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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen DonaldsonA G Slatter|title=The Augur's GambitBriar Book of the Dead|rating=35

|summary=In a ''King LearThere''esque procedure, the Queen Inimica Phlegathon DeVry IV has met with each s a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of her five barons in turnmy own, and seduced them all into accepting her proposal of marriagemine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. What does she mean by this bizarre procedure'' Within a remote mountain pass, which only seems to set them all against far away from the otherworld, especially when lies Silverton; a town under the fourth to meet with her blabs to the fifth before his turn? And why does protection of the final baronBriar's efforts for his Queen before then rest on sending ships to , a family of witches who protect the town and the East, wider world from the likes of which have never ever returned? And what is in store Darklands. Though she has always wished for the island Queendommagic, when Ellie Briar is the royal first non-witch to be born into her familyfor generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's own magical oracle can only see cousin Audra becomes the end of their civilisation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473214475</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Godfrey|title=New Pompeii|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Classicist Nick Houghton is employed by Novus Particles to assist them with a reconstruction of Pompeii – a reconstruction that includes Briar Witch, the originaltown's leader, living first century inhabitantsand Ellie takes her place beside her. NovusPart have discovered a As challenges come her way to pull historical artefacts (and indeed people) through time; an amazing innovation. The conspiracy theorists mumble about there being sinister reasons left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the disappearance of key personnel helps rare ability to feed these rumourscommunicate with the dead, but Nick needs putting her at the heart of a job and this is too good an opportunity maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to turn down. Anywayanother, that's Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what he tells himself to combat do as the repercussions of saying noBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298111</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|author=Christopher B Husberg|title=Chaos Queen - Duskfall (The Chaos Queen Quintet)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Winter Rosevear, a remote and Knot's wedding is a brave move partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and not just because Winter plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is a Tiellan. Knot was brought back one of the seven who swim out to life after nearly drowning survey the year before, a fate ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that removed his memorylies within. All he knows is that there are people chasing him and But when Knotthe Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's angry… you just donleader and Mira't want Knot s father. Desperate to get angry. Meanwhile Cinzia is save him from death, Mira makes a devout priestess bargain with a problem: wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her beloved sister is leading , she sets off in search of a religious revolt. Neither woman will come out of this family secret that lies buried deep in the samesea. Cinzia will need With only nine days to think about unearth what might save her life afresh while Winter… Letfather, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's just say big changes lie aheadterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299150</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca AlexanderT Kingfisher|title=The Secrets of Time and FateThornhedge|rating=4.5

|summary=Having killed Countess Elizabeth Bathory, the revenant from the 16th century, 21st century Jackdaw Hammond did something she's regretting. By depriving it of its host, the spirit Saraquel has moved from the Countess 'You had a right to Jackretake your place. Can she get some help to banish it before someone else does it a little more terminally both for Jack and Saraquel? Meanwhile back in the 16th century of Edward Kelley and Sir John Dee, Elizabeth Bathory still lives and Saraquel proves he can wreak havoc across time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195326X</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Tarn Richardson|title=The Fallen (The Darkest Hand) |rating=4.5|genre=Horror|summary=1915 and the war continues, not just as the conflict T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that will come to be is well known as World War I but a more supernatural fight between good and evilwell beloved. The dark forces continue to move across But whilst there is a princess trapped in a darkened Europetower, evidenced sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by the increase in demon possession fairies when she was a new-born baby and hideously misshapen babies. When the Vatican fountain produces blood rather than water, the world knows that secreted away to the events spoken land of in Revelation may be underway. Inquisitor Poldek Tacit still has the will fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to fight but he's just one mandraw magic from her veins and cast spells. Will one man be enough?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715650599</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tarn RichardsonNicole Jarvis|title=The Fallen (The Darkest Hand) A Portrait in Shadow

|genre=HorrorHistorical Fiction|summary=1915 ''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the war continuespowerful Accademia, not just as the conflict self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that will come through paintings have the power to be known as World War I but a more supernatural fight between good protect the city and its citizens from plagues and evilcurses. The dark forces continue to move across a darkened Europe, evidenced by the increase in demon possession all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and hideously misshapen babiesguard it above all else. When the Vatican fountain produces blood rather than waterTo them, the world knows that the events spoken of in Revelation may be underway. Inquisitor Poldek Tacit still Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has the will to fight but he's just one manno place amongst them and their society. Will one man be enough?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715650599</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul CornellThomas D Lee|title= Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?Perilous Times|rating= 4.53|genre= Fantasy |summary=The Great Detecitve's ghost has walked London's streets for an age, given shape by peopleHate is the path of least resistance's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger throug his chest. But what's  Set in the motive? And who near- or what - could kill distant future, in a ghost? When policing London's supernatural underworldworld on the verge of climate collapse, eliminating the impossible Britain is not an optionin great peril. DI James Quill The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and his detectives have learnt this the hard wayrescue what little remains. Gifted with What no-one expected was that one of the Sight, they'll pursue a criminial genius - who'll lure them into a Sherlockian maze Knights of clues and evidence. The team also have thier own demons to fight. They've been to Hell and back (literally) but now the unit is falling apart..Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447273265</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy Gavriel KayAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Children of Earth and SkyDelilah Recovered|rating=54

|summary=Two spies employed by the Republic of Seresta are sent to the court of JadWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn's Holy Emperor Rudolfo, 'The Destroyer'. The firstt going as planned but things might, Leonorajust might, knows what she's doing right down be about to hiding behind the cover look up. Out of a sham marriage assigned for that purpose. The secondwork, Peroabout to lose her flat, Dee is a young artist kidnapped up for the task. He has no previous experience but hean accountant's expendable so thatjob. But it's not completely necessaryto be. Events transpire to ensure that both spies will need to rely on mariner and merchant Marin and Serjani fighter Danica more than they thinkDee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. Yet even they can't stop She survives the conflict attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has thatto do with Dee? She's on the horizonjust an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Rudolfo has his eye on extending his empire globally Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and Jad help anything that gets in things will never be the waysame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473628105</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Aliya WhiteleyHadeer Elsbai|title= The Arrival Daughters of MissivesIzdihar|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=In the aftermath of the Great War, Shirley Fearn dreams of challenging the conventions of rural England, where life is as unchanging as the seasons. The scarred veteran Mr Tiller, left disfigured by an impossible accident on the battlefields of France, brings with him a message: part prophecy, part warning. As Shirley's village prepares for the annual May Day celebrations, where a new queen will be crowned and the future reborn, she must choose between change and renewal – will the missives Mr Tiller brings prevent her mastering her identity?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907389377</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ben Peek|title=Leviathan's Blood (Children)|rating=5

|summary=BEWAREDrawing inspiration from Egypt, spoilers for Book 1 ahead:''The immortal Zaifyr is now in prison on Wila where heDaughters of Izdihar''s facing trial explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the murder rights of Keepers Fo women and Bauweavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. AyaeNehal, born into the former apprentice is no longer upper class, wishes to attend the small child who walked unscathed from a burnt out shop. All she wants Weaving Academy to learn to do now is save lives control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she's frustrated at every turnis forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Captain Aned Heast is Giorgina on the other hand did not have a mission he won't let drop; he wants privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a name group campaigning for his band of mercenaries but not just any namewomen's rights. Meanwhile Giorgina also happens to be afraid; somewhere out there is the Childin love with Nico. The Child What follows is cominga 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>1447251318</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenni FaganHeather Fawcett|title=The Sunlight PilgrimsEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4.5

|summary=Dylan walks away from this familyEmily Wilde is 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 faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small London indie cinema in 2020 village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to live redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on a Scottish caravan sitethe right track. His new neighbours Constance Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and her transgender 12 year old Stella have troubles of their owndelight, but the odd British winter isnmuch to Emily't helpings frustration. As But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the country faces true Arctic temperatures life goes on… or at least it tries to.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434023302</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeChristopher Golden|title=Fault/lines (Hadron Damnation Book 0)Road of Bones|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=What starts off as a day that should be remembered The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a medical appointment soon becomes anything but for DCI Tracey Hansonthousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. When planes start falling from For months of the sky she and DI Reggie Chambers are thrown together in year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the thick 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 itvery often. In the midst of the carnageBuilt because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a teenager is orphanedlife every metre it covers. Definitely You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a tragic event but 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 more to it than 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 company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that?'s where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>153061936X</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe AbercrombieAndrew Givler|title=Sharp EndsSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)

|summary=I often feel ''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that short stories are an indulgence on Dan the part Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of the authora blissful life in exchange for his soul.'' Poor Dan! I know, I know, they get to write down a lot of their ideas that donwe shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really fit into is a larger storyterrible salesman. The stop/start nature of them He never sits well with mehits his targets and, just as I am starting when he fails to get even Matt to know a character they are gone. One way of solving this would be to use characters that a fan will already know; perhaps explore sign on the pastdotted line, or the future. That sounds great for a fan, but how do you do this whilst also catering for a new reader?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575104678</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Sanger|title=All Their Minds In Tandem|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=October 1879: A stranger walks into New Georgetown, West Virginia to keep an appointment. He calls himself he'The Maker' and has a gift s so desperate that gives him access to people's minds. Gradually he'll become deeply acquainted with the townsfolk but it mustn't sway him from what hesimply forges Matt's here to accomplish. One man, one mission and no guarantee how it will endsignature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784293954</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joel MentmoreOlivie Blake|title=SmartThe Atlas Six

|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=Jon and Skull – Matthew to his mum – are men with a passion for technology and built a business around that. They also embrace anything innovativeDark, sharp, as John has embraced Lucy; a smartphone app that monitors and assists with his health and life choices. Skull is more into the idea of expanding Tesla car technology and so lets Jon get on with it. Therefore when Jon goes missinghighly inquisitive, Skull is not only surprised but doesn't realise what Jon was caught up in. Shame he didn't pay more attention as that would not only help Skull find Jon, it may keep both of them aliveThe Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993484824</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jen WilliamsDaniel Abraham|title=The Silver Tide (Copper Cat) Age of Ash|rating=4.5

|summary=The Black Feather Three - Copper Cat Wydrin We meet Alys under the most northerly of CrosshavenOldgate's four bridges, Lord Aaron Frith she has a knife in her hand and Sir Sebastian - a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of years when the sought after sell-swords worlds are always looking for at their next adventure thinnest and, more importantly, their next pay dayall things are possible. Sebastian It is still feeling lost after having to leave his love behind but he'll come around. He has to; they've just been given a job by renowned pirate captain Devinia the Red. They've been commissioned to help her and night between the crew funeral of the aptly named ''Poison Chalice'' to go into a land famed for its monsters Prince and ghoststhe coronation of his successor. A place deep in magic where people vanish. A place where none of the three really want to go but they have no choice: Devinia For a night the Red Kithamar is Wydrin's mumun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472211154</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedAnn Sei Lin|title= Ace of SpidersRebel Skies

|genre= General FictionTeens|summary= Stanly is frustrated. Having set himself up Kurara has spent her entire life as London's protectora servant on the Midori, he's finding that a massive dining hall floating in the everyday practicalities sky where soldiers of superheroism are challenging at best, the Empire come to drink and downright tedious at worstmake merry between their conquests. So it's almost However, when a relief when an attempt man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is made on his a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life and Stanly finds himself rushing headlong into of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a twisted adventureshikigami, with enemies new and old coming she is forced to flee out of into the woodworkworld. HoweverShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, even with his friends and his evera sky-increasing power behind himship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, he may have bitten off more than he can chew this time. The monsters are coming… and nothing will ever be the same!a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630675</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian SelbyB09Q3P283Y|title=SnakewoodShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=KailenClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's Twenty are an elite; the type of mercenaries not really that live on invested in legend. It therefore stands to reason that the authorities want them dead but they aren't the only ones. As the guerrilla war between rebels and governing classes rages onfight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a lone assassin, as elite as career in the Twenty, unknown even to those on the same side is on their trailmilitary. Who If he's honest - which Clyde usually is , with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and why the vendetta? The answer will be revealed this one day to those still alive to hear it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356505529</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Adrian Tchaikovsky|title=The Tiger and the Wolf (Echoes , at least, gets him out of the Fall)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Maniye is a girl torn between her motherrut he's tribe, the tiger people and her fatherin. He's wolves. She has always known her father good in training and wolf chieftain killed her mother as soon as Maniye was born but she has only just discovered his purpose for Maniye's life. There is only one alternative for her: to run away, taking Hesprec the snake and proposed wolf blood sacrificequickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. Although what she hasn't reckoned on is just how much she has to learn, her fatherHe's determination and the dogged perseverance of Broken Axe, lone wolf and hired killer. She also seems to be running towards a world on the verge of a horrific war as Maniye places herself between a rock and a very hard place indeedchuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230770061</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A K BenedictJennifer Saint|title=Jonathan Dark or The Evidence Of GhostsElektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Maria King sits 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the Thames mudlarking - sifting through story of three women who live in the washed up treasures - on a regular basisheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Only today she finds a ring Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in a box with 'Marry me Maria' on the lid in braille. Blind from birth and now blind by choice, story of the words can be for no one else but Ms KingTrojan War. However a greater surprise awaits inside Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the box: silent women have the ring is still on a finger belonging to the last girl who received such a proposal. DI Jonathan Dark is assigned to the case, not realising what he's taken on or most compelling stories and the sort of help he'll need to call on. The dead are all around him, his plan is not to let Maria join themmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409144550</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Daniel PolanskyDean Koontz|title= Those AboveQuicksilver|rating= 42.5|genre= FantasyThrillers|summary=For three thousand years Those Above have ruled over their human subjectsMeet Quinn Quicksilver. From He's not had the glittering palaces of their eternal citychance to get to be a mercurial character yet, they enforce their will with fire and sword. Twentyfor he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-five years agoday old foundling, mankind mustered an army and rose up against them, only to be slaughtered in now is starting a career on a terrible battleneedless magazine's staff. Whilst hope died that dayBut 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, hatred survived. Whispers call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of another revolt begin him that he go to stir throughout the oppressed: a widowed womanderelict diner, dedicated to revenge: find a gold coin worth a generalfortune, cash the only 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. Helped to defeat one escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of Those Above; him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a boy killer, who rises from the gutter to lead an uprisingwhole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444779915</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Den PatrickTasha Suri|title=The Girl on the Liar's Jasmine Throne|rating=4.5

|summary=Lucien doesn’t want On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to declare war step on Landfall and its Silent Queen, Anea, whom he grew up with as an Orfanoto the pyre. She runs is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a dictatorship community of militant suppression and suffering which is rather unlike herpeople who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. Unbeknown to Lucien, But now the throne of Landfall temple is occupied by Erisnothing more than an overgrown, an imposter and puppet used by those with far fewer scruplesdecaying ruin. Anea herself is imprisoned in the palace oubliette surrounded by MyrmidonOne day, Malini witnesses a half-human army created by Erebusgirl kill someone with magic. There's little chance Instead of reporting her escaping or getting very far if she did. However, for Anea 'little chance' is such a challengegruesome crime, not a preventativeMalini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200040</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreview <!-- Upload 16/2 -->Frontpage|author=C E RobinsonGenevieve Gornichec|title=Lilith: EdenThe Witch's Planetary Princess (The Michael Archives Book 1)Heart|rating=3.54

|summary=35,000 years ago A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a war witch named Angrboda. She hides in heaven bleeds onto a forest at the planet Eden. King Joshuaedge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's angels wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, however, are being harvestedquickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, their essence drained off and their remaining bodies no good Angrboda begins to fall for anything apart from a euthanasia; a fate from which they canLoki't be reincarnated. From this good essence is created evil Nephilims charms, creatures at and the bidding two start an unusual family made of Satanup a half-dead daughter, a son that's Overlords. Out of this battle between good a wolf, and evil another son that's a planetary princess arises and this first book in the Michael Archives records her journey: the journey of Lilith from ordinary to extraordinarysnake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B018N7F2B8</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Charlie Jane AndersHannah Whitten|title= All The Birds In The Sky|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary= All of us have awakenings as teenagers, but Patricia's is more extreme than most – discovering that she is a witch who can speak to animals. Classmate Laurence's awakening is less disturbing but no less impressive – a scientific genius, he creates a two-second time machine. Growing up together, the mutual weirdness between the two bonds them, but life gets in the way, and they end up on very different paths. Meeting as adults in San Francisco, Laurence is an engineering genius trying to save the world, whereas Patricia is a qualified witch, working hard to prove herself and cure those on the planet. As the two are drawn back together, and the fate of the whole world threatened, Patricia and Laurence are forced to consider For the fact that maybe they know each other better than anyone…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650556</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Susan Dennard|title=Truthwitch (The Witchlands Series)Wolf

|summary=Highway robbery is one of their talents so Safiya and Iseult don't envisage any problems. That is until they realise one of the soldiers defending the booty is a bloodwitch. ItIn Red's an even bigger problem because truthwitches like Safiya are in demand…dangerously so! Meanwhile as the kingdom of Nubrevna reaches the end of a 20 year trucefamily, Prince Merik desperately tries for a permanent peace. But there are those who would rather fight, including his own sister.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447282043</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephen Hunt|title= Foul Tides Turning|rating= 3.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= The people of Weyland always believed the slavers' raidsfirst daughter becomes queen, which destroyed families and homes like the second daughter becomes a natural disaster, were a misfortune that couldn't be avertedsacrifice. But it wasnTo Red't true. Their Kings misfortune, King Marcus, had struck a deal – sacrificing his people in exchange for technology and political powershe is the second daughter. But now, everyone knows. Jacob and Carter Carnehan escaped Sent alone into the slavers, returning home woods with nothing but the truthcape on her back, the true King, and a Princess as their hostage. Their purpose was Red knows what to avoid war – but instead expect: within the truth prompts woods is a civil warwolf, and an invasion force gathers to reclaim he is the princess. Once again, Jacob and Carter one who will be separated – and this time they'll be fighting for something bigger than both decide the fate of them…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575092106</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paula Brackston|title=The Silver Witch (Shadow Chronicles)|rating=4their kingdom.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Ceramic artist Tilda moves to the house If she and her husband envisaged their lives together in is not a worthy sacrifice, the wilds of Wales. Unfortunately, due monsters he keeps contained to his tragic death a year agothe woods will be released, Tilda must move in alone and build a different life. In the same location a thousand years earlier Seren serves Prince Hywell as his village's seer and shaman. Life isn't easy for her either. She has enemies, some a lot closer than the traditional threat from fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the Anglo Saxons. Although centuries apart these two women's lives will come together with connotations for all who love them and a deadly force that could stories go beyond that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150651</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tim Akers|title= The Pagan Night|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= The Celestial Church has all but eliminated But when Red enters the old pagan wayswoods, ruling the people with an iron hand. Demonic gheists terrorise expecting nothing more than to be killed within the landhour, hunted by she finds that the warriors of the inquisition, yet itlegends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's the battling factions within the Church and age-old hatreds between north and south that tear the land aparta man. Malcolm Blakley, hero of the Reaver War, seeks to end the conflict between men, yet it falls to his son Ian and huntress Gwen Adair, to stop the killing before it tears the land apart – fighting mad gods, inquisitor priests, holy knights, and noble houses in battles of prejudice, politics, and power…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297379</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsJohn Gwynne|title=Stars of Fortune (Guardians Trilogy)The Shadow Of The Gods

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