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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jasper FfordeA G Slatter|title=Shades The Briar Book of Greythe Dead|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Sometimes with authors you just don't know what you've been missingThere's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. Other times you do. Jasper Fforde has long been on This secret magic of my catch-up listown, all mine, at last. Snippets of Thursday Next and reviews and interviews were enough to convince me I had to get just want to know this work. My chance finally came with the first in enjoy it for a completely new series: Shades of Greywhile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340963034</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan SkinnerRachel Greenlaw|title=Furnaces of ForgeCompass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In this [[Blue Fire and Ice (The Land) by Alan Skinner|sequel]], it's almost as you were, except here 'I can hear the mysterious powers song of the blue flame are not being used by some outlander arsonist, but have been usurped by two inept young scientists from the Myrmidots, to fuel their industrysea. We can predict this will prove a bad thing, but the breadth The call of the journey to capture the flamedeep, and the efforts of all our returning characters to put things right might still be a surpriseanswering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955726859</amazonuk>}}''
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{{Frontpage
|author=T Kingfisher
|title=Thornhedge
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=''You had a right to retake your place.''
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{{Frontpage
|author=Nicole Jarvis
|title=A Portrait in Shadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=''I want all of Florence to know my name''
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{{Frontpage
|author=Thomas D Lee
|title=Perilous Times
|rating=3
|genre= Fantasy
|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ElliottAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Traitors' Gate (Crossroads)Delilah Recovered
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Kate Elliott's ''Crossroads'' series has so far come in large, slightly off-putting chunks. They've been decent reads, by and large, with We meet Dee at a huge cast of wonderfully drawn characters, but the sheer size and slow pace of the action has meant I didnpoint when her life isn't enjoy them going as much as I may otherwise have done. ''Traitors' Gate''planned but things might, the third in the sequence is different in only one aspect; the character development is still therejust might, the huge page count is still therebe about to look up. Out of work, but the pacing is a lot better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498351</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amanda Downum|title=The Drowning City|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In a nutshellabout to lose her flat, you're reading this because you're wondering whether The Drowning City Dee is good, bad or mediocre. Youup for an accountant've probably glanced at the rating and guessed the latters job. I'm afraid But it's not quite that simpleto be. This Dee is a debut attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that provokes decidedly mixed feelingsto do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. I started off convinced Slivers of memory of things that I was going are not ordinary at all return to love this book. The cover art is effortlessly cool, the premise intriguing, the characters laden with potential for greatness her and things will never be the backdrop is certainly evocativesame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498149</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannHadeer Elsbai|title=WakeThe Daughters of Izdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Possessed Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of great beautytwo women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the kind that drives men madupper class, Fire is used wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to people trying learn to kill control her. She isn't used to them doing it by accident. When a poacher in abilities and then join the woods outside her home accidentally shoots hermilitary, Fire but instead she is hard pressed to keep the temperamental Lord Archer from killing himforced into an arranged marriage with Nico. But as sure as Fire is Giorgina on the man other hand did not mean have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to cause provide for her harmfamily and maintain their reputation, she is made unsure by whilst secretly attending meetings of the strange fog that exists in the manDaughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's mindrights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905200129</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GemmellHeather Fawcett|title=LegendEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Dros DelnochEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, a massive fortress with six walls of defenceand researched meticulously, is in danger of falling to write her life's work, the Nadirvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. With its fallWhilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, the Drenai empire she is soon to follownot so good with people. The Nadir haven't lost yet and as a resultSo when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, morale among having somehow offended the defenders village matriarch, she is low not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and desertions are rampantput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. The men long for a heroEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, but the legendary Druss has hidden himself away in the mountains all charm and become a mythdelight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498580</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terry Brooks Christopher Golden|title=A Princess of Landover (Magic Kingdom Road of Landover)Bones
|rating=3.5
|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Mistaya has The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a lot to deal with in this bookthousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. But then Built because Stalin wanted so do her parentsmuch uranium and other Siberian minerals, Ben (human) and Willow (half Dryad)because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, as for much one of the time they do not know where she our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is: your basic parental nightmare if you have a fifteen year old daughter whether you are film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the ruler company of a magical kingdom or notlocal beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841495808</amazonuk>1803361476
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongAndrew Givler|title=FrostbittenSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=It's back to the werewolves in this latest volume in Armstrong's immensely popular Women of the Otherworld series, and I must say I'm relieved because the werewolves are my favouritesMatt has a terrible life. TimeSeriously—it's moved on a little since we were with them lastawful. Elena and Clay are now utterly settled in their wolfish marriage and their twins are three years old. Elena has just found out It is so bad that Jeremy Dan the Demon is looking to retire and also to make her the new pack Alphashocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his soul. Ambitious and competitive, she's the ideal pack member for the job - but how will it affect her relationship with Clay, the pack enforcer? To add to this worry, a contact from the past has churned up some unwanted memories. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497762</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jesse BullingtonOlivie Blake|title=The Sad Tale of the Brothers GrossbartAtlas Six
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=When Hegel and Manfried are ticked offDark, you know about it. Returning to a town for vengeance - someone didn't like their scrumping there as children - they leave several deadsharp, and several more corpses behind when a posse is sent off to seek its own justice. Theyhighly inquisitive, 're journeying south, graverobbing their way through mediaeval Europe, and they don't care how many people they have to kill, betray, get vengeance on, or blaspheme, or what they have to eat or drink, until their task is done.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497835</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Walter Moers |title=The AlchemasterAtlas Six's Apprentice|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Meet Echo the Crat. He is a rare example of his species, which is a cat that can speak every language known. His life among the miserable, permanently ill citizens of Malaisea is not great, which is why, when the strange scientist from the castle that looms over everyone and everything offers him a month of entertaining gluttony before he kills Echo, as opposed to three days' starving penury on the streets, the offer is accepted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846552222</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patricia Briggs|title=Hunting Ground (Alpha and Omega)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Life with a werewolf is a question of balances. You have to swing your new-found status as the motherly, calming, but powerful Omega wolf, with his Alpha-male studly status. You have to equate his inner Brother Wolf being practically a different entity to his human side, and know when and how to relate to both. And you have to remember that you might be playfighting in the snow one minute, and the next told by your father-in-law to go to Seattle, and act as figurehead for makes its publishing debut after becoming a revolution in werewolf life Tik- and stand in the face of a very wicked and powerful European werewolf, vampires, and more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497959</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Audrey Niffenegger |title=Her Fearful Symmetry|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=When Elspeth Noblin dies of Leukemia, she leaves behind a strange bequest that will have dramatic and tragic consequences. She leaves her London flat and all the trappings of her life to the 'mirror' twins of her own twin sister who currently live outside Chicago. This is news to the twins who didn't even know that they had an aunt. The only condition of her legacy is that the twins, Julia and Valentina, have to live in the flat, which is adjacent to Highgate Cemetery, for a year before they can sell it. It is clear from the outset that Elspeth has secrets about her relationship with her twin sister Edie, which she is keen to keep hidden from the twins, but when it turns out that Elspeth hasn't quite left the apartment after her death, things get a whole lot messier for everyoneTok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224085611</amazonuk>1529095239
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle Zink Daniel Abraham|title=Prophecy Age of the SistersAsh
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=This book is almost We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four hundred pages longbridges, but I read it so quickly that it might as well have only had one hundred pages! Lia Milthorpe and she has a knife in her twin sister Alice have never really been allies, always slightly at odds with one another. When their father dies hand and they become orphans, the twins discover that they are enemies in truth, on opposing sides of a prophecy meeting that could destroy the worldshe dreads. With Meanwhile the help City of her new friends Sonia and Luisa, Lia must find the Keys before Alice does and prevent demons from taking over the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905654480</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patricia Briggs |title=Cry Wolf|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=It Kithamar is not easy to move at a point in with a werewolf. He is two hundred the turning of years old or more, and you've been a werewolf for three years. He comes with generations of baggage, a father who is when the capo di capi of werewolves in North America, and a job as his assassin and general fiery dogsbody. You worlds are only just beginning to get to grips with your new status, at their thinnest and his temperament, and how they all things are expected to mix before you're confirmed as a couplepossible. So when it comes to him clearing up a mess with regards to a lethal, rogue werewolf nearby - making humans take too much notice - It is the timing could have been better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497940</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K S Turner |title=Before night between the Gods (Chronicles funeral of Fate and Choice)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=''Before The Gods'' is presented as an enigma, wrapped in a puzzle Prince and shrouded in mysterythe coronation of his successor. The front is adorned by For a beguiling image created by the author. A glance at night the back cover serves only to tantalise rather than reveal what might be in store. ''This Kithamar is where it all beganun-ruled. Everything. Love, hate, good, evil, us and them. This is before they were gods.''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956224202</amazonuk>0356515427
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barb and J C Hendee Ann Sei Lin|title=Child of a Dead GodRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=MargiereKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, half-human, half-vampire, is being drawn south by dreams a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of an icebound castlethe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Her quest However, when a man named Himura arrives to discover tell her that she is a mysterious ancient artefact borders on obsession Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a dangerous one that threatens power sought after all across the lives of her travelling companionsEmpire. But little sage, Wynn, will follow He asks herto come with him, seeking knowledge for her guild on to leave the long forgotten history life of their worlddreary 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 will Chap a shikigami, and Elven warrior Sgäilleshe is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, who swore an oath of guardianship a sky-ship whose express purpose is to Margiere hunt down shikigami, and Leesil.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497312</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Markus Heitz B09Q3P283Y|title=The DwarvesShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The charismatic dwarf, Tungdil, abandoned at birth, and brought Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the land of ''long-uns'' (humans)fight against Communism, was raised and apprenticed to nor is he particularly interested in a maguscareer in the military. He finds that his peaceful life If he's honest - which Clyde usually is about to change dramatically. Plucked from obscurity and anonymity, with himself at least - he is sent on a quest to find his fellow dwarveshasn't got many choices and this one, delivering messages en route: naturallyat least, adventure will follow gets him, out of the rut he's in. He's good in training and perhaps he is even the long lost heir to the dwarvesquickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He' throne - time will tell!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316049441</amazonuk>s chuffed with himself.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher MooreJennifer Saint|title=You SuckElektra
|rating=4
|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=You know that old adage about books and covers? Well this is a case in point. The title isn't great, but Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the cover design for story of three women who live in the paperback imprint isheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, like, duh!Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the pits. It is so uncool…so unrep-resent-ative story of the book. This is not a cocktail thing. Not even a "Bloody Mary" thingTrojan War. Well, except for the tiny bit Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that is, but you'll discover that in due course.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498092</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K E Mills|title=Witches Incorporated (Rogue Agent)|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=''Witches Incorporated'' is often the second book in K.E. Mills' rogue agent series, which are about silent women have the exploits of wizard Gerald Dunwoody most compelling stories and his friends. In this book, Gerald has a new job as a secret agent for the Ottosland government. He's on a deadly mission to hunt down a saboteur, determined to make amends for his past. Meanwhile, his friends have set up an agency (Witches Incorporated) and are themselves heading for danger when they accidentally cross paths with Gerald's saboteurmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497282</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tad WilliamsDean Koontz|title=The Dragonbone ChairQuicksilver|rating=32.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=To Simon, an orphaned servant at Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the Hayholtchance to get to be a mercurial character yet, home of an aged kingfor he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, it seems that his life will forever be dull and mundanenow is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. The KingBut when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind's youthful glory days were long ago and Simon', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, who dreams call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of adventurehim that he go to a derelict diner, sees his peaceful but quiet life as find a gold coin worth a tragedy. When fortune, cash the old King dies value of it out of his son Elias is crowned, but begins to act strangely. Strange weather strikes the realm, terrifying beasts are attacking from the North, bank and prepare for going on the King, far from helping his people from these problems, is adding his own heavy taxeslam. Simon And all this is caught just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up on a journey that is as full of danger and intrigue as suggest he ever dreamed 's ofinterest to them. Helped to escape, but he finds it less than he hoped for. An ancient enemy his flight is stirringinterrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the High King Elias discovery that he is aiding this enemy and it seems the only hope for the kingdom lies not unique in the knowledge having some kind of the mysterious League of the Scroll burgeoning power – and the finding of three ancient swords of powera whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498394</amazonuk>1542019885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin J AndersonTasha Suri|title=The Edge of the World|rating=4|genre=Fantasy |summary=Kevin J. Anderson is perhaps better known for his Science Fiction books, such as continuations to the ''Dune'' Saga and numerous ''X-Files'' and ''Star Trek'' books. Having only ever read his ''X-Files'' books, I was unsure how I would like a fantasy book by someone who was so ingrained in my mind as a Science Fiction author. I needn't have worried, his first foray into the fantasy genre is a good start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496634</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marie Brennan |title=In Ashes LieJasmine Throne
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The 'Furies' of On the title refer to elemental spirits night of earth, air, fireher sacred burning, water Princess Malini defies her brother and metal which bond with humans and grant them magical abilitiesrefuses to step on to the pyre. Welcome She is immediately sent to Alera, where all be imprisoned on the citizens have magical Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powersfrom the mysterious deathless waters. All except fifteen year old farm boy TaviBut now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a native girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the Calderon valley who girl saved her from an attacker and begs for some reason has been unable the girl to create any bonds with an elementalbecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497444</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Holt Genevieve Gornichec|title=May Contain Traces of MagicThe Witch's Heart
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=It's A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a hard life being witch named Angrboda. She hides in a salesman. Chris Popham spends all his time driving between customers trying to sell them things they don't really want to buy – products forest at the edge of JWW retailthe nine worlds, magical goodsremembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Portable parking spacesHer attempts to live in peace, bank holidays on a CDhowever, 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 Book stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of all Human Knowledgemistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the firmtwo start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's most popular producta wolf, DW6, only don't ask what itand another son that's for, because no one knowsa snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841495050</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian Keaney Hannah Whitten|title=The Mendini Canticle (Dr Sigmundus Trilogy)|rating=4|genre=Teens |summary=In this fantasy world, the nasty king is dead, but that does not mean things are going well for the resistance fighters we are interested in - for what they immediately see is their guiding light replace him, and appear to be even worse. Meanwhile, in the country next door, another young hero is wondering how his best friend has disappeared. He encounters a passing mystical, elder man with token white hair, who explains it is down to magic - but they see the rest of the friend's family being taken by For the military.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846160901</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marcus Alexander|title=Who is Charlie Keeper?Wolf|rating=35
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Twelve-year-old Charlie Keeper lives in a slightly peculiar house with slightly peculiar noises and slightly peculiar visitors. Her life isnIn Red't so great; her parents disappeared years before and she lives with her senile grandmother and under the auspices of the wicked s family lawyer, Mr Crow. She really does need to get away. And get away she does. Fleeing one of Mr Crow's particular nastinessesthe first daughter becomes queen, Charlie falls through a gap between worlds and finds herself in Bellania, home of myth and legend, and place of magic. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955891205</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kelley Armstrong|title=The Awakening (Darkest Powers 2)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We left poor Chloe Saunders just as she'd been taken captive by the rather sinister Edison Groupsecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. SheTo Red'd only just escaped their clutchess misfortune, too. And that was after she'd only just discovered that she's not a disturbed teenager, but an immensely powerful necromancer, capable of summoning ghosts and raising is the deadsecond daughter. She's in good company; fellow captives Rae (half-demon) and Tori (witch) also have supernatural powers. Still free are Derek (werewolf) and Simon (sorcerer). |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497118</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jaine Fenn|title=Consorts of Heaven|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Fantasy and science fiction are genres that mesh well together. Some authors have written successfully across both genres, Sent alone into the woods with nothing but not usually in the same story. Jaine Fenn has managed to combine both in one book and it's an interesting read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575083239</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Margo Lanagan|title=Tender Morsels|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Liga's upbringing has not been a happy one. Her mother died young. Her father has sexually abused her and forced herbal concoctions cape on her in order back, Red knows what to abort expect: within the resulting pregancies - except woods is a wolf, and he is the last onewho will decide the fate of their kingdom. After his death, If she was gang-raped by village boys and fell pregnant again. In her degradation and despairis not a worthy sacrifice, she resolves the monsters he keeps contained to throw herself the woods will be released, and her baby off a cliffthe fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the moon-babby takes pity upon her and spirits her away woods, expecting nothing more than to an alternate reality in which people are kind and everything is safe. Herebe killed within the hour, she brings up her daughters - finds that the pacific Branza and the fiery Urdda - in peace and harmonylegends are lies. It The wolf is, after all, her heartnot a monster—he's desirea man. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385613237</amazonuk>0356516369
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim ButcherJohn Gwynne|title=Turn Coat (Dresden Files)The Shadow Of The Gods
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Some time agoThe Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, I read set in the ninth book from Jim Butcher's ''Dresden Files'' series. [[White Night (Dresden Case Files) by Jim Butcher|White Night]] was a decent enough bookera of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, but did conform to a couple of when the more obvious clichés Gods have battled and this took the edge off it their bones lie scattered for meall to see. But with This story is the eleventh ultimate in the seriesHigh Fantasy, Butcher seems to have been improving as he goes along and I found ''Turn Coat'' John Gwynne certainly does justice to be far more enjoyable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496979</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steve Augarde|title=Winter Wood (The Various)|rating=5|the genre=Confident Readers|summary=''We are all one. I am the fly upon my own cheek, with mythical creatures, archaic language and in another life I watch myself through his eye''battles galore. PegsThis is a thick book, with an amazing flying horse intricate plot and fascinating characters that speaks are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in colours, gives Winter Wood's schoolgirl heroine, Midge, his parting words in this splendid fantasy adventure which can be enjoyed by confident readers, teens and adults alikeour heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>055254969X</amazonuk>0356514218
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