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The Girl in the Green Silk Gown

(Ghost Roads #2)

Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author)

4.23 · Rating details · 1,865 ratings · 294 reviews

The second book in the Ghost Roads series returns to the highways of America, where hitchhiking ghost Rose Marshall continues her battle with her killer--the immortal Bobby Cross.

Once and twice and thrice around,
Put your heart into the ground.
Four and five and six tears shed,
Give your love unto the dead.
Seven shadows on the wall,
Eight have come to watch your fall:
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Jun 27, 2018 Steven rated it it was amazing

Shelves: horror, read-in-2018, netgalley-or-publisher, urban-fantasy-paranormal

Thanks to Netgalley and Berkley for providing me with an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Holy cow, was that book a ride! I love Seanan McGuire (she's one of my favorite authors, if you hadn't noticed), and her Incryptid series is fantastic. I love that she's melded this ghost world into the Incryptid world, and chose to expand on Sparrow Hill Road's storylines. Sparrow Hill Road was originally a bunch of different short stories that got tied into a package deal, so while it is sti ...more

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Jul 16, 2018 Robin (Bridge Four) rated it liked it

Shelves: uf-pnr, witches-warlocks-and-magic, books-of-my-heart, ghosts, 2018-reads

3.5 Stars

This review was originally posted on Books of My Heart

Who the hell thought ghost spiders were necessary anyway.

Rose Marshall is far from sweet sixteen and never been kissed. She has been sixteen for over 60 years now, so kissing is the least of it. She is the phantom prom date, the girl in the green silk gown and depending on which ghost story you are listening to, she is either a protector or a harbinger of death. A girl can be anything she wants to be it seems, even in death.

Rose has a new boyfriend, or maybe he’d be considered an old boyfriend, since she knew him in life. Sure, he might look like a car today, but every relationship has its challenges. Too bad that isn’t the only thing making her afterlife challenging. Rose also has a psychotic serial killer after her and he has a brand-new plan and a whole bunch of tricks up his sleeve.

Bobby Cross is back and he might just have a way to be able to kill Rose all over again if she isn’t careful. With an unlikely ally, Rose will go through hell to make her way back to the twilight, and find a way to save herself from Bobby and his machinations.

The best thing about this series is, it is different. How may books are out there with a ghost as the main character? It is interesting to walk on the other side of death with Rose. There are rules as to what kind of ghost you could become, if when you die you’re not ready to move on. There are things and places that were loved so much in life that they leave an impression in the twilight, even after they are long forgotten in the mortal world. It is interesting and different and weird in so many ways and it might look a little bit cruel to those looking from the outside in.

Why is it that there’s always a point past which belief won’t go? You don’t get that with science. Say ‘we can make light where there is none by flipping a switch, and also we’ve flown out to the moon to say hello to the rocks, and these are equal applications of the scientific method,’ everyone smiles and nods their dead and says good for you, Science Person, congratulations. But when a bunch of ghosts and witches say Muses exist, everyone gets their knickers in a twist.

Sparrow Hill Road suffered a little from being disjointed since it was the culmination of a bunch of ghost stories about Rose, peppered in with the story of how she died, and then her current battles with Bobby. The Girl in the Green Silk Gown is much more linear and that made it easier to follow and stay in touch with the story. It did get a little repetitive in a few parts but overall it has a much better flow and there was always something interesting happening. I’m very interested to see how the wrap up will go in the finale to the series.

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Jan 26, 2019 Bradley rated it it was amazing

Shelves: urban-fantasy, fantasy, 2019-shelf

This second book in the psychopomp business of Road Magic is well worth sticking a thumb up for. Or two.

But beyond the wonderful ideas of putting on the miles to get more powerful or always having a place to stay in ghostly diners or being friends with a bunch of dead people and half-cognizant ocean gods, I have to say I kinda fell over backward for the wonderfully wicked twist on Orpheus and Euridice. :) Seriously.

Where else could we twist the events changing Rose's "life" into a quest to end ...more

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Dec 12, 2018 Wanda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: female-authors, ghosts, public-library, urban-fantasy, read-in-2018, fantasy

A big step up from Sparrow Hill Road, the first book which was basically a series of short stories. Not that that’s a bad thing, just not what I had been expecting. This is a true novel, with one intense story line. I was “supposed” to read other books before picking this one up, but I couldn’t resist its siren song. And I read it in two evenings, desperately wanting to know if ghostly Rose Marshall could get where she wanted to be.

This was the confrontation Rose had been dreading, pitting her w ...more

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Aug 13, 2018 Barb (Boxermommyreads) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2018

I knew last month when I picked up "Sparrow Hill Road" I would be continuing the series soon (plus I had an arc that was about to expire so I was on a timeline). However, despite that, this is a book that I couldn't wait to read. "The Girl in the Green Silk Gown" picks up where the first book in the series leaves off. Rose Marshall is still haunting the highways and trying to stay away from Bobby Cross, the man who initially killed her on that cold and dark night so long ago. This time around, B ...more

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Apr 22, 2019 Mike (the Paladin) rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy, horror

I haven't been doing my reviews of late...well for a while now. Sorry if you, you know care, LOL.

This has been here a while though I read it...well a while ago. I liked the first book of this "series" and found it a fascinating read. This one while still good was more of a standard ghost story type read.

I won't say too much as I think it's worth reading and I won't spill the beans for you. Let's just say that we pick with the characters we got to know before and doom seems to be creeping after o ...more

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Nov 06, 2018 ☆★Tinja★✮ A Court of Pizza and Laziness rated it really liked it

Shelves: paranormal, afterlife, magic-and-hocus-pocus, urban-fantasy, adults, ghosts-spirits-souls, mythical-creatures-and-other-beings

It would have been 5 stars if I hadn't been so damned annoyed with Rose..

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Jul 04, 2018 Tammie rated it liked it

Shelves: owned-kindle, fantasy, series, series-abandoned, urban-fantasy, adult, adult-fantasy, blogging-for-books

For Rose Marshall, death has long since become the only life she really knows. She’s been sweet sixteen for more than sixty years, hitchhiking her way along the highways and byways of America, sometimes seen as an avenging angel, sometimes seen as a killer in her own right, but always Rose, the Phantom Prom Date, the Girl in the Green Silk Gown.

The man who killed her is still out there, thanks to a crossroads bargain that won’t let him die, and he’s looking for the one who got away. When Bobby ...more

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Feb 19, 2019 Eilonwy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: beautifully-written, good-mythology, a-bit-dark-for-me, heartbreaking, heartwarming, character-driven, deeply-thoughtful, fast-paced, really-good-voice, good-worldbuilding

Hitchhiker ghost Rose Marshall, “the Phantom Prom Date,” has a decent-enough afterlife. She may be cold and hungry all the time, but she’s got a job to do, a community, and a boyfriend, even if he is part of a car and can only talk by flipping his radio dial to find songs with the right words. But she’s also got her murderer -- Bobby Cross -- still on her tail, still determined to make her dead-dead. And the lengths he’ll go to don’t only affect Rose.

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May 09, 2018 Melliane rated it really liked it

3.5/5

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I love Seanan Mcguire and the first volume came out a while ago and I did not think that we would have a sequel. Also, I was surprised and delighted to see this new novel while continuing the adventures of our dear Rose Marshall.

Always avoiding her former torturer, Rose will unfortunately face him again and the consequences will be disastrous. Become human again to better torment and kill her once and for all, Rose will have to find how to adapt in this ...more

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Jul 17, 2019 andrea caro rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audiobook, halloween, autumn, favorites-2019, read-in-2019, paranormal, ghosts, horror, urban-fantasy

God, Seanan McGuire is my favorite. There's a scene in this book that takes place on Halloween that was just. I want books and books about that.

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Apr 24, 2019 Craig rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is a nice follow-up to Sparrow Hill Road, following the (post-)life story of Rose Marshall, an American God-like character who's a road-witch and much more besides. Her story will be familiar to InCryptid readers. McGuire's writing is crisp and clever, as it always seems to be, and her characters ring true. Rather than casting out another cliché or platitude, I'll give you a beautiful line from page 318 to savor: "Someday it will vanish here as well, replaced by the skeleton of the store wh ...more

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Jul 28, 2018 Kira rated it liked it

Shelves: magic, urban-fantasy, witches, ghosts, greek-mythology

3.5 stars

Once I started reading, I realized I remember almost nothing about Sparrow Hill Road. It turned out that was okay. It still flowed well with only remembering the basics of Rose's history and the world building. Actually this flowed much better than the 1st book because it was written as a book rather than a collection of stories grouped together to make a novel.

I'm not sure what it is, but I have a hard time getting into this series. The pace is slow and the world building is repetitiv ...more

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Jun 22, 2018 Carrie (brightbeautifulthings) rated it really liked it

Shelves: i-do-believe-in-spooks, underrated, best-read-in-2018, giveaways, urban-fantasy

I received a free e-ARC through First to Read from the publishers at Penguin Random House. Seanan McGuire is one of my newer favorite authors, and my TBR officially includes everything she’s ever published. It will take me a while but, hey, I’m nothing if not a dedicated reader. There are mild spoilers ahead for Sparrow Hill Road.

Rose Marshall, famous hitchhiking ghost of Sparrow Hill Road, the Phantom Prom Date, and the Girl in the Green Silk Gown is locked in an ongoing afterlife battle with h I received a free e-ARC through First to Read from the publishers at Penguin Random House. Seanan McGuire is one of my newer favorite authors, and my TBR officially includes everything she’s ever published. It will take me a while but, hey, I’m nothing if not a dedicated reader. There are mild spoilers ahead for Sparrow Hill Road.

Rose Marshall, famous hitchhiking ghost of Sparrow Hill Road, the Phantom Prom Date, and the Girl in the Green Silk Gown is locked in an ongoing afterlife battle with her killer, Bobby Cross. Bobby was the James Dean of Hollywood before there was a James Dean, but he made a deal at the crossroads and became something more. As long as he keeps feeding the souls of roadside ghosts into his car, he’s immortal. Protected by the blessing of Persephone, Rose is determined to find a way to stop him, but Bobby will stop at nothing to end her first.

If Sparrow Hill Road got stars for writing, character, and world-building, this one gets them for all those things, plus plot. The first book was, by admission, not entirely novel-like and somewhat meandering in its narrative, but The Girl in the Green Silk Gown revs its engine and takes the plot on a wild and gripping race through the ghostroads, the daylight, and the underworld. Presented early on with about as extreme a problem as a ghost girl can have, Rose spends the rest of the novel desperately trying to right the wrong Bobby has inflicted on her world, and it’s a hell of a ride. The storyline is much tighter and more straightforward, to awesome effect.

I still love our sassy deadgirl heroine, and her character development is surprisingly good for someone who died more than sixty years ago. The plot forces Rose into a whole new, not always charitable, light, and I empathized a lot with her situation, while also finding it hilarious (in true McGuire fashion–she pairs horror and humor better than many). I like that it demands she reevaluate some of the things that happened in the previous book (trying not to be spoilery). Professor Laura Moorhead also returns and has more page time than probably any other character besides Rose, and her involvement is fascinating. They’re not friends, but circumstances temporarily force them to be allies, and I really enjoyed Laura’s utter moral grayness. She isn’t evil, but she isn’t totally good; she’s not all that likable, but she can be sympathetic, and McGuire constantly keeps us guessing about her.

Given the mark of Persephone that Rose acquired in the last book, I probably should have been prepared for more Greek mythology tie-ins in this book, but it still caught me a little off guard. McGuire is so good at building her own mythology that I wasn’t expecting her to pull in someone else’s, but it works better than I thought it would. Her underworld reminded me a lot of her Hall of the Dead from Wayward Children, which is an interpretation I enjoy, and her characterizations of gods are both mysterious and a little terrifying–without giving them so much page time that they become watered down. The ending is satisfying and nicely wraps up this particular adventure, but there’s obviously more to come in Rose’s world. I’ll be eagerly awaiting the next book.

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Aug 04, 2018 Sarah rated it really liked it

Shelves: books-i-own-kindle, netgalley-3, edelweiss, for-review-read, read-in-2018

I've become a huge fan of Seanan McGuire's books over the last couple of years and I was really excited when I found out we'd be getting to spend more time with Rose in The Girl in the Green Silk Gown. Rose herself is such an interesting character but what I really love about her books is the way Seanan has woven so many different legends together to create the richly detailed world of the Ghost Roads and all the different types of ghosts that live there.

This book picks up Rose's story after the ...more

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Jul 19, 2019 Cendaquenta rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: high-star-rating-predictions, 2019, part-of-series, obtained-in-2019, obtained-and-read-in-2019

Once again fabulous work from Seanan. I love how she creates a world with such complex, out-there, sometimes objectively rather ridiculous rules and yet it works so well and is totally believable.

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Jun 24, 2018 ☕️Kimberly rated it really liked it

The first book in the series, Sparrow Hill, originally was told as a serial and followed a non-linear timeline and while interesting it was hard to sink your teeth into the story. The Girl in the Green Silk Gown, follows a linear timeline and picks up where Rose's story left off and McGuire delivered an engaging story that held me firmly in its grasp.

Rose Marshall once again finds herself in the crosshairs of Bobby Cross. Bobby has schemed and laid out the perfect trap for Rose. Can she along wi ...more

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Jan 04, 2019 Eclectisism Incarnate rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2019-reads, urban-fantasy, favorite-authors

My first book of 2019! Woohoo!

Okay, mythology, ghost cars, and Persephone, oh my!

There isn't really much to say about this book. Rose encounters Bobby Cross, somehow stays one step ahead of him.....maybe, kinda, sorta.....and goes on the adventure from (ha-ha-ha) Hades.

I love Rose, I love that this explores more about her and Gary's relationship, and I love this whole thing. Yes I'm biased. So what?

Oh Rose, what mess are you going to wind up in next? I cannot wait to find out!

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Aug 15, 2018 destiny ♡⚔♡ [howling libraries] marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: gothic, review-copies, owned-physical, owned-tbr

#1 Sparrow Hill Road ★★★★★
#2 The Girl in the Green Silk Gown ???

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Oct 21, 2018 Meaghan - H&WR rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

"Rose Marshall lived. Rose Marshall died. And as of the time of this writing, Rose Marshall does not yet rest in peace."

5 STARS

TW: murder, suicide, some sexual content (no explicit scenes), panic attacks, abuse mention, bodily functions

It almost seems strange to be writing yet another positive review after a string of positive reviews, but here we are with another one! And a five star, too, which almost doesn't surprise me because this is Seanan McGuire! This is a Ghost Roads book! And I adored ...more

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Oct 20, 2018 Kathy Davie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: urban-fantasy

Second in the Ghost Roads urban fantasy series and revolving around Rose Marshall, the Phantom Prom Date from Buckley Township, Michigan.

My Take
I enjoyed the premise of the story, but McGuire really padded it out with all of Rose's whining. It certainly did ram her distress home for me, especially as she's using first person protagonist point-of-view. Whew.

It is an amazing world that McGuire has created with all its rules and role-playing characters, among the living and the dead. And it's not o ...more

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Aug 27, 2018 Anelis rated it liked it

Shelves: seanan-mcguire-mira-grant, reviewed, fantasy, reading-with-alex, witchy, ghosts-and-hauntings, 2018-releases

You know what I think? I think that Seanan McGuire's books would be a helluva lot better if she wrote fewer of them. Apparently she can't quite keep track of what she's written, so she always needs to make sure. How else would you explain the fact that she keeps explaining and repeating the same things in EVERY.SINGLE.CHAPTER.

This is something that becomes prevalent in her series rather than her standalone books. It always annoys me in her InCryptid series, and it almost knocked me out while su You know what I think? I think that Seanan McGuire's books would be a helluva lot better if she wrote fewer of them. Apparently she can't quite keep track of what she's written, so she always needs to make sure. How else would you explain the fact that she keeps explaining and repeating the same things in EVERY.SINGLE.CHAPTER.

This is something that becomes prevalent in her series rather than her standalone books. It always annoys me in her InCryptid series, and it almost knocked me out while suffering through the goliath that was the Parasitology series. And I'm sad because I thought she'd found a way to work through it. In the first Ghost Roads book, that's essentially a short story collection -unlike this one that is one story- it wasn't much of a problem because that's how collections of gathered tales go. It was charming, added character to the stories and helped intensify the feeling that they were tales about an urban legend. Maybe that's why it's one of my favorite books of hers under the Seanan name (because nothing will ever compare to killer friggin mermaids, NOTHING!).

My minds scatters and I'd forgotten much of the details from the first installment, even though I've read it twice thus far and plan on reading it again. Even so, the repetition killed me. Not repetition of events, people and relationships. The repetition of the premise, the pointless description of how one walks, enters a plane, does the smallest of things.

Ah, yeah I wish she wrote a bit better or maybe that she had a more severe editor. In all honesty Seanan is an amazing creator and I think, were she not a woman, she would have the fame she deserves, at least under her Mira Grant pen-name. But she doesn't and because of that I always feel uncomfortable criticizing her. Her books, current one included, are the ultimate comfort for me, action, fun, with strong women, queer people, feminist politics, sometimes magic, sometimes gore. And truly, what more can a girl ask?

I outta write a spoilerific synopsis of what happened, so I can remember it later on, but I'm out of time. This will probably be rectified sometime in the near future.

*the spoiler edit*
Ok so, infodump time for future granny Anelis who forgets everything.

In this book Rose is chilling with her boy, maybe Gary is his name? He’s the one who loved her when they were teens, and somehow managed to become a ghost car just for her, after he died. So Rose and the Car are hanging out in a diner, er, don't remember the name, which is run by her friend who's a banshee, but we spell it the proper way, something like bean sidhe? She also has a name; maybe someday I'll remember it. Rose also has a friend who's a ghost rider, Tony or Tommy, maybe Tommy. Tommy was with Laura when alive. In the previous book Laura fixated on Rose thinking her the cause of Tony’s death. Bobby Cross is the James Dean-type actor who killed Rose. He's a forever not dead prick that has a car that instead of diesel runs on souls or ghosts or something and he is also fixated on Rose because plot reasons. There are also route witches, Apple is their Queen, and a highway called the Ocean Lady is like their goddess or something.

Rose has had a tattoo that's a seal that's Persephone’s' blessing and protects her from Bobby Cross. Bobby finds a way, through a ritual that requires the self-sacrifice of a young witch, and damages her seal, while also managing to lock her away from the twilight, for some time, the twilight being the place where she's safe from Bobby. So to set things straight she needs to do a thing on Halloween. Dammit future self, don't ask me what it was because hell if I understood.

Some ghost hunt in a farm. Ghosts are set lose and whoever kills them -for good- earns another year of life, and if the ghosts kill a human they become human again. The owners of the farm are being coerced by Bobby to resurrect her and so they do. When she wakes up she barely escapes, finding shelter in a diner. Not knowing anyone in the mortal world –apart from the Price family- she calls Laura for help, who for some reason comes. Rose promises Laura she will be her psychopomp when she dies so she can be reunited with Tommy. Laura agrees to help and pretends she is Roses’ aunt. Girl-bonding happens, but we know not to trust Seanan. Ensue hillaridink jokes about Rose pooping herself and forgetting how to pee because she was dead for way too long.

She and Laura walk the Ocean Lady to find Apple who tells them to go through Hades’ gates like Persephone did, so Rose can die again. Rose now, alive, is a powerful witch, it's handy. Important: Rose needs to die in a way that will ensure she’ll be the same kind of ghost as before, hence the trouble. So they go to London, to look at all the stoles greek marbles and such. They are accompanied by a creature. They meet Hades and Persephone and Cerberus. Once they are close to the finish line Laura reveals she betrayed her and cooperated with Bobby. WHY? IT DIDN’T MAKE SENSE. WHY GO THROUGH ALL THIS TROUBLE? –Anelis, calme-toi, just state the facts dammit.-

Ahem, so, just before they exit the gates of the underworld Bobby comes, crashes Laura with his car, Rose is kinda trapped but at the last moment Laura looks at her, just before dying, so Rose not only dies again and becomes the same kind of ghost she was before, but she also has Persephone’s blessing intact again. She tells Bobby to fuck off and guides Laura’s spirit to Tommy and they unghost, or die-die, or go towards the light together. Kinda the end. ...more

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Jul 29, 2019 Mortisha Cassavetes rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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This the second book in the Ghost Road series and I really enjoyed this story. I hope for a third book. The book follows Rose Marshall, the hitchhiker ghost that was killed over 60 years ago by the famous Bobby Cross, who made a deal with the crossroad ghosts for eternal youth. Rose is the only one that has got away and Bobby Cross will continue to hunt her down. Rose needs to find a way to stop him but at what cost. This is a wonderful story I can not recommend it enough. Awesome read during th ...more

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Aug 03, 2018 Amy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I did not expect my favorite ghost story to meet up with (view spoiler), but I am alllll for it. I felt that a little too much time was spent (view spoiler) and not enough time (view spoiler), but it's such a minor quibble that I'm not going to deduct any stars.

Also, the chapter where Rose meets (view spoiler) wa ...more

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Jun 22, 2018 Olga Zelenova rated it it was amazing

I never really considered being alive to be an inconvenience. It’s definitely a thought I’m having now!

Galley courtesy of First to Read.

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Sep 02, 2020 Yvonne Aburrow rated it really liked it

Excellent ghost novel by Seanan McGuire, truly evocative of lost diners, mysterious endless roads, and the vast expanse of the twilight. I love her ever-growing mythology of Americana.

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Jul 19, 2018 Strega rated it it was ok

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Aug 28, 2018 Lisa Wolf rated it really liked it

Shelves: sequels-and-series, urban-fantasy, ghosts-graves-and-hauntings

This has been quite the year for me and Seanan McGuire. I was a fan of her Wayward Children books already, but this year I obsessively consumed her October Daye and Incryptid series -- so of course I had to read the Ghost Road books too.

The Girl in the Green Silk Gown is the sequel to the 2014 book Sparrow Hill Road. I first started Sparrow Hill Road about a year ago, and couldn't get into it. This year, in the midst of my Seanan McGuire frenzy, I decided to give it another try, and actually enj ...more

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May 30, 2018 Kyra Leseberg (Roots & Reads) rated it really liked it

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In 1952, Rose Marshall set out for her prom and instead became an urban legend, known to most as the Girl in the Green Silk Gown or the Phantom Prom Date. 60 years later, she's still sweet 16 and hitchhiking her way across America, helping travelers get to their destination unharmed or holding their hand to guide them in to the twilight. Her boyfriend Gary is now dead and has become a car in order to spend his afterlife with Rose, so their relationship (as well as the rules of being dead) is obv ...more

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Apr 29, 2019 J.A. Ironside rated it it was amazing

Shelves: paranormal-supernatural, ghost-stories, fantasy, favourite-authors

This has a slightly different feel to Sparrow Hill Road. The First book was a collection of shorter pieces of fiction that wove into a wider narrative; this book is written to purpose as a book and has a slightly more linear structure. It continues on from where Sparrow Hill Road left of, with Gary and Rose in the honeymoon phase of figuring out exactly how their life together is supposed to work now. But the course of true love ne'er did run smooth and with Bobby Cross still out there and smart ...more

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Hi! I'm Seanan McGuire, author of the Toby Daye series (Rosemary and Rue, A Local Habitation, An Artificial Night, Late Eclipses), as well as a lot of other things. I'm also Mira Grant (www.miragrant.com), author of Feed and Deadline.

Born and raised in Northern California, I fear weather and am remarkably laid-back about rattlesnakes. I watch too many horror movies, read too many comic books, and ...more

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“Homecomer, hitcher, phantom rider,
White lady wants what’s been denied her,
Gather-grim knows what you fear the most,
But best keep away from the crossroads ghost.

Talk to the poltergeist, talk to the haunt,
Talk to the routewitch if it’s what you want.
Reaper’s in the parlor, seizer’s in a host,
But you’d best keep away from the crossroads ghost.

- common clapping rhyme among the ever-lasters of the twilight” — 7 likes

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The Girl in the Green Silk Gown

(Ghost Roads #2)

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