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A review by cooperca
Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire
5.0
Clever ghost story told over several decades. Rose, the ghost of Sparrow Hill Road, is a hitcher, a ghost who can take on flesh for a night, but only if someone gives them a coat. This is her story and her adventurers and journey in the ghost world.
I didn't know what to expect and happily found myself immersed in Rose's world. The writing was lyrical and filled with magic, Rose's world was fascinating and complicated. The stories surrounding decisions Rose made or fates she faced and couldn't change were captivating, I found myself reading to the morning hours to finish.
An original and fresh novel.
"Hitchers are a weird little offshoot of the ghost world, we mess up the rules, just by being shat we are. We're dead and buried. Our bodies are rot and wormfood, if we have bodies at all, if we're not just ashes in the wind. We don't age, we don't sleep, we don't need to eat or drink when we're on the ghost-roads, and we have the option - even if very few of us ever choose to take it - of moving on to whatever destination waits beyond the lsat freeway off-ramp." p. 195
I didn't know what to expect and happily found myself immersed in Rose's world. The writing was lyrical and filled with magic, Rose's world was fascinating and complicated. The stories surrounding decisions Rose made or fates she faced and couldn't change were captivating, I found myself reading to the morning hours to finish.
An original and fresh novel.
"Hitchers are a weird little offshoot of the ghost world, we mess up the rules, just by being shat we are. We're dead and buried. Our bodies are rot and wormfood, if we have bodies at all, if we're not just ashes in the wind. We don't age, we don't sleep, we don't need to eat or drink when we're on the ghost-roads, and we have the option - even if very few of us ever choose to take it - of moving on to whatever destination waits beyond the lsat freeway off-ramp." p. 195