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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Genevieve CogmanA G Slatter|title= The Burning Page (The Invisible Library Series)Briar Book of the Dead|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= Think Indiana Jones'' There's a part of me that 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 enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, Robert Langdon or Jack Westfar away from the world, with lies Silverton; a sprinkle town under the protection of the panache Briar's, a family of James Bond witches who protect the town and Rafflesthe wider world from the Darklands. Educated Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first 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 courageous folk who risk all to obtain that magical talismanadministration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, that precious statueEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, that ancient scrollthe town's leader, andEllie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, now right and thencentre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to save communicate with the free world in dead, putting her at the processheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Place such a person in a multi-universe where on every world the same struggle is being played out: the dragonsReeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who stand for order to trust and controldetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, oppose the Faeeverything they have sacrificed to survive, who desire chaos and dramais under threat. And then turn your hero or heroine into a . . . librarian. Huh? Does not compute!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447256271</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= James GossRachel Greenlaw|title= Class: What She Does Next Will Astound YouCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre= Fantasy Teens|summary=At Coal Hill School''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, things have started to get publicthe answering beat in my heart. Kids have become obsessed with '' Rosevear, a website that demands you perform risky stuntsremote and partially forgotten island, or tell it your most painful secretssurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. And SeraphinMira, everyone's favourite vloggerlike her mother before her, wants you is one of the seven who swim out to get involvedsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. All in But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the name of charity. At first people just get hurt. Then their lives are ruined. Finallywrecking, they disappear. As Aprilcapture the island's leader and Mira's fragile group of friends starts 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 fractureguide her, she decides she's going to uncover sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the truth behind thie site herselfsea. Whatever it With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes, whoever she hurts, Aprilher from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's going territory, Mira must be determined to win. But then, stop at nothing to save the future of her horror, she wakes up home and finds her whole world's changed. What the ones she does next will astound youholds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785941887</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James IslingtonT Kingfisher|title=The Shadow of What Was Lost: Book One of the Licanius TrilogyThornhedge|rating=4.5

|summary=Young Davian is an Augur; ''You had a once powerful race that has become almost extinct due right to legislation. The surviving remnant stay silent about their powers lest they follow the same fate as their forebears – outlawed and then murdered by a harsh legal systemretake your place. Up till now Davian has been safe within an academy for the Gifted: the Tol in Andarra. Then one day everything changes. Now Davian is running for his life, unaware of his capabilities or whom it's safe to trust. It's even worse than it sounds for this is a world on the edge of war, trying to suppress secrets that will endanger its very existence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356507750</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author= A K Benedict|title= Class: The Stone House|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=ThereT Kingfisher's an old stone house near Coal Hill School. Most people hurry past it. They've heard the stories. But, if you stop, and look up, you'll see the face latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a girl, pressed up against a window. Screaming. Tanya finds herself drawn to the stone house. There's a mystery there, fairytale that is well known and she's going to solve itwell beloved. But the more she investigates, the more she realises that whilst there's is a presence princess trapped in the house. One that wants a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not herstory. Something Instead, our protagonist is waiting for Tanya in Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the stone house. Something that has been trapping others in its web over the years. Something that is far worse than any ghost..land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785941879</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Daniel PolanskyNicole Jarvis|title=A City Dreaming|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=A City Dreaming guides us through a year Portrait in the life of the restless and enigmatic M as he returns to New York after travelling. A magical adept, 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 attitude. He tries to keep out of local politics – opposing camps of magical affiliates in the city – but can be fiercely loyal to his closest associates. Though he reluctantly gets mixed up in various scrapes via his strange bunch of friends and acquaintances, and occasionally has to save the day, all he really wants is to be left alone to enjoy the sex, drugs and good coffee that abound in the city.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473634253</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Karen Maitland|title=The Plague CharmerShadow

|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

{{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

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=FlooredDelilah Recovered

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edward CoxHadeer Elsbai|title=The Watcher Daughters of Dead Time (Relic Guild 3)Izdihar

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=K S TurnerHeather Fawcett|title=Time: The Immortal Divide (The Chronicles Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Fate and Choice)Faeries

|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

{{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

{{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 1)|rating=54

|summary=Mercenary Clayden Torcreek is blood-blessed, i''Matt has a terrible life.e. one of the few able to translate a few drops of drakeSeriously—it's blood into an extraordinary attributeawful. It gets even better than is so bad that: Clayden Dan the Demon is unregistered, making him unexpected and eminently hireable shocked when the department Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years 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 Tekelablissful life in exchange for his soul. It's worth it though – Tekela's father has something of interest. The problem is that Lizanne isn Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't the only one interested and so staying alive becomes increasingly difficultfeel sorry for soul-catching demons. Out at sea naval officer Hilemore But he really is about a terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and, when he fails to put his training get even Matt to good use. Meanwhile in sign on the inhospitable interiordotted line, Claydenhe's expedition only has to worry about savages and drakes of the gigantic, man-eating, fire breathing variety. Thatso desperate that he simply forges Matt's alright then!signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506398</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|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 DonaldsonOlivie Blake|title=The King's JusticeAtlas Six|rating=4.5

|summary=Through the forests and the driving rain rides BlackDark, a man never more aptly named. He's approaching Settle's Crosswayssharp, although that is of no concern to him, for he is merely following the scent of evil. All purpose and little pause or scruplehighly inquisitive, 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 peopleThe Atlas Six''s thoughts and deeds (and go without paying his way) just by rubbing an arm under his permanentlymakes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-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…Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214491</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen DonaldsonDaniel Abraham|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 Age 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 PompeiiAsh

|summary=Classicist Nick Houghton is employed by Novus Particles to assist them with We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a reconstruction of Pompeii – knife in her hand and a reconstruction meeting that includes she dreads. Meanwhile the original, living first century inhabitants. NovusPart have discovered City of Kithamar is at a way to pull historical artefacts (point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and indeed people) through time; an amazing innovationall things are possible. The conspiracy theorists mumble about there being sinister reasons and It is the night between the disappearance funeral of key personnel helps to feed these rumours, but Nick needs a job Prince and this is too good an opportunity to turn downthe coronation of his successor. Anyway, that's what he tells himself to combat For a night the repercussions of saying noKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298111</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher B HusbergAnn Sei Lin|title=Chaos Queen - Duskfall (The Chaos Queen Quintet)Rebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Winter Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and Knot's wedding is make merry between their conquests. However, when a brave move and not just because Winter man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Tiellan. Knot was brought back Crafter like him, someone with the power to life form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after nearly drowning all across the year beforeEmpire. He asks her to come with him, a fate to leave the life of dreary servitude that removed his memoryis all she has known. All he knows is that there are people chasing him and when Knot's angry… you just donWell, soon Kurara won't want Knot to get angry. Meanwhile Cinzia have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a devout priestess with monstrous paper spirit known as a problem: her beloved sister shikigami, and she is leading a religious revolt. Neither woman will come forced to flee out of this into the sameworld. Cinzia will need She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to think about her life afresh while Winter… Let's just say big changes lie ahead.hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299150</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca AlexanderB09Q3P283Y|title=The Secrets of Time and FateShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=4.5

|summary=Having killed Countess Elizabeth Bathory, Clyde Robbins signs up for the revenant from US Army during the 16th century, 21st century Jackdaw Hammond did something sheVietnam War. He's regretting. By depriving it of its hostnot really that invested in the fight against Communism, the spirit Saraquel has moved from the Countess to Jack. Can she get some help to banish it before someone else does it nor is he particularly interested in a little more terminally both for Jack and Saraquel? Meanwhile back career in the 16th century of Edward Kelley military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and Sir John Deethis one, Elizabeth Bathory still lives at least, gets him out of the rut he's in. He's good in training and Saraquel proves he can wreak havoc across timeis quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195326X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tarn RichardsonJennifer Saint|title=The Fallen (The Darkest Hand) Elektra|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorLiterary Fiction|summary=1915 and 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the war continues, not just as story of three women who live in the conflict that will come to be known as World War I but a more supernatural fight between good and evilheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. The dark forces continue to move across a darkened EuropeCassandra, Clytemnestra, evidenced by the increase and Elektra are all bit players in demon possession and hideously misshapen babies. When the Vatican fountain produces blood rather than water, story of the world knows Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the events spoken of in Revelation may be underway. Inquisitor Poldek Tacit still has most compelling stories and the will to fight but he's just one manmost extreme furies. Will one man be enough?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715650599</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tarn RichardsonDean Koontz|title=The Fallen (The Darkest Hand) Quicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=1915 and the war continues, Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not just as had the conflict that will come chance to get to be known as World War I but a more supernatural fight between good mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and evilnow is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. The dark forces continue But 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, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to move across a darkened Europederelict diner, evidenced by find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the increase lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in demon possession Black types to turn up and hideously misshapen babiessuggest he's of interest to them. When the Vatican fountain produces blood rather than waterHelped to escape, the world knows that the events spoken he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in Revelation may be underway. Inquisitor Poldek Tacit still has control, the will to fight but discovery that he's just one manis not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides. Will one man be enough?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715650599</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul CornellTasha Suri|title= Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?The Jasmine Throne|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 On the Republic night of Seresta are sent her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the court of Jad's Holy Emperor Rudolfo, 'The Destroyer'pyre. The first, Leonora, knows what she's doing right down She is immediately sent to hiding behind be imprisoned on the cover of a sham marriage assigned for Hirana: an ancient temple that purpose. The second, Pero, is was once filled with a young artist kidnapped for community of people who got powers from the taskmysterious deathless waters. 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 and merchant Marin and Serjani fighter Danica But now the temple is nothing more than they thinkan overgrown, decaying ruin. Yet even they can't stop the conflict One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that's on the horizon. Rudolfo has his eye on extending his empire globally girl saved her from an attacker and Jad help anything that gets in begs for the waygirl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473628105</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Aliya WhiteleyGenevieve Gornichec|title= The Arrival of Missives|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|genre=Fantasy|summary=BEWARE, 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. Ayae, 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 sheWitch's frustrated at every turn. Captain Aned Heast is on a mission he won't let drop; he wants a name for his band of mercenaries but not just any name. Meanwhile be afraid; somewhere out there is the Child. The Child is coming.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447251318</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jenni Fagan|title=The Sunlight Pilgrims|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Dylan walks away from this family's small London indie cinema in 2020 to live on a Scottish caravan site. His new neighbours Constance and her transgender 12 year old Stella have troubles of their own, but the odd British winter isn't helping. As the country faces true Arctic temperatures life goes on… or at least it tries to.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023302</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=Fault/lines (Hadron Damnation Book 0)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=What starts off as a day that should be remembered for a medical appointment soon becomes anything but for DCI Tracey Hanson. When planes start falling from the sky she and DI Reggie Chambers are thrown together in the thick of it. In the midst of the carnage, a teenager is orphaned. Definitely a tragic event but is there more to it than that?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>153061936X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joe Abercrombie|title=Sharp EndsHeart

|summary=I often feel A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that short stories are an indulgence on centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the part edge of the authornine worlds, they get to write down a lot remembering nothing of their ideas her past life but that donfact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin't really fit into a larger storys wrath. The stop/start nature of them never sits well Her attempts to live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with me, just as I am starting her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to get the stake—and refuses to know a character they are goneleave her alone. One way After an initial period of solving this would be mistrust, Angrboda begins to use characters that fall for Loki's charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a fan will already know; perhaps explore the pasthalf-dead daughter, or the future. That sounds great for a fanson that's a wolf, but how do you do this whilst also catering for and another son that's a new reader?snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575104678</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David SangerHannah Whitten|title=All Their Minds In TandemFor the Wolf

|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary=October 1879: A stranger walks into New GeorgetownIn Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, West Virginia to keep an appointment. He calls himself 'The Maker' and has the second daughter becomes a gift that gives him access to peoplesacrifice. To Red's mindsmisfortune, she is the second daughter. Gradually he'll become deeply acquainted Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the townsfolk but it mustn't sway him from cape on her back, Red knows what he's here to accomplish. One manexpect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one mission and no guarantee how it who will enddecide the fate of their kingdom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784293954</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joel Mentmore|title=Smart|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Jon and Skull – Matthew If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to his mum – are men with a passion for technology and built a business around that. They also embrace anything innovativethe woods will be released, 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 fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so lets Jon get on with itthe stories go. Therefore But when Jon goes missingRed enters the woods, Skull expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not only surprised but doesna monster—he'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 alives a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993484824</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jen WilliamsJohn Gwynne|title=The Silver Tide (Copper Cat) Shadow Of The Gods

|summary=The Black Feather Three - Copper Cat Wydrin Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of CrosshavenRagnarok, Lord Aaron Frith when the Gods have battled and Sir Sebastian - their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the sought after sell-swords are always looking for their next adventure ultimate in High Fantasy, andJohn Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, more importantlywith mythical creatures, their next pay dayarchaic language and battles galore. Sebastian This 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 thick book, with an intricate plot and the crew of the aptly named ''Poison Chalice'' fascinating characters that are woven together to go into create a land famed for its monsters wonderfully realistic and ghosts. A place deep gritty world in magic where people vanish. A place where none of the three really want to go but they have no choice: Devinia the Red is Wydrin's mumwhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472211154</amazonuk>0356514218