Sparrow Hill Road

Ghost Roads 1

312 pages

English language

Published Nov. 9, 2014

ISBN:
978-0-7564-0961-6
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"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, …

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Più ghost story di così si muore

5 stars

... ho fatto la battutona, lo so. PREMESSA DOVEROSA: questi tre libri fanno parte di una serie molto più lunga (stesso universo narrativo, personaggi che ricompaiono, trame che si intersecano). POTETE LEGGERLI TRANQUILLAMENTE senza la serie InCryptid - lo so perché io ho fatto così, si caspisce tutto benissimo e c'è solo quel minimo di recap necessario senza essere ridondante. A meno che ovviamente non soffriate di allergia totale agli spoiler.

Ora. La recensione. AMORE ASSOLUTO per Rose Marshall, e per la mitologia postmoderna che McGuire costruisce nei suoi libri. Menzione speciale della giuria per la capacità di far immedesimare in stati emotivi a noi estranei: alla mia anima pesa il culo, la mia vacanza ideale è stare sul divano a leggere, e perfino io sto amando l'idea di un infinito vagabondare tra strade e aree di servizio e diner.

Little horror, much humor

4 stars

Interrelated short stories, spin-off from the InCryptid series but can be read stand-alone.

Rose Marshall appeared in the InCryptid novels as “Aunt Rose”. This book tells us more about how she died and how it is like to be a ghost. It also reveals who Bethany from “That Ain't Witchcraft“ (InCryptid #8) is.

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