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{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15"A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' 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, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-- Clayton -->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 do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|-isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade[[image:Clayton_Belles|rating=3.jpg5|leftgenre=Teens|linksummary=http://www''I can hear the song of the sea.amazonThe call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.co.uk/dp/1473223962/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]''

| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] T Kingfisher''One minute here s latest novella is richer than a thousand moments there'' In the resplendent world of Orléans, beauty runs through the blood of a select few: the Belles. Only they have the power to transform the appearance lovely reimagining of a population cursed with grey skin fairytale that is well known and red eyes, who covet beauty above all elsewell beloved. Camellia Beauregard But whilst there is a new generation Belleprincess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, ready to fulfil Thornhedge is not her duty and help the people to love themselvesstory. Like her sistersInstead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she's in the running was a new-born baby and secreted away to be the favourite – the most accomplished Belle in the land, personally chosen by the royal family of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to live draw magic from her veins and cast spells.|isbn=1803364238}}{{Frontpage|author=Nicole Jarvis|title=A Portrait in the palace and tend to members Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''I want all of court, with the power Florence to make a difference. Itknow my name's what she's been wanting and training for her whole life… but so too have her sisters. And only the best will be selected. [[The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton|Full Review]]

<!-- Quine -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Quine Beasts.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0992754941/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]Cast out from Rome, [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Meet Jaymi. He's a world-class video games designer, and fresh to a new mansion Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in the Hollywood Hills on the basis of some recent success. But he's seen the future and he doesn't like it. His current employers, able to bring any amount of class, skill and culture to the world of gameplay, are beset on appealing to the most lunkheaded and lowest common denominators instead. Indeed, their next big thing will change the world for the worse – it will be which her art can find a massively disturbing environment, where people progress through the world of the entity by spreading fake news about anyone and everyone else on the planet, whether they're playing along or not, home and by getting kind of prestige points on spoiling and shaming anything beyond a user-accepted, algorithm-designed, status quo. With a much more Reithian approach, Jaymi goes freelance, and sets up a way of restoring the balance with a launch of his own, where aspects of his more humanitarian mind are played out by avatars of him in the gameher future can thrive rather than stagnate. He sees this But as a way to improve some as she enters Florentine society and get his own back – but she faces great opposition from the chance of getting revenge more quickly comes about when those avatars leave their encoded backgroundpowerful Accademia, and become fully playable characters in reality… [[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine|Full Review]] <!-- Arden -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Arden_Girl.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785031066?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785031066]]  | style="vertical-align: top; textthe self-align: left;"|===[[The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] In the second book proclaimed guardians of the trilogy Katherine Arden builds on her original story to create something even better. This book is utterly wonderful and it is at the same time complex and gentle. The [[The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden|first book]] set up the characters in the Petronova family but sometimes left the characters feeling a little thin; this book builds on the first to give depth to the family members and their ties to each other. It's a great story but I would strongly advise reading the two books in order to get the full effect of the plot. [[The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden|Full Review]] <!-- Bancroft -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Bancroft_Senlin2.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0356510816?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0356510816]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Thomas Senlin embarks on his honeymoon with high hopes. He and his young wife Marya are travelling on a sleeper train across Ur to healing magics that engineering marvel, that fabled centre of culture, through paintings have the Tower of Babel. It's a place he's read books about, taught his pupils about, and longed power to visit, but protect the bustling city and chaotic surroundings of the Tower in the desert are a long way its citizens from the quiet fishing village in which Senlin teaches. When he loses sight of Marya shortly after their arrival, he has no option but to look for her in this strange plagues and overwhelming placecurses. For The all his background reading before the trip, he is ill-prepared male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for what he finds in the Tower, both its marvels centuries and its horrors, and thus begins Thomas Senlin's arduous quest to recover his wife. [[Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Hill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hill_Strange.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147322117X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147322117X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Strange Weather by Joe Hill]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Strange Weather is a collection of four short novels guard it above all linked by, unsurprisingly, strange and cataclysmic weatherelse. Each novel is distinct and showcases Hill's restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events and makes To them bitingly, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautiful, often switching from one sentence to the next. As Hill himself says ''the beauty of the world and the horror of the world were twined together'', never is this truer than in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with raw beauty. [[Strange Weather by Joe Hill|Full Review]] <!-- Jester -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a cocky and brash Artemisia – an ambitious young man woman who dies promises trouble 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. [[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] |}{{newreview|author= K J Parker|title= The Two of Swords|rating= 3.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=This is a difficult book to review, to be honest, because I am still not sure if I liked it. It is the first book 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 happen. The novel is set during a long standing war between east and west that change – has been going on for so long no-one is really sure why they are fighting. Currently in command are the Belot brothers, 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 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 Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not have considered himself be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a herosociety pitted against them. In factNehal, by all accountsborn into the upper class, particularly that of his parentswishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, Simon but instead she is forced into an epic failurearranged marriage with Nico. HeGiorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's largerights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, hefrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|isbn=0356520471}}{{Frontpage|author=Heather Fawcett|title=Emily Wilde's hairyEncyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, he and she has a ridiculously oversized nose travelled extensively, and heresearched meticulously, to write her life's been kicked out work, the very first encyclopaedia of boarding school and kept on a federal watch listfaeries. But Simon Whilst she is sure something brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is up not so good with his friend Kat. She won't speak to himpeople. So he resorts when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to buying an incredibly expensive new virtual reality video game redeem herself and put her final investigations for them both - Otherworldher book back on the right track. Otherworld engages your senses with graphics so good Enter Wendell Bambleby, you'll swear they are realher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and itdelight, much to Emily's here that Simon really wants to talk to Katfrustration. But it isn't real, it's a game… until a turn of events lands Simon in Otherworld in an all together different way. This time, whatever harm his avatar suffers has real consequences. And if it dieswhy is he here? Simon would rather not think about that. If What does he wants to save Kat, he has to keep pressing want? And what exactly is going on. Simon is with the chosen one, this is not a game. faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786073692</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Melissa CarusoChristopher Golden|title= The Tethered MageRoad of Bones|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyHorror|summary= The Raverran Empire is run by a doge and Kolyma Highway… the council 'Road of seven, the governing group formed by Bones'… the aristocratic families of EruviaR504. The Empire thrives from trade 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 film-maker, doing a rebellionrecce 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 Alexanderplatza career in the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, Berlinwith himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the rut he's in. It was He's good in training and is quickly put onto a snowy night non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Elektra|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in December 1937 the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and even then Heinrich Himmler Elektra are all bit players in the story of the SS Protection Squadron had something of a reputationTrojan War. Schröder know Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that his beliefs were often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furies.|isbn=1472273915}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not completely had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in tune with those of the party hierarchya nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, but and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this occasion book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it was an order which would find a supernatural urge – has demanded of him leading an expedition that he go to Tibet a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just in search time for two of the yeti: Hitler those typical Men in Black types to turn up and Josef Mengele were keen suggest he's of interest to see if improvements could be made them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the master race discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and the thought of a humanoid with amazing capabilities was too tempting to dismiss. In January 1938 the expedition was on its way via Transylvaniawhole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524681857</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom LloydTasha Suri|title= Princess of BloodThe Jasmine Throne|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= Toil – unpredictable and dangerous even for an assassin, now wears On the Princess night of Blood on her jacket. Mercanery Lynx still has his doubts about sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her – but a new mission brother and refuses to step on to escort a dignitary soon throws the old team back togetherpyre. Travelling She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient city temple that conceals was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the mysterious labyrinthdeathless waters. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, the situations go from bad to worsedecaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with new threats and worse horrors on every cornermagic. The group argue Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and bicker as they go along – but will they be too concerned with their own disputes to see begs for the far blacker evil that threatens girl to surround them?become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473213207</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tim AkersGenevieve Gornichec|title= The Iron HoundWitch's Heart|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=Ruling with an iron hand, A modern and approachable reimagining of the Church has eliminated Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the ancient pagan ways. Yet demonic gheists terrorise edge of the landnine worlds, hunted by remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the Inquisitionstake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, however, while age-old hatreds rage between 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 north stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the south. Three heroes Malcolm and Ian Blakeley two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and Gwendolyn Adair must end the bloodshed before chaos is unleashedanother son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299509</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jess RichardsHannah Whitten|title= City of CirclesFor the Wolf|rating= 45|genre= Fantasy|summary= Danu is a tightrope walker who is mourning her parentsIn Red's family, 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 yearsfirst daughter becomes queen, Danu pushes away her grief and develops elaborate and successful high-wire acts with Morrie, the second daughter becomes a charismatic hunchback who wants to marry hersacrifice. When the circus returns to DanuTo Red's birthplacemisfortune, Matryoshka, Danu she is enchanted by the templessecond daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, spice mists, and pleasure seekers Red knows what to expect: within the intoxicating outer circle district. Here, she finally gains the courage to open her mother's locketwoods is a wolf, and discovers he is the name of a stranger one who lives behind will decide the locked gate fate of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the Inner Circle. Fated monsters he keeps contained to remain in Matryoshkathe woods will be released, Danu attempts to resolve this mystery. Will she and Morrie ever the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be reunitedreturned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, or will something far expecting nothing more unexpected than to be waiting for her in killed within the mysterious heart of hour, she finds that the city?legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473656680</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian LivingstoneJohn Gwynne|title=Fighting Fantasy: The Port of PerilShadow Of The Gods|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy |summary=As I promised I would when I looked back at The Shadow Of The Gods is the beginning first installment of the 35 year history Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of ''Fighting Fantasy'' gamebooks [[Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock the Vikings in the shadow of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone|(here)]]Ragnarok, I took to when the brand-new-Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for-2017 volume with my pen, mapping paper, and most importantly, diceall to see. For This story is the first time ultimate in a longHigh Fantasy, long timeand John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, I would not read a book for review. I would play it. And so, armed with healthy staminamythical creatures, reasonable luck but frankly embarrassing skill, I set offarchaic language and battles galore. This is the report of a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that journey – as well as hopefully being the usual useful book revieware woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407181297</amazonuk>0356514218