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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Glenda Larke|title=The Last Stormlord (Stormlord Trilogy) |rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Last Stormlord is a unique story which explores a civilization on the brink of disaster. The world survives through the powers of a Stormmlord who brings water to the parched lands of the Quartern from the distant seas. As the story opens the last Stormlord is weak and dying. Choices are being made about who will receive water, who will not and the Quartern hovers on the brink of returning to a time of Random Rain: water that does not fall where or when it is needed. Without a new Stormlord the land will die.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498114</amazonuk!-- Remove -->}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=N K JemisinB0GHPMNF6P|title=The Hundred-Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=A month after her motherZookeeper's death, outcast Yeine Darr is summoned by her grandfather, king of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, to come to the palace of Sky. There named one of his three heirs, along with her feuding cousins, she quickly realizes that without allies she will surely lose the contest Dragon: A Magical Modern Fantasy Tale for the throne. Thus begins an epic quest to find her mother's murderer, save her own life, and fulfil a destiny she never knew she had.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498173</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P C Cast|title=Divine by Choice (Goddess of Partholon)|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=A few months after the Formorian war, Shannon Parker is living the high life. Hailed as Goddess Incarnate, married to a man (well, centaur) who was born to love her, carrying her first child, the next daughter of Epona and royally spoiled with amazing jewels and clothes, life really can't get much better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303586</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGrown-Ups|author=Laura Powell|title=The Master of MisruleCarolyn Mathews
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Shannon ParkerWhen Phil's father unexpectedly dies, broke Oklahoma English teacher, likes a good bargain hunt at an auctionhe quits his Canary Wharf finance job to take over the running of the family's farm zoo. But she gets more than her moneyHe's worth when she buys not expecting much excitement, until he receives an unidentified egg that his new-age stoner uncle Edgar found in a vase with her likeness painted on cave in New Zealand, and suddenly life is no longer quite what itseems. Somehow transported to Then the magical world of Partholonegg hatches into neither a reptile nor a bird, but a dragon! Now he, Edgar, his mother Abi, Shannon finds herself in and the shoes of Rhiannon, her mirror double. Along with Rhiannonzoo's station as Goddess Incarnatepart-time café waitress Pearl have to raise this little bundle of scales and joy, Shannon finds herself landed with her double's less than enviable reputation despite having no idea how to actually raise dragons and a Centaur husbandnot being able to tell anyone about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303578</amazonuk>But this tiny little dragon may show them love and connection in ways they had never before imagined…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon MayhewPekka Harju-Autti|title=Mortlock|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Abyssinia, 1820. Three Englishment search for the Amarant, a mythical flower with the power over life LoveVortex and death, in a strange desert oasis. On finding the flower surrounded by decaying faces, they realize that it is cursed, and take a blood oath never to remove it. London, 1854. 13 year old knife thrower Josie performs with her guardian the Great Cardamom, an especially gifted magician who we quickly learn is Chrimes, the coward of the original three Englishmen. Their relatively peaceful existence is shattered when three macabre Aunts (note the capital letter, never a good sign…) descend on them, and Cardamom instructs Josie, with his dying breath, to find the twin brother he'd never told her about and destroy the Amarant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803925</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celine Kiernan|title=The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy)|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=In ''The Poison Throne'' what had been a benevolent kingdom has become characterised by repression and torture (which the book graphically describes). The magical aspects of the kingdom, its talking cats and ghosts, have been suppressed, while Alberon, the heir to the throne, has vanished. Wynter, along with AlberonDrakor's half brother Razi and his friend Christopher are increasingly at risk as they attempt to deal with this situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498211</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Russell Kirkpatrick|title=Beyond the Wall of Time (Broken Man)Curse
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=A couple of aspects have summed up Russell KirkpatrickIt's ''Broken Man'' trilogy for me so far. There has been the eighteenth century, a fascinating story with some wonderful character building that has made it highly enjoyabletime of discovery and Britain is expanding its foreign trade. There have also been some of Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to the most detailed maps I have ever seen Andaman Islands in a fantasy serieshis endeavour. Along with his son, Peter, offering more variation than I've seen in maps before and actually adding detail to some parts of the storytheir cat, Michi, not merely acting as they set off on a guideperilous voyage to these faraway lands. I was expecting more of The islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and the same from the final partislanders' leader, Aarav, ''Beyond the Wall of Time'' and very much looking forward is keen to itestablish good relations.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496715</amazonuk>B0DS1VGHH3
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret StohlA G Slatter|title=Beautiful CreaturesThe Briar Book of the Dead
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Sometimes with authors you just don't know what you've been missingThere's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. Other times you do. Jasper Fforde has long been on This secret magic of my catch-up listown, all mine, at last. Snippets of Thursday Next and reviews and interviews were enough to convince me I had to get just want to know this work. My chance finally came with the first in enjoy it for a completely new series: Shades of Greywhile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340963034</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan SkinnerRachel Greenlaw|title=Furnaces of ForgeCompass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In this [[Blue Fire and Ice (The Land) by Alan Skinner|sequel]], it's almost as you were, except here 'I can hear the mysterious powers song of the blue flame are not being used by some outlander arsonist, but have been usurped by two inept young scientists from the Myrmidots, to fuel their industrysea. We can predict this will prove a bad thing, but the breadth The call of the journey to capture the flamedeep, and the efforts of all our returning characters to put things right might still be a surpriseanswering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955726859</amazonuk>}}''
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{{Frontpage
|author=T Kingfisher
|title=Thornhedge
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=''You had a right to retake your place.''
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{{Frontpage
|author=Nicole Jarvis
|title=A Portrait in Shadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=''I want all of Florence to know my name''
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{{Frontpage
|author=Thomas D Lee
|title=Perilous Times
|rating=3
|genre= Fantasy
|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ElliottAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Traitors' Gate (Crossroads)Delilah Recovered
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Kate ElliottWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn's ''Crossroads'' series has so far come in larget going as planned but things might, just might, slightly off-putting chunksbe about to look up. They've been decent readsOut of work, by and largeabout to lose her flat, with a huge cast of wonderfully drawn characters, but the sheer size and slow pace of the action has meant I didnDee is up for an accountant't enjoy them as much as I may otherwise have dones job. But it''Traitors' Gate'', the third in the sequence s not to be. Dee is different in only one aspect; attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the character development is still thereattack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the huge page count is still there, but the pacing is a lot bettersame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498351</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda DownumHadeer Elsbai|title=The Drowning City|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In a nutshell, you're reading this because you're wondering whether The Drowning City is good, bad or mediocre. You've probably glanced at the rating and guessed the latter. I'm afraid it's not quite that simple. This is a debut that provokes decidedly mixed feelings. I started off convinced that I was going to love this book. The cover art is effortlessly cool, the premise intriguing, the characters laden with potential for greatness and the backdrop is certainly evocative.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498149</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisa McMann|title=WakeDaughters of Izdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Possessed Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of great beautytwo women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the kind that drives men madupper class, Fire is used wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to people trying learn to kill control her. She isn't used to them doing it by accident. When a poacher in abilities and then join the woods outside her home accidentally shoots hermilitary, Fire but instead she is hard pressed to keep the temperamental Lord Archer from killing himforced into an arranged marriage with Nico. But as sure as Fire is Giorgina on the man other hand did not mean have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to cause provide for her harmfamily and maintain their reputation, she is made unsure by whilst secretly attending meetings of the strange fog that exists in the manDaughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's mindrights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905200129</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GemmellHeather Fawcett|title=LegendEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Dros DelnochEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, a massive fortress with six walls of defenceand researched meticulously, is in danger of falling to write her life's work, the Nadirvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. With its fallWhilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, the Drenai empire she is soon to follownot so good with people. The Nadir haven't lost yet and as a resultSo when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, morale among having somehow offended the defenders village matriarch, she is low not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and desertions are rampantput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. The men long for a heroEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, but the legendary Druss has hidden himself away in the mountains all charm and become a mythdelight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498580</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terry Brooks Christopher Golden|title=A Princess of Landover (Magic Kingdom Road of Landover)Bones
|rating=3.5
|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Mistaya has The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a lot to deal with in this bookthousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. But then Built because Stalin wanted so do her parentsmuch uranium and other Siberian minerals, Ben (human) and Willow (half Dryad)because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, as for much one of the time they do not know where she our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is: your basic parental nightmare if you have a fifteen year old daughter whether you are film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the ruler company of a magical kingdom or notlocal beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841495808</amazonuk>1803361476
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongAndrew Givler|title=FrostbittenSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=It's back to the werewolves in this latest volume in Armstrong's immensely popular Women of the Otherworld series, and I must say I'm relieved because the werewolves are my favouritesMatt has a terrible life. TimeSeriously—it's moved on a little since we were with them lastawful. Elena and Clay are now utterly settled in their wolfish marriage and their twins are three years old. Elena has just found out It is so bad that Jeremy Dan the Demon is looking to retire and also to make her the new pack Alphashocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his soul. Ambitious and competitive, she's the ideal pack member for the job - but how will it affect her relationship with Clay, the pack enforcer? To add to this worry, a contact from the past has churned up some unwanted memories. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497762</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jesse BullingtonOlivie Blake|title=The Sad Tale of the Brothers GrossbartAtlas Six
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=When Hegel Dark, sharp, and Manfried are ticked offhighly inquisitive, you know about it. Returning to a town for vengeance - someone didn't like their scrumping there as children - they leave several dead, and several more corpses behind when a posse is sent off to seek its own justice. They're journeying south, graverobbing their way through mediaeval Europe, and they donThe Atlas Six''t care how many people they have to kill, betray, get vengeance on, or blaspheme, or what they have to eat or drink, until their task is donemakes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497835</amazonuk>1529095239
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Walter Moers Daniel Abraham|title=The Alchemaster's ApprenticeAge of Ash
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Meet Echo We meet Alys under the Crat. most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, He is she has a rare example of his species, which is knife in her hand and a cat meeting that can speak every language knownshe dreads. His life among Meanwhile the miserable, permanently ill citizens City of Malaisea Kithamar is not great, which at a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. It is why, when the strange scientist from night between the castle that looms over everyone funeral of a Prince and everything offers him the coronation of his successor. For a month of entertaining gluttony before he kills Echo, as opposed to three days' starving penury on the streets, night the offer Kithamar is acceptedun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846552222</amazonuk>0356515427
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia BriggsAnn Sei Lin|title=Hunting Ground (Alpha and Omega)Rebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Life with Kurara has spent her entire life as a werewolf is servant on the Midori, a question massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of balancesthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. You have However, when a man named Himura arrives to swing your new-found status as the motherly, calming, but powerful Omega wolftell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with his Alpha-male studly status. You have the power to equate his inner Brother Wolf being practically form paper into whatever she desires – a different entity power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to his human sidecome with him, and know when and how to relate to bothleave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. And you Well, soon Kurara won't have to remember that you might be playfighting any say in the snow one minutematter, and because the next told Midori is destroyed by your father-in-law to go to Seattle, and act a monstrous paper spirit known as figurehead for a revolution in werewolf life - shikigami, and stand in she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the face of Orihime, a very wicked and powerful European werewolf, vampiressky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and more.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497959</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Audrey Niffenegger B09Q3P283Y|title=Her Fearful Symmetry|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=When Elspeth Noblin dies of Leukemia, she leaves behind a strange bequest that will have dramatic and tragic consequences. She leaves her London flat and all the trappings of her life to the 'mirror' twins of her own twin sister who currently live outside Chicago. This is news to the twins who didn't even know that they had an aunt. The only condition of her legacy is that the twins, Julia and Valentina, have to live in the flat, which is adjacent to Highgate Cemetery, for a year before they can sell it. It is clear from the outset that Elspeth has secrets about her relationship with her twin sister Edie, which she is keen to keep hidden from the twins, but when it turns out that Elspeth hasn't quite left the apartment after her death, things get a whole lot messier for everyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224085611</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewShadebringer|author=Michelle Zink |title=Prophecy of the SistersGrayson W Hooper|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=This book is almost four hundred pages long, but I read it so quickly that it might as well have only had one hundred pages! Lia Milthorpe and her twin sister Alice have never Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really been allies, always slightly at odds with one another. When their father dies and they become orphans, the twins discover that they are enemies invested in truththe fight against Communism, on opposing sides of nor is he particularly interested in a prophecy that could destroy career in the worldmilitary. With the help of her new friends Sonia If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and Luisathis one, Lia must find at least, gets him out of the Keys before Alice does rut he's in. He's good in training and prevent demons from taking over the worldis quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905654480</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia Briggs Jennifer Saint|title=Cry WolfElektra
|rating=4
|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=It is not easy to move in with a werewolf. He is two hundred years old or more, and you've been a werewolf for Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three years. He comes with generations of baggage, a father women who is live in the capo di capi heavily male dominated world of werewolves in North America, and a job as his assassin and general fiery dogsbodyAncient Greece. You are only just beginning to get to grips with your new statusCassandra, and his temperamentClytemnestra, and how they Elektra are expected to mix before you're confirmed as a coupleall bit players in the story of the Trojan War. So when it comes to him clearing up a mess with regards to a lethal, rogue werewolf nearby - making humans take too much notice - Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the timing could silent women have been betterthe most compelling stories and the most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497940</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=K S Turner Dean Koontz|title=Before the Gods (Chronicles of Fate and Choice)Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he'Before The Gods'' is presented as an enigma, wrapped s lived in a puzzle nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and shrouded in mystery. The front now is adorned by starting a career on a beguiling image created by the authorneedless magazine's staff. A glance at the back cover serves only But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to tantalise rather than reveal what might be in store. sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind''This is where , for something – call it all began. Everything. Loveunearthly intuition, hatecall it mind-control, goodcall it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, evilfind a gold coin worth a fortune, us cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. This Helped to escape, he finds his flight is before they were godsinterrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956224202</amazonuk>1542019885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barb and J C Hendee Tasha Suri|title=Child of a Dead GodThe Jasmine Throne|rating=3.54
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Margiere, half-human, half-vampireOn the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. She is being drawn south by dreams of immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an icebound castle. Her quest to discover a mysterious ancient artefact borders on obsession – temple that was once filled with a dangerous one that threatens community of people who got powers from the lives of her travelling companionsmysterious deathless waters. But little sagenow the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, Wynndecaying ruin. One day, will follow Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting herfor such a gruesome crime, seeking knowledge Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for her guild on the long forgotten history of their world, as will Chap and Elven warrior Sgäille, who swore an oath of guardianship girl to Margiere and Leesilbecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497312</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Markus Heitz Genevieve Gornichec|title=The DwarvesWitch's Heart
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The charismatic dwarfA modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, Tungdil, abandoned remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at birth, and brought up in the land stake three times because of Odin''long-uns'' (humans)s wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was raised and apprenticed tied to a magus. He finds that his peaceful life is about the stake—and refuses to change dramaticallyleave her alone. Plucked from obscurity and anonymityAfter an initial period of mistrust, he is sent on a quest Angrboda begins to find his fellow dwarvesfall for Loki's charms, delivering messages en route: naturallyand the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, adventure will follow hima son that's a wolf, and perhaps he is even the long lost heir to the dwarvesanother son that' throne - time will tell!s a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316049441</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher MooreHannah Whitten|title=You Suck|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=You know that old adage about books and covers? Well this is a case in point. The title isn't great, but the cover design for the paperback imprint is, like, duh!, the pits. It is so uncool…so unrep-resent-ative of the book. This is not a cocktail thing. Not even a "Bloody Mary" thing. Well, except for For the tiny bit that is, but you'll discover that in due course.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498092</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K E Mills|title=Witches Incorporated (Rogue Agent)Wolf|rating=35
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=In Red''Witches Incorporated'' is s family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second book in Kdaughter becomes a sacrifice.E. MillsTo Red' rogue agent seriess misfortune, which are about she is the exploits of wizard Gerald Dunwoody and his friendssecond daughter. In this bookSent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Gerald has Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a new job as a secret agent for wolf, and he is the one who will decide the Ottosland governmentfate of their kingdom. He's on If she is not a deadly mission worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to hunt down a saboteurthe woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, determined expecting nothing more than to make amends for his past. Meanwhilebe killed within the hour, his friends have set up an agency (Witches Incorporated) and she finds that the legends are themselves heading for danger when they accidentally cross paths with Geraldlies. The wolf is not a monster—he's saboteura man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497282</amazonuk>0356516369
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tad WilliamsJohn Gwynne|title=The Dragonbone ChairShadow Of The Gods|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=To SimonThe Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, an orphaned servant at set in the Hayholt, home era of an aged king, it seems that his life will forever be dull and mundane. The King's youthful glory days were long ago and Simon, who dreams the Vikings in the shadow of adventureRagnarok, sees his peaceful but quiet life as a tragedy. When when the old King dies his son Elias is crowned, but begins Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to act strangelysee. Strange weather strikes This story is the realm, terrifying beasts are attacking from the Northultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the Kinggenre, far from helping his people from these problemswith mythical creatures, is adding his own heavy taxesarchaic language and battles galore. Simon This is caught up on a journey thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that is as full of danger and intrigue as he ever dreamed of, but finds it less than he hoped for. An ancient enemy is stirring, the High King Elias is aiding this enemy are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and it seems the only hope for the kingdom lies gritty world in the knowledge of the mysterious League of the Scroll and the finding of three ancient swords of powerwhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498394</amazonuk>0356514218
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