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|author=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-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|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->Rachel Greenlaw<!-- Mohamed -->|title=Compass and Blade|-rating=3.5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Teens[[image:1784631426.jpg|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/1784631426/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]''
Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she 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, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.
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{{Frontpage
|author=T Kingfisher
|title=Thornhedge
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=''You had a right to retake your place.''
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Falling Leaves by Stefan Mohamed]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]],  When your best friend vanishes, how can you begin to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they're okay? And what would you do if they reappeared in your life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. When he reappears, she's shocked not only by his presence back in her life, but also by the fact that he hasn't aged a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearance. Shocked, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to her home town in order to help Mark find the answers he so desperately craves. But whatT Kingfisher's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Falling Leaves by Stefan Mohamed|Full Review]]<!-- Carew -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Carew_Wolf.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472247000/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] ===[[The Wolf by Leo Carew]]===  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Travel to a world that latest novella is familiar and yet utterly different. We are in a version lovely reimagining of ancient Britain with enough landmarks to make us feel at home yet it is a smoked glass. North of the river Abus we have the Anakim, a race fairytale that isn't quite human; they are something more. The Anakim are virtual giants and their ribs are not cages but bone breastplates instead. Below the Abus are the Sutheners, humans. Theirs is an ancient grudge well known and one where blood is spilled frequently in pitched battlewell beloved. Unfortunately it But whilst there is rare when humans are involved for things to be straightforward and the same is true here. On both sides politics and machinations complicate the quests for glory. With the Anakim we have a boy coming to power and vying with the greatest warrior princess trapped in the land for the throne. Amongst the Sutheners we see a commoner having the temerity to lead tower, sleeping under an army alongside his betters. Both battles are as interesting as the war itself. [[The Wolf by Leo Carew|Full Review]] <!-- Mayfield -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1786072424.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786072424/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Parentations by Kate Mayfield]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]eternal enchantment, [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] In eighteenth century London, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family - and charged with protecting a mysterious childThornhedge is not her story. Fast forward to the London of 2015Instead, and the sisters are still waiting - with no way of knowing if the boy our protagonist is alive or dead. Far awayToadling, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal life, but also forces them to keep a secret for two hundred years. As those years pass was stolen away by, those who were granted immortality find that it's far from fairies when she was a blessing - with true darkness emerging in the absence of death. [[The Parentations by Kate Mayfield|Full Review]] <!-- Faulks 7/3 -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:B079RJFN42.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079RJFN42/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Seer's Curse by J J Faulks]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Although ''The Seer's Curse'' is billed as a prenew-teen novel, I would say that it would appeal to a wide audience interested in fantasy born baby and mythology, as well as just a good tale. [[The Seer's Curse by J J Faulks|Full Review]] <!-- Clayton -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Clayton_Belles.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.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]] ''One minute here 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 secreted away to transform the appearance land of a population cursed with grey skin and red eyes, who covet beauty above all else. Camellia Beauregard is a new generation Belle, ready to fulfil fairie where her duty and help the people childhood was spent being taught how to love themselves. Like draw magic from her sisters, she's in the running to be the favourite – the most accomplished Belle in the land, personally chosen by the royal family to live in the palace veins and tend to members of court, with the power to make a differencecast spells. It'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 -->|-| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1803364238[[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]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Meet Jaymi. He's a world-class video games designer, and fresh to a new mansion 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 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, 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 game. He sees this as a way to improve society and get his own back – but the chance of getting revenge more quickly comes about when those avatars leave their encoded background, and become fully playable characters in reality… [[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine|Full Review]] <!-- Arden -->Frontpage|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Nicole Jarvis[[image:Arden_Girl.jpg|left|linktitle=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; text-align: left;"|===[[The Girl A Portrait in the Tower by Katherine Arden]]===Shadow [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] In the second book 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.co4.uk/gp/product/0356510816?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0356510816]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Historical Fiction===[[Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=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 that engineering marvel, that fabled centre of culture, the Tower of Babel. It's a place he's read books about, taught his pupils about, and longed to visit, but the bustling and chaotic surroundings I want all of the Tower in the desert are a long way from the quiet fishing village in which Senlin teaches. When he loses sight of Marya shortly after their arrival, he has no option but Florence to look for her in this strange and overwhelming place. For all his background reading before the trip, he is ill-prepared for what he finds in the Tower, both its marvels and its horrors, and thus begins Thomas Senlinknow my name''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 all linked byCast out from Rome, unsurprisingly, strange and cataclysmic weather. Each novel is distinct and showcases Hill's restrained yet vivid style Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which takes everyday events her art can find a home and makes 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 where her future can thrive rather than in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with raw beautystagnate. [[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 young man who dies and gets made But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michaelpowerful Accademia, 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 self-proclaimed guardians 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 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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen AryanThomas D Lee|title= Mageborn (Age of Dread)Perilous Times|rating= 43
|genre= Fantasy
|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
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{{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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jason Segel and Kirsten MillerHadeer Elsbai|title= OtherworldThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating= 54
|genre=Fantasy
|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
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{{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 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 childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|isbn=1803361476}}{{Frontpage|author=Andrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=''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: 10 years of a blissful life in danger exchange for his soul.'' Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and war is looming , when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the horizondotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356510611</amazonuk>1958204021
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen Donaldson Olivie Blake|title= Seventh Decimate The Atlas Six|rating= 24|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 protagonistDark, Prince Bifaltsharp, with any particular ease. Though it is a book about war and the desperate extremes highly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a nation will go to ensure absolute victory against its greatest foeTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473221668</amazonuk>1529095239
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Hornor JacobsDaniel Abraham|title=Infernal MachinesAge of Ash
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Having discovered We meet Alys under the evil intent most northerly of the Autumn LordsOldgate's four bridges, Livia Cornelius is trying to beat the inferno she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the ensuing war City of Kithamar is creating at a point in order to get back to her husband Fiskthe turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. That's not as easy as it sounds though as she It is the night between the funeral of a Prince and her entourage including (her sister Carnelia and Livia's baby) will be caught up in the conflict more than they'd like to becoronation of his successor. Meanwhile Fisk along with fellow mercenary Shoe, doesn't have it any easier… and For a night the world Kithamar is burningun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057512413X</amazonuk>0356515427
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kristen CiccarelliAnn Sei Lin|title=The Last NamsaraRebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09Q3P283Y|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=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 career in the military. If he'Once there was s honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the rut he's in. He's good in training and is quickly put onto a girl 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 was drawn live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that 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 had the chance to get to wicked thingsbe a mercurial character yet, for 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 magazines staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''The Last Namsarasubject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'' revolves around Asha, for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a fierce young woman who supernatural urge – has whispered stories demanded of him that he go to dragons 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 her lifethis is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. But where once she told them Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in friendshipcontrol, now she uses stories to hunt all those the discovery that still plague her father's fracturing kingdomhe is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473222850</amazonuk>1542019885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mark AlderTasha Suri|title= Son of the NightThe Jasmine Throne|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=In [[Son of On the Morning by Mark Alder|Son night of the Morning]]her sacred burning, author Mark Alder plunges the reader into a chaotic, dangerous world, taking them back Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the turbulent reign of Edward III and the dangers of the Hundred Years Warpyre. Adding elements of fantasy and theology She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the mix, Alder created Hirana: an intriguing read which is continued in ''Son ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the Night''mysterious deathless waters. With LuciferBut now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, Satandecaying ruin. One day, God, Devils and Angels interacting Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a cast of real gruesome crime, Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and well researched characters, Alder continues his exploration of begs for the Hundred Years war whilst rather incredibly keeping his readers as educated as they are entertainedgirl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575115203</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keith DevineGenevieve Gornichec|title=Wilderness of IceThe Witch's Heart
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Hans Schröder was not best pleased to be going to the Nazi party headquarters in Alexanderplatz, Berlin. It was a snowy night in December 1937 A modern and even then Heinrich Himmler approachable reimagining of the SS Protection Squadron had something of Norse myths that centres around a reputationwitch named Angrboda. Schröder know that his beliefs were not completely She hides in tune with those a forest at the edge of the party hierarchynine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but on this occasion it that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to 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 stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an order which would find him leading initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the two start an expedition to Tibet in search unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and another son that's a snake.|isbn=1789097061}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Whitten|title=For the Wolf|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In Red's family, the yeti: Hitler first daughter becomes queen, and Josef Mengele were keen to see if improvements could be made the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the master race woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the thought fate of their kingdom. If she is not a humanoid with amazing capabilities was too tempting worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to dismissthe woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. In January 1938 But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the expedition was on its way via Transylvanialegends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524681857</amazonuk>0356516369
}}
{{Frontpage
|author=John Gwynne
|title=The Shadow Of The Gods
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.
|isbn=0356514218
}}
 
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