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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate GriffinA G Slatter|title=The Glass God (Magicals Anonymous)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Sharon Li, former coffee shop barista and current community-support-worker-cum-apprentice-shaman, continues to run Magicals Anonymous, a self-help group for those with mystic issues. It sounds a simple life, however there there's one factor that ensure that 'simple' remains an illusion: her acquaintance with the Guardian Briar Book of the City, Defender of the Gate and so forth, The Midnight Mayor, aka Matthew Swift. Matthew's workload includes investigating a number of supernatural disappearances. Or at least it did till he too went missing. So who ya gonna call? No, they don't call them; they call Sharon and along with the mission comes unwanted promotion: Sharon Li, Deputy Midnight Mayor.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500659</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Never Pages|author=Graham ThomasDead|rating=45

|summary=''There are two rules 's a part of me that the Dream Investigator must follow:''<br>''1. Document everythingwants to keep this just to myself for however long I can.''<br>''2This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. Keep moving forwardI just want to enjoy it for a while.''

Master G is in search Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of his one true love, Lucy. But Lucy is lost in the NeverRealmBriar's, a family of witches who protect the dimension that separates town and the living wider world from whatever comes afterthe Darklands. In the NeverRealmThough she has always wished for magic, memories do not exist. So how Ellie Briar is Master G - the Dream Investigator first non- witch to find be born into her? From 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. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the very first momentBriar Witch, his journey into the NeverRealm is destroying his mindtown's leader, turning thoughts and knowledge Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and recollection to sandcentre, shifting sand. He will need courage Ellie uncovers the rare ability to face communicate with the nightmarish environment. He will need fortitude to resist dead, putting her at the degenerationheart of a maelstrom of chaos. He will need Reeling from one family secret to find Brekkeranother, his unreliable scientist friend. And heEllie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches'll need the companionship of Paisleylegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, a dog named after a carpet..is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956742203</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|title=Before Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the Fall|author=Francis Knight|rating=4wrecks.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=After destroying Mahala's power sourceMira, Rojan reallylike her mother before her, really wants is one of the seven who swim out to keep his head downsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. The Ministry thinks heBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's dead - which helps - but father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the last scraps 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 power fast fadingthe smuggler's territory, people are starving and Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the danger future of riots her home and chaos loomsthe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501671</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony RyanT Kingfisher|title=Blood Song: Book 1 of Raven's ShadowThornhedge

|summary=Young Vaelin Al Sorna's father takes him 'You had a right to the gates of the Sixth Order of the Faith and leaves him thereretake your place. Vaelin'' T Kingfisher's father latest novella is the King's Battle Lord a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and Vaelin's mother someone the lad has sorely missed since well beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her death but this doesn't matterstory. As Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a member of the Order Vaelin has no family except his Order brethren. The long lifenew-threatening training binds him closer born baby and secreted away to his fellows while exposing him the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to greater dangers draw magic from her veins and mysteries than he's ever known. However one day he'll outgrow his comrades. One day he'll become a name whispered with fear and awe. For Vaelin will become a deadly weapon: Hope Killer himselfcast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502465</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreview|title=The Mirror Chronicles: the Bell Between Worlds|author=Ian Johnstone|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The hero of this long and engrossing book is Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a boy of twelve, orphaned, lonely home and unlovedwhere her future can thrive rather than stagnate. He spends But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the little free time he has in creating beautiful kites covered in complicatedpowerful Accademia, colourful designs until the day he meets a strange old man who sets him on self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the path power to his destiny as a saviour of not one but two worldsprotect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. But in line with the traditions of the genreTo them, this path will be fraught with fear, danger Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and losstheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007491220</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Marie Harbon|title=Seven Point Eight: The First Chronicle|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Following several main characters Set in the near- scientist Pauldistant future, businessman Maxin a world on the verge of climate collapse, remote viewer Tahra and mystery woman Ava - across two time frames spanning the 1940s Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the present day, ''Seven Point Eight'' blends science fiction and fantasy in a sprawling, absorbing, diffuse novel rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that will attract fans one of both genresthe Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B005IBYKC0</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Royce ProutyAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Stoker's ManuscriptDelilah Recovered

|summary=In We meet Dee at a world where vampires are the new romantic heroespoint when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, Stoker’s Manuscript is a bit be about to look up. Out of a Godsend. Iwork, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for one, am absolutely delighted an accountant's job. But it's not to find some good old fashioned evil as sin, night dwelling, blood guzzling, crucifix hating Romanian villainsbe. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. Of course, this means sacrificing sexiness, romance and attractively sulking out of a window She survives the attack but since what we get in exchange is stunning views of Transylvanianot unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, thought-through biology (for want living an ordinary life. Slivers of a better word) memory of the creatures and stakes things that are elevated beyond one person, I say sharpen up not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the spike pitsame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099574454</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bee RidgwayHadeer Elsbai|title=The River Daughters of No ReturnIzdihar

|summary= Nick was born in England in 1790 and is rather partial to pickled bits Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of pig women and beef jellyweavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. He finds this rather difficult to explain to his girlfriendsNehal, him being a young man and this being Americaborn into the upper class, 2013. His 19th century Napoleonic war wounds are hard wishes to explain away too. His second lease on life in attend the 21st century is thanks Weaving Academy to the mysterious Guild whose main rule is that no one can return learn to control her abilities and then join the time or home country from which they originated. He doesn't mind as they pay him well for his silence military, but all this instead she is about to changeforced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Eventually they seem Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to think that they can send him back provide for her family and wonmaintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women't take no for an answers rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. Any thought of What follows is a possible catch is suppressed by thoughts story of Juliaan unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, the girl Nick left behind in England. It's all from which blossoms a bit fishy thoughgroup of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718176987</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mur LaffertyHeather Fawcett|title=The Shambling Guide to New York City (The Shambling Guides)Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Zoe Emily Wilde is an unemployed book editor who had to leave her last jobexpert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and indeed researched meticulously, to write her last city, in rather a hurry. Zoelife's personal exodus brings her to New York and work, the possibility very first encyclopaedia of a job that sounds perfect: editing a travel guide to NYC itselffaeries. HoweverWhilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, its projected readership isn't one for which Zoe has written before. New York City she is full of monsters or coterie to be politenot so good with people. VampiresSo when she finds herself far, werewolvesfar North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, demonshaving somehow offended the village matriarch, sprites, zombies… the list goes on as all alternative life she is therenot sure what she has done, both in nor how to redeem herself and out of put her final investigations for her book back on the officeright track. So the first question is if she survives Enter Wendell Bambleby, her colleaguesdashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, will she survive her readershipall charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? The second question being, of course, who or And what exactly is Granny Good Maegoing on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501906</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen Lloyd JonesChristopher Golden|title=The String DiariesRoad of Bones|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary= Hannah Wilde flees into The Kolyma Highway… the Welsh mountains with daughter Leah and husband Nate while 'Road of Bones'… the life blood slowly seeps out of himR504. They run to escape Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the evil that has relentlessly haunted Hannahworld's family for generationsmost notorious routes. Some people see For months of the year it as 's a Hungarian legend but to spread of sheet ice suspended above the Wildes permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring's real and insatiable and wonsees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't forget themthink google streetview updates it very often. They know what Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to do: verify everyonegive 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 a bit rich, trust no for one andof our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, if John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in any doubtthe pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, RUN! gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. Although one day And that may not be enough.'s where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472204670</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan CooperAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Dark is Rising SequenceDebt Collection Book 1)|rating=54

|summary=As ''Matt has a child, I read The Grey King, book 4 in Susan Cooperterrible life. Seriously—it's The Dark Is Rising Sequenceawful. I loved the book It is so much it topped my Christmas list for years, but sadly Santa never delivered. As an adult I finally bought bad that Dan the entire sequence for myself. This book Demon 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 a cherished memory shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of their own childhood or as a book discovered as an adult. I'll admit that as child, this can book can completely draw into other worlds blissful life in a manner not possible exchange for an adult, but this is still an excellent read, whatever age you may behis soul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0140316884</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Lilith Saintcrow|title=The Red Plague Affair|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Sorceress Prime, Emma BannonPoor Dan! I know, has done many things in service of Queen and CountryI know, and willingly. Her latest mission to track down a missing doctor puts her in the path of a deadly contagion we shouldn't feel sorry for soul- the Red plaguecatching demons. Mentath Archibald Clare But he really is perhaps the only person capable of helping her find the doctor in timea terrible salesman. But asking Clare, He never hits his targets and Valentinelli his assassin servant, when he fails to assist in the chase risks exposing them get even Matt to sign on the Red. And Clare does not have the sorcerous advantages dotted line, he's so desperate that Emma possesseshe simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500934</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan EeOlivie Blake|title=Angelfall (Penryn and the End of Days Book 1)The Atlas Six

|summary=Angels have ransacked the Earth Dark, sharp, and humankind is facing the apocalypse. highly inquisitive, ''The people who are left are desperate and starving. Penryn is one of the survivors and the protector of her disabled younger sister Paige, and when Paige is kidnapped by an angel for an unknown purpose Penryn has to do everything within her power to find and rescue her. Embarking on Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a quest containing all manner of horrors both human and supernatural, Penryn is forced to make dangerous decisions and question her own humanityTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144477851X</amazonuk>1529095239

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|title=The Tyrant's Law (Dagger and the Coin)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Cithrin Bel Sarcour has arrived in Suddapal to complete her apprenticeship with the Medean Bank, 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 on the edge Age of high society thanks to her youngest son's friendship with the Lord Regent Geder Palliako - and is ready to risk everything to save her nation from Palliako. Meanwhile, all Geder wants is peace and prosperity for that nation. Even if it means killing everyone who disagrees with him to make sure he can get it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316080705</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Howard Andrew Jones|title=The Desert of Souls (The Chronicle of Sword and Sand)|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= Place: Baghdad Time: 8th century Arabian-Nights-Time A dying man gives Dabir, tutor at the Caliph's palace, a precious artefact, making him promise to look after it. Unfortunately it gets stolen before he has the chance to. Jaffar the son of the Caliph's vizier realises that it has magical qualities that make it even more precious than it appears and isn't too well pleased. He gives Dabir a chance to redeem himself, sending him and Asim, Captain of the Caliph's guard, to find it. The men set out on their quest facing danger, death, sorcery and someone whose presence could get them into even deeper trouble.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781854637</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Courtenay Grimwood|title=The Exiled BladeAsh

|summary=Tycho We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is back to face at a point in the dangerous intrigue turning of years when the Venetian Courtworlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. While he wants nothing more than to spend his nights with beautiful Guilietta Millioni, when It is the worst winter in living memory hits night between the city, and Duchess Alexa's treacherous rival builds funeral of a stronghold in Montenegro Prince and attacks Guilietta's son, Tycho must really take up the responsibility coronation of his office as Bladesuccessor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498505</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard FordAnn Sei Lin|title=Herald of the StormRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Nobul is Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a blacksmith massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and ex-mercenary who thinks he has next make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to nothing until even tell her that she is taken away from a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. Rag He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is a young waifall she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, surviving on because the streets from stealth and Midori is destroyed by a talent for stealing. Waylian spends his days poring over books and dodging verbal abuse monstrous paper spirit known as a witch's apprentice. Meanwhile Merrickshikigami, drinker, gambler 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 she is forced toflee out into the world. River She joins Himura aboard the assassin and Kaira one of the temple guard Shieldmaidens just continue what they always doOrihime, day ina sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, day out. For in Steelhaven daily life is and a routine round whole world of existence until one day something happens… and suddenly it's not.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472203925</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian IrvineB09Q3P283Y|title=Rebellion: Tainted Realm: Book 2Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=54

|summary=The former heir Rixium is now just plain Rix as he flees his ancestral castle in Hightspall hotly pursued by Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the marauding Cythonians, invading his home along with his homelandVietnam War. Accompanying Rix are Glynnie, a young maidservant and her little brother Benn. Hampered by his entanglement with the enemy resulting He's not really that invested in the brutal loss of his right handfight against Communism, Rix nor is also still mourning his best friend Tobry, killed when hurled from he particularly interested in a towercareer in the military. Meanwhile, RixIf he's other friendhonest - which Clyde usually is, a Pale and therefore exwith himself at least -slave of the Cythonians, Tali has been kidnapped on the orders of the evil chancellor. He isnhe hasn't the only got many choices and this one after her, just her current possessor. The other is Lyfat least, the Cythonian King who needs only one more gets him out of the legendary black pearls to secure his omnipotence, i.e. the black pearl embedded in Talirut he's headin. TaliHe's escape from slavery came at a price, but the future for both her good in training and Rix seems is quickly put onto a lot more costlynon commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498297</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian McClellanJennifer Saint|title=Promise of Blood (Powder Mage Trilogy)Elektra|rating=54|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary= Adamat, investigator and ex-police inspector, is summoned to 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the Skyline Palace for, he assumes, an audience with story of three women who live in the kingheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. HoweverCassandra, when he arrivesClytemnestra, the grounds are in darkness and a greater darkness lurks within. The King's Hielman bodyguard Elektra are all dead and bit players in the royal family won't be around for much longer as Field Marshal Tamas story of the home-grown Adros Military has led a coupTrojan War. Tamas wants to hire Adamat for his investigating prowess but neither Adamat, Tamas nor Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the mages most compelling stories 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 childmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650199X</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=C Robert CargillDean Koontz|title=Dreams and ShadowsQuicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Once upon Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a timemercurial character yet, for he's lived in a sweet boy met nun-run orphanage since he was a sweet girl three-day old foundling, and they fell perfectly in love. Their love now is rich and fulfilling and truestarting a career on a needless magazine's staff. They did what people in love do: moved in togetherBut when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, got marriedcall it mind-control, had call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a babyfortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And then something most people don't believe exists crawls into their house through an open window all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and exchanges their perfect baby for a changeling. Itsuggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the start discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of something bigger than even the switcher can begin to imagineburgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575130091</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen LoweTasha Suri|title=The Gathering of the LostJasmine Throne|rating=4.5

|summary=It may only have taken a year for the second in On the ''Wall night of Night'' series her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to hit the shelves, but pyre. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on Haarth five years have passed since [[The Heir the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of Night by Helen Lowe|The Heir of Night]] disappeared people who got powers from the Wallmysterious deathless waters. She's known not to have died in But now the Swarm attacktemple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, but was last seen in Malini claims that the wilds of Jaransor girl saved her from an attacker and many believe begs for the girl to become her now to be deadown personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500039</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham ThomasGenevieve Gornichec|title=Maria & The DevilWitch's Heart

|summary=''The Devil has ridden out''. Maria's lover is Montana's most feared outlawA modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. He has left her alone She hides in a secluded cabin deep in forest at the edge of the wilderness. Maria is pregnant. Left in solitudenine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she develops a familiar routine that feels safe. But was survived burnt at the isolation is pervasive and Mariastake three times because of Odin's defences against it are crumblingwrath. And while she waits for her lover Her attempts to returnlive in peace, she is discovered by Rickman Chillhowever, whose gang is tracking the Devil in a relentless quest for revenge. What will happen are quickly thwarted when Chill discovers Maria's identity? Will the Devil return in time? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BFEC2NI</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=Beyond Belief|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Joshua Richards isn't the most successful PI; clients aren't exactly lining Loki shows up around the block but he lives in hope that with her literal heart—the one day his luck will change… and it does. Within a couple of weeks he has a sudden plethora of enquirers; the bad news is that none of them seem was cut from her chest before she was tied to live long enough the stake—and refuses to pay himleave her alone. Meanwhile elsewhereAfter an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the Engine powering the world (literally) is dyingtwo start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, although the populous is blissfully oblivious. Is there a connection? Joshua Richards doesnson that't knows a wolf, but there seems to be a huge part of himself heand another son that's not acquainted with either… at least not yeta snake. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0987478605</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francis KnightHannah Whitten|title=Fade To BlackFor the Wolf

|summary=In a city hemmed in by mountains thatRed's grown family, the only way it can - upwards - Rojanfirst daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's job misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to find people. Usually they're runaways or bountiesexpect: within the woods is a wolf, easy money and guilt free, just like Rojan likes ithe is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. But then Rojan's niece If she is takennot a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and despite the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never having met herbe returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, Rojan will do anything it takes expecting nothing more than to get her backbe killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501663</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melanie RawnJohn Gwynne|title=Glass Thorns - Elsewhens (Glass Thorns 2)The Shadow Of The Gods

|summary= Only a little while has passed since we last spent time with TouchstoneThe Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the touring theatre company that not only shows era of the audience Vikings in the performanceshadow of Ragnarok, but enables them when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to experience, feel and taste it as a 4D hallucinationsee. This time they're being taken beyond their comfort zone as they're cornered into escorting a princess home from the foreign Continent. Meanwhile Cade Silversun story is still getting his 'Elsewhens': the premonitions of alternative futures that come as nightmares and daydreams. Yes, Elsewhensultimate in High Fantasy, those things that warned him about a woman; the same woman that friend and colleague Mieka Windthistle is in love with. Indeed, Touchstone is forced John Gwynne certainly does justice to cope with foreign travel, foreign attitudes and, for some of them, the feeling that all isn't as it should be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781166625</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aimee Bender|title=Willful Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary= In this collection we're shown the reaction of ten men , with terminal illness prognosesmythical creatures, a large man purchasing a very unusual pet archaic language and the case of battles galore. This is a hard-done-by boyfriend. There are also delights like the shop that sells words crafted into what they readthick book, a boy with keys instead of fingers an intricate plot and the beautifully touching tale of the pumpkin-headed mother who gives birth fascinating characters that are woven together to an iron-headed baby. No, this isn't your average collection of predictable short stories; these are [[:Category:Aimee Bender|Aimee Bender]] short storiescreate a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099558858</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|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 Move 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 Company|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The gods are dead. The Magelords murdered them and hurled their bodies from heaven and are also slowly dominating the world below. Dorminia is already in their iron grasp, policed by the feared Crimson Watch and the terrorising Augmentors. It's not even safe to think as Mind Hawks monitor and punish with pain and suffering. However there is a resistance, albeit fragmented and comparatively impotent but the situation is worsening so they must make a stand or lose everything (and everyone) they love. Is the evil magic stronger than the heroes' own resources? They're dying to find out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851328</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James P Blaylock|title=Lord Kelvin's Machine|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=On 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 St. Ives witnessing the cold-blooded murder of his beloved, shot in the head at point blank range whilst pinned under the wheels of a carriage. It is a scene that will play out again and again in his mind, driving him to the brink of madness and desperation. There appears, however, to be a glimmer of hope in the form of a mysterious machine in the possession of the Royal Academy of Science; a machine that may hold the secret to time itself. Is it possible for our hero to harness the power of Lord Kelvin’s Machine and rewrite history?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689843</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James P Blaylock|title=Homunculus|rating=2.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=What could possibly be the connection between a mechanical toy crocodile that eats birds, a giant emerald, an oxygenator device for a spaceship and a tiny alien man with the power of life and death? The answer, of course, is that each item on this unusual list has been placed inside one of four identical boxes. The boxes are hidden in various locations in order to prevent the contents from falling into the wrong hands, but evil has a habit of seeking things out....|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689827</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Terence Blacker|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>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]