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Katherine Arden: The Warm Hands of Ghosts (Hardcover, 2024, Del Rey) 5 stars

During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the …

The Warm Hands of Ghosts, by Katherine Arden

5 stars

It’s been just over 100 years since the end of World War I. The last veterans have passed away and World War II has largely eclipsed what was called the Great War in a lot of Western minds. Katherine Arden’s heartbreaking historical fantasy, The Warm Hands of Ghosts, brings the horrors of the catastrophic First World War back to life through the eyes of a nurse and her soldier brother. Both characters search for each other in the wake of the Battle of Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres, July-November 1917) through figurative and literal hell...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, for review consideration.