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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=K S TurnerA G Slatter|title=Time: The Immortal Divide (The Chronicles Briar Book of Fate and Choice)the Dead|rating=45

|summary= As we open '' There's a part of me that wants to keep thisjust to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the third book Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the trilogyDarklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Tachra Ellie Briar is on the threshold of either victory or deathfirst non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. As Arrun runs amokWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, TachraEllie's kutu allies disappear on paths that are separated from hers so shecousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's forced to rely on leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her own wit and power. As Tachra challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her people teeter on at the edge heart of a maelstrom of destructionchaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, will that be enough?is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956224296</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jon SkovronRachel Greenlaw|title= Hope Compass and RedBlade|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyTeens|summary= Bleak Hope is a young girl orphaned at ''I can hear the tender age song of eight when the emperor's biomancers – mystics sea. The call of biology with the power to make living things growdeep, decay or change into something else entirely – massacre her whole villagethe answering beat in my heart. The lone survivor'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, Hope sneaks survives on board a travelling merchant ship luring ships into the rocks and by chance becomes a servant at plundering the old Vinchen monasterywrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, home is one of the seven who swim out to survey the empire's best warriorsruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. There she is secretly trained by But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the greatest Vinchen warrior in historywrecking, they capture the island's leader and is driven by her dream of vengeance against those responsible for her parentMira's father. Desperate to save him from death. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316268119</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tom Lloyd|title= Stranger of Tempest|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=Lynx is , Mira makes a mercenary bargain with a sense wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of honour; a dying breed family secret that lies buried deep in the Riven Kingdomsea. Failed by With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the nation he served and weary watched streets of foreign islands to the skirmishes that plague heart of the continentsmuggler's principalities, he walks the land in search of purpose. Bodyguard work keeps his belly full and his mage-gun loaded, and whilst it'll never bring a man fame or wealthterritory, he's not forced Mira must be determined to rely on others or kill without cause. When a kidnapped girl forces Lynx stop at nothing to join a mercenary company, save the job seems simple enough, future of her home and the mercanaries less stupid and vicious than ones she holds most he's met over the years. So long as there are no surprises or hidden agendas along the way, it should work out fine..dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473213177</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony RyanT Kingfisher|title=The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria Thornhedge

|summary=Mercenary Clayden Torcreek is blood-blessed, i.e. one of the few able to translate a few drops of drake's blood into an extraordinary attribute. It gets even better than that: Clayden is unregistered, making him unexpected and eminently hireable when the department of Exceptional Initiatives need someone to track the fabled white drake. His recruiter and contact is covert agent Lizanne Lethbridge who is currently gathering intelligence while posing as 'You had a maid right to the spoilt young Tekelaretake your place. It's worth it though – Tekela' T Kingfisher's father has something latest novella is a lovely reimagining of interest. The problem a fairytale that is that Lizanne isn't the only one interested well known and so staying alive becomes increasingly difficultwell beloved. Out at sea naval officer Hilemore But whilst there is about to put his training to good use. Meanwhile a princess trapped in the inhospitable interiora tower, Clayden's expedition only has to worry about savages and drakes of the giganticsleeping under an eternal enchantment, man-eatingThornhedge is not her story. Instead, fire breathing variety. That's alright then!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356506398</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Gregory Maguire|title= After Alice|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=When Alice fell down the rabbit holeour protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she found Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rule was a new-born baby and abrasive egos as secreted away to the world she left behind. But land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how did Victorian Oxford react to Alice's departure? When Alice's friend Ada, mentioned briefly in ''Alice in Wonderland'' sets out to visit Alice, she arrives a minute too late. Tumbling down the rabbit hole herself, she embarks on an odyssey to find Alice draw magic from her veins and bring her safely home from this surreal world below the worldcast spells. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472230469</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen DonaldsonNicole Jarvis|title=The King's JusticeA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Through the forests and the driving rain rides Black, a man never more aptly named. He's approaching Settle's Crossways, although that is I want all of no concern Florence to himknow my name'' Cast out from Rome, for he is merely following 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 scent of evil. All purpose and little pause or scruplepowerful Accademia, he is on the trail self-proclaimed guardians of a killer, and Settle's Crossways, as luck would the healing magics that through paintings have it, is in need of the King's Justice. Black seems able power to control people's thoughts protect the city and deeds (its citizens from plagues and go without paying his way) just by rubbing an arm under his permanentlycurses. The all-worn black cape, but when he sounds out the parity in the town between the churches of light male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and darkguard it above all else. To them, he knows what exists there may take him to a darker place than even the last wars regarding the balance between those elemental forces Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and to a change – has no place where he really cannot take the control he's used to…amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214491</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen DonaldsonThomas D Lee|title=The Augur's GambitPerilous Times

|genre=Fantasy|summary=In a ''King LearHate is the path of least resistance''esque procedure Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the Queen Inimica Phlegathon DeVry IV has met with each verge of her five barons climate collapse, Britain is in turn, great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and seduced them all into accepting her proposal of marriagerescue what little remains. What does she mean by this bizarre procedure, which only seems to set them all against the other, especially when no-one expected was that one of the fourth to meet with her blabs to the fifth before his turn? And why does the final baron's efforts for his Queen before then rest on sending ships to the East, the likes Knights of which have never ever returned? And what is in store for the island Queendom, when Round Table would answer the royal family's own magical oracle can only see the end of their civilisation?call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214475</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel GodfreyAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=New PompeiiDelilah Recovered|rating=4.5

|summary=Classicist Nick Houghton is employed by Novus Particles to assist them with We meet Dee at a reconstruction of Pompeii – a reconstruction that includes the originalpoint when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, living first century inhabitants. NovusPart have discovered a way be about to pull historical artefacts (and indeed people) through time; an amazing innovationlook up. The conspiracy theorists mumble Out of work, about there being sinister reasons and the disappearance of key personnel helps to feed these rumourslose her flat, but Nick needs a job and this Dee is too good up for an opportunity accountant's job. But it's not to turn downbe. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. Anyway, Witch hunters? What on earth has thatto do with Dee? She's what he tells himself just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to combat her and things will never be the repercussions of saying nosame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298111</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher B HusbergHadeer Elsbai|title=Chaos Queen - Duskfall (The Chaos Queen Quintet)Daughters of Izdihar|rating=4.5

|summary=Winter and KnotDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar''s wedding is a brave move explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and not just because Winter is weavers – those with magical abilities - in a Tiellansociety pitted against them. Knot was brought back Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to life after nearly drowning attend the year beforeWeaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a fate that removed his memory. All he knows is that there are people chasing him privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and when Knotmaintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's angry… you just don't want Knot rights. Giorgina also happens to get angrybe in love with Nico. Meanwhile Cinzia What follows is a devout priestess story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a problem: her beloved sister is leading a religious revolt. Neither woman will come out group of this the same. Cinzia will need to think about her life afresh while Winter… Let's just say big changes lie aheadadmirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299150</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca AlexanderHeather Fawcett|title=The Secrets Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Time and FateFaeries|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Having killed Countess Elizabeth BathoryEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the revenant from the 16th centuryvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, 21st century Jackdaw Hammond did something she's regrettingis not so good with people. By depriving it So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of its hostHrafvsnik, having somehow offended the spirit Saraquel village matriarch, she is not sure what she has moved from done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the Countess right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to JackEmily's frustration. Can she get some help to banish it before someone else But why is he here? What does it a little more terminally both for Jack and Saraquelhe want? Meanwhile back in And what exactly is going on with the 16th century of Edward Kelley and Sir John Dee, Elizabeth Bathory still lives and Saraquel proves he can wreak havoc across time.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195326X</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tarn RichardsonChristopher Golden|title=The Fallen (The Darkest Hand) Road of Bones|rating=43.5

|summary=1915 and The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the war continuesR504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, not just as it's one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the conflict that will come to be known as World War 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 but a more supernatural fight between good and evildon't think google streetview updates it very often. The dark forces continue Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to move across give too many people a darkened Europelesson, evidenced by the increase in demon possession and hideously misshapen babiesit legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. When the Vatican fountain produces blood rather than waterYou can easily find documentaries about it online, the world knows 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 events spoken project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in Revelation may be underwaythe pair's prior TV projects. Inquisitor Poldek Tacit still has They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the will to fight but heguide's just one manchildhood village. Will one man be enough?And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715650599</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tarn RichardsonAndrew Givler|title=The Fallen Soul Fraud (The Darkest HandDebt Collection Book 1) |rating=4.5|genre=Horror|summary=1915 and the war continues, not just as the conflict that will come to be known as World War I but a more supernatural fight between good and evil. The dark forces continue to move across a darkened Europe, evidenced by the increase in demon possession and hideously misshapen babies. When the Vatican fountain produces blood rather than water, the world knows that the events spoken of in Revelation may be underway. Inquisitor Poldek Tacit still has the will to fight but he's just one man. Will one man be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715650599</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paul Cornell|title= Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy |summary=The Great Detecitve's ghost has walked London's streets for an age, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger throug his chest. But what's the motive? And who - or what - could kill a ghost? When policing London's supernatural underworld, eliminating the impossible is not an option. DI James Quill and his detectives have learnt this the hard way. Gifted with the Sight, they'll pursue a criminial genius - who'll lure them into a Sherlockian maze 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...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273265</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Guy Gavriel Kay|title=Children of Earth and Sky|rating=5

|summary=Two spies employed by the Republic of Seresta are sent to the court of Jad's Holy Emperor Rudolfo, 'The Destroyer'Matt has a terrible life. The first, Leonora, knows what sheSeriously—it's doing right awful. It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down to hiding behind the cover his infernal offer: 10 years of a sham marriage assigned blissful life in exchange for that purposehis soul. The second'' Poor Dan! I know, PeroI know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a young artist kidnapped for the taskterrible salesman. He has no previous experience but never hits his targets and, when he's expendable so that's not completely necessary. Events transpire fails to ensure that both spies will need get even Matt to rely sign on mariner and merchant Marin and Serjani fighter Danica more than they think. Yet even they canthe dotted line, he't stop the conflict s so desperate thathe simply forges Matt's on the horizon. Rudolfo has his eye on extending his empire globally and Jad help anything that gets in the waysignature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473628105</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Aliya WhiteleyOlivie Blake|title= The Arrival of MissivesAtlas Six|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=BEWAREDark, sharp, spoilers for Book 1 ahead:The immortal Zaifyr is now in prison on Wila where he's facing trial for the murder of Keepers Fo and Bau. Ayaehighly inquisitive, the former apprentice is no longer the small child who walked unscathed from a burnt out shop. All she wants to do now is save lives but she's frustrated at every turn. Captain Aned Heast is on a mission he won't let drop; he wants The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a name for his band of mercenaries but not just any name. Meanwhile be afraid; somewhere out there is the Child. The Child is comingTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447251318</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenni FaganDaniel Abraham|title=The Sunlight PilgrimsAge of Ash

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=Dylan walks away from this familyWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's small London indie cinema four bridges, she has a knife in 2020 to live on her hand and a Scottish caravan sitemeeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. His new neighbours Constance It is the night between the funeral of a Prince and her transgender 12 year old Stella have troubles the coronation of their own, but the odd British winter isn't helpinghis successor. As For a night the country faces true Arctic temperatures life goes on… or at least it tries toKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434023302</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeAnn Sei Lin|title=Fault/lines (Hadron Damnation Book 0)Rebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=What starts off Kurara has spent her entire life as a day servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that should be remembered for she is a medical appointment soon becomes anything but for DCI Tracey Hanson. When planes start falling from Crafter like him, someone with the sky power to form paper into whatever she and DI Reggie Chambers are thrown together in desires – a power sought after all across the thick of itEmpire. In He asks her to come with him, to leave the midst life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the carnagematter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a teenager shikigami, and she is orphanedforced to flee out into the world. Definitely She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a tragic event but sky-ship whose express purpose is there more to it than that?hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>153061936X</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe AbercrombieB09Q3P283Y|title=Sharp EndsShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=I often feel that short stories are an indulgence on Clyde Robbins signs up for the part of US Army during the author, they get to write down a lot of their ideas that donVietnam War. He't s not really fit into that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a larger storycareer in the military. The stop/start nature of them never sits well If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with mehimself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, just as I am starting to get to know a character they are gone. One way gets him out of solving this would be to use characters that a fan will already know; perhaps explore the past, or the futurerut he's in. That sounds great for He's good in training and is quickly put onto a fan, but how do you do this whilst also catering for a new reader?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575104678</amazonuk>non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David SangerJennifer Saint|title=All Their Minds In TandemElektra|rating=54|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=October 1879: A stranger walks into New Georgetown, West Virginia to keep an appointment. He calls himself 'The MakerElektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and has a gift Elektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that gives him access to people's minds. Gradually he'll become deeply acquainted with often the silent women have the townsfolk but it mustn't sway him from what he's here to accomplish. One man, one mission most compelling stories and no guarantee how it will endthe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784293954</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joel MentmoreDean Koontz|title=SmartQuicksilver|rating=42.5

|summary=Jon and Skull – Matthew Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to his mum – are men with be a passion mercurial character yet, for technology and built he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a business around that. They also embrace anything innovativethree-day old foundling, as John has embraced Lucy; a smartphone app that monitors and assists with his health and life choices. Skull now is more into the idea of expanding Tesla car technology and so lets Jon get starting a career on with ita needless magazine's staff. Therefore But when Jon goes missing, Skull is not only surprised but doesnthis book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind't realise what Jon was caught up in. Shame he didn't pay more attention as that would not only help Skull find Jon, for something – call it may keep both of them alive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993484824</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jen Williams|title=The Silver Tide (Copper Cat) |rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Black Feather Three - Copper Cat Wydrin of Crosshavenunearthly intuition, Lord Aaron Frith and Sir Sebastian - the sought after sellcall it mind-swords are always looking for their next adventure andcontrol, more importantly, their next pay day. Sebastian is still feeling lost after having to leave his love behind but call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he'll come around. He has go to; they've just been given a job by renowned pirate captain Devinia derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the Red. They've been commissioned to help her value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the crew of the aptly named ''Poison Chalice'' to go into a land famed for its monsters and ghostslam. A place deep And all this is just in magic where people vanish. A place where none time for two of the three really want those typical Men in Black types to go but they have no choice: Devinia the Red is Wydrinturn up and suggest he's mum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472211154</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stefan Mohamed|title= Ace of Spiders|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Stanly is frustratedinterest to them. Having set himself up as London's protectorHelped to escape, he's finding that the everyday practicalities finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of superheroism are challenging at besthim acting without being in control, and downright tedious at worst. So it's almost a relief when an attempt the discovery that he is made on his life not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and Stanly finds himself rushing headlong into a twisted adventure, with enemies new and old coming out of the woodwork. However, even with his friends and his ever-increasing power behind him, he may have bitten off whole lot more than he can chew this timebesides. The monsters are coming… and nothing will ever be the same!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630675</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian SelbyTasha Suri|title=SnakewoodThe Jasmine Throne

|summary=Kailen's Twenty are an elite; On the type night of mercenaries that live her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on in legendto the pyre. It therefore stands She is immediately sent to reason be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the authorities want them dead but they aren't mysterious deathless waters. But now the only onestemple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. As the guerrilla war between rebels and governing classes rages onOne day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a lone assassingruesome crime, as elite as Malini claims that the Twenty, unknown even to those on the same side is on their trail. Who is he girl saved her from an attacker and why begs for the vendetta? The answer will be revealed one day to those still alive girl to hear itbecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356505529</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian TchaikovskyGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Tiger and the Wolf (Echoes of the Fall)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Maniye is a girl torn between her mother's tribe, the tiger people and her father's wolves. She has always known her father 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 sacrifice. Although what she hasn't reckoned on is just how much she has to learn, her fatherWitch'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 indeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230770061</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=A K Benedict|title=Jonathan Dark or The Evidence Of GhostsHeart

|summary=Maria King sits by A modern and approachable reimagining of the Thames mudlarking - sifting through the washed up treasures - on Norse myths that centres around a regular basiswitch named Angrboda. Only today she finds a ring She hides in a box with forest at the edge 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'Marry me Maria' on the lid s wrath. Her attempts to live in braille. Blind from birth and now blind by choicepeace, however, the words can be for no are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one else but Ms King. However a greater surprise awaits inside that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the box: the ring is still on a finger belonging stake—and refuses to the last girl who received such a proposalleave her alone. DI Jonathan Dark is assigned After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to the case, not realising what hefall for Loki's taken on or charms, and the sort two start an unusual family made of help heup a half-dead daughter, a son that'll need to call on. The dead are all around hims a wolf, his plan is not to let Maria join themand another son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409144550</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Daniel PolanskyHannah Whitten|title= Those Above|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=For three thousand years Those Above have ruled over their human subjects. From the glittering palaces of their eternal city, they enforce their will with fire and sword. Twenty-five years ago, mankind mustered an army and rose up against them, only to be slaughtered in a terrible battle. Whilst hope died that day, hatred survived. Whispers of another revolt begin to stir throughout the oppressed: a widowed woman, dedicated to revenge: a general, the only to defeat one of Those Above; and a boy killer, who rises from the gutter to lead an uprising.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779915</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Den Patrick|title=The Girl on the Liar's ThroneWolf|rating=4.5

|summary=Lucien doesn’t want to declare war on Landfall and its Silent QueenIn Red's family, Aneathe first daughter becomes queen, whom he grew up with as an Orfanoand the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. She runs a dictatorship of militant suppression and suffering which To Red's misfortune, she is rather unlike the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her. Unbeknown back, Red knows what to Lucienexpect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the throne one who will decide the fate of Landfall their kingdom. If she is occupied by Erisnot a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, an imposter and puppet used by those with far fewer scruplesthe fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. Anea herself is imprisoned in But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the palace oubliette surrounded by Myrmidonhour, a half-human army created by Erebus. There's little chance of her escaping or getting very far if she didfinds that the legends are lies. However, for Anea 'little chance' The wolf is not a challenge, not monster—he's a preventativeman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200040</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreview <!-- Upload 16/2 -->Frontpage|author=C E RobinsonJohn Gwynne|title=Lilith: Eden's Planetary Princess (The Michael Archives Book 1)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=35,000 years ago a war in heaven bleeds onto the planet Eden. King Joshua's angels are being harvested, their essence drained off and their remaining bodies no good for anything apart from a euthanasia; a fate from which they can't be reincarnated. From this good essence is created evil Nephilim, creatures at the bidding of Satan's Overlords. Out of this battle between good and evil a planetary princess arises and this first book in the Michael Archives records her journey: the journey of Lilith from ordinary to extraordinary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B018N7F2B8</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Charlie Jane Anders|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 the fact that maybe they know each other better than anyone…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650556</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Susan Dennard|title=Truthwitch (Shadow Of The Witchlands Series)Gods

|summary=Highway robbery The Shadow Of The Gods is one of their talents so Safiya and Iseult don't envisage any problems. That is until they realise one the first installment of the soldiers defending the booty is a bloodwitch. It's an even bigger problem because truthwitches like Safiya are Bloodsworn Saga, set in demand…dangerously so! Meanwhile as the kingdom era of Nubrevna reaches the end Vikings in the shadow of a 20 year truceRagnarok, Prince Merik desperately tries when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for a permanent peaceall to see. 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 This story is the slavers' raids, which destroyed families and homes like a natural disaster, were a misfortune that couldn't be averted. But it wasn't true. Their King, King Marcus, had struck a deal – sacrificing his people ultimate in exchange for technology and political power. But nowHigh Fantasy, everyone knows. Jacob and Carter Carnehan escaped John Gwynne certainly does justice to the slaversgenre, returning home with the truth, the true Kingmythical creatures, archaic language and a Princess as their hostagebattles galore. Their purpose was to avoid war – but instead the truth prompts This is a civil warthick book, with an intricate plot and an invasion force gathers fascinating characters that are woven together to reclaim the princesscreate a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle. Once again, Jacob and Carter will be separated – and this time they'll be fighting for something bigger than both of them…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575092106</amazonuk>0356514218