Words I Write Crazy: Week 19 Reviews: Good Girls Go to Heaven, Sparrow Hill Road, Train Yard Blues, The Girl in the Green Silk Gown

Saturday, May 14, 2022

Week 19 Reviews: Good Girls Go to Heaven, Sparrow Hill Road, Train Yard Blues, The Girl in the Green Silk Gown

From Goodreads:

Ever wondered what really happened to Rose Marshall, the pretty little dead girl who started it all? Well, you can finally find out...starting today.

"Good Girls Go to Heaven" introduces you to Rose Marshall and the ecology of the ghostroads, where death is not forever; it's not even for tonight.

There are a lot of stories trapped and tangled in the twilight. This is only one of them. But it's the one I have to tell.

Give a girl a ride?

From Goodreads:

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, and she's going to figure out a way to win her freedom. After all, it's not like it can kill her.

You can't kill what's already dead.

From Goodreads:

During and after the great depression they were traded for food, sex, shelter, and power. Twenty of the seemingly ordinary nickles carved with dark representations of world evils and imbued with magical powers that transformed the deliciously macabre bits of lost art into carriers of death, destruction, and ill luck.

Where these coins go, so does his will. Each coin is imbued with his malice and a desire for destruction. With each life ruined... the Carver's life goes on. Seventeen stories tell the tale of the Carver's legacy: coins designed for beauty morphed into catalysts of pain.

From Goodreads:

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.

For Rose Marshall, life began when it ended. She has friends, a home, and a purpose in the strange twilight where she spends her afterlife. Sure, she's an urban legend who didn't live to see her eighteenth birthday, but she's had time to adapt, and while things could be better, she's pretty happy with her lot in death.

At least until Bobby Cross--the man who killed her in the first place--plays his ultimate card in the hole, resulting in her untimely, unwanted resurrection. Suddenly breathing and worse, suddenly mortal, Rose must find a way to solve the riddle she never wanted to contend with: how does a living dead girl make it back to the ghostroads without actually dying?

Her quest will make allies out of enemies and enemies out of allies as she runs from the lands of the living to the lands of the dead, trying to find a way safely home...and safely back to her grave.

My Review:
I really enjoyed reading these books! I love Seanan McGuire's books, and I love the InCryptid series, so I had to read this spin off series! I really enjoyed watching Rose walk the Ghost Roads, and the adventures that she has! They're such great reads!

It was interesting, because InCryptid deals with non-human species-and this deals with humans but after they've passed, for the most part (I'm looking at you, Emma, banshee that you are!) So that was a change of pace, and I really enjoyed learning the rules!

The first book is a collection of various stories of Rose, throughout the years, including Good Girls Go to Heaven, though the beginning of that became a part of a different story in Sparrow Hill Road. It wasn't what I was expecting, but I enjoyed watching her have all these adventures-meet all these people and allies-and of course, enemies, in Bobby Cross.

The Girl in the Green Silk Gown was different, it's your usual novel, and yeah, Bobby Cross came up with a pretty evil plan! I felt bad for Rose, though her various complaints about how awful being in a living body is, how awful it is-like, I'm still in one. Don't make me think about how gross it is! But it was a really great story, and I enjoyed how they resolved it!

I'm pretty sure Angel of the Overpass takes place after That Ain't Witchcraft, since it was published 2 years after. So what happened is going to be a game changer in the fight against Bobby Cross, since it was the corrupted Crossroads that made the deal with him, and now that they're gone, I wonder how that's going to affect him!

These were some really great stories, and I'm so excited to read book 3!

Author: Seanan McGuire
Series: Ghost Roads #0.9, 1, 1.1, 2

Read: May 9th, 9th, 9th, 10th, 2022
Source: Online, Library, Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Love her writing and the InCryptid series, and they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2022 Books! And Sparrow Hill Road is a RR Book and a WTC Book!
Publisher: Edge of Propinquity, DAW, EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
Published: January 2010, May 6th 2014, October 13th 2013, July 17th 2018

Good Girls Go to Heaven: