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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview <!-- remove 5/6 -->Frontpage|author=Mark LinganeA G Slatter|title=BL!NK (Hadron Damnation The Briar Book 1)of the Dead|rating=45
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|summary=iYe is a smasher: '' There's a child who is capable part of sending back pictures me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of the future by travelling out my own, all mine, at last. I just want to where the past and future meetenjoy it for a while. Smashers don't usually live to see their teens as ' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the information generally returns without them. However iYeBriar's mother, Captain Trix Raidena family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is determined he'll the first non-witch to be different born into her family for generations andas such since she was young, indeed he is, in many waysher training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. Not only does iYe surviveWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, he is a chip off Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the same block as CallyBriar Witch, the planetary hero. However there is a darker side: iYe carries a message that Earth doesntown't want to hears leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. The planet is used As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to dealing communicate with the aliens that Cally originally fought but worse is on its waydead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches''We are coming legacy, everything they have sacrificed to kill yousurvive, is under threat.''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0994616457</amazonuk>1803364548
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= James AbbottRachel Greenlaw|title= The Never KingCompass and Blade|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= The land of Stravimon is in chaos3. Cedius the Wise died leaving the traitorous Mardonius to ascend to the throne. In far off Hell's Keep (the most deadly and remote prison in the Kingdom; a place no prisoner has ever returned from alive) Xavir Argentum is contacted by Cedius' former Spy Master, Landril. Betrayal, intrigue, violence and magic follow as we travel across this strange but familiar land on a quest for vengeance, justice and freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509803114</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Laura Lam|title=Masquerade (Micah Grey Trilogy)|rating=45
|genre=Teens
|summary= It's been a remarkable journey for our young protagonist. It wasn't long ago that Micah Grey was still living I can hear the life song of Iphigenia Laurus, daughter the sea. The call of a noble familythe deep, trapped the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a gilded cage forever hiding remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her true self. Since running away, Micah has managed is one of the seven who swim out to reinvent himself, first as survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a circus acrobattrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and then as a magicianMira's apprenticefather. Along the way Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he's discovered love is secretive and friendships with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that have helped keep him afloatlies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, even as betrayal and tragedy seem ready her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to strike at every turn. But therethe heart of the smuggler's only so long he can keep running. His powers are growingterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the Chimaera are returning, future of her home and Ellada is about to reach a violent tipping pointthe ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509807780</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brian StaveleyT Kingfisher|title= Skullsworn|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''"Love is like killing," she said. "You do it with every part of you, or not at all.” '' Pyrre is a skullsworn; one who is devoted to the God of Death. Trained as an assassin and having studied under the deadliest killers in the world since she was eight, Pyrre is about to embark upon her final trial. A trial in which success will mean elevation to the rank of priestess, while failure will mean death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150982295X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= V E Schwab|title=A Conjuring of LightThornhedge|rating= 5
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|summary= The Darker Shade ''You had a right to retake your place.'' T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of Magic trilogy concludes by continuing with the story of Lila Barda fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, finding Thornhedge is not her way through the different Londons'story. Instead, one with magic, one without magicour protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a London new-born baby and secreted away to the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic has near enough destroyed their world from her veins and the last London, which balances precariously on the edge of oblivioncast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0765387468</amazonuk>1803364238
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire NorthNicole Jarvis|title= The End of the DayA Portrait in Shadow|rating= 4.5|genre= General Historical Fiction|summary= At the end ''I want all of the day, Death visits everyone. Right before thatFlorence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Charlie does. You might meet him Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in a hospital, Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a warzone, or at home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the scene of a traffic accident.Then againpowerful Accademia, you might meet him at the North Pole self- he gets everywhere. From jungles to deserts to tundra, you may come across Charlie. Would you shake him by proclaimed guardians of the hand, take healing magics that through paintings have the gift he offers, or would you pay no attention power to protect the words he says? Sometimes he is sent as a courtesycity and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, sometimes as a warning. He never knows whichArtemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316316741</amazonuk>1803362340
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jen WilliamsThomas D Lee|title=The Ninth Rain (The Winnowing Flame Trilogy 1) |rating=5|genre=Fantasy|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 he's engaged by Lady Vincenza (Vintage) de Grazon to be her factotum and hired sword during her quest for knowledge. It's turning into more of an adventure than they'd planned even before Fell witch and fugitive Noon joins them. Now the trio must work together, putting prejudices and passions aside (others' as well as their own). 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 LakePerilous Times
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|genre= Fantasy |summary= This book was quite captivating ''Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the beginningverge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The idea that British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the truths of ancient history day and mythology can be unearthed by exploring them in the dreams of a talented sleeper is rather enchantingrescue what little remains. It's an interesting idea, What no-one expected was that merges history and fantasy creating an almost dream like feel within one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the writingcall. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147321159X</amazonuk>0356518523
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedAmelia Estelle Dellos|title= Stanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)Delilah Recovered|rating= 54|genre= Science FictionFantasy|summary= CynicalWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, solitary Stanly Bird used just might, be about to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was a talking beagle named Daryllook up. Then came the superpowersOut of work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. And the super powered alliesBut it's not to be. And the mysterious enemiesDee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. And She survives the terrifying monstersattack but not unscathed. And the stunning revelations. And the apocalypse. Now heWitch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not sure what he isordinary at all return to her and things will never be the same. 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 …|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630764</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian McClellanHadeer Elsbai|title=Sins The Daughters of EmpireIzdihar|rating=54
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The fantasy genre is home to some Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the best books that I have ever readlives of two women who could not be more different, but also some of yet find themselves fighting for the worst. The very nature rights of epic stories that span generations means that few fantasy books rock up under 400 pages women and many are part of long running series or trilogiesweavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. When done badlyNehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, fantasy books are bloated but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and boring affairs that rattle feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of every cliché the genre has had Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to offer since Bilbo exited Bag End, but done well they can be brilliantin love with Nico. They can be ''Sins What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of Empire'' by Brian McClellanadmirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650929X</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marisa SilverHeather Fawcett|title= Little NothingEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 54|genre= Literary General Fiction |summary=In Emily Wilde is an unnamed country at the beginning of the last centuryexpert academic scholar on faerie lore, a peasant couple longs for a child. In despair they turn to gypsy tonics and archaic prescriptionsshe has travelled extensively, and one cold wintery nightresearched meticulously, the coupleto write her life's wish comes true. But work, the silence that follows the birth forewarns very first encyclopaedia of darker days faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to comefaeries, she is not so good with people. Strangers look on askance and fall speechless So when she finds herself far, far North in the child's presencesmall village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and villagers protectively hush their children as they pass put her final investigations for her book back on narrow market lanesthe right track. Pavla Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is no ordinary child, but then this he here? What does he want? And what exactly is no ordinary tale.going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786071274</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marissa MeyerChristopher Golden|title= HeartlessRoad of Bones|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyHorror|summary= How did The Kolyma Highway… the Queen 'Road of Hearts become Bones'… the monster we know from AliceR504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's story? Welcome to Meyerone of the world's Wonderland and most notorious routes. For months of the peaceful kingdom year it's a spread of Heartssheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, where a young Lady called Catherinewhile its 's heartspring's desire is to be … the best baker in all sees it turn into a huge blodge of Heartsunremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. But while her mother tolerates her hobby Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, Catherine knows she will never consider it as legendarily cost a serious path life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for her daughterone of our main characters, unless Catherine can convince her. HoweverFelix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, CatherineJohn Prentiss – who's dreams start mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to get that much more complicated once claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a mysterious stranger appearslocal beauty, a royal suitor materialises and deadly beast starts stalking fetch up at the once safe Kingdomguide's childhood village. What is Cath And that's destiny? To be the dreadful queen we all know or where things start to be a dedicated bakery owner? go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509814132</amazonuk>1803361476
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda HockingAndrew Givler|title= FreeksSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)|rating= 3.54|genre= Science FictionFantasy|summary= In the spring of 1987, the carnival comes to small-town Caudry, Louisiana. Then events take ''Matt has a dangerous turn. For Mara Beznik, the carnival is hometerrible life. ItSeriously—it's also a place of secrets, hidden powers and a buried past - making it hard to connect with outsidersawful. However, sparks fly It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when she meets local boy Gabe Alvarado. As they become inseparable, Mara realizes Gabe is hiding Matt turns down his own secrets. And infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his family legacy could destroy Mara's worldsoul. They find the word 'freeks' sprayed on trailers Poor Dan! I know, as carnival employees start disappearing. Then workers wind up deadI know, killed in disturbing ways by someone or somethingwe shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. Mara But he really is determined a terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and, when he fails to unlock get even Matt to sign on the mysterydotted line, with Gabehe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's helpsignature. But can they really halt this campaign of fear?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509807659</amazonuk>1958204021
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephanie GarberOlivie Blake|title=CaravalThe Atlas Six|rating=54
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Scarlett Dragna has had one desire all her life: to visit a Caraval. These interactive events put on by magician Dark, sharp, and entrepreneur Legend are world famous but very exclusive. Ithighly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six''s therefore makes its publishing debut after becoming a huge surprise when Scarlett and her sister Tella receive tickets. These will take them away from their sadistic father and prisonTik-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 seemsTok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473629144</amazonuk>1529095239
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neil GaimanDaniel Abraham|title=Stardust: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisationAge of Ash|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy |summary=Tristan Thorn has never wanted to cross the Wall from his sleepy English village to the land of Faerie beyond. However, when the girl of his dreams – the beautiful Victoria Forester – promises to be his bride if he retrieves a fallen star, he has no choice. Without hesitation, Tristan sets out on a quest that will lead him into a series of bizarre adventures and set him against the dark forces of the strange and magical land of Stormhold4. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785295624</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Susan Dennard|title=Windwitch (The Witchlands Series)|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Merik Nihar, We meet Alys under the Windwitch and former fleet admiral, must lay low on account most northerly of the fact that everyone believes him dead. He knows the attempted assassination was instigated by his sister, ViviaOldgate's four bridges, 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 she has taken a knife in her away from Iseult, friend hand and Threadsistera meeting that she dreads. Eventually though Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in the dull disappears and it's not only Safi who's left with turning of years when the deadly as allies appear from unexpected places worlds are at their thinnest and friendships all things are doubted while their world teeterspossible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447282302</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Su Bristow|title= Sealskin|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy |summary= Donald It is a young fisherman, eking out a lonely living on the west coast night between the funeral of Scotland. One night he witnesses something miraculous ...a Prince and makes a terrible mistake. His action changes lives - not only his own, but those the coronation of his family and the entire tightly knit community in which they livesuccessor. Can he ever atone for For a night the wrong he has done, and can love grow when its foundation Kithamar is violence?un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910633607</amazonuk>0356515427
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jon SkovronAnn Sei Lin|title= Bane and ShadowRebel Skies
|rating= 5
|genre= FantasyTeens|summary=''I am beyond redemption'' ''Bane and Shadow'' picks up Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a year after massive dining hall floating in the final events sky where soldiers of the [[Hope Empire come to drink and Red by Jon Skovron|first installment]] in make merry between their conquests. 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 come with him, to leave the life of Storms seriesdreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, which I highly recommend reading if you havensoon Kurara won't already. Following have any say in the great characters we met in matter, because the previous novelMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, ''Bane and Shadow'' has even more action with brilliant battlesshe is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, naila sky-biting tension ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a new darkness to the story.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356507157</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=E M DaveyB09Q3P283Y|title=The Napoleon ComplexShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=Journalist Jake WolseyClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's brush with not really that invested in the Book of Fate and that fatal Etruscan lightening isn't over. Historical quotesfight against Communism, intrigue and nor is he particularly interested in a call for help from former lover and MI6 operative Jenny start a whole new search for career in the source of power and destructionmilitary. This time itIf he's linked to Napoleon Bonaparte and the odd inclusion of an Etruscan scroll in his portrait. If the scroll is what Jake and Jenny think it honest - which Clyde usually is, where has it gone? Our heroes arenwith himself at least - he hasn't the only curious people got many choices andthis one, at least, while their search takes them across gets him out of the world, itrut he's in. He's as much about fatality avoidance as it good in training and is treasure huntingquickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself. Who will get the answer first and at what cost to themselves… and civilisation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715651080</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Charlie LaidlawJennifer Saint|title= The Things We Learn When We're DeadElektra|rating= 54|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= On 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the way to a dinner party, Lorna Love steps into story of three women who live in the path heavily male dominated world of an oncoming carAncient Greece. Waking up in what appears to be a hospitalCassandra, but a hospital in which wine is served for supper, everyone avoids her questionsClytemnestra, and her nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Connery, it soon transpires that Lorna is Elektra are all bit players in Heaven, or, at least, on HVNthe story of the Trojan War. Because HVN is a lost, dysfunctional spaceship, Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and God the aging hippy captainmost extreme furies. 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786150352</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Terry GoodkindDean Koontz|title= Death's MistressQuicksilver|rating= 42.5|genre= FantasyThrillers|summary= We start this novel as Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a Heroine and a hero travelling through the forestmercurial character yet, for he's lived in search of a witch. I immediately love itnun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, when the focus and now is starting a career on the female lead and the male lead is painted as a bit needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of a pompous twonk, with more care for clothes and jewellerymood or mind'', than for saving mankind. Howeversomething – call it unearthly intuition, call it becomes harder to like her as the book winds its talemind-control, when you realise call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that she is he go to a heartlessderelict diner, murdering, uncaring, psychopath. It becomes relatively clear that she has been damaged from find a young age (which was gold coin worth a while agofortune, seeing as she's almost 200 years old), that has had effects cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on how she has lived her life until the lam. And all this point. However, their goal is just in time for two of spreading the word of Emperorthose typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's Rahl victory over the evil Emperor Janang of interest to them. Helped to the furthest reaches escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of his kingdomhim acting without being in control, becomes diverted, when prophecy leaves the world discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and an old witch imparts the knowledge of an old prophecy that foretells that Nicci will save the worlda whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786691639</amazonuk>1542019885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian TregillisTasha Suri|title=The Liberation: Book Three of The Alchemy WarsJasmine Throne
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The war between On the New Dutch night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the New French continue aided and complicated by Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the Mechanicals' rebellionmysterious deathless waters. In fact But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day the world ended comes as , Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a shock to everyonegruesome crime, not Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to mention a bloody messbecome her own personal maidservant. Let the apocalypse begin!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502341</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luke ScullGenevieve Gornichec|title=Dead ManThe Witch's Steel (Grim Company)Heart|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The fehd move on, killing humanity with ruthless efficiency. The remaining heroes are trying to win A modern and approachable reimagining of the war but they've got issues of their ownNorse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. Brodar Kayne, She hides in a forest at the Sword edge of the Northnine worlds, 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 takes turns with coming to terms with remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the shock stake three times because of his apprenticeOdin's true identitywrath. Indeed the former apprenticeHer attempts to live in peace, Isaachowever, is fulfilling his true potential although not on the side are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that Eremul had envisaged. These heroes – all that remains of was cut from her chest before she was tied to the Grim Company - are humanity'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 fantasystake—and refuses to leave her alone. Not only does he write After an awe inspiring amount initial period of novels, but he also writes various short fictions that go alongside them. And in heremistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for the first time, all the major ones are collected together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473218039</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= James Young|title= Rise of the Dust Child|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction |summary=An age has passed since the fall of the old worldLoki's charms, 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 two start an unusual family made of up 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 aparthalf-dead daughter, 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 son that's a dark pathwolf, they are cast apart - struggling to overcome the monstrous dusters and the fear within themselves, desperate to see each other againanother son that's a snake. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524634379</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben AaronovitchHannah Whitten|title=The Hanging Tree (Rivers of London 6)For the Wolf
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=When Lady Tyburn rescued Police Officer Peter Grant she put him in her debtIn Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. Now itTo Red's payback time as misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her daughter back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is implicated in a murderwolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. Is this just another drug related killing? NoIf she is not a worthy sacrifice, Peter is only involved in crime related the monsters he keeps contained to the supernatural side of life woods will be released, and since both Lady Ty and daughter the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are river goddesses, therelies. The wolf is not a monster—he's much to investigatea man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132558</amazonuk>0356516369
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David DalglishJohn Gwynne|title=Fireborn (The Seraphim Trilogy)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|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 lot, 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, and, now and then, to save the free world in the process. Place such a person in a multi-universe where on every world the same struggle is being played out: the dragons, who stand for order and control, oppose the Fae, who desire chaos and drama. And then turn your hero or heroine into a . . . librarian. Huh? Does not compute!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447256271</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= James Goss|title= Class: What She Does Next Will Astound You|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy |summary=At Coal Hill School, things have started to get public. Kids have become obsessed with a website that demands you perform risky stunts, or tell it your most painful secrets. And Seraphin, everyone's favourite vlogger, wants you to get involved. All in the name of charity. At first people just get hurt. Then their lives are ruined. Finally, they disappear. As April's fragile group of friends starts to fracture, she decides she's going to uncover the truth behind thie site herself. Whatever it takes, whoever she hurts, April's going to win. But then, to her horror, she wakes up and finds her whole world's changed. What she does next will astound you. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941887</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=James Islington|title=Shadow Of The Shadow of What Was Lost: Book One of the Licanius TrilogyGods|rating=4.5
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|summary=Young Davian The Shadow Of The Gods is an Augur; a once powerful race that has become almost extinct due to legislation. The surviving remnant stay silent about their powers lest they follow the same fate as their forebears – outlawed and then murdered by a harsh legal system. Up till now Davian has been safe within an academy for first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the Gifted: era of the Tol Vikings in Andarrathe shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. Then one day everything changes. Now Davian This story is running for his lifethe ultimate in High Fantasy, unaware of his capabilities or whom it's safe and John Gwynne certainly does justice to trustthe genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. It's even worse than it sounds for this This is a world on the edge of warthick book, trying with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to suppress secrets that will endanger its very existencecreate a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356507750</amazonuk>0356514218
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{{newreview|author= A K Benedict|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 Move on 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 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>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]

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