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|summary=Tycho is back to face the dangerous intrigue '' There's a part of the Venetian Court. While he me that wants nothing more than to spend his nights with beautiful Guilietta Millionikeep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, when the worst winter in living memory hits the cityall mine, and Duchess Alexaat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'s treacherous rival builds a stronghold in Montenegro and attacks Guilietta's son, Tycho must really take up the responsibility of his office as Blade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498505</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Richard Ford|title=Herald Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Storm|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Nobul is Briar's, a blacksmith family of witches who protect the town and ex-mercenary who thinks he has next to nothing until even that is taken away the wider world from himthe Darklands. Rag Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is a young waif, surviving on the streets from stealth and a talent first non-witch to be born into her family for stealing. Waylian spends his days poring over books generations and dodging verbal abuse as such since she was young, her training as a witchsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's apprentice. Meanwhile Merrickcousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, drinkerthe town's leader, gambler and for hire by anyone who can afford him (iEllie takes her place beside her.eAs 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 maelstrom of chaos. by anyone) receives a commission he can't refuse no matter how much he'd like Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to. River the assassin trust and Kaira one of the temple guard Shieldmaidens just continue determine what they always to doas the Briar witches' legacy, day ineverything they have sacrificed to survive, day out. For in Steelhaven daily life is a routine round of existence until one day something happens… and suddenly it's notunder threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472203925</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|author=Ian Irvine|title=Rebellion: Tainted Realm: Book 2|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The former heir Rixium is now just plain Rix as he flees his ancestral castle in Hightspall hotly pursued by the marauding Cythonians, invading his home along with his homeland. Accompanying Rix are GlynnieRosevear, a young maidservant remote and her little brother Benn. Hampered by his entanglement with partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the enemy resulting in rocks and plundering the brutal loss of his right handwrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, Rix is also still mourning his best friend Tobry, killed one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when hurled from the Council Watch lays a tower. Meanwhiletrap to end the wrecking, Rixthey capture the island's leader and Mira's other friendfather. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a Pale wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and therefore ex-slave of the Cythonianswith only coordinates to guide her, Tali has been kidnapped on the orders she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the evil chancellorsea. He isn't the With only one after nine days to unearth what might save herfather, just as her journey takes her current possessor. The other is Lyf, from the Cythonian King who needs only one more watched streets of foreign islands to the legendary black pearls to secure his omnipotence, i.e. heart of the black pearl embedded in Talismuggler's head. Tali's escape from slavery came territory, Mira must be determined to stop at a price, but nothing to save the future for both of her home and Rix seems a lot more costlythe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498297</amazonuk>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 NightFlorence to know my name'' series 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 Cast out''. Maria's lover is Montana's most feared outlaw. He has left 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, captive. Catching up with his nemesis on the road, the resulting standoff between the two ends with Stterrible life. 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 itselfexchange for his soul. Is it possible 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 birdsPoor Dan! I know, a giant emeraldI know, an oxygenator device we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a spaceship and a tiny alien man with the power of life terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and death? The answer, of course, is that each item when he fails to get even Matt to sign 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 handsdotted line, but evil has a habit of seeking things out...he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857689827</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terence BlackerOlivie Blake|title=The Twyning|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Efren is a nobody in the kingdom of rats till he witnesses the kidnapping of the king. His future changes in a moment as he's sent up to the human world to rescue him. Talking of humans, 11 year old Peter is abandoned by his parents and left to scrape a living from London's streets. His affinity with animals gives him the name 'Dogboy' and employment with rat catcher Bob and scientist Dr Ross-Gibbon. The Doctor'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 done.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781850704</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daniel O'Malley|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 Palacea nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, have and now is starting a career on a near death experience at the hands needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of darkmood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, minicall it mind-peoplecontrol, then is nearly killed again (by call it a friend this time) and his island supernatural urge – has demanded of Demonreach is about him that he go to explode taking a chunk derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the USA with itlam. He therefore has 24 hours And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to save some world. Oh, turn up and you know those headaches suggest he's been having? HIs head of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is on the verge interrupted by other instances of exploding too. Indeedhim acting without being in control, it's the sort discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of birthday that it's hardly worth reanimating forburgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500896</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jesse BullingtonTasha Suri|title=The Folly of the WorldJasmine Throne

|summary=It is On the 1420snight of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and a lot of what we now think of as The Netherlands refuses to step on to the pyre. She is underwater. Crossing immediately sent to be imprisoned on the deluge is a most unlikely trio – Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a posh man seeking something with the help community of the others, including a girl people who has survived his sometimes-fatal test, and a manic fellow fresh got powers from saving himself upon the gallows, who might or might not have been down to hell in mysterious deathless waters. But now the interim. What that quest temple isnothing more than an overgrown, and how it will lead to nightmaresdecaying ruin. One day, deaths galore and Malini witnesses a lot of other interesting parts girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the story, is girl saved her from an attacker and begs for you the girl to discover, in this absorbing cross-genre piecebecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500888</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graeme K TalboysGenevieve Gornichec|title=Stealing Into Winter: being the first adventure from the chronicles of Jeniche of Antar The Witch's Heart

|summary=Streetwise young thief Jeniche wakes up to find her prison cell's walls collapsing A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around hera witch named Angrboda. This is no natural disaster but an invasion by She hides in a forest at the edge of the Occassansnine worlds, mercilessly brandishing 'moskets', weapons remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that fire death rendering she was survived burnt at the native Makamban cudgels futilestake three times because of Odin's wrath. Whilst scouring the streets and avoiding the marauding armyHer attempts to live in peace, Jeniche visits old hauntshowever, checking on are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her friends and wondering what literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to do nextleave her alone. This last part is solved for her: a band After an initial period of Tunduri monks and nunsmistrust, including their young God-King himself, want a guide Angrboda begins to take them home to Tundur, the land of winter beyond the desert. The journey may be hazardous but nothingfall for Loki's safe anymorecharms, and so, accompanied by the musculartwo start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, slow-witted stable ownera son that's a wolf, Trag and mysterious swordsman Alltud, their journey beginsanother son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178099625X</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris WoodingHannah Whitten|title=The Iron JackalFor the Wolf|rating=45

|summary=For once I donIn Red't feel like devoting my s family, the first paragraph to daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a teasing plot summarysacrifice. And while ITo Red'm here to judge s misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the book and not woods with nothing but the covercape on her back, even Red knows what to expect: within the British paperback blurb agreeswoods is a wolf, and gives nothing away in its woolliness. I am duty bound to say this he is the third book to feature Darian Frey and the rest of one who will decide the crew fate of his flying craft the ''Ketty Jay''their kingdom. If pressed I will say it starts with him indulging in she is not a further instance of thieveryworthy sacrifice, making a mistakethe monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and then finding just how much is in the science fantasy universe fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that can possibly get between him and what might repair the damagelegends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620853</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate GriffinJohn Gwynne|title=Stray SoulsThe Shadow Of The Gods

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