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Violence
A lot
Graphic WWI battlefield violence; bodies, explosions, and the horror of trench warfare depicted in detail
Language
Some
Period military language; moderate throughout
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief wartime romance; not explicit
Substance Use
Some
Alcohol as numbing agent for traumatized soldiers; morphine for the wounded
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Survivor guilt, grief and loss, supernatural dread, shell shock and its aftermath
What this book is about
WWI nurse Laura Iven receives word that her brother Freddie, presumed dead in the trenches, has been spotted alive. She crosses into No Man's Land to find him, while across the timeline, Freddie himself is caught in an uncanny place between the living and the dead — a haunted estaminet where the wine never runs out and time has stopped. Katherine Arden weaves supernatural horror into the devastation of the Western Front.
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graphic WWI combat and death
supernatural horror in battlefield setting
trauma and psychological breakdown
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