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|summary=In this afterlife, Heaven is pretty much hands off. Angels whisper sweet nothings into human ears but don't go much further than that. If the living don't act on HeavenThere's advice, the angels simply practise what you might call courageous restrainta part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. HellThis secret magic of my own, on the other handall mine, is much better organisedat last. Set up like I just want to enjoy it for a sizeable corporation, its demons are purveyors of the Formula and relentless targets push the demons into becoming exceedingly effective - and dodgy - salesmenwhile. Drink too much of the Formula and you're in big trouble - sinning all over the place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B007T0BDVE</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Rachel Hartman|title=Seraphina|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Comonot Treaty is approaching its 40th anniversary but Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the state Briar's, a family of play between humans witches who protect the town and dragons is still parlous. The people in Goredd still revile and distrust the dragons who walk among them in human formwider world from the Darklands. For Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the dragons, humans are like cockroaches first non- easily crushed individuallywitch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, but surprisingly resilient when they band togetherher training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. Humans are impulsiveWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, emotional. Dragons are impassiveEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, logical. Itthe town's not an easy fit leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the fragile peace is dead, putting her at risk after the murder heart of a Goreddi princemaelstrom of chaos. Dragons are suspected of Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the crimeBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857531565</amazonuk>1803364548

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=N K JemisinRachel Greenlaw|title=The Killing Moon: Dreamblood: Book 1 |rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Ehiru is a Gatherer. He visits those who are dying to help them pass away peacefully. He sends their souls to a safe place for eternity, while taking their dreamblood to heal others. Most people in his city, Gujaareh, are happy with this. Then he Gathers a foreigner who's unwilling, Compass and claims that the order of priests he belongs to are corrupt... could this barbarian be correct?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500764</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeri Smith-Ready|title=ShineBlade|rating=43.5

|summary=Age gap relationships - who'd risk them? Zach is only a brief moment older than Aura, but in that instant 'I can hear the world changed, as Aura and anyone younger can see and speak to ghosts - while Zach might as well be poison to them. Over two books Aura has accepted being with Zach and not her dead rock-star boyfriend, who has finally, permanently, moved on. [[Shift by Jeri Smith-Ready|Last time]] they even found out a lot about how and why song of the Shift, as that moment is called, happenedsea. Now we're to consider the present and The call of the future - what it would mean for Zach and Aura to really get togetherdeep, and what the Powers That Be (whoever they are) are expecting of them, together and apartanswering beat in my heart. It's the last in the trilogy, so a lot of secrets will be revealed, a lot of threat will be faced - and it'll be emotional.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857074113</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Daniel Abraham|title=The King's Blood: Book Two of The Dagger Rosevear, a remote and the Coin|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=After unexpectedly managing to expose a conspiracy to murder Prince Asterpartially forgotten island, Geder Palliako has become survives on luring ships into the prince’s Protector rocks and plundering the hero of Anteawrecks. Dawson Kalliam Mira, like her mother before her, is working with him as one of the seven who swim out to survey the Anteans pursue ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the roots of Council Watch lays a trap to end the plotwrecking, with they capture the possibility of war breaking outisland's leader and Mira's father. ElsewhereDesperate to save him from death, Cithrin Bel Sarcour Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is frustrated by secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a new notary stopping family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from running her bank as she wants the watched streets of foreign islands tothe heart of the smuggler's territory, while Marcus Wester tries Mira must be determined to protect stop at nothing to save the future of herhome and the ones she holds most dear. As if that wasn’t enough to keep things going, Master Kit has a goddess to kill…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498890</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carolyn Jess-CookeT Kingfisher|title=The Boy Who Could See DemonsThornhedge

|summary=Alex can see demons. He's been able 'You had a right to ever since his dad left when he was five years old. Some demons are hideous, some are frightening, and some just lurk in corners doing not much at allretake your place. One is called Ruen, and he's Alex's best friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749953136</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Cathy Farr|title=Moon Chase|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=When Wil dreams, itT Kingfisher's as if he latest novella is inhabiting someone - or something - else's body. And when he wakes one morning after dreaming a lovely reimagining of a terrible crime fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is a desperate Fellhoundprincess trapped in a tower, he knows the dog that he can hear howling sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is that very Fellhoundnot her story. Following Farrow to try to rescue her injured masterInstead, Wil our protagonist is captured by the SaraniansToadling, who believe he is the one to have tried to murder young Seth Tanner. His sentence is harsh was stolen away by fairies when she was a new- track born baby and kill secreted away to the Wraithe wolves in the Moon Chase and return alive and unharmed and go free, die in the attempt, or return injured land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and be hangedcast spells. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907652868</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreview|author=Ian Irvine|title=Vengeance: The Tainted Realm: Book 1|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Tali is a slave born of slaves, forced to live and work underground by the brutal Cythonians whoCast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in turn, have also been forced into which her art can find a subterranean lifestylehome and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. The land above them is HightspallBut as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, rightly theirs but taken over generations ago. Hightspall's occupiers are led by a group the self-proclaimed guardians of noble houses, which brings us to Rix, the heir healing magics that through paintings have the power to his alcoholic father, protect the Lord Riciniuscity and its citizens from plagues and curses. They both live under the thumb of his overbearing motherThe all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, Lady Ricinius, but then so do many othersArtemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498289</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Alexander Gordon Smith|title=The Fury|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Brick felt it. Daisy felt it. Cal felt it. All three, unconnected kids, had Set in the same noisynear-distant future, throbbing headache at in a world on the same time - and all aches went at the same timeverge of climate collapse, Britain is in very disappointing circumstancesgreat peril. Brick took his girlfriend The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to his favourite place, an abandoned theme park, and found her response to both it save the day and him to be not rescue what he little remains. What no-one expected. Daisy was that one of the school Juliet, and found Knights of the experience quite traumatic - almost as bad as what she found back at home. Cal was more regularly after Round Table would answer the attention, as the school's best football player, but found everyone's eyes turned to you is one thing, everyone turning against you is anothercall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571276164</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=M L N HanoverAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Unclean Spirits: Black Sun's DaughterDelilah Recovered

|summary=Although the world is moving towards equality in the workplace, We meet Dee at a point when youher life isn're fighting the supernaturalt going as planned but things might, just might, it seems be about to help look up. Out of work, about to be a man. [[Changes: The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher]] features Harry Dresdenlose her flat, professional wizard and general smart ass and the exorcist of [[Thicker Than Water (Felix Castor) by Mike Carey]] Dee is also maleup for an accountant's job. Admittedly, Lynda La PlanteBut it's DCI Jane Tennison not to be. Dee is a great female lead, attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but shenot unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's more on the everyday end just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of investigation. But now, M L N Hanover brings us Jayné Heller, who proves things that fighting demons are not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the like isn't just a man's jobsame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501221</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip ReeveHadeer Elsbai|title=Goblins|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Poor Skarper. He's such a loser. In the violent and bloodthirsty goblin world where fighting and eating and taking other people's loot are all-time-favourite, number-one activities, he has a terrible handicap. He thinks. In fact, he's pretty clever, for a goblin, to the extent that he uses the goblins' bumwipe heaps for . . . reading. Yup, you heard me. Reading. The foolish hatchling works out that the black squiggles on the mouldering heaps Daughters of soft and crinkly stuff left, long ago, by the ancient inhabitants of the tower, are written words, and instead of going out raiding like any sensible goblin, he creeps off to a quiet corner to work out what they mean. Silly, eh?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407115278</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Griffin|title=The Minority CouncilIzdihar|rating=54

|summary=In Matthew SwiftDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar's London, just about anything is possible. As ' explores the Midnight Mayor, protector lives of the city, Matthew has incredible power and resources at his disposal. Not that he really wants them. In fact he'd rather two women who could not have all the hasslebe more different, if he's quite honest. But a new drug is swamping yet find themselves fighting for the streets rights of London women and weavers – those with magical abilities - Fairy Dustin a society pitted against them. This deadly magical drug eventually turns its users into fairiesNehal, who then disintegrate born into the dust that they've been takingupper class, ready wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to be collected learn to control her abilities and sold againthen join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. And this perverse practise is Giorgina on the other hand did not Matthew's only issue. Some teenage vandals have had a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their souls sucked out and social worker Nabeela wants reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the help Daughters of the Midnight Mayor Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to work out exactly how that happenedbe in love with Nico. But the more Matthew digs into both issuesWhat follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, the more he starts to realise that the source from which blossoms a group of the problem may be closer than he initially thoughtadmirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500632</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaHeather Fawcett|title=Fated: An Alex Verus NovelEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=34|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Alex Verus runs a little shop in CamdenEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, London selling magic tricks and bits and pieces. Some of the bits she has travelled extensively, and pieces are a more magical than the magic tricksresearched meticulously, for he is a diviner (someone who sees the future). Indeedto write her life's work, the day that his friend Luna finds a little red artefact, his ability comes in handy. There are some very powerful people looking for that little red 'thing'. Unfortunately they aren't powerful in a nice way and they're a jump or two ahead first encyclopaedia of Alex and Lunafaeries. For the powerful ones actually know what it Whilst she is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500241</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Jennifer Lynn Barnes|title=Every Other Day|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=When Kali sees the Orobouros mark on cheerleader, Bethany, brilliant at her high schoolresearch and speaking to faeries, she doesn't hesitate in tempting the parasitic creature - a Chupacabra - out of Bethany and into her own body. The parasite is a death sentence for humansnot so good with people. Some days, Kali's blood is toxic to paranormal creatures. Some days So when she's blessed with strengthfinds herself far, speed and killer instinctfar North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, and having somehow offended the parasite feeding off her memories wouldn't have stood a chance. But not on this day. On this dayvillage matriarch, Kali she is completely human. And not sure what she has done, nor how to survive the next 17 hours before she changes back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085738970X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Angela Carter|title=Burning Your Boats|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary='Burning your Boats' brings together Carter's early works redeem herself and put her final investigations for her uncollected short stories, alongside book back on the collections 'Fireworks'right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, 'The Bloody Chamber'her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, 'Black Venus' all charm and delight, much to Emily'American Ghosts's frustration. Carter's ability to take the everyday and transform it into the fantastic But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is evident in stories that range from a cautionary tale of a musician in love going on with his instrument to a lost motorist whose journey ends in nightmarish circumstances in the Snow Pavilion.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099592916</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sadie S ForsytheChristopher Golden|title=The Weeping EmpressRoad of Bones

|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Chiyo wakes up with The Kolyma Highway… the sun in her face and 'Road of Bones'… the grass at her backR504. For Stretching for over a momentthousand miles across Siberia, she feels almost as though sheit's one of the world's in heavenmost notorious routes. But For months of the joy in year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the moment is shortpermafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-livedlevel mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. Around her is mayhem I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Uniformed guards are fighting off two rogue warriors intent on freeing Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a band of captiveslesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. Before she knows You can easily find documentaries about itonline, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, Chiyo is fighting alongside a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the warriorsproject to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, showing gain the company of a ferocity local beauty, and fetch up at the meek and mild wife and mother never knew she hadguide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1257814419</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert Jackson BennettAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The TroupeDebt Collection Book 1)|rating=54

|summary=George never knew his father, ''Matt has a man with whom his mother had a brief relationship when the Vaudeville - a travelling theatre company - came to townterrible life. Seriously—it's awful. Sixteen years later and George It is following in so bad that Dan the footsteps he believes to be Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his father's, by playing piano at infernal offer: 10 years of a theatre on the circuit and hoping blissful life in exchange for his father will show upsoul. He doesn't, so George goes in search of him. The first glimpse George has of the man he thinks of as his father is at one of the troupe's shows. He is captivated not just by Silenus, but by the entire company.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500403</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Rachel Aaron|title=The Legend of Eli Monpress|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The important thingPoor Dan! I know, when reading or reviewing booksI know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is to take them on their own termsa terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and, and not when he fails to try and make something of them that they do not claim get even Matt to be. Do not seek laugh-out-loud humour from horror stories (except by accident). Do not expect picture books to discuss sign on the ins and outs of astrophysics. And do not demand great depth from a series of fantasy novels where the herodotted line, he's first action is to steal a king on the grounds so desperate that, to be perfectly honest, no one will actually miss him very muchhe simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500861</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria V SnyderOlivie Blake|title=Touch of Power: Avry of Kazan Book 1The Atlas Six

|summary=The game is up. Despite the risk that she would be betrayed Avry couldn't stop herself from healing a sick childDark, sharp, and after years on the run she is in a cell awaiting execution. Then a band of misfit companions offer her freedomhighly inquisitive, in return for healing their prince. Unfortunately, said prince is the one who spread the idea of the healers' guilt in the first place, and as such he is Avry's sworn enemyThe Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848450656</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James TreadwellDaniel Abraham|title=AdventAge of Ash

|summary=A December Night 1537: We meet Alys under the greatest magus in the world packs everything up and heads down to the harbour. Hemost northerly of Oldgate's booked his passage to England under a new namefour bridges, heading for a new life. But it is she has a stormy night, knife in her hand and when a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the jumble City of rags that follows him, speaks Kithamar is at a point in the voice turning of one he once loved years when the worlds are at their thinnest and demands back what he took from her, he refusesall things are possible. Inside It is the night between the box he carries, wrapped in wool, in funeral of a calfskin pouch warded with every spell he could conjure is a ring apparently made out Prince and the coronation of woodhis successor. 'Inside For a night the ring was all the magic in the worldKithamar is un-ruled.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444728466</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julianna BaggottAnn Sei Lin|title=PureRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=A Hiroshima-like event called ''the Detonations'' Kurara has transformed spent her entire life as a servant on earth. Shortly after the DetonationsMidori, when a massive dining hall floating in the survivors were still hoping for some form sky where soldiers of help the Empire come to arrivedrink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a cloud of leaflets were released Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all bearing across the same message: 'We know you are hereEmpire. He asks her to come with him, our brothers and sistersto leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. We willWell, one daysoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, emerge from because the Dome Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to join you in peaceflee out into the world. For nowShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, we watch from afara sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, benevolently.'and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755385489</amazonuk>1406399590

  {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne RiceB09Q3P283Y|title=The Wolf GiftShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=Reuben is on Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the up, make no mistake about itVietnam War. He will turn from a good journalist to a great journalist - it's just not really that most of his familyinvested in the fight against Communism, his girlfriend and his editor all patronise him with diminutive nicknames based on his boyish good looks. While staying at nor is he particularly interested in a secluded cliff-side mansion career in the Californian forestsmilitary. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, and researching the backwith himself at least -story of it being on the market for the first time in decades, he survives a bloody attackhasn't got many choices and this one, and ends up with the house his. Andat least, gets him out of course, the rut he receives the Gift - 's in. He's good in training and becomes is quickly put onto a werewolfnon commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself. What does this mean for him - and for others, and just what are the secrets remaining in the strange mansion?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701187441</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle LovricJennifer Saint|title=Talina in the TowerElektra|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Nineteenth century Venice can seem a sinister place, full of secrets, misty forgotten islands and magic, both good and 'baddened'. It does, however, have its brighter, warmer side, with cosy, comforting grannies and delicious recipes, and Talina loves it dearly. But then the mangy, rabid Ravageurs arrive, creatures part-way between wolves and hyenas, and claim the city as their ancestral home. Men, women and children are stolen away in the night, as are cats and rats, but the inhabitants refuse to believe the full horror of what is happening, preferring instead to blame a neighbouring town.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444003380</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ali Shaw|title=The Man Who Rained|rating=5

|summary=Do you remember being a child 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who had only just learned how to read? Do you remember live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the very first time you read a fairy story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that no-one had told you before? Can you recapture often the joy of entering a truly magical land silent women have the most compelling stories and (for a time) believing it was real? No? Then I recommend that you read Ali Shaw's second novel 'The Man Who Rained'the most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857890328</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margo LanaganDean Koontz|title=The Brides of Rollrock IslandQuicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=On Rollrock Island, the fishermen find their brides from the sea through the usurial offices of the witch MiskaellaMeet Quinn Quicksilver. TheyHe're selkies; seal women who shed their skins s not had the chance to become human. Their husbands are obsessed by them get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and the men without now is starting a career on a selkie will risk anything needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to become part sudden or unpredictable changes of the enchantmentmood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, even their human wives and children and half their lifetime earnings. Soon there are no human women left on Rollrock call it mind- the adults control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the mainland value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the female selkie babies to the oceanlam. There are And all this is just dads in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and mams suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and little boysa whole lot more besides. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857560336</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreview|author=John R Fultz|title=Seven Princes: Books of the Shaper: Volume 1|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Elhathym gatecrashes a feast at the court of Vod-the-Giant-King demanding the throne, which he asserts was his 3,000 years ago. Vod is a little incredulous and refuses to abdicate. Elhathym then lives up to his job description (evil sorcerer), destroying the entire court... apart from his son, Prince D’zan who manages to escape with his bodyguard, Olthacus the Stone. Prince D’zan wants to fight to regain his kingdom but the only way to counter Elhathym and his armies of the dead is to form alliances with other nations; alliances that create friendships but also bring treachery and betrayal. Behind it all is Iardu the Shaper, a creation god-like figure who plans and plots.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500810</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robin Wasserman|title=The Book of Blood and Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Nora is an unusual heroine. She is sharp, snarky and funny, and her wry tone and contemporary references will resonate with her readers. But she is also uncompromisingly geeky, and she opts to complete her independent study assignment by joining her three friends at the local university in a research project on the Voynich Manuscript by Edward Kelley (This manuscript actually exists, and has taxed the abilities of some of the greatest code-breakers in the world in the last hundred years.). However Professor Hoffpauer does not consider Nora mature enough to work on the manuscript itself, despite the fact that her linguistic ability is far superior to that of the others, and instead he gives her the lesser task of translating the letters of Kelley's step-daughter Elizabeth Weston. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411445</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Curtis JoblingTasha Suri|title=Wereworld: Shadow of the Hawk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=At the start of Shadow of the Hawk, our heroes are in disarray. Drew, having bitten off his hand to escape Vanmorten and the undead, is in captivity, about to be forced to fight as a gladiator. 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>}} {{newreview|author=Darynda Jones|title=First Grave on the Right|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Charley Davidson is a private investigator with a difference - she's the Grim Reaper, ushering souls towards the light. When three lawyers from the same firm are murdered, they ask her to solve the case to allow them to rest in peace. With the help of her uncle, a detective, she sets out to do just that - as long as she can avoid being distracted by the nightly dreams she's having of a sexy entity…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749956046</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael J Sullivan|title=Rise of EmpireJasmine Throne|rating=4.5

|summary=''Rise of Empire'', On the second volume in The Riyria Revelations, starts a year after [[Theft night of Swords by Michael J Sullivan|Theft of Swords]] finished. The Imperialist forces are encamped across the river from Melengarher sacred burning, biding their time before they rout Princess Malini defies her brother and capture Alric’s kingdomrefuses to step on to the pyre. However, it’s ok as Princess Arista has a plan. She will send Hadrian Blackwater and Royce Melborn is immediately sent to enlist be imprisoned on the help Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the nationalistsmysterious deathless waters. Oh, and Arista wants to go too... and Hadrian But now the temple is getting fed up with nothing more than an adventurer’s life and wants to retireovergrown, decaying ruin... and Gwen, Royce’s girlfriendOne day, has had Malini witnesses a premonition of death surrounding the enterprise..girl kill someone with magic. so what could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501078</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gillian Philip|title=Frost Child|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fans Instead of Gillian Philip's Firebrand novels will be thrilled to get their hands on this stunning prequel, set when Seth's mother Lilith met his father, the Sithe captain Griogair, for the first time. Starting with Griogair rescuing the youngster from the Lammyr, who have kept reporting her captive for yearssuch a gruesome crime, it follows Lilith trying to settle into Malini claims that the way of life of the Sithe as Griogair keeps girl saved her from an uneasy eye on her... attacker and those of us who've read [[Firebrand (Rebel Angels) by Gillian Philip|Firebrand]] and [[Rebel Angels: Bloodstone by Gillian Philip|Bloodstone]] realise that he's right begs for the girl to be worried. When a young Sithe boy starts to bully Lilith, he's clearly taking a massive risk..become her own personal maidservant. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B006NXYEBE</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael J SullivanGenevieve Gornichec|title=Theft of SwordsThe Witch's Heart

|summary=The central characters, Royce Melborn A modern and Hadrian Blackwater are approachable reimagining of the Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid of fantasyNorse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. Royce is She hides in a dour thief and Hadrian an agile, soft-hearted mercenaryforest at the edge of the nine worlds, both remembering nothing of whom can be hired if her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the price is right or if their curiosity is piqued sufficientlystake three times because of Odin's wrath. Both books Her attempts to live in this volume begin 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 same simple intention – stake—and refuses to steal a sword from a towerleave her alone. Different swords After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and different towers but they both go horribly wrong. Now this is where it gets difficult. I don’t want to give away spoilers so there won’t be much in the way two start an unusual family made of plot explanation in this review. Let’s just say up a half-dead daughter, a son that they’re framed for 's a royal murder wolf, and become more deeply embroiled in the far reaching consequences as the volume goes on, collecting companions en routeanother son that's a snake. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650106X</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin BarryHannah Whitten|title=City of BohaneFor the Wolf

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=Bohane is a thoroughly lawless town, set in what would appear to be some kind of parallel universe. We are told it is set in 2053, but itIn Red's a town without any technology or modern luxuries. It's a violent place fuelled by alcoholfamily, the first daughter becomes queen, drugs and lust with the second daughter becomes a patois style language that takes a little work to get intosacrifice. Novels with this kind of premise have to be beyond good if they are to interest the annual literary prize judges; this is one such book and ''City of Bohane'' is nominated for this yearTo Red's Costa First Novel prize. It misfortune, she is stunningly good.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090577</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christopher Golden (Editor)|title=Monster's Corner|rating=4.5|genre=Anthologies|summary=''The Monster's Corner'' is a collection of tales that are told from the monster's perspectivesecond daughter. It takes the idea that we are all Sent alone into the heroes of our own story and has a gloriously good time woods with it. Ranging from nothing but the thought-provoking cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the strangewoods is a wolf, to and he is the shocking and gory – they're a great selection of stories from one who will decide the likes fate of [[:Category:Kelley Armstrong|Kelley Armstrong]], [[:Category:Kevin J Anderson|Kevin J. Anderson]], Sarah Pinborough and many otherstheir kingdom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749957859</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jackson Pearce|title=Sweetly|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=This book If she is the second in not a series of fairy tale retellings (worthy sacrifice, the first being [[Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce|Sisters Red]]) which, without being closely connected, share common elements. They both deal with monsters he keeps contained to the paranormalwoods will be released, including and the Fenris, which are about as far from fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the glamorous and sexy werewolves of recent books and films as you can getstories go. They stalk. They kill. They eat. End of story. The two books also look at But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the aftermath of an attackhour, and how it changes she finds that the lives of those who survive. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900595</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joanne Harris|title=Runelight|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Runelight'' continues several years after [[Runemarks by Joanne Harris|Runemarks]] left offlegends are lies. The rescue of the gods has left wolf is not a rift between the Worlds which allows demons and assorted ephemera to escape from Chaos into Malbry and spread towards Worldmonster—he's End, a lawless city now it has no Order to maintain it. With Odin dead and the surviving gods power-stripped and forced to inhabit bodies of Folk, there is little chance of re-establishing Order. And with the End of the Worlds prophesied in just twelve days, the task of rebuilding Asgard and preventing it is Herculeanman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085753081X</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret StohlJohn Gwynne|title=Beautiful ChaosThe Shadow Of The Gods

|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=Those The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of you who've been hooked on this series already will remember where we left off. A choice was made. Everything seems to have been changed. And now, we findthe Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the End shadow of Days is near… Dark characters lurk. Some who we thought (or hoped) were goneRagnarok, when the Gods have returnedbattled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. Other things we’ve not seen before are starting This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to tear the small town of Gatlin apartgenre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. The shorthand way of summing up how terrible things This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are is woven together to note that Mrs Lincoln may be one of the good guys now…create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141335262</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|author=Syd Moore|title=The Drowning Pool|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The book opens with a group of young women out Move on the town, letting their hair down and having fun. Moore describes all of them in a fresh and modern voice which I really liked. It came across as a breath of fresh air. The story, Sarah's story is told by Sarah herself. But it's told from the perspective of looking back after it's all happened so there's lots of why-didn't-I-see-that-coming language. Hindsight, in a word.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847562663</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Laini Taylor|title=Daughter of Smoke and Bone|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Karou's friends think she's normal. They assume, however often she tells them that her bright blue hair grows that colour, that she dyes it. They think her frequent errands are just normal everyday things to earn money. They believe the snake-bodied being she draws in her sketchbook is a figment of her imagination. They're wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144472262X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]