110:120 Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire

Jenna died too soon and every soul, living or dead is promised a certain amount of time. Jenna is unwilling to just steal time from the living so she can move on so she lives the half-life of a ghost and works at a suicide crisis hotline. For every minute she helps someone to hang on, she allows herself to take a few minutes from someone.  Now though, ghosts are disappearing all over NY, being caught and bound in mirrors to serve someone. Jenna is one of the few ghosts left and if she doesn't find out who is doing this, she may end up in a mirror herself, never able to move on and see her sister Patty in whatever afterlife there is.  Now Jenna must team up with a corn witch and see just what a ghost can do to save herself and her friends.

A stand-alone take on a ghost story where ghosts are not evil but just trying to get by like the rest of us. Ms. McGuire does a fabulous job putting her own unique spin on ghosts in yet a different way from her other ghost stories and creates something hauntingly beautiful.


Page count: 192p/19,914p ytd/291,317p lifetime

98:120 Last Call at the Last Chance by Seanan McGuire

Emma has been dead and running the Last Dance Diner for a long time. She generally keeps her cool and helps those who are ready to move on their way but tonight there is a customer who deserves no hospitality. Bobby Cross kidnapped her the last time she saw him and she is not the forgiving type. Tonight Bobby swears he won't do anything like that but when he pulls a gun out to make her and some of her guests play cards with him, the stakes are there anyway.

I think Ms. McGuire's ghost universe is so well done with the different types of ghosts and I look forward to reading more about them.

Page count: 17p/18,369p ytd/289,722p lifetime

69:120 Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire

Rose Marshall died in 1952, driven off the road by Bobby Cross, a man who made a deal at the Crossroads.  Instead of just moving on however, Rose became a Road Ghost, one who does what she can to save drivers from accidents on the road when it's possible and help them move on and be at peace when it's not.  She hitchhikes her way all over the country and there are many names for her but all she really wants is to figure out a way to win her freedom, to escape Bobby Cross forever.

This is a collection of Rose's stories through the 60 years she has been wondering the roads.  Some are about people she's saved, some are the ones she shepherded through the layers of the afterlife, and some are her encounters with Bobby Cross.

An interesting take on ghost stories, funny and witty and poignant all at the same time.

Page count: 312p/17,006p ytd/198,044p lifetime