HNR Issue 84 (May 2018)

The Faithful

By Juliet West - Published 2017

Genres:

Hazel, just sixteen, anticipates a long, boring summer at Aldwick Bay in Sussex. Her best friend won’t be there and Hazel’s ...Read Review

The Overstory

By Richard Powers - Published 2018

Genres:

Literary

Author Richard Powers, in The Overstory, weaves together eight stories of people with stories of trees. Solid and simultaneously magical—a bit like ...Read Review

Susie Q Fights Back

By Jane Cutler - Published 2017

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Summer, 1942. When Susan’s father loses his job, he moves the family from New York City to Clayton, Missouri, where he has found ...Read Review

The Wolf of Dalriada

By Elizabeth Gates - Published 2016

Genres:

Adventure

Confused by the frequent changes of location, date and point of view, it took some time for me to come to grips with ...Read Review

Hellgate

By P. Grady Cox - Published 2018

Genres:

Western

It’s 1879 in Arizona Territory, a rough and rowdy—not to mention dangerous—place. Rose LaBelle knows that all too well, since the ...Read Review

The Driest Season

By Meghan Kenny - Published 2018

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In rural Wisconsin in the 1940s, fifteen-year-old Cielle finds her father hanging from the rafters in the barn. The shock of her discovery ...Read Review

The Seas Come Still

By J. P. Jamin - Published 2015

Genres:

Historical FantasyNautical

In 1602 BCE, Luyan is a slave aboard a Cilician vessel. When a sea battle turns against them, only Luyan’s life is spared.  ...Read Review

Codename Suzette: An Extraordinary Story of Resistance and Rescue in Nazi Paris

By Anne Nelson - Published 2018

Genres:

Nonfiction

This book is both uplifting and horrifying. It charts the occupation of Paris by the Nazis in WW2 and their persecution of the ...Read Review

My Beautiful Imperial

By Rhiannon Lewis - Published 2017

Genres:

Literary

My Beautiful Imperialis the tale of a young man, driven from his home, who becomes the captain of a great passenger ship that ...Read Review

The Golden Hairpin

By Alex Woodend (trans.) - By Qinghan CeCe - Published 2018

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Huang Zixia is a remarkable young Chinese woman with a penchant for solving complex murder mysteries; a skill she has displayed since she ...Read Review