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A review by lisawreading
Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire
3.0
2018 edition: I picked up this book a year or two ago and DNFd it. In the meantime, I've become a huge fan of all things Seanan McGuire, and when I saw there'd be a sequel in 2018, I thought I should go back and give Sparrow Hill Road one more try.
This time, I finished! The story of Rose Marshall, forever 16, a dead girl fated to haunt the highways of American hitching rides, is sad and sweet and full of shades of death. The book itself meanders a bit. Rose tells us up front that ghosts don't experience time in a linear fashion, and the story jumps back and forth in time quite a bit, weaving together various experiences from Rose's years of hitchhiking and guiding the doomed through death to their next chapters.
I enjoyed the book, but didn't find it nearly as compelling as the best of this author's works.
This time, I finished! The story of Rose Marshall, forever 16, a dead girl fated to haunt the highways of American hitching rides, is sad and sweet and full of shades of death. The book itself meanders a bit. Rose tells us up front that ghosts don't experience time in a linear fashion, and the story jumps back and forth in time quite a bit, weaving together various experiences from Rose's years of hitchhiking and guiding the doomed through death to their next chapters.
I enjoyed the book, but didn't find it nearly as compelling as the best of this author's works.