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|summary=For once I don't feel like devoting my first paragraph ' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to a teasing plot summarymyself for however long I can. And while I'm here to judge the book and not the coverThis secret magic of my own, even the British paperback blurb agreesall mine, and gives nothing away in its woollinessat last. I am duty bound to say this is the third book just want to feature Darian Frey and the rest of the crew of his flying craft the ''Ketty Jay''. If pressed I will say enjoy it starts with him indulging in for a further instance of thievery, making a mistake, and then finding just how much is in the science fantasy universe that can possibly get between him and what might repair the damagewhile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620853</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Kate Griffin|title=Stray Souls|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Sharon Li has Within a normal job in remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a London coffee shop but doesntown under the protection of the Briar't feel normals, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. She's beginning to realise Though she's a shamanhas always wished for magic, especially when she Ellie Briar is so at one with the city, she vanishes. In order first non-witch to meet others who'll understand, be born into her family for generations and as such since she starts Magicals Anonymouswas young, her training as a self-help group for steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the mystically confused coming to terms with their gifts. The meetings come with various beveragesBriar Witch, biscuitsthe town's leader, a Facebook page and a very good turnoutEllie takes her place beside her. However all is not herbal tea As challenges come her way left, right and crunchy-creams as someone or something seems centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to be stealing communicate with the spirits that make London's soul and another something walks dead, putting her at the streets tearing people limb from limb. The city is dying and gradually Sharon realises that Magicals Anonymous are more than just heart of a social groupmaelstrom of chaos. As odd as it sounds Reeling from one family secret to look at themanother, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Midnight Mayor wants them Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to save the capitalsurvive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500640</amazonuk>1803364548

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly BlackRachel Greenlaw|title=Red Glove (Curse Workers 2)Compass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Cassel lives in a world where magic is frowned upon. Practice is banned and everyone wears gloves to prevent being worked. Cassel himself is a transformation worker - ''I can hear the rarest type. And he is song of the most powerful transformation worker in living memorysea. This makes him extremely valuable to The call of the crime families who use curses to support and maintain their empires. It also makes him extremely dangerous as far as the authorities are concerned. And that's why Cassel tries to keep his status to himselfdeep, since he discovered it in the [[The White Cat (Curse Workers, Book 1) by Holly Black|first book]] answering beat in this ''Curse Workersmy heart.'' sequence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575096764</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Brent Weeks|title=The Blinding Knife (Lightbringer 2)|rating=4Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Gavin Guile thought he had five years left Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to complete his seven great purposessurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But now it seems he has less than one. He might be when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the Prism - wrecking, they capture the most powerful light drafter 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 Seven Satrapiessea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, capable as her journey takes her from the watched streets of drafting huge amounts foreign islands to the heart of light without risk of losing his mind to the colours - but hesmuggler's lost blue. He can't see it or draft itterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499072</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreview|author=Stefan Bachmann|title=The Peculiar|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=''Don't get yourself noticed and you won't get yourself hanged.'' Such is life for peculiars like Bartholomew Kettle and his sister Hettie. Their mother is human but their - absent - father is a Sidhe, a high fairy. Fairies are contemptuous of the half-breed peculiars and humans distrust and suspect them. Hapless peculiar children are often hanged by humans. And, even more worryingly, bodies of peculiars have been turning up recently, quite dead, covered in ancient faerie script and as empty of bone and organ as they are of life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0062195182</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jay KristoffT Kingfisher|title=StormdancerThornhedge

|summary=Warrior Masaru has raised his daughter, Yukiko, alone since his wife left. Yukiko is now 16; a feat more due latterly to her own strength and resourcefulness than his care. For since his wife's departure, Masaru has gone to pieces, addicted to gambling and the narcotic effects of lotus smoke. The days when he was the legendary Black Fox are behind him which is a shame as the Shogun (not a man known for calm reasoning or lack of ferocity) has a mission for them. Masaru, Yukiko and an entourage must hunt and capture the legendary stormtiger. But they're extinct aren't they? Well, no, they aren't as Yukiko discovers when the hunt goes terribly wrong and she's left alone with just You had a storm tiger for company. She fights right to find a way home, learning as she goes the full extent to which the Shogun has worked against the good of the nation in general and her family in particularretake your place. And the stormtiger? Let's just say he's had his wings clipped and he's not happy about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230759017</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=G Willow Wilson|title=Alif the Unseen|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Alif lives under an alias and he has a good reason for that: heT Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a hakinista in an Arabian oil producing country fairytale that, to put it mildly, doesn't encourage free speech. He sells IT know-how is well known and wizardy to any covert organisation that works against the government, their agenda unimportant as long as the aim is the downfall of their oppressionwell beloved. But all that's about to change as Alif falls whilst there is a princess trapped in love anda tower, as it's the wrong girl at the wrong timesleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is spurned. His response to this romantic let down is to create a computer programme that will identify her internet activity by not her individual typing pattern. Unfortunately what works for him also works against himstory. It's captured by the notoriously dangerous government censor 'The Hand' who also wants Alif and his hidden network of colleagues. Now Alif runs to preserve his life and those who have trusted himInstead, his only possession an ancient manuscript from his former love. Just a bookour protagonist is Toadling, albeit one that's accompanied who was stolen away by myths fairies when she was a new-born baby and old wives' tales rendering it irrelevant a logical world. However, sometimes secreted away to the most desperate land of times requires more than logic fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and, sometimes, a mere book of stories may be more than it seemscast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857895664</amazonuk>1803364238

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

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Alex Verus, future-diviner and erstwhile Camden magic shop owner has dusted himself off after the rigours of [[Cursed: An Alex Verus Novel by Benedict Jacka|Cursed]] and is good to go once more. He continues training Luna as his apprentice but all is not completely well. Alex has been asked to investigate the disappearance of apprentices by Council representative, Talisid. Now, Alex's involvement with the Council (and indeed Talisid) hasn't always been good for Alex's health in the past, but his commissioning may be a sign of his enhanced reputation and this time there's a note I want all of self-interest: Luna may be the next Florence to vanish. Alex receives a tip-off that Fountainknow my name's Reach (a stately home with a mysterious past) has something to do with it and, as luck would have it, it's also the venue for the next apprentice tournament which Luna has entered. The investigation begins and hopefully they'll survive to see it through to the end.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500268</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Catherine Fisher|title=The Obsidian Mirror|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jake's father disappeared while working on a secret project with his best friend, the celebrated explorer and recluse Oberon Venn. Jake is sure that Venn is a murderer and sets Cast out to prove itfrom Rome, dragging his teacher, Mr Wharton, into the investigation. But the truth is perhaps even more frightening: David Wilde isn't dead, he's lost Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in time. Venn and his sidekick Piers are intent on re-entering the past to which her art can find him, using a device called the Chronoptika. But it's dangerous home and they aren't the only ones hell bent on using the time machine. There's Sarah, who where her future can turn herself invisible, and who's being pursued by a murderous Replicant and his wolfthrive rather than stagnate. 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>}} {{newreview|author=Janet Evanovich|title=Wicked Business|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Following on But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from [[Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich|Wicked Appetite]], pastry chef Lizzy and paranormal bounty hunter Diesel continue to seek the seven powerful stones linked to the seven deadly sins. They're looking for the stone associated with lust and it becomes a bit of a treasure hunt asAccademia, accompanied by Gloria (the slightly wizardy unself-witch) and Carl (proclaimed guardians of the ill-mannered monkey) they healing magics that through paintings have to work their way through a string of clues. However, they aren't the only ones looking; for wherever goodies seek power, to protect the baddies lurk alsocity and its citizens from plagues and curses. The baddies in question are again the deliciously dark (on many levels) Gerwulf (Wulf) Grimoir all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and his medieval minion Hatchetguard it above all else. Wulf may be Diesel's cousin but there's not a lot of family love in any room they both occupy so let the race to the stone commenceTo them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>075538492X</amazonuk>1803362340

 {{newreview|author=Gillian Philip|title=Wolfsbane (Rebel Angels)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=After the terrible events at the end of the [[Rebel Angels: Bloodstone by Gillian Philip|second book]] in Gillian Philip's ''Rebel Angels'' sequence, we move on a decade or so. Finn is back in the mortal world. But Rory and Jed have stayed with Seth, now the captain of the MacGregor clann's dun. Faerie queen Kate NicNiven continues to plot against Seth and to wrest Rory, the Bloodstone and prophesied saviour, from him. She is as determined as ever to destroy the veil separating the mortal and faerie worlds. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905537352</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nikki GemmellThomas D Lee|title=The Bride Stripped BarePerilous Times

|genre=Fantasy|summary=A young woman, newly married. Discovering her husband ''Hate 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 to be satisfied in her new role as wife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007163541</amazonuk>}}the path of least resistance''

{{newreview|author=Kelley Armstrong|title=13 (Women of Set in the Otherworld)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=''13'' picks up where ''Spell Bound'' left off. A terrorist group is still trying to expose the supernaturals and create near-distant future, in a new world order. Our heroes, from among on the ranks verge of the werewolves, the witches, the half-demons, the vampiresclimate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the necromancers day and the sorcerer cabals, are trying to stop themrescue what little remains. Savannah takes centre stage and What no-one expected was that one of the majority Knights of the narration. Her spells are still on the fritz but she thinks she knows why and she survived Round Table would answer the explosioncall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498033</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lilith SaintcrowAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=The Iron Wyrm AffairDelilah Recovered|rating=4.5

|summary=Someone is killing off Mentaths - geniusesWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, logic machines - in the city be about to look up. Out of London and work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. But it's up to Emma Bannon, sorcerer Prime, not to protect their next target Archibald Clarebe. Emma Dee is powerful and resourceful, attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but she not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has problems of her own - such as whether she can trust her Shield, Mikalthat to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, who killed the last sorcerer whose service he was inliving an ordinary life. And while Clare is as keen as she Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to uncover the conspiracy behind the murders, the illogical world of sorcery her and things will never be the logical minds of Mentaths don't mix wellsame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500926</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=N K JemisinHadeer Elsbai|title=The Shadowed Sun: Dreamblood: Book 2Daughters of Izdihar|rating=4.5

|summary=Ten years after Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the events lives of [[The Killing Moon: Dreamblood: Book 1 by N K Jemisin|The Killing Moon]]two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the events rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the earlier book have left their mark on upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the worldmilitary, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Gujaareh is now under Giorgina on the oppressive rule other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Kisuati Protectorate. Worse, Daughters of Izdihar – a plague of nightmares is killing the once peaceful citygroup campaigning for women's inhabitants rights. Giorgina also happens to be in their sleeplove with Nico. It falls to two unlikely heroes, Wanahomen, son What follows is a story of the late Princean unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and Hanani, the first female to train as one of Hananja's priesthoodcruelty, to try to save the city from both which blossoms a group of these problemsadmirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500772</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanette WintersonHeather Fawcett|title=The Daylight GateEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=1610s LancashireEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and Alice Nutter is she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the best landowner you could wish forvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. Single, rich Whilst she is brilliant at research and connectedspeaking to faeries, she takes no sides is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the religious schisms James I small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has inheriteddone, nor how to redeem herself and takes no bull from those trying to oppress put her final investigations for her book back on the poor, putting them up and feeding them when no-one else willright track. But those poor are seen as sinful by others - amoralEnter Wendell Bambleby, dirty in mindher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, body all charm and spiritdelight, and in league with the devil. And people are beginning much to question AliceEmily's attitudes, choice of company - and ageless beautyfrustration. This, then, But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is the based-going on-truth story of how Alice Nutter got to be one of the accused in with the Pendle Witch trials.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099561859</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stuart SharpChristopher Golden|title=Court Road of DreamsBones|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Thomas and Nicola are no longer studentsThe Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Finals finishedStretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, 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 doesnit't think that Nicola would want to go but Nicolas one of the world's still flaming angrymost notorious routes. Adhering to For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'and another thingspring' school sees it turn into a huge blodge of arguingunremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, Nicola tracks Thomas downwhich dries into rutted, puddly dust. HeI don's already busy dealing with someone but being the assertive modern woman she ist think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, Nicola barges in front of the hit man attempting and because he wanted to kill her now ex-boyfriend so she can give him yet another piece of her mindtoo many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. In the ensuing tussle (hit man trying to skewer Thomas and Thomas trying to prevent Nicola from becoming an exYou can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-person as well as an ex-girlfriend) the formerly blissful couple fall back into maker, doing a tree... and then onwardsrecce with his cameraman buddy, through the tree towards somewhere thatJohn Prentiss – who's other worldly in all meanings mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the phrase. For they land funds he'd invested in the Court of Dreams, which isnpair't necessarily a good things prior TV projects. Meanwhile the tumble has separated Nicola and ThomasThey pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the hit man is not only determined but also company of a local lad so knows his way around beauty, and Thomasfetch up at the guide' mother has neglected to tell him a thing or two about his origins, as hes childhood village. And that's just about where things start to find out.go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0982991320</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael BoccacinoAndrew Givler|title=Charlotte Markham and the House of DarklingSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=54

|summary=Widowed under tragic circumstances, Charlotte Markham needs an income and so she's employed by widower Henry Darrow as 'Matt has a governess for his sons James and Paulterrible life. Their home 'Everton' may seem a typical Victorian mansion but the town of Blackfield isn't your average English small town; the DarrowSeriously—it's Nanny Prum is found murdered in a particularly grisly mannerawful. It's a mystery to is so bad that Dan 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 Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a house blissful life in the woods where their mother still livesexchange for his soul. 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 - it's such an exoticPoor Dan! I know, I know, rarefied world with itwe shouldn's own languaget feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and, that it's no surprise when he fails to get even Matt to remember sign on the director of ''Alien''dotted line, he''Blade Runner'' and ''Prometheus'' started his career with a fencing film. And its so desperate that he simply forges Matt'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 warsignature. 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499269</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Courtenay GrimwoodOlivie Blake|title=The Outcast BladeAtlas Six

|summary=After defeating the armies that threatened Venice single handedlyDark, the newly knighted Sir Tycho finds himself with statussharp, wealth and the subject of much interest to the Venetian citizens. But all Tycho really wants is Lady Giuliettahighly inquisitive, niece of the city's steward. Giulietta, grieving her dead husband, is desperate to escape the backstabbing, poisonous world of the Venetian court, and isn't in the mood for TychoThe Atlas Six''s clumsy attempts to woo hermakes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498475</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaDaniel Abraham|title=Cursed: An Alex Verus NovelAge of Ash

|summary=A beautiful enchantress steps through We meet Alys under the door just as an evil construct beast hurtles through most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the window. Not an obtuse Chinese saying, but City of Kithamar is at a typical day point in the life turning of future-diviner and magic shop owner, Alex Verus. Add to this years when the benign magical animal that seems to have died mysteriously and unmarked worlds are at their thinnest and you begin to realise something's afootall things are possible. It's is the night between the sort funeral of day that could only be made worse by a Prince and the realisation that Alex's curse-soaked friend Luna has fallen in love with someone other than Alex andcoronation of his successor... yes, For a night the downward spiral has just taken another turnKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650025X</amazonuk>0356515427

{{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara 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 asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy FarrB09Q3P283Y|title=Moon CrossingShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=Wil Calloway returns to Saran in Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the most unwelcome of circumstancesVietnam War. Tally, Lady ElanorHe's young sisternot really that invested in the fight against Communism, has been abducted by the evil Lord Rexmoore nor is he particularly interested in a career in an attempt to find the whereabouts of the Legacymilitary. Tally doesnIf he't know its honest - which Clyde usually is, but that wonwith himself at least - he hasn't save her. So Wil has come to rejoin his Fellmen friends got many choices and mount a rescue missionthis one, at least, gets him out of the rut he's in. But itHe's not going to be easy. Gisella good in training and Mortimer aren't talking. Seth is as accident-prone as everquickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. And Leon and his father are still deeply suspicious about WilHe's part in Giles's death during the last Moon Chasechuffed with himself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781485151</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Jon Grahame|title=Reaper|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=Ex-cop Jim Reaper gave up on living after his fourteen-year-old daughter was raped and committed suicide. To make matters worse, her attacker is let out of jail after serving only three years. Reaper comes up with a plan to end him, and to end his own miserable life in one move. Only the world has other plans with him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905802528</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=H A GoodmanJennifer Saint|title=Breaking The Devil's Heart: A Logic of Demons NovelElektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|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 Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the living don't act on Heaven's advice, story of three women who live in the angels simply practise what you might call courageous restraintheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. HellCassandra, on the other handClytemnestra, is much better organised. Set up like a sizeable corporation, its demons and Elektra are purveyors all bit players in the story of the Formula and relentless targets push Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the demons into becoming exceedingly effective - and dodgy - salesmen. Drink too much of silent women have the Formula most compelling stories and you're in big trouble - sinning all over the placemost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B007T0BDVE</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel HartmanDean Koontz|title=SeraphinaQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=The Comonot Treaty is approaching its 40th anniversary but Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the state of play between humans chance to 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 dragons now is still parlousstarting a career on a needless magazine's staff. The people in Goredd still revile and distrust the dragons who walk among them in human form. For the dragonsBut when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, humans are like cockroaches call it mind- easily crushed individuallycontrol, but surprisingly resilient when they band together. Humans are impulsivecall it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, emotional. Dragons are impassivefind a gold coin worth a fortune, logicalcash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. ItAnd all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's not an easy fit and of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the fragile peace discovery that he is at risk after the murder not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a Goreddi prince. Dragons are suspected of the crimewhole lot more besides. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857531565</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=N K JemisinTasha Suri|title=The Killing Moon: Dreamblood: Book 1 Jasmine Throne

|summary=Ehiru On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a Gatherer. He visits those community of people who are dying to help them pass away peacefullygot powers from the mysterious deathless waters. He sends their souls to a safe place for eternityBut now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, while taking their dreamblood to heal othersdecaying ruin. Most people in his cityOne day, Gujaareh, are happy Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with thismagic. Then he Gathers Instead of reporting her for such a foreigner who's unwillinggruesome crime, and Malini claims that the order of priests he belongs girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to are corrupt..become her own personal maidservant. could this barbarian be correct?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500764</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreview|author=Jeri Smith-Ready|title=Shine|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|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 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. It's the last in the trilogy, so a lot of secrets will be revealed, a lot of threat will be faced - and it'll be emotional.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857074113</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel AbrahamGenevieve Gornichec|title=The KingWitch's Blood: Book Two of The Dagger and the CoinHeart|rating=54

|summary=After unexpectedly managing to expose a conspiracy to murder Prince Aster, Geder Palliako has become the prince’s Protector A modern and approachable reimagining of the hero of AnteaNorse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. Dawson Kalliam is working with him as She hides in a forest at the Anteans pursue the roots edge of the plotnine worlds, with remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the possibility stake three times because of war breaking outOdin's wrath. ElsewhereHer attempts to live in peace, Cithrin Bel Sarcour is frustrated by a new notary stopping however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from running her bank as chest before she wants was tied to, while Marcus Wester tries the stake—and refuses to protect leave heralone. As if After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that wasn’t enough to keep things going's a wolf, Master Kit has and another son that's a goddess to kill…snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498890</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carolyn Jess-CookeHannah Whitten|title=The Boy Who Could See DemonsFor the Wolf

|summary=Alex can see demonsIn Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. HeTo Red's been able to ever since his dad left when he was five years oldmisfortune, she is the second daughter. Some demons are hideousSent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, some are frighteningRed knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and some just lurk in corners doing not much at allhe is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. One If she is called Ruennot a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and the fabled kings hekeeps 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 monster—he's Alex's best frienda man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749953136</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy FarrJohn Gwynne|title=Moon Chase|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=When Wil dreams, it's as if he is inhabiting someone - or something - else's body. 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 is that very Fellhound. Following Farrow to try to rescue her injured master, Wil is captured by the Saranians, who believe he 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 in the attempt, or return injured and be hanged. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907652868</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Irvine|title=Vengeance: The Tainted Realm: Book 1Shadow Of The Gods

|summary=Tali The Shadow Of The Gods is a slave born the first installment of slavesthe Bloodsworn Saga, forced to live and work underground by set in the era of the brutal Cythonians who, Vikings in turnthe shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have also been forced into a subterranean lifestylebattled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. The land above them This story is Hightspallthe ultimate in High Fantasy, rightly theirs but taken over generations ago. Hightspall's occupiers are led by a group of noble houses, which brings us and John Gwynne certainly does justice to Rixthe genre, the heir to his alcoholic fatherwith mythical creatures, the Lord Riciniusarchaic language and battles galore. They both live under the thumb of his overbearing motherThis is a thick book, Lady Ricinius, but then so with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do many othersbattle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498289</amazonuk>0356514218

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