Jessica's Reviews > The Warm Hands of Ghosts

I'll forgive the fact that this book gave me the flu.

No, seriously: as soon as Laura developed fever, chills, body aches . . . SO DID I! And unfortunately what passed in a few pages for her has lasted several days for me!

But ignoring that, this book was fabulous. Both a ghost story and a very real, very gritty look at the horrors of the often overlooked World War I, the afterward alone is worth the read/listen. The "grainy footage of men in funny hats sitting in trenches" was in reality a new kind of hell, the closest we ever came to a steampunk society IRL, and the event that catapulted the Western world into the future. I almost want Arden to expand her afterward into a longer dissertation on this topic.

I did feel like this book almost skipped ahead at times, because I was sick I kept thinking I was missing bits, and rewinding, because it would suddenly jump forward a month or more, but no, it really did that, because the story wasn't about each day in the life, but the overall story of how Laura . . . nevermind, no spoilers here!