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Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite
Lynn Hesse’s Part of the Stars begins in 1878, Arkansas, when midwife Myra Logan vanishes after visiting the McCurdy family and wakes inside a mountain cave ruled by pale beings. Her husband Zepeda searches across the winter frontier while Myra’s aunt, Nellie Gatewood, presses officials to treat Myra as a missing woman in danger. Beneath the earth, Myra uses her medical skill to survive among the cave people, then learns that the blue-robed visitors have plans for the child growing inside her. When her daughter Adeline is born with signs of both worlds, escape becomes only the first part of Myra’s fight to return home before the forces below claim the baby as their own, placing Zepeda’s search against a hidden world that has already marked his family from a place still unknown.
Lynn Hesse’s Part of the Stars turns its title into a family mark, as lost loved ones become celestial presences. I like Myra because she remains a healer even after terror remakes her home. She warns Adeline to hide her plant-reviving power, then shelters Sarah after silver-being nightmares leave her pregnant. Sarah, the mother Myra trains, becomes an affecting ancillary figure. She learns midwifery at the Logan farm, then searches the remote country after Alice vanishes. The blue-robed beings make great antagonists through serene violation. The Boston Mountains feel cinematic because homestead life holds cosmic danger. The supernatural material works because it changes family life itself. Adeline heals a dying plant by touch, while Loca’s oval weapon turns red light into defense. This novel suits historical fantasy readers drawn to frontier midwifery shaped by supernatural suspense.
