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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian IrvineA G Slatter|title=Rebellion: Tainted Realm: The Briar Book 2of the Dead

|summary=The former heir Rixium is now '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just plain Rix as he flees his ancestral castle in Hightspall hotly pursued by the marauding Cythoniansto myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, invading his home along with his homelandat last. Accompanying Rix are Glynnie, I just want to enjoy it for a young maidservant and her little brother Bennwhile. Hampered by his entanglement with '' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the enemy resulting in world, lies Silverton; a town under the brutal loss protection of his right hand, Rix is also still mourning his best friend Tobry, killed when hurled from a tower. Meanwhile, Rixthe Briar's other friend, a Pale and therefore ex-slave family of witches who protect the Cythonians, Tali has been kidnapped on town and the orders of wider world from the evil chancellorDarklands. He isn't Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the only one after first non-witch to be born into herfamily for generations and as such since she was young, just her current possessortraining as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. The other is LyfWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Cythonian King who needs only one more of the legendary black pearls to secure his omnipotenceBriar Witch, i.e. the black pearl embedded in Talitown's headleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Tali's escape from slavery came As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a pricemaelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, but Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the future for both her and Rix seems a lot more costlyBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498297</amazonuk>1803364548

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

|summary= Adamat, investigator and ex-police inspector, is summoned to the Skyline Palace for, he assumes, an audience with the king. However, when he arrives, the grounds are in darkness and a greater darkness lurks within. The King's Hielman bodyguard are all dead and the royal family won't be around for much longer as Field Marshal Tamas of the home-grown Adros Military has led You had a coupright to retake your place. Tamas wants to hire Adamat for his investigating prowess but neither Adamat, Tamas nor the mages and sorcerers under Tamas' command realise what will be unleashed as a result… or perhaps Tamas does. Meanwhile a servant girl starts the fight for the survival of herself and a small but very important child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650199X</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=C Robert Cargill|title=Dreams and Shadows|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Once upon T Kingfisher's latest novella is a time, lovely reimagining of a sweet boy met fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is a sweet girl and they fell perfectly princess trapped in love. Their love a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is rich and fulfilling and truenot her story. They did what people in love do: moved in togetherInstead, got marriedour protagonist is Toadling, had who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby. And then something most people don't believe exists crawls into their house through an open window and exchanges their perfect baby for a changeling. It's secreted away to the start land of something bigger than even the switcher can begin fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to imaginedraw magic from her veins and cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575130091</amazonuk>1803364238

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen LoweNicole Jarvis|title=The Gathering of the LostA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=It may only have taken a year for the second in the ''Wall I want all of Night'' series Florence to hit the shelves, but on Haarth five years have passed since [[The Heir of Night by Helen Lowe|The Heir of Night]] disappeared from the Wall. She's known not to have died in the Swarm attack, but was last seen in the wilds of Jaransor and many believe her now to be dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500039</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Graham Thomas|title=Maria & The Devil|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=''The Devil has ridden outknow my name''.

Maria's lover is Montana's most feared outlaw. He has left Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her alone in art can find a secluded cabin deep in home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the wilderness. Maria is pregnant. Left in solitudepowerful Accademia, she develops a familiar routine the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that feels safethrough paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. But the isolation is pervasive The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and Maria's defences against guard it are crumblingabove all else. And while she waits for her lover to returnTo them, she is discovered by Rickman Chill, whose gang is tracking the Devil in a relentless quest for revengeArtemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society. What will happen when Chill discovers Maria's identity? Will the Devil return in time? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00BFEC2NI</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=Beyond Belief|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Joshua Richards isn't Set in the most successful PI; clients aren't exactly lining up around near-distant future, in a world on the block but he lives verge of climate collapse, Britain is in hope that one great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day his luck will change… and it doesrescue what little remains. Within a couple of weeks he has a sudden plethora What no-one expected was that one of enquirers; the bad news is that none Knights of them seem to live long enough to pay him. Meanwhile elsewhere, the Engine powering the world (literally) is dying, although Round Table would answer the populous is blissfully oblivious. Is there a connection? Joshua Richards doesn't know, but there seems to be a huge part of himself he's not acquainted with either… at least not yetcall. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0987478605</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francis KnightAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Fade To BlackDelilah Recovered|rating=54

|summary=In We meet Dee at a city hemmed in by mountains thatpoint when her life isn'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 accountant's grown the only way job. But it can - upwards - Rojan's job not to be. Dee is to find peopleattacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. Usually they're runaways or bounties, easy money and guilt free, just like Rojan likes itShe survives the attack but not unscathed. But then RojanWitch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's niece is takenjust an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and despite things will never having met her, Rojan will do anything it takes to get her backbe the same....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501663</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melanie RawnHadeer Elsbai|title=Glass Thorns - Elsewhens (Glass Thorns 2)The Daughters of Izdihar|rating=54

|summary= Only a little while has passed since we last spent time with TouchstoneDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the touring theatre company that lives of two women who could not only shows be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the audience rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the performanceupper class, but enables them wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to experiencecontrol her abilities and then join the military, feel and taste it as a 4D hallucination. This time they're being taken beyond their comfort zone as they're cornered but instead she is forced into escorting a princess home from the foreign Continentan arranged marriage with Nico. Meanwhile Cade Silversun is still getting his 'Elsewhens': Giorgina on the premonitions of alternative futures that come as nightmares other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and daydreams. Yesmaintain their reputation, Elsewhens, those things that warned him about whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a woman; the same woman that friend and colleague Mieka Windthistle is group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love withNico. IndeedWhat follows is a story of an unjust society, Touchstone is forced to cope filled with foreign travel, foreign attitudes hypocrisy andcruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for some of them, the feeling that all isn't as it should betheir rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781166625</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aimee BenderHeather Fawcett|title=Willful Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary= In this collection weEmily Wilde're shown the reaction of ten men with terminal illness prognoses, a large man purchasing a very unusual pet and the case of a hard-done-by boyfriend. There are also delights like the shop that sells words crafted into what they read, a boy with keys instead of fingers and the beautifully touching tale of the pumpkin-headed mother who gives birth to an iron-headed baby. No, this isn't your average collection of predictable short stories; these are [[:Category:Aimee Bender|Aimee Bender]] short stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099558858</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Storr|title=The Hunger and the Howling s Encyclopaedia of Killian LoneFaeries|rating=4.5

|summary=Killian Lone grows up in a home lacking in love Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and security. For these he relies on his elderly aunt Dorothyresearched meticulously, to write her life's work, an accomplished cookthe very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Indeed his visits Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to Dorothy revolve around food as he absorbs all faeries, she can teach him, slowly inheriting her passion and skill along is not so good with her knowledgepeople. This attachment to food then becomes his career choiceSo when she finds herself far, leading to far North in the unfortunate discovery small village of a family secret that Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has remained hidden done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for a very long timeher book back on the right track. Why 'unfortunateEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? There's a reason for its concealment… a very, very good reason.And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780720807</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luke ScullChristopher Golden|title=The Grim CompanyRoad of Bones|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=The gods are deadKolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. The Magelords murdered them and hurled their bodies from heaven and are also slowly dominating Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world below's most notorious routes. Dorminia is already in their iron grasp, policed by For months of the feared Crimson Watch and year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the terrorising Augmentorspermafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. ItI don's not even safe to t think as Mind Hawks monitor google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and punish with pain other Siberian minerals, and sufferingbecause he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. However there You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a resistancefilm-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, albeit fragmented and comparatively impotent but John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the situation is worsening pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so they must make -chatty local guide, gain the company of a stand or lose everything (local beauty, and everyone) they love. Is fetch up at the evil magic stronger than the heroesguide' own resources? s childhood village. TheyAnd that're dying s where things start to find out.go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781851328</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James P BlaylockAndrew Givler|title=Lord Kelvin's MachineSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)

|summary=On ''Matt has a dark and rainy night, a weary but determined Langdon St. Ives rides out in hot pursuit of the villain who is holding his wife, Alice, captiveterrible life. Catching up with his nemesis on the road, the resulting standoff between the two ends with St. Ives witnessing the cold-blooded murder of his beloved, shot in the head at point blank range whilst pinned under the wheels of a carriageSeriously—it's awful. It is a scene so bad that will play out again and again in Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his mind, driving him to the brink infernal offer: 10 years of madness and desperation. There appears, however, to be a glimmer of hope blissful life in the form of a mysterious machine in the possession of the Royal Academy of Science; a machine that may hold the secret to time itself. Is it possible exchange for our hero to harness the power of Lord Kelvin’s Machine and rewrite history?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689843</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James P Blaylock|title=Homunculus|rating=2.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=What could possibly be the connection between a mechanical toy crocodile that eats birds, a giant emerald, an oxygenator device for a spaceship and a tiny alien man with the power of life and death? The answer, of course, is that each item on this unusual list has been placed inside one of four identical boxes. The boxes are hidden in various locations in order to prevent the contents from falling into the wrong hands, but evil has a habit of seeking things out...his soul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689827</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Terence Blacker|title=The Twyning|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Efren Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a nobody in the kingdom of rats till he witnesses the kidnapping of the kingterrible salesman. His future changes in a moment as He never hits his targets and, when he's sent up fails to get even Matt to sign on the human world to rescue him. Talking of humansdotted line, 11 year old Peter is abandoned by his parents and left to scrape a living from Londonhe's streets. His affinity with animals gives him the name 'Dogboy' and employment with rat catcher Bob and scientist Dr Ross-Gibbon. The Doctorso desperate that he simply forges Matt's ambition is to encourage humanity to annihilate the rats by dragging them into a war. Efren and Dogboy, both insignificant in their own worlds, must make both man and rodent see sense; easier said than donesignature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781850704</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel O'MalleyOlivie Blake|title=The Rook (The Checquy Files)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= A woman wakes up with amnesia surrounded by dead people wearing gloves. In her pocket she discovers a letter from Myfanwy Thomas, the previous inhabiter of her body. Myfanwy tells a strange story of working for 'the Checquy', a paranormal version of MI5 which has been permeated by a web of betrayal and danger. The problem is that Myfanwy never discovered the source before her body changed hands (so to speak). The amnesiac has a clear choice: to continue Myfanwy's investigation or to do a runner. It's her decision but Myfanwy's warning is less than encouraging: ::''Remember they want you dead.'' Something for her to bear in mind along with the fatal, unintended consequences of permitting cheap cheese into the UK.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800372</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John R Fultz|title=Seven Kings: Books of the Shaper: Volume 2Atlas Six|rating=54

|summary= Runaway slave Tong suicidally avenges his lost love but death seems to elude him. Meanwhile King Vireon is happily married to the beautiful shape-shifting sorceress AluaDark, sharp, although his sister has problems with her husbandand highly inquisitive, King D'zan. A courtesan is carrying his baby; odder still when you realise he's impotent. The Twin Kings of Uruz, scholarly Lyrilan and war-hungry Tyro, canAtlas Six't agree on how to rule so Tyro's wife Talondra puts makes its publishing debut after becoming a real spanner in the works to force a decisionTik-Tok sensation. However bad their lives currently are, evil is spreading through their world like a dark shadow and, to make things worse still, Ianthe the Claw and Gammir the Reborn aren't as dead as everyone supposes them to be. (You'd think the clue would be in Gammir's name wouldn't you?)|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500829</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melanie RawnDaniel Abraham|title=Glass Thorns - Touchstone Age of Ash

|summary= Cayden is a hybrid being part elfWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, fae and human but all wizard. He also she has a day job as knife in her hand and a tregetour or playwright with his own touring company, Touchstonemeeting that she dreads. They're ambitious and planning to get through Meanwhile the trials and into the upper flight. As you would expect from City of Kithamar is at a wizard, this troupe doesn't just act; they also weave magic imbued point in hallucinations the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and encased in glass withiesall things are possible. The problem It is they're short the night between the funeral of a glister, a troupe's wielder Prince and the coronation of withies. Or rather they were until Mieka arriveshis successor. Actually short's For a good world as he's an elf but he also happens to be night the best glister anyone's ever seen, thorns permitting. With one problem solved, another remains. Namely prophetic dreams that have haunted Cade since boyhood and they aren't improving, in fact they're more like nightmaresKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781166609</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rosanne LicataAnn Sei Lin|title=Blood Bonds: The CaravanRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Raj is part ArabKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, part Roman. She's independent and strong-willed - too independent and strong-willed to fit well into a society massive dining hall floating in the sky where women belong in soldiers of the home Empire come to drink and only men can bring change make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to the world. So tell her that she runs away. Disguised as is a boyCrafter like him, she is roaming someone with the streets of Antioch when power to form paper into whatever she encounters Bjornolf, desires – a Danish kingpower sought after all across the Empire. Drawn He asks her to come with him in a way , to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she canhas known. Well, soon Kurara won't explainhave any say in the matter, Raj stows away on because the caravan he Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is guardingforced to flee out into the world. As She joins Himura aboard the journey continuesOrihime, Raj must decide whether the terrible dangers a sky-ship whose express purpose is to both Bjornolf hunt down shikigami, and herself are worth risking if she reveals her true nature to him...a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1770975667</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Celia FriedmanB09Q3P283Y|title=Legacy Of Kings (Magister 3)Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=Three years Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a long time to wait between parts of a trilogy, especially one as good as Celia Friedmancareer in the military. If he's Magister Trilogy. Ihonest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn'm not someone blessed with great patiencet got many choices and this one, which has made the wait interminableat least, but finally I get to find gets him out what happened to Kamala and of the other Magisters rut he's in. He's good in training and to see how Salvator Aurelius is coping quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with being the first Penitent Kinghimself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495360</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia BriggsJennifer Saint|title=Aralorn: Masques and WolfbsaneElektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Here is what seems quite a rum [[:Category:Patricia Briggs|Patricia Briggs]] compendium – her first attempt at a fantasy novel, published and read 'Elektra' by roughly six men and an orc back Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the early 1990sheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and what would appear the fourth book Elektra are all bit players in the same series, dusted off after they both got a rewrite in 2010, and together at last for story of the curious completistTrojan War. And if the rewriting ironed out a few creases it Yet Jennifer Saint shows just how much there was needed done – for us that often the first book is still full of minor problems – a man immune to, or invisible to, magic unless when it's needed for silent women have the plot, a host of exposition all throughout, most compelling stories and much that marks it down as a debut effort. It doesn't mean it's not worth reading howeverthe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501647</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim ButcherDean Koontz|title=Cold DaysQuicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Happy birthday Harry Dresden! And what a birthday as life becomes a little hectic for the Winter Court KnightMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He returns 's not had the chance to life in time get to fight be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in the Winter Palace, have a near death experience at the hands of dark, mininun-run orphanage since he was a three-peopleday old foundling, then and now is nearly killed again (by starting a friend this time) and his island of Demonreach is about to explode taking career on a chunk of the USA with itneedless magazine's staff. He therefore has 24 hours to save some world. Oh, and you know those headaches But when this book starts heIS now 's been having? HIs head is on the verge 'subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of exploding too. Indeedmood or mind'', for something – call it's the sort of birthday that unearthly intuition, call 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 the 1420smind-control, and call it a lot supernatural urge – has demanded of what we now think of as The Netherlands is underwater. Crossing the deluge is him that he go to a derelict diner, find a most unlikely trio – gold coin worth a posh man seeking something with fortune, cash the help value of it out of the others, including a girl who has survived his sometimes-fatal test, bank and a manic fellow fresh from saving himself upon prepare for going on the gallows, who might or might not have been down to hell in the interimlam. What that quest And all this is, just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and how it will lead suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to nightmaresescape, deaths galore and a lot of he finds his flight is interrupted by other interesting parts instances of him acting without being in control, the story, discovery that he is for you to discover, not unique in this absorbing cross-genre piecehaving some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500888</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graeme K TalboysTasha Suri|title=Stealing Into Winter: being the first adventure from the chronicles of Jeniche of Antar The Jasmine Throne

|summary=Streetwise young thief Jeniche wakes up to find On the night of her prison cell's walls collapsing around sacred burning, Princess Malini defies herbrother and refuses to step on to the pyre. This She is no natural disaster but immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an invasion by the Occassans, mercilessly brandishing 'moskets', weapons ancient temple that fire death rendering was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the native Makamban cudgels futilemysterious deathless waters. Whilst scouring But now the streets and avoiding the marauding armytemple is nothing more than an overgrown, Jeniche visits old hauntsdecaying ruin. One day, checking on Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her friends and wondering what to do next. This last part is solved for her: such a band of Tunduri monks and nuns, including their young God-King himself, want a guide to take them home to Tundurgruesome crime, Malini claims that the land of winter beyond the desert. The journey may be hazardous but nothing's safe anymore, girl saved her from an attacker and so, accompanied by begs for the muscular, slow-witted stable owner, Trag and mysterious swordsman Alltud, their journey beginsgirl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178099625X</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris WoodingGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Iron JackalWitch's Heart

|summary=For once I don't feel like devoting my first paragraph to A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a teasing plot summarywitch named Angrboda. And while I'm here to judge She hides in a forest at the book and not edge of the covernine worlds, even remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the British paperback blurb agreesstake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, and gives nothing away in its woolliness. I am duty bound however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to say this is the third book stake—and refuses to feature Darian Frey leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the rest of the crew two start an unusual family made of his flying craft the ''Ketty Jay''. If pressed I will say it starts with him indulging in up a further instance of thieveryhalf-dead daughter, making a mistakeson that's a wolf, and then finding just how much is in the science fantasy universe another son that can possibly get between him and what might repair the damage's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620853</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate GriffinHannah Whitten|title=Stray SoulsFor the Wolf

|summary=Sharon Li has a normal job in a London coffee shop but doesn't feel normal. She's beginning to realise sheIn Red's a shamanfamily, especially when she is so at one with the cityfirst daughter becomes queen, she vanishesand the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. In order to meet others whoTo Red'll understands misfortune, she starts Magicals Anonymous, a self-help group for is the mystically confused coming to terms with their giftssecond daughter. The meetings come Sent alone into the woods with various beveragesnothing but the cape on her back, biscuits, a Facebook page and a very good turnout. However all is not herbal tea and crunchy-creams as someone or something seems Red knows what to be stealing the spirits that make London's soul and another something walks expect: within the streets tearing people limb from limb. The city woods is dying and gradually Sharon realises that Magicals Anonymous are more than just a social group. As odd as it sounds to look at themwolf, and he is the Midnight Mayor wants them to save one who will decide the capitalfate of their kingdom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500640</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Holly Black|title=Red Glove (Curse Workers 2)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cassel lives in a world where magic is frowned upon. Practice is banned and everyone wears gloves to prevent being worked. Cassel himself If she is not a transformation worker - worthy sacrifice, the rarest type. And monsters he is the most powerful transformation worker in living memory. This makes him extremely valuable keeps contained to the crime families who use curses to support woods will be released, 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 himself, since fabled kings he discovered it in keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the [[The White Cat (Curse Workers, Book 1) 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 to complete his seven great purposesstories go. But now it seems he has less when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than one. He might to be killed within the Prism - the most powerful light drafter in the Seven Satrapieshour, capable of drafting huge amounts of light without risk of losing his mind to she finds that the colours - but he's lost bluelegends are lies. He can't see it or draft it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499072</amazonuk>}} {{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 wolf is not a Sidhe, monster—he's 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 lifeman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0062195182</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jay KristoffJohn Gwynne|title=StormdancerThe Shadow Of The Gods

|summary=Warrior Masaru has raised his daughter, Yukiko, alone since his wife left. Yukiko The Shadow Of The Gods is now 16; a feat more due latterly to her own strength and resourcefulness than his care. For since his wife's departurethe first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, Masaru has gone to pieces, addicted to gambling and set in the narcotic effects era of lotus smoke. The days when he was the legendary Black Fox are behind him which is a shame as Vikings in the Shogun (not a man known for calm reasoning or lack shadow of ferocity) has a mission Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for themall to see. MasaruThis story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, Yukiko and an entourage must hunt and capture John Gwynne certainly does justice to the legendary stormtiger. But they're extinct aren't they? Wellgenre, nowith mythical creatures, they aren't as Yukiko discovers when the hunt goes terribly wrong archaic language and she's left alone with just a storm tiger for companybattles galore. She fights to find This is a way homethick book, learning as she goes the full extent with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to which the Shogun has worked against the good of the nation in general create a wonderfully realistic and her family gritty world in particular. And the stormtiger? Let's just say he's had his wings clipped and he's not happy about itwhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230759017</amazonuk>0356514218

{{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: he's a hakinista in an Arabian oil producing country that, Move on to put it mildly, doesn't encourage free speech. He sells IT know-how and wizardy to any covert organisation that works against the government, their agenda unimportant as long as the aim is the downfall of their oppression. But all that's about to change as Alif falls in love and, as it's the wrong girl at the wrong time, is spurned. His response to this romantic let down is to create a computer programme that will identify her internet activity by her individual typing pattern. Unfortunately what works for him also works against him. 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 him, his only possession an ancient manuscript from his former love. Just a book, albeit one that's accompanied by myths and old wives' tales rendering it irrelevant a logical world. However, sometimes the most desperate of times requires more than logic and, sometimes, a mere book of stories may be more than it seems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857895664</amazonuk>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]