03-19-2026, 08:52 PM
#15: Installment Immortality by Seanan McGuire. I should have read this book before Butterfly Effect, but I screwed up remembering what I’d already. So, in this episode, Arthur (whom everyone still believes is the manufactured remnant of a dead Artie) and his sister Elsie (who is seriously depressed because her mom died, and her “real” brother Artie has been replaced) accompany Mary Dunlavy to Boston to help her rescue ghosts being hunted and destroyed by what little remains of the Covenant (a family and allies of species-ist humans who want to destroy any non-human intelligent species on Earth). Mary, is the ghost of a teenager who died in the late 1930s, and has been babysitting the Price family children for three generations (as well as serving the crossroads, but that’s a whole ‘nother story, and the crossroads no longer exist… no wonder I forgot where the hell I was in the story. After many adventures and mishaps and confrontations, Mary, Elsie and Arthur triumph. My favorite moment was when Mary helps a 300-something year-old child ghost to adopt a ghost dog… who died without having a human of his own… it really got me.
And now I’m going to probably have to go back and read the one before this to make sure I read it. Maybe the whole damned series.
And now I’m going to probably have to go back and read the one before this to make sure I read it. Maybe the whole damned series.
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