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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian McClellanA G Slatter|title=Sins The Briar Book of Empirethe Dead

|summary=The fantasy genre is home to some '' There's a part of the best books me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I have ever read, but also some of the worstcan. The very nature This secret magic of epic stories that span generations means that few fantasy books rock up under 400 pages and many are part of long running series or trilogiesmy own, all mine, at last. When done badly, fantasy books are bloated and boring affairs that rattle of every cliché the genre has had I just want to offer since Bilbo exited Bag End, but done well they can be brilliantenjoy it for a while. They can be ''Sins of Empire'' by Brian McClellan.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650929X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Marisa Silver|title= Little Nothing|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary=In an unnamed country at Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the beginning protection of the last centuryBriar's, a peasant couple longs family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for a child. In despair they turn magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to gypsy tonics be born into her family for generations and archaic prescriptionsas such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and one cold wintery nightpotions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the coupletown's wish comes trueleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. But As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the silence that follows rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the birth forewarns heart of a maelstrom of darker days chaos. Reeling from one family secret to come. Strangers look on askance another, Ellie must decide who to trust and fall speechless in determine what to do as the childBriar witches's presencelegacy, and villagers protectively hush their children as everything they pass on narrow market lanes. Pavla is no ordinary childhave sacrificed to survive, but then this is no ordinary taleunder threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786071274</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marissa MeyerRachel Greenlaw|title= Heartless|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= How did the Queen of Hearts become the monster we know from Alice's story? Welcome to Meyer's Wonderland and the peaceful kingdom of Hearts, where a young Lady called Catherine's heart's desire is to be … the best baker in all of Hearts. But while her mother tolerates her hobby, Catherine knows she will never consider it as a serious path for her daughter, unless Catherine can convince her. However, Catherine's dreams start to get that much more complicated once a mysterious stranger appears, a royal suitor materialises and deadly beast starts stalking the once safe Kingdom. What is Cath's destiny? To be the dreadful queen we all know or to be a dedicated bakery owner? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509814132</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Amanda Hocking|title= Freeks|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= In the spring of 1987, the carnival comes to small-town Caudry, Louisiana. Then events take a dangerous turn. For Mara Beznik, the carnival is home. It's also a place of secrets, hidden powers and a buried past - making it hard to connect with outsiders. However, sparks fly when she meets local boy Gabe Alvarado. As they become inseparable, Mara realizes Gabe is hiding his own secrets. And his family legacy could destroy Mara's world. They find the word 'freeks' sprayed on trailers, as carnival employees start disappearing. Then workers wind up dead, killed in disturbing ways by someone or something. Mara is determined to unlock the mystery, with Gabe's help. But can they really halt this campaign of fear?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509807659</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephanie Garber|title=Caraval|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Scarlett Dragna has had one desire all her life: to visit a Caraval. These interactive events put on by magician Compass and entrepreneur Legend are world famous but very exclusive. It's therefore a huge surprise when Scarlett and her sister Tella receive tickets. These will take them away from their sadistic father and prison-like island home for the first time. Caraval is never what one expects though and when Tella is kidnapped, Scarlett experiences the sinister side of a game in which nothing is what it seems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473629144</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Neil Gaiman|title=Stardust: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisationBlade

|genre=Fantasy Teens|summary=Tristan Thorn has never wanted to cross ''I can hear the Wall from his sleepy English village to song of the land sea. The call of Faerie beyondthe deep, the answering beat in my heart. However'' Rosevear, when a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the girl wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of his dreams the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the beautiful Victoria Forester – promises island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to be his bride if he retrieves save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a fallen star, wreck survivor who is as charming as he has no choice. Without hesitationis secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, Tristan she sets out on off in search of a quest family secret that will lead him into a series lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of bizarre adventures and set him against foreign islands to the dark forces heart of the strange smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and magical land of Stormholdthe ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785295624</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan DennardT Kingfisher|title=Windwitch (The Witchlands Series)Thornhedge

|summary=Merik Nihar, the Windwitch and former fleet admiral, must lay low on account of the fact that everyone believes him dead. He knows the attempted assassination was instigated by his sister, Vivia, but he doesn't yet realise how this attempt will change him and his powers. Safi meanwhile is regretting using her Truthwitch skills to help the Empress Vaness. Apart from anything else, it's deadly dull and has taken her away from Iseult, friend and Threadsister. Eventually though the dull disappears and it's not only Safi who's left with the deadly as allies appear from unexpected places and friendships are doubted while their world teeters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447282302</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Su Bristow|title= Sealskin|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy |summary= Donald is You had a young fisherman, eking out a lonely living on the west coast of Scotlandright to retake your place. One night he witnesses something miraculous ...and makes a terrible mistake. His action changes lives - not only his own, but those of his family and the entire tightly knit community in which they live. Can he ever atone for the wrong he has done, and can love grow when its foundation is violence?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633607</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jon Skovron|title= Bane and Shadow|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''I am beyond redemption''

T Kingfisher''Bane and Shadow'' picks up s latest novella is a year after the final events lovely reimagining of the [[Hope a fairytale that is well known and Red by Jon Skovron|first installment]] well beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in the Empire of Storms seriesa tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, which I highly recommend reading if you haven't alreadyThornhedge is not her story. Following the great characters we met in the previous novelInstead, ''Bane and Shadow'' has even more action with brilliant battlesour protagonist is Toadling, nailwho was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-biting tension born baby and a new darkness secreted away to the storyland of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356507157</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=E M DaveyNicole Jarvis|title=The Napoleon ComplexA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=Journalist Jake Wolsey's brush with the Book 'I want all of Fate and that fatal Etruscan lightening isnFlorence to know my name''t over. Historical quotes Cast out from Rome, 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 the odd inclusion of Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an Etruscan scroll oasis in his portrait. If the scroll is what Jake which her art can find a home and Jenny think it is, where has it gone? Our heroes aren't her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the only curious people andpowerful Accademia, while their search takes them across the world, it's as much about fatality avoidance as it is treasure hunting. Who will get self-proclaimed guardians of 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 healing magics that through paintings have the way power to a dinner party, Lorna Love steps into protect the path of an oncoming carcity and its citizens from plagues and curses. Waking up in what appears to be a hospital, but a hospital in which wine is served The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for supper, everyone avoids her questions, centuries and her nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Connery, guard it soon transpires that Lorna is in Heaven, or, at least, on HVNabove all else. Because HVN is a lost, dysfunctional spaceshipTo them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and God the aging hippy captain. At first Lorna can remember nothing, but as her memories return change – some good, some bad, she realises that she has a decision to make, no place amongst them and that maybe, she needs to find a way home…their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786150352</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Terry GoodkindThomas D Lee|title= Death's MistressPerilous Times|rating= 43

|summary= We start this novel as a Heroine and a hero travelling through ''Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set in the forestnear-distant future, in search of a witch. I immediately love it, when the focus is world on the female lead and the male lead is painted as a bit verge of a pompous twonkclimate collapse, with more care for clothes and jewellery, than for saving mankindBritain is in great peril. However, it becomes harder The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to like her as save the book winds its tale, when you realise that she is a heartless, murdering, uncaring, psychopathday and rescue what little remains. It becomes relatively clear that she has been damaged from a young age (which What no-one expected 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 Knights of Emperor's Rahl victory over the evil Emperor Janang to Round Table would answer the furthest reaches of his kingdom, becomes diverted, when prophecy leaves the world and an old witch imparts the knowledge of an old prophecy that foretells that Nicci will save the worldcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786691639</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian TregillisAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=The Liberation: Book Three of The Alchemy WarsDelilah Recovered

|summary=The war between the New Dutch and the New French continue aided and complicated 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 work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. But it's not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the Mechanicals' rebellionattack but not unscathed. In fact the day the world ended comes as a shock Witch hunters? What on earth has that to everyonedo 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 mention a bloody messher and things will never be the same.... Let the apocalypse begin!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502341</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luke ScullHadeer Elsbai|title=Dead Man's Steel (Grim Company)The Daughters of Izdihar|rating=4.5

|summary=The fehd move onDrawing inspiration from Egypt, killing humanity with ruthless efficiency. ''The remaining heroes are trying to win Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the war but they've got issues lives of their own. Brodar Kaynetwo women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the Sword rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the Northupper class, joins forces against fehd with Carn Bloodfist which has its problems since Brodar killed Carn's father. Davarus Cole wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and Sasha are slightly imprisoned whereas Eremul then join the Halfmage military, but instead she is still raging wherever possibleforced into an arranged marriage with Nico. This raging takes turns with coming Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to terms with provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the shock Daughters of his apprenticeIzdihar – a group campaigning for women's true identityrights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. Indeed the former apprenticeWhat follows is a story of an unjust society, Isaacfilled with hypocrisy and cruelty, is fulfilling his true potential although not on the side that Eremul had envisagedfrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles. These heroes – all that remains of the Grim Company - are humanity's only hope… Good luck humanity!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178185159X</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brandon SandersonHeather Fawcett|title= Arcanum UnboundedEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy General Fiction|summary= Brandon Sanderson Emily Wilde is more cannon than man. He fires out more works than any other author an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of fantasyfaeries. Not only does he write an awe inspiring amount of novels Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, but he also writes various short fictions that go alongside themshe is not so good with people. And So when she finds herself far, far North in herethe 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 investigations for her book back on the first timeright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the major ones are collected together.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473218039</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= James YoungChristopher Golden|title= Rise Road of the Dust ChildBones|rating= 43.5|genre= Science Fiction Horror|summary=An age has passed since The Kolyma Highway… the fall 'Road of Bones'… the old worldR504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, and the rise it's one of the malignant Dust peopleworld's most notorious routes. Amongst For months of the terrors year it's a spread of this new agesheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, humanity still lingers within the wreckage while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of civilisationunremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, held together by the promise of 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 better existence in the next lifeevery metre it covers. But not all are satisfied by this dogma. Within the smoggy city You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of Fort Palmerour main characters, eight year old Doran and Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his friend Alena stand apartcameraman buddy, struggling John Prentiss – who's mostly there to retain encourage the lost glory project to fruition to claw back some of their faith. But the unquiet dead and funds he'd invested in the forces of faith do not take kindly to those who try to fix a broken worldpair's prior TV projects. As They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the quest to save the future leads each company of them down a dark pathlocal beauty, they are cast apart - struggling to overcome the monstrous dusters and fetch up at the fear within themselves, desperate guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to see each other again. go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524634379</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben AaronovitchAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Hanging Tree (Rivers of London 6Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=54

|summary=When Lady Tyburn rescued Police Officer Peter Grant she put him in her debt''Matt has a terrible life. Now itSeriously—it's payback time as her daughter awful. It is so bad that Dan the Demon is implicated shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a 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 murderterrible salesman. Is this just another drug related killing? NoHe never hits his targets and, Peter is only involved in crime related when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the supernatural side of life and since both Lady Ty and daughter are river goddessesdotted line, therehe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's much to investigatesignature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132558</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David DalglishOlivie Blake|title=Fireborn (The Seraphim Trilogy)Atlas Six|rating=4.5

|summary=When the Center (the government that's meant to protect them) destroys the Academy Bree and Kael Skyborn take the only route open to them. They join the resistance and some allies who they'd be more wary of in other circumstances. Indeed the Prophet Johan may not have seemed that attractive to them in the past but he has resources that will come in useful as well as some interesting secrets. Bree and Kael will definitely learn a lotDark, including why the Skyborn family are so prized by the dictatorial organisation they now battle against.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356506517</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Genevieve Cogman|title= The Burning Page (The Invisible Library Series)|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|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, andsharp, now and thenhighly inquisitive, 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 sheThe Atlas Six'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 youmakes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785941887</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James IslingtonDaniel Abraham|title=The Shadow Age of What Was Lost: Book One of the Licanius TrilogyAsh

|summary=Young Davian is an Augur; We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and a once powerful race meeting that has become almost extinct due to legislationshe dreads. The surviving remnant stay silent about their powers lest they follow Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of years when the same fate as worlds are at their forebears – outlawed thinnest and then murdered by a harsh legal systemall things are possible. Up till now Davian has been safe within an academy for It is the night between the Gifted: funeral of a Prince and the Tol in Andarra. Then one day everything changes. Now Davian is running for his life, unaware coronation of his capabilities or whom it's safe to trustsuccessor. It's even worse than it sounds for this is For a world on night the edge of war, trying to suppress secrets that will endanger its very existenceKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356507750</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= A K BenedictAnn Sei Lin|title= Class: The Stone HouseRebel Skies|rating= 45|genre= FantasyTeens|summary=There's an old stone house near Coal Hill School. Most people hurry past it. They've heard Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the stories. ButMidori, if you stop, and look up, you'll see a massive dining hall floating in the face sky where soldiers of a girl, pressed up against a window. Screaming. Tanya finds herself drawn the Empire come to the stone housedrink and make merry between their conquests. There's However, when a mystery there, and she's going man named Himura arrives to solve it. But the more tell her that she investigatesis a Crafter like him, someone with the more power to form paper into whatever she realises that there's desires – a presence in power sought after all across the houseEmpire. One that wants He asks her. Something is waiting for Tanya in to come with him, to leave the stone house. Something life of dreary servitude that is all she has been trapping others known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in its web over the yearsmatter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. Something that She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is far worse than any ghost...to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785941879</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Daniel PolanskyB09Q3P283Y|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 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>}}{{newreviewShadebringer|author=Karen Maitland|title=The Plague CharmerGrayson W Hooper|rating=4.5

|summary=The people of Porlock Weir have heard Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the rumoursVietnam War. King Edward III has fled with his family to He's not really that invested in the New Forest to escape fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the Plague in Londonmilitary. Will it remain confined to the city? The last time no If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one was safe and, according to Janveerat least, gets him out of the strange woman fishermen rescued from the sea, itrut he'll be the same agains in. Janveer has He's good in training and is quickly put onto a proposition thoughnon commissioned officer training course. She can save Porlock and all it will cost them is one lifeHe's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472235827</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark MorrisJennifer Saint|title=The Wraiths of War (Obsidian Heart book 3)Elektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Although not dead as he thought he was'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Alex Locke feels no closer to finding his missing daughter across time orClytemnestra, indeed, unmasking and Elektra are all bit players in the story of the dark manTrojan War. However, he knows what he has to do. Alex must use Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the obsidian heart to travel back most compelling stories 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 himselfmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781168741</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kelley ArmstrongDean Koontz|title= Otherworld ChillsQuicksilver|rating= 42.5|genre= FantasyThrillers|summary= I came Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to Armstrongget to be a mercurial character yet, for he's ''Otherworld'' quite late lived in its development a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and it seems that shenow is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now wrapping it up to move on to other things. Billed as the 'final collection' subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of stories mood or mind''Chills'' allegedly completes several storylines , for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of her best loved charactershis bank and prepare for going on the lam. IAnd all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he'd disagrees of interest to them. If Sherlock can survive Reichenbach then I'm sure WerewolvesHelped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, Vampires the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and demi-demotic Angels can survive whatever state they may have been left ina whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500683</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeTasha Suri|title=FlooredThe Jasmine Throne

|summary=1.Nemo has been brought back from death by Doctineer ViktorOn the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. The fact She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that she was once dead combined filled with her new form as a pleasure bot makes community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her worthless – for such a human/robot hybrid zero. But even zeros have ambitionsgruesome crime, even if they're dangerousMalini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0994616414</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edward CoxGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Watcher of Dead Time (Relic Guild 3)Witch's Heart

|summary=The Genii are winning A modern and approachable reimagining of the Relic Guild is gradually being eradicatedNorse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. Clara She hides in a forest at the edge of the changeling survives to fight nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but for how long? The trauma that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of what sheOdin's been through is taking its tollwrath. However Her attempts to live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she's still Relic Guild so was tied to the fight goes onstake—and refuses to leave her alone. Meanwhile elsewhere Samuel leads the search After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the Nephilim who may be the key to good triumphingtwo start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, but and another son that's not straightforward eithera snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200369</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=K S TurnerHannah Whitten|title=Time: The Immortal Divide (The Chronicles of Fate and Choice)For the Wolf|rating=45

|summary= As we open thisIn Red's family, the third book of the trilogyfirst daughter becomes queen, Tachra is on and the threshold of either victory or deathsecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. As Arrun runs amok, TachraTo Red's kutu allies disappear on paths that are separated from hers so misfortune, she's forced to rely on her own wit and power. As Tachra and her people teeter on is the edge of destruction, will that be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956224296</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jon Skovron|title= Hope and Red|rating= 4second daughter.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= Bleak Hope is a young girl orphaned at the tender age of eight when Sent alone into the emperor's biomancers – mystics of biology woods with nothing but the power to make living things grow, decay or change into something else entirely – massacre cape on her whole village. The lone survivorback, Hope sneaks on board a travelling merchant ship and by chance becomes a servant at the old Vinchen monastery, home Red knows what to expect: within the empire's best warriors. There she woods is secretly trained by the greatest Vinchen warrior in historya wolf, and he is driven by her dream the one who will decide the fate of vengeance against those responsible for her parent's deaththeir kingdom. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316268119</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tom Lloyd|title= Stranger of Tempest|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=Lynx If she is not a mercenary with a sense of honour; a dying breed in worthy sacrifice, the Riven Kingdom. Failed by monsters he keeps contained to the nation he served woods will be released, and weary of the skirmishes that plague the continent's principalities, fabled kings he walks keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the land in search of purposestories go. Bodyguard work keeps his belly full and his mage-gun loadedBut when Red enters the woods, and whilst it'll never bring a man fame or wealth, he's not forced expecting nothing more than to rely on others or kill without cause. When a kidnapped girl forces Lynx to join a mercenary company, be killed within the job seems simple enoughhour, and she finds that the mercanaries less stupid and vicious than most helegends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's met over the years. So long as there are no surprises or hidden agendas along the way, it should work out fine..a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473213177</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony RyanJohn Gwynne|title=The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria Shadow Of The Gods

|summary=Mercenary Clayden Torcreek The Shadow Of The Gods is blood-blessedthe first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, i.e. one set in the era of the few able to translate a few drops Vikings in the shadow of drake's blood into an extraordinary attribute. It gets even better than that: Clayden is unregisteredRagnarok, making him unexpected and eminently hireable when the department of Exceptional Initiatives need someone Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to track see. This story is the fabled white drake. His recruiter ultimate in High Fantasy, and contact is covert agent Lizanne Lethbridge who is currently gathering intelligence while posing as a maid John Gwynne certainly does justice to the spoilt young Tekela. It's worth it though – Tekela's father has something of interest. The problem is that Lizanne isn't the only one interested genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and so staying alive becomes increasingly difficultbattles galore. Out at sea naval officer Hilemore This is about to put his training to good use. Meanwhile in the inhospitable interiora thick book, Clayden's expedition only has with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to worry about savages create a wonderfully realistic and drakes of the gigantic, man-eating, fire breathing varietygritty world in which our heroes must do battle. That's alright then!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506398</amazonuk>0356514218