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A review by ravensandpages
The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
5.0
I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Thank you, NetGalley and Del Rey!
Yet another favorite to go on my "took two months to read because my brain refused to let it be over" shelf, especially now that I have no idea what to do with myself now that it's over. (Probably finally read The Winter of the Witch, but that's for later.)
In 1918, a discharged field nurse, Laura Iven, receives word of her brother's death and returns to Belgium to uncover the truth. Two months earlier, in 1917, Freddie Iven wakes up in a dark overturned pillbox with only an enemy soldier to keep him company. Across time, Laura and Freddie try to find their way to each other, bound by a mysterious violinist who's rumored to have the ability to not only show people what they most desire, but also make the hell around them disappear.
THE WARM HANDS OF GHOSTS is a book that makes me wish I was better at putting my feelings into words, but all I truly have is me sending quotes to everyone I know at all hours of the night and me crying at work, so. I loved it, I'm a mess, I will be rereading. This novel is a true work of art, spellbinding in its themes and setting with characters that cut to the bone with their raw reality. I was captivated right until the end. Arden's writing is haunting and full of true talent. The core of human nature and drive, of how to move on after the world has ended, of old and new worlds colliding were all things I truly needed right now.
I can't thank the publisher enough for giving me the chance to read this. I will be passing on the gift to as many people as I can.
❧ 5 ★
Yet another favorite to go on my "took two months to read because my brain refused to let it be over" shelf, especially now that I have no idea what to do with myself now that it's over. (Probably finally read The Winter of the Witch, but that's for later.)
In 1918, a discharged field nurse, Laura Iven, receives word of her brother's death and returns to Belgium to uncover the truth. Two months earlier, in 1917, Freddie Iven wakes up in a dark overturned pillbox with only an enemy soldier to keep him company. Across time, Laura and Freddie try to find their way to each other, bound by a mysterious violinist who's rumored to have the ability to not only show people what they most desire, but also make the hell around them disappear.
THE WARM HANDS OF GHOSTS is a book that makes me wish I was better at putting my feelings into words, but all I truly have is me sending quotes to everyone I know at all hours of the night and me crying at work, so. I loved it, I'm a mess, I will be rereading. This novel is a true work of art, spellbinding in its themes and setting with characters that cut to the bone with their raw reality. I was captivated right until the end. Arden's writing is haunting and full of true talent. The core of human nature and drive, of how to move on after the world has ended, of old and new worlds colliding were all things I truly needed right now.
I can't thank the publisher enough for giving me the chance to read this. I will be passing on the gift to as many people as I can.
❧ 5 ★