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|summary=Zoe is an unemployed book editor who had '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to leave her myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last job. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, and indeed her last cityfar away from the world, in rather lies Silverton; a hurry. Zoetown under the protection of the Briar's personal exodus brings her to New York , a family of witches who protect the town and the possibility of a job that sounds perfect: editing a travel guide to NYC itselfwider world from the Darklands. HoweverThough she has always wished for magic, its projected readership isn't one for which Zoe has written before. New York City Ellie Briar is full of monsters or coterie the first non-witch to be politeborn into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. VampiresWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, werewolvesEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, demonsthe town's leader, spritesand Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, zombies… the list goes on as all alternative life is thereright and centre, both in and out of Ellie uncovers the office. So rare ability to communicate with the first question is if she survives her colleaguesdead, will she survive putting her readership? The second question being, at the heart of a maelstrom of coursechaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who or to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is Granny Good Mae?under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501906</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|author=Stephen Lloyd Jones|title=The String Diaries|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Hannah Wilde flees Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the Welsh mountains with daughter Leah rocks and husband Nate while plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the life blood slowly seeps seven who swim out of him. They run to escape survey the evil ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that has relentlessly haunted Hannah's family for generationslies within. Some people see it as But when the Council Watch lays a Hungarian legend but trap to end the Wildes itwrecking, they capture the island's real leader and insatiable and wonMira't forget thems father. They know what Desperate to do: verify everyonesave him from death, trust no one Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive andwith only coordinates to guide her, if she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in any doubtthe 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, RUN! Although one day that may not Mira must be enoughdetermined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472204670</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan CooperT Kingfisher|title=The Dark is Rising SequenceThornhedge

|summary=As a child, I read The Grey King, book 4 in Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Sequence. I loved the book so much it topped my Christmas list for years, but sadly Santa never delivered. As an adult I finally bought the entire sequence for myself. This book is intended as a child's book, and it is brilliant as book for children, but it is also well loved by many adults, whether as You had a cherished memory of their own childhood or as a book discovered as an adultright to retake your place. I'll admit that as child, this can book can completely draw into other worlds in a manner not possible for an adult, but this is still an excellent read, whatever age you may be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0140316884</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Lilith Saintcrow|title=The Red Plague Affair|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Sorceress Prime, Emma Bannon, has done many things in service T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of Queen and Country, a fairytale that is well known and willinglywell beloved. Her latest mission to track down But whilst there is a missing doctor puts her princess trapped in the path of a deadly contagion - the Red plague. Mentath Archibald Clare tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is perhaps the only person capable of helping not her find the doctor in timestory. But asking ClareInstead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and Valentinelli his assassin servant, secreted away to assist in the chase risks exposing them land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to the Red. And Clare does not have the sorcerous advantages that Emma possessesdraw magic from her veins and cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500934</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreview|author=Susan Ee|title=Angelfall (Penryn Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the End self-proclaimed guardians of Days Book 1)|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Angels the healing magics that through paintings have ransacked the Earth power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and humankind is facing the apocalypsecurses. The people who are left are desperate all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and starvingguard it above all else. Penryn is one of the survivors and the protector of her disabled younger sister PaigeTo them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and when Paige is kidnapped by an angel for an unknown purpose Penryn change – has to do everything within her power to find no place amongst them and rescue her. Embarking on a quest containing all manner of horrors both human and supernatural, Penryn is forced to make dangerous decisions and question her own humanitytheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144477851X</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Daniel Abraham|title=The Tyrant's Law (Dagger and the Coin)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Cithrin Bel Sarcour has arrived Set in Suddapal to complete her apprenticeship with the Medean Banknear-distant future, but her past actions may have put her in danger. After being betrayed by his comrade Yardem, Marcus Wester has set out with Kitap rol Keshmet to kill a goddess. Clara Kalliam, who should be disgraced after her husband's treason, is surviving world on the edge verge of high society thanks climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to her youngest son's friendship with save the Lord Regent Geder Palliako - day and is ready to risk everything to save her nation from Palliakorescue what little remains. Meanwhile, all Geder wants is peace and prosperity for What no-one expected was that nation. Even if it means killing everyone who disagrees with him to make sure he can get itone of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316080705</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Howard Andrew JonesAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=The Desert of Souls (The Chronicle of Sword and Sand)Delilah Recovered

|summary= Place: Baghdad Time: 8th century Arabian-Nights-Time A dying man gives Dabir, tutor We meet Dee at the Calipha point when her life isn's palacet going as planned but things might, a precious artefactjust might, making him promise be about to look after itup. Out of work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. Unfortunately But it gets stolen before he has the chance 's not tobe. Jaffar Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the son of the Caliph's vizier realises that it attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has magical qualities that make it even more precious than it appears and isnto do with Dee? She't too well pleaseds just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. He gives Dabir a chance Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to redeem himself, sending him her and Asim, Captain of things will never be the Caliph's guard, to find itsame... The men set out on their quest facing danger, death, sorcery and someone whose presence could get them into even deeper trouble.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781854637</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Courtenay GrimwoodHadeer Elsbai|title=The Exiled BladeDaughters of Izdihar|rating=4.5

|summary=Tycho is back to face Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the dangerous intrigue lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the Venetian Courtrights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. While he wants nothing more than Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to spend his nights with beautiful Guilietta Millioni, when attend the worst winter in living memory hits Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the citymilitary, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and Duchess Alexafeels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's treacherous rival builds rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a stronghold in Montenegro story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and attacks Guilietta's soncruelty, Tycho must really take up the responsibility from which blossoms a group of his office as Bladeadmirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498505</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard FordHeather Fawcett|title=Herald Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of the StormFaeries|rating=54|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Nobul Emily Wilde is a blacksmith an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and ex-mercenary who thinks he she has next to nothing until even that is taken away from him. Rag is a young waiftravelled extensively, surviving on the streets from stealth and a talent for stealing. Waylian spends his days poring over books and dodging verbal abuse as a witchresearched meticulously, to write her life's apprenticework, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Meanwhile Merrick, drinker, gambler Whilst she is brilliant at research and for hire by anyone who can afford him (i.e. by anyone) receives a commission he can't refuse no matter how much he'd like speaking tofaeries, she is not so good with people. River So when she finds herself far, far North in the assassin and Kaira one small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the temple guard Shieldmaidens just continue village matriarch, she is not sure what they always doshe has done, day in, day outnor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. For in Steelhaven daily life is a routine round of existence until one day something happens… Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and suddenly itdelight, much to Emily's notfrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472203925</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian IrvineChristopher Golden|title=Rebellion: Tainted Realm: Book 2Road of Bones|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=The former heir Rixium is now just plain Rix as he flees his ancestral castle in Hightspall hotly pursued by Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the marauding Cythonians, invading his home along with his homelandR504. Accompanying Rix are GlynnieStretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, a young maidservant and her little brother Bennit's one of the world's most notorious routes. Hampered by his entanglement with For months of the enemy resulting in year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the brutal loss permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of his right handunremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, Rix is also still mourning his best friend Tobryand because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, killed when hurled from it legendarily cost a towerlife every metre it covers. MeanwhileYou can easily find documentaries about it online, Rixbut that's other frienda bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a Pale and therefore exfilm-slave of the Cythoniansmaker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, Tali has been kidnapped on John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the orders project to fruition to claw back some of the evil chancellor. He isnfunds he't d invested in the only one after her, just her current possessorpair's prior TV projects. The other is LyfThey pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the Cythonian King who needs only one more company of the legendary black pearls to secure his omnipotencea local beauty, i.e. and fetch up at the black pearl embedded in Taliguide's headchildhood village. TaliAnd that's escape from slavery came at a price, but the future for both her and Rix seems a lot more costly.where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498297</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian McClellanAndrew Givler|title=Promise of Blood Soul Fraud (Powder Mage TrilogyThe Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|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 a coup. 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=54

|summary=Once upon ''Matt has a time, a sweet boy met a sweet girl and they fell perfectly in loveterrible life. Seriously—it's awful. Their love It is so bad that Dan the Demon is rich and fulfilling and true. They did what people in love doshocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: moved 10 years of a blissful life in together, got married, had a babyexchange for his soul. 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 the start of something bigger than even the switcher can begin to imagine.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575130091</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Helen Lowe|title=The Gathering of the Lost|rating=4Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=It may only have taken But he really is a year for the second in the ''Wall of Night'' series terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and, when he fails to get even Matt to hit sign on the shelvesdotted line, but on Haarth five years have passed since [[The Heir of Night by Helen Lowe|The Heir of Night]] disappeared from the Wall. Shehe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt'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 deadsignature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500039</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham ThomasOlivie Blake|title=Maria & The DevilAtlas Six

|summary=Dark, sharp, and highly inquisitive, ''The Devil has ridden outAtlas Six''. Maria's lover is Montana's most feared outlaw. He has left her alone in a secluded cabin deep in the wilderness. Maria is pregnant. Left in solitude, she develops a familiar routine that feels safe. But the isolation is pervasive and Maria's defences against it are crumbling. And while she waits for her lover to return, she is discovered by Rickman Chill, whose gang is tracking the Devil in makes its publishing debut after becoming a relentless quest for revengeTik-Tok sensation. What will happen when Chill discovers Maria's identity? Will the Devil return in time? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00BFEC2NI</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeDaniel Abraham|title=Beyond BeliefAge of Ash

|summary=In We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a city hemmed knife in by mountains her hand and a meeting that's grown she dreads. Meanwhile the only way it can - upwards - Rojan's job City of Kithamar is to find peopleat a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. Usually they're runaways or bounties, easy money It is the night between the funeral of a Prince and guilt free, just like Rojan likes itthe coronation of his successor. But then Rojan's niece For a night the Kithamar is taken, and despite never having met her, Rojan will do anything it takes to get her backun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501663</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melanie RawnAnn Sei Lin|title=Glass Thorns - Elsewhens (Glass Thorns 2)Rebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary= Only a little while Kurara has passed since we last spent time with Touchstoneher entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the touring theatre company that not only shows sky where soldiers of the audience the performanceEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, but enables them when a man named Himura arrives to experiencetell her that she is a Crafter like him, feel and taste it as a 4D hallucination. This time they're being taken beyond their comfort zone as they're cornered someone with the power to form paper into escorting whatever she desires – a princess home from power sought after all across the foreign ContinentEmpire. Meanwhile Cade Silversun is still getting his 'Elsewhens': He asks her to come with him, to leave the premonitions life of alternative futures dreary servitude that come as nightmares and daydreamsis all she has known. YesWell, Elsewhenssoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, those things that warned him about because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a woman; the same woman that friend shikigami, and colleague Mieka Windthistle she is in love withforced to flee out into the world. IndeedShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, Touchstone a sky-ship whose express purpose is forced to cope with foreign travelhunt down shikigami, foreign attitudes and, for some a whole world of them, the feeling that all isn't as it should be.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781166625</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aimee BenderB09Q3P283Y|title=Willful Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary= In this collection we'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>}} {{newreviewShadebringer|author=Will Storr|title=The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Killian Lone grows up in a home lacking in love and security. For these he relies on his elderly aunt Dorothy, an accomplished cook. Indeed his visits to Dorothy revolve around food as he absorbs all she can teach him, slowly inheriting her passion and skill along with her knowledge. This attachment to food then becomes his career choice, leading to the unfortunate discovery of a family secret that has remained hidden for a very long time. Why 'unfortunate'? There's a reason for its concealment… a very, very good reason.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780720807</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Luke Scull|title=The Grim CompanyGrayson W Hooper|rating=4.5

|summary=The gods are deadClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. The Magelords murdered them and hurled their bodies from heaven and are also slowly dominating He's not really that invested in the world below. Dorminia fight against Communism, nor is already he particularly interested in a career in their iron grasp, policed by the feared Crimson Watch and the terrorising Augmentorsmilitary. ItIf he's not even safe to think as Mind Hawks monitor and punish honest - which Clyde usually is, with pain himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and sufferingthis one, at least, gets him out of the rut he's in. However there is a resistance, albeit fragmented He's good in training and comparatively impotent but the situation is worsening so they must make quickly put onto a stand or lose everything (and everyone) they lovenon commissioned officer training course. Is the evil magic stronger than the heroesHe' own resources? They're dying to find outs chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851328</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James P BlaylockJennifer Saint|title=Lord Kelvin's MachineElektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=On a dark and rainy night, a weary but determined Langdon St. Ives rides out in hot pursuit 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of the villain three women who is holding his wife, Alice, captive. 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 live in the head at point blank range whilst pinned under the wheels heavily male dominated world of a carriageAncient Greece. It is a scene that will play out again and again in his mindCassandra, Clytemnestra, driving him to the brink of madness and desperation. There appears, however, to be a glimmer of hope Elektra are all bit players in the form story of a mysterious machine in the possession of the Royal Academy of Science; a machine Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that may hold often the secret to time itself. Is it possible for our hero to harness silent women have the power of Lord Kelvin’s Machine most compelling stories and rewrite history?the most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857689843</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James P BlaylockDean Koontz|title=HomunculusQuicksilver

|summary=What could possibly On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the connection between Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a mechanical toy crocodile that eats birdscommunity of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, a giant emeralddecaying ruin. One day, an oxygenator device for a spaceship and Malini witnesses a tiny alien man girl kill someone with the power magic. Instead of life and death? The answer, of coursereporting her for such a gruesome crime, is Malini claims 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 girl saved her from falling into an attacker and begs for the wrong hands, but evil has a habit of seeking things out...girl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857689827</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terence BlackerGenevieve Gornichec|title=The TwyningWitch's Heart|rating=54

|summary= Efren is A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a nobody witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the kingdom edge of rats till he witnesses the kidnapping nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the kingstake three times because of Odin's wrath. His future changes Her attempts to live in a moment as he's sent peace, 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 the human world stake—and refuses to rescue himleave her alone. Talking After an initial period of humansmistrust, 11 year old Peter is abandoned by his parents and left Angrboda begins to scrape a living from Londonfall for Loki's streets. His affinity with animals gives him charms, and the name 'Dogboy' and employment with rat catcher Bob and scientist Dr Rosstwo start an unusual family made of up a half-Gibbon. The Doctordead daughter, a son that's ambition is to encourage humanity to annihilate the rats by dragging them into a war. Efren and Dogboywolf, both insignificant in their own worlds, must make both man and rodent see sense; easier said than doneanother son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781850704</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel O'MalleyHannah Whitten|title=The Rook (The Checquy Files)For the Wolf

|summary= A woman wakes up In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with amnesia surrounded by dead people wearing gloves. In nothing but the cape on her pocket she discovers back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a letter from Myfanwy Thomaswolf, and he is the previous inhabiter one who will decide the fate of her bodytheir kingdom. Myfanwy tells If she is not a strange story of working for 'worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the Checquy'woods will be released, a paranormal version of MI5 which has been permeated by a web of betrayal and dangerthe fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. The problem is But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that Myfanwy never discovered the source before her body changed hands (so to speak)legends are lies. The amnesiac has wolf is not a clear choice: to continue Myfanwymonster—he'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 UKman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908800372</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John R FultzGwynne|title=Seven Kings: Books of the Shaper: Volume 2The Shadow Of The Gods

|summary= Runaway slave Tong suicidally avenges his lost love but death seems to elude him. Meanwhile King Vireon The Shadow Of The Gods is happily married to the beautiful shape-shifting sorceress Aluafirst installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, although his sister has problems with her husband, King D'zan. A courtesan is carrying his baby; odder still when you realise he's impotent. The Twin Kings set in the era of Uruz, scholarly Lyrilan and war-hungry Tyro, can't agree on how to rule so Tyro's wife Talondra puts a real spanner the Vikings in the works to force a decision. However bad their lives currently are, evil is spreading through their world like a dark shadow andof Ragnarok, to make things worse still, Ianthe when the Claw Gods have battled and Gammir the Reborn aren't as dead as everyone supposes them their bones lie scattered for all to besee. (You'd think This story is the clue would be ultimate in Gammir's name wouldn't you?)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500829</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Melanie Rawn|title=Glass Thorns - Touchstone |rating=4.5|genre=High Fantasy|summary= Cayden is a hybrid being part elf, fae and human but all wizard. He also has a day job as a tregetour or playwright with his own touring company, Touchstone. They're ambitious and planning John Gwynne certainly does justice to get through the trials and into the upper flight. As you would expect from a wizardgenre, with mythical creatures, this troupe doesn't just act; they also weave magic imbued in hallucinations archaic language and encased in glass withiesbattles galore. The problem This is they're short of a glisterthick book, a troupe's wielder of withies. Or rather they were until Mieka arrives. Actually short's a good world as he's with an elf but he also happens to be the best glister anyone's ever seen, thorns permitting. With one problem solved, another remains. Namely prophetic dreams intricate plot and fascinating characters that have haunted Cade since boyhood and they aren't improving, in fact they're more like nightmares.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781166609</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rosanne Licata|title=Blood Bonds: The Caravan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Raj is part Arab, part Roman. She's independent and strong-willed - too independent and strong-willed are woven together to fit well into create a society where women belong in the home wonderfully realistic and only men can bring change to the gritty world. So she runs away. Disguised as a boy, she is roaming the streets of Antioch when she encounters Bjornolf, a Danish king. Drawn to him in a way she can't explain, Raj stows away on the caravan he is guarding. As the journey continues, Raj which our heroes must decide whether the terrible dangers to both Bjornolf and herself are worth risking if she reveals her true nature to him...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1770975667</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celia Friedman|title=Legacy Of Kings (Magister 3)|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Three years is a long time to wait between parts of a trilogy, especially one as good as Celia Friedman's Magister Trilogy. I'm not someone blessed with great patience, which has made the wait interminable, but finally I get to find out what happened to Kamala and the other Magisters and to see how Salvator Aurelius is coping with being the first Penitent Kingdo battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841495360</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|author=Patricia Briggs|title=Aralorn: Masques and Wolfbsane|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Here is what seems quite a rum Move on to [[:Category:Patricia Briggs|Patricia BriggsNewest For Sharing Reviews]] compendium – her first attempt at a fantasy novel, published and read by roughly six men and an orc back in the early 1990s, and what would appear the fourth book in the same series, dusted off after they both got a rewrite in 2010, and together at last for the curious completist. And if the rewriting ironed out a few creases it shows just how much there was needed done – for the first book is still full of minor problems – a man immune to, or invisible to, magic unless when it's needed for the plot, a host of exposition all throughout, and much that marks it down as a debut effort. It doesn't mean it's not worth reading however.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501647</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jim Butcher|title=Cold Days|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Happy birthday Harry Dresden! And what a birthday as life becomes a little hectic for the Winter Court Knight. He returns to life in time to fight in the Winter Palace, have a near death experience at the hands of dark, mini-people, then is nearly killed again (by a friend this time) and his island of Demonreach is about to explode taking 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 too. Indeed, it's the sort of birthday that it's hardly worth reanimating for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500896</amazonuk>}}