Ghost Talkers
By Mary Robinette KowalPublisher Description
“Powerful, laden with emotion, and smartly written.” —Brandon Sanderson, author of Mistborn and The Way of Kings
A brilliant historical fantasy novel from acclaimed author Mary Robinette Kowal featuring the mysterious spirit corps and their heroic work in World War I.
Ginger Stuyvesant, an American heiress living in London during World War I, is engaged to Captain Benjamin Harford, an intelligence officer. Ginger is a medium for the Spirit Corps, a special Spiritualist force.
Each soldier heading for the front is conditioned to report to the mediums of the Spirit Corps when they die so the Corps can pass instant information about troop movements to military intelligence.
Ginger and her fellow mediums contribute a great deal to the war efforts, so long as they pass the information through appropriate channels. While Ben is away at the front, Ginger discovers the presence of a traitor. Without the presence of her fiancé to validate her findings, the top brass thinks she's just imagining things. Even worse, it is clear that the Spirit Corps is now being directly targeted by the German war effort. Left to her own devices, Ginger has to find out how the Germans are targeting the Spirit Corps and stop them. This is a difficult and dangerous task for a woman of that era, but this time both the spirit and the flesh are willing…
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“Set in the time of the First World War, the plot is an original idea. It took me a while to get into the story but once I did, it was easy to want to stick with it to find out where it’s going. I didn’t love the narration - lots of different accents, some didn’t flow as well as others. The concept of the book centres on a medium who is part of a group of Ghost Talkers. All the British soldiers are given training so that if they die in action, they report back to the mediums with any information they can about the circumstances. This allows, for instance, the British to find out where snipers are or what the current accurate position of enemy troops are. It’s an interesting idea set in an age when the likes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Lewis Carroll believed in spirits and were involved with groups who tried to scientifically prove their existence. There are some period typical examples of women and characters of colour being treated disrespectfully in the course of the book.”Ms. Marshmellow
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