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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Kresley Cole|title=Pleasure of a Dark Prince|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Sexy half dressed hunk on cover? Check. Enticing title? Check. Sometimes there's nothing nicer than curling up with a glass of wine (or two!), some cheese and crackers and lovely hunky man – even if he is the main character in a book<! I've never read Kresley Cole before but I love fantasy, especially with a romantic element and so I was looking forward to trying a new author.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849830363</amazonuk-- Remove -->}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate GriffinA G Slatter|title=The Midnight Mayor: A Matthew Swift Novel Briar Book of the Dead

|summary='A telephone rang' 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.''

I answeredWithin 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. After that… …itThough 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 complicated.cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town'  Sorcerer Matthew Swift does not especially like dangers leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. In factAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, after Ellie uncovers the events that led rare ability to him destroying communicate with the Tower and his former teacherdead, Robert Bakkerputting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, heEllie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches'd prefer it greatly if danger would leave him legacy, everything they have sacrificed to mind his own businesssurvive, thank you very muchis under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497347</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|author=Glenda Larke|title=The Last Stormlord (Stormlord Trilogy) |rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Last Stormlord is Rosevear, a unique story which explores a civilization remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the brink rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of disaster. The world survives through the powers of a Stormmlord seven who brings water swim out to survey the parched lands of ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Quartern from Council Watch lays a trap to end the distant seas. As the story opens wrecking, they capture the last Stormlord is weak island's leader and dyingMira's father. Choices are being made about who will receive waterDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who will not 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 Quartern hovers on 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 brink heart of returning the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to a time save the future of Random Rain: water that does not fall where or when it is needed. Without a new Stormlord her home and the land will dieones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498114</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=N K JemisinT Kingfisher|title=The Hundred-Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy)Thornhedge

|summary=A month after her mother's death, outcast Yeine Darr is summoned by her grandfather, king of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, 'You had a right to come to the palace of Skyretake your place. There named one of his three heirs, along with her feuding cousins, she quickly realizes that without allies she will surely lose the contest for the throne. Thus begins an epic quest to find her mother's murderer, save her own life, and fulfil a destiny she never knew she had.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498173</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=P C Cast|title=Divine by Choice (Goddess T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of Partholon)|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=A few months after the Formorian wara fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Shannon Parker Thornhedge is living the high lifenot her story. Hailed as Goddess IncarnateInstead, married to a man (wellour protagonist is Toadling, centaur) who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to love the land of fairie where her, carrying childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her first child, the next daughter of Epona and royally spoiled with amazing jewels veins and clothes, life really can't get much bettercast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0778303586</amazonuk>1803364238

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura PowellNicole Jarvis|title=The Master of MisruleA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=TeensHistorical Fiction|summary=In the Arcanum, fortunes could be won and lost. The bizarre otherworld, just the slightest shift away from our own, had been home to a life-altering game ''I want all of chance, power and intelligence, based on the tarot. Four teenaged Londoners had been witness Florence to this, then players. But theyknow my name''d found it wanting, and to level the playing field, had thrown out the rulebook. With that, however, the referee is no more, and the Lord of Misrule is in charge. Free, too, to smother all of Britain with his unique brand of scratch-card lottery. Soon all humanity might be out of luck.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408302373</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=James A Owen|title=Shadow Dragons (Imaginarium Geographica) |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you want to know where TolkeinCast out from Rome, C S Lewis Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and their ilk got their ideas where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition fromthe powerful Accademia, you might consider their jobs. No the self- not their work in Oxbridge universities. In this book, at least, John, Charles and Jack are proclaimed guardians of a very important book, the Imaginarium Geographica, within which lives a lot of secret, vital information, and almost healing magics that through paintings have the soul of power to protect the landcity and its citizens from plagues and curses. They might not get a surname so we know immediately who is whom. They might be from a different world The all- there is certainly enough talk of those in these pagesmale Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. But we'll see To them meet a vanishing Cheshire cat, a certain Spanish knight we might have thought fictional, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and more, en route to a quest of Arthurian proportionstheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847386512</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=P C Cast|title=Divine by Mistake (Goddess Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of Partholon)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Shannon Parkerclimate collapse, broke Oklahoma English teacher, likes a good bargain hunt at an auctionBritain is in great peril. But she gets more than her money's worth when she buys The British Isles desperately needs a vase with her likeness painted on it. Somehow transported hero (or several) to save the magical world day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of Partholon, Shannon finds herself in the shoes Knights of Rhiannon, her mirror double. Along with Rhiannon's station as Goddess Incarnate, Shannon finds herself landed with her double's less than enviable reputation and a Centaur husbandthe Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0778303578</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreview|author=Jon Mayhew|title=Mortlock|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Abyssinia, 1820. Three Englishment search for the Amarant, a mythical flower with the power over life and death, in a strange desert oasis. On finding the flower surrounded by decaying faces, they realize that it is cursed, and take a blood oath never to remove it. London, 1854. 13 year old knife thrower Josie performs with her guardian the Great Cardamom, an especially gifted magician who we quickly learn is Chrimes, the coward of the original three Englishmen. Their relatively peaceful existence is shattered when three macabre Aunts (note the capital letter, never a good sign…) descend on them, and Cardamom instructs Josie, with his dying breath, to find the twin brother he'd never told her about and destroy the Amarant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803925</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celine Kiernan|title=The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy)|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=In ''The Poison Throne'' what had been a benevolent kingdom has become characterised by repression and torture (which the book graphically describes). The magical aspects of the kingdom, its talking cats and ghosts, have been suppressed, while Alberon, the heir to the throne, has vanished. Wynter, along with Alberon's half brother Razi and his friend Christopher are increasingly at risk as they attempt to deal with this situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498211</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Russell KirkpatrickAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Beyond the Wall of Time (Broken Man)Delilah Recovered

|summary=A couple We 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 aspects have summed work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up Russell Kirkpatrickfor an accountant's job. But it''Broken Man'' trilogy for me so fars not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. There Witch hunters? What on earth has been a fascinating story that to do with some wonderful character building that has made it highly enjoyableDee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. There have also been some Slivers of the most detailed maps I have ever seen in a fantasy series, offering more variation than I've seen in maps before and actually adding detail to some parts memory of the story, things that are not merely acting as a guide. I was expecting more of ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the same from the final part, ''Beyond the Wall of Time'' and very much looking forward to it....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496715</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreview|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl|title=Beautiful Creatures|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Teenage boy meets mysterious new stranger in a small town. They fall in love, he finds out she's harbouring a dark secret, the pair of them try to find out if their relationship can work while she tries to keep him safe from her world. This kind of book appears to be released every few weeks since [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] became so successful – but rarely in the past few years has it been done as well as it has in Beautiful Creatures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326085</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jasper FfordeHadeer Elsbai|title=Shades The Daughters of GreyIzdihar|rating=4.5

|summary=Sometimes with authors you just donDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar't know what you've been missingexplores the lives of two 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. Other times you doNehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Jasper Fforde has long been Giorgina on my catch-up list. Snippets of Thursday Next the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and reviews feels great pressure to provide for her family and interviews were enough maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to convince me I had to get to know this workbe in love with Nico.  My chance finally came What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with the first in hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a completely new series: Shades group of Greyadmirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340963034</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pamela FreemanHeather Fawcett|title=Full Circle (Castings Trilogy)Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Pamela Freeman's ''Castings'' trilogy Emily Wilde is written in an unusual way for a fantasy novel. It tells the story from the charactersexpert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life' points of views work, in a style more common to the chick-lit novels very first encyclopaedia of Josie Lloyd faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and Emlyn Reesspeaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. This interrupted So when she finds herself far, far North in the flow small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the story quite noticeably in ''Blood Ties''village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the first of the trilogyright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, but didn't seem quite so much of a distraction in the second part, ''Deep Water'to Emily's frustration. Unfortunately, this time But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around it works against the story.Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497037</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan SkinnerChristopher Golden|title=Furnaces Road of ForgeBones

|genre=TeensHorror|summary=In this [[Blue Fire and Ice (The Land) by Alan Skinner|sequel]]Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's almost as you were, except here the mysterious powers one 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 industryworld's most notorious routes. We can predict this will prove For months of the year it's a bad thing, but the breadth spread of sheet ice suspended above the journey to capture the flamepermafrost surrounding it, and the efforts while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of all our returning characters to put things right might still be a surprise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955726859</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Malcolm Walker|title=The Stone Crown|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Neither Emlyn nor Maxine feel completely at home in Yeaveburgh unremitting, apocalyptic- yet they both have roots therelevel mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. Emlyn I don's come back to the town in which he was born t think google streetview updates it very often. Built because his mother Stalin wanted so much uranium and sisterother Siberian minerals, archaeologistsand because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, are working on it legendarily cost a dig nearbylife every metre it covers. His father You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is in a care homefilm-maker, having suffered doing a nervous breakdown. Maxine returned recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the town project to live with her grandmother after her mother died fruition to claw back some of a heroin overdosethe funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. Emlyn is quiet and shy They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a bit geekylocal beauty, and lonely. Maxine is lonely too, but shefetch up at the guide'd never admit its childhood village. She And that's too spiky and defensive. They both feel like outsiders, and yet they both have a nagging sense that they are where they were meant things start to be. go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406321516</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celia Friedman Andrew Givler|title=The Wings of Wrath Soul Fraud (The Magister TrilogyDebt Collection Book 1)

|summary=The first part of Celia Friedman's ''Magister'' trilogy was Matt has a wonderfully dark piece of fantasyterrible life. It contained some beasts you wouldnSeriously—it't be surprised to come across in a horror novel and stretched the idea of magic being a draining power to an interesting place psychologicallys awful. The second part, ''Wings of Wrath'' It is more of a straight fantasy novel, lacking some of the horror elements so bad that made Dan the first part such Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a draw blissful life in exchange for me, but it's still a very good read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495336</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Wayne J Harris|title=Sins of the Angel|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Dr Gideon Matthews, a shouty hellfire and damnation preacher, has just delivered a sermon all about the evils of women being allowed into the church hierarchy and, on his way home afterwards, he is murderedsoul. The following day however he wakes up in hospital or, actually, an angel called Gabriel finds himself inside Dr Matthews' body, able to recall Dr Matthews' memories and thoughts and feelings but acting now as himself. Gabriel goes a little bit wild, finding himself overwhelmed by the new feelings and desires he experiences in this body, sinning left, right and centre and causing scandal at his every move. He is also wondering for what purpose he has been brought into this body and finds that he is dreaming about a demon, someone who is persuading an unknown monk to commit murders in God's name and who seems to be getting closer and closer to Dr Matthews in order to kill him too...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1438994699</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=The Harvard Lampoon|title=Nightlight: A Parody of Twilight |rating=3Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons.5|genre=Humour|summary=Most people will have heard of the worldwide phenomenon that But he really is [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]a terrible salesman. The books by Stephenie Meyer He never hits his targets and , when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the film have made a legend of the romance between vampire Edward Mullen (Robert Pattinson plays the movie role) and teenage schoolgirl Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart)dotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849013330</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ElliottOlivie Blake|title=Traitors' Gate (Crossroads)The Atlas Six

|summary=Kate Elliott's ''Crossroads'' series has so far come in largeDark, slightly off-putting chunks. They've been decent readssharp, by and large, with a huge cast of wonderfully drawn charactershighly inquisitive, but the sheer size and slow pace of the action has meant I didn't enjoy them as much as I may otherwise have done. 'The Atlas Six'Traitors' Gate'', the third in the sequence is different in only one aspect; the character development is still there, the huge page count is still there, but the pacing is makes its publishing debut after becoming a lot betterTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498351</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda DownumDaniel Abraham|title=The Drowning CityAge of Ash|rating=34.5

|summary=In a nutshell, youWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate're reading this because you're wondering whether The Drowning City is goods four bridges, bad or mediocre. You've probably glanced at the rating she has a knife in her hand and guessed the latter. I'm afraid it's not quite a meeting that simpleshe dreads. This Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a debut that provokes decidedly mixed feelingspoint in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. I started off convinced that I was going to love this book. The cover art It is effortlessly cool, the premise intriguing, night between the characters laden with potential for greatness funeral of a Prince and the backdrop coronation of his successor. For a night the Kithamar is certainly evocativeun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498149</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannAnn Sei Lin|title=WakeRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Janie is seventeen 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 studying hard for collegemake merry between their conquests. She's also working lots of hours at However, when a local nursing home man named Himura arrives to earn money for college as it's unlikely tell her alcoholic mother that she is going 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 provide much in leave the way life of resources. College dreary servitude that is Janie's only chance at a life better than the one all she's lived so far and so you canhas known. Well, soon Kurara won't blame her for being so single-minded have any say in the pursuit of her goal. Only one thing stands in her way...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385036</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Kate|title=Fallen|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=A 17 year old girl at matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a new school meets monstrous paper spirit known as a mysterious shikigami, and impossibly good-looking boy, who she's immediately drawn is forced toflee out into the world. He seems determined to either ignore her or be outright rude She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to her, until he saves her lifehunt down shikigami, and the two a whole world of them end up drawn together. This isn't Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight'', but it certainly has striking similarities.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385738935</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Beth DurstB09Q3P283Y|title=Ice|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cassie lives on an Arctic research station in Alaska. She loves the ice and the wilderness of her remote home and she'd definitely prefer to spend her time on tracking polar bears and fending off frostbite rather than on mixing with her peers and enjoying college and home comforts back in Fairbanks. However, things aren't all rosy. Cassie's mother died when she was just a baby and she can't help feeling a huge hole in her heart. Her scientist father is remote and unloving and her grandmother left the station after an argument with him when Cassie was still very young. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386571</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewShadebringer|author=Jeanette Winterson|title=The Battle of the Sun|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=London 1601. Elizabeth I is getting on in years. Her capital city is a busy, bustling place. Boats fill the river and people fill the streets. Jack is happy because it's his birthday and his present is his heart's desire: an excitable black puppy named Max, who's a ''licking and a running and a leaping and a jumping and a tummy in the air and a tail wagging and a barking, racing, braking, spinning energy dog of delight''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880042X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kristin Cashore|title=Fire|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Possessed of great beauty, the kind that drives men mad, Fire is used to people trying to kill her. She isn't used to them doing it by accident. When a poacher in the woods outside her home accidentally shoots her, Fire is hard pressed to keep the temperamental Lord Archer from killing him. But as sure as Fire is the man did not mean to cause her harm, she is made unsure by the strange fog that exists in the man's mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905200129</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Gemmell|title=LegendGrayson W Hooper

|summary=Dros DelnochClyde 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 massive fortress with six walls of defence, is career in danger of falling to the Nadirmilitary. With its fallIf he's honest - which Clyde usually is, the Drenai empire is soon to follow. The Nadir havenwith himself at least - he hasn't lost yet got many choices and as a resultthis one, morale among the defenders is low and desertions are rampant. The men long for a heroat least, but gets him out of the legendary Druss has hidden himself away rut he's in the mountains and become a myth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498580</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Terry Brooks |title=A Princess of Landover (Magic Kingdom of Landover)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Mistaya has a lot to deal with He's good in this book. But then so do her parents, Ben (human) training and Willow (half Dryad), as for much of the time they do not know where she is: your basic parental nightmare if you have quickly put onto a fifteen year old daughter whether you are the ruler of a magical kingdom or notnon commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495808</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongJennifer Saint|title=FrostbittenElektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=It's back to Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the werewolves story of three women who live in this latest volume in Armstrong's immensely popular Women the heavily male dominated world of the Otherworld seriesAncient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and I must say I'm relieved because the werewolves are my favourites. Time's moved on a little since we were with them last. Elena and Clay Elektra are now utterly settled all bit players in their wolfish marriage and their twins are three years oldthe story of the Trojan War. Elena has just found out Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that Jeremy is looking to retire and also to make her often the silent women have the new pack Alpha. Ambitious most compelling stories 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 memoriesmost extreme furies. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497762</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mike CareyDean Koontz|title=The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor)Quicksilver|rating=32.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Felix Castor is a talented exorcist living in London, with zombies, ghosts and succubi for friends, and Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the odd human. His best friend, Rafi, has been taken over by chance to get to be a demon called Asmodeusmercurial character yet, for which Felix feels slightly responsible. As such, he needs to get Rafi back to normal 's lived in a nun- the problem is that Asmodeus has other ideas run orphanage since he was a three- basically to kill everyone who has anything to do with Rafi. Felix himself day old foundling, and now is probably starting a career on the list, but before a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he worries about himselfIS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', he needs to do for something about his closest friends – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind- namely Pencontrol, his landlady, Julietcall it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a succubus (gold coin worth a demonic female spirit) and Suefortune, Juliet's lover. At cash the same time, there are horrible things value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just in a central London gym, time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and Castor must do something about it before people start suggest he's of interest to diethem. Can Helped to escape, he solve all finds his problems flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without losing any being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of his loved ones? burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496553</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jesse BullingtonTasha Suri|title=The Sad Tale of the Brothers GrossbartJasmine Throne

|summary=When Hegel and Manfried are ticked off, you know about it. Returning to a town for vengeance - someone didn't like their scrumping there as children - they leave several deadOn the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and several more corpses behind when a posse is sent off refuses to seek its own justice. They're journeying south, graverobbing their way through mediaeval Europe, and they don't care how many people they have to kill, betray, get vengeance step 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 Alchemaster's Apprentice|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Meet Echo the Cratpyre. He She 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 immediately sent to three days' starving penury be imprisoned 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 Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a werewolf is a question community of balances. You have to swing your new-found status as people who got powers from the motherly, calming, but powerful Omega wolf, with his Alpha-male studly statusmysterious deathless waters. 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 But now the snow one minute, and the next told by your father-in-law to go to Seattle, and act as figurehead for a revolution in werewolf life - and stand in the face of a very wicked and powerful European werewolf, vampirestemple is nothing more than an overgrown, and moredecaying ruin.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497959</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Audrey Niffenegger |title=Her Fearful Symmetry|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=When Elspeth Noblin dies of LeukemiaOne day, she leaves behind Malini witnesses a strange bequest that will have dramatic and tragic consequencesgirl kill someone with magic. She leaves her London flat and all the trappings of her life to the 'mirror' twins Instead of reporting 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 such 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 twinsgruesome crime, but when it turns out Malini claims that Elspeth hasn't quite left the apartment after girl saved her death, things get a whole lot messier from an attacker and begs for everyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224085611</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michelle Zink |title=Prophecy of the Sisters|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=This book is almost four hundred pages long, but I read it so quickly that it might as well have only had one hundred pages! Lia Milthorpe and her twin sister Alice have never really been allies, always slightly at odds with one another. When their father dies and they girl to become orphans, the twins discover that they are enemies in truth, on opposing sides of a prophecy that could destroy the world. With the help of her new friends Sonia and Luisa, Lia must find the Keys before Alice does and prevent demons from taking over the worldown personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905654480</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia Briggs Genevieve Gornichec|title=Cry WolfThe Witch's Heart

|summary=It is not easy to move in with A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a werewolfwitch named Angrboda. He is two hundred years old or more, and you've been She hides in a werewolf for three years. He comes with generations forest at the edge of baggagethe nine worlds, a father who is remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the capo di capi stake three times because of werewolves Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in North Americapeace, however, and a job as his assassin and general fiery dogsbody. You are only just beginning quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to get the stake—and refuses to grips with your new statusleave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, and his temperamentAngrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and how they are expected to mix before you're confirmed as the two start an unusual family made of up a couple. So when it comes to him clearing up half-dead daughter, a mess with regards to son that's a lethalwolf, rogue werewolf nearby - making humans take too much notice - the timing could have been betterand another son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497940</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=K S Turner Hannah Whitten|title=Before For the Gods (Chronicles of Fate and Choice)Wolf

|summary=In Red''Before The Gods'' is presented as an enigmas family, the first daughter becomes queen, wrapped in and the second daughter becomes a puzzle and shrouded in mysterysacrifice. The front To Red's misfortune, she is adorned by a beguiling image created by the authorsecond daughter. A glance at Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back cover serves only , Red knows what to tantalise rather than reveal what might be in storeexpect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. ''This If she is where it all began. Everything. Lovenot a worthy sacrifice, hatethe monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, goodand the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, evilexpecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, us and themshe finds that the legends are lies. This The wolf is before they were godsnot a monster—he's a man.''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956224202</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barb and J C Hendee |title=Child of a Dead God|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Margiere, half-human, half-vampire, is being drawn south by dreams of an icebound castle. Her quest to discover a mysterious ancient artefact borders on obsession – a dangerous one that threatens the lives of her travelling companions. But little sage, Wynn, will follow her, seeking knowledge for her guild on the long forgotten history of their world, as will Chap and Elven warrior Sgäille, who swore an oath of guardianship to Margiere and Leesil.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497312</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Markus Heitz John Gwynne|title=The Dwarves|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Shadow Of The charismatic dwarf, Tungdil, abandoned at birth, and brought up in the land of ''long-uns'' (humans), was raised and apprenticed to a magus. He finds that his peaceful life is about to change dramatically. Plucked from obscurity and anonymity, he is sent on a quest to find his fellow dwarves, delivering messages en route: naturally, adventure will follow him, and perhaps he is even the long lost heir to the dwarves' throne - time will tell!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316049441</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christopher Moore|title=You SuckGods|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=You know that old adage about books and covers? Well this is a case in point. The title isn't great, but the cover design for the paperback imprint is, like, duh!, the pits. It is so uncool…so unrep-resent-ative of the book. This is not a cocktail thing. Not even a "Bloody Mary" thing.  Well, except for the tiny bit 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=35

|summary=''Witches Incorporated'' The Shadow Of The Gods is the second book first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in K.E. Mills' rogue agent seriesthe shadow of Ragnarok, which are about when the exploits of wizard Gerald Dunwoody Gods have battled and his friendstheir bones lie scattered for all to see. In this bookThis story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, Gerald has a new job as a secret agent for and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the Ottosland governmentgenre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. He's on This is a deadly mission to hunt down a saboteurthick book, determined to make amends for his past. Meanwhile, his friends have set up with an agency (Witches Incorporated) intricate plot and fascinating characters that are themselves heading for danger when they accidentally cross paths with Gerald's saboteurwoven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497282</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|author=Tad Williams|title=The Dragonbone Chair|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=To Simon, an orphaned servant at the Hayholt, home of an aged king, it seems that his life will forever be dull and mundane. The King's youthful glory days were long ago and Simon, who dreams of adventure, sees his peaceful but quiet life as a tragedy. When the old King dies his son Elias is crowned, but begins to act strangely. Strange weather strikes the realm, terrifying beasts are attacking from the North, and the King, far from helping his people from these problems, is adding his own heavy taxes. Simon is caught up on a journey that is as full of danger and intrigue as he ever dreamed of, but finds it less than he hoped for. An ancient enemy is stirring, the High King Elias is aiding this enemy and it seems the only hope for the kingdom lies in the knowledge of the mysterious League of the Scroll and the finding of three ancient swords of power.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498394</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kevin J Anderson|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 Lie|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction |summary=It's September 1666 and although the mortals' Civil War is over the war amongst the fae is still raging in London. There's now a greater threat to the Onyx Court and it could destroy everything when a spark starts a fire which for three days spreads through the city devouring everything in its path. Can the mortals and the fae unite to find a way to defeat a foe which neither can better Move on their own?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497185</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jim Butcher |title=Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera) |rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=The 'Furies' of the title refer to elemental spirits of earth, air, fire, water and metal which bond with humans and grant them magical abilities. Welcome to Alera, where all the citizens have magical powers. All except fifteen year old farm boy Tavi, a native of the Calderon valley who for some reason has been unable to create any bonds with an elemental.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497444</amazonuk>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]