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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Josiah BancroftA G Slatter|title= Senlin AscendsThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=Thomas Senlin embarks on his honeymoon with high hopes. He and his young wife Marya are travelling on '' There's a sleeper train across Ur part of me that wants to keep this just to that engineering marvelmyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, that fabled centre of cultureall mine, the Tower of Babelat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. It's ' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a place hetown under the protection of the Briar's read books about, taught his pupils about, and longed to visit, but a family of witches who protect the bustling town and chaotic surroundings of the Tower in the desert are a long way wider world from the quiet fishing village in which Senlin teachesDarklands. When he loses sight of Marya shortly after their arrivalThough she has always wished for magic, he has no option but Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to look be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her in this strange training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and overwhelming placepotions. For all his background reading before When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the tripBriar Witch, he is ill-prepared for what he finds in the Towertown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, both its marvels right and its horrorscentre, 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 thus begins Thomas Senlindetermine what to do as the Briar witches's arduous quest legacy, everything they have sacrificed to recover his wifesurvive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356510816</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Joe HillRachel Greenlaw|title= Strange WeatherCompass and Blade|rating= 3.5|genre= Horror Teens|summary= Strange Weather is a collection ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of four short novels all linked bythe deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, unsurprisinglya remote and partially forgotten island, strange survives on luring ships into the rocks and cataclysmic weatherplundering the wrecks. Each novel Mira, like her mother before her, is distinct one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and showcases Hillany treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes them bitinglya bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautifulshe sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, often switching as her journey takes her from one sentence to the next. As Hill himself says ''the beauty watched streets of foreign islands to the world and the horror heart of the world were twined together'smuggler's territory, never is this truer than in Strange Weather where moments Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of abject horror are coupled with raw beautyher home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147322117X</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David JesterT Kingfisher|title= Forever After: a dark comedyThornhedge|rating= 45|genre= ParanormalFantasy|summary= Michael Holland ''You had a right to retake your place.'' T Kingfisher's latest novella is a cocky lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortalitywell beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. We follow MichaelInstead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a grim reaper new-born baby and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in secreted away to the records department) as they grapple with their long lives land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flatcast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510704361</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= K J ParkerNicole Jarvis|title= The Two of SwordsA Portrait in Shadow|rating= 34.5|genre= FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=This is a difficult book ''I want all of Florence to reviewknow my name'' Cast out from Rome, to be honestArtemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, because I am still not sure if I liked it. It is the first book self-proclaimed guardians of a trilogy so I expected the healing magics that a lot of it would be through paintings have the power to set protect the scene city and its citizens from plagues and the characters but this doesn't really happencurses. The novel is set during a long standing war between east all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and west that has been going on architecture for so long no-one is really sure why they are fightingcenturies and guard it above all else. Currently in command are the Belot brothersTo them, each one a military genius Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and each one fighting for the opposing side, there is also the guild of craftsmen whose purpose we never fully know change – has no place amongst them and their role is to manipulate and interfere to serve their own interestssociety. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506762</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen AryanThomas D Lee|title= Mageborn (Age of Dread)Perilous Times|rating= 43

|summary=''Magic will destroy us allHate is the path of least resistance''

Ten years after Set in the devastating battlemage war when mages used their immense power to tear each other apart and sundered near-distant future, in a world on the world itselfverge of climate collapse, suspicion of those who wield magic Britain is at an all-time highin great peril. With The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the recent resurrection of the Red Tower, an institution for students to learn to control day and expand their magic, Seekers visit villages each month to test children for magical abilitiesrescue what little remains. But for those children and their families it is not a gift, it is a cursed For Habreel, who will never forget the destruction during the war, What no-one expected was that one of the elimination Knights of all magic will save countless lives and is the only solution to long lasting stability. He will stop at nothing to achieve his aim; he will deal with Round Table would answer the devil, crush villages and kill anyone in his waycall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356508471</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alice HoffmanAmelia Estelle Dellos|title= The Rules of MagicDelilah Recovered|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction Fantasy|summary= IWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn've read several t going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of Alice Hoffman's novelswork, although strangelyabout to lose her flat, not the one sheDee is up for an accountant's most famous for job. But it''Practical Magic'', which went on s not to be made into a film. ''The Rules of Magic'' Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the long-awaited prequel attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to that bookdo with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, and tells the story living an ordinary life. Slivers of three siblings memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the Owens family; Franny, Jet and Vincentsame... The two sisters, Franny and Jet, go on to become the two aunts in the ''Practical Magic'' story.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471157679</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jason Segel and Kirsten MillerHadeer Elsbai|title= OtherworldThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating= 54

|summary=imon would not have considered himself a hero. In factDrawing inspiration from Egypt, by all accounts, particularly that ''The Daughters of his parents, Simon is an epic failure. HeIzdihar's large, he's hairyexplores the lives of two women who could not be more different, he has a ridiculously oversized nose and he's been kicked out yet find themselves fighting for the rights of boarding school women and kept on weavers – those with magical abilities - in a federal watch listsociety pitted against them. But Simon Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is sure something is up forced into an arranged marriage with his friend KatNico. She won't speak Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to him. So he resorts to buying an incredibly expensive new virtual reality video game provide for them both - Otherworld. Otherworld engages your senses with graphics so goodher family and maintain their reputation, you'll swear they are real, and itwhilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's here that Simon really wants rights. Giorgina also happens to talk to Katbe in love with Nico. But it isn't real, it's What follows is a game… until a turn story of events lands Simon in Otherworld in an all together different way. This timeunjust society, whatever harm his avatar suffers has real consequences. And if it dies? Simon would rather not think about that. If he wants to save Katfilled with hypocrisy and cruelty, he has to keep pressing on. Simon is the chosen one, this is not from which blossoms a gamegroup of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786073692</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Melissa CarusoHeather Fawcett|title= The Tethered MageEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= The Raverran Empire Emily Wilde is run by a doge an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the council very first encyclopaedia of sevenfaeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the governing group formed by small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the aristocratic families village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Golden|title=Road of EruviaBones|rating=3. 5|genre=Horror|summary=The Empire thrives from tradeKolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, culture and the obedience it's one of the cities surrounding Raverraworld's most notorious routes. The Empire has obtained this power and dominance by harnessing and controlling For months of the magic year it's a spread of Eruvia and all sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring'magesees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-markedlevel mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don'' that possess t think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre itcovers. For years the Raverran empire has known peace You can easily find documentaries about it online, but with whispers that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a rebellionfilm-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the discovery project to fruition to claw back some of a firethe funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-warlock and chatty local guide, gain the disappearance company of childrena local beauty, and fetch up at the Empireguide's authority over Eruvia is in danger and war is looming on the horizonchildhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356510611</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen Donaldson Andrew Givler|title= Seventh Decimate Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)|rating= 24|genre= Fantasy|summary= The Seventh Decimate is not ''Matt has a book with compelling characters or buzzing personalities; it terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is not a book so bad that allowed me to invest in Dan the struggles Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of its protagonista blissful life in exchange for his soul.'' Poor Dan! I know, Prince BifaltI know, with any particular easewe shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. Though it But he really is a book about war terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and , when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the dotted line, he's so desperate extremes a nation will go to ensure absolute victory against its greatest foethat he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473221668</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Hornor JacobsOlivie Blake|title=Infernal MachinesThe Atlas Six|rating=4.5

|summary=Having discovered the evil intent of the Autumn LordsDark, sharp, and highly inquisitive, 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 in the conflict more than theyThe Atlas Six'd like to be. Meanwhile Fisk along with fellow mercenary Shoe, doesn't have it any easier… and the world is burningmakes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057512413X</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kristen CiccarelliDaniel Abraham|title=The Last NamsaraAge of Ash

|summary=We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate''Once there was a girl who was drawn to wicked things'' ''The Last Namsara'' revolves around Ashas four bridges, she has a fierce young woman who has whispered stories to dragons all knife in her lifehand and a meeting that she dreads. But where once she told them Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in friendship, now she uses stories to hunt the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all those that still plague her father's fracturing kingdomthings are possible. It is the night between the funeral of a Prince and the coronation of his successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473222850</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mark AlderAnn Sei Lin|title= Son of the NightRebel Skies|rating= 45|genre= FantasyTeens|summary=In [[Son of Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the Morning by Mark Alder|Son sky where soldiers of the Morning]]Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, author Mark Alder plunges when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the reader power to form paper into whatever she desires – a chaoticpower sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, dangerous world, taking them back to leave the turbulent reign life of Edward III and dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the dangers of matter, because the Hundred Years War. Adding elements of fantasy Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and theology she is forced to flee out into the mixworld. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, Alder created an intriguing read which a sky-ship whose express purpose is continued in ''Son of the Night''. With Lucifer, Satan, Godto hunt down shikigami, Devils and Angels interacting with a cast of real and well researched characters, Alder continues his exploration whole world of the Hundred Years war whilst rather incredibly keeping his readers as educated as they are entertained.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575115203</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith DevineB09Q3P283Y|title=Wilderness of IceShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=Hans Schröder was Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not best pleased to be going to really that invested in the Nazi party headquarters fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in Alexanderplatz, Berlin. It was a snowy night career in December 1937 and even then Heinrich Himmler of the SS Protection Squadron had something of a reputationmilitary. Schröder know that his beliefs were not completely in tune If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with those of the party hierarchyhimself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, but on this occasion it was an order which would find gets him leading an expedition to Tibet in search out of the yeti: Hitler and Josef Mengele were keen to see if improvements could be made to the master race rut he's in. He's good in training and the thought of is quickly put onto a humanoid non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with amazing capabilities was too tempting to dismiss. In January 1938 the expedition was on its way via Transylvaniahimself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524681857</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom LloydJennifer Saint|title= Princess of BloodElektra|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary= Toil – unpredictable and dangerous even for an assassin, now wears 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the Princess story of Blood on her jacket. Mercanery Lynx still has his doubts about her – but a new mission to escort a dignitary soon throws three women who live in the old team back togetherheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Travelling to an ancient city that conceals a mysterious labyrinthCassandra, the situations go from bad to worseClytemnestra, with new threats and worse horrors on every cornerElektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. The group argue Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and bicker as they go along – but will they be too concerned with their own disputes to see the far blacker evil that threatens to surround them?most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473213207</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tim AkersDean Koontz|title= The Iron HoundQuicksilver|rating= 42.5|genre= FantasyThrillers|summary=Ruling with an iron handMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, the Church has eliminated the ancient pagan waysfor he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. Yet demonic gheists terrorise the landBut when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', hunted by the Inquisitionfor something – call it unearthly intuition, while agecall it mind-old hatreds rage between control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the north value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the southlam. Three heroes Malcolm And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and Ian Blakeley and Gwendolyn Adair must end suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the bloodshed before chaos discovery that he is unleashednot unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299509</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jess RichardsTasha Suri|title= City of Circles|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Danu is a tightrope walker who is mourning her parents, after a disease has ravaged the circus where she grew up. Her mother has entrusted her with a locket that hides a secret. Over the years, Danu pushes away her grief and develops elaborate and successful high-wire acts with Morrie, a charismatic hunchback who wants to marry her. When the circus returns to Danu's birthplace, Matryoshka, Danu is enchanted by the temples, spice mists, and pleasure seekers within the intoxicating outer circle district. Here, she finally gains the courage to open her mother's locket, and discovers the name of a stranger who lives behind the locked gate of the Inner Circle. 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 the city?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473656680</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Livingstone|title=Fighting Fantasy: The Port of PerilJasmine Throne|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy |summary=As I promised I would when I looked back at the beginning of the 35 year history of ''Fighting Fantasy'' gamebooks [[Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock 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 most importantly, dice. For the first time in a long, long time, I would not read a book for review. I would play it. And so, armed with healthy stamina, reasonable luck but frankly embarrassing skill, I set off. This is the report of that journey – as well as hopefully being the usual useful book review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407181297</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anthony Ryan|title=The Legion of Flame: Book Two of the Draconis Memoria|rating=5

|summary=WARNING: There are spoilers for [[The Waking Fire: Book One On the night of Draconis Memoria by Anthony Ryan|Book 1]] from the beginning.Lizanne Lethridgeher sacred burning, Blood-Blessed Princess Malini defies her brother and secret agent of refuses to step on to the Exceptional Initiatives Division has survived another mission, only pyre. She is immediately sent to be forced to go out again. This time it entails imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a man-hunt in a place community of people who got powers from which no one has emerged alivethe mysterious deathless waters. Talking about aliveBut now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, Claydon Torcreekdecaying ruin. One day, having escaped several types of death in the jungles now goes to the southern ice Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with Hilemore in their current attempt to defeat the dragons and put the world on a safe footingmagic. What if all that waits Instead of reporting her for them is more dragons and more inventive ways to die? That's such a thought gruesome crime, Malini claims that's soon banished the girl saved her from his mindan attacker and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservant. 'This is where we save the world' says Clay… but he's been wrong before!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506401</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ritchie Valentine SmithGenevieve Gornichec|title=Words of Fury: Volume 2 (Words of Power)The Witch's Heart

|summary=Warning: Spoilers ahead…Emmanuel (Man) Kinross, Yoshi, Joah, the Voice A modern and Dirk Faslane are all fleeing the Lord approachable reimagining of the North in Norse myths that centres around a giant floating bubblewitch named Angrboda. This is She hides in a delicate conveyance when you consider that the stakes are high and, if caught by forest at the evil Lord edge of the Northnine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the world as they know it will endstake three times because of Odin's wrath. They just need Her attempts to get live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the Waning stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the Moontwo start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a psychic fortress son that spells safety but there's still a long way to go wolf, and the odds are very much against them. The Lord of the North has more power than theyanother son that've seen yet and more devastating ways to use its a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1544214839</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Vivian ShawHannah Whitten|title= Strange Practice: A Dr Greta Helsing Novel|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=''I don't suppose it's worth trying to convince you it's too dangerous?'' <br>''Not in For 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)Wolf

|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 the dungeon of Lord Daval she may as well be. Daval himself hasn't been the same since he was possessed by the Lord of Fear and leader of the Nine Daemons. He sees it as a positive but thereIn Red's a high price to be paid in blood for everyone else. Our remaining adventurers return to Jane 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 her. Meanwhile Knot is having severe problems with his multi-occupancy body but there are worse problems on family, the horizon. The Nine Daemons are out and doing what Daemons do best: dragging a world's population towards a particularly evil form of destruction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299177</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Callie Bates|title= The Waking Land|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=''They need something to believe infirst daughter becomes queen, something beyond crowns and kingdoms. They need to believe in the old storiessecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. In the power of the land.'' It was fourteen years ago that Elanna's life changed completely. Fourteen years ago that her fatherTo Red's plans of revolution fell throughmisfortune, and at she is the tender age of five, King Antoine held a pistol to her head and took her hostagesecond daughter. Raised by the King, Elanna grows Sent alone 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 woods with nothing but the run, Elanna encounters cape on her father's menback, and finds herself moving from one imprisonment Red knows what to another. Her father it seems, wants to carry out expect: within the revolution that failed fourteen years agowoods is a wolf, he wants to unite the people in creating a fair kingdom and he wants Elanna to be the face of 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 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 novels. 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 is ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' and anyone one who parodies will decide the great detective would eventually need to cover the tale fate of the cursed Baskerville family. They don't come more parodic than Warlock Holmes and although he may have died at the end of the last book, this won't stop him investigating one of his greatest cases.|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 perspectivekingdom. In the original Peter Pan Captain Hook If she is an angry, perhaps slightly jealous, tyrant. But why is he this way? Christina Henry weaves a terrifying narrative together in response to such not a questionworthy sacrifice, a response that has the potential monsters he keeps contained to alter the reader's perception of the original work forever. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565568X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= V E Schwab|title= Our Dark Duet|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''Monsterswoods will be released, mayhem, revenge'' Six months after the final events of ''This Savage Song'', Verity is in chaos. All-out war has broken out and the city is now divided into two – with monsters gaining more and more territory in fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the North and humans battling for survival in the Southstories go. At the centre of But when Red enters the action is August Flynnwoods, a monster of incredible power who once longed expecting nothing more than to be human. He will now stop at nothing to fight and play killed within the part he believes he must. No matter what hour, she finds that the cost, no matter how much of himself he loseslegends are lies. Meanwhile, Kate Harker, V City escapee and kick-ass monster hunter, has been busy in Prosperity. But with the arrival of The wolf is not a new monster leaving devastation in its wake and heading straight for Verity, Kate knows she must to return. She must fight for humanitymonster—he's survival and play her part just like Augusta man. Alliances will be tested; old enemies will rise from the dead and past mistakes will come to haunt both August 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785652761</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= R J BarkerJohn Gwynne|title= Age of Assassins|rating= 3|genre= Fantasy|summary= Age of Assassins is a very ordinary fantasy novel, which at the same time manages to slip in the occasional surprise. The central protagonists are a pair of assassins, Girton Club-Foot and his master, Merela Karn, also known as Death’s Jester. They find themselves hired by a Queen to protect her son, an obnoxious prince, and to find out who is behind the threats on his life. In doing so they discover a host of plots and problems, leaving no part of life 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 in the stables, bitter rivalries between the young men who vie to be heir to the throne, and the moves of great families, there is no lack of suspects. 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 those.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508544</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tom Holt|title= Shadow Of The Management Style of the Supreme Beings|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary= Imagine, if you will, that the local deity and his well-beloved son Jay decide to retire from the god business and go fishing instead. After all, they've been working on, and for, the planet for millennia, and it is really is time they took a break. And the Venturi brothers, who already manage several other planets, have made them a very generous bid for the franchise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650669X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Benedict Jacka|title=Bound: An Alex Verus NovelGods

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