Sparrow Hill Road: Ghosts, cars, and undead highways
The topic for today is Sparrow Hill Road, by Seanan McGuire. Apparently it fits in her InCryptid 'verse, but it is essentially a stand alone. I usually steer clear of books that look to me like they might creep into the horror genre. I'm getting a bit better at picking out which ones are actually edging on being actual horror and which ones just have slightly creepy covers (or the person assigning genre doesn't know where else to put it), but I'm still a little wary of most things involving large numbers of ghost characters, or where the MC is a ghost. The gamble payed off in this case. I picked this one up, if I'm being honest, because I was looking for anything by Seanan McGuire that wasn't the third book in a series and was on the shelves at my local library the day I was in. I figured this one looked kind of interesting, and it was a singleton, so good on most all fronts (I was a little wary of the ghost part, but obviously not enough to n
