Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day - Seanan McGuire

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Title: Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day
Author: Seanan McGuire
Genre: Paranormal
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 182
Date read: December, 2017

When her sister Patty died, Jenna blamed herself. When Jenna died, she blamed herself for that, too. Unfortunately Jenna died too soon. Living or dead, every soul is promised a certain amount of time, and when Jenna passed she found a heavy debt of time in her record. Unwilling to simply steal that time from the living, Jenna earns every day she leeches with volunteer work at a suicide prevention hotline.

But something has come for the ghosts of New York, something beyond reason, beyond death, beyond hope; something that can bind ghosts to mirrors and make them do its bidding. Only Jenna stands in its way.


I'm not really into ghosts, so picking this up was a leap of faith... but then, I'm not really into zombies either, and Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire's pseudonym) proved me wrong there, so I figured it'd be worth it.

And fortunately this isn't your usual ghost story - no haunting, no suddenly locked doors, no music randomly turning on at night - it's a paranormal tale that just happens to involve witches and ghosts, rather than witches and werewolves or whatever.

It's well-written, but very slow moving, and thus made for a surprisingly slow read, but the fact that it took me a month to read is in no way indicative of my enjoyment of it.