STEEL HAND
Apr 27, 2020
4 minutes
BY CASSANDRA LIPP
As soon as I began reading the young adult fantasy by Rachel Menard, I knew it had to be the Grand Prize winner of the 7 Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published E-Book Awards. The anti-heroine Carina drew me in with her determination to prove her worth and transformation into a warrior—complete with replacing her hand with a steel hand for battle. Carina is an outsider in the Viking-based matriarchal community of the Daughters of Hel—a society that appeases the goddess Hel by raiding towns and killing their people. When Carina is kidnapped, she must choose between proving her worth by killing her captors or forging her own path. Menard’s winnings include $5,000 and a.
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