|summary= Age of Assassins is a very ordinary fantasy novel, which at the same time manages to slip in the occasional surprise. The central protagonists are a pair of assassins, Girton Club-Foot and his master, Merela Karn, also known as Death’s Jester. They find themselves hired by a Queen to protect her son, an obnoxious prince, and to find out who is behind the threats on his life. In doing so they discover a host of plots and problems, leaving no part of life in the castle untouched. Plots and Machiavellian figures are evident at every turn as noble families fight over the throne of a dying king. In the meantime between sorcerers in the stables, bitter rivalries between the young men who vie to be heir to the throne, and the moves of great families, there is no lack of suspects. As such the novel is as much a mystery as it is a fantasy and as much as coming of age story as it is either of those.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508544</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author= Tom Holt
|title= The Management Style of the Supreme Beings
|rating= 5
|genre= Fantasy
|summary= Imagine, if you will, that the local deity and his well-beloved son Jay decide to retire from the god business and go fishing instead. After all, they've been working on, and for, the planet for millennia, and it is really is time they took a break. And the Venturi brothers, who already manage several other planets, have made them a very generous bid for the franchise.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650669X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Benedict Jacka
|title=Bound: An Alex Verus Novel
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Warning: From the beginning this contains spoilers for past books.
Alex Verus, seer, mage and former owner of a now incinerated London magic shop, is no longer under a death warrant but that doesn't mean that people don't want him dead. His only chance of survival isn't promising either: he's gone back to the place of nightmares. He and Anne are now working for his old apprentice master, Richard Drakh. Richard's reasons are never straightforward so it's a mystery as to why he's made Alex an offer he'd be killed to refuse. Unsurprisingly, Alex isn't the only one who wants to the answer either. Oh and remember Rachel? She's back and… well… shall we say she has issues?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650719X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview <!-- remove 5/6 -->
|author=Mark Lingane
|title=BL!NK (Hadron Damnation Book 1)
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=iYe is a smasher: a child who is capable of sending back pictures of the future by travelling out to where the past and future meet. Smashers don't usually live to see their teens as the information generally returns without them. However iYe's mother, Captain Trix Raiden, is determined he'll be different and, indeed he is, in many ways. Not only does iYe survive, he is a chip off the same block as Cally, the planetary hero. However there is a darker side: iYe carries a message that Earth doesn't want to hear. The planet is used to dealing with the aliens that Cally originally fought but worse is on its way. ''We are coming to kill you.''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0994616457</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author= James Abbott
|title= The Never King
|rating= 4
|genre= Fantasy
|summary= The land of Stravimon is in chaos. Cedius the Wise died leaving the traitorous Mardonius to ascend to the throne. In far off Hell's Keep (the most deadly and remote prison in the Kingdom; a place no prisoner has ever returned from alive) Xavir Argentum is contacted by Cedius' former Spy Master, Landril. Betrayal, intrigue, violence and magic follow as we travel across this strange but familiar land on a quest for vengeance, justice and freedom.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509803114</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Laura Lam
|title=Masquerade (Micah Grey Trilogy)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary= It's been a remarkable journey for our young protagonist. It wasn't long ago that Micah Grey was still living the life of Iphigenia Laurus, daughter of a noble family, trapped in a gilded cage forever hiding her true self. Since running away, Micah has managed to reinvent himself, first as a circus acrobat, and then as a magician's apprentice. Along the way he's discovered love and friendships that have helped keep him afloat, even as betrayal and tragedy seem ready to strike at every turn. But there's only so long he can keep running. His powers are growing, the Chimaera are returning, and Ellada is about to reach a violent tipping point.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509807780</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author= Brian Staveley
|title= Skullsworn
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Fantasy
|summary=''"Love is like killing," she said. "You do it with every part of you, or not at all.” '' Pyrre is a skullsworn; one who is devoted to the God of Death. Trained as an assassin and having studied under the deadliest killers in the world since she was eight, Pyrre is about to embark upon her final trial. A trial in which success will mean elevation to the rank of priestess, while failure will mean death.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150982295X</amazonuk>
}}
