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    The Girl In the Green Silk Gown
    The Girl In the Green Silk Gown
    The Girl In the Green Silk Gown
    Audiobook13 hours

    The Girl In the Green Silk Gown

    Written by Seanan McGuire

    Narrated by Amy Landon

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    About this audiobook

    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 Cross comes back into the picture, there's going to be hell to pay-possibly literally.

    Rose has worked for decades to make a place for herself in the twilight. Can she defend it, when Bobby Cross comes to take her down? Can she find a way to navigate the worlds of the living and the dead, and make it home before her hitchhiker's luck runs out?

    There's only one way to know for sure.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateAug 14, 2018
    ISBN9781541485167
    The Girl In the Green Silk Gown
    Author

    Seanan McGuire

    SEANAN McGUIRE is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award–winning Wayward Children series, the October Daye series, the InCryptid series, and other works. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. Seanan lives in Seattle with her cats, a vast collection of creepy dolls, horror movies, and sufficient books to qualify her as a fire hazard. She won the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 became the first person to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot. In 2022 she managed the same feat, again!

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    • 5/5
      The Girl in the Green Silk GownBy Sean McGuireThis is actually book two in the series. I didn't know that so I read this first then the Sparrow Road. It didn't matter too much but I do wish I had read them in order. Needs a bigger notification on the book. It continues the story of our ghost friends. There is much more suspense in here and it is not a bunch of short stories about ghosts Rose has encountered. There may be a few thrown in but this is a novel. There is a way to kill a ghost and a ghost and a human is after Rose! Pretty good!
    • 3/5
      Loved the story, felt like the book sorely needed an editor -- it's possible that this is the result of listening to it as an audio book rather than reading the regular edition, but holy hell was there a lot of repetition. I mean _a lot_ of repetition. If the point of that was to emphasize how whiny Rose is when mortal, point made. Point made about 4 hours in, actually, and by hour 7, point was irritating. By hour 10, I just wanted the damn book to end. That makes me sad, because really, I'm quite enjoying Rose's adventures. I think the point of view of a psychopomp is rad. This seems likely to lead to a book 3, given the lack of resolution at the ending, and I'm torn between excitement over hearing more of Rose's story and dreading another speech on how she's exactly where she's meant to be -- riding the ghost roads, living in the cold and the twilight, after all she's the Phantom Prom Date, the Girl in the Diner, the Girl in the Green Silk Gown... etc, etc, etc....sigh.
    • 5/5
      This is a ghost story but it’s also so much more than just a ghost story.
      Meet Rose Marshall, the girl in the green silk gown, the phantom prom date and so on. She’s a hitchhiking ghost.
      Add the person who already killed her once and want to kill her again and you’ve got a prober adventure in your hands.
      This book is amazing, the book pulls you in from the first words and keeps you in until the very last period. I loved every second if this book.
      Add all the amazing characters and you’ve got a marvelous novel in your hand that just hooks you in.
      All in all, this book is amazing and my only regret is not reading the first book in the series.
      I recommend this book from the very bottom of my heart.

      *ARC received from the publisher via First to Read.
    • 4/5
      The sequel to Sparrow Hill Road is one long story instead of a series of vignettes like the previous one. Rose is ghost thanks to a man that made a deal at the crossroads and killed Rose in order to fuel his eternal life. But Rose got away and for more than 60 years has been living in the twilight, hitchhiking across America and helping drivers in the way only she can. Bobby hates that Rose is the one that got away and is obsessed with getting her any way he can and he sets up a scheme to finally capture her and end her to continually pay his way for an eternal life.
      This book covers more about routewitches and other types of ghosts that Rose comes into contact. This is set in the InCryptid universe you don’t have to know anything about it since there is only a passing mention to people from those books. A great story and I can’t want to see more of this setting.

      Digital review copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley
    • 5/5
      Here in a more linear novel, Rose Marshall is still an excellent protagonist. I love the spooky setting and ghostroads mythos. Rose's outdated knowledge of the world is handled well -- enough to remind us who she is, without taking over what the story is about. The Underworld part was great.
    • 4/5
      Excellent book, fascinating story, a lot more info about the Twilight and the beings that inhabit it. And some very interesting angles on Rose - her disgust at being alive is really amusing. The solution is amazing. Unfortunately, I can't believe in the climactic betrayal - because I can't believe she could act that well. She's planning betrayal all along - and neither Apple, nor Emma, nor even Persephone and Hades figure it out? Rose is a little distracted, she might be fooled. But I doubt the others could be. And just to top it off - how does Bobby know where they're going to come out? He's limited to the roads and driving speed, right? Rose says so. So he has to have known in advance to be there. But no one knew where they'd come out... It's a great story, really it is. But the gaping plot holes downgrade it to merely good.
    • 5/5
      Yeah, really. Five-star rating for a ghost story. I love this book so much! OK, so I read and loved [Sparrow Hill Road] and always wished for more Rose Marshall, more ghostroad tales. Then - voila! Along came The Girl in the Green Silk Gown. I admit I was afraid it wasn't going to live up to the first book about the Phantom Prom Date who travels the twilight as a hitcher on the ghostroads, but oh! It does. Best of all, though it ends in a very satisfying, very touching way (that made me cry), it is obvious that there is going to be another book, and I already can't wait. (ARC provided free in exchange for an honest review.)