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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= V E Schwab|title=A Conjuring of Light|rating= 5|genre=Fantasy|summary= The Darker Shade of Magic trilogy concludes by continuing with the story of Lila Bard, finding her way through the different Londons', one with magic, one without magic, a London where magic has near enough destroyed their world and the last London, which balances precariously on the edge of oblivion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0765387468</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Claire NorthG Slatter|title= The End Briar Book of the Day|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= At the end of the day, Death visits everyone. Right before that, Charlie does. You might meet him in a hospital, in a warzone, or at the scene of a traffic accident.Then again, you might meet him at the North Pole - he gets everywhere. From jungles to deserts to tundra, you may come across Charlie. Would you shake him by the hand, take the gift he offers, or would you pay no attention to the words he says? Sometimes he is sent as a courtesy, sometimes as a warning. He never knows which.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316316741</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jen Williams|title=The Ninth Rain (The Winnowing Flame Trilogy 1) Dead

|summary=Ebora is dying along with its tree-like god Ysegril but Hestillion is doing all she can to keep him alive. In fact she'll go to any lengths to save him… any lengths at all. Hest's brother Tormalin can't sit around and wait for the end so heThere's engaged by Lady Vincenza (Vintage) de Grazon a part of me that wants to keep this just to be her factotum and hired sword during her quest myself for knowledgehowever long I can. It's turning into more This secret magic of an adventure than they'd planned even before Fell witch and fugitive Noon joins them. Now the trio must work togethermy own, all mine, putting prejudices and passions aside (others' as well as their own)at last. The Ninth Rain is coming and more than Ebora is in danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472235177</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Andrezej Sapkowski|title= The Lady of the Lake|rating=3|genre= Fantasy |summary= This book was quite captivating in the beginning. The idea that the truths of ancient history and mythology can be unearthed by exploring them in the dreams of I just want to enjoy it for a talented sleeper is rather enchantingwhile. It's an interesting idea, one that merges history and fantasy creating an almost dream like feel within the writing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147321159X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stefan Mohamed|title= Stanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= CynicalWithin a remote mountain pass, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count far away from the fact that his best friend was world, lies Silverton; a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came town under the superpowers. And the super powered allies. And the mysterious enemies. And protection of the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. And the apocalypse. Now heBriar's not sure what he is. Or where he is. Or how exactly one is supposed to proceed after saving the world. All he knows is that his story isn't finished. Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630764</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Brian McClellan|title=Sins of Empire|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The fantasy genre is home to some of the best books that I have ever read, but also some a family of witches who protect the worst. The very nature of epic stories that span generations means that few fantasy books rock up under 400 pages town and many are part of long running series or trilogiesthe wider world from the Darklands. When done badlyThough she has always wished for magic, fantasy books are bloated and boring affairs that rattle of every cliché Ellie Briar is the genre has had first non-witch to offer since Bilbo exited Bag End, but done well they can be brilliant. 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 the beginning of the last century, a peasant couple longs born into her family for a child. In despair they turn to gypsy tonics generations and archaic prescriptionsas such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and one cold wintery night, the couple's wish comes true. But the silence that follows the birth forewarns of darker days to come. Strangers look on askance administration rather than spells and fall speechless in the child's presence, and villagers protectively hush their children as they pass on narrow market lanespotions. Pavla is no ordinary childWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, but then this is no ordinary tale.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786071274</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marissa Meyer|title= Heartless|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= How did the Queen of Hearts become the monster we know from AliceEllie's story? Welcome to Meyer's Wonderland and cousin Audra becomes the peaceful kingdom of HeartsBriar Witch, where a young Lady called Catherine's heartthe town's desire is to be … the best baker in all of Hearts. But while her mother tolerates her hobbyleader, Catherine knows she will never consider it as a serious path for and Ellie takes her daughter, unless Catherine can convince place beside her. HoweverAs challenges come her way left, Catherine's dreams start to get that much more complicated once a mysterious stranger appearsright and centre, a royal suitor materialises and deadly beast starts stalking Ellie uncovers the once safe Kingdom. What is Cath's destiny? To be the dreadful queen we all know or rare ability to be a dedicated bakery owner? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509814132</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Amanda Hocking|title= Freeks|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= In communicate with the spring of 1987dead, putting her at the carnival comes to small-town Caudry, Louisiana. Then events take heart of a dangerous turnmaelstrom of chaos. For Mara BeznikReeling from one family secret to another, the carnival is home. It's also a place of secrets, hidden powers Ellie must decide who to trust and a buried past - making it hard determine what 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 do as the word Briar witches'freeks' sprayed on trailers, as carnival employees start disappearing. Then workers wind up deadlegacy, killed in disturbing ways by someone or something. Mara is determined to unlock the mystery, with Gabe's help. But can everything 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: have sacrificed to visit a Caraval. These interactive events put on by magician 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 kidnappedsurvive, Scarlett experiences the sinister side of a game in which nothing is what it seemsunder threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473629144</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neil GaimanRachel Greenlaw|title=Stardust: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisationCompass and Blade

|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 Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and a call for help where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from former lover and MI6 operative Jenny start a whole new search for the source powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and destructioncurses. This time it's linked to Napoleon Bonaparte The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and the odd inclusion of an Etruscan scroll in his portrait. If the scroll is what Jake architecture for centuries and Jenny think guard it isabove all else. To them, where Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has it gone? Our heroes aren't the only curious people no place amongst them and, while their search takes them across the world, it's as much about fatality avoidance as it is treasure huntingsociety. Who will get the answer first and at what cost to themselves… and civilisation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715651080</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Charlie LaidlawThomas D Lee|title= The Things We Learn When We're DeadPerilous Times|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= On the way to a dinner party, 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 in Heaven, or, at least, on HVN. 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= 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 Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of London 6)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 terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and, when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the dotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|isbn=1958204021}}{{Frontpage|author=Olivie Blake|title=The Atlas Six|rating=54

|summary=When Lady Tyburn rescued Police Officer Peter Grant she put him in her debt. Now it's payback time as her daughter is implicated in a murder. Is this just another drug related killing? NoDark, sharp, Peter is only involved in crime related to the supernatural side of life and since both Lady Ty and daughter are river goddesseshighly inquisitive, there's much to investigate'The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132558</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David DalglishDaniel Abraham|title=Fireborn (The Seraphim Trilogy)Age of Ash

|summary=When We meet Alys under the Center (the government thatmost northerly of Oldgate's meant to protect them) destroys the Academy Bree four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and Kael Skyborn take the only route open to thema meeting that she dreads. They join Meanwhile the resistance and some allies who they'd be more wary City of Kithamar is at a point in other circumstancesthe turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. Indeed It is the Prophet Johan may not have seemed that attractive to them in night between the funeral of a Prince and the past but he has resources that will come in useful as well as some interesting secretscoronation of his successor. Bree and Kael will definitely learn For a lot, including why the Skyborn family are so prized by night the dictatorial organisation they now battle againstKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506517</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Genevieve CogmanAnn Sei Lin|title= The Burning Page (The Invisible Library Series)Rebel Skies|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyTeens|summary= Think Indiana JonesKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, Robert Langdon or Jack West, with a sprinkle massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the panache of James Bond Empire come to drink and Rafflesmake merry between their conquests. Educated and courageous folk who risk However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to obtain that magical talismancome with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that precious statueis all she has known. Well, that ancient scrollsoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, andbecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, now and then, she is forced to save flee out into the free world in . She joins Himura aboard the process. Place such Orihime, a person in a multisky-universe where on every world the same struggle ship whose express purpose is being played out: the dragonsto hunt down shikigami, 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!whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447256271</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= James GossB09Q3P283Y|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>}}{{newreviewShadebringer|author=James Islington|title=The Shadow of What Was Lost: Book One of the Licanius TrilogyGrayson W Hooper|rating=4.5

|summary=Young Davian is an Augur; a once powerful race Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that has become almost extinct due to legislation. The surviving remnant stay silent about their powers lest they follow invested in the same fate as their forebears – outlawed and then murdered by fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a harsh legal system. Up till now Davian has been safe within an academy for career in the Gifted: the Tol in Andarramilitary. Then If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one day everything changes. Now Davian is running for his life, unaware at least, gets him out of his capabilities or whom itthe rut he's safe to trustin. ItHe's even worse than it sounds for this good in training and is quickly put onto a world on the edge of war, trying to suppress secrets that will endanger its very existencenon commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356507750</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= A K BenedictJennifer Saint|title= Class: The Stone HouseElektra|rating= 4|genre= FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=There's an old stone house near Coal Hill School. Most people hurry past it. TheyElektra've heard by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the storiesheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. ButCassandra, if you stopClytemnestra, and look up, you'll see Elektra are all bit players in the face story of a girl, pressed up against a window. Screaming. Tanya finds herself drawn to the stone houseTrojan War. There's a mystery there, and she's going to solve it. But the more she investigates, the more she realises Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that there's a presence in often the house. One that wants her. Something is waiting for Tanya in silent women have the stone house. Something that has been trapping others in its web over most compelling stories and the years. Something that is far worse than any ghost..most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785941879</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Daniel PolanskyDean Koontz|title=A City DreamingQuicksilver|rating= 42.5|genre= FantasyThrillers|summary=A City Dreaming guides us through Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a year mercurial character yet, for he's lived in the life of the restless a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and enigmatic M as now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he returns IS now ''subject to New York after travelling. A magical adeptsudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, wellcall it mind-known 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 various non-human beings that frequent the alternative realities value of New York City and not without power himself, you'd never guess any it out of it from his nonchalant hipper-than-thou attitudebank and prepare for going on the lam. He tries And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to keep out of local politics – opposing camps turn up and suggest he's of magical affiliates in the city – but can be fiercely loyal interest to his closest associatesthem. Though Helped to escape, he reluctantly gets mixed up in various scrapes via finds his strange bunch flight is interrupted by other instances of friends and acquaintanceshim acting without being in control, and occasionally has to save the day, all discovery that he really wants is to be left alone to enjoy the sex, drugs not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and good coffee that abound in the citya whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473634253</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen MaitlandTasha Suri|title=The Plague CharmerJasmine Throne|rating=4.5

|summary=The people On the night of Porlock Weir have heard the rumours. King Edward III has fled with his family her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to the New Forest step on to escape the Plague in Londonpyre. Will it remain confined She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the city? The last time no one Hirana: an ancient temple that was safe and, according to Janveer, once filled with a community of people who got powers from the strange woman fishermen rescued from mysterious deathless waters. But now the seatemple is nothing more than an overgrown, it'll be the same againdecaying ruin. Janveer has One day, Malini witnesses a proposition thoughgirl kill someone with magic. She can save Porlock Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and all it will cost them is one lifebegs for the girl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472235827</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark MorrisGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Wraiths of War (Obsidian Witch's Heart book 3)

|summary=Although not dead as he thought he A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was, Alex Locke feels no closer survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to finding his missing daughter across time orlive in peace, indeedhowever, unmasking 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 dark manstake—and refuses to leave her alone. HoweverAfter an initial period of mistrust, he knows what he has Angrboda begins to do. Alex must use the obsidian heart to travel back fall for Loki's charms, and fight in World War I beside the ghostly soldier who visited him two start an unusual family made of up a century or so later. Ithalf-dead daughter, a son that's not as simple as it seemsa wolf, as Alex keeps telling himself… or rather as Alexes (plural) keep telling himselfand another son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781168741</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kelley ArmstrongHannah Whitten|title= Otherworld ChillsFor the Wolf|rating= 45|genre= Fantasy|summary= I came to ArmstrongIn Red's ''Otherworld'' quite late in its development family, the first daughter becomes queen, and it seems that shethe second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's now wrapping it up to move misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to other thingsexpect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. Billed as If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the 'final collection' of stories ''Chills'' allegedly completes several storylines of her best loved charactersgo. I'd disagreeBut when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. If Sherlock can survive Reichenbach then IThe wolf is not a monster—he'm sure Werewolves, Vampires and demi-demotic Angels can survive whatever state they may have been left ins a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500683</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeJohn Gwynne|title=FlooredThe Shadow Of The Gods|rating=45

|summary=1The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see.Nemo has been brought back from death by Doctineer ViktorThis story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. The fact This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that she was once dead combined with her new form as are woven together to create a pleasure bot makes her worthless – a human/robot hybrid zero. But even zeros have ambitions, even if they're dangerouswonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0994616414</amazonuk>0356514218