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|summary=Widowed under tragic circumstances, Charlotte Markham needs an income and so she'' There's employed by widower Henry Darrow as a governess part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for his sons James and Paula while. Their home 'Everton' may seem  Within a typical Victorian mansion but remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of Blackfield isnthe Briar't your average English small s, a family of witches who protect the town; and the wider world from the Darrow's Nanny Prum Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is found murdered in the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a particularly grisly mannersteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. ItWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's a mystery to cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the local police but Charlottetown's friend Susannah has a clue if only they'd listen 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 dead, putting her. Meanwhile at the Darrow boys' nights are spent dreaming heart of a house in the woods where their mother still livesmaelstrom of chaos. Charlotte decides Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to treat this head on trust and takes them for a walk determine what to show them theredo as the Briar witches's no substance legacy, everything they have sacrificed to it. Howeversurvive, in doing so they discover the nightmare that is The House of Darklingunder threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781164460</amazonuk>1803364548

Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=K J ParkerT Kingfisher|title=SharpsThornhedge|rating=3.5

|summary=Fencing - it's such an exotic, rarefied world with it's own language, that it's no surprise You had a right to remember the director of ''Alien'', ''Blade Runner'' and ''Prometheus'' started his career with a fencing filmretake your place. And it's all over this fantasy, but not in the usual sword-and-sorcery way of old, as a delegation of swordsmen and -women visit Permia from Scheria - two fencing-loving countries that until recently have been at war. But why exactly are they going - separately, and as a group? Who is playing what kind of diplomatic game between the two countries, and is a wielded sword the only danger they'll face?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499269</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Jon Courtenay Grimwood|title=The Outcast Blade|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=After defeating the armies T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that threatened Venice single handedly, the newly knighted Sir Tycho finds himself with status, wealth is well known and the subject of much interest to the Venetian citizenswell beloved. But all Tycho really wants whilst there is Lady Giuliettaa princess trapped in a tower, niece of the city's steward. Giuliettasleeping under an eternal enchantment, grieving Thornhedge is not her dead husbandstory. Instead, our protagonist is desperate Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to escape the backstabbing, poisonous world land of the Venetian court, and isn't in the mood for Tycho's clumsy attempts fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to woo draw magic from herveins and cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498475</amazonuk>1803364238

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaNicole Jarvis|title=Cursed: An Alex Verus NovelA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=A beautiful enchantress steps through the door just as an evil construct beast hurtles through the window. Not an obtuse Chinese saying, but a typical day in the life ''I want all of future-diviner and magic shop owner, Alex Verus. Add Florence to this the benign magical animal that seems to have died mysteriously and unmarked and you begin to realise something's afoot. Itknow my name's the sort 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... yes, the downward spiral has just taken another turn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650025X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Cathy Farr|title=Moon Crossing|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Wil Calloway returns to Saran in the most unwelcome of circumstances. Tally, Lady Elanor's young sisterCast out from Rome, has been abducted by the evil Lord Rexmoore Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an attempt to oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the whereabouts self-proclaimed guardians of the Legacy. Tally doesn't know it, but healing magics that won't save herthrough paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. So Wil The all-male Accademia has come to rejoin his Fellmen friends hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and mount a rescue mission. But guard it's not going to be easyabove all else. Gisella To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and Mortimer aren't talking. Seth is as accident-prone as ever. And Leon change – has no place amongst them and his father are still deeply suspicious about Wil's part in Giles's death during the last Moon Chasetheir society. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781485151</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Jon Grahame|title=Reaper|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=ExSet in the near-cop Jim Reaper gave up distant future, in a world on living after his fourteen-year-old daughter was raped and committed suicide. To make matters worsethe verge of climate collapse, her attacker Britain is let out of jail after serving only three yearsin great peril. Reaper comes up with The British Isles desperately needs a plan hero (or several) to end him, save the day and to end his own miserable life in rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one move. Only of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the world has other plans with himcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905802528</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=H A GoodmanAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Breaking The Devil's Heart: A Logic of Demons NovelDelilah Recovered

|summary=In this afterlife, Heaven is pretty much hands off. Angels whisper sweet nothings into human ears but donWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn't go much further than that. If the living don't act on Heaven's advicegoing as planned but things might, the angels simply practise what you just might call courageous restraint, be about to look up. HellOut of work, on the other handabout to lose her flat, Dee is much better organised. Set up like a sizeable corporation, its demons are purveyors of the Formula and relentless targets push the demons into becoming exceedingly effective - and dodgy - salesmenfor an accountant's job. Drink too much of the Formula and youBut it're in big trouble - sinning all over the place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B007T0BDVE</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rachel Hartman|title=Seraphina|rating=4s not to be.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Comonot Treaty Dee is approaching its 40th anniversary but the state of play between humans and dragons is still parlousattacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. The people in Goredd still revile and distrust She survives the dragons who walk among them in human form. For the dragons, humans are like cockroaches - easily crushed individually, attack but surprisingly resilient when they band togethernot unscathed. Humans are impulsiveWitch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, emotionalliving an ordinary life. Dragons Slivers of memory of things that are impassive, logical. It's not an easy fit ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the fragile peace is at risk after the murder of a Goreddi princesame... Dragons are suspected of the crime. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857531565</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=N K JemisinHadeer Elsbai|title=The Killing Moon: Dreamblood: Book 1 Daughters of Izdihar

|summary=Ehiru 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 Gatherersociety pitted against them. He visits those who are dying Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to help them pass away peacefullycontrol her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. He sends Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their souls to reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a safe place group campaigning for eternity, while taking their dreamblood women's rights. Giorgina also happens to heal others. Most people be in his city, Gujaareh, are happy love with thisNico. Then he Gathers What follows is a foreigner who's unwillingstory of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and claims that the order cruelty, from which blossoms a group of priests he belongs to are corruptadmirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles... could this barbarian be correct?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500764</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeri Smith-ReadyHeather Fawcett|title=ShineEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Age gap relationships - who'd risk them? Zach Emily Wilde is only a brief moment older than Auraan expert academic scholar on faerie lore, but in that instant the world changedand she has travelled extensively, as Aura and anyone younger can see and speak researched meticulously, to ghosts - while Zach might as well be poison to them. Over two books Aura has accepted being with Zach and not write her dead rock-star boyfriendlife's work, who has finally, permanently, moved onthe very first encyclopaedia of faeries. [[Shift by Jeri Smith-Ready|Last time]] they even found out a lot about how Whilst she is brilliant at research and why the Shiftspeaking to faeries, as that moment she is called, happenednot so good with people. Now we're to consider So when she finds herself far, far North in the present and small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the future - village matriarch, she is not sure what it would mean for Zach and Aura she has done, nor how to really get together, redeem herself and what put her final investigations for her book back on the Powers That Be (whoever they are) are expecting of them, together and apartright track. It's the last in the trilogyEnter Wendell Bambleby, so a lot of secrets will be revealedher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, a lot of threat will be faced - all charm and itdelight, much to Emily'll be emotionals frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857074113</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel AbrahamChristopher Golden|title=The King's Blood: Book Two Road of The Dagger and the CoinBones|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=After unexpectedly managing to expose The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a conspiracy to murder Prince Asterthousand miles across Siberia, Geder Palliako has become it's one of the prince’s Protector and the hero world's most notorious routes. For months of Antea. Dawson Kalliam is working with him as the Anteans pursue the roots year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the plotpermafrost surrounding it, with the possibility while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of war breaking outunremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Elsewhere Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, Cithrin Bel Sarcour is frustrated by and because he wanted to give too many people a new notary stopping her from running her bank as she wants tolesson, while Marcus Wester tries to protect herit legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. As if You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that wasn’t enough to keep things going's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, Master Kit has is a goddess to kill…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498890</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carolyn Jessfilm-Cooke|title=The Boy Who Could See Demons|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Alex can see demons. Hemaker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's been able mostly there to ever since his dad left when encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he was five years old'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. Some demons are hideous They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, some are frighteninggain the company of a local beauty, and some just lurk in corners doing not much fetch up at all. One is called Ruen, and hethe guide's Alexchildhood village. And that's best friend.where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749953136</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy FarrAndrew Givler|title=Moon ChaseSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)

|summary=When Wil dreams, it's as if he is inhabiting someone - or something - else'Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's bodyawful. And when he wakes one morning after dreaming of a terrible crime and a desperate Fellhound, he knows the dog that he can hear howling It is so bad that very Fellhound. Following Farrow to try to rescue her injured master, Wil is captured by Dan the Saranians, who believe he Demon is the one to have tried to murder young Seth Tanner. His sentence is harsh - track and kill the Wraithe wolves in the Moon Chase and return alive and unharmed and go free, die shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in the attempt, or return injured and be hangedexchange for his soul. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907652868</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Ian Irvine|title=Vengeance: The Tainted Realm: Book 1|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Tali is a slave born of slavesPoor Dan! I know, forced to live and work underground by the brutal Cythonians whoI know, in turn, have also been forced into a subterranean lifestylewe shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. The land above them But he really is Hightspall, rightly theirs but taken over generations agoa terrible salesman. Hightspall's occupiers are led by a group of noble housesHe never hits his targets and, which brings us when he fails to Rix, the heir get even Matt to his alcoholic father, sign on the Lord Ricinius. They both live under the thumb of his overbearing motherdotted line, Lady Ricinius, but then he's so do many othersdesperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498289</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander Gordon SmithOlivie Blake|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>}} {{newreview|author=M L N Hanover|title=Unclean Spirits: Black Sun's DaughterAtlas Six

|summary=Although the world is moving towards equality in the workplaceDark, when you're fighting the supernatural, it seems to help to be a man. [[Changes: The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher]] features Harry Dresdensharp, professional wizard and general smart ass and the exorcist of [[Thicker Than Water (Felix Castor) by Mike Carey]] is also male. Admittedlyhighly inquisitive, Lynda La Plante's DCI Jane Tennison is a great female lead, but she's more on the everyday end of investigation. But now, M L N Hanover brings us Jayné Heller, who proves that fighting demons and the like isnThe Atlas Six''t just makes its publishing debut after becoming a man's jobTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501221</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip ReeveDaniel Abraham|title=GoblinsAge of Ash|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Poor Skarper4. 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 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

|summary=In Matthew SwiftWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's London, just about anything is possible. As the Midnight Mayor, protector of the cityfour bridges, Matthew she has incredible power a knife in her hand and resources at his disposal. Not a meeting that he really wants themshe dreads. In fact he'd rather not have all Meanwhile the hassle, if he's quite honest. But City of Kithamar is at a new drug is swamping point in the streets turning of London - Fairy Dust. This deadly magical drug eventually turns its users into fairies, who then disintegrate into years when the dust that they've been taking, ready to be collected worlds are at their thinnest and sold againall things are possible. And this perverse practise It is not Matthew's only issue. Some teenage vandals have had their souls sucked out the night between the funeral of a Prince and social worker Nabeela wants the help coronation of the Midnight Mayor to work out exactly how that happenedhis successor. But For a night 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 thoughtKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500632</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaAnn Sei Lin|title=Fated: An Alex Verus NovelRebel Skies|rating=35|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Alex Verus runs Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a little shop massive dining hall floating in Camden, London selling magic tricks and bits and pieces. Some the sky where soldiers of the bits Empire come to drink and pieces are make merry between their conquests. However, when a more magical than the magic tricks, for he man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a diviner (Crafter like him, someone who sees with the future)power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. IndeedHe asks her to come with him, to leave the day life of dreary servitude that his friend Luna finds a little red artefactis all she has known. Well, his ability comes in handy. There are some very powerful people looking for that little red 'thing'. Unfortunately they arensoon Kurara won't powerful have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a nice way and they're monstrous paper spirit known as a jump or two ahead of Alex shikigami, and Lunashe is forced to flee out into the world. For She joins Himura aboard the powerful ones actually know what it Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is.to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500241</amazonuk>1406399590

  {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Lynn BarnesB09Q3P283Y|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>}} {{newreviewShadebringer|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 EmpressGrayson W Hooper|rating=3.54

|summary=Chiyo wakes Clyde Robbins signs up with for the sun in her face and US Army during the grass at her backVietnam War. For a moment, she feels almost as though sheHe's not really that invested in heaven. But the joy fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the moment military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is short, with himself at least -livedhe hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the rut he's in. Around her He's good in training and is mayhem. Uniformed guards are fighting off two rogue warriors intent on freeing quickly put onto a band of captivesnon commissioned officer training course. Before she knows it, Chiyo is fighting alongside the warriors, showing a ferocity the meek and mild wife and mother never knew she hadHe's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1257814419</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert Jackson BennettJennifer Saint|title=The TroupeElektra|rating=54|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=George never knew his father, a man with whom his mother had a brief relationship when 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the Vaudeville - a travelling theatre company - came to town. Sixteen years later and George is following story of three women who live in the footsteps he believes to be his father'sheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, by playing piano at a theatre on the circuit and hoping his father will show up. He doesn't, so George goes Elektra are all bit players in search the story of himthe Trojan War. The first glimpse George has of Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the man he thinks of as his father is at one of silent women have the troupe's shows. He is captivated not just by Silenus, but by most compelling stories and the entire companymost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500403</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel AaronDean Koontz|title=The Legend of Eli MonpressQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=The important thingMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, when reading or reviewing booksfor he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to take them on their own termssudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', and not to try and make for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of them him that they do not claim he go to be. Do not seek laugh-a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out-loud humour from horror stories (except by accident). Do not expect picture books to discuss of his bank and prepare for going on the ins and outs of astrophysicslam. And do not demand great depth from a series all this is just in time for two of fantasy novels where the herothose typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's first action is of interest to steal a king on the grounds that, them. Helped to be perfectly honestescape, no one will actually miss he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him very muchacting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500861</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria V SnyderTasha Suri|title=Touch of Power: Avry of Kazan Book 1The Jasmine Throne

|summary=The game is up. Despite On the risk that she would be betrayed Avry couldn't stop herself from healing a sick child, and after years on the run she is in a cell awaiting execution. Then a band night of misfit companions offer her freedom, in return for healing their prince. Unfortunately, said prince is the one who spread the idea of the healers' guilt in the first placesacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and as such he is Avry's sworn enemy. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848450656</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James Treadwell|title=Advent|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=A December Night 1537: the greatest magus in the world packs everything up and heads down refuses to step on to the harbourpyre. He's booked his passage She is immediately sent to England under a new name, heading for a new life. But it is a stormy night, and when be imprisoned on the jumble of rags Hirana: an ancient temple that follows him, speaks in the voice was once filled with a community of one he once loved and demands back what he took people who got powers from her, he refusesthe mysterious deathless waters. Inside But now the box he carriestemple is nothing more than an overgrown, wrapped in wooldecaying ruin. One day, in Malini witnesses a calfskin pouch warded girl kill someone with every spell he could conjure is a ring apparently made out of wood. 'Inside the ring was all the magic in the world.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444728466</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Julianna Baggott|title=Pure|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=A Hiroshima-like event called ''the Detonations'' has transformed life on earth. Shortly after the Detonations, when the survivors were still hoping Instead of reporting her for some form of help to arrivesuch a gruesome crime, a cloud of leaflets were released all bearing Malini claims that the same message: 'We know you are here, our brothers girl saved her from an attacker and sisters. We will, one day, emerge from begs for the Dome girl to join you in peace. For now, we watch from afar, benevolentlybecome her own personal maidservant.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755385489</amazonuk>0356515648

  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne RiceGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Wolf GiftWitch's Heart

|summary=Reuben is on A modern and approachable reimagining of the up, make no mistake about itNorse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. He will turn from She hides in a good journalist to a great journalist - it's just that most forest at the edge of his familythe nine worlds, his girlfriend and his editor all patronise him with diminutive nicknames based on his boyish good looks. While staying remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at a secluded cliff-side mansion in the Californian forests, and researching the back-story stake three times because of it being on the market for the first time Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in decadespeace, he survives a bloody attackhowever, and ends 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 house hisstake—and refuses to leave her alone. And, After an initial period of coursemistrust, he receives the Gift - and becomes a werewolf. What does this mean Angrboda begins to fall for him - and for othersLoki's charms, and just what are the secrets remaining in the strange mansion?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701187441</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michelle Lovric|title=Talina in the Tower|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Nineteenth century Venice can seem two start an unusual family made of up a sinister placehalf-dead daughter, full of secretsa son that's a wolf, misty forgotten islands and magic, both good and another son that'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 s a neighbouring townsnake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444003380</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ali ShawHannah Whitten|title=The Man Who RainedFor the Wolf

|genre=Literary FictionFantasy|summary=Do you remember being In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a child who had only just learned how 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 read? Do you remember expect: within the very first time you read woods is a fairy story that no-wolf, and he is the one had told you before? Can you recapture who will decide the joy fate of entering their kingdom. If she is not a truly magical land worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and (for the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a time) believing it was real? No? Then I recommend that you read Ali Shawmonster—he's second novel 'The Man Who Rained'a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857890328</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margo LanaganJohn Gwynne|title=The Brides of Rollrock IslandShadow Of The Gods

|summary=Elhathym gatecrashes a feast at The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the court era of Vod-the-Giant-King demanding Vikings in the throneshadow of Ragnarok, which he asserts was his 3,000 years agowhen the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. Vod This story is a little incredulous the ultimate in High Fantasy, and refuses John Gwynne certainly does justice to abdicate. Elhathym then lives up to his job description (evil sorcerer), destroying the entire court... apart from his songenre, Prince D’zan who manages to escape with his bodyguardmythical creatures, Olthacus the Stonearchaic language and battles galore. Prince D’zan wants to fight to regain his kingdom but the only way to counter Elhathym and his armies of the dead This is to form alliances a thick book, with other nations; alliances an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create friendships but also bring treachery and betrayal. Behind it all is Iardu the Shaper, a creation god-like figure who plans wonderfully realistic and plotsgritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500810</amazonuk>0356514218

{{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 Move 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 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>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]