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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James IslingtonA G Slatter|title=The Shadow of What Was Lost: Briar Book One of the Licanius TrilogyDead|rating=4.5
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|summary=Young Davian is an Augur; '' There's a once powerful race part of me that has become almost extinct due wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to legislationenjoy it for a while. The surviving remnant stay silent about their powers lest they follow '' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the same fate as their forebears – outlawed town and then murdered by a harsh legal systemthe wider world from the Darklands. Up till now Davian Though she has been safe within an academy always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the Gifted: the Tol in Andarra. Then one day everything changesfirst 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. Now Davian is running for his lifeWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, unaware of his capabilities or whom itEllie's safe to trust. Itcousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's even worse than it sounds for this is leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a world on maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the edge of warBriar witches' legacy, trying everything they have sacrificed to suppress secrets that will endanger its very existencesurvive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356507750</amazonuk>1803364548
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|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
{{newreview|author= A K Benedict|title= Class: The Stone House|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=There's an old stone house near Coal Hill School. Most people hurry past it. They've heard Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the storieswrecks. ButMira, if you stoplike her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and look up, you'll see any treasure that lies within. But when the face of Council Watch lays a girltrap to end the wrecking, pressed up against a window. Screaming. Tanya finds herself drawn to they capture the stone house. Thereisland's a mystery there, leader and sheMira's going father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to solve it. But the more she investigatesguide her, the more she realises sets off in search of a family secret that there's a presence lies buried deep in the housesea. One that wants With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her. Something is waiting for Tanya in from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the stone house. Something that has been trapping others in its web over future of her home and the years. Something that is far worse than any ghost..ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785941879</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Daniel PolanskyT Kingfisher|title=A City DreamingThornhedge|rating= 45|genre= Fantasy|summary=A City Dreaming guides us through ''You had a year in the life of the restless and enigmatic M as he returns right to New York after travellingretake your place. A magical adept, '' T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well-known to the various non-human beings that frequent the alternative realities of New York City and not without power himself, you'd never guess any of it from his nonchalant hipper-than-thou attitudewell beloved. He tries to keep out of local politics – opposing camps of magical affiliates But whilst there is a princess trapped in the city – but can be fiercely loyal to his closest associatesa tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. Though he reluctantly gets mixed up in various scrapes via his strange bunch of friends and acquaintancesInstead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and occasionally has secreted away to save the day, all he really wants is land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to be left alone to enjoy the sex, drugs draw magic from her veins and good coffee that abound in the citycast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473634253</amazonuk>1803364238
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen MaitlandNicole Jarvis|title=The Plague CharmerA Portrait in Shadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=The people ''I want all of Porlock Weir have heard 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 powerful Accademia, the rumours. King Edward III has fled with his family to self-proclaimed guardians of the New Forest to escape healing magics that through paintings have the Plague in London. Will it remain confined power to protect the city? The last time no one was safe and, according to Janveer, the strange woman fishermen rescued its citizens from the sea, it'll be the same againplagues and curses. Janveer The all-male Accademia has a proposition thoughhoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. She can save Porlock To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and all it will cost change – has no place amongst them is one lifeand their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472235827</amazonuk>1803362340
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark MorrisThomas D Lee|title=The Wraiths of War (Obsidian Heart book 3)Perilous Times|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Although not dead as he thought he was, Alex Locke feels no closer to finding his missing daughter across time or, indeed, unmasking the dark man. However, he knows what he has to do. Alex must use the obsidian heart to travel back and fight in World War I beside the ghostly soldier who visited him a century or so later. It's not as simple as it seems, as Alex keeps telling himself… or rather as Alexes (plural) keep telling himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781168741</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kelley Armstrong|title= Otherworld Chills|rating= 43
|genre= Fantasy
|summary= I came to Armstrong's 'Hate is the path of least resistance'Otherworld'' quite late  Set in the near-distant future, in its development and it seems that she's now wrapping it up to move a world on to other things. Billed as the 'final collection' verge of stories ''Chills'' allegedly completes climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several storylines of her best loved characters. I'd disagree) to save the day and rescue what little remains. If Sherlock can survive Reichenbach then I'm sure Werewolves, Vampires and demiWhat no-demotic Angels can survive whatever state they may have been left inone expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500683</amazonuk>0356518523
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=FlooredDelilah Recovered
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=1We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up.Nemo has been brought back from death Out of work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. But it's not to be. Dee is attacked by Doctineer Viktortwo men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. The fact Witch hunters? What on earth has that she was once dead combined to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her new form as a pleasure bot makes her worthless – a human/robot hybrid zeroand things will never be the same... But even zeros have ambitions, even if they're dangerous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0994616414</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edward CoxHadeer Elsbai|title=The Watcher Daughters of Dead Time (Relic Guild 3)Izdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Genii are winning Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the Relic Guild is gradually being eradicated. Clara upper class, wishes to attend the changeling survives Weaving Academy to learn to fight control her abilities and then join the military, but for how long? The trauma of what instead she's been through is taking its tollforced into an arranged marriage with Nico. However she's still Relic Guild so the fight goes Giorgina on. Meanwhile elsewhere Samuel leads the search other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Nephilim who may Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be the key to good triumphingin love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, but that's not straightforward eitherfrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200369</amazonuk>0356520471
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=K S TurnerHeather Fawcett|title=Time: The Immortal Divide (The Chronicles Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Fate and Choice)Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= As we open thisEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the third book 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 village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the trilogyvillage matriarch, Tachra she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the threshold of either victory or deathright track. As Arrun runs amokEnter Wendell Bambleby, Tachraher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's kutu allies disappear on paths that are separated from hers so she's forced to rely on her own wit and powerfrustration. As Tachra and her people teeter But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the edge of destruction, will that be enoughfaerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956224296</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jon SkovronChristopher Golden|title= Hope and RedRoad of Bones|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyHorror|summary= Bleak Hope is The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a young girl orphaned at thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the tender age world's most notorious routes. For months of eight when the emperoryear it's biomancers – mystics a spread of biology with sheet ice suspended above the power 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 it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to make living things growgive too many people a lesson, decay or change into something else entirely – massacre her whole villageit legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. The lone survivor You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, Hope sneaks on board is a travelling merchant ship and by chance becomes film-maker, doing a servant at recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the old Vinchen monastery, home project to fruition to claw back some of the empirefunds he'd invested in the pair's best warriorsprior TV projects. There she is secretly trained by They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the greatest Vinchen warrior in historycompany of a local beauty, and is driven by her dream of vengeance against those responsible for her parentfetch up at the guide's deathchildhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316268119</amazonuk>1803361476
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom Lloyd|title= Stranger of Tempest|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=Lynx is a mercenary with a sense of honour; a dying breed in the Riven Kingdom. Failed by the nation he served and weary of the skirmishes that plague the continent'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 wealth, he's not forced to rely on others or kill without cause. When a kidnapped girl forces Lynx to join a mercenary company, the job seems simple enough, and the mercanaries less stupid and vicious than 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...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473213177</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anthony RyanAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Waking Fire: Debt Collection Book One of Draconis Memoria |rating=5|genre=Fantasy|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 a maid to the spoilt young Tekela. It's worth it though – Tekela's father has something of interest. The problem is that Lizanne isn't the only one interested and so staying alive becomes increasingly difficult. Out at sea naval officer Hilemore is about to put his training to good use. Meanwhile in the inhospitable interior, Clayden's expedition only has to worry about savages and drakes of the gigantic, man-eating, 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 hole, she found Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rule and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But 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 and bring her safely home from this surreal world below the world. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472230469</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephen Donaldson|title=The King's Justice|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|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 of no concern to him, for he is merely following the scent of evil. All purpose and little pause or scruple, he is on the trail of a killer, and Settle's Crossways, as luck would have it, is in need of the King's Justice. Black seems able to control people's thoughts and deeds (and go without paying his way1) just by rubbing an arm under his permanently-worn black cape, but when he sounds out the parity in the town between the churches of light and dark, he knows what exists there may take him to a darker place than even the last wars regarding the balance between those elemental forces – and to a place where he really cannot take the control he's used to…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473214491</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephen Donaldson|title=The Augur's Gambit|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=In a ''King Lear''esque procedure, the Queen Inimica Phlegathon DeVry IV has met with each of her five barons in turn, and seduced them all into accepting her proposal of marriage. What does she mean by this bizarre procedure, which only seems to set them all against the other, especially when 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 of which have never ever returned? And what is in store for the island Queendom, when the royal family's own magical oracle can only see 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 – ''Matt has a reconstruction that includes the original, living first century inhabitantsterrible life. NovusPart have discovered a way to pull historical artefacts (and indeed people) through time; an amazing innovationSeriously—it's awful. The conspiracy theorists mumble about there being sinister reasons and It is so bad that Dan the disappearance Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of key personnel helps to feed these rumours, but Nick needs a job and this is too good an opportunity to turn downblissful life in exchange for his soul. Anyway, that's what he tells himself to combat the repercussions of saying no.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298111</amazonuk>}}'
{{newreview|author=Christopher B Husberg|title=Chaos Queen Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul- Duskfall (The Chaos Queen Quintet)|rating=4catching demons.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Winter and Knot's wedding But he really is a brave move terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and not just because Winter is a Tiellan. Knot was brought back , when he fails to get even Matt to life after nearly drowning sign on the year beforedotted line, a fate that removed his memory. All he knows is that there are people chasing him and when Knot's angry… you just don't want Knot to get angry. Meanwhile Cinzia is a devout priestess with a problem: her beloved sister is leading a religious revolt. Neither woman will come out of this the same. Cinzia will need to think about her life afresh while Winter… Letso desperate that he simply forges Matt's just say big changes lie aheadsignature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299150</amazonuk>1958204021
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca AlexanderOlivie Blake|title=The Secrets of Time and FateAtlas Six|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Having killed Countess Elizabeth BathoryDark, the revenant from the 16th centurysharp, 21st century Jackdaw Hammond did something sheand highly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six's regretting. By depriving it of ' makes its host, the spirit Saraquel has moved from the Countess to Jack. Can she get some help to banish it before someone else does it publishing debut after becoming 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 timeTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195326X</amazonuk>1529095239
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tarn RichardsonDaniel Abraham|title=The Fallen (The Darkest Hand) Age of Ash
|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?
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{{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 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?
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{{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...
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{{newreview
|author=Guy Gavriel Kay
|title=Children of Earth and Sky
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Two spies employed by We meet Alys under the Republic most northerly of Seresta are sent to the court of JadOldgate's Holy Emperor Rudolfofour bridges, 'The Destroyer'. The first, Leonora, knows what she's doing right down to hiding behind the cover of has a knife in her hand and a sham marriage assigned for meeting that purposeshe dreads. The second, Pero, Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a young artist kidnapped for point in the turning of years when the task. He has no previous experience but he's expendable so that's not completely necessary. Events transpire to ensure that both spies will need to rely on mariner worlds are at their thinnest and merchant Marin and Serjani fighter Danica more than they thinkall things are possible. Yet even they can't stop It is the night between the conflict that's on funeral of a Prince and the horizoncoronation of his successor. Rudolfo has his eye on extending his empire globally and Jad help anything that gets in For a night the wayKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473628105</amazonuk>0356515427
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Aliya WhiteleyAnn Sei Lin|title= The Arrival of MissivesRebel Skies|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary FictionTeens|summary=In Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the aftermath Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Great WarEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, Shirley Fearn dreams of challenging someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the conventions of rural EnglandEmpire. He asks her to come with him, where to leave the life of dreary servitude that is as unchanging as the seasonsall she has known. The scarred veteran Mr TillerWell, left disfigured by an impossible accident on soon Kurara won't have any say in the battlefields of Francematter, brings with him because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a message: part prophecyshikigami, part warningand she is forced to flee out into the world. As Shirley's village prepares for She joins Himura aboard the annual May Day celebrationsOrihime, where a new queen will be crowned and the future rebornsky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, she must choose between change and renewal – will the missives Mr Tiller brings prevent her mastering her identity?a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907389377</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben PeekB09Q3P283Y|title=Leviathan's Blood (Children)Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=54
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=BEWARE, spoilers Clyde Robbins signs up for Book 1 ahead:The immortal Zaifyr is now in prison on Wila where hethe US Army during the Vietnam War. He's facing trial for not really that invested in the murder of Keepers Fo and Bau. Ayaefight against Communism, the former apprentice nor is no longer he particularly interested in a career in the small child who walked unscathed from a burnt out shopmilitary. All she wants to do now is save lives but sheIf he's frustrated honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at every turn. Captain Aned Heast is on a mission least - he wonhasn't let drop; got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the rut he wants a name for his band of mercenaries but not just any name's in. Meanwhile be afraid; somewhere out there He's good in training and is the Childquickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. The Child is comingHe's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447251318</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenni FaganJennifer Saint|title=The Sunlight PilgrimsElektra|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Dylan walks away from this family's small London indie cinema Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in 2020 to live on a Scottish caravan sitethe heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. His new neighbours Constance Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and her transgender 12 year old Stella have troubles Elektra are all bit players in the story of their own, but the odd British winter isn't helpingTrojan War. As Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the country faces true Arctic temperatures life goes on… or at least it tries tomost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434023302</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeDean Koontz|title=Fault/lines (Hadron Damnation Book 0)Quicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=What Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts off as he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a day supernatural urge – has demanded of him that should be remembered for he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a medical appointment soon becomes anything but fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for DCI Tracey Hansongoing on the lam. When planes start falling from the sky she And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and DI Reggie Chambers are thrown together in the thick suggest he's of itinterest to them. In the midst Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the carnage, a teenager discovery that he is orphaned. Definitely not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a tragic event but is there whole lot more to it than that?besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>153061936X</amazonuk>1542019885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe AbercrombieTasha Suri|title=Sharp EndsThe Jasmine Throne
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=I often feel that short stories are an indulgence on On the part night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the author, they get pyre. She is immediately sent to write down be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a lot community of their ideas that don't really fit into a larger storypeople who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. The stop/start nature of them never sits well with meBut now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, just as I am starting to get to know a character they are gonedecaying ruin. One way of solving this would be to use characters that day, Malini witnesses a fan will already know; perhaps explore the past, or the futuregirl kill someone with magic. That sounds great Instead of reporting her for such a fangruesome crime, but how do you do this whilst also catering Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for a new reader?the girl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575104678</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David SangerGenevieve Gornichec|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 'The Maker' and has a gift 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 heWitch's here to accomplish. One man, one mission and no guarantee how it will end.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784293954</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joel Mentmore|title=SmartHeart
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=Jon A modern and Skull – Matthew to his mum – are men with approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a passion for technology and built witch named Angrboda. She hides in a business around forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact thatshe was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. They also embrace anything innovativeHer attempts to live in peace, as John has embraced Lucy; a smartphone app however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that monitors and assists with his health and life choiceswas cut from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her alone. Skull is more into the idea After an initial period of expanding Tesla car technology and so lets Jon get on with it. Therefore when Jon goes missingmistrust, Skull is not only surprised but doesnAngrboda begins to fall for Loki't realise what Jon was caught s charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up in. Shame he didna half-dead daughter, a son that't pay more attention as s a wolf, and another son that would not only help Skull find Jon, it may keep both of them alive's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993484824</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jen WilliamsHannah Whitten|title=The Silver Tide (Copper Cat) For the Wolf
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The Black Feather Three - Copper Cat Wydrin of CrosshavenIn Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, Lord Aaron Frith and Sir Sebastian - the sought after sell-swords are always looking for their next adventure andsecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, more importantlyRed knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their next pay daykingdom. Sebastian If she is still feeling lost after having to leave his love behind but not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he'll come around. He has keeps contained to; they've just been given a job by renowned pirate captain Devinia the Red. They've been commissioned to help her woods will be released, and the crew of fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the aptly named ''Poison Chalice'' to stories go into a land famed for its monsters and ghosts. A place deep in magic where people vanish. A place where none of But when Red enters the three really want woods, expecting nothing more than to go but they have no choice: Devinia be killed within the hour, she finds that the Red legends are lies. The wolf is Wydrinnot a monster—he's muma man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472211154</amazonuk>0356516369
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedJohn Gwynne|title= Ace of SpidersThe Shadow Of The Gods|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Stanly is frustrated. Having set himself up as London's protector, he's finding that the everyday practicalities of superheroism are challenging at best, and downright tedious at worst. So it's almost a relief when an attempt is made on his life 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 more than he can chew this time. The monsters are coming… and nothing will ever be the same!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630675</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Adrian Selby|title=Snakewood|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Kailen's Twenty are an elite; The Shadow Of The Gods is the type first installment of mercenaries that live on the Bloodsworn Saga, set in legend. It therefore stands to reason that the authorities want them dead but they aren't era of the Vikings in the only ones. As shadow of Ragnarok, when the guerrilla war between rebels Gods have battled and governing classes rages on, a lone assassin, as elite as their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the Twentyultimate in High Fantasy, unknown even and John Gwynne certainly does justice to those on the same side is on their trailgenre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. Who This is he a thick book, with an intricate plot and why the vendetta? The answer will be revealed one day fascinating characters that are woven together to those still alive to hear itcreate a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356505529</amazonuk>0356514218
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