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|summary=A beautiful enchantress steps through the door just as an evil construct beast hurtles through the window. Not an obtuse Chinese saying, but '' There's a typical day in the life part of future-diviner and magic shop owner, Alex Verus. Add me that wants to keep this the benign magical animal that seems to have died mysteriously and unmarked and you begin just to realise something's afootmyself for however long I can. It's the sort This secret magic of day that could only be made worse by the realisation that Alex's curse-soaked friend Luna has fallen in love with someone other than Alex and..my own, all mine, at last. yes, the downward spiral has I just taken another turnwant to enjoy it for a while.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650025X</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Cathy Farr|title=Moon Crossing|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Wil Calloway returns to Saran in Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the most unwelcome protection of circumstances. Tally, Lady Elanorthe Briar's young sister, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has been abducted by always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the evil Lord Rexmoore in an attempt first non-witch to find be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the whereabouts of Briar Witch, the Legacy. Tally doesntown't know its leader, but that won't save and Ellie takes her place beside her. So Wil has As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to rejoin his Fellmen friends and mount communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a rescue missionmaelstrom of chaos. But it's not going Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to be easy. Gisella trust and Mortimer arendetermine what to do as the Briar witches't talking. Seth legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is as accident-prone as ever. And Leon and his father are still deeply suspicious about Wil's part in Giles's death during the last Moon Chaseunder threat. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781485151</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|author=Jon Grahame|title=Reaper|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=Ex-cop Jim Reaper gave up Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on living after his fourteen-year-old daughter was raped luring ships into the rocks and committed suicideplundering the wrecks. To make matters worseMira, like her attacker mother before her, is let one of the seven who swim out of jail after serving only three yearsto survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Reaper comes up with But when the Council Watch lays a plan trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save himfrom death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to end his own miserable life guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in one movethe sea. Only With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the world has other plans with himfuture of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905802528</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=H A GoodmanT Kingfisher|title=Breaking The Devil's Heart: A Logic of Demons NovelThornhedge|rating=45

|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 Heaven's advice, the angels simply practise what you might call courageous restraint. Hell, on the other hand, is much better organised. Set up like You had a sizeable corporation, its demons are purveyors of the Formula and relentless targets push the demons into becoming exceedingly effective - and dodgy - salesmenright to retake your place. 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 the state of play between humans and dragons is still parlous. The people in Goredd still revile and distrust the dragons who walk among them in human form. For the dragons, humans are like cockroaches - easily crushed individually, but surprisingly resilient when they band together. Humans are impulsive, emotional. Dragons are impassive, logical. It's not an easy fit and the fragile peace is at risk after the murder of a Goreddi prince. Dragons are suspected of the crime. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857531565</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=N K Jemisin|title=The Killing Moon: Dreamblood: Book 1 |rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Ehiru T Kingfisher's latest novella is a Gathererlovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. He visits those who are dying to help them pass away peacefully. He sends their souls to But whilst there is a princess trapped in a safe place for eternitytower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, while taking their dreamblood to heal othersThornhedge is not her story. Most people in his cityInstead, Gujaarehour protagonist is Toadling, are happy with this. Then he Gathers who was stolen away by fairies when she was a foreigner who's unwilling, new-born baby and claims that secreted away to the order land of priests he belongs fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to are corrupt..draw magic from her veins and cast spells. could this barbarian be correct?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500764</amazonuk>1803364238

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeri Smith-ReadyNicole Jarvis|title=ShineA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=TeensHistorical Fiction|summary=Age gap relationships - who'd risk them? Zach is only a brief moment older than Aura, but in that instant 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 the Shift, as that moment is called, happened. Now we're I want all of Florence to consider the present and the future - what it would mean for Zach and Aura to really get together, and what the Powers That Be (whoever they are) are expecting of them, together and apart. Itknow my name'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 and the Coin|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=After unexpectedly managing to expose Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a conspiracy to murder Prince Aster, Geder Palliako has become the prince’s Protector home and the hero of Anteawhere her future can thrive rather than stagnate. Dawson Kalliam is working with him But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the Anteans pursue powerful Accademia, the roots self-proclaimed guardians of the plot, with healing magics that through paintings have the possibility of war breaking out. Elsewhere, Cithrin Bel Sarcour is frustrated by a new notary stopping her from running her bank as she wants to, while Marcus Wester tries power to protect herthe city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. As if that wasn’t enough to keep things goingTo them, Master Kit Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has a goddess to kill…no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498890</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Carolyn JessSet in the near-Cooke|title=The Boy Who Could See Demons|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Alex can see demons. He's been able to ever since his dad left when he was five years old. Some demons are hideousdistant future, some are frighteningin a world on the verge of climate collapse, and some just lurk Britain is in corners doing not much at allgreat peril. One is called Ruen, The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and he's Alex's best friendrescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749953136</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy FarrAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Moon ChaseDelilah Recovered

|summary=When Wil dreams, itWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn's t going as if he is inhabiting someone - or something - else's bodyplanned but things might, just might, be about to look up. And when he wakes one morning after dreaming Out of a terrible crime and a desperate Fellhoundwork, he knows the dog that he can hear howling is that very Fellhound. Following Farrow to try about to rescue lose her injured masterflat, Wil Dee is captured by the Saranians, who believe he is the one up for an accountant's job. But it's not to have tried to murder young Seth Tannerbe. His sentence Dee is harsh - track and kill attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the Wraithe wolves in the Moon Chase and return alive and unharmed and go freeattack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, die in the attempt, or living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return injured to her and things will never be hangedthe same.... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907652868</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian IrvineHadeer Elsbai|title=Vengeance: The Tainted Realm: Book 1Daughters of Izdihar|rating=54

|summary=Tali is Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a slave society pitted against them. Nehal, born of slavesinto the upper class, forced wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to live control her abilities and work underground by then join the brutal Cythonians whomilitary, in turn, have also been but instead she is forced into a subterranean lifestylean arranged marriage with Nico. The land above them is Hightspall, rightly theirs but taken over generations ago. Hightspall's occupiers are led by Giorgina on the other hand did not have a group of noble houses, which brings us privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to Rixprovide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the heir Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to his alcoholic father, the Lord Riciniusbe in love with Nico. They both live under the thumb What follows is a story of his overbearing motheran unjust society, Lady Riciniusfilled with hypocrisy and cruelty, but then so do many othersfrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498289</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{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 the same noisy, throbbing headache at the same time - and all aches went at the same time, in very disappointing circumstances. Brick took his girlfriend to his favourite place, an abandoned theme park, and found her response to both it and him to be not what he expected. Daisy was the school Juliet, and found the experience quite traumatic - almost as bad as what she found back at home. Cal was more regularly after 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 another.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571276164</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=M L N HanoverHeather Fawcett|title=Unclean Spirits: Black SunEmily Wilde's DaughterEncyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Although the world Emily Wilde is moving towards equality in the workplacean expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, when youto write her life're fighting s work, the supernaturalvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, it seems to help to be a manshe is not so good with people. [[Changes: The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher]] features Harry DresdenSo when she finds herself far, professional wizard and general smart ass and far North in the exorcist small village of [[Thicker Than Water (Felix Castor) by Mike Carey]] is also male. AdmittedlyHrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, Lynda La Plante's DCI Jane Tennison she is a great female leadnot sure what she has done, but she's more nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the everyday end of investigationright track. But nowEnter Wendell Bambleby, M L N Hanover brings us Jayné Hellerher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, who proves that fighting demons all charm and the like isn't just a mandelight, much to Emily's jobfrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501221</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip ReeveChristopher Golden|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 Road 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 Council|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In Matthew Swift's London, just about anything is possible. As the Midnight Mayor, protector of the city, Matthew has incredible power and resources at his disposal. Not that he really wants them. In fact he'd rather not have all the hassle, if he's quite honest. But a new drug is swamping the streets of London - Fairy Dust. This deadly magical drug eventually turns its users into fairies, who then disintegrate into the dust that they've been taking, ready to be collected and sold again. And this perverse practise is not Matthew's only issue. Some teenage vandals have had their souls sucked out and social worker Nabeela wants the help of the Midnight Mayor to work out exactly how that happened. But the more Matthew digs into both issues, the more he starts to realise that the source of the problem may be closer than he initially thought.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500632</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Benedict Jacka|title=Fated: An Alex Verus Novel|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=Alex Verus runs a little shop in Camden, London selling magic tricks and bits and pieces. Some of the bits and pieces are a more magical than the magic tricks, for he is a diviner (someone who sees the future). Indeed, 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 of Alex and Luna. For the powerful ones actually know what it 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, at her high school, 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 humans. Some days, Kali's blood is toxic to paranormal creatures. Some days she's blessed with strength, speed and killer instinct, and the parasite feeding off her memories wouldn't have stood a chance. But not on this day. On this day, Kali is completely human. And she has 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 and her uncollected short stories, alongside the collections 'Fireworks', 'The Bloody Chamber', 'Black Venus' and 'American Ghosts'. Carter's ability to take the everyday and transform it into the fantastic is evident in stories that range from a cautionary tale of a musician in love with his instrument to a lost motorist whose journey ends in nightmarish circumstances in the Snow Pavilion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592916</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sadie S Forsythe|title=The Weeping EmpressBones

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|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 WassermanTasha Suri|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>}} {{newreview|author=Curtis Jobling|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 RightJasmine Throne|rating=4.5

|summary=Charley Davidson On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. She is a private investigator immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a difference - she's community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. But now the Grim Reapertemple is nothing more than an overgrown, ushering souls towards the lightdecaying ruin. When three lawyers from the same firm are murderedOne day, they ask her to solve the case to allow them to rest in peaceMalini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. With the help Instead of reporting her uncle, for such a detectivegruesome crime, she sets out to do just Malini claims that - as long as she can avoid being distracted by the nightly dreams she's having of a sexy entity…girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749956046</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael J SullivanGenevieve Gornichec|title=Rise of Empire|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=''Rise of Empire'', the second volume in The Riyria Revelations, starts 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 to enlist the help of the nationalists. 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>}} {{newreview|author=Gillian Philip|title=Frost Child|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fans of Gillian PhilipWitch'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 her captive for years, it follows Lilith trying to settle into the way of life of the Sithe as Griogair keeps an uneasy eye on her... 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 to be worried. When a young Sithe boy starts to bully Lilith, he's clearly taking a massive risk... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B006NXYEBE</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael J Sullivan|title=Theft of SwordsHeart

|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 townIn Red's family, set in what would appear to be some kind of parallel universe. We are told it is set in 2053the first daughter becomes queen, but it's and the second daughter becomes a town without any technology or modern luxuriessacrifice. ItTo Red's a violent place fuelled by alcoholmisfortune, drugs and lust with a patois style language that takes a little work to get she is the second daughter. Sent alone into. Novels the woods with this kind of premise have nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to be beyond good if they are to interest expect: within the annual literary prize judges; this woods is a wolf, and he is the one such book and ''City who will decide the fate of Bohane'' is nominated for this year's Costa First Novel prizetheir kingdom. It 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'' If she is not a collection of tales that are told from worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the monster's perspective. It takes woods will be released, and the idea that we are all fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the heroes of our own story and has a gloriously good time with itstories go. Ranging from But when Red enters the thought-provoking woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the strangehour, to she finds that the shocking and gory – theylegends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he're s 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 othersman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749957859</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jackson PearceJohn Gwynne|title=Sweetly|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=This book is the second in a series of fairy tale retellings (the first being [[Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce|Sisters Red]]) which, without being closely connected, share common elements. They both deal with the paranormal, including the Fenris, which are about as far from the glamorous and sexy werewolves of recent books and films as you can get. They stalk. They kill. They eat. End of story. The two books also look at the aftermath of an attack, and how it changes 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 off. Shadow Of The rescue of the gods has left a rift between the Worlds which allows demons and assorted ephemera to escape from Chaos into Malbry and spread towards World'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 Herculean.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085753081X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl|title=Beautiful ChaosGods

|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 returned. Other things we’ve not seen before are starting battled and their bones lie scattered for all to tear the small town of Gatlin apartsee. The shorthand way of summing up how terrible things are This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to note that Mrs Lincoln may be one of the good guys now…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141335262</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Syd Moore|title=The Drowning Pool|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The book opens , with a group of young women out on the townmythical creatures, letting their hair down archaic language and having funbattles galore. Moore describes all of them in This is a fresh thick book, with an intricate plot and modern voice which I really liked. It came across as fascinating characters that are woven together to create 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, wonderfully realistic and gritty world in a wordwhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847562663</amazonuk>0356514218

{{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 Move on 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]]