Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire

Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

by Seanan McGuire

Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day is a new standalone urban fantasy novella from New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire.

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.

Reviewed by smartflutist661 on

5 of 5 stars

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Perhaps the longing for a small-town home got to me, but I ended up loving this one. It was a bit of a rough start, with the first 20-30 pages not exciting me at all, but I sped through almost the entire rest of it. A bit light on plot, and definitely not particularly logically consistent, but these didn't detract from the real point of experiencing the process of moving on from the point of view of someone who's already dead (which may also explain some of the inconsistencies, now that I think about it - why does Jenna need to earn the time she takes? Maybe it's not supposed to make sense).

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