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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Chris Wooding|title=Black Lung Captain: Tales of the Ketty Jay|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Things on board the Ketty Jay have never been as low. Darian Frey and his crew are even having trouble thieving from defenceless orphanages. So when the next token job-they<!-can't-refuse comes along, they fall under it's spell. An explorer has returned with tales of untold riches, courtesy of the most mysterious artefacts and treasures of an unknown civilization. The fact that the remains are those of an aircraft crashed in the most Arctic of rainforests, inhabited by the most evil beastRemove -men monsters, is neither here nor there. The problems start with what they find there, which is worse than anyone could have expected - or indeed years ago, with a mysterious connection between the remains and the more unusual crewmember...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575085177</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mia JamesA G Slatter|title=By MidnightThe Briar Book of the Dead
|rating=5
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|summary=When '' There's a delegation part of diplomat, mage and soldiers enter the mountainous, rural areas me that wants to the east of the country keep this just to investigate - and remove the cause myself for however long I can. This secret magic of - rumours of a host of griffins laying wastemy own, the last thing they expect to meet is one of their own kinall mine, a shy teenager at that, helping the beasts out and magically healing themlast. But then Kes, the young woman in question, never expected I just want to be there herself. She would never have assumed she had any powers, but when enjoy it for a mysterious man enters her village to whisk her away and teach her to tend the battle-wounded fabulous creatures, she finds herself entering an unspeakably strange worldwhile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498734</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sherrilyn KenyonRachel Greenlaw|title=InfinityCompass and Blade|rating=43.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Nick Gautier, scholarship kid teased for his poverty and his mother's job as a stripper, finds life hard enough even before three 'I can hear the song of his friends try to kill him when he stops them from mugging an elderly couple. But when the man who rescues him turns out to mix in seriously weird circles, things get really bizarresea. If anything, really bizarre is a massive understatement. Nick goes on to meet demons, zombies, shape changers, and a host The call of other mysterious beingsthe deep, many of whom he already knew in human form as his schoolmates. He ends up on the frontline of a battle against zombies who are running riot answering beat in his home of New Orleansmy heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190741021X</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chloe NeillT Kingfisher|title=Firespell: The Dark EliteThornhedge
|rating=5
|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=Lily Parker is sent to boarding school in Chicago when her parents get the opportunity to do some prestigious research work in Germany. She was expecting bitchy classmates, and she gets them – but she wasn’t prepared for her suitemate, Scout, who stays out late at night and reappears covered in bruises, ''You had a school full of secret hiding places, a principal who knows her parents and seems right to have an entirely wrong idea about their work – or a mysterious group of supernatural teens called the Dark Eliteretake your place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575095393</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard DenningNicole Jarvis|title=The Last SealA Portrait in Shadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensHistorical Fiction|summary=In 1380 the warlock Stephen Blake released the demon Dantalion from the Abyss, only for his nemesis Cornelius Silver to banish him straight away. Dantalion has nursed his wounds for nearly 300 years – and in 1666, descendants ''I want all of the original pair clash as heaims Florence to return to the world, and burn down London by starting the Great Fire. While the fire rages around London, and Dantalion’s followers try to break the seals which hold him in the Abyss, four unlikely heroes join forces to stop them from being destroyed – and to save the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956483550</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=China Mieville|title=Kraken|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Meet Billy Harrow, curator of molluscs and other pickled creatures. Imagine if you will Billyknow my name's thoughts on entering the chamber that houses the highlight of his museum's tour - an immense squid, housed in a glass crate - only to find the entire thing - animal and tank - impossibly removed. Imagine, too, the more esoteric kind of policeman and -woman needed to arrive, to tell him that his exhibit was the keystone of a mysterious cult with the end of times on their mind, and that they might just like Billy to infiltrate it and see what was precisely what. Just consider - is Billy, the man who bottled the giant squid, a John the Baptist to this cult, or a Judas?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0333989503</amazonuk>}}
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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=Martin MillarAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Lonely Werewolf GirlDelilah Recovered
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The plot is simple - the werewolf 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 the title is 17 year old Kalixwork, exiled from her family due about to lose her involvement in the head of the clan’s death. Her elder brother has set a price on her headflat, and Dee is pursuing her with all sources he can musterup for an accountant's job. But it's not to be. It sounds horrific? It Dee is indeed, and there are some truly gruesome scenes, as werewolves battle amongst attacked by two men calling themselves, or with witch hunters. She survives the humans who come into their orbitattack but not unscathed. However, these scenes Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do serve a purpose (to remind us perhapswith Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that they are werewolves, and not humans?!), and by ordinary at all return to her and large do not occupy too large a part in the narrative.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749942835</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jaye Wells|title=The Mage in Black (Sabina Kane)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=After betraying the Dominae and siding with a Mage over the Vampires, Sabina Kane finds herself on things will never be the runsame. Leaving behind everything she knows, she travels with Mage, Adam, to meet the other half of her family – her twin sister, Maisie. Though the Mages welcome her with open arms, Sabina, used to the cold, displeasure of her Dominae Grandmother, can't quite accept their open affection, or their conviction that she has a destiny. Her only focus is on revenge, developing her Mage powers so she can defeat her Grandmother.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497576</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia BriggsHadeer Elsbai|title=Silver BorneThe Daughters of Izdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=MercyDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''s life is just not getting any easier. The werewolf she Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives with is looking like going rogue – of two women who could not snapping out of wolf formbe more different, which might have dangerous repercussions – yet find themselves fighting for himself the rights of women and weavers – those around himwith magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Someone within Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the pack she's joined with seems Weaving Academy to learn to be playing psychic warfare on control herabilities and then join the military, and leading her astray but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with errant mental suggestionsNico. Worse still, she's opened Giorgina on the door of other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her (ill-fated) trailer family and found death threats on maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the step before, but not Daughters of Izdihar – a fae assassin looking over things from the middle distancegroup campaigning for women's rights. Could any of this have anything Giorgina also happens to do be in love with Nico. What follows is a mysterious fae book story of fairy lore she's been asked to look after?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>1841497991</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian RuckleyHeather Fawcett|title=Fall Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of ThanesFaeries
|rating=4
|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=The Godless world Emily Wilde is descending into a kind an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of insanityfaeries. All order Whilst she is breaking down brilliant at research and members speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of both Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the True Bloods 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 Black Road are fighting amongst themselvesright track. There is rioting in the streets Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and the armies of both sides have taken delight, much to mindless slaughter rather than organised conquestEmily's frustration. Under Aeglyss' command, the Black Road armies are strengthening and his power But why is increasing as his body weakens. he here? What does he want? His control of the Shadow Chancellor And what exactly is a step towards ending going on with the rule of the Thanes by murdering the greatest among them.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841494410</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kresley ColeChristopher Golden|title=Pleasure Road of a Dark PrinceBones
|rating=3.5
|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Sexy half dressed hunk on cover? CheckThe Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Enticing title? CheckStretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. Sometimes thereFor months of the year it's nothing nicer than curling up with a glass spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of wine (or two!)unremitting, some cheese apocalyptic-level 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 crackers other Siberian minerals, and lovely hunky man – even if 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, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a 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 main character funds he'd invested in a book! the pair's prior TV projects. I've never read Kresley Cole before but I love fantasyThey pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, especially with gain the company of a romantic element local beauty, and so I was looking forward fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to trying a new author.go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849830363</amazonuk>1803361476
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate GriffinAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Midnight Mayor: A Matthew Swift Novel Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=54
|genre=Fantasy
|summary='A telephone rang. I answered'Matt has a terrible life. After that… …itSeriously—it's complicatedawful. 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.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Glenda LarkeOlivie Blake|title=The Last Stormlord (Stormlord Trilogy) Atlas Six
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The Last Stormlord is a unique story which explores a civilization on the brink of disaster. The world survives through the powers of a Stormmlord who brings water to the parched lands of the Quartern from the distant seas. As the story opens the last Stormlord is weak Dark, sharp, and dying. Choices are being made about who will receive waterhighly inquisitive, who will not and the Quartern hovers on the brink of returning to a time of Random Rain: water that does not fall where or when it is needed. Without ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a new Stormlord the land will dieTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498114</amazonuk>1529095239
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=N K JemisinDaniel Abraham|title=The Hundred-Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy)Age of Ash|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=A month after her motherWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's deathfour bridges, outcast Yeine Darr she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is summoned by her grandfather, king at a point in the turning of years when the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, to come to worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. It is the night between the palace funeral of Sky. There named one a Prince and the coronation of his three heirs, along with her feuding cousins, she quickly realizes that without allies she will surely lose the contest for the thronesuccessor. Thus begins an epic quest to find her mother's murderer, save her own life, and fulfil For a destiny she never knew she hadnight the Kithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498173</amazonuk>0356515427
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=P C CastAnn Sei Lin|title=Divine by Choice (Goddess of Partholon)Rebel Skies|rating=35|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=A few months after Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Formorian warMidori, Shannon Parker is living a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the high lifeEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Hailed as Goddess IncarnateHowever, married to when a man (well, centaur) who was born named Himura arrives to love tell herthat she is a Crafter like him, carrying someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her first childto come with him, to leave the next daughter life of Epona and royally spoiled with amazing jewels and clothesdreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, life really cansoon Kurara won't get much betterhave any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world.She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0778303586</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura PowellB09Q3P283Y|title=The Master of Misrule|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|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 of chance, power and intelligence, based on the tarot. Four teenaged Londoners had been witness to this, then players. But they'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>}} {{newreviewShadebringer|author=James A Owen|title=Shadow Dragons (Imaginarium Geographica) Grayson W Hooper
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Shannon Parker, broke Oklahoma English teacher, likes a good bargain hunt at an auctionClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. But she gets more than her moneyHe's worth when she buys a vase with her likeness painted on it. Somehow transported to not really that invested in the magical world of Partholonfight against Communism, Shannon finds herself nor is he particularly interested in a career in the shoes of Rhiannon, her mirror doublemilitary. Along with RhiannonIf he's station as Goddess Incarnatehonest - which Clyde usually is, Shannon finds herself landed with her doublehimself at least - he hasn's less than enviable reputation t got many choices and a Centaur husband.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303578</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Mayhew|title=Mortlock|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Abyssiniathis one, 1820. Three Englishment search for the Amarantat least, 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 gets him out 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 rut he'd never told her about and destroy the Amarants in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803925</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celine Kiernan|title=The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy)|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=In He''The Poison Throne'' what had been s good in training and is quickly put onto 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 vanishednon commissioned officer training course. Wynter, along with AlberonHe's half brother Razi and his friend Christopher are increasingly at risk as they attempt to deal chuffed with this situationhimself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498211</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Russell KirkpatrickJennifer Saint|title=Beyond the Wall of Time (Broken Man)Elektra
|rating=4
|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=A couple of aspects have summed up Russell Kirkpatrick's Elektra''Broken Man'' trilogy for me so far. There has been a fascinating by Jennifer Saint tells the story with some wonderful character building that has made it highly enjoyable. There have also been some of three women who live in the most detailed maps I have ever seen in a fantasy seriesheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, offering more variation than I've seen and Elektra are all bit players in maps before and actually adding detail to some parts of the story, not merely acting as a guide. I was expecting more of the same from Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the final part, ''Beyond silent women have the Wall of Time'' most compelling stories and very much looking forward to it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496715</amazonuk>}} {{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 Creaturesmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141326085</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jasper FfordeDean Koontz|title=Shades of GreyQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Sometimes with authors you just donMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He't know what yous not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he've been missings lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. Other times you do. Jasper Fforde But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has long been demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on my catch-up listthe lam. Snippets And all this is just in time for two of Thursday Next those typical Men in Black types to turn up and reviews and interviews were enough suggest he's of interest to convince me I had them. Helped to get to know this work. My chance finally came with escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the first discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a completely new series: Shades of Greywhole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340963034</amazonuk>1542019885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pamela FreemanTasha Suri|title=Full Circle (Castings Trilogy)The Jasmine Throne
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Pamela Freeman's ''Castings'' trilogy is written in an unusual way for a fantasy novel. It tells On the story from the characters' points night of viewher sacred burning, in a style more common Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the chick-lit novels of Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Reespyre. This interrupted She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the flow Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the story quite noticeably in ''Blood Ties'', mysterious deathless waters. But now the first of the trilogytemple is nothing more than an overgrown, but didn't seem quite so much of a distraction in the second part, ''Deep Water''decaying ruin. UnfortunatelyOne day, this time around it works against the storyMalini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497037</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Skinner|title=Furnaces Instead of Forge|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In this [[Blue Fire and Ice (The Land) by Alan Skinner|sequel]]reporting her for such a gruesome crime, it's almost as you were, except here Malini claims that the mysterious powers of the blue flame are not being used by some outlander arsonist, but have been usurped by two inept young scientists girl saved her from the Myrmidots, to fuel their industry. We can predict this will prove a bad thing, but the breadth of the journey to capture the flame, an attacker and begs for the efforts of all our returning characters girl to put things right might still be a surprisebecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955726859</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malcolm WalkerGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Stone Crown|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Neither Emlyn nor Maxine feel completely at home in Yeaveburgh - yet they both have roots there. Emlyn's come back to the town in which he was born because his mother and sister, archaeologists, are working on a dig nearby. His father is in a care home, having suffered a nervous breakdown. Maxine returned to the town to live with her grandmother after her mother died of a heroin overdose. Emlyn is quiet and shy, a bit geeky, and lonely. Maxine is lonely too, but she'd never admit it. SheWitch'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 to be. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406321516</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celia Friedman |title=The Wings of Wrath (The Magister Trilogy)Heart
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The first part A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of Celia Friedmanher past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's ''Magister'' trilogy was a wonderfully dark piece of fantasywrath. It contained some beasts you wouldn't be surprised Her attempts to come across live in a horror novel and stretched 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 idea of magic being a draining power stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an interesting place psychologically. The second partinitial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki''Wings of Wrath'' is more s charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a straight fantasy novelhalf-dead daughter, lacking some of the horror elements a son that made the first part such 's a draw for mewolf, but itand another son that's still a very good readsnake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841495336</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Wayne J HarrisHannah Whitten|title=Sins of For the AngelWolf|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Dr Gideon MatthewsIn Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a shouty hellfire and damnation preachersacrifice. To Red's misfortune, has just delivered a sermon all about she is the evils of women being allowed second daughter. Sent alone into the church hierarchy and, woods with nothing but the cape on his way home afterwardsher back, he Red knows what to expect: within the woods is murdered. The following day however he wakes up in hospital or, actually, an angel called Gabriel finds himself inside Dr Matthews' bodya wolf, able to recall Dr Matthews' memories and thoughts and feelings but acting now as himselfhe is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. Gabriel goes If she is not a little bit wildworthy sacrifice, finding himself overwhelmed by the new feelings monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and desires the fabled kings he experiences in this bodykeeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, sinning leftexpecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, 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 she finds that he the legends are lies. The wolf is dreaming about not a demon, someone who is persuading an unknown monk to commit murders in Godmonster—he's name and who seems to be getting closer and closer to Dr Matthews in order to kill him too..a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1438994699</amazonuk>0356516369
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=The Harvard LampoonJohn Gwynne|title=Nightlight: A Parody of Twilight The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Most people will have heard of the worldwide phenomenon that is [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]. The books by Stephenie Meyer and 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).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013330</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Elliott|title=Traitors' Gate (Crossroads)|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 a huge cast of wonderfully drawn characters, but The Shadow Of The Gods is the sheer size and slow pace first installment of the action has meant I didn't enjoy them as much as I may otherwise have done. ''Traitors' Gate''Bloodsworn Saga, set in the third in era of the sequence is different Vikings in only one aspect; the character development is still thereshadow of Ragnarok, when the huge page count Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is still therethe ultimate in High Fantasy, but and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the pacing genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is a lot betterthick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498351</amazonuk>0356514218
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