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|author=Kathlaine C Gill and D Clark GillRachel Greenlaw|title=Madness Between Light Compass and DarkBlade

|summary=It''You had a right to retake your place.'' T Kingfisher's 1912latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, and at New Hope Sanatoriumsleeping under an eternal enchantment, Christine Agnes Tupper Thornhedge is fast growing upnot her story. Abandoned there Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by parents who were ashamed of her hunchback, fairies when she's nevertheless grown up was a new-born baby and secreted away to an intelligent girl with a good heart. Her encounters with the inhabitants land of the asylum swiftly take fairie where her on a fascinating, thrilling and sometimes terrifying journey of self discovery, allowing Agnes childhood was spent being taught how to prove that, even with a twisted spine, draw magic from her heart is in the right place!veins and cast spells.|isbn=16411107081803364238

|author= Alexandra ChristoNicole Jarvis|title= Into the Crooked PlaceA Portrait in Shadow|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensHistorical Fiction|summary= In ''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a world thriving with black magichome 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, four the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young crooks embark on a quest to take down woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their criminal leader after they discover the plot behind his dangerous new magicsociety.|isbn=12503183781803362340

Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|isbn=0356518523}}{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->Amelia Estelle Dellos<!-- Abercrombie -->|title=Delilah Recovered|-rating=4| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Fantasy[[image:0575095865.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. But it's not to be.amazonDee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters.coShe survives the attack but not unscathed.uk/dp/0575095865/ref=nosimWitch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee?tagShe's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the same....|isbn=thebookbag-21]]B0BKYFDLLV }} {{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Hadeer Elsbai|title=The Daughters of Izdihar|rating===[[A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie]]=== 4[[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] summary= Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The chimneys Daughters of industry rise over Adua Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and the world seethes weavers – those with new opportunitiesmagical abilities - in a society pitted against them. But old scores run deep as ever. On Nehal, born into the blood-soaked borders of Anglandupper class, Leo dan Brock struggles wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to win fame learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the battlefieldother hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, and defeat whilst secretly attending meetings of the marauding armies Daughters of Stour NightfallIzdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. He hopes What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for help from the crowntheir rights and overcoming their personal obstacles. But King Jezal|isbn=0356520471}}{{Frontpage|author=Heather Fawcett|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's sonwork, the feckless Prince Orsovery first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is a man who specialises not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in disappointments. Savine dan Glokta - socialitethe small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, investorshe is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and daughter of put her final investigations for her book back on the most feared man in the Union - plans to claw right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her way 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 top faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Golden|title=Road of Bones|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the slag-heap 'Road of society by any means necessaryBones'… the R504. But the slums boil Stretching for over with a rage that all the money in thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world cannot control's most notorious routes. The age For months of the machine dawns, but the age year it's a spread of magic refuses to die. With sheet ice suspended above the help permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of the mad hillwoman Isernunremitting, apocalyptic-i-Phaillevel mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, Rikke struggles and because he wanted to control the blessinggive too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, or the cursebut that's a bit rich, for one of the Long Eye. Glimpsing the future our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is one thinga film-maker, but doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the guiding hand project to fruition to claw back some of the First of funds he'd invested in the Magi still pulling pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the stringscompany of a local beauty, changing it will be quite another and fetch up at the guide's 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 exchange for his soul.[[A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie|Full Review]]''

<Poor Dan!-- Maxwell N Andrews -->|-| style=I know, I know, we shouldn''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; textt feel sorry for soul-align: center;''|[[image:1983376353catching demons.jpgBut he really is a 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 that he simply forges Matt's signature.|linkisbn=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1983376353/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]1958204021}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''Olivie Blake|title=The Atlas Six|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=[[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews]]==Dark, sharp, and highly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|isbn=1529095239}}[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{Frontpage|author=Daniel Abraham|title=Age of Ash|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens=4.5|Teens]], [[:Category:genre=Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] The phrase about never trusting summary= We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a book by its cover is something I put on knife in her hand and a par with comments about Marmitemeeting that she dreads. You're supposed to love it or hate it and I'm halfway between, and likewise Meanwhile the old adage City of Kithamar is halfway true. From at a point in the cover turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. It is the night between the funeral of this I had a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name Prince and that attractive artwork the coronation of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water planthis successor. That was only built on by For a night the initial fictionalised quotes, with their nonKithamar is un-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacyruled. But why was I two chapters in and just finding more and more characters, both human and animal, and more and more flashbacks, and no proof that this was what I'd bought in for? [[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews|Full Review]]|isbn=0356515427}}{{Frontpage<!-- Claire North -->|author= Ann Sei Lin|-title= Rebel Skies| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|5[[image:williamabbey.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0316316849/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Teens| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Pursuit Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of William Abbey by Claire North]]=== [[image:3.5starthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]However, [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]  When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a young boy in 1880's South AfricaCrafter like him, he finds himself cursed by someone with the grieving mother. A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the weight of the curse upon Empire. He asks her to come with him, as to leave the shadow life of the dead boy begins to follow him across the worlddreary servitude that is all she has known. Never stoppingWell, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains soon Kurara won't have any say in pursuit of William. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in othersmatter, he also learns that because the dark shadow Midori is deadly – destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and seeks she is forced to kill flee out into the one he loves world. She joins Himura aboard the most… [[The Pursuit Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of William Abbey by Claire Northadventure awaits her…|Full Review]]isbn=1406399590}}<!-- Averill -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=B09Q3P283Y| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper[[image:1077651538.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1077651538/ref4|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Fantasy| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Years of Fading Magic by Kenelm Averill]]=== [[image:4starClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]  He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn'What if you could subtly change the lives of ordinary people around you?'' Jessica Turner was t got many choices and this one , at least, gets him out of the more radical teens to come out of Eastfieldrut he's in. A youth spent hanging out with a close crowd of friends was characterised by JessicaHe's role as trendsetter, as influencer, as leader. Strangely charismatic, Jessica invited fascination good in training and obsessionis quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. Nobody who met her, forgot herHe's chuffed with himself. Or the days they spent in the Enclosure, a clearing in Eastfield woods that Jessica felt gave her power. But the group went its separate ways, as adolescent groups do, and her influence faded...[[The Years of Fading Magic by Kenelm Averill|Full Review]]  <!-- Hewitt -->}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Elektra|-rating=4| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Literary Fiction[[image:1509896465.jpg|linksummary=http://www'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509896465/ref=nosim?tagCassandra, 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=thebookbag-21]]1472273915}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Dean Koontz|title=Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre===[[The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt]]===Thrillers[[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] ''The Nightjar'for he' s lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is an unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives starting a normal life in London until she finds career on a box on her doorstep one morning and her life begins needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to unravelsudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', fast. From that very momentfor something – call it unearthly intuition, her life is flooded with magiccall it mind-control, losscall it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, expectation and particularly, betrayal. As everything around her shiftsfind a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all that she knows, all that she thinks she knows, must changethis is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantlyHelped to escape, can she even trust herself? [[The Nightjar he finds his flight is interrupted by Deborah Hewitt|Full Review]] <!-- Shackle -->other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|-isbn=1542019885}}{{Frontpage| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|author=Tasha Suri[[image:1473225213.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473225213/refThe Jasmine Throne|rating=nosim?tag4|genre=thebookbag-21]] Fantasy| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-alignOn the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: left;"|===[[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle]]=== [[image:4an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters.5starBut now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Mike Shackle has written One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a really interesting gruesome crime, Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and unusual story in ''We Are The Dead''; begs for the tag line for the novel is 'No More Heroes' and that is what makes this story so differentgirl to become her own personal maidservant. There are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather the story is scattered with characters doing their own small part to survive, to fight back, |isbn=0356515648}}{{Frontpage|author=Genevieve Gornichec|title=The Witch's Heart|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= A modern and to find vengeance, approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a world that has been utterly torn apart. The plot does not hang on any one character, no one is important, anyone can die and many doforest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but, like ants working together, each small character achieves their own part that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of a much larger plot that is rich and complex and keeps the reader glued Odin's wrath. Her attempts to the story. [[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle|Full Review]] <!-- Donnelly -->|-| style=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 initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki''width: 10%; verticals charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a half-align: top; text-align: center;dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and another son that'|s a snake.[[image:1471407977.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471407977/ref=nosim?tagisbn=thebookbag-21]]1789097061}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''Hannah Whitten|title=For the Wolf|rating=5|genre===[[Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly]]===Fantasy [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red''People will not forget. Or forgive. An ugly girl s misfortune, she is too great an offense..the second daughter.Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the world woods is made for men. An ugly girl can never be forgiven.'' ''Stepsister'' tells a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the gripping story fate of Cinderella's 'ugly' stepsistertheir kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, Isabelle. We've been told this fairy-tale over and over again throughout our lives and know the characters well. But have you ever wondered what happened monsters he keeps contained to the sisters after Cinderella married woods will be released, and the Prince? Or why fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the sisters disliked her so much? [[Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly|Full Review]] <!-- Evan Winter -->hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|-isbn=0356516369}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"John Gwynne|title=The Shadow Of The Gods[[image:0356512940.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356512940/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Fantasy|summary===[[The Rage Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of Dragons by Evan Winter]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Every so oftenthe Bloodsworn Saga, as a readerset in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, a book comes along that is utter when the Gods have battled and complete perfectiontheir bones lie scattered for all to see. This book story is one of those. Utter and complete perfection. Winter has created an absolute masterpiece of a novelthe ultimate in High Fantasy, set in and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the fantasy land of Uhmlaba the reader is instantly thrown into wargenre, with mythical creatures, a battle for survival for the Omehi peoplearchaic language and battles galore. Fleeing their homelandThis is a thick book, they have with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to fight to remain on the only scrap of land they can reach. The culture of the Omehi people is rich create a wonderfully realistic and deep but not perfect, not sanctimonious. They have villains, they have faults, they are the invaders after all, but Winter creates a realistic and honest portrayal of a people desperate to survive, to save themselves and their culture for future generations. [[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter|Full Review]] <!-- Moyer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:178747920X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178747920X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Robin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, and retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he had built. Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to break the curse surrounding them and to save their lives. Setting off with a soldier, a Fey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in a maze of betrayals, complicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the throne…[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]] <!-- Wild-Palmer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1782692231.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782692231/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Tunnels Below by Nadine Wild-Palmer]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Meet Cecilia. It's her twelfth birthday, and after a scene that shows her parents to be wacky, witty and wonderful as if fresh from an American sit-com, the whole family is set to go out for a grand day of celebration. Cecilia is toting a large, silvered ball that her younger sister found as a present, but ends up dropping it, and watching it as it rolls right back from her grip into the very Underground carriage they had just left. Mind the gap. Back in the train with it she finds she is alone – and the train promptly hares off to leave her abandoned in pitch darkness at a stop no other train has ever taken her to… It's the outskirts, Cecilia will find, of a strange society of English-speaking humanised animals, and her first acquaintance, a fox-man, will tell her that all talk of a world above, with suns and fields and fresh air, is pooh-poohed as the nonsense gibberish of people who have wandered in darkness too much and forgotten their origins. Can she survive all this wondrous civilisation can throw at her and find her way back to the family she left behind – or will the dark leaders from the resident crow family subject her to their evil reign? [[The Tunnels Below by Nadine Wild-Palmer|Full Review]] <!-- Motayne -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:147367591X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/147367591X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Nocturna by Maya Motayne]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] A thief without a face, a prince who was never meant to be king, Finn and Alfie collide, as if thrown together by fate, to bring about a series of catastrophes and set in motion the release of a darkness that seeks to consume all the goodness and magic in the world. These two unlikely allies must try to put their own personal battles behind them and join forces to stop the evil from destroying everything they hold dear. [[Nocturna by Maya Motayne|Full Review]] <!-- Cooch -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0578444305.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0578444305/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] This novel is set about a hundred years into the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's left of the old United States is run from Center City. Women run this world and it is very proud of having defeated the old patriarchy. Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don't, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. And if that doesn't work, they're sent to work camps, away from open society, or even worse: expelled to the wilderness beyond the Central Authority's borders. [[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch|Full Review]] <!-- Ireland -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1789090873.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789090873/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Dread Nation by Justina Ireland]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''Two days after I was born … the dead rose up and started to walk on a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg '' Dread Nation narrates the unconventional life of Jane McKeene who was born days before the dead began to walk the streets. An event which in interrupting the civil war between the states altered American history forever. In the changed world, minorities are forced into conscription and under the new Native and Negro Re-education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to destroy the dead once and for all. For Jane and other girls like her, there is however the opportunity for a better life by being employed as an attendant. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and are valued above all else. [[Dread Nation by Justina Ireland|Full Review]] <!-- Burge -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471407764.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471407764/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Twisted Tree by Rachel Burge]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] Martha's world has changed. Blind in one eye after falling from a tree, she wakes with a disturbing gift. She can read people through their clothes, secrets tumble from the weave, revealing insights she doesn't really want, and knowledge she doesn't understand. She flees to her grandmother, Mormor's cabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to give, and stumbles into world of menace. [[The Twisted Tree by Rachel Burge|Full Review]] <!-- Hanrahan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0356511529.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356511529/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Hanrahan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Enter a world where Gods are real and violent, the Godswar rages far away, Gods lead huge armies of men and Saints, mortals given the power of the Gods, and thousands die as their capricious Gods battle for supremacy. Guerdon lies across the sea, and has kept the Godswar at bay so far. Geurdon's Gods are the Kept Gods, kept weakened and under the thumb of democracy but something is happening, something is stirring, how will the City defend against the coming evil? [[The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Hanrahan|Full Review]] <!-- Arden -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785039717.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785039717/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] ''The Winter of the Witch'' is the conclusion of the story following Vasya, Vasilisa Petronova, as she negotiates her way towards her destiny through the world of medieval males and the Catholic Church's perception of witchcraft. The story picks up directly from the action in the second novel, [[The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden|The Girl in the Tower]], and as a reader too much is lost if you haven't read this at the very least. My advice would be to read all three. The first two novels are beautiful and lyrical with extraordinary characters and a wonderful balance of magic and action. This final novel, however, is an absolute triumph. [[The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden|Full Review]] <!-- Blake -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1509876499.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509876499/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] ''You cannot put on a costume and become something else. You are a queen of Fennbirn island.'' Following on from [[Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake|Three Dark Crowns]] and its sequel [[One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake|One Dark Throne]], in ''Two Dark Reigns'' each of the Goddess' daughters have their own battles to fight. All her life, Katharine has dreamed of being the great Queen the island of Fennbirn deserves. Having won the crown though, she is facing trial after difficult trial and murmurs of dissent and revolution grow louder on the streets each and every day. And without evidence of her sisters' death does anyone but herself and the old queens buried under her skin, believe she is the one true Queen? [[Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake|Full Review]] <!-- Laura Solomon -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:9386897385.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/9386897385/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Nothing Lasting by Laura Solomon]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] We never know the man's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. It's what his mother used to call him, not least because he found it annoying. When we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, if not ''living'' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and drinking. Housework is a foreign country. When she dies she's not missed, firstly because she'd spent a couple of years in a mental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues to haunt Boyo. She wants him to achieve something in his life: what she has in mind is that he could be a famous arsonistgritty world in which our heroes must do battle. [[Nothing Lasting by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]isbn=0356514218 <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->}}