HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)
Tangled Spirits
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During her study abroad, college student Mina is meditating in a remote area of the Tsukuba mountains when her spirit is pulled back ...Read Review
The Courtesan’s Daughter
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1910, New York. After fleeing from a troubled past, Justine, an impoverished French immigrant, struggles to provide a better future for Sylvie, her young ...Read Review
Clytemnestra’s Bind (The House of Atreus)
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Clytemnestra’s Bind is, we are told, the first in a projected trilogy featuring the famous dispute between the Mycenaeans and the Trojans. ...Read Review
The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back
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As stated in the author’s subtitle, “Eleanor Roosevelt’s Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back,” this nod to Eleanor Roosevelt, wife ...Read Review
Campbell’s Boy
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Emmet Campbell reaches the town of Colusa in northern California with his father during the 1850s Gold Rush, but his mother has died ...Read Review
The Family Fortuna
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Dysfunctional families are not unknown in historical novels, but this one takes the cake. For a start, Fortuna is not their real name, ...Read Review
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
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Margaret Lennox, newly widowed although only in her late twenties, goes to Hartwood Hall in Somerset to take up the post as governess ...Read Review
Ada’s Realm (UK) / Ada’s Room (US)
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This is one of those novels which may be termed experimental, in that the non-linear plot is challenging to describe in a pithy ...Read Review
The Devil’s Own
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Waterford, 2022: Brian retires after a lifetime’s service in the Irish Defence Forces and, in clearing out his married quarters, discovers an old ...Read Review
Thunder of Guns (The Long Fuse)
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This is book seven in The Long Fuse series. In 1758, Pennsylvanian Ephraim Weber, 22, is an ensign in the British colonial army during the ...Read Review
