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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom HoltA G Slatter|title= The Management Style Briar Book of the Supreme BeingsDead|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary= Imagine'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, if you willfar away from the world, that lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the local deity town and his wellthe wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-beloved son Jay witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to retire from do as the god business Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and go fishing insteadBlade|rating=3. After all5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, theythe answering beat in my heart.''ve been working  Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives onluring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and forany treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the planet for millenniaisland's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, and it Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is really as charming as he is time they took secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a breakfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. And With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the Venturi brotherssmuggler's territory, who already manage several other planets, have made them a very generous bid for Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the franchiseones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650669X</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaT Kingfisher|title=Bound: An Alex Verus NovelThornhedge

|summary=Warning: From the beginning this contains spoilers for past books.Alex Verus, seer, mage and former owner of a now incinerated London magic shop, is no longer under a death warrant but that doesn't mean that people don't want him deadYou had a right to retake your place. His only chance of survival isn't promising either: he' T Kingfisher's gone back to the place latest novella is a lovely reimagining of nightmares. He a fairytale that is well known and Anne are now working for his old apprentice master, Richard Drakhwell beloved. Richard's reasons are never straightforward so it's But whilst there is a princess trapped in a mystery as to why he's made Alex tower, sleeping under an offer he'd be killed to refuseeternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. UnsurprisinglyInstead, our protagonist is Toadling, Alex isn't the only one who wants was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the answer eitherland of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spells. Oh and remember Rachel? She's back and… well… shall we say she has issues?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650719X</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreview <!-- remove 5/6 -->Frontpage|author=Mark LinganeNicole Jarvis|title=BL!NK (Hadron Damnation Book 1)A Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=iYe is a smasher: a child who is capable ''I want all of sending back pictures of the future by travelling Florence to know my name'' Cast out to from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where the past and her future meetcan thrive rather than stagnate. Smashers don't usually live to see their teens But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the information generally returns without them. However iYe's motherpowerful Accademia, Captain Trix Raiden, is determined he'll be different and, indeed he is, in many ways. Not only does iYe survive, he is a chip off the same block as Cally, self-proclaimed guardians of the planetary hero. However there is a darker side: iYe carries a message healing magics that Earth doesn't want through paintings have the power to hearprotect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The planet is used to dealing with the aliens that Cally originally fought but worse is on its wayall-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. ''We are coming to kill youTo them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0994616457</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= James AbbottThomas D Lee|title= The Never KingPerilous Times|rating= 43

|summary= The land of Stravimon ''Hate is in chaos. Cedius the Wise died leaving the traitorous Mardonius to ascend to the throne. In far off Hellpath of least resistance''s Keep ( Set in the most deadly and remote prison near-distant future, in a world on the Kingdom; a place no prisoner has ever returned from alive) Xavir Argentum verge of climate collapse, Britain is contacted by Cedius' former Spy Master, Landrilin great peril. Betrayal, intrigue, violence and magic follow as we travel across this strange but familiar land on The British Isles desperately needs a quest for vengeance, justice hero (or several) to save the day and freedomrescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509803114</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura LamAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Masquerade (Micah Grey Trilogy)Delilah Recovered

|summary= The Darker Shade 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 Magic trilogy concludes by continuing with the story of Lila Bardwork, finding about to lose her way through 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 different Londonsattack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, one with magic, one without magic, a London where magic has near enough destroyed their world living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the last London, which balances precariously on the edge of oblivionsame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0765387468</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire NorthHadeer Elsbai|title= The End Daughters of the DayIzdihar|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) |rating=54

|summary=Ebora is dying along Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with its treemagical abilities -like god Ysegril but Hestillion is doing all she can in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to keep him alive. In fact she'll go attend the Weaving Academy to any lengths learn to save him… any lengths at allcontrol her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Hest's brother Tormalin can't sit around Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and wait feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the end so heDaughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's engaged by Lady Vincenza (Vintage) de Grazon rights. Giorgina also happens to be her factotum and hired sword during her quest for knowledgein love with Nico. It's turning into more What follows is a story of an adventure than they'd planned even before Fell witch unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and fugitive Noon joins them. Now the trio must work togethercruelty, putting prejudices from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and passions aside (others' as well as overcoming their own). The Ninth Rain is coming and more than Ebora is in dangerpersonal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472235177</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrezej SapkowskiHeather Fawcett|title= The Lady Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of the LakeFaeries|rating=34|genre= Fantasy General Fiction|summary= This book was quite captivating in Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the beginningvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. The idea that the truths of ancient history Whilst she is brilliant at research and mythology can be unearthed by exploring them speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the dreams small village of a talented sleeper Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is rather enchantingnot sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. It Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's an interesting idea, one that merges history and fantasy creating an almost dream like feel within frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the writing. faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147321159X</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedChristopher Golden|title= Stanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)Road of Bones|rating= 3.5|genre= Science FictionHorror|summary= Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count The Kolyma Highway… the fact that his best friend was a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came 'Road of Bones'… the superpowersR504. And Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the super powered alliesworld's most notorious routes. And For months of the mysterious enemies. And year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the terrifying monsterspermafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. And the stunning revelations I don't think google streetview updates it very often. And the apocalypse Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. Now he You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's not sure what he a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is. Or where a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he is'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. Or how exactly one is supposed to proceed after saving They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the worldguide's childhood village. All he knows is And that his story isn't finished. Not quite yet …s where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630764</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian McClellanAndrew Givler|title=Sins of EmpireSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=54

|summary=The fantasy genre ''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is home to some so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of the best books that a blissful life in exchange for his soul.'' Poor Dan! I know, I have ever readknow, but also some of the worstwe shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman. The very nature of epic stories that span generations means that few fantasy books rock up under 400 pages He never hits his targets and many are part of long running series or trilogies. When done badly, fantasy books are bloated and boring affairs that rattle of every cliché when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the genre has had to offer since Bilbo exited Bag Enddotted line, but done well they can be brilliant. They can be ''Sins of Empirehe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt' by Brian McClellans signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650929X</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marisa SilverOlivie Blake|title= Little NothingThe Atlas Six|rating= 54|genre= Literary Fiction Fantasy|summary=In an unnamed country at the beginning of the last centuryDark, a peasant couple longs for a child. In despair they turn to gypsy tonics and archaic prescriptionssharp, and one cold wintery nighthighly inquisitive, the couple's wish comes true. But the silence that follows the birth forewarns of darker days to come. Strangers look on askance and fall speechless in the child's presence, and villagers protectively hush their children as they pass on narrow market lanes. Pavla is no ordinary child, but then this is no ordinary taleThe Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786071274</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marissa MeyerDaniel Abraham|title= HeartlessAge of Ash|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

|summary=Scarlett Dragna We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has had one desire all a knife in her life: to visit hand and a Caravalmeeting that she dreads. These interactive events put on by magician Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and entrepreneur Legend all things are world famous but very exclusivepossible. It's therefore is the night between the funeral of a huge surprise when Scarlett and her sister Tella receive tickets. These will take them away from their sadistic father Prince and prison-like island home for the first timecoronation of his successor. Caraval is never what one expects though and when Tella is kidnapped, Scarlett experiences For a night the sinister side of a game in which nothing Kithamar is what it seemsun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473629144</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neil GaimanAnn Sei Lin|title=Stardust: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisationRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy Teens|summary=Tristan Thorn Kurara has never wanted to cross spent her entire life as a servant on the Wall from his sleepy English village to Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the land sky where soldiers of Faerie beyondthe Empire come to drink and 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 girl of his dreams power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the beautiful Victoria Forester – promises Empire. He asks her to be his bride if he retrieves a fallen starcome with him, he to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has no choiceknown. Without hesitationWell, Tristan sets out on soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a quest that will lead him into monstrous paper spirit known as a series of bizarre adventures shikigami, and set him against she is forced to flee out into the dark forces of world. She joins Himura aboard the strange Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and magical land a whole world of Stormhold. adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785295624</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan DennardB09Q3P283Y|title=Windwitch (The Witchlands Series)Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=54

|summary=Merik Nihar, Clyde Robbins signs up for the Windwitch and former fleet admiral, must lay low on account of US Army during the fact that everyone believes him deadVietnam War. He knows 's not really that invested in the attempted assassination was instigated by his sisterfight against Communism, Vivianor is he particularly interested in a career in the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, but with himself at least - he doesnhasn't yet realise how got many choices and this attempt will change one, at least, gets him and his powers. Safi meanwhile is regretting using her Truthwitch skills to help out of the Empress Vanessrut he's in. Apart from anything else, itHe's deadly dull good in training and has taken her away from Iseult, friend and Threadsisteris quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. Eventually though the dull disappears and itHe's not only Safi who's left chuffed with the deadly as allies appear from unexpected places and friendships are doubted while their world teetershimself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447282302</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Su BristowJennifer Saint|title= SealskinElektra|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy Literary Fiction|summary= Donald is a young fisherman, eking out a lonely living on 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the west coast heavily male dominated world of ScotlandAncient Greece. One night he witnesses something miraculous ...and makes a terrible mistake. His action changes lives - not only his ownCassandra, Clytemnestra, but those of his family and the entire tightly knit community Elektra are all bit players 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'' ''Bane and Shadow'' picks up a year after the final events story of the [[Hope and Red by Jon Skovron|first installment]] in the Empire of Storms series, which I highly recommend reading if you haven't alreadyTrojan War. Following Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the great characters we met in silent women have the previous novel, ''Bane most compelling stories and Shadow'' has even more action with brilliant battles, nail-biting tension and a new darkness to the storymost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356507157</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=E M DaveyDean Koontz|title=The Napoleon ComplexQuicksilver|rating=42.5

|summary=Journalist Jake WolseyMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's brush with not had the Book of Fate chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and that fatal Etruscan lightening isnnow is starting a career on a needless magazine't overs staff. Historical quotesBut when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', intrigue and 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 call for help from former lover and MI6 operative Jenny start gold coin worth a whole new search for fortune, cash the source value of it out of power his bank and destructionprepare for going on the lam. This And all this is just in time itfor two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's linked of interest to them. Helped to Napoleon Bonaparte and the odd inclusion escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of an Etruscan scroll him acting without being in his portrait. If control, the scroll discovery that he is what Jake not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and Jenny think it is, where has it gone? Our heroes aren't the only curious people and, while their search takes them across the world, it's as much about fatality avoidance as it is treasure huntinga whole lot more besides. Who will get the answer first and at what cost to themselves… and civilisation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715651080</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Charlie LaidlawTasha Suri|title= The Things We Learn When We're Dead|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= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= We start this novel as a Heroine and a hero travelling through the forest, in search of a witch. I immediately love it, when the focus is on the female lead and the male lead is painted as a bit of a pompous twonk, with more care for clothes and jewellery, than for saving mankind. However, it becomes harder to like her as the book winds its tale, when you realise that she is a heartless, murdering, uncaring, psychopath. It becomes relatively clear that she has been damaged from a young age (which was a while ago, seeing as she's almost 200 years old), that has had effects on how she has lived her life until this point. However, their goal of spreading the word of Emperor's Rahl victory over the evil Emperor Janang to 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 world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786691639</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Tregillis|title=The Liberation: Book Three of The Alchemy WarsJasmine Throne

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luke ScullGenevieve Gornichec|title=Dead ManThe Witch's Steel (Grim Company)Heart|rating=4.5

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben AaronovitchHannah Whitten|title=The Hanging Tree (Rivers of London 6)For the Wolf

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David DalglishJohn Gwynne|title=Fireborn (The Seraphim Trilogy)Shadow Of The Gods|rating=4.5

|summary=When The Shadow Of The Gods is the Center (first installment of the government that's meant to protect them) destroys the Academy Bree and Kael Skyborn take Bloodsworn Saga, set in the only route open to them. They join the resistance and some allies who they'd be more wary era of in other circumstances. Indeed the Prophet Johan may not have seemed that attractive to them Vikings 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 lotshadow of Ragnarok, including why when 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 Gods have battled and Raffles. Educated and courageous folk who risk their bones lie scattered for all to obtain that magical talisman, that precious statue, that ancient scroll, and, now and then, to save the free world in the processsee. Place such a person in a multi-universe where on every world the same struggle This story is being played out: the dragonsultimate in High Fantasy, who stand for order and controlJohn Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, oppose the Faewith mythical creatures, who desire chaos archaic language and dramabattles galore. And then turn your hero or heroine into This is 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 Schoolthick book, things have started to get public. Kids have become obsessed with a website an intricate plot and fascinating characters 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 woven together 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 create a wonderfully realistic and finds her whole gritty world's changed. What she does next will astound you. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941887</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=James Islington|title=The Shadow of What Was Lost: Book One of the Licanius Trilogy|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Young Davian is an Augur; a once powerful race that has become almost extinct due to legislation. The surviving remnant stay silent about their powers lest they follow the same fate as their forebears – outlawed and then murdered by a harsh legal system. Up till now Davian has been safe within an academy for the Gifted: the Tol in Andarra. Then one day everything changes. Now Davian is running for his life, unaware of his capabilities or whom it's safe to trust. It's even worse than it sounds for this is a world on the edge of war, trying to suppress secrets that will endanger its very existencewhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356507750</amazonuk>0356514218