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|summary=Happy birthday Harry Dresden! And what '' There's a birthday as life becomes a little hectic part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for the Winter Court Knighthowever long I can. He returns to life in time to fight in the Winter Palace, have a near death experience at the hands This secret magic of darkmy own, mini-peopleall mine, then is nearly killed again (by a friend this time) and his island of Demonreach is about at last. I just want to explode taking enjoy it for a chunk of the USA with it. He therefore has 24 hours to save some world. Oh, and you know those headaches he's been having? HIs head is on the verge of exploding toowhile. Indeed, it's the sort of birthday that it's hardly worth reanimating for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500896</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Jesse Bullington|title=The Folly of the World|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=It is Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the 1420sworld, and lies Silverton; a lot of what we now think of as The Netherlands is underwater. Crossing town under the deluge is a most unlikely trio – a posh man seeking something with the help protection of the othersBriar's, including a girl family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has survived his sometimesalways wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-fatal testwitch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and a manic fellow fresh from saving himself upon administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the gallowsBriar Witch, who might or might not have been down to hell in the interimtown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. What that quest isAs challenges come her way left, right and how it will lead centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to nightmarescommunicate with the dead, deaths galore and putting her at the heart of a lot of other interesting parts maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the storyBriar witches' legacy, is for you everything they have sacrificed to discoversurvive, in this absorbing cross-genre pieceis under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500888</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|author=Graeme K Talboys|title=Stealing Into Winter: being Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the first adventure from rocks and plundering the chronicles of Jeniche of Antar |rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Streetwise young thief Jeniche wakes up to find wrecks. Mira, like her prison cell's walls collapsing around mother before her. This , is no natural disaster but an invasion by one of the Occassans, mercilessly brandishing 'moskets', weapons seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that fire death rendering the native Makamban cudgels futilelies within. Whilst scouring But when the streets and avoiding Council Watch lays a trap to end the marauding armywrecking, Jeniche visits old hauntsthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, checking on her friends Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and wondering what with only coordinates to do next. This last part is solved for guide her: a band , she sets off in search of Tunduri monks and nuns, including their young God-King himself, want a guide family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to take them home unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to Tundur, the land heart of winter beyond the desert. The journey may be hazardous but nothingsmuggler's safe anymoreterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and so, accompanied by the muscular, slow-witted stable owner, Trag and mysterious swordsman Alltud, their journey beginsones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178099625X</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreview|author=Chris Wooding|title=The Iron Jackal|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=For once I don't feel like devoting my first paragraph to a teasing plot summary. And while I'm here to judge the book and not the cover, even the British paperback blurb agrees, and gives nothing away in its woolliness. I am duty bound to say this is the third book to feature Darian Frey and the rest of the crew of his flying craft the ''Ketty Jay''. If pressed I will say it starts with him indulging in 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 damage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620853</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate GriffinT Kingfisher|title=Stray SoulsThornhedge

|summary=Sharon Li has a normal job in a London coffee shop but doesn't feel normal. She's beginning You had a right to realise she's a shaman, especially when she is so at one with the city, she vanishesretake your place. In order to meet others who'll understand, she starts Magicals Anonymous, a self-help group for the mystically confused coming to terms with their gifts. The meetings come with various beverages, biscuits, a Facebook page and a very good turnout. However all is not herbal tea and crunchy-creams as someone or something seems to be stealing the spirits that make London's soul and another something walks the streets tearing people limb from limb. The city is dying and gradually Sharon realises that Magicals Anonymous are more than just a social group. As odd as it sounds to look at them, the Midnight Mayor wants them to save the capital.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500640</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Holly Black|title=Red Glove (Curse Workers 2)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cassel lives in T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a world where magic is frowned upon. Practice fairytale that is banned well known and everyone wears gloves to prevent being workedwell beloved. Cassel himself But whilst there is a transformation worker - the rarest type. And he princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is the most powerful transformation worker in living memorynot her story. This makes him extremely valuable to 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 himselfInstead, since he discovered it in the [[The White Cat (Curse Workersour protagonist is Toadling, Book 1) who was stolen away by Holly Black|first book]] in this ''Curse Workers'' sequence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575096764</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brent Weeks|title=The Blinding Knife (Lightbringer 2)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Gavin Guile thought he had five years left fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to complete his seven great purposes. But now it seems he has less than one. He might be the Prism - the most powerful light drafter in the Seven Satrapies, capable land of drafting huge amounts of light without risk of losing his mind fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to the colours - but he's lost blue. He can't see it or draft itdraw magic from her veins and cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499072</amazonuk>1803364238

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stefan BachmannNicole Jarvis|title=The PeculiarA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=''Don't get yourself noticed and you won't get yourself hanged.I want all of Florence to know my name''

Such is life for peculiars like Bartholomew Kettle Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and his sister Hettiewhere her future can thrive rather than stagnate. Their mother is human but their But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self- absent - father is a Sidhe, a high fairy. Fairies are contemptuous proclaimed guardians of the halfhealing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-breed peculiars male Accademia has hoarded power over art and humans distrust architecture for centuries and suspect guard it above all else. To 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 Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and as empty of bone change – has no place amongst them and organ as they are of lifetheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0062195182</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Jay Kristoff|title=Stormdancer|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Warrior Masaru has raised his daughterSet in the near-distant future, Yukiko, alone since his wife left. Yukiko is now 16; in 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 world on the narcotic effects verge of lotus smokeclimate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The days when he was the legendary Black Fox are behind him which is British Isles desperately needs a shame as the Shogun hero (not a man known for calm reasoning or lack of ferocityseveral) has a mission for them. Masaru, Yukiko and an entourage must hunt to save the day and capture the legendary stormtigerrescue what little remains. But they're extinct aren't they? Well, What no, they aren't as Yukiko discovers when the hunt goes terribly wrong and she's left alone with just a storm tiger for company. She fights to find a way home, learning as she goes the full extent to which the Shogun has worked against -one expected was that one of the good Knights of the nation in general and her family in particular. And Round Table would answer the stormtiger? Let's just say he's had his wings clipped and he's not happy about itcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230759017</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=G Willow WilsonAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Alif the UnseenDelilah Recovered|rating=54

|summary=Alif lives under an alias and he has We meet Dee at a good reason for that: hepoint when her life isn's a hakinista in an Arabian oil producing country thatt going as planned but things might, just might, be about to put it mildlylook up. Out of work, doesn't encourage free speech. He sells IT know-how and wizardy about to any covert organisation that works against the governmentlose her flat, their agenda unimportant as long as the aim Dee is the downfall of their oppressionup for an accountant's job. But all thatit's about not to change as Alif falls in love and, as it's the wrong girl at the wrong time, is spurnedbe. His response to this romantic let down Dee is to create a computer programme that will identify her internet activity attacked by her individual typing patterntwo men calling themselves witch hunters. Unfortunately what works for him also works against himShe survives the attack but not unscathed. ItWitch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She'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 himjust an ordinary woman, his only possession living an ancient manuscript from his former loveordinary life. Just a book, albeit one Slivers of memory of things that's accompanied by myths are not ordinary at all return to her and old wives' tales rendering it irrelevant a logical worldthings will never be the same... However, sometimes the most desperate of times requires more than logic and, sometimes, a mere book of stories may be more than it seems.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857895664</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaHadeer Elsbai|title=Taken: An Alex Verus NovelThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating=4.5

|summary=Alex VerusDrawing inspiration from Egypt, future-diviner and erstwhile Camden magic shop owner has dusted himself off after ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the rigours lives of [[Cursed: An Alex Verus Novel by Benedict Jacka|Cursed]] and is good to go once two women who could not be 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 representativedifferent, Talisid. Now, Alex's involvement with the Council (and indeed Talisid) hasn't always been good yet find themselves fighting for Alex's health in the past, but his commissioning may be a sign rights of his enhanced reputation women and this time there's weavers – those with magical abilities - in a note of self-interest: Luna may be the next to vanishsociety pitted against them. Alex receives a tip-off that Fountain's Reach (a stately home with a mysterious past) has something to do with it andNehal, as luck would have itborn into the upper class, it's also the venue for wishes to attend the next apprentice tournament which Luna has entered. The investigation begins and hopefully they'll survive Weaving Academy to see it through learn to control her abilities and then join the endmilitary, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500268</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Catherine Fisher|title=The Obsidian Mirror|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jake's father disappeared while working Giorgina on a secret project with his best friend, the celebrated explorer and recluse Oberon Venn. Jake is sure that Venn is other hand did not have a murderer privileged upbringing like Nehal and sets out feels great pressure to prove itprovide for her family and maintain their reputation, dragging his teacher, Mr Wharton, into whilst secretly attending meetings of the investigation. But the truth is perhaps even more frightening: David Wilde isn't dead, heDaughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's lost rights. Giorgina also happens to be in timelove with Nico. Venn and his sidekick Piers are intent on re-entering the past to find him, using What follows is 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 invisiblestory of an unjust society, and who's being pursued by a murderous Replicant and his wolf. And there's the scarred man filled with his acolyte hypocrisy and his strange weapon. And there are the Sheecruelty, who keep from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their own counsel, but have rights and overcoming their own ambitions, and who enchant the forest on Venn's estate..personal obstacles. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340970081</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janet EvanovichHeather Fawcett|title=Wicked BusinessEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Following Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on from [[Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich|Wicked Appetite]]faerie lore, 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 she has travelled extensively, and it becomes a bit of a treasure hunt asresearched meticulously, accompanied by Gloria (the slightly wizardy un-witch) and Carl (the ill-mannered monkey) they have to write her life's work their way through a string of clues. However, they aren't the only ones looking; for wherever goodies seek power, the baddies lurk alsovery first encyclopaedia of faeries. The baddies in question are again the deliciously dark (on many levels) Gerwulf (Wulf) Grimoir Whilst she is brilliant at research and his medieval minion Hatchetspeaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. Wulf may be Diesel's cousin but there's not a lot of family love So when she finds herself far, far North in any room they both occupy so let the race to the stone commence. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>075538492X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gillian Philip|title=Wolfsbane (Rebel Angels)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=After the terrible events at the end small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the [[Rebel Angels: Bloodstone by Gillian Philip|second book]] in Gillian Philip's ''Rebel Angels'' sequencevillage matriarch, we move on a decade or so. Finn she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back in on the mortal worldright track. But Rory and Jed have stayed with Seth Enter Wendell Bambleby, now the captain of the MacGregor clann's dun. Faerie queen Kate NicNiven continues to plot against Seth her dashingly handsome and to wrest Roryinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, the Bloodstone all charm and prophesied saviourdelight, from him. She is as determined as ever much to destroy the veil separating the mortal and faerie worldsEmily's frustration. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905537352</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nikki Gemmell|title=The Bride Stripped Bare|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=A young woman, newly married. Discovering her husband But why is not all he seems. That here? What does he has secrets. That she has needs, wants, desires. That she will need to take things into her own hands if she want? And what exactly is ever to be satisfied in her new role as wife.going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007163541</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongChristopher Golden|title=13 (Women Road of the Otherworld)Bones

|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'13… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world' picks up where s most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'Spell Boundspring'sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don' left offt think google streetview updates it very often. A terrorist group is still trying Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to expose the supernaturals and create give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a new world orderlife every metre it covers. Our heroes You can easily find documentaries about it online, from among the ranks but that's a bit rich, for one of the werewolvesour main characters, the witchesFelix 'Teig' Teigland, the halfis a film-demonsmaker, the vampiresdoing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the necromancers and the sorcerer cabals, are trying project to fruition to stop them. Savannah takes centre stage and claw back some of the majority of funds he'd invested in the narrationpair's prior TV projects. Her spells are still on They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the fritz but she thinks she knows why company of a local beauty, and she survived fetch up at the explosionguide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498033</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lilith SaintcrowAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Iron Wyrm AffairDebt Collection Book 1)|rating=4.5

|summary=Someone is killing off Mentaths - geniuses, logic machines - in the city of London and it''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's up to Emma Bannon, sorcerer Prime, to protect their next target Archibald Clareawful. Emma It is powerful and resourceful, but she has problems so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of her own - such as whether she can trust her Shield, Mikal, who killed the last sorcerer whose service he was a blissful life inexchange for his soul. And while Clare is as keen as she to uncover the conspiracy behind the murders, the illogical world of sorcery and the logical minds of Mentaths don't mix well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500926</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=N K Jemisin|title=The Shadowed Sun: Dreamblood: Book 2|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Ten years after the events of [[The Killing Moon: Dreamblood: Book 1 by N K Jemisin|The Killing Moon]]Poor Dan! I know, I know, the events of the earlier book have left their mark on the worldwe shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. Gujaareh But he really is now under the oppressive rule of the Kisuati Protectoratea terrible salesman. WorseHe never hits his targets and, a plague of nightmares is killing when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the once peaceful citydotted line, he's inhabitants in their sleep. It falls to two unlikely heroes, Wanahomen, son of the late Prince, and Hanani, the first female to train as one of Hananjaso desperate that he simply forges Matt's priesthood, to try to save the city from both of these problemssignature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500772</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanette WintersonOlivie Blake|title=The Daylight GateAtlas Six|rating=4.5

|summary=1610s LancashireDark, and Alice Nutter is the best landowner you could wish for. Singlesharp, rich and connectedhighly inquisitive, she takes no sides in the religious schisms James I has inherited, and takes no bull from those trying to oppress the poor, putting them up and feeding them when no-one else will. But those poor are seen as sinful by others - amoral, dirty in mind, body and spirit, and in league with the devil. And people are beginning to question Alice's attitudes, choice of company - and ageless beauty. This, then, is the based-on'The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-truth story of how Alice Nutter got to be one of the accused in the Pendle Witch trialsTok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099561859</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stuart SharpDaniel Abraham|title=Court Age of DreamsAsh

|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 NicolaWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's still flaming angry. Adhering to the 'and another thing' school of arguingfour bridges, Nicola tracks Thomas down. He's already busy dealing with someone but being the assertive modern woman she is, Nicola barges has a knife 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 hand 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 meeting that's other worldly in all meanings of the phraseshe dreads. For they land in Meanwhile the Court City of Dreams, which isn't necessarily a good thing. Meanwhile the tumble has separated Nicola and Thomas, the hit man Kithamar is not only determined but also at 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 point in the House turning of Darkling|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Widowed under tragic circumstances, Charlotte Markham needs an income years when the worlds are at their thinnest and so she's employed by widower Henry Darrow as a governess for his sons James and Paulall things are possible. 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 It 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 night between the Darrow boys' nights are spent dreaming funeral of a house in Prince and the woods where their mother still livescoronation of his successor. Charlotte decides to treat this head on and takes them for For a walk to show them there's no substance to it. However, in doing so they discover night the nightmare that Kithamar is The House of Darklingun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781164460</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=K J ParkerAnn Sei Lin|title=SharpsRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Fencing - it's such an exoticKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, rarefied world with it's own languagea 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 it's no surprise to remember the director of ''Alien''she is a Crafter like him, ''Blade Runner'' and ''Prometheus'' started his career someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a fencing filmpower sought after all across the Empire. And it's He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all over this fantasyshe has known. Well, but not soon Kurara won't have any say in the usual sword-and-sorcery way of oldmatter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a delegation of swordsmen shikigami, and -women visit Permia from Scheria - two fencing-loving countries that until recently have been at warshe is forced to flee out into the world. But why exactly are they going - separatelyShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, and as a group? Who sky-ship whose express purpose is playing what kind of diplomatic game between the two countriesto hunt down shikigami, and is a wielded sword the only danger they'll face?whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499269</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon Courtenay GrimwoodB09Q3P283Y|title=The Outcast BladeShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=After defeating the armies that threatened Venice single handedly, the newly knighted Sir Tycho finds himself with status, wealth and Clyde Robbins signs up for the subject of much interest to US Army during the Venetian citizensVietnam War. But all Tycho He's not really wants is Lady Giulietta, niece of that invested in the city's steward. Giulietta, grieving her dead husbandfight against Communism, nor is desperate to escape the backstabbing, poisonous world of the Venetian court, and isn't he particularly interested in a career in the mood for Tychomilitary. If he's clumsy attempts to woo 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 the window. Not an obtuse Chinese sayinghonest - which Clyde usually is, but a typical day in the life of futurewith himself at least -diviner he hasn't got many choices and magic shop ownerthis one, Alex Verus. Add to this at least, gets him out of the benign magical animal that seems to have died mysteriously and unmarked and you begin to realise somethingrut he's afootin. ItHe's the sort of day that could only be made worse by the realisation that Alexgood in training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's curse-soaked friend Luna has fallen in love chuffed with someone other than Alex and... yes, the downward spiral has just taken another turnhimself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650025X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy FarrJennifer Saint|title=Moon CrossingElektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Wil Calloway returns to Saran 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the most unwelcome heavily male dominated world of circumstancesAncient Greece. TallyCassandra, Lady Elanor's young sisterClytemnestra, has been abducted by the evil Lord Rexmoore and Elektra are all bit players in an attempt to find the whereabouts story of the LegacyTrojan War. Tally doesn't know it, but Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that won't save her. So Wil has come to rejoin his Fellmen friends and mount a rescue mission. But it's not going to be easy. Gisella and Mortimer aren't talking. Seth is as accident-prone as ever. And Leon often the silent women have the most compelling stories and his father are still deeply suspicious about Wil's part in Giles's death during the last Moon Chasemost extreme furies. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781485151</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon GrahameDean Koontz|title=ReaperQuicksilver|rating=32.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=ExMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-cop Jim Reaper gave up on living after his fourteen-yearrun orphanage since he was a three-day old daughter was raped foundling, and committed suicidenow is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. To make matters worseBut when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, her attacker is let call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of jail after serving only three yearshis bank and prepare for going on the lam. Reaper comes And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up with a plan and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to end himescape, and to end he finds his own miserable life flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in one move. Only control, the world has other plans with himdiscovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905802528</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=H A GoodmanTasha Suri|title=Breaking The Devil's Heart: A Logic of Demons NovelJasmine Throne

|summary=In this afterlifeOn the night of her sacred burning, Heaven is pretty much hands off. Angels whisper sweet nothings into human ears but don't go much further than that. If the living don't act Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on Heaven's advice, to the angels simply practise what you might call courageous restraintpyre. Hell, She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the other hand, is much better organised. Set up like Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a sizeable corporation, its demons are purveyors community of people who got powers from the Formula and relentless targets push the demons into becoming exceedingly effective - and dodgy - salesmen. Drink too much of the Formula and you're in big trouble - sinning all over the place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B007T0BDVE</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rachel Hartman|title=Seraphina|rating=4mysterious deathless waters.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Comonot Treaty is approaching its 40th anniversary but But now the state of play between humans and dragons temple is still parlous. The people in Goredd still revile and distrust the dragons who walk among them in human form. For the dragonsnothing more than an overgrown, humans are like cockroaches - easily crushed individually, but surprisingly resilient when they band togetherdecaying ruin. Humans are impulsiveOne day, emotionalMalini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Dragons are impassiveInstead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, logical. It's not Malini claims that the girl saved her from an easy fit attacker and begs for the fragile peace is at risk after the murder of a Goreddi prince. Dragons are suspected of the crimegirl to become her own personal maidservant. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857531565</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=N K JemisinGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Killing Moon: Dreamblood: Book 1 Witch's Heart

|summary=Ehiru is A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a Gathererwitch named Angrboda. He visits those who are dying to help them pass away peacefully. He sends their souls to She hides in a safe place for eternityforest at the edge of the nine worlds, while taking their dreamblood remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to heal others. Most people live in his citypeace, Gujaarehhowever, are happy quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with this. Then he Gathers a foreigner who's unwilling, and claims her literal heart—the one that the order of priests he belongs was cut from her chest before she was tied to are corrupt... could this barbarian be correct?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500764</amazonuk>}} {{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 stake—and refuses to them. Over two books Aura has accepted being with Zach and not leave her dead rock-star boyfriend, who has finally, permanently, moved onalone. [[Shift by Jeri Smith-Ready|Last time]] they even found out a lot about how and why the ShiftAfter an initial period of mistrust, as that moment is called, happened. Now we're Angrboda begins to consider the present and the future - what it would mean fall for Zach and Aura to really get togetherLoki's charms, and what the Powers That Be (whoever they are) are expecting two start an unusual family made of themup a half-dead daughter, together and apart. Ita son that's the last in the trilogy, so a lot of secrets will be revealedwolf, a lot of threat will be faced - and it'll be emotional.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857074113</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daniel Abraham|title=The Kinganother son that's Blood: Book Two of The Dagger and the Coin|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=After unexpectedly managing to expose a conspiracy to murder Prince Aster, Geder Palliako has become the prince’s Protector and the hero of Anteasnake. Dawson Kalliam is working with him as the Anteans pursue the roots of the plot, with the possibility of war breaking out. Elsewhere, Cithrin Bel Sarcour is frustrated by a new notary stopping her from running her bank as she wants to, while Marcus Wester tries to protect her. As if that wasn’t enough to keep things going, Master Kit has a goddess to kill…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498890</amazonuk>1789097061

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

|summary=Alex can see demons. HeIn Red's been able to ever since his dad left when he was five years old. Some demons are hideousfamily, some are frighteningthe first daughter becomes queen, and some just lurk in corners doing not much at allthe second daughter becomes a sacrifice. One is called Ruen, and he's AlexTo Red's best friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749953136</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cathy Farr|title=Moon Chase|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=When Wil dreamsmisfortune, it's as if he she is inhabiting someone - or something - else's bodythe second daughter. And when he wakes one morning after dreaming of a terrible crime and a desperate FellhoundSent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, he Red knows what to expect: within the dog that he can hear howling woods is that very Fellhound. Following Farrow to try to rescue her injured mastera wolf, Wil and he is captured by the Saranians, one who believe he will decide the fate of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the one monsters he keeps contained to have tried to murder young Seth Tanner. His sentence is harsh - track the woods will be released, and kill the Wraithe wolves in fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the Moon Chase and return alive and unharmed and stories go free. But when Red enters the woods, die in expecting nothing more than to be killed within the attempthour, or return injured and be hangedshe finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907652868</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian IrvineJohn Gwynne|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]]