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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaA G Slatter|title=Taken: An Alex Verus NovelThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Alex Verus, future-diviner and erstwhile Camden magic shop owner has dusted himself off after the rigours '' There's a part of [[Cursed: An Alex Verus Novel by Benedict Jacka|Cursed]] and is good me that wants to keep this just to go once moremyself for however long I can. He continues training Luna as his apprentice but This secret magic of my own, all is not completely wellmine, at last. Alex has been asked I just want to investigate the disappearance of apprentices by Council representative, Talisidenjoy it for a while. Now, Alex's involvement with the Council (and indeed Talisid) hasn't always been good for Alex's health in Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the pastworld, but his commissioning may be lies Silverton; a sign town under the protection of his enhanced reputation and this time therethe Briar's , a note family of self-interest: Luna may be witches who protect the town and the wider world from the next to vanishDarklands. Alex receives a tipThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-off that Fountain's Reach (a stately home with a mysterious past) has something witch to do with it be born into her family for generations andas such since she was young, her training as luck would have ita steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, itEllie's also cousin Audra becomes the venue for Briar Witch, the next apprentice tournament which Luna has enteredtown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. The investigation begins As challenges come her way left, right and hopefully they'll survive centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to see it through trust and determine what to do as the endBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500268</amazonuk>1803364548
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine FisherRachel Greenlaw|title=The Obsidian MirrorCompass and Blade|rating=43.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Jake's father disappeared while working on a secret project with his best friend, 'I can hear the celebrated explorer and recluse Oberon Venn. Jake is sure that Venn is a murderer and sets out to prove it, dragging his teacher, Mr Wharton, into song of the investigationsea. But The call of the truth is perhaps even more frightening: David Wilde isn't deaddeep, he's lost the answering beat in timemy heart. Venn and his sidekick Piers are intent on re-entering the past to find him, using a device called the Chronoptika. But it's dangerous and they aren't the only ones hell bent on using the time machine. There's Sarah, who can turn herself invisible, and who's being pursued by a murderous Replicant and his wolf. And there's the scarred man with his acolyte and his strange weapon. And there are the Shee, who keep their own counsel, but have their own ambitions, and who enchant the forest on Venn's estate... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340970081</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian PhilipT Kingfisher|title=Wolfsbane (Rebel Angels)Thornhedge
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=A young woman, newly married. Discovering her husband is not all he seems. That he has secrets. That she has needs, wants, desires. That she will need to take things into her own hands if she is ever ''You had a right to be satisfied in her new role as wiferetake your place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007163541</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lilith SaintcrowNicole Jarvis|title=The Iron Wyrm AffairA Portrait in Shadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Someone is killing off Mentaths - geniuses, logic machines - in the city of London and it's up to Emma Bannon, sorcerer Prime, to protect their next target Archibald Clare. Emma is powerful and resourceful, but she has problems 'I want all of her own - such as whether she can trust her Shield, Mikal, who killed the last sorcerer whose service he was in. And while Clare is as keen as she Florence to uncover the conspiracy behind the murders, the illogical world of sorcery and the logical minds of Mentaths donknow my name''t mix well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500926</amazonuk>}}
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{{Frontpage
|author=Thomas D Lee
|title=Perilous Times
|rating=3
|genre= Fantasy
|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stuart SharpAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Court of DreamsDelilah Recovered|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Thomas and Nicola are no longer students. Finals finished, Nicola can start planning life after uni and with Thomas... and then he dumps her. To be fair, Thomas has a great job offer abroad and doesn't think that Nicola would want to go but Nicola's still flaming angry. Adhering to the 'and another thing' school of arguing, Nicola tracks Thomas down. He's already busy dealing with someone but being the assertive modern woman she is, Nicola barges in front of the hit man attempting to kill her now ex-boyfriend so she can give him yet another piece of her mind. In the ensuing tussle (hit man trying to skewer Thomas and Thomas trying to prevent Nicola from becoming an ex-person as well as an ex-girlfriend) the formerly blissful couple fall back into a tree... and then onwards, through the tree towards somewhere that's other worldly in all meanings of the phrase. For they land in the Court of Dreams, which isn't necessarily a good thing. Meanwhile the tumble has separated Nicola and Thomas, the hit man is not only determined but also a local lad so knows his way around and Thomas' mother has neglected to tell him a thing or two about his origins, as he's just about to find out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0982991320</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Boccacino|title=Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Widowed under tragic circumstances, Charlotte Markham needs an income and so she's employed by widower Henry Darrow as a governess for his sons James and Paul. Their home 'Everton' may seem a typical Victorian mansion but the town of Blackfield isn't your average English small town; the Darrow's Nanny Prum is found murdered in a particularly grisly manner. It's a mystery to the local police but Charlotte's friend Susannah has a clue if only they'd listen to her. Meanwhile the Darrow boys' nights are spent dreaming of a house in the woods where their mother still lives. Charlotte decides to treat this head on and takes them for a walk to show them there's no substance to it. However, in doing so they discover the nightmare that is The House of Darkling.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781164460</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K J Parker|title=Sharps|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Fencing - itWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn's such t going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an exotic, rarefied world with itaccountant's own language, that job. But it's no surprise not to remember be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the director of ''Alien'', ''Blade Runner'' and ''Prometheus'' started his career attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with a fencing film. And itDee? She's all over this fantasyjust an ordinary woman, but not in the usual sword-and-sorcery way living an ordinary life. Slivers of old, as a delegation memory of swordsmen and -women visit Permia from Scheria - two fencing-loving countries things that until recently have been are not ordinary at war. But why exactly are they going - separately, all return to her and as a group? Who is playing what kind of diplomatic game between things will never be the two countries, and is a wielded sword the only danger they'll face?same....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499269</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Courtenay GrimwoodHadeer Elsbai|title=The Outcast BladeDaughters of Izdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=After defeating the armies that threatened Venice single handedlyDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the newly knighted Sir Tycho finds himself with statuslives of two women who could not be more different, wealth and yet find themselves fighting for the subject rights of much interest to the Venetian citizenswomen and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. But all Tycho really wants is Lady GiuliettaNehal, niece of born into the city's steward. Giulietta, grieving her dead husbandupper class, is desperate wishes to escape attend the backstabbing, poisonous world of the Venetian court, and isn't in the mood for Tycho's clumsy attempts Weaving Academy to learn to woo control her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498475</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Benedict Jacka|title=Cursed: An Alex Verus Novel|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=A beautiful enchantress steps through the door just as an evil construct beast hurtles through abilities and then join the window. Not an obtuse Chinese sayingmilitary, but a typical day in the life of future-diviner and magic shop owner, Alex Verusinstead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Add to this Giorgina on the benign magical animal that seems to other hand did not have died mysteriously a privileged upbringing like Nehal and unmarked feels great pressure to provide for her family and you begin to realise somethingmaintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's afootrights. It's the sort of day that could only Giorgina also happens to be made worse by the realisation that Alex's curse-soaked friend Luna has fallen in love with someone other than Alex Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and... yescruelty, the downward spiral has just taken another turnfrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650025X</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy FarrHeather Fawcett|title=Moon CrossingEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Wil Calloway returns Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to Saran in write her life's work, the most unwelcome very first encyclopaedia of circumstancesfaeries. Tally Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, Lady Elanor's young sistershe is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, has been abducted by the evil Lord Rexmoore far North in an attempt to find the whereabouts small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the Legacy. Tally doesn't know itvillage matriarch, but that won't save her. So Wil she is not sure what she has come done, nor how to rejoin his Fellmen friends redeem herself and mount a rescue missionput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. But it Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's not going to be easyfrustration. Gisella and Mortimer aren't talking. Seth But why is as accident-prone as ever. he here? What does he want? And Leon and his father are still deeply suspicious about Wil's part in Giles's death during what exactly is going on with the last Moon Chase. faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781485151</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon GrahameChristopher Golden|title=ReaperRoad of Bones|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Ex-cop Jim Reaper gave up on living after his fourteen-The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the yearit's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-old daughter was raped level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and committed suicideother Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. To make matters worse You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, her attacker is let out a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of jail after serving only three yearsthe funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. Reaper comes They pick up with their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a plan to end himlocal beauty, and to end his own miserable life in one move. Only fetch up at the world has other plans with himguide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905802528</amazonuk>1803361476
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=H A GoodmanAndrew Givler|title=Breaking Soul Fraud (The Devil's Heart: A Logic of Demons NovelDebt Collection Book 1)
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|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'Matt has a terrible life. If the living don't act on HeavenSeriously—it's advice, the angels simply practise what you might call courageous restraintawful. Hell, on It is so bad that Dan the other hand, Demon is much better organised. Set up like shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a sizeable corporation, its demons are purveyors of the Formula and relentless targets push the demons into becoming exceedingly effective - and dodgy - salesmenblissful life in exchange for his soul. Drink too much of the Formula and you're in big trouble - sinning all over the place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B007T0BDVE</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=N K JemisinOlivie Blake|title=The Killing Moon: Dreamblood: Book 1 Atlas Six
|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 eternityDark, while taking their dreamblood to heal others. Most people in his citysharp, Gujaarehand highly inquisitive, are happy with this. Then he Gathers ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a foreigner who's unwilling, and claims that the order of priests he belongs to are corrupt..Tik-Tok sensation. could this barbarian be correct?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500764</amazonuk>1529095239
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeri Smith-ReadyDaniel Abraham|title=ShineAge of Ash
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=After unexpectedly managing to expose a conspiracy to murder Prince AsterWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, Geder Palliako she has become a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the prince’s Protector and City of Kithamar is at a point in the hero turning of Anteayears when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. Dawson Kalliam It is working with him as the Anteans pursue night between the roots funeral of a Prince and the plot, with the possibility coronation of war breaking outhis successor. Elsewhere, Cithrin Bel Sarcour For a night the Kithamar is frustrated by a new notary stopping her from running her bank as she wants to, while Marcus Wester tries to protect herun-ruled. As if that wasn’t enough to keep things going, Master Kit has a goddess to kill…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498890</amazonuk>0356515427
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carolyn Jess-CookeAnn Sei Lin|title=The Boy Who Could See DemonsRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Alex can see demonsKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He's been able asks her to come with him, to ever since his dad left when he was five years oldleave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Some demons are hideousWell, some are frighteningsoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and some just lurk in corners doing not much at allshe is forced to flee out into the world. One She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is called Ruento hunt down shikigami, and he's Alex's best friend.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749953136</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy FarrB09Q3P283Y|title=Moon ChaseShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=When Wil dreams, itClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's as if he not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is inhabiting someone - or something - else's body. And when he wakes one morning after dreaming of particularly interested in a terrible crime and a desperate Fellhound, he knows career in the dog that military. If he can hear howling 's honest - which Clyde usually is that very Fellhound. Following Farrow to try to rescue her injured master, Wil is captured by the Saranians, who believe with himself at least - he is the hasn't got many choices and this one to have tried to murder young Seth Tanner. His sentence is harsh - track and kill , at least, gets him out of the Wraithe wolves rut he's in the Moon Chase and return alive and unharmed and go free, die . He's good in the attempt, or return injured training and be hangedis quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907652868</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian IrvineJennifer Saint|title=Vengeance: The Tainted Realm: Book 1Elektra|rating=54|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Tali is a slave born of slaves, forced to live and work underground 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the brutal Cythonians story of three women who, live in turnthe heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, have also been forced into a subterranean lifestyle. The land above them is HightspallClytemnestra, rightly theirs but taken over generations ago. Hightspall's occupiers and Elektra are led by a group all bit players in the story of noble houses, which brings the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us to Rix, that often the heir to his alcoholic father, silent women have the Lord Ricinius. They both live under most compelling stories and the thumb of his overbearing mother, Lady Ricinius, but then so do many othersmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498289</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander Gordon SmithDean Koontz|title=The FuryQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=Brick felt itMeet Quinn Quicksilver. Daisy felt it. Cal felt it. All three, unconnected kids, He's not had the same noisychance to get to be a mercurial character yet, throbbing headache at the same time for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three- day old foundling, and all aches went at the same time, in very disappointing circumstancesnow is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. Brick took his girlfriend But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to his favourite placesudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', an abandoned theme parkfor something – call it unearthly intuition, and found her response to both call it mind-control, call it and a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to be not what he expected. Daisy was a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the school Juliet, value of it out of his bank and found prepare for going on the experience quite traumatic - almost as bad as what she found back at homelam. Cal was more regularly after the attention, as the schoolAnd all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's best football playerof interest to them. Helped to escape, but found everyone's eyes turned to you he finds his flight is one thinginterrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, everyone turning against you the discovery that he is anothernot unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571276164</amazonuk>1542019885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=M L N HanoverTasha Suri|title=Unclean Spirits: Black Sun's DaughterThe Jasmine Throne
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Although On the world is moving towards equality in the workplacenight of her sacred burning, when you're fighting the supernatural, it seems Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to help step on to be a man. [[Changes: The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher]] features Harry Dresden, professional wizard and general smart ass and the exorcist of [[Thicker Than Water (Felix Castor) by Mike Carey]] is also malepyre. Admittedly, Lynda La Plante's DCI Jane Tennison She is a great female lead, but she's more immediately sent to be imprisoned on the everyday end Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of investigationpeople who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. But nowthe temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, M L N Hanover brings us Jayné HellerMalini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, who proves Malini claims that fighting demons the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the like isn't just a man's jobgirl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501221</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip ReeveGenevieve Gornichec|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 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 MatthewWitch'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 NovelHeart|rating=34
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|summary=Alex Verus runs a little shop in Camden, London selling magic tricks and bits A modern and pieces. Some approachable reimagining of the bits and pieces are Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a more magical than forest at the magic tricks, for he is a diviner (someone who sees edge of the future). Indeednine worlds, the day remembering nothing of her past life but that his friend Luna finds a little red artefact, his ability comes in handy. There are some very powerful people looking for fact that little red 'thingshe was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Unfortunately they aren't powerful Her attempts to live 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 cheerleaderpeace, Bethanyhowever, at are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her high school, chest before she doesn't hesitate in tempting was tied to the parasitic creature - a Chupacabra - out of Bethany and into stake—and refuses to leave her own bodyalone. The parasite is a death sentence for humans. Some daysAfter an initial period of mistrust, Kali's blood is toxic Angrboda begins to paranormal creatures. Some days shefall for Loki's blessed with strengthcharms, speed and killer instinctthe two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and the parasite feeding off her memories wouldnanother son that't have stood s 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 backsnake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085738970X</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela CarterHannah Whitten|title=Burning Your BoatsFor the Wolf
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Chiyo wakes up with In Red's family, the sun in her face first daughter becomes queen, and the grass at her backsecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. For a momentTo Red's misfortune, she feels almost as though she's in heavenis the second daughter. But Sent alone into the joy in woods with nothing but the moment is short-lived. Around cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is mayhem. Uniformed guards are fighting off two rogue warriors intent on freeing a band wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of captivestheir kingdom. Before If she knows itis not a worthy sacrifice, Chiyo is fighting alongside the warriorsmonsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, showing a ferocity and the meek and mild wife and mother fabled kings he keeps hostage will never knew be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she hadfinds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1257814419</amazonuk>0356516369
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert Jackson BennettJohn Gwynne|title=The TroupeShadow Of The Gods
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=George never knew his father, a man with whom his mother had a brief relationship when the Vaudeville - a travelling theatre company - came to town. Sixteen years later and George The Shadow Of The Gods is following in the footsteps he believes to be his father's, by playing piano at a theatre on first installment of the circuit and hoping his father will show up. He doesn'tBloodsworn Saga, so George goes set in search of him. The first glimpse George has the era of the man he thinks of as his father is at one Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the troupe's showsGods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. He This story is captivated not just by Silenusthe ultimate in High Fantasy, but by and John Gwynne certainly does justice to 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 thing, when reading or reviewing bookswith mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is to take them on their own termsa thick book, with an intricate plot and not to try and make something of them fascinating characters that they do not claim are woven together to be. Do not seek laugh-out-loud humour from horror stories (except by accident). Do not expect picture books to discuss the ins create a wonderfully realistic and outs of astrophysics. And gritty world in which our heroes must do not demand great depth from a series of fantasy novels where the hero's first action is to steal a king on the grounds that, to be perfectly honest, no one will actually miss him very muchbattle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500861</amazonuk>0356514218
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