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|summary=In '' There's a world where vampires are the new romantic heroes, Stoker’s Manuscript is a bit part of a Godsendme that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. IThis secret magic of my own, for oneall mine, am absolutely delighted at last. I just want to find some good old fashioned evil as sin, night dwelling, blood guzzling, crucifix hating Romanian villains. Of course, this means sacrificing sexiness, romance and attractively sulking out of a window but since what we get in exchange is stunning views of Transylvania, thought-through biology (enjoy it for want of a better word) of the creatures and stakes that are elevated beyond one person, I say sharpen up the spike pitwhile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099574454</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Bee Ridgway|title=The River Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of No Return|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= Nick was born in England in 1790 witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is rather partial the first non-witch to pickled bits of pig be born into her family for generations and beef jelly. He finds this rather difficult to explain to his girlfriendsas such since she was young, him being her training as a young man steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and this being Americapotions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, 2013Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. His 19th century Napoleonic war wounds are hard As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to explain away too. His second lease on life in communicate with the 21st century is thanks to dead, putting her at the mysterious Guild whose main rule is that no heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one can return family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the time or home country from which they originated. He doesnBriar witches't mind as they pay him well for his silence but all this is about to change. Eventually legacy, everything they seem have sacrificed to think that they can send him back and won't take no for an answer. Any thought of a possible catch survive, is suppressed by thoughts of Julia, the girl Nick left behind in England. It's all a bit fishy thoughunder threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718176987</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|author=Mur Lafferty|title=The Shambling Guide to New York City (The Shambling Guides)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Zoe is an unemployed book editor who had to leave her last jobRosevear, a remote and indeed her last citypartially forgotten island, in rather a hurrysurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Zoe's personal exodus brings Mira, like her mother before her , is one of the seven who swim out to New York survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the possibility of Council Watch lays a job that sounds perfect: editing a travel guide trap to NYC itself. Howeverend the wrecking, its projected readership isnthey capture the island't one for which Zoe has written befores leader and Mira's father. New York City is full of monsters or coterie Desperate to be polite. Vampiressave him from death, werewolves, demons, sprites, zombies… the list goes on Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as all alternative life he is theresecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, both she sets off in and out search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the officesea. So the first question is if she survives With only nine days to unearth what might save her colleaguesfather, will she survive as her journey takes her readership? The second question beingfrom 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 course, who or what is Granny Good Mae?her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501906</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen Lloyd JonesT Kingfisher|title=The String DiariesThornhedge

|summary= Hannah Wilde flees into the Welsh mountains with daughter Leah and husband Nate while the life blood slowly seeps out of him. They run to escape the evil that has relentlessly haunted Hannah's family for generations. Some people see it as 'You had a Hungarian legend but right to the Wildes itretake your place.'' T Kingfisher's real latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and insatiable and won't forget themwell beloved. They know what to do: verify everyoneBut whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, trust no one andThornhedge is not her story. Instead, if in any doubtour protagonist is Toadling, RUN! Although one day that may not be enoughwho was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472204670</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreview|author=Susan Cooper|title=The Dark is Rising Sequence|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=As a childCast out from Rome, I read The Grey King, book 4 Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Sequencewhich her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. I loved But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the book so much it topped my Christmas list for yearspowerful Accademia, but sadly Santa never delivered. As an adult I finally bought the entire sequence for myselfself-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. This book is intended as a child's book, The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and it is brilliant as book architecture for children, but centuries and guard it is also well loved by many adults, whether as a cherished memory of their own childhood or as a book discovered as an adultabove all else. I'll admit that as childTo them, this can book can completely draw into other worlds in a manner not possible for Artemisia – an adult, but this is still an excellent read, whatever age you may beambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0140316884</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Lilith Saintcrow|title=The Red Plague Affair|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Sorceress PrimeSet in the near-distant future, Emma Bannon, has done many things in service a world on the verge of Queen and Countryclimate collapse, and willinglyBritain is in great peril. Her latest mission The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to track down a missing doctor puts her in save the path day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of a deadly contagion - the Red plague. Mentath Archibald Clare is perhaps the only person capable Knights of helping her find the doctor in time. But asking Clare, and Valentinelli his assassin servant, to assist in the chase risks exposing them to the Red. And Clare does not have Round Table would answer the sorcerous advantages that Emma possessescall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500934</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan EeAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Angelfall (Penryn and the End of Days Book 1)Delilah Recovered

|summary=Angels have ransacked the Earth and humankind is facing the apocalypse. The people who are left are desperate and starvingWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Penryn is one of the survivors and the protector Out of work, about to lose her disabled younger sister Paigeflat, and when Paige Dee is kidnapped by an angel up for an unknown purpose Penryn accountant's job. But it's not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do everything within her power to find and rescue herwith Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Embarking on a quest containing Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all manner of horrors both human and supernatural, Penryn is forced return to make dangerous decisions her and question her own humanitythings will never be the same....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144477851X</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel AbrahamHadeer Elsbai|title=The Tyrant's Law (Dagger and the Coin)Daughters of Izdihar|rating=54

|summary=Cithrin Bel Sarcour has arrived in Suddapal to complete her apprenticeship with Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the Medean Banklives of two women who could not be more different, but her past actions may have put her yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in dangera society pitted against them. After being betrayed by his comrade YardemNehal, Marcus Wester has set out with Kitap rol Keshmet born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to kill a goddess. Clara Kalliam, who should be disgraced after control her husband's treasonabilities and then join the military, but instead she is surviving forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the edge of high society thanks other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her youngest sonfamily and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's friendship rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with the Lord Regent Geder Palliako - and Nico. What follows is ready to risk everything to save her nation from Palliako. Meanwhilea story of an unjust society, all Geder wants is peace filled with hypocrisy and prosperity cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for that nation. Even if it means killing everyone who disagrees with him to make sure he can get ittheir rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316080705</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Howard Andrew JonesHeather Fawcett|title=The Desert of Souls (The Chronicle Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Sword and Sand)Faeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= Place: Baghdad Time: 8th century Arabian-Nights-Time A dying man gives DabirEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, tutor at the Caliphto write her life's palacework, a precious artefact, making him promise to look after itthe very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Unfortunately it gets stolen before he has the chance Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking tofaeries, she is not so good with people. Jaffar So when she finds herself far, far North in the son small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the Caliph's vizier realises that it village matriarch, she is not sure what she has magical qualities that make it even more precious than it appears done, nor how to redeem herself and isn't too well pleasedput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. He gives Dabir a chance to redeem himselfEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, sending him all charm and Asimdelight, Captain of the Caliphmuch to Emily's guard, to find itfrustration. The men set out But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on their quest facing danger, death, sorcery and someone whose presence could get them into even deeper trouble.with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781854637</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Courtenay GrimwoodChristopher Golden|title=The Exiled BladeRoad of Bones|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Tycho is back to face The Kolyma Highway… the dangerous intrigue 'Road of Bones'… the Venetian CourtR504. While he wants nothing more than to spend his nights with beautiful Guilietta Millioni Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, when it's one of the worst winter in living memory hits world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the citypermafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, 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, and Duchess Alexabecause he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's treacherous rival builds a stronghold bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in Montenegro and attacks Guiliettathe pair's sonprior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, Tycho must really take gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the responsibility of his office as Bladeguide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498505</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard FordAndrew Givler|title=Herald of the Storm|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Nobul is a blacksmith and ex-mercenary who thinks he has next to nothing until even that is taken away from him. Rag is a young waif, surviving on the streets from stealth and a talent for stealing. Waylian spends his days poring over books and dodging verbal abuse as a witch's apprentice. Meanwhile Merrick, drinker, gambler and for hire by anyone who can afford him Soul Fraud (i.e. by anyoneThe Debt Collection Book 1) receives a commission he can't refuse no matter how much he'd like to. River the assassin and Kaira one of the temple guard Shieldmaidens just continue what they always do, day in, day out. For in Steelhaven daily life is a routine round of existence until one day something happens… and suddenly it's not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472203925</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Irvine|title=Rebellion: Tainted Realm: Book 2|rating=54

|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 Glynnie, ''Matt has a young maidservant and her little brother Bennterrible life. Hampered by his entanglement with the enemy resulting in the brutal loss of his right hand, Rix is also still mourning his best friend Tobry, killed when hurled from a tower. Meanwhile, RixSeriously—it's other friend, a Pale and therefore ex-slave of the Cythonians, Tali has been kidnapped on the orders of the evil chancellorawful. He isn't It is so bad that Dan the only one after her, just her current possessor. The other Demon is Lyf, the Cythonian King who needs only one more shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of the legendary black pearls to secure a blissful life in exchange for his omnipotence, isoul.e. the black pearl embedded in Tali's head. Tali's escape from slavery came at a price, but the future for both her and Rix seems a lot more costly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498297</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Brian McClellan|title=Promise of Blood (Powder Mage Trilogy)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= AdamatPoor Dan! I know, investigator and ex-police inspectorI know, is summoned to the Skyline Palace we shouldn't feel sorry for, soul-catching demons. But he assumes, an audience with the kingreally is a terrible salesman. HoweverHe never hits his targets and, when he arrivesfails to get even Matt to sign on the dotted line, the grounds are in darkness and a greater darkness lurks within. The Kinghe's Hielman bodyguard are all dead and the royal family wonso desperate that he simply forges Matt'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 childs signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650199X</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreview|author=C Robert Cargill|title=Dreams and Shadows|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Once upon a time, a sweet boy met a sweet girl and they fell perfectly in love. Their love is rich and fulfilling and true. They did what people in love do: moved in together, got married, had a 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 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=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=It may only have taken a year for the second in the ''Wall of Night'' 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>}} {{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 husbandset in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, King D'zanwhen the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. A courtesan This story is carrying his baby; odder still when you realise he's impotent. The Twin Kings of Uruzthe ultimate in High Fantasy, scholarly Lyrilan and war-hungry Tyro, can't agree on how John Gwynne certainly does justice to rule so Tyro's wife Talondra puts a real spanner in the works to force a decisiongenre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. However bad their lives currently are, evil This is spreading through their world like a dark shadow thick book, with an intricate plot and, fascinating characters that are woven together to make things worse still, Ianthe the Claw create a wonderfully realistic and Gammir the Reborn aren't as dead as everyone supposes them to begritty world in which our heroes must do battle. (You'd think the clue would be in Gammir's name wouldn't you?)|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500829</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|author=Melanie Rawn|title=Glass Thorns - Touchstone |rating=4.5|genre=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 to get through the trials and into the upper flight. As you would expect from a wizard, this troupe doesn't just act; they also weave magic imbued in hallucinations and encased in glass withies. The problem is they're short of a glister, a troupe's wielder of withies. Or rather they were until Mieka arrives. Actually short's a good world as he's 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 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 to fit well into a society where women belong in the home and only men can bring change to the 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 Move on the caravan he is guarding. As the journey continues, Raj 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 King.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495360</amazonuk>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]