‘The Warm Hands of Ghosts’ by Katherine Arden ★★★★

the commercial failure of Flanders really sucks because I gave the book five stars back in the day and still consider it a deadass masterpiece

Katherine Arden is not a writer interested in repeating herself to her infinite credit she followed her popular folk fantasy winternight Trilogy with her middle-grade spook show small spaces and has now delivered the warm hands of ghosts a bleak often gut-wrenching but deep felt Standalone Tales set in the ravaged landscape of the Belgian Countryside during the latter days of the war it is without question her best and most mature work yet