June Hur

Aug 16, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Zen Cho |June Hur |Monika Kim |Wen-yi Lee

Reading Lists Female ghosts across Asia simultaneously embody marginalization, fearsome empowerment, and freedom from restrictive gender norms Though they’ve been icons of cinema for a while—see: Sadako, Shutter—it’s taken English literature a little longer to catch up to Asian women front and centre in stories of ghosts and horror. The prevalence of female ghosts across Asia has always interested me: how often their origin is rooted in concepts of failed femininity and spoiled maternity; how...

Jul 31, 2024 | historicalnovelsociety.org | Byzantine Empire |Bywater Books |Lara Byrne |June Hur

This dense but fast-moving YA adventure begins with 17-year-old Iseul staggering through the forest of medieval Korea, desperate to find and rescue her sister. The teen feels partially responsible for her lovely sibling’s abduction by the minions of the evil king, Yeonsan, whose reign (1495-1506) is recorded in history as one of the most violent and despotic in the turbulent history of that nation.

May 17, 2024 | audiofilemagazine.com | June Hur

Greg Chun and Michelle Lee portray the alliance and the attraction between the two main characters whose alternating chapters tell this 1506 Korean mystery. Lee's narration is suffused with 17-year-old Isuel's desire to free her older sister from cruel King Yeonsan. Lee projects Isuel's willingness to learn sleuthing from Prince Daehyun to achieve her ends. Isuel's hatred of the king, along with her determination and daring, are clear in Lee's narration.

May 16, 2024 | unitedbypop.com | June Hur |Kate Oldfield

Share This post was written by June our, author of A Crane Among Wolves. Growing up in Canada, I was captivated by BBC period dramas and the works of Jane Austen. I daydreamed about the sweeping moors and grand estates, and I’d wistfully sigh over top hats and empire-waisted dresses for hours at museums.

May 7, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | June Hur |Elizabeth Acevedo

Poignant and real, beautiful and intense, this story of a girl struggling to define herself is as powerful as Xiomara’s... Poetry helps first-generation Dominican-American teen Xiomara Batista come into her own.