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“Armageddon was a fire in the harbor, a box delivered on a cold day. It wasn’t one great tragedy, but ten million tiny ones, and everyone faced theirs alone.”

The Warm Hands of Ghosts: A Novel by Katherine Arden

July 27, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

They are fighting their war in the last world, but we’re dying in this one. January 1918. Laura Iven, a revered field nurse, wounded when the Germans bombed the munitions depot her field hospital was next to, is discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Months later, back home in Halifax, Canada, Laura lives assisting three elderly mediums after the deaths of her parents. On the night that Pim Shaw, a young widow seeking to connect with her son, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror Tagged With: enemies to lovers, faustian bargains, Katherine Arden, Nova Scotia, nursing, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the fiddler, World War I

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:97 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror · Tags: enemies to lovers, faustian bargains, Katherine Arden, Nova Scotia, nursing, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the fiddler, World War I ·
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