It seems too soon, but we’re already talking about the fourth book in the Star Kingdom series:  A New Clan, once again written by David Weber and Jane Lindskold.  If there was a sassy tag line taken from the summary of the book, it’s “Sex!  Drugs!  Rock and Roll!  And Treecats!”

Published in June 2022, we’re hit with 420 pages full of fresh, new adventures in the Honorverse.   As we mentioned in the podcast, there’s now also a fifth book in this series.  We’ll certainly cover that when the time comes.

While our treecat friends are a key part of the story, here we’re following Stephanie and friends as they find themselves involved in uncovering the details behind what may be an illegal drug ring.  Is this Forestry Service work?  Not necessarily, but this well-written story comfortably explains how Probationary Ranger Harrington along with colleagues and friends find themselves involved in determining if a new drug in what is the beginning of common use has ties to a number of accidents involving other youths.  Needless to say, things get messy and a little ugly, quickly.  These “kids” are growing up!

After seeing the Rangers and Stephanie involved in significant wildfires previously, this is an interesting adventure as forestry work takes a side seat to more traditional law enforcement business in what is revealed to be a somewhat gray area.  Like the others in this series, A New Clan is written with a young adult audience in mind, but still a good read for fans of any age.  As always, we discuss our pros and cons with this novel from our perspective as Honorverse fans and hope you join right in with us.

We rated A New Clan with a 4, another 4 and a 3.5 (out of 5), for an overall rating of 3.8.

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Next time on the Honorverse Today podcast, we’re turning our attention to Shadow of Freedom by David Weber.  This book is the third novel in the Saganami Island sequence.  We hope you grab it, read it, and find a friend to join us on the continuing adventure through the Honorverse!

You can find us, and all our episodes at http://honorverse.net, and email us at honorverse@tpenetwork.com.  We look forward to hearing from you.

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