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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|isbn=B0GHPMNF6P|title=The Zookeeper's Dragon: A Magical Modern FantasyTale for Grown-Ups|author=Carolyn Mathews|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy__NOTOC__|summary= When Phil's father unexpectedly dies, he quits his Canary Wharf finance job to take over the running of the family's farm zoo. He's not expecting much excitement, until he receives an unidentified egg that his new-age stoner uncle Edgar found in a cave in New Zealand, and suddenly life is no longer quite what it seems. Then the egg hatches into neither a reptile nor a bird, but a dragon! Now he, Edgar, his mother Abi, and the zoo's part-time café waitress Pearl have to raise this little bundle of scales and joy, despite having no idea how to actually raise dragons and not being able to tell anyone about it. But this tiny little dragon may show them love and connection in ways they had never before imagined…}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sherrilyn KenyonPekka Harju-Autti|title=InfinityLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse

|summary=Maxine is It's the last in the line eighteenth century, a time of the Wardens, who wear demons as tattoos in the day, making them invulnerablediscovery and Britain is expanding its foreign trade. At nightCaptain Julius Hawthorne, 'the boys' peel away and leave her open to attack – and there are an awful lot of people out experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to attack herthe Andaman Islands in his endeavour. While she's spent her lifeAlong with his son, since inheriting the tattoos from her motherPeter, tackling zombies (who are humans possessed by demons in this worldand their cat, rather than 'traditional' zombies)Michi, she quickly finds there they set off on a perilous voyage to these faraway lands. The islands are far worse things out there beautiful and stunning in their scenery and the prison dimension they call home. The death of an investigator trying to find her leads to strange alliances being formedislanders' leader, questions about her past being raisedAarav, and the end of the world approaching… unless she can stop itis keen to establish good relations.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498009</amazonuk>B0DS1VGHH3

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Seth Grahame-SmithA G Slatter|title=Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary='Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.' That quote, on the Statue of Liberty, was probably not designed with the inclusion Briar Book of vampires in mind. But by some means or another North America is rife with the things – hiding in plain sight, as the older ones can bear sunlight, with the help of darkened glasses. It might just come down to one eager young man to rid his new country of such things, on his way to something he’s a bit more known for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849014086</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chloe Neill|title=Firespell: The Dark EliteDead

|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=Lily Parker is sent '' There's a part of me that wants to boarding school in Chicago when her parents get the opportunity keep this just to do some prestigious research work in Germanymyself for however long I can. She was expecting bitchy classmates, and she gets them – but she wasn’t prepared for her suitemateThis secret magic of my own, Scoutall mine, who stays out late at night and reappears covered in bruises, a school full of secret hiding places, a principal who knows her parents and seems last. I just want to have an entirely wrong idea about their work – or enjoy it for a mysterious group of supernatural teens called the Dark Elitewhile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575095393</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Celine Kiernan|title=The Poison Throne: Moorehawke Trilogy|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=After years Within a remote mountain pass, far away from her childhood home at the courtworld, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Wynter Moorhawke – now an apprentice carpenter Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her seriously ill father Lorcan – returnsfamily for generations and as such since she was young, desperate to see her childhood friends Prince Alberon training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and his half-brother Razipotions. But Alberon is in exileWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, and his father King JonathonEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, far from being the kind ruler Wynter rememberstown's leader, reigns with an iron fistand Ellie takes her place beside her. As Razichallenges come her way left, Jonathon’s illegitimate sonright and centre, is appointed Ellie uncovers the unwilling heir rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the throneheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Wynter Ellie must help him decide who to trust and his friend Christopher determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive in increasingly dangerous times, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498211</amazonuk>1803364548

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard DenningRachel Greenlaw|title=The Last SealCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=In 1380 ''I can hear the warlock Stephen Blake released the demon Dantalion from song of the Abyss, only for his nemesis Cornelius Silver to banish him straight awaysea. Dantalion has nursed his wounds for nearly 300 years – and in 1666, descendants The call of the original pair clash as heaims to return to the worlddeep, and burn down London by starting the Great Fire. While the fire rages around London, and Dantalion’s followers try to break the seals which hold him answering beat in the Abyss, four unlikely heroes join forces to stop them from being destroyed – and to save the worldmy heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956483550</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=China Mieville|title=Kraken|rating=3Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Meet Billy HarrowMira, like her mother before her, curator is one of molluscs the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and other pickled creaturesany treasure that lies within. Imagine if you will BillyBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's thoughts on entering the chamber that houses the highlight of his museumleader and Mira's tour - an immense squidfather. Desperate to save him from death, housed in Mira makes a bargain with a glass crate - wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to find guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the entire thing - animal and tank - impossibly removedsea. Imagine, tooWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the more esoteric kind watched streets of policeman and -woman needed foreign islands to arrive, to tell him that his exhibit was the keystone heart of a mysterious cult with the end of times on their mindsmuggler's territory, and that they might just like Billy Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to infiltrate it save the future of her home and see what was precisely whatthe ones she holds most dear. Just consider - is Billy, the man who bottled the giant squid, a John the Baptist to this cult, or a Judas?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0333989503</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim ButcherT Kingfisher|title=Changes: The Dresden FilesThornhedge

|summary=It''You had a right to retake your place.'' T Kingfisher's always wonderful to see latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a series going from strength to strength fairytale that is well known and getting better as it goes alongwell beloved. However, when this happens, But whilst there inevitably comes is a point where it gets so goodprincess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, you can't help but think that the next one can't possibly be any better as it feels like the series has peakedThornhedge is not her story. ''Changes''Instead, the twelfth in Jim Butcher's ''Dresden Files'' seriesour protagonist is Toadling, is such who was stolen away by fairies when she was a booknew-born baby and secreted away to the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497134</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreview|author=Phoebe Reeves Murray|title=Ghost: Blood and Fire|rating=1.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Young Jennifer Rhys has been orphaned by the evilDark Angels. They can possess people and bite off their handsCast out from Rome, andthere's something about living tattoos Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which you her art can take out of boxesfind a home and paste into your skinwhere her future can thrive rather than stagnate. After growing up in an adolescentpsychiatric wardBut as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, she will grow up the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to go on protect the city and confront them its citizens from plagues andfulfil her destinycurses. Or something like thatThe all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. Between the huge amount ofpoorly drawn characters, the leaden proseTo them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and the disappointingpictures of computerized 3-D models, I got lost a few times change – has no place amongst them andcouldn't summon the interest to work out what was going ontheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955808863</amazonuk>1803362340

Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|isbn=0356518523}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin MillarAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Lonely Werewolf GirlDelilah Recovered

|summary=The plot is simple - the werewolf We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of the title is 17 year old Kalixwork, exiled from her family due about to lose her involvement in the head of the clan’s death. Her elder brother has set a price on her headflat, and Dee is pursuing her with all sources he can musterup for an accountant's job. But it's not to be. It sounds horrific? It Dee is indeed, and there are some truly gruesome scenes, as werewolves battle amongst attacked by two men calling themselves, or with witch hunters. She survives the humans who come into their orbitattack but not unscathed. However, these scenes Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do serve a purpose (to remind us perhapswith Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that they are werewolves, and not humans?!), and by ordinary at all return to her and large do not occupy too large a part in things will never be the narrativesame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749942835</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaye WellsHadeer Elsbai|title=The Mage in Black (Sabina Kane)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=After betraying the Dominae and siding with a Mage over the Vampires, Sabina Kane finds herself on the run. Leaving behind everything she knows, she travels with Mage, Adam, to meet the other half Daughters of her family – her twin sister, Maisie. Though the Mages welcome her with open arms, Sabina, used to the cold, displeasure of her Dominae Grandmother, can't quite accept their open affection, or their conviction that she has a destiny. Her only focus is on revenge, developing her Mage powers so she can defeat her Grandmother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497576</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patricia Briggs|title=Silver BorneIzdihar

|summary=MercyDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''s life is just not getting any easier. The werewolf she Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives with is looking like going rogue – of two women who could not snapping out of wolf formbe more different, which might have dangerous repercussions – yet find themselves fighting for himself the rights of women and weavers – those around himwith magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Someone within Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the pack she's joined with seems Weaving Academy to learn to be playing psychic warfare on control herabilities and then join the military, and leading her astray but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with errant mental suggestionsNico. Worse still, she's opened Giorgina on the door of other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her (ill-fated) trailer family and found death threats on maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the step before, but not Daughters of Izdihar – a fae assassin looking over things from the middle distancegroup campaigning for women's rights. Could any of this have anything Giorgina also happens to do be in love with Nico. What follows is a mysterious fae book story of fairy lore she's been asked to look after?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>1841497991</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian RuckleyHeather Fawcett|title=Fall Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of ThanesFaeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=The Godless world Emily Wilde is descending into a kind an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of insanityfaeries. All order Whilst she is breaking down brilliant at research and members speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of both Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the True Bloods village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the Black Road are fighting amongst themselvesright track. There is rioting in the streets Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and the armies of both sides have taken delight, much to mindless slaughter rather than organised conquestEmily's frustration. Under Aeglyss' command, the Black Road armies are strengthening and his power But why is increasing as his body weakens. he here? What does he want? His control of the Shadow Chancellor And what exactly is a step towards ending going on with the rule of the Thanes by murdering the greatest among them.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841494410</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kresley ColeChristopher Golden|title=Pleasure Road of a Dark PrinceBones

|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Sexy half dressed hunk on cover? CheckThe Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Enticing title? CheckStretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. Sometimes thereFor months of the year it's nothing nicer than curling up with a glass spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of wine (or two!)unremitting, some cheese apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and crackers other Siberian minerals, and lovely hunky man – even if 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, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a 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 main character funds he'd invested in a book! the pair's prior TV projects. I've never read Kresley Cole before but I love fantasyThey pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, especially with gain the company of a romantic element local beauty, and so I was looking forward fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to trying a new author.go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849830363</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate GriffinAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Midnight Mayor: A Matthew Swift Novel Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=54

|summary='A telephone rang'Matt has a terrible life.Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his soul.''

Poor Dan! I answered. After that… …itknow, I know, we shouldn's complicatedt feel sorry for soul-catching demons.'  Sorcerer Matthew Swift does not especially like dangerBut he really is a terrible salesman. In factHe never hits his targets and, after the events that led when he fails to get even Matt to him destroying sign on the Tower and his former teacher, Robert Bakkerdotted line, he'd prefer it greatly if danger would leave him to mind his own business, thank you very muchs so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497347</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Glenda LarkeOlivie Blake|title=The Last Stormlord (Stormlord Trilogy) Atlas Six

|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 Dark, sharp, and dying. Choices are being made about who will receive waterhighly inquisitive, 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 ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a new Stormlord the land will dieTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498114</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=N K JemisinDaniel Abraham|title=The Hundred-Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy)Age of Ash|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=A month after her mother'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 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

|summary=A few months after We meet Alys under the Formorian warmost northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, Shannon Parker she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is living at a point in the turning of years when the high lifeworlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. Hailed as Goddess Incarnate, married to It is the night between the funeral of a man (well, centaur) who was born to love her, carrying her first child, Prince and the next daughter coronation of Epona and royally spoiled with amazing jewels and clothes, life really can't get much betterhis successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0778303586</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura PowellAnn Sei Lin|title=The Master of MisruleRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the ArcanumMidori, fortunes could be won a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and lostmake merry between their conquests. The bizarre otherworldHowever, just when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the slightest shift away from our own, had been home power to form paper into whatever she desires – a life-altering game of chance, power and intelligence, based on sought after all across the tarotEmpire. Four teenaged Londoners had been witness He asks her to thiscome with him, then players. But they'd found it wanting, and to level leave the playing fieldlife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, had thrown out soon Kurara won't have any say in the rulebook. With that, howevermatter, because the referee Midori is no moredestroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the Lord of Misrule is in chargeworld. FreeShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, tooa sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, to smother all and a whole world of Britain with his unique brand of scratch-card lottery. Soon all humanity might be out of luck.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408302373</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James A OwenB09Q3P283Y|title=Shadow Dragons (Imaginarium Geographica) Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=Shannon Parker, broke Oklahoma English teacher, likes a good bargain hunt at an auctionClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. But she gets more than her moneyHe's worth when she buys a vase with her likeness painted on it. Somehow transported to not really that invested in the magical world of Partholonfight against Communism, Shannon finds herself nor is he particularly interested in a career in the shoes of Rhiannon, her mirror doublemilitary. Along with RhiannonIf he's station as Goddess Incarnatehonest - which Clyde usually is, Shannon finds herself landed with her doublehimself at least - he hasn's less than enviable reputation t got many choices and a Centaur husband.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303578</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Mayhew|title=Mortlock|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Abyssiniathis one, 1820. Three Englishment search for the Amarantat least, a mythical flower with gets him out of the power over life and death, rut he's in a strange desert oasis. On finding the flower surrounded by decaying faces, they realize that it He's good in training and is cursed, and take quickly put onto a blood oath never to remove itnon commissioned officer training course. London, 1854. 13 year old knife thrower Josie performs He's chuffed 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 Amaranthimself.|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 Alberon's half brother Razi and his friend Christopher are increasingly at risk as they attempt to deal with this situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498211</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Russell KirkpatrickJennifer Saint|title=Beyond the Wall of Time (Broken Man)Elektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=A couple of aspects have summed up Russell Kirkpatrick's Elektra''Broken Man'' trilogy for me so far. There has been a fascinating by Jennifer Saint tells the story with some wonderful character building that has made it highly enjoyable. There have also been some of three women who live in the most detailed maps I have ever seen in a fantasy seriesheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, offering more variation than I've seen and Elektra are all bit players in maps before and actually adding detail to some parts of the story, not merely acting as a guide. I was expecting more of the same from Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the final part, ''Beyond silent women have the Wall of Time'' most compelling stories and very much looking forward to itthe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496715</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret StohlDean Koontz|title=Beautiful CreaturesQuicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=Teenage boy meets mysterious new stranger in Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a small town. They fall in lovemercurial character yet, for he finds out she's harbouring lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a dark secretthree-day old foundling, the pair and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of them try him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out if their relationship can work while she tries 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 keep him safe from her worldturn up and suggest he's of interest to them. This kind of book appears Helped to be released every few weeks since [[Twilight escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] became so successful – but rarely other instances of him acting without being in control, the past few years has it been done as well as it has discovery that he is not unique in Beautiful Creatureshaving some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141326085</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreview|author=Jasper Fforde|title=Shades of Grey|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Sometimes with authors you just don't know what you've been missing. Other times you do. Jasper Fforde has long been on my catch-up list. Snippets of Thursday Next and reviews and interviews were enough to convince me I had to get to know this work.  My chance finally came with the first in a completely new series: Shades of Grey.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340963034</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pamela FreemanTasha Suri|title=Full Circle (Castings Trilogy)The Jasmine Throne

|summary=Pamela Freeman's ''Castings'' trilogy is written in an unusual way for a fantasy novel. It tells On the story from the characters' points night of viewher sacred burning, in a style more common Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the chick-lit novels of Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Reespyre. This interrupted She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the flow Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the story quite noticeably in ''Blood Ties'', mysterious deathless waters. But now the first of the trilogytemple is nothing more than an overgrown, but didn't seem quite so much of a distraction in the second part, ''Deep Water''decaying ruin. UnfortunatelyOne day, this time around it works against the storyMalini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497037</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Skinner|title=Furnaces Instead of Forge|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In this [[Blue Fire and Ice (The Land) by Alan Skinner|sequel]]reporting her for such a gruesome crime, it's almost as you were, except here Malini claims that the mysterious powers of the blue flame are not being used by some outlander arsonist, but have been usurped by two inept young scientists girl saved her from the Myrmidots, to fuel their industry. We can predict this will prove a bad thing, but the breadth of the journey to capture the flame, an attacker and begs for the efforts of all our returning characters girl to put things right might still be a surprisebecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955726859</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malcolm WalkerGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Stone Crown|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Neither Emlyn nor Maxine feel completely at home in Yeaveburgh - yet they both have roots there. Emlyn's come back to the town in which he was born because his mother and sister, archaeologists, are working on a dig nearby. His father is in a care home, having suffered a nervous breakdown. Maxine returned to the town to live with her grandmother after her mother died of a heroin overdose. Emlyn is quiet and shy, a bit geeky, and lonely. Maxine is lonely too, but she'd never admit it. SheWitch's too spiky and defensive. They both feel like outsiders, and yet they both have a nagging sense that they are where they were meant to be. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406321516</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celia Friedman |title=The Wings of Wrath (The Magister Trilogy)Heart

|summary=The first part A 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, remembering nothing of Celia Friedmanher past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's ''Magister'' trilogy was a wonderfully dark piece of fantasywrath. It contained some beasts you wouldn't be surprised Her attempts to come across live in a horror novel and stretched peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the idea of magic being a draining power stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an interesting place psychologically. The second partinitial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki''Wings of Wrath'' is more s charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a straight fantasy novelhalf-dead daughter, lacking some of the horror elements a son that made the first part such 's a draw for mewolf, but itand another son that's still a very good readsnake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841495336</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Wayne J HarrisHannah Whitten|title=Sins of For the AngelWolf|rating=3.5

|summary=Dr Gideon MatthewsIn Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a shouty hellfire and damnation preachersacrifice. To Red's misfortune, has just delivered a sermon all about she is the evils of women being allowed second daughter. Sent alone into the church hierarchy and, woods with nothing but the cape on his way home afterwardsher back, he Red knows what to expect: within the woods is murdered. The following day however he wakes up in hospital or, actually, an angel called Gabriel finds himself inside Dr Matthews' bodya wolf, able to recall Dr Matthews' memories and thoughts and feelings but acting now as himselfhe is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. Gabriel goes If she is not a little bit wildworthy sacrifice, finding himself overwhelmed by the new feelings monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and desires the fabled kings he experiences in this bodykeeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, sinning leftexpecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, right and centre and causing scandal at his every move. He is also wondering for what purpose he has been brought into this body and she finds that he the legends are lies. The wolf is dreaming about not a demon, someone who is persuading an unknown monk to commit murders in Godmonster—he's name and who seems to be getting closer and closer to Dr Matthews in order to kill him too..a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1438994699</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=The Harvard LampoonJohn Gwynne|title=Nightlight: A Parody of Twilight |rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Most people will have heard of the worldwide phenomenon that is [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]. The books by Stephenie Meyer and the film have made a legend of the romance between vampire Edward Mullen (Robert Pattinson plays the movie role) and teenage schoolgirl Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013330</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Elliott|title=Traitors' Gate (Crossroads)|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Kate Elliott's ''Crossroads'' series has so far come in large, slightly off-putting chunks. They've been decent reads, by and large, with a huge cast of wonderfully drawn characters, but the sheer size and slow pace of the action has meant I didn't enjoy them as much as I may otherwise have done. ''Traitors' Gate'', the third in the sequence is different in only one aspect; the character development is still there, the huge page count is still there, but the pacing is a lot better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498351</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amanda Downum|title=Shadow Of The Drowning CityGods|rating=3.5

|summary=In a nutshell, you're reading this because you're wondering whether The Drowning City Shadow Of The Gods is goodthe first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, bad or mediocre. You've probably glanced at set in the rating and guessed era of 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, Vikings in the premise intriguingshadow of Ragnarok, when the characters laden with potential for greatness and the backdrop is certainly evocative.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498149</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisa McMann|title=Wake|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Janie is seventeen Gods have battled and studying hard for college. She's also working lots of hours at a local nursing home to earn money their bones lie scattered for college as it's unlikely her alcoholic mother is going all to provide much in the way of resourcessee. College This story is Janie's only chance at a life better than the one she's lived so far ultimate in High Fantasy, and so you can't blame her for being so single-minded in John Gwynne certainly does justice to the pursuit of her goal. Only one thing stands in her way...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385036</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Kate|title=Fallen|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=A 17 year old girl at a new school meets a mysterious and impossibly good-looking boy, who she's immediately drawn to. He seems determined to either ignore her or be outright rude to her, until he saves her lifewith mythical creatures, archaic language and the two of them end up drawn togetherbattles galore. This isn't Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight''is a thick book, but it certainly has striking similaritieswith an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385738935</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|author=Sarah Beth Durst|title=Ice|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cassie lives Move on an Arctic research station in Alaska. She loves the ice and the wilderness of her remote home and she'd definitely prefer to spend her time on tracking polar bears and fending off frostbite rather than on mixing with her peers and enjoying college and home comforts back in Fairbanks. However, things aren't all rosy. Cassie's mother died when she was just a baby and she can't help feeling a huge hole in her heart. Her scientist father is remote and unloving and her grandmother left the station after an argument with him when Cassie was still very young. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386571</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeanette Winterson|title=The Battle of the Sun|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=London 1601. Elizabeth I is getting on in years. Her capital city is a busy, bustling place. Boats fill the river and people fill the streets. Jack is happy because it's his birthday and his present is his heart's desire: an excitable black puppy named Max, who's a ''licking and a running and a leaping and a jumping and a tummy in the air and a tail wagging and a barking, racing, braking, spinning energy dog of delight''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880042X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]