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Mary Robinette Kowal’s Ghost Talkers is a compulsive, affecting read. I read the whole book in two sittings because I just had to know what happened next in Kowal’s alternate version of World War I. Ghost Talkers opens in July of 1916. British, French, and German troops are bogged down in the trenches. The difference is that this time the British have a secret weapon: ghosts. Mediums hold seances after battles to get intelligence on German troop movements and armaments. They’ve kept the secret for two years, but the word is getting out...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this ebook from NetGalley for review consideration.