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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brandon SandersonA G Slatter|title= Arcanum UnboundedThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating= 45|genre= Fantasy |summary= Brandon Sanderson is more cannon than man'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. He fires out more works than any other author This secret magic of fantasymy own, all mine, at last. Not only does he write an awe inspiring amount 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 novelsthe Briar's, but he also writes various short fictions that go alongside thema family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. And in hereThough 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 administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's 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 first timeheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, all Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the major ones are collected togetherBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473218039</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= James YoungRachel Greenlaw|title= Rise of the Dust ChildCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre= Science Fiction Teens|summary=An age has passed since ''I can hear the fall song of the old worldsea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rise of rocks and plundering the malignant Dust peoplewrecks. Amongst the terrors of this new ageMira, like her mother before her, humanity still lingers within the wreckage is one of civilisation, held together by the promise of a better existence in seven who swim out to survey the next liferuins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But not all are satisfied by this dogma. Within when the smoggy city of Fort Palmer, eight year old Doran and his friend Alena stand apart, struggling Council Watch lays a trap to retain end the lost glory of their faith. But wrecking, they capture the unquiet dead island's leader and the forces of faith do not take kindly Mira's father. Desperate to those save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who try is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to fix guide her, she sets off in search of a broken worldfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. As With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the quest watched streets of foreign islands to save the future leads each heart of them down a dark paththe smuggler's territory, they are cast apart - struggling Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to overcome save the monstrous dusters future of her home and the fear within themselves, desperate to see each other againones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524634379</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben AaronovitchT Kingfisher|title=The Hanging Tree (Rivers of London 6)Thornhedge

|summary=When Lady Tyburn rescued Police Officer Peter Grant she put him in her debt''You had a right to retake your place. Now it'' T Kingfisher's payback time as her daughter latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is implicated a princess trapped in a murdertower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. Is this just another drug related killing? NoInstead, Peter our protagonist is only involved in crime related Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the supernatural side land of life fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and since both Lady Ty and daughter are river goddesses, there's much to investigatecast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132558</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David DalglishNicole Jarvis|title=Fireborn (The Seraphim Trilogy)A Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=When ''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the Center (powerful Accademia, the government self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that's meant through paintings have the power to protect them) destroys the Academy Bree city and Kael Skyborn take the only route open to themits citizens from plagues and curses. They join the resistance The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and some allies who they'd be more wary of in other circumstancesguard it above all else. Indeed the Prophet Johan may not have seemed that attractive to To them in the past but he , Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has resources that will come in useful as well as some interesting secrets. Bree no place amongst them and Kael will definitely learn a lot, including why the Skyborn family are so prized by the dictatorial organisation they now battle againsttheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506517</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Genevieve CogmanThomas D Lee|title= The Burning Page (The Invisible Library Series)Perilous Times|rating= 4.53

|summary= Think Indiana Jones, Robert Langdon or Jack West, with a sprinkle of the panache of James Bond and Raffles. Educated and courageous folk who risk all to obtain that magical talisman, that precious statue, that ancient scroll, and, now and then, to save the free world in the process. Place such a person in a multi-universe where on every world the same struggle is being played out: the dragons, who stand for order and control, oppose the Fae, who desire chaos and drama. And then turn your hero or heroine into a . . . librarian. Huh? Does not compute!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447256271</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= James Goss|title= Class: What She Does Next Will Astound You|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy |summary=At Coal Hill School, things have started to get public. Kids have become obsessed with a website that demands you perform risky stunts, or tell it your most painful secrets. And Seraphin, everyone's favourite vlogger, wants you to get involved. All in the name of charity. At first people just get hurt. Then their lives are ruined. Finally, they disappear. As April's fragile group of friends starts to fracture, she decides she's going to uncover the truth behind thie site herself. Whatever it takes, whoever she hurts, April's going to win. But then, to her horror, she wakes up and finds her whole world's changed. What she does next will astound you. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941887</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=James Islington|title=The Shadow of What Was Lost: Book One of the Licanius Trilogy|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Young Davian Hate is an Augur; a once powerful race that has become almost extinct due 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 system. 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 path of his capabilities or whom itleast resistance'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=There's an old stone house Set in the near Coal Hill School. Most people hurry past it. They've heard the stories. But-distant future, if you stop, and look up, you'll see in a world on the face verge of a girlclimate collapse, pressed up against Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a window. Screaming. Tanya finds herself drawn hero (or several) to save the stone house. There's a mystery there, day and she's going to solve itrescue what little remains. But the more she investigates, the more she realises What no-one expected was that there's a presence in one of the house. One that wants her. Something is waiting for Tanya in Knights of the stone house. Something that has been trapping others in its web over Round Table would answer the years. Something that is far worse than any ghost..call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785941879</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Daniel PolanskyAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=A City DreamingDelilah Recovered|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=A City Dreaming guides us through a year 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 Charmer|rating=4.5

|summary=The people We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of Porlock Weir have heard the rumours. King Edward III has fled with his family work, about to the New Forest to escape the Plague in Londonlose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. Will But it remain confined 's not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the cityattack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? The last time no one was safe and, according What on earth has that to Janveer, the strange do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman fishermen rescued from the sea, it'll living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the same again. Janveer has a proposition though. She can save Porlock and all it will cost them is one life..|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472235827</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark MorrisHadeer Elsbai|title=The Wraiths Daughters of War (Obsidian Heart book 3)Izdihar

|summary=Although Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not dead as he thought he wasbe more different, Alex Locke feels no closer to finding his missing daughter across time oryet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, indeedborn into the upper class, unmasking wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the dark man. Howevermilitary, he knows what he has to dobut instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Alex must use Giorgina on the obsidian heart other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to travel back provide for her family and fight in World War I beside maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the ghostly soldier who visited him Daughters of Izdihar – a century or so later. Itgroup campaigning for women's not as simple as it seemsrights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, as Alex keeps telling himself… or rather as Alexes (plural) keep telling himselffrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781168741</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kelley ArmstrongHeather Fawcett|title= Otherworld ChillsEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 4|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= I came Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to Armstrongwrite her life's ''Otherworld'' quite late in its development work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and it seems that speaking to faeries, she's now wrapping it up to move on to other thingsis not so good with people. Billed as So when she finds herself far, far North in the 'small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final collection' of stories ''Chills'' allegedly completes several storylines of investigations for her best loved charactersbook back on the right track. IEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily'd disagrees frustration. If Sherlock can survive Reichenbach then I'm sure Werewolves, Vampires and demi-demotic Angels can survive whatever state they may have been left in.But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500683</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeChristopher Golden|title=FlooredRoad of Bones|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=1The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes.Nemo has been brought back from death by Doctineer Viktor For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the 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 give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. The fact You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that she was once dead combined 's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with her new form as a pleasure bot makes her worthless his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – a human/robot hybrid zerowho's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. But even zeros have ambitionsThey pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, even if theyand fetch up at the guide're dangerouss childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0994616414</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edward CoxAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Watcher of Dead Time (Relic Guild 3Debt Collection Book 1)

|summary=The Genii are winning and the Relic Guild is gradually being eradicated''Matt has a terrible life. Clara the changeling survives to fight but for how long? The trauma of what sheSeriously—it's been through awful. It is taking its toll. However she's still Relic Guild so bad that Dan the fight goes onDemon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his soul. Meanwhile elsewhere Samuel leads the search '' Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and, when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the Nephilim who may be the key to good triumphingdotted line, but he's so desperate thathe simply forges Matt's not straightforward eithersignature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200369</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=K S TurnerOlivie Blake|title=Time: The Immortal Divide (The Chronicles of Fate and Choice)Atlas Six

|summary= As we open thisDark, the third book of the trilogysharp, Tachra is on the threshold of either victory or death. As Arrun runs amokand highly inquisitive, Tachra's kutu allies disappear on paths that are separated from hers so she's forced to rely on her own wit and powerThe Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation. As Tachra and her people teeter on the edge of destruction, will that be enough?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956224296</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jon SkovronDaniel Abraham|title= Hope and Red|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= Bleak Hope is a young girl orphaned at the tender age of eight when the emperor's biomancers – mystics of biology with the power to make living things grow, decay or change into something else entirely – massacre her whole village. The lone survivor, Hope sneaks on board a travelling merchant ship and by chance becomes a servant at the old Vinchen monastery, home to the empire's best warriors. There she is secretly trained by the greatest Vinchen warrior in history, and is driven by her dream Age of vengeance against those responsible for her parent's death. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316268119</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tom Lloyd|title= Stranger of TempestAsh|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 Ryan|title=The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria |rating=5

|summary=Mercenary Clayden Torcreek is blood-blessed, i.e. one of We meet Alys under the few able to translate a few drops most northerly of drakeOldgate's blood into an extraordinary attribute. four bridges, It gets even better than she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that: Clayden she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is unregistered, making him unexpected and eminently hireable when at a point in the department turning of Exceptional Initiatives need someone to track years when the fabled white drake. His recruiter worlds are at their thinnest and contact is covert agent Lizanne Lethbridge who is currently gathering intelligence while posing as a maid to the spoilt young Tekelaall things are possible. It's worth it though – Tekela's father has something of interest. The problem is that Lizanne isn't the only one interested night between the funeral of a Prince and so staying alive becomes increasingly difficult. Out at sea naval officer Hilemore is about to put the coronation of his training to good usesuccessor. Meanwhile in For a night the inhospitable interior, Clayden's expedition only has to worry about savages and drakes of the gigantic, manKithamar is un-eating, fire breathing varietyruled. That's alright then!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506398</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gregory MaguireAnn Sei Lin|title= After AliceRebel Skies|rating= 45|genre= FantasyTeens|summary=When Alice fell down Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the rabbit holeEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she found Wonderland as rife is a Crafter like him, someone with inconsistent rule and abrasive egos as the world power to form paper into whatever she left behinddesires – a power sought after all across the Empire. But how did Victorian Oxford react He asks her to come with him, to Alice's departure? When Alice's friend Adaleave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, mentioned briefly in 'soon Kurara won'Alice t have any say in Wonderland'' sets out to visit Alicethe matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she arrives a minute too lateis forced to flee out into the world. Tumbling down She joins Himura aboard the rabbit hole herselfOrihime, she embarks on an odyssey a sky-ship whose express purpose is to find Alice hunt down shikigami, and bring her safely home from this surreal world below the a whole world. of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472230469</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen DonaldsonB09Q3P283Y|title=The King's JusticeShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=4.5

|summary=Through Clyde Robbins signs up for the forests and US Army during the driving rain rides Black, a man never more aptly namedVietnam War. He's approaching Settle's Crosswaysnot really that invested in the fight against Communism, although that nor is of no concern to him, for he is merely following particularly interested in a career in the scent of evilmilitary. All purpose and little pause or scruple, If he 's honest - which Clyde usually is on the trail of a killer, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and Settle's Crosswaysthis one, as luck would have itat least, is in need gets him out of the Kingrut he's Justicein. Black seems able to control peopleHe's thoughts and deeds (and go without paying his way) just by rubbing an arm under his permanently-worn black cape, but when he sounds out the parity good in the town between the churches of light training and dark, he knows what exists there may take him to is quickly put onto 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 henon commissioned officer training course. He's used to…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473214491</amazonuk>chuffed with himself.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen DonaldsonJennifer Saint|title=The Augur's GambitElektra|rating=34|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=In a 'Elektra'King Lear''esque procedure, by Jennifer Saint tells the Queen Inimica Phlegathon DeVry IV has met with each story of her five barons three women who live in turn, and seduced them all into accepting her proposal the heavily male dominated world of marriageAncient Greece. What does she mean by this bizarre procedureCassandra, Clytemnestra, which only seems to set them and Elektra are all against bit players in the other, especially when story 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 Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the East, the likes of which silent women have never ever returned? And what is in store for the island Queendom, when most compelling stories and the royal family's own magical oracle can only see the end of their civilisation?most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214475</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel GodfreyDean Koontz|title=New PompeiiQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Classicist Nick Houghton 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 employed by Novus Particles starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to assist them with a reconstruction sudden or unpredictable changes of Pompeii mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a reconstruction supernatural urge – has demanded of him that includes the originalhe go to a derelict diner, living first century inhabitants. NovusPart have discovered find a gold coin worth a way to pull historical artefacts (and indeed people) through time; an amazing innovation. The conspiracy theorists mumble about there being sinister reasons and fortune, cash the disappearance value of key personnel helps to feed these rumours, but Nick needs a job it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is too good an opportunity just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn downup and suggest he's of interest to them. AnywayHelped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that's what he tells himself to combat the repercussions is not unique in having some kind of saying noburgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298111</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher B HusbergTasha Suri|title=Chaos Queen - Duskfall (The Chaos Queen Quintet)Jasmine Throne|rating=4.5

|summary=Winter On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and Knot's wedding is a brave move and not just because Winter is a Tiellan. Knot was brought back refuses to step on to life after nearly drowning the year before, a fate that removed his memorypyre. All he knows She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that there are was once filled with a community of people chasing him and when Knot's angry… you just don't want Knot to get angrywho got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. Meanwhile Cinzia But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a devout priestess girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a problem: gruesome crime, Malini claims that the girl saved her beloved sister is leading a religious revolt. Neither woman will come out of this from an attacker and begs for the same. Cinzia will need girl to think about become her life afresh while Winter… Let's just say big changes lie aheadown personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299150</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca AlexanderGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Secrets of Time and FateWitch's Heart|rating=4.5

|summary=Having killed Countess Elizabeth Bathory, the revenant from the 16th century, 21st century Jackdaw Hammond did something she's regretting. By depriving it of its host, the spirit Saraquel has moved from the Countess to Jack. Can she get some help to banish it before someone else does it a little more terminally both for Jack A modern and Saraquel? Meanwhile back in the 16th century approachable reimagining of Edward Kelley and Sir John Dee, Elizabeth Bathory still lives and Saraquel proves he can wreak havoc across time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195326X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tarn Richardson|title=The Fallen (The Darkest Hand) |rating=4.5|genre=Horror|summary=1915 and the war continues, not just as the conflict Norse myths that will come to be known as World War I but centres around a more supernatural fight between good and evilwitch named Angrboda. The dark forces continue to move across She hides in a darkened Europe, evidenced by forest at the increase in demon possession and hideously misshapen babies. When edge of the Vatican fountain produces blood rather than waternine worlds, the world knows remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the events spoken stake three times because of in Revelation may be underway. Inquisitor Poldek Tacit still has the will to fight but heOdin's just one man. Will one man be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715650599</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tarn Richardson|title=The Fallen (The Darkest Hand) |rating=4.5|genre=Horror|summary=1915 and the war continues, not just as the conflict that will come to be known as World War I but a more supernatural fight between good and evilwrath. The dark forces continue Her attempts to move across a darkened Europelive in peace, evidenced by the increase in demon possession and hideously misshapen babies. When the Vatican fountain produces blood rather than waterhowever, the world knows are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the events spoken of in Revelation may be underway. Inquisitor Poldek Tacit still has the will stake—and refuses to fight but he's just one manleave her alone. 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 After an ageinitial period of mistrust, given shape by peopleAngrboda begins to fall for Loki's memories. Now someone's put charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a ceremonial dagger throug his chest. But what's the motive? And who half- or what - could kill dead daughter, a ghost? When policing Londonson that's supernatural underworlda wolf, eliminating the impossible is not an option. DI James Quill and his detectives have learnt this the hard way. Gifted with the Sight, theyanother son that'll pursue s 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..snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447273265</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy Gavriel KayHannah Whitten|title=Children of Earth and SkyFor the Wolf

|summary=Two spies employed by In Red's family, the Republic of Seresta are sent to first daughter becomes queen, and the court of Jadsecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's Holy Emperor Rudolfomisfortune, 'The Destroyer'she is the second daughter. The first, LeonoraSent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what she's doing right down to hiding behind expect: within the cover woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of a sham marriage assigned for that purposetheir kingdom. The second, Pero, If she is not a young artist kidnapped for worthy sacrifice, the task. He has no previous experience but monsters he's expendable so that's not completely necessary. Events transpire keeps contained to ensure that both spies the woods will need to rely on mariner be released, and merchant Marin and Serjani fighter Danica the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than they think. Yet even they can't stop to be killed within the conflict hour, she finds thatthe legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's on the horizon. Rudolfo has his eye on extending his empire globally and Jad help anything that gets in the waya man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473628105</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Aliya WhiteleyJohn Gwynne|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. Shadow Of 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)Gods

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