outrunning her death, but one day she'll have to face Bobby Cross. Because he'll never stop.
The episodic nature of the stories works with the drifting nature of the ghost girl's life, moving in and out of the world of the dead and the world of the living, hitching rides and borrowing life like a coat. She's pretty grown up for a teenager, probably because of how long she's been dead, and it's fascinating the way her history unwinds alongside an explanation for how certain kinds of ghosts are made, and what they do.
Sixteen-year-old Rose Marshall is dead. She's been sixteen for sixty years. She was run off the road by a man who sold his soul for immortal youth--Bobby Cross, who uses souls to keep going. Rose ran from him, and is still running, so he can't claim her soul.
She's a legend, in some cases a dark one, accused of leading souls to death, though she tries to save who she can. She's trapped hitchhiking across the country, outrunning her death, but one day she'll have to face Bobby Cross. Because he'll never stop.
The episodic nature of the stories works with the drifting nature of the ghost girl's life, moving in and out of the world of the dead and the world of the living, hitching rides and borrowing life like a coat. She's pretty grown up for a teenager, probably because of how long she's been dead, and it's fascinating the way her history unwinds alongside an explanation for how certain kinds of ghosts are made, and what they do.