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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margo LanaganA G Slatter|title=The Brides Briar Book of Rollrock Islandthe Dead
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|summary=Elhathym gatecrashes '' There's a feast at the court part of Vod-the-Giant-King demanding the throne, which he asserts was his 3,000 years ago. Vod is a little incredulous and refuses me that wants to abdicate. Elhathym then lives up keep this just to his job description (evil sorcerer), destroying the entire courtmyself for however long I can... apart from his sonThis secret magic of my own, Prince D’zan who manages to escape with his bodyguardall mine, Olthacus the Stoneat last. Prince D’zan wants to fight to regain his kingdom but the only way to counter Elhathym and his armies of the dead is I just want to form alliances with other nations; alliances that create friendships but also bring treachery and betrayal. Behind enjoy it all is Iardu the Shaper, for a creation god-like figure who plans and plotswhile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500810</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Curtis JoblingRachel Greenlaw|title=Wereworld: Shadow of the HawkCompass and Blade|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=At ''I can hear the start song of Shadow the sea. The call of the Hawk, our heroes are in disarray. Drewdeep, having bitten off his hand to escape Vanmorten and the undead, is answering beat in captivity, about to be forced to fight as a gladiatormy heart. The Staglord Manfred and the Wereshark Vega, two of the three remaining members of the Wolf's Council, are on the run, spiriting Drew's mother to safety. And Hector, the third of the Council... oh, Hector!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141340495</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael J SullivanT Kingfisher|title=Rise of EmpireThornhedge|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=''Rise of Empire'', the second volume in The Riyria Revelations, starts You had a year after [[Theft of Swords by Michael J Sullivan|Theft of Swords]] finished. The Imperialist forces are encamped across the river from Melengar, biding their time before they rout and capture Alric’s kingdom. However, it’s ok as Princess Arista has a plan. She will send Hadrian Blackwater and Royce Melborn right to enlist the help of the nationalistsretake your place. Oh, and Arista wants to go too... and Hadrian is getting fed up with an adventurer’s life and wants to retire... and Gwen, Royce’s girlfriend, has had a premonition of death surrounding the enterprise... so what could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501078</amazonuk>}}''
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|rating=4.5
|genre=AnthologiesHistorical Fiction|summary=''The Monster's Corner'' is a collection of tales that are told from the monster's perspective. It takes the idea that we are I want all the heroes of our own story and has a gloriously good time with it. Ranging from the thought-provoking Florence to the strange, to the shocking and gory – theyknow my name''re a great selection of stories from the likes of [[:Category:Kelley Armstrong|Kelley Armstrong]], [[:Category:Kevin J Anderson|Kevin J. Anderson]], Sarah Pinborough and many others.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749957859</amazonuk>}}
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|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=Syd MooreAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=The Drowning PoolDelilah Recovered
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=KarouWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's friends think shejob. But it's normalnot to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. They assume, however often she tells them Witch hunters? What on earth has that her bright blue hair grows that colourto do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that she dyes it. They think are not ordinary at all return to her frequent errands are just normal everyday and things to earn moneywill never be the same.. They believe the snake-bodied being she draws in her sketchbook is a figment of her imagination. They're wrong.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144472262X</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Erin MorgensternHadeer Elsbai|title=The Night Circus|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Night Circus moves from town to town; appearing with no warning, no announcements. The attractions seem impossible – a carousel with breathing animals, handkerchiefs that turn into birds in front of the watchful eyes of the audience, doors that appear and disappear. In the middle of it all are Celia, the daughter of a famous illusionist, and Marco, the apprentice of a mysterious magician. From a young age the lovers have been destined to compete against each other using their unusual skills to win a prize that neither Daughters of them understands; and an end that will leave only one standing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655523X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kevin J Anderson|title=Terra Incognita: The Key to CreationIzdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=As Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two opposing armies of Tierra and Urabawomen who could not be more different, both yet find themselves fighting for control the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the holy city they each believe belongs Weaving Academy to their religionlearn to control her abilities and then join the military, march towards but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a final battleprivileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, two Arkships – one Tierran, one Uraban – are having their own race to whilst secretly attending meetings of the legendary land Daughters of TerravitaeIzdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Both armies and both Arkships have suffered much Giorgina also happens to be in their timelove with Nico. From run ins What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with powerful witches, mutinies hypocrisy and sabotagecruelty, the Arkships are battered from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their crews weary. The armies have both suffered and delivered atrocities and hate in the decades-long war that has gone on between thempersonal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496618</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongHeather Fawcett|title=Spell BoundEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Wow. Gosh. Can it be true? We're Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on book 12 of Kelley Armstrongfaerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's Women work, the very first encyclopaedia of the Otherworld series alreadyfaeries. It seems like only yesterday that I became acquainted Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with her world people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of werewolvesHrafvsnik, witcheshaving somehow offended the village matriarch, necromancersshe is not sure what she has done, demons nor how to redeem herself and sorcerers, but Wikipedia tells me it was way put her final investigations for her book back in 2001on the right track. Spell Bound opens right after Waking the Witch left off Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, with Savannah Levine struggling much to cope Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with her guilt in the wake of a disturbing murder case. faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498076</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim ButcherChristopher Golden|title=Dresden Files: Ghost Story|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=It's been a while since I've read a Dresden Files novel, so I am fuzzy on the details before I begin 'Ghost Story', the latest instalment Road of the wildly successful urban fantasy series. 'Ghost Story' is an unconventional one, even by Jim Butcher's standards – it begins after the narrator, Harry Dresden, was shot by an unseen sniper in the previous novel [[Changes: The Dresden Files by Harry Butcher|Changes]]. There is no deus ex machina or cliffhanger resolution in the first chapter – Harry really is dead as a doornail. For any fan of the series, this is naturally a conundrum: how do you continue the Dresden Files if Dresden is no longer alive? Jim Butcher gets around this seemingly insurmountable problem by having his brash lead character remain equally as incorrigible and unforgettable as before – it's just that now he's having a bit of trouble with his reliable 'punch first, ask questions later' doctrine, as his fists tend not to make contact with human flesh any more. Yep, Harry's a ghost. Where do you go from here?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497614</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Wong|title=John Dies at the EndBones|rating=3.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it'John Dies at s a spread of sheet ice suspended above the Endpermafrost surrounding it, while its ' begins with friends John 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. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and Dave going because he wanted to give too many people a party and meeting lesson, it legendarily cost a Jamaican drug dealer who provides John with life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a hit bit rich, for one of something called our main characters, Felix 'soy sauceTeig'. ThereafterTeigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John starts to see things that others canPrentiss – who't see. Dave thinks he has had a bad reaction s mostly there to encourage the drug until he accidentally takes a hit and also starts project to fruition to have strange experiences, seeing odd shadow creatures, none claw back some of whom are very friendlythe funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. Even worse They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, people start to die and gain the company of a dog takes on human characteristics. Before longlocal beauty, John and Dave are facing death on a regular basis and are aware fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that they have access 's where things start to dimensions that normal people don't know about.go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857684833</amazonuk>1803361476
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Miles AllenAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Walkers of LegendDebt Collection Book 1)|rating=3.54
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The Empire controls nine-tenths of the globe, but even this doesn't supply enough victims to keep enough blood flowing from the Yan-producing chambers. And so the new Emperor sets about 'Matt has a plan to invade the last remaining free landsterrible life. Advance parties are abducting mages to leave the defenders exposed and vulnerableSeriously—it's awful. This It is nothing new - it's an obvious tactic - but among so bad that Dan the refugees Demon is Chayne, a young man shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of startling power and promise. Chayne's potential is soon discovered by the advancing army's chief mage, Lathashal, and the young Mlendrian finds himself a favoured apprentice. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956832008</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Helen Grant|title=Wish Me Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Rural Germany, blissful life in modern timesexchange for his soul. Steffi and her five friends lark about in a deserted building to summon a witch and get her to kill a local celebrity - who does indeed die. When a repeat attempt gifts a decent amount of cash to Steffi it becomes clear she is alone in having her wishes granted. So what will happen when she wishes for the town hunk - hasn't Steffi heard to be careful what you wish for? But how on earth can things get so bad she feels her story deserves *that* title?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141337702</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Ember and AshOlivie Blake|authortitle=Pamela FreemanThe Atlas Six
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Ember is about to be married. It's not just a romantic day for her personallyDark, it's exciting because her wedding will seal the alliance of the Far South Domain and the Last Domain in the northsharp, making a new kingdom which is a shining example of justice and peace. By fantasy standardshighly inquisitive, this sounds too good to be true. And so, of course, it is. Barely have the words which bind Ember to new husband Osfrid been spoken before he is consumed by flames, murdered by an elemental god her mother once angered. Soon ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after that, nearly every fire in the kingdom is extinguished. Shocked to learn that the world is controlled by elemental powers she knew nothing about, Ember enlists her cousins Ash and Cedar to go with her to Fire Mountain to bring back becoming a piece of the mountain and relight their lost firesTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498270</amazonuk>1529095239
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom HoltDaniel Abraham|title=Life, Liberty and the Pursuit Age of SausagesAsh|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Imagine We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a world where pigs can do quantum mechanics, knife in her hand and where female solicitors turn into chickens. Add a dry cleaner meeting that moves (literally, from she dreads. Meanwhile the roof tiles to City of Kithamar is at a point in the basement) from town to town every forty-eight hours, a couple turning of medieval knights who've fought every day for centuries, years when the worlds are at their thinnest and a magical ring (or pencil sharpener, depending on all things are possible. It is the night between the mood it's in). Stir in a bit funeral of property developing, a thaumaturgical detective Prince and an old man who lives in the coronation of his successor. For a cloud. Result? You haven't even begun to probe night the depths of this crazy, absurd, complex and hilarious bookKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841495077</amazonuk>0356515427
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel AbrahamAnn Sei Lin|title=The Dagger and Coin: The Dragon's PathRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=A hero Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of renownthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, jaded by fighting and ready to leave the city before war breaks outlife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. The only son of a noble houseWell, taking more of an interest soon Kurara won't have any say in books than swords. A court baron who strives to keep his king from being killed the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by traitors. And a young girl, left orphaned, disguised monstrous paper spirit known as a boy in a desperate attempt shikigami, and she is forced to smuggle flee out into the city's fortune to safetyworld. Reading She joins Himura aboard the cast list for thefirst volume Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of Daniel Abraham's new fantasy epic, you'd be forgiven for thinking you'd read very similar works before. You'd also be completely wrong.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498874</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S L GreyB09Q3P283Y|title=The MallShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=3.54
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=I must admit that Clyde Robbins signs up for the front cover is extremely eye-catching and that drop of blood gives a hint as to what US Army during the bookVietnam War. He's all about. There are two central characters and their stories are told not really that invested in the first person in alternating chapters. So first upfight against Communism, nor is Rhoda - and boy does she have attitude. She's babysitting for he particularly interested in a friend and decides to take career in the youngster to a local shopping mallmilitary. Nothing wrong there, you could say except that itIf he's late honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at night (the boy should really be in bed) least - he hasn't got many choices and the shops are starting to shut for the night. Rhoda is a bit of a mess. She takes drugsthis one, although she says she's not reliant on themat least, so when gets him out of the rut he'kids in. He' goes s good in training and does is quickly put onto a disappearing act on her, she's both fuming and scarednon commissioned officer training course. Grey locates her story in Jo'burg and thereHe's an element of threatening violence within its pageschuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857890425</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jesse BullingtonJennifer Saint|title=The Enterprise of DeathElektra|rating=3.54|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=It's Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the 1500s story of three women who live in Europe, and two women are being transported against their will across the continentheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. OneCassandra, an African Moorish beauty is being delivered to the King of Spain as ransom paymentClytemnestra, but she and two servants Elektra are to end up all bit players in the home story of a mighty necromancer insteadthe Trojan War. Elsewhere, a Swiss soldier taking a young witch to those in charge of Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the Spanish Inquisition finds his cargo is even more dangerous than he thoughtmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499129</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia BriggsDean Koontz|title=Mercy Thompson: River MarkedQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=MercyMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, the female car mechanic who is halffor he's lived in a nun-Native American and halfrun orphanage since he was a three-Caucasianday old foundling, and can turn into now is starting a career on a coyoteneedless magazine's staff. 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 bitten demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the bullet value of it out of his bank and married Adam, prepare for going on the Alpha werewolf lam. And all this is just in time for two of the regionthose typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. But not long into their honeymoon at an idyllic riverside camping ground they have Helped to themselvesescape, she he finds something his flight is about to break their peace. Their presence there wasinterrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, shall we say, requested, for a killer the discovery that he is lurking not unique in the river waters, having some kind of burgeoning power – and only they can see to ita whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497975</amazonuk>1542019885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Courtenay GrimwoodTasha Suri|title=The Fallen Blade: Act One of the AssassiniJasmine Throne
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=I'm always in two minds about books On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that echo other works was once filled with a community of literaturepeople who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. I'm all But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for reworking myths and legends – they're so ancient and have been so often retoldsuch a gruesome crime, even before arriving at Malini claims that the accepted 'true' versions, they're fair game – but works of literature written in recent enough history to have been actually ''written'' girl saved her from an attacker and still widely read in their original form? It can go one way or begs for the othergirl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498459</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaye WellsGenevieve Gornichec|title=Sabina Kane: Green-Eyed DemonThe Witch's Heart
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Sabina Kane is on A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a missionwitch named Angrboda. Her evil grandmother Lavinia, Alpha Domina She hides in a forest at the edge of the whole vampire racenine worlds, has kidnapped remembering nothing of her twin sister from beneath Sabinapast life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's nosewrath. Her attempts to live in peace, however, and Sabina isn't about are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to let leave her get away with italone. Not this time. Sabina knows time is short if sheAfter an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's to rescue Maisie alive charms, and put the two start an end to Lavinia once and for allunusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, but before she can storm in and kick ass, she has to find her. And another son that's no easy taska snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497584</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Trent JamiesonHannah Whitten|title=Managing DeathFor the Wolf|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=I reviewed In Red's family, the [[Death Most Definite by Trent Jamieson|first book]] in this series daughter becomes queen, and, even although itthe second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. If she is not a genre I would normally choose worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to readthe woods will be released, I was pleasantly surprisedand the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. Would this second book (which are often difficult But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to pull off with be killed within the hour, she finds that the same degree of success) be as good or as entertaining? Time to find out .legends are lies.The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498602</amazonuk>0356516369
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=K J ParkerJohn Gwynne|title=The HammerShadow Of The Gods|rating=45
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The met'Oc family have three sons. One Shadow Of The Gods is strongthe first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, super-industriousset in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, but too busy when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to do more than patch up their farmsee. The second This story is a vicious thingthe ultimate in High Fantasy, eager and John Gwynne certainly does justice to ride roughshod over people like a western film's worst bandit, even when it belies the met'Oc's noble origins. And the youngestgenre, Gigwith mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is... not employed. Not thought highly of. Not allowed out of their compounda thick book, or to think too much. But he is courageous enough to try with an intricate plot and leave, firm of mind fascinating characters that are woven together to ignore something horrific that happened seven years before, create a wonderfully realistic and gutsy enough to succeed gritty world in escapingwhich our heroes must do battle. Or is he? How far can he ever leave his destiny behind in this backward frontier town?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184149514X</amazonuk>0356514218
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