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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jon SkovronA G Slatter|title= Bane and ShadowThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''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 am beyond redemptionjust want to enjoy it for a while.''

Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar''Bane and Shadow'' picks up s, a year after the final events family of witches who protect the [[Hope town and Red by Jon Skovron|the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first installment]] in 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 Empire of Storms seriesBriar Witch, which I highly recommend reading if you haventhe town't alreadys leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Following As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the great characters we met in rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the previous novelheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, ''Bane Ellie must decide who to trust and Shadowdetermine what to do as the Briar witches'' has even more action with brilliant battleslegacy, nail-biting tension and a new darkness everything they have sacrificed to the storysurvive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356507157</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=E M DaveyRachel Greenlaw|title=The Napoleon ComplexCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Journalist Jake Wolsey's brush with the Book of Fate and that fatal Etruscan lightening isn't over. Historical quotes, intrigue and a call for help from former lover and MI6 operative Jenny start a whole new search for the source of power and destruction. This time it's linked to Napoleon Bonaparte and I can hear the odd inclusion song of an Etruscan scroll in his portrait. If the scroll is what Jake and Jenny think it is, where has it gone? Our heroes aren't the only curious people and, while their search takes them across the world, it's as much about fatality avoidance as it is treasure huntingsea. Who will get the answer first and at what cost to themselves… and civilisation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715651080</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Charlie Laidlaw|title= The Things We Learn When We're Dead|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= On call of the way to a dinner partydeep, Lorna Love steps into the path of an oncoming car. Waking up in what appears to be a hospital, but a hospital in which wine is served for supper, everyone avoids her questions, and her nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Connery, it soon transpires that Lorna is answering beat in Heaven, or, at least, on HVNmy heart. Because HVN is a lost, dysfunctional spaceship, and God the aging hippy captain. At first Lorna can remember nothing, but as her memories return – some good, some bad, she realises that she has a decision to make, and that maybe, she needs to find a way home…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786150352</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Terry Goodkind|title= Death's Mistress'|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= We start this novel as Rosevear, a Heroine remote and a hero travelling through the forestpartially forgotten island, in search of a witch. I immediately love it, when the focus is survives on luring ships into the female lead rocks and plundering the male lead is painted as a bit of a pompous twonk, with more care for clothes and jewellery, than for saving mankindwrecks. HoweverMira, it becomes harder to like her as the book winds its talemother before her, when you realise that she is a heartless, murdering, uncaring, psychopath. It becomes relatively clear that she has been damaged from a young age (which was a while ago, seeing as she's almost 200 years old), that has had effects on how she has lived her life until this point. However, their goal one of spreading the word of Emperor's Rahl victory over the evil Emperor Janang seven who swim out to survey the furthest reaches of his kingdom, becomes diverted, when prophecy leaves the world ruins – rescuing any survivors and an old witch imparts the knowledge of an old prophecy any treasure that foretells that Nicci will save the worldlies within.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786691639</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Tregillis|title=The Liberation: Book Three of The Alchemy Wars|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=The war between But when the New Dutch and the New French continue aided and complicated by the Mechanicals' rebellion. In fact the day the world ended comes as Council Watch lays a shock trap to everyoneend the wrecking, not to mention a bloody mess. Let they capture the apocalypse begin!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502341</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Luke Scull|title=Dead Manisland's leader and Mira's Steel (Grim Company)|rating=4father.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The fehd move onDesperate to save him from death, killing humanity Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with ruthless efficiency. The remaining heroes are trying only coordinates to win the war but they've got issues of their own. Brodar Kayneguide her, the Sword she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the Northsea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, joins forces against fehd with Carn Bloodfist which has its problems since Brodar killed Carn's father. Davarus Cole and Sasha are slightly imprisoned whereas Eremul the Halfmage is still raging wherever possible. This raging as her journey takes turns with coming to terms with her from the shock watched streets of his apprentice's true identity. Indeed foreign islands to the former apprentice, Isaac, is fulfilling his true potential although not on the side that Eremul had envisaged. These heroes – all that remains heart of the Grim Company - are humanitysmuggler's only hope… Good luck humanity!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185159X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Brandon Sanderson|title= Arcanum Unbounded|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy |summary= Brandon Sanderson is more cannon than man. He fires out more works than any other author of fantasy. Not only does he write an awe inspiring amount of novelsterritory, but he also writes various short fictions that go alongside them. And in here, for Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the first time, all future of her home and the major ones are collected togethershe holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473218039</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= James YoungT Kingfisher|title= Rise of the Dust Child|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction |summary=An age has passed since the fall of the old world, and the rise of the malignant Dust people. Amongst the terrors of this new age, humanity still lingers within the wreckage of civilisation, held together by the promise of a better existence in the next life. But not all are satisfied by this dogma. Within the smoggy city of Fort Palmer, eight year old Doran and his friend Alena stand apart, struggling to retain the lost glory of their faith. But the unquiet dead and the forces of faith do not take kindly to those who try to fix a broken world. As the quest to save the future leads each of them down a dark path, they are cast apart - struggling to overcome the monstrous dusters and the fear within themselves, desperate to see each other again. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634379</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ben Aaronovitch|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''Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set in the near-distant future, Robert Langdon or Jack West, with in a sprinkle of world on the panache verge of James Bond and Rafflesclimate collapse, Britain is in great peril. Educated and courageous folk who risk all to obtain that magical talisman, that precious statue, that ancient scroll, and, now and then, The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the free world in the processday and rescue what little remains. Place such a person in a multiWhat no-universe where on every world one expected was that one of the same struggle is being played out: Knights of the dragons, who stand for order and control, oppose Round Table would answer the Fae, who desire chaos and drama. And then turn your hero or heroine into a . . . librariancall. Huh? Does not compute!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447256271</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= James GossAmelia Estelle Dellos|title= Class: What She Does Next Will Astound YouDelilah Recovered|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

|summary=Young Davian is an Augur; We meet Dee at a once powerful race that has become almost extinct due point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to legislationlook up. The surviving remnant stay silent Out of work, 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 to lose her flat, Dee is up for an academy for the Gifted: the Tol in Andarra. Then one day everything changesaccountant's job. Now Davian is running for his life, unaware of his capabilities or whom But it's safe not to trustbe. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. ItWitch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's even worse than it sounds for this is a world on the edge just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of war, trying things that are not ordinary at all return to suppress secrets that her and things will endanger its very existencenever be the same....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356507750</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= A K BenedictHadeer Elsbai|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 the stories. But, if you stop, and look up, you'll see the face of a girl, pressed up against a window. Screaming. Tanya finds herself drawn to the stone house. There's a mystery there, and she's going to solve it. But the more she investigates, the more she realises that there's a presence in the house. One that wants her. Something is waiting for Tanya in the stone house. Something that has been trapping others in its web over the years. Something that is far worse than any ghost...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941879</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Daniel Polansky|title=A City Dreaming|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 Daughters 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 CharmerIzdihar|rating=4.5

|summary=Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The people Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of Porlock Weir have heard two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rumoursrights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. King Edward III has fled with his family Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the New Forest Weaving Academy to learn to escape control her abilities and then join the Plague in Londonmilitary, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Will it remain confined to Giorgina on the city? The last time no one was safe other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and, according feels great pressure to Janveerprovide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the strange woman fishermen rescued from the sea, itDaughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women'll s rights. Giorgina also happens to be the same againin love with Nico. Janveer has What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a proposition though. She can save Porlock group of admirable women fighting for their rights and all it will cost them is one lifeovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472235827</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark MorrisHeather Fawcett|title=The Wraiths Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of War (Obsidian Heart book 3)Faeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Although not dead as he thought he wasEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, Alex Locke feels no closer to finding his missing daughter across time or, indeedwrite her life's work, unmasking the dark manvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. HoweverWhilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, he knows what he has to doshe is not so good with people. Alex must use So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the obsidian heart village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to travel redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back and fight in World War I beside on the ghostly soldier who visited him a century or so laterright track. ItEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's not as simple as it seems, as Alex keeps telling himself… or rather as Alexes (plural) keep telling himselffrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781168741</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kelley ArmstrongChristopher Golden|title= Otherworld ChillsRoad of Bones|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyHorror|summary= I came to ArmstrongThe 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. For months of the year it'Otherworlds a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' quite late in its development and sees it seems that sheturn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don's now wrapping t think google streetview updates it up very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to move on to other thingsgive too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. Billed as the 'final collectionYou can easily find documentaries about it online, but that' s a bit rich, for one of stories our main characters, Felix 'Teig'ChillsTeigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who'' allegedly completes several storylines s mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of her best loved characters. Ithe funds he'd disagreeinvested in the pair's prior TV projects. If Sherlock can survive Reichenbach then I'm sure WerewolvesThey pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, Vampires and demi-demotic Angels can survive whatever state they may have been left infetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500683</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeAndrew Givler|title=FlooredSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)

|summary=1''Matt has a terrible life.Nemo has been brought back from death by Doctineer ViktorSeriously—it's awful. The fact It is so bad that she was once dead combined with her new form as Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a pleasure bot makes her worthless – blissful life in exchange for his soul.'' Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a human/robot hybrid zeroterrible salesman. But He never hits his targets and, when he fails to get even zeros have ambitionsMatt to sign on the dotted line, even if theyhe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt're dangerouss signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0994616414</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edward CoxOlivie Blake|title=The Watcher of Dead Time (Relic Guild 3)Atlas Six

|summary=The Genii are winning Dark, sharp, and the Relic Guild is gradually being eradicated. Clara the changeling survives to fight but for how long? highly inquisitive, ''The trauma of what sheAtlas Six's been through is taking ' makes its toll. However she's still Relic Guild so the fight goes on. Meanwhile elsewhere Samuel leads the search for the Nephilim who may be the key to good triumphing, but that's not straightforward eitherpublishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200369</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=K S TurnerDaniel Abraham|title=Time: The Immortal Divide (The Chronicles Age of Fate and Choice)Ash|rating=4.5

|summary= As we open thisWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the third book City of the trilogy, Tachra Kithamar is on at a point in the threshold turning of either victory or death. As Arrun runs amok, Tachra's kutu allies disappear on paths that years when the worlds are separated from hers so she's forced to rely on her own wit at their thinnest and powerall things are possible. As Tachra It is the night between the funeral of a Prince and her people teeter on the edge coronation of destruction, will that be enough?his successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956224296</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jon SkovronAnn Sei Lin|title= Hope and RedRebel Skies|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyTeens|summary= Bleak Hope is Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a young girl orphaned at massive dining hall floating in the tender age sky where soldiers of eight the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when the emperor's biomancers – mystics of biology a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to make living things grow, decay or change form paper into something else entirely whatever she desires – massacre a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her whole villageto come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. The lone survivorWell, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, Hope sneaks on board because the Midori is destroyed by a travelling merchant ship and by chance becomes monstrous paper spirit known as a servant at the old Vinchen monasteryshikigami, home and she is forced to flee out into the empire's best warriorsworld. There she She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is secretly trained by the greatest Vinchen warrior in historyto hunt down shikigami, and is driven by her dream a whole world of vengeance against those responsible for her parent's death. adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316268119</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tom LloydB09Q3P283Y|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>}}{{newreviewShadebringer|author=Anthony Ryan|title=The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria Grayson W Hooper|rating=54

|summary=Mercenary Clayden Torcreek is blood-blessed, iClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War.e. one of the few able to translate a few drops of drakeHe's blood into an extraordinary attribute. It gets even better than not really that: Clayden is unregisteredinvested in the fight against Communism, making him unexpected and eminently hireable when the department of Exceptional Initiatives need someone to track the fabled white drake. His recruiter and contact nor is covert agent Lizanne Lethbridge who is currently gathering intelligence while posing as he particularly interested in a maid to career in the spoilt young Tekelamilitary. ItIf he's worth it though – Tekelahonest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the rut he's father has something of interestin. The problem is that Lizanne isnHe't the only one interested s good in training and so staying alive becomes increasingly difficult. Out at sea naval officer Hilemore is about to quickly put his onto a non commissioned officer training to good usecourse. Meanwhile in the inhospitable interior, ClaydenHe's expedition only has to worry about savages and drakes of the gigantic, man-eating, fire breathing varietychuffed with himself. That's alright then!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356506398</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gregory MaguireJennifer Saint|title= After AliceElektra|rating= 4|genre= FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=When Alice fell down 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the rabbit hole, she found Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rule and abrasive egos as story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world she left behindof Ancient Greece. But how did Victorian Oxford react to Alice's departure? When Alice's friend AdaCassandra, Clytemnestra, mentioned briefly and Elektra are all bit players in ''Alice in Wonderland'' sets out to visit Alice, she arrives a minute too latethe story of the Trojan War. Tumbling down Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the rabbit hole herself, she embarks on an odyssey to find Alice silent women have the most compelling stories and bring her safely home from this surreal world below the worldmost extreme furies. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472230469</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen DonaldsonDean Koontz|title=The King's JusticeQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Through the forests and the driving rain rides Black, a man never more aptly namedMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's approaching Settlenot had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's Crosswayslived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, although that and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of no concern to himmood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he is merely following go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the scent value of it out of evil. All purpose his bank and little pause or scruple, he is prepare for going on the trail lam. And all this is just in time for two of a killer, those typical Men in Black types to turn up and Settlesuggest he's Crossways, as luck would have it, is in need of the King's Justiceinterest to them. Black seems able Helped to control people's thoughts and deeds (and go without paying escape, he finds his way) just flight is interrupted by rubbing an arm under his permanently-worn black capeother instances of him acting without being in control, but when the discovery that he sounds out the parity is not unique in the town between the churches having some kind 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 burgeoning power – and to a place where he really cannot take the control he's used to…whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214491</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen DonaldsonTasha Suri|title=The Augur's GambitJasmine Throne|rating=34

|summary=In a ''King Lear''esque procedure, On the Queen Inimica Phlegathon DeVry IV has met with each night of her five barons in turnsacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and seduced them all into accepting her proposal refuses to step on to the pyre. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of marriagepeople who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. What does she mean by this bizarre procedureBut now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, which only seems to set them all against the otherdecaying ruin. One day, especially when the fourth to meet Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting 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 Eastsuch a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the likes of which have never ever returned? And what is in store girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the island Queendom, when the royal family's girl to become her own magical oracle can only see the end of their civilisation?personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214475</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel GodfreyGenevieve Gornichec|title=New PompeiiThe Witch's Heart|rating=4.5

|summary=Classicist Nick Houghton is employed by Novus Particles to assist them with A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a reconstruction forest at the edge of Pompeii – a reconstruction the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that includes she was survived burnt at the originalstake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, living first century inhabitantshowever, 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 stake—and refuses to leave her alone. NovusPart have discovered a way After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to pull historical artefacts (fall for Loki's charms, and indeed people) through time; the two start an amazing innovation. The conspiracy theorists mumble about there being sinister reasons and the disappearance unusual family made of key personnel helps to feed these rumoursup a half-dead daughter, but Nick needs a job son that's a wolf, and this is too good an opportunity to turn down. Anyway, another son that's what he tells himself to combat the repercussions of saying noa snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298111</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher B HusbergHannah Whitten|title=Chaos Queen - Duskfall (The Chaos Queen Quintet)For the Wolf|rating=4.5

|summary=Winter In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and Knotthe second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's wedding misfortune, she is a brave move and not just because Winter is a Tiellanthe second daughter. Knot was brought Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back , Red knows what to life after nearly drowning expect: within the year beforewoods is a wolf, a and he is the one who will decide the fate that removed his memoryof their kingdom. All If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he knows is that there are people chasing him keeps contained to the woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Knot's angry… you just don't want Knot Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to get angrybe killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. Meanwhile Cinzia The wolf is not 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… Letmonster—he's just say big changes lie aheada man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299150</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca AlexanderJohn Gwynne|title=The Secrets of Time and FateShadow Of The Gods|rating=4.5

|summary=Having killed Countess Elizabeth BathoryThe Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the revenant from era of the 16th century, 21st century Jackdaw Hammond did something she's regretting. By depriving it Vikings in the shadow of its hostRagnarok, when the spirit Saraquel has moved from Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the Countess ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to Jackthe genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. Can she get some help This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to banish it before someone else does it create a little more terminally both for Jack wonderfully realistic and Saraquel? Meanwhile back gritty world in the 16th century of Edward Kelley and Sir John Dee, Elizabeth Bathory still lives and Saraquel proves he can wreak havoc across timewhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195326X</amazonuk>0356514218

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