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[[Category:Paranormal|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teri TerryDean Koontz|title=Book of Lies|rating=3.5|genre=Paranormal|summary= As teenage fiction ''Book of Lies'' has all the usual themes -- confused sense of identity, relationship troubles, difficult family backgrounds... But it also has another element: the supernatural. The story starts when identical twin girls (the charmingly named Piper and Quinn) are reunited as teenagers, having been separated at birth. We follow their journey as they discover each other and reveal the complexities of their shared family, their terrifying dreams and sinister non-human abilities. As with all good supernatural stories, there are hints of witchcraft, hounds of death and family curses. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334283</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sophie Hannah|title=The Visitors Book|rating=3.5|genre=Paranormal|summary= Sophie Hannah's The Visitors Book is a short anthology of modern stories with a supernatural twist. There is not a hammy gothic turret in sight as her characters experience their mundane, day-to-day, 21st century business -- a children's birthday party, a visit to a boyfriend, neck pain, the school run. Now, ghost stories based on ordinary people leading ordinary lives can be very unsettling indeed, making overly imaginative readers look over their shoulder at the bus stop, or giving them goosebumps for no apparent reason. So I was curious to see what Sophie Hannah, a writer I much admire, would make of this particular material.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908745525</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kelley Armstrong|title=DeceptionsBad Weather Friend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=Liv Benny is starting having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to understand the Fae world that has existed in secrethis home, and her place within it. But 's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the more she understandsthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the less she likes itvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. Visions of He is a girl torn between two men continue to plague her – visions nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that are starting the delivery to feel alarmingly similar his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to her real life relationships with Gabriel help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and RickyHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847445136</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robert BrockwayAlly Wilkes|title= The UnnoticeablesAll the White Spaces|rating= 3.54|genre= ParanormalHorror|summary= Carey is In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for a punk living in New York Cityfresh start, and the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, 1977without the disapproval and constraints of his parents. Sick However, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of watching his friends be abducted past and killed, he doesn’t care about the rumours shadow of strange monsters the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expedition. Guilt, mistrust and supernatural happenings – all he wants to do is drink beer grief stalk the party and kick ass. In the present day, Kaitlyn is in Hollywood. A stuntwomanwhen disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, she has a missing best friend, has just escaped an attempt menacing presence waits to prey on her life, and an angel their darkness. If Jonathan is waiting outside her door. The survival to make it out of the human race lies in the hands of Carey Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once and Kaitlyn. We arefor all, all of usor risk making the barren, well and truly screwed…icy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297972</amazonuk>1789097835
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Accident SeasonT L Huchu|authortitle=Moira Fowley-DoyleThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=For Ropa Moyo is a month in every yearghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the month leading up to Halloweendead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, Carashe's family are susceptible been using it to accidents. There are cuts support not only herself, but her younger sister and scrapes and bruisesher aging grandmother. Sometimes However, there are broken bones's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. And sometimesSoon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the accidents are even fatalrequest of his dead mother.She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined.. ... it's a curseWill she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, right? What else could or will it beclaim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>055257130X</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Megan MirandaHolly Rivers|title=SoulprintDemelza and the Spectre Detectors|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Alina Chase lives in Demelza Clock is a future America obsessed by soulprintingscientist, often staying up late to work on her various gadgets, much to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. Scientific advances have enabled However, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the tracking ability to summon the ghosts of the soul by markers carried in spinal fluidrecently deceased. Reincarnation is now an established fact and Under the government maintains a database guidance of all past livesher Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins to master her newfound skills. People without heirs can even make wills leaving their worldly goods to However, there is a mysterious individual on the person in whom their soul is reincarnatedprowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. But the discovery has led It's up to problems Demelza and her best friend Percy to get to the problems have led to Alina's ''containment''bottom of this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408855402</amazonuk>1912626039
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kelley Armstrong1473669065|title=Otherworld NightsQueenie Malone's Paradise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan|rating=45|genre=ParanormalHumour|summary=Kelley Armstrong revisits Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her hugely popular mother'Otherworld' series in this collection s life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of short storiesthoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, featuring many from this place of wonder. With the prominent characters from help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the seriestricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500667</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danny Westonwilliamabbey|title=The PiperPursuit of William Abbey|author=Claire North
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Peter and Daisy are evacuated on the eve of World War Two to The Grange at Romney Marsh. Something seems wrong from the moment they get there: there are children dancing in the garden and strange music that plays at night. When Peter realises that Daisy might be in danger he’s willing to do anything he can to fill the promise he made to his mother, keep his sister safe.
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{{newreview
|title=An English Ghost Story
|author=Kim Newman
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The Naremores, When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a family with a troubled pastyoung boy in 1880's South Africa, leave London in search of peace in he finds himself cursed by the quiet Somerset countrysidegrieving mother. Finding A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns the perfect home – 'The Hollow' – appears to symbolise a turning point and weight of the end of all their problems. The Hollow seems possessed of a healing magic which can restore health and relationships curse upon him, as well as hopes and dreams. Unfortunately, the positive power shadow of the Hollow is suddenly challenged and dead boy begins to follow him across the family are plunged into horrors that perhaps they should have foreseen…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781165580</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Green Door|author=Christopher Bowden|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Clare Mallory is a promising junior barrister working from a prestigious chambersworld. Life is pretty goodNever stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of William. She's not the type As he finds himself unable to be taken in by psychics but when cards advertising resist speaking the services of one Madame Pavonia start arriving truths that he hears in others, he also learns that the post, her interest dark shadow is piqued, first by the rainbow spectrum pattern deadly – and then by... well, something else. Tempted seeks to visit kill the fortune-teller at a local fair, Clare is taken aback at Madame Pavonia's reaction to her and rushes out of one he loves the tent. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955506735</amazonuk>most…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Tudor Chalk|title=Printer's Devil CourtThe Chalk Man|author=Susan HillC J Tudor
|rating=5
|genre=Horror
|summary=Susan Hill is ''The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by far an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer. By the master of time the old fashioned ghost storynew term begins, friendships will be fractured, and a girl will be dead. If you've But who is the killer; is it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever read tighter, or seen [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]]someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, then you’ll already know Ed has tried to forget about thatsummer, but her other ghost stories are a little less famousabout all the poisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk Man. That doesn’t make them any less goodHowever, someone seems determined not to let him and I for one am a big fan. I think there’s a lot when the letters start to be said for a good old fashioned scarearrive, with apparitionsthe past follows, goosebumps plaguing him and cold chills dredging up the spinefever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death. I always feel like I should be reading these books around a campfireDriven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, wrapped in a blanket and eating marshmallows because it very much reminds me of sharing ghost stories with my friends when I was a child. What I like to call a ‘proper scare’.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125365X</amazonuk>will he ever let Ed go?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jester_Forever|title=Help for the HauntedForever After: a dark comedy|author=John SearlesDavid Jester|rating=34|genre=General FictionHorror|summary=Rose Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and Sylvester Mason make their living from helping gets made the hauntedoffer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, performing exorcisms a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and running seminars across America on Naff (a stoner in the subject of the paranormal. When records department) as they are murdered in a church, grapple with their daughters, Rose long lives and Sylvi, are left negotiating the complex legacy finding a clean surface to sit on in their work has left behindflat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751555908</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785032461|title=FirelightThe Girl at the Window|author=Kristen CallihanRowan Coleman|rating=3.5
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=Lord Benjamin Archer Trudy Heaton is going home, to a man feared throughout London. Dark house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and brooding, he hides behind to a mask, scared of revealing the disfigurement that has had him searching across the world mother she hasn't spoken to for a curesixteen years. Seeking companionship Home, her refuge, he weds Miranda EllisPonden Hall, a young woman from a family reduced where she can heal herself and try to come to povertyterms with the traumatic loss of her husband. As Miranda and Benjamin come She needs to know build bridges with her mother and love each other, secrets are revealed convince her grieving son that could destroy not just his father is dead. Where better than the relationshiphouse full of light and shadow, but both of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349405999</amazonuk>that nurtured her throughout her childhood?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471407764|title=VisionsThe Twisted Tree|author=Kelley ArmstrongRachel Burge
|rating=5
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=Olivia Jones, daughter of serial killers, Martha's world has successfully proved her parents innocent of changed. Blind in one murdereye after falling from a tree, she wakes with a disturbing gift. With that seed of doubt plantedShe can read people through their clothes, secrets tumble from the weave, revealing insights she doesn't really want, and knowledge shedoesn's out to prove them innocent of the restt understand. She knows the people of mysterious little town Cainsville know more than they are saying, but trying flees to get them to talk about anything - from her parents to Oliviagrandmother, Mormor's strange ability to read omens - cabin, seeking answers no one is like trying prepared to get get blood from a stonegive, and stumbles into world of menace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445128</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1492687863|title=Better Homes and HauntingsBellewether |author=Molly HarperSusanna Kearsley|rating=4.5
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=When Nina Linden arrives on Deacon Whitney's private island, it's a chance for her to escape Flitting between the difficulties of her past present day and start rebuilding her failing landscaping business. If she can do a good job heremid-16thcentury, it will open all sorts of doors to the upper class markets, and on a private island, surely her horrible ex can't find ways to sabotage her, right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00KASKUF2</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Dead But Not Forgotten|author=Charlaine Harris and Toni LP Kelner (Editors)|rating=3.5|genre=Anthologies|summary=''Dead But Not Forgotten'Bellewether' returns to Sookie Stackhouse's world, exploring tells the lives and misadventures of some fascinating tale of the more minor characters in the seriesWilde House and all its inhabitants. The collection features stories about Pam Ravenscroft, Adele Hale Stackhouse, Luna, Diantha, Bubba and many of the other colourful characters from Bon Temps and In the wider universe of Sookie's story, written by authors such as Seanan McGuire, Rachel Caine, Nicole Peelerpresent tense aspects, Christopher Golden and many more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GBQXN6K</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sally Nicholls|title=Shadow Girl|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=One of the disadvantages of the foster care system Wilde House is that some children get moved around rather being turned into a lot and usually it's not down museum due to themthe legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. But because of this it's easy to see making friends as being a wasted effort and this was certainly Clare's opinion. By It is told from the age perspective of fourteen she was at her third secondary school - and after being there for two months she hated it. Everyone else had been there for years and they all had friends: Clare had no one. A very bad day saw her being evicted from Charley, the school bus and then getting lost as she tried to find her way home. The good thing was that she met Maddy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123136</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Goddess|author=Laura Powell|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After an economic collapsemuseum curator, Britain is close to breaking point. Citizens are going hungry and there are riots. But Aura who is shielded from it all intrigued by her position as a handmaiden in the Cult of Artemis. In this Britain, ghost who haunts the beliefs of the Ancient Greeks persevere house and are followed by millions - the cult sits side by side with Christianity as their story; a tale that ends in a mainstream religion. Auratragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's thoughts aren't taken up by the suffering outside the sanctuary though - they're taken up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite to take over the position of head priestess when Opis retires. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Libriomancer|author=Jim C Hines|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Pulp fantasy may be frowned upon by some who believe that novels should be about emotions, inner journeys and despair. Fantasy and science fiction can have all these things as wellsister, but they can also be funLydia, entertaining and laser pistols. ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines is a great example. It is a book that follows Isaac VainioFrench-Canadian lieutenant, a Libriomancer Jean-Philippe who has the power was sent to draw magic from bookslive there. He must use this gift to good effect when one day, whilst sitting comfortably cataloguing, he is attacked by three vampires. Does that sound fun to you? If so, read on; if not, this may not be The perspective of the book for you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953456</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Half Bad|author=Sally Green|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Before I start, I'll declare an uninterest. I'm not really into the paranormal genreis continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and I'm definitely not into paranormal romancesJean-Philippe. I like fantasy and I've nothing against The latter two tell the supernatural. It's just the predictability of the paranormal genre that puts me off. I prefer books that surprise me rather than books that comfort me by giving me truth about what I expect. Sowas happening during this chaotic time in history, you realise, I'm coming at ''Half Bad'' from the perspective of an ''un''-fanjust as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself. And I loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141350865</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Megan Miranda1473203287|title=VengeanceSummerland |author=Hannu Rajaniemi
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=''Vengeance'' is a follow-up to [[Fracture by Megan Miranda|Fracture]], in which Delaney almost died, drowned under the ice of a lake. Things never got back to normal after that. Delaney can sense death. She is irresistibly drawn to people who are about to die. And people take a long time to get over the accident. Delaney survived for 11 minutes under the ice - how was this possible? And Carson, the boy who pulled her out, is dead. There are mutterings that Falcon Lake is cursed. It wanted Delaney and, denied her, is now taking others in some kind of freakish revenge.
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{{newreview
|title=The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
|author=Martyn Waites
|rating=4.5
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=It's here at last – Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After the novel discovery of the script of afterlife, the sequel to British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the film of Big Smoke for the book – that was always better as a stage-playrecently deceased. I'll maintain as long as you like that In 1938 the play British Empire is the best way to witness [[The Woman caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in Black by Susan Hill]], purely for the added extra heart of the final frisson – that you'll be carrying the story with you when you leaveSummerland. Making sequels to the filmWhen Rachel White, what with its departures from the sourcean ambitious SIS agent, certainly don't marry up with that – instead of becomes suspicious about the ghost going away into the audience it's instead as if the new characters are compelled into her domain – but either waypotential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover the dread inevitability of all the best ghost stories are on these pagestruth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099588498</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Tales from the Dead of Night: Thirteen Classic Ghost Stories|author=Cecily Gayford (editor)|rating=4.5|genreisbn=Short Stories|summary=This collection of classic ghost stories covers all kinds of chilling tales. There are physical ghosts, emotional ghosts, ghosts that are never seen but merely sensed, and even the odd entity that just seems ghostly, even though it might be an ordinary everyday thing - but still makes you feel as if you’ve, well, seen a ghost. Each story is preceded with some information on the author. The stories are from are from several different periods and the settings range from winter nights in England to sultry summers in India. This combines to make for an excellent overview of all kinds of spooky sagas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250944</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1472235878|title=The Coldest Girl in Coldtown|author=Holly Black|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the future, vampires exist, and everyone knows it. To try and deal with the problem of vampirism, cities have been given to the monsters and designated Coldtowns – walled cities where people can enter, but hardly ever leave. With these cities broadcast on TV 24 hours a day, they look glamorous – but those just watching can’t see the deadliness behind the glitz. Seventeen-year-old Tana is about to find out. Along with her ex-boyfriend Aiden, who’s just been infected by a vampire and has to go without drinking blood for eighty eight days or turn into one himself, and a mysterious vampire named Gavriel, she’s headed for the largest Coldtown of them all. Can they get there – and if they do, will any A Gathering of them survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621299</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=AntigoddessGhosts|author=Kendare BlakeKaren Maitland|rating=3.5
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=Athena Witchcraft, the supernatural and her brother Hermes are the will to survive at all costs collide in a lot less godlike than they used to bestory that never shies away from the darker side of human nature. In factThe land is unhappy, they are dying. Athena is being slowly suffocated by feathers growing inside her the old spirits want revenge and Hermes's body famine is eating itselfkindling a resurgence of the old faith. Literally As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. They The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on a road trip to find out exactly what it is killing the gods and to save themselves if they can. No matter the cost to themselves or others. Gods don't count costswind of change. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833075X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Memory: She's Dying to Remember|author=Christoph Marzi|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jude can see the dead. His life has changed immeasurably since he saw his first ghost about six months ago. He's lost interest at school and become even further distanced from his father, who works away a lot. Instead, he spends most of his time in Highgate Cemetery with the shapeshifting vixen Miss Rathbone and a circle of dead people headed by ex-rock star Gaskell. Jude feels more at home with ghosts than he does with the living. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408326507</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1472234782|title=Hold Your Breath|author=Caroline Green|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Tara can locate lost objects - keys, phones, and even people. But she knows that this strange ability can bring trouble, so when bully Melodie Stone goes missing, she wants to keep her visions to herself. The images she sees won't go away, though - should she risk humiliation, or worse, by trying to find her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848121709</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Weight of SoulsStory Keeper|author=Bryony PearceAnna Mazzola|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Taylor Oh has inherited a curse from her mother. Fated to help ghosts of murder victims get revenge, or be taken by the Darkness herself, she lives her life in fear of being consumed. It's bad enough trying not to alienate her only friend, and persuade her father that she's not insane - but when school bully Justin gets murdered, she's left trying to solve the crime and also cope with the realisation she's becoming attracted to him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908844639</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniela Sacerdoti|title=Tide|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After her parents' deaths at the hands of the demons they fought against, Sarah Midnight was left reeling again by the revelation towards the end of book 1 that her 'cousin' Harry Midnight was actually Harry's friend Sean Hannay. Unable to trust Sean following his lies, Sarah turns to Nicholas, new on the scene. But Nicholas has dark secrets of his own - has Sarah placed her faith in the wrong person? And will she find out the truth about the Midnight legacy before the demons attack again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845025393</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kim Harrington|title=Perception|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After solving a murder over the summer, Clarity 'Clare' Fern finds herself the centre of attention at school. Mostly it's annoying, but harmless - popular girls wanting her to use her unique gift for show and entertainment - but someone is sending her increasingly creepy messages, and Clare keeps getting the feeling she's being followed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407130862</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kai Meyer|title=Arcadia Burns|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you haven't read the [[Arcadia Awakens by Kai Meyer|first book]] in this series, then STEP AWAY FROM THIS PARTICULAR COOKIE AISLE! There will be spoilers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848776403</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Yelena Black|title=Dance of Shadows|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Vanessa is just one of many new students at the New York Ballet Academy - but while they're all trying to become the best dancer, she has her own reasons for being there. Three years ago her older sister disappeared from the school, and she's determined to find out what happened to Margaret. Can she find out? And will the two boys taking an interest in her, charismatic Zeppelin and incredibly intense Justin, help or hinder her search?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408829975</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Deborah White|title=Deceit|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Thinking the immortal Doctor defeated, Claire has allowed her modern-day London life to return - almost - to normal. Her father has found a new girlfriend, Lindsay, and Claire quite likes her, despite a nagging guilt about disloyalty to her mother, who is depressed about the divorce and struggling to cope with Claire's new baby brother, Matthew. There's even a boyfriend, Joe, on the scene. Last year's adventure involving a girl from the past, an evil magician ancestor and an ancient prophecy, seem like old news. After all, Doctor Robert died, didn't he? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848774133</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Becca Fitzpatrick|title=Finale (Hush Hush) |rating=3
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=We left Patch Audrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and Nora were finally happily together and in love but with a big problem: Nora's vow seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of her dead father, Hank. Nora must lead escapes from the Nephilim in the upcoming war against the fallen angels who possess their bodies each yearstraightjacket of her home. If she doesn'tWhere every action, every thought, both she ''and'' her mother will die. She won't be accepted as leader every yearning is controlled by the Nephilim if her own boyfriend is a fallen angelfather, so who only once again their relationship has in his life threw caution to go undergroundthe wind and married way beneath him for love. Nora agrees Now a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to a fake relationship with Danteupholding what is right, what is proper, the second-in-command Nephilim. The scam bastion of doing what is easy enough to pull off - they need to spend a lot of time together anyway, as Dante trains Nora's newly Nephilim body for warexpected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857072919</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Dyson0751571229|title=When The Haunted BookCurtain Falls|author=Carrie Hope Fletcher|rating=35
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=Typically atypical noises faced by someone alone A thoroughly, magical and riveting story that hooks you in an empty house… a rock group reuniting at their old studios from the first page and finding there are more haunting traces of their passage than just their unremembered recordings… takes you on a nightmare for roller coaster ride towards the last. Fletcher weaves together a round-dash of ''Whodunit'' the thrill of romance, (the-world solo yachtsman when he gains a passenger… These could possibly count as entrants in any compendium course of which never runs smoothly,) and an unpredictable ghost stories. But what The ghost appears once a year, the principal star of their authorher very own show, tasked to transfer reportage into readable nonmeet with the love of her life and re-fiction? Should he not know better about dabbling enact her death. A tragic accident with the occult, in any shape or form? How long will it be before he finds himself staring at a ghost himself – one that has not confined itself to just roots buried deep within the pages whole array of the book he is currently writinghuman nature. Love, joy, care, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, but has made itself known in volumes past?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857862421</amazonuk>all laid bare on centre stage.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan HillAaronovitvch_Furthest|title=Dolly|rating=4.5|genre=Horror|summary=An empty house in the remote fenlands of England, with a man returning to it alone… a lawyer sorting out an inheritance… something buried yet still yielding power… [[:Category:Susan Hill|Susan Hill]]'s name, and the subtitle 'a ghost story' on the cover… We do seem to be in the territory of [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]], but worry not – this new short genre novel is a very different beast.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685745</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFurthest Station|author=Libba Bray|title=The DivinersBen Aaronovitch
|rating=4
|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=1920's New York City. Jazz and gin mix with murder and mystery. For Evie O'Neill When local police find something weird - fresh in from Ohio to spectres scaring commuters on a particular part of the city of her dreams after her demonstration of a strange power caused a scandal in society Metropolitan Line, for example - this is what she's always dreamed they call for PC Peter Grant ofthe Special Assessment Unit, also known as The Folly. But dreams can become nightmaresStray river gods, and when Eviemissing Victorian children, her uncle Will and their friends find themselves trying to stop a serial killerfleeting 18th century dispatch riders, she'll have to use they are all of her wits, as well as her power, to stay alive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410392</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tera Lynn Childs|title=Sweet Venom|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Grace is the new girl in San Francisco, who can't understand why shea day's seeing weird creatures whom no-one else seems to notice. Gretchen is an experienced monster-hunter. Greer is (or a socialite. The three of them look eerily alike - whatnight's their connection) work for The Folly team, even if the team only has two official members and can this mismatched trio of teens defend the world from the demons who seem filing system dates back 2 centuries. He may spend time pursuing supernatural offenders, but Constable Grant is a nicely wry and recognisable copper; health and safety rules annoy him and he is inclined to be appearing with evertrust his hunches and park outside Chinese take-increasing frequency?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848779321</amazonuk>aways in the hope of a free meal.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela HartshorneMoore_Strange|title=Time's EchoStrange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2)|author=Syd Moore
|rating=5
|genre=Historical FictionParanormal|summary=Grace Trewe has temporarily moved to York to sort out the affairs of Rosie Strange is back - recovering after her godmotherlast escapade with curator Sam Stone, Lucy, who died suddenly. After surviving the Indonesian tsunami the previous Christmas, Grace has decided to live life and figuring out what on earth to do with the full and plans more travelling once LucyEssex Witch Museum she's house is soldrecently inherited. She hasn’t a care or a tie in the world, as long as If Rosie had her way she doesn't remember little Lucas d be selling the museum and heading back on that Christmas beachto her flat in London - but when her Auntie Babs recommends Rosie and Sam to a local businessman, they find themselves embroiled in dark events once again. As it turns outSomething is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliers, that's not scrawled messages in the rooms and apparitions walking through the only thing she needs to avoidwalls. Strange, horrific dreams disrupt her sleep Before Rosie and vivid daydreams Sam can start to attack her waking moments as 21st century York keeps fading to be replaced by its 16th century streets. Grace will be fine look into these possibly supernatural occurrences though; it, events take an even darker turn when a very real body is found in the restaurant - and the owner's just stress and her oddly acquired knowledge of the past is just daughter swears that a coincidence, or so says seemingly kindly neighbour, historian and single father Drewghost was to blame... Meanwhile, 500 years before, there was a woman named Hawise who met a terrible death…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033054425X</amazonuk>
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