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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Joe HillA G Slatter|title= Strange WeatherThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating= 5|genre= Horror Fantasy|summary= Strange Weather is '' There's a collection part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of four short novels my own, all linked bymine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, unsurprisinglylies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, strange a family of witches who protect the town and cataclysmic weatherthe wider world from the Darklands. Each novel Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is distinct the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and showcases Hillpotions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's restrained yet vivid style which leader, and Ellie takes everyday events her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and makes them bitinglycentre, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautifulEllie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, often switching putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one sentence family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to the next. As Hill himself says ''the beauty of the world trust and determine what to do as the horror of the world were twined together'Briar witches'legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, never is this truer than in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with raw beautyunder threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147322117X</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David JesterRachel Greenlaw|title= Forever After: a dark comedy|rating= 4|genre= Paranormal|summary= Michael Holland is a cocky Compass and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510704361</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= K J Parker|title= The Two of SwordsBlade|rating= 3.5|genre= FantasyTeens|summary=This is a difficult book to review, to be honest, because ''I am still not sure if I liked it. It is can hear the first book song of a trilogy so I expected that a lot of it would be to set the scene and the characters but this doesn't really happensea. The novel is set during a long standing war between east and west that has been going on for so long no-one is really sure why they are fighting. Currently in command are call of the Belot brothersdeep, each one a military genius and each one fighting for the opposing side, there is also the guild of craftsmen whose purpose we never fully know and their role is to manipulate and interfere to serve their own interestsanswering beat in my heart. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356506762</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephen Aryan|title= Mageborn (Age of Dread)|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=''Magic will destroy us all''

Ten years after Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the devastating battlemage war when mages used their immense power to tear each other apart rocks and sundered plundering the world itselfwrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, suspicion is one of those the seven who wield magic is at an all-time highswim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. With But when the recent resurrection of Council Watch lays a trap to end the Red Towerwrecking, an institution for students they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to learn to control save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and expand their magic, Seekers visit villages each month with only coordinates to test children for magical abilities. But for those children and their families it is not a giftguide her, it is she sets off in search of a cursed For Habreelfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, who will never forget as her journey takes her from the destruction during watched streets of foreign islands to the war, the elimination heart of all magic will save countless lives and is the only solution smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to long lasting stability. He will stop at nothing to achieve his aim; he will deal with save the devil, crush villages future of her home and kill anyone in his waythe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356508471</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alice HoffmanT Kingfisher|title= The Rules of Magic|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction |summary= I've read several of Alice Hoffman's novels, although strangely, not the one she's most famous for ''Practical Magic'', which went on to be made into a film. ''The Rules of Magic'' is the long-awaited prequel to that book, and tells the story of three siblings of the Owens family; Franny, Jet and Vincent. The two sisters, Franny and Jet, go on to become the two aunts in the ''Practical Magic'' story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471157679</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller|title= OtherworldThornhedge|rating= 5

|summary=imon would not have considered himself ''You had a heroright to retake your place. In fact, by all accounts, particularly that of his parents, Simon is an epic failure. He's large, he' T Kingfisher's hairy, he has latest novella is a ridiculously oversized nose and he's been kicked out lovely reimagining of boarding school and kept on a federal watch list. But Simon fairytale that is sure something is up with his friend Kat. She won't speak to him. So he resorts to buying an incredibly expensive new virtual reality video game for them both - Otherworld. Otherworld engages your senses with graphics so good, you'll swear they are real, well known and it's here that Simon really wants to talk to Katwell beloved. But it isn't real, it's whilst there is a game… until princess trapped in a turn of events lands Simon in Otherworld in tower, sleeping under an all together different way. This timeeternal enchantment, whatever harm his avatar suffers has real consequences. And if it dies? Simon would rather Thornhedge is not think about that. If he wants to save Kat, he has to keep pressing onher story. Simon is the chosen oneInstead, this is not a game. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786073692</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Melissa Caruso|title= The Tethered Mage|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= The Raverran Empire our protagonist is run by a doge and the council of sevenToadling, the governing group formed who was stolen away by the aristocratic families of Eruvia. The Empire thrives from trade, culture and the obedience of the cities surrounding Raverra. The Empire has obtained this power and dominance by harnessing and controlling the magic of Eruvia and all the ''mage-marked'' that possess it. For years the Raverran empire has known peace, but with whispers of fairies when she was a rebellion, the discovery of a firenew-warlock born baby and secreted away to the disappearance land of children, the Empire's authority over Eruvia is in danger fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and war is looming on the horizoncast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356510611</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen Donaldson Nicole Jarvis|title= Seventh Decimate |rating= 2|genre= Fantasy|summary= The Seventh Decimate is not a book with compelling characters or buzzing personalities; it is not a book that allowed me to invest in the struggles of its protagonist, Prince Bifalt, with any particular ease. Though it is a book about war and the desperate extremes a nation will go to ensure absolute victory against its greatest foe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473221668</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=John Hornor Jacobs|title=Infernal Machines|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Having discovered the evil intent of the Autumn Lords, Livia Cornelius is trying to beat the inferno that the ensuing war is creating in order to get back to her husband Fisk. That's not as easy as it sounds though as she and her entourage including (her sister Carnelia and Livia's baby) will be caught up A Portrait in the conflict more than they'd like to be. Meanwhile Fisk along with fellow mercenary Shoe, doesn't have it any easier… and the world is burning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057512413X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kristen Ciccarelli|title=The Last NamsaraShadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=''Once there was a girl who was drawn I want all of Florence to wicked thingsknow my name''

''The Last Namsara'' revolves around AshaCast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a fierce young woman who has whispered stories to dragons all home and where her lifefuture can thrive rather than stagnate. But where once as some as she enters Florentine society she told them in friendshipfaces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, now she uses stories the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to hunt protect the city 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 those that still plague her father's fracturing kingdomelse. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473222850</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mark AlderThomas D Lee|title= Son of the NightPerilous Times|rating= 43

|summary=In [[Son of ''Hate is the Morning by Mark Alder|Son path of least resistance'' Set in the Morning]]near-distant future, author Mark Alder plunges the reader into in a chaotic, dangerous worldon the verge of climate collapse, taking them back Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the turbulent reign of Edward III day and the dangers of the Hundred Years Warrescue what little remains. Adding elements What no-one expected was that one of fantasy and theology to the mix, Alder created an intriguing read which is continued in ''Son Knights of the Night''. With Lucifer, Satan, God, Devils and Angels interacting with a cast of real and well researched characters, Alder continues his exploration of Round Table would answer the Hundred Years war whilst rather incredibly keeping his readers as educated as they are entertainedcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575115203</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keith DevineAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Wilderness of IceDelilah Recovered

|summary=Hans Schröder was not best pleased to We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be going about to the Nazi party headquarters in Alexanderplatz, Berlinlook up. It was a snowy night in December 1937 and even then Heinrich Himmler Out of the SS Protection Squadron had something of a reputationwork, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. Schröder know that his beliefs were But it's not completely in tune with those of to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the party hierarchy, attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on this occasion it was earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an order which would find him leading ordinary woman, living an expedition ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to Tibet in search of the yeti: Hitler her and Josef Mengele were keen to see if improvements could things will never be made to the master race and the thought of a humanoid with amazing capabilities was too tempting to dismisssame... In January 1938 the expedition was on its way via Transylvania.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524681857</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom LloydHadeer Elsbai|title= Princess The Daughters of BloodIzdihar|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= Toil – unpredictable and dangerous even 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 an assassin, now wears the Princess rights of Blood on her jacket. Mercanery Lynx still has his doubts about her women and weavers – but those with magical abilities - in a new mission society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to escort a dignitary soon throws attend the old team back together. Travelling Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an ancient city that conceals arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a mysterious labyrinthprivileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the situations go from bad Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to worsebe in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with new threats hypocrisy and worse horrors on every corner. The cruelty, from which blossoms a group argue of admirable women fighting for their rights and bicker as they go along – but will they be too concerned with overcoming their own disputes to see the far blacker evil that threatens to surround them?personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473213207</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tim AkersHeather Fawcett|title= The Iron HoundEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Ruling with Emily Wilde is an iron handexpert academic scholar on faerie lore, the Church and she has eliminated the ancient pagan ways. Yet demonic gheists terrorise the landtravelled extensively, and researched meticulously, hunted by the Inquisitionto write her life's work, while age-old hatreds rage between the north and the southvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. Three heroes Malcolm Whilst she is brilliant at research and Ian Blakeley and Gwendolyn Adair must end the bloodshed before chaos speaking to faeries, she is unleashednot so good with people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299509</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jess Richards|title= City So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Circles|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Danu is a tightrope walker who is mourning her parentsHrafvsnik, after a disease has ravaged having somehow offended the circus where village matriarch, she is not sure what she grew up. Her mother has entrusted done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her with a locket that hides a secretbook back on the right track. Over the years Enter Wendell Bambleby, Danu pushes away her grief and develops elaborate dashingly handsome and successful high-wire acts with Morrie, a charismatic hunchback insufferable rival who wants to marry her. When the circus returns to Danu's birthplace, Matryoshka, Danu is enchanted by the temples, spice mistsarrives unexpectedly, all charm and pleasure seekers within the intoxicating outer circle district. Heredelight, she finally gains the courage much to open her motherEmily's locket, and discovers the name of a stranger who lives behind the locked gate of the Inner Circlefrustration. Fated to remain in Matryoshka, Danu attempts to resolve this mystery. Will she and Morrie ever be reunited, or will something far more unexpected be waiting for her in the mysterious heart of But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the cityfaerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473656680</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian LivingstoneChristopher Golden|title=Fighting Fantasy: The Port Road of PerilBones|rating=43.5|genre=Fantasy Horror|summary=As I promised I would when I looked back at The Kolyma Highway… the beginning 'Road of Bones'… the 35 year history of 'R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it'Fighting Fantasy'' gamebooks [[Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock s one of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone|(here)]], I took to the brand-new-for-2017 volume with my pen, mapping paper, and world's most importantly, dicenotorious routes. For months of the first time in year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a longhuge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, long timewhich dries into rutted, I would not read a book for reviewpuddly dust. I would play don't think google streetview updates itvery often. And Built because Stalin wanted somuch uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, armed with healthy staminait legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, reasonable luck but frankly embarrassing skillthat's a bit rich, I set offfor one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is 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'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. This is They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the report company of that journey – as well as hopefully being a local beauty, and fetch up at the usual useful book reviewguide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407181297</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony RyanAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Legion of Flame: Debt Collection Book Two of the Draconis Memoria1)|rating=54

|summary=WARNING''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: There are spoilers 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for [[The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria by Anthony Ryan|Book 1]] from the beginninghis soul.'' Lizanne LethridgePoor Dan! I know, BloodI know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-Blessed and secret agent of the Exceptional Initiatives Division has survived another mission, only to be forced to go out againcatching demons. This time it entails But he really is a man-hunt in a place from which no one has emerged aliveterrible salesman. Talking about aliveHe never hits his targets and, Claydon Torcreek, having escaped several types of death in the jungles now goes when he fails to the southern ice with Hilemore in their current attempt get even Matt to defeat sign on the dragons and put the world on a safe footing. What if all that waits for them is more dragons and more inventive ways to die? Thatdotted line, he's a thought so desperate thathe simply forges Matt's soon banished from his mindsignature. 'This is where we save the world' says Clay… but he's been wrong before!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506401</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ritchie Valentine SmithOlivie Blake|title=Words of Fury: Volume 2 (Words of Power)The Atlas Six

|summary=Warning: Spoilers ahead…Emmanuel (Man) KinrossDark, Yoshisharp, Joah, the Voice and Dirk Faslane are all fleeing the Lord of the North in a giant floating bubble. This is a delicate conveyance when you consider that the stakes are high andhighly inquisitive, if caught by the evil Lord of the North, the world as they know it will end. They just need to get to the Waning of the Moon, a psychic fortress that spells safety but there's still a long way to go and the odds are very much against them. 'The Lord of the North has more power than theyAtlas Six''ve seen yet and more devastating ways to use itmakes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1544214839</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Vivian ShawDaniel Abraham|title= Strange Practice: A Dr Greta Helsing NovelAge of Ash|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=''I don't suppose it's worth trying to convince you it's too dangerous?'' <br>''Not in the least.'' <br>Meet Dr Greta Helsing, a highly talented, well respected physician with her own specialised medical practice, known and adored throughout London for her great work… well, at least amongst the supernatural community. Greta is in fact a descendent of the vampire hunter Professor Abraham Van Helsing, but relations have improved since then and she now spends her days carrying on her father's legacy treating vampires, werewolves, mummies, ghouls and the like. So early morning emergency calls are not uncommon; what is uncommon however, is a vampire's stab wound that won't heal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508870</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Christopher B Husberg|title=Chaos Queen - Dark Immolation (Chaos Queen 2)|rating=5

|summary=Warning - spoilers ahead for Book 1 which should be read first:Winter is presumed dead by Knot, Jane, Astrid and Cinzia. To be honest, rotting in We meet Alys under the dungeon most northerly of Lord Daval she may as well be. Daval himself hasnOldgate't been the same since he was possessed by the Lord of Fear and leader of the Nine Daemons. s four bridges, He sees it as she has a positive but there's a high price to be paid knife in blood for everyone else. Our remaining adventurers return to Jane her hand and Cinzia's home as they continue their search for truth. Cinzia may still be a Priestess of Canta but Jane's heretical ideas are making more and more sense to hermeeting that she dreads. Meanwhile Knot is having severe problems with his multi-occupancy body but there are worse problems on the horizon. The Nine Daemons are out and doing what Daemons do best: dragging a world's population towards a particularly evil form City of destruction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299177</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Callie Bates|title= The Waking Land|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=''They need something to believe in, something beyond crowns and kingdoms. They need to believe in the old stories. In the power of the land.'' It was fourteen years ago that Elanna's life changed completely. Fourteen years ago that her father's plans of revolution fell through, and Kithamar is at the tender age of five, King Antoine held a pistol to her head and took her hostage. Raised by the King, Elanna grows into adulthood suppressing her magic and resenting the parents she once loved. Now twenty, Elanna prepares for either study or marriage, until King Antoine dies and she's condemned to death for treason. On the run, Elanna encounters her father's men, and finds herself moving from one imprisonment to another. Her father it seems, wants to carry out the revolution that failed fourteen years ago, he wants to unite the people point in creating a fair kingdom and he wants Elanna to be the face turning of years when the rebellion. He wants her to be the Steward of the Land capable of powerful magic to make the very Earth move. Elanna must to decide which side she'll align with worlds are at their thinnest and how she will shape her destiny. Can she deny her people the help they desperately need to build a new world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638720</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=G S Denning|title=Warlock Holmes - The Hell-Hound of the Baskervilles|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a lot of Sherlock Holmes stories, but not that many novelsall things are possible. Holmes adventures were mostly kept to a short story length that allowed a quick build up and reveal that would fit into an episodic telling. The best known novel It is ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' and anyone who parodies the great detective would eventually need to cover night between the tale funeral of the cursed Baskerville family. They don't come more parodic than Warlock Holmes a Prince and although he may have died at the end of the last book, this won't stop him investigating one coronation of his greatest casessuccessor.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299738</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Christina Henry |title= Lost Boy|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Everybody has their own story to tell, and more often than not people only see things from one perspective. In For a night the original Peter Pan Captain Hook Kithamar is an angry, perhaps slightly jealous, tyrant. But why is he this way? Christina Henry weaves a terrifying narrative together in response to such a question, a response that has the potential to alter the reader's perception of the original work foreverun-ruled. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178565568X</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= V E SchwabAnn Sei Lin|title= Our Dark DuetRebel Skies

|genre= FantasyTeens|summary=''Monsters, mayhem, revenge'' Six months after Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the final events of ''This Savage Song''Midori, Verity is a massive dining hall floating in chaos. All-out war has broken out and the city is now divided into two – with monsters gaining more and more territory in sky where soldiers of the North Empire come to drink and humans battling for survival in the Southmake merry between their conquests. At the centre of the action However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is August Flynna Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a monster of incredible power who once longed to be humansought after all across the Empire. He will now stop at nothing asks her to fight and play come with him, to leave the part he believes he mustlife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. No matter what Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the cost, no matter how much of himself he loses. Meanwhile, Kate Harker, V City escapee and kick-ass monster hunter, has been busy in Prosperity. But with because the arrival of Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a new monster leaving devastation in its wake shikigami, and heading straight for Verity, Kate knows she must is forced to returnflee out into the world. She must fight for humanity's survival and play her part just like August. Alliances will be tested; old enemies will rise from joins Himura aboard the dead and past mistakes will come Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to haunt both August hunt down shikigami, and Kate at every turn.Will they be enough to save the city? And will they each be enough to save themselves from the darkest places within?a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785652761</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= R J BarkerB09Q3P283Y|title= Age of AssassinsShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating= 34|genre= Fantasy|summary= Age of Assassins Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a very ordinary fantasy novel, which at the same time manages to slip career in the occasional surprisemilitary. The central protagonists are a pair of assassinsIf he's honest - which Clyde usually is, Girton Clubwith himself at least -Foot he hasn't got many choices and his masterthis one, Merela Karnat least, also known as Death’s Jester. They find themselves hired by a Queen to protect her son, an obnoxious prince, and to find gets him out who is behind of the threats on his life. In doing so they discover a host of plots and problems, leaving no part of life rut he's in the castle untouched. Plots and Machiavellian figures are evident at every turn as noble families fight over the throne of a dying king. In the meantime between sorcerers He's good in the stables, bitter rivalries between the young men who vie to be heir to the throne, training and the moves of great families, there is no lack of suspectsquickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. As such the novel is as much a mystery as it is a fantasy and as much as coming of age story as it is either of thoseHe's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508544</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom HoltJennifer Saint|title= The Management Style of the Supreme BeingsElektra|rating= 54|genre= FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary= Imagine, if you will, that 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the local deity and his well-beloved son Jay decide to retire from story of three women who live in the god business and go fishing insteadheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. After allCassandra, they've been working onClytemnestra, and for, Elektra are all bit players in the story of the planet for millennia, and it is really is time they took a breakTrojan War. And Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the Venturi brothers, who already manage several other planets, silent women have made them a very generous bid for the franchisemost compelling stories and the most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650669X</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaDean Koontz|title=Bound: An Alex Verus NovelQuicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Warning: From Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the beginning this contains spoilers chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for past books.Alex Verushe's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, seer, mage and former owner of a now incinerated London magic shop, is no longer under starting a career on a death warrant but that doesnneedless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now 't mean that people don't want him dead. His only chance subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of survival isnmood or mind''t promising either: , for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he's gone back go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the place value of nightmares. He it out of his bank and Anne are now working prepare for his old apprentice master, Richard Drakhgoing on the lam. Richard's reasons are never straightforward so it's a mystery as And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to why turn up and suggest he's made Alex an offer he'd be killed of interest to refusethem. UnsurprisinglyHelped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, Alex isn't the only one who wants to the answer eitherdiscovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides. Oh and remember Rachel? She's back and… well… shall we say she has issues?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650719X</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreview <!-- remove 5/6 -->Frontpage|author=Mark LinganeTasha Suri|title=BL!NK (Hadron Damnation Book 1)The Jasmine Throne

|summary=iYe is a smasher: a child who is capable On the night of sending back pictures of the future by travelling out her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to where the past and future meet. Smashers don't usually live step on to see their teens as the information generally returns without thempyre. However iYe's mother, Captain Trix Raiden, She is determined he'll immediately sent to be different and, indeed he is, in many ways. Not only does iYe survive, he is a chip off the same block as Cally, imprisoned on the planetary hero. However there is a darker sideHirana: iYe carries a message an ancient temple that Earth doesn't want to hear. The planet is used to dealing was once filled with the aliens that Cally originally fought but worse is on its way. ''We are coming to kill you.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0994616457</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= James Abbott|title= The Never King|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= The land a community of Stravimon is in chaos. Cedius people who got powers from the Wise died leaving the traitorous Mardonius to ascend to the thronemysterious deathless waters. In far off Hell's Keep (the most deadly and remote prison in But now the Kingdom; a place no prisoner has ever returned from alive) Xavir Argentum temple is contacted by Cedius' former Spy Masternothing more than an overgrown, Landrildecaying ruin. BetrayalOne day, intrigue, violence and Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic follow as we travel across this strange but familiar land on . Instead of reporting her for such a quest for vengeancegruesome crime, justice Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and freedombegs for the girl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509803114</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura LamGenevieve Gornichec|title=Masquerade (Micah Grey Trilogy)The Witch's Heart

|genre=TeensFantasy|summary= It's been A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a remarkable journey for our young protagonistwitch named Angrboda. It wasn't long ago She hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that Micah Grey she was still living survived burnt at the life stake three times because of Iphigenia LaurusOdin's wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, daughter of a noble familyhowever, trapped in a gilded cage forever hiding are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her true selfalone. Since running awayAfter an initial period of mistrust, Micah has managed Angrboda begins to reinvent himselffall for Loki's charms, first as and the two start an unusual family made of up a circus acrobathalf-dead daughter, and then as a magicianson that's apprentice. Along the way he's discovered love a wolf, and friendships another son that have helped keep him afloat, even as betrayal and tragedy seem ready to strike at every turn. But there's only so long he can keep running. His powers are growing, the Chimaera are returning, and Ellada is about to reach a violent tipping pointsnake. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509807780</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brian StaveleyHannah Whitten|title= SkullswornFor the Wolf|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red'"Love is like killings misfortune," she saidis the second daughter. "You do it Sent alone into the woods with every part of younothing but the cape on her back, or not at all.” '' Pyrre Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a skullsworn; wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. If she is devoted not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the God of Death. Trained as an assassin woods will be released, and having studied under the deadliest killers in fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the world since she was eightstories go. But when Red enters the woods, Pyrre is about to embark upon her final trial. A trial in which success will mean elevation expecting nothing more than to be killed within the rank of priestesshour, while failure will mean deathshe finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150982295X</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= V E SchwabJohn Gwynne|title=A Conjuring of LightThe Shadow Of The Gods|rating= 5

|summary= The Darker Shade Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Magic trilogy concludes by continuing with Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story of Lila Bardis the ultimate in High Fantasy, finding her way through and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the different Londons'genre, one with magicmythical creatures, one without magicarchaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a London where magic has near enough destroyed their wonderfully realistic and gritty world and the last London, in which balances precariously on the edge of oblivionour heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0765387468</amazonuk>0356514218