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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaA G Slatter|title=ChosenThe Briar Book of the Dead

|summary=Alex Verus'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, seer and London magic shop ownerall mine, has had a year of crowded uncomplication since we at last caught up with him. Crowded because he now shares his small flat with unqualified but adept mages Anne and Variam as well as his apprentice LunaI just want to enjoy it for a while. Uncomplicated because his biggest problem seems to be progressing Luna's training and finding someone to pick up Anne and Variam' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's apprenticeship; not huge when his normal kind are , a matter family of life or deathwitches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. However all Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is about the first non-witch to change. You remember that way back in his youth Alex worked be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a dark mage? Well he was hoping to forget thatsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. Was? YesWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, past tenseEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, for now Alexthe town's past has invaded his present leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is in danger of curtailing his futureunder threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502309</amazonuk>1803364548

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan CooperRachel Greenlaw|title=Ghost HawkCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=I loved Susan Cooper's [[The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper|The Dark is Rising Sequence]], but as surprised as 'I am to say this - this book is far better. While still suitable for older children, this is definitely a book that adults will want to read as wellcan hear the song of the sea. The book is more mature than her early workscall of the deep, and while obviously gifted from the start, Cooperanswering beat in my heart.''s talents have matured as well. This book is nothing short of a masterpiece.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782300007</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Michael J Sullivan|title=The Crown Tower: Book 1 of The Riyria Chronicle|rating=4Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Hadrian Blackwater (ex-soldierMira, like her mother before her, ex-lots-is one of-things) the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and Royce Melborn (exemplary thief and grump) are summoned any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to Melengar by Professor Arcadius. The duo may not know each other and arrive separatelyend the wrecking, but as they meet capture the island's leader and begin the ProfessorMira's mission together father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a legend bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is born: The Riyriasecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. (ThatWith 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 elvish for two by the way.) Meanwhile a prostitute named Gwen escapes territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her life. Across home and the road (ok... ones she didn't run far) she goes into business leading her to a place in fantasy novel historyholds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502279</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Broken HomesT Kingfisher|authortitle=Ben AaronovitchThornhedge

|summary=I’ve been waiting for Broken Homes ''You had a right to come out for monthsretake your place.'' T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. MonthsBut whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. When it arrived on my doorstepInstead, our protagonist is Toadling, I whisked it who was stolen away, cackling like Gollum over my by fairies when she was a new precious -born baby and secreted away to the land of fairie where her childhood was no use spent being taught how to anyone until I’d finished it. Then sat and thought about it for a while. Then re-read my favourite bits. The considered further. This is the conclusion I reached: if there are no further Peter Grant books, Mr Aaronovitch, you draw magic from her veins and I are going to have ''words''cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132469</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreview|author=Robin Sloan|title=Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Unemployed and desperateCast out from Rome, Clay Jannon wants Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a job, any job! Sohome 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, despite not having touched a paper book in years, he jumps at the chance self-proclaimed guardians of working the night shift at Mr Penumbra's 24 hour bookstore. Mr P is a very particular employerhealing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The books are lent (not sold) to members of a unique cluball-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. Clay is to serve these visitorsTo them, log their visit in the smallest detail (including their mood, their choice of clothing Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and what they say). Oh change – has no place amongst them and Clay must never open any of the books. He doesn't but he's curious. Perhaps if he realised where his curiosity would lead he'd be a little more cautioustheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782391193</amazonuk>1803362340

Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|isbn=0356518523}}{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Cold Steel: Spiritwalker: Book ThreeAmelia Estelle Dellos|authortitle=Kate ElliottDelilah Recovered

|summary=The Master We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of the Wild Hunt has stolen away Cat Barahalwork, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's husbandjob. SheBut it's being blamed for a murder. Fire mage James Drake wants not to kill herbe. And rebellion Dee is burning up attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the streets back in Europaattack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Can Cat save Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her man and crush her enemies, and maybe even change her world?things will never be the same....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498858</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Siege and StormHadeer Elsbai|authortitle=Leigh BardugoThe Daughters of Izdihar

|summary=Sharon LiDrawing inspiration from Egypt, former coffee shop barista ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and current communityweavers – those with magical abilities -support-worker-cum-apprentice-shamanin a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, continues wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to run Magicals Anonymouslearn to control her abilities and then join the military, a self-help group for those but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with mystic issuesNico. It sounds Giorgina on the other hand did not have a simple lifeprivileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, however there therewhilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's one factor that ensure that 'simple' remains an illusion: her acquaintance rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with the Guardian Nico. What follows is a story of the Cityan unjust society, Defender of the Gate filled with hypocrisy and so forth, The Midnight Mayorcruelty, aka Matthew Swift. Matthew's workload includes investigating from which blossoms a number group 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 admirable women fighting for their rights and along with the mission comes unwanted promotion: Sharon Li, Deputy Midnight Mayorovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500659</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Never PagesHeather Fawcett|authortitle=Graham ThomasEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=''There are two rules that the Dream Investigator must follow:''<br>''1. Document everything.''<br>''2. Keep moving forward.'' Master G Emily Wilde is in search of his one true lovean expert academic scholar on faerie lore, Lucy. But Lucy is lost in the NeverRealmand she has travelled extensively, the dimension that separates the living from whatever comes after. In the NeverRealmand researched meticulously, memories do not exist. So how is Master G - the Dream Investigator - to find write her? From life's work, the very first moment, his journey into the NeverRealm encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is destroying his mind, turning thoughts and knowledge brilliant at research and recollection speaking to sandfaeries, shifting sandshe is not so good with people. He will need courage to face the nightmarish environment. He will need fortitude to resist the degeneration. He will need to find Brekker So when she finds herself far, his unreliable scientist friend. And he'll need far North in the companionship small village of PaisleyHrafvsnik, a dog named after a carpet...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956742203</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Before having somehow offended the Fall|author=Francis Knight|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=After destroying Mahala's power sourcevillage matriarch, Rojan reallyshe is not sure what she has done, really wants nor how to keep his head down. The Ministry thinks he's dead - which helps - but with the last scraps of power fast fading, people are starving redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the danger of riots and chaos loomsright track.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501671</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anthony Ryan|title=Blood Song: Book 1 of Raven's Shadow|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Young Vaelin Al Sorna's father takes him to the gates of the Sixth Order of the Faith Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and leaves him there. Vaelin's father is the King's Battle Lord insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and Vaelin's mother someone the lad has sorely missed since her death but this doesn't matter. As a member of the Order Vaelin has no family except his Order brethren. The long life-threatening training binds him closer to his fellows while exposing him delight, much to greater dangers and mysteries than heEmily's ever knownfrustration. However one day But why is he'll outgrow his comrades. here? One day What does he'll become a name whispered with fear and awe. want? For Vaelin will become a deadly weapon: Hope Killer himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502465</amazonuk>}} {{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 And what exactly is a boy of twelve, orphaned, lonely and unloved. He spends the little free time he has in creating beautiful kites covered in complicated, colourful designs until the day he meets a strange old man who sets him going on the path to his destiny as a saviour of not one but two worlds. But in line with the traditions of the genre, this path will be fraught with fear, danger and loss.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007491220</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie HarbonChristopher Golden|title=Seven Point Eight: The First ChronicleRoad of Bones

|genre=Science FictionHorror|summary=Following several main characters The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic- scientist Paullevel mud, businessman Maxwhich 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, remote viewer Tahra and mystery woman Ava - across two time frames spanning the 1940s because he wanted to the present daygive 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, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Seven Point EightTeig'Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who' blends science fiction and fantasy s mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a sprawlinglocal beauty, absorbing, diffuse novel and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that will attract fans of both genres.'s where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B005IBYKC0</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Royce ProutyAndrew Givler|title=Stoker's ManuscriptSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)

|summary=In ''Matt has a world where vampires are terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that Dan the new romantic heroes, Stoker’s Manuscript Demon is a bit shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a Godsendblissful life in exchange for his soul. '' Poor Dan! I know, Iknow, we shouldn't feel sorry for one, am absolutely delighted to find some good old fashioned evil as sin, night dwelling, blood guzzling, crucifix hating Romanian villainssoul-catching demons. Of course, this means sacrificing sexiness, romance and attractively sulking out of a window but since what we get in exchange But he really is stunning views of Transylvania, thought-through biology (for want of a better word) of the creatures terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and stakes that are elevated beyond one person, I say sharpen up when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the spike pitdotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099574454</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bee RidgwayOlivie Blake|title=The River of No ReturnAtlas Six

|summary= Nick was born in England in 1790 and is rather partial to pickled bits of pig and beef jelly. He finds this rather difficult to explain to his girlfriendsDark, sharp, him being a young man and this being Americahighly inquisitive, 2013. His 19th century Napoleonic war wounds are hard to explain away too. His second lease on life in the 21st century is thanks to the mysterious Guild whose main rule is that no one can return to the time or home country from which they originated. He doesn't mind as they pay him well for his silence but all this is about to change. Eventually they seem to think that they can send him back and won't take no for an answer. Any thought of a possible catch is suppressed by thoughts of Julia, the girl Nick left behind in England. ItThe Atlas Six''s all makes its publishing debut after becoming a bit fishy thoughTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718176987</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mur LaffertyDaniel Abraham|title=The Shambling Guide to New York City (The Shambling Guides)Age of Ash

|summary=Zoe is an unemployed book editor who had to leave her last job, and indeed her last cityWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in rather a hurry. Zoe's personal exodus brings her to New York hand and the possibility of a job meeting that sounds perfect: editing a travel guide to NYC itselfshe dreads. However, its projected readership isn't one for which Zoe has written before. New York Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is full at a point in the turning of monsters or coterie to be politeyears when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. Vampires, werewolves, demons, sprites, zombies… It is the night between the list goes on as all alternative life is there, both in funeral of a Prince and out the coronation of the officehis successor. So For a night the first question Kithamar is if she survives her colleagues, will she survive her readership? The second question being, of course, who or what is Granny Good Mae?un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501906</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen Lloyd JonesAnn Sei Lin|title=The String DiariesRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary= Hannah Wilde flees into Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Welsh mountains with daughter Leah and husband Nate while Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the life blood slowly seeps out sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. They run He asks her to come with him, to escape leave the evil life of dreary servitude that is all she has relentlessly haunted Hannahknown. Well, soon Kurara won's family for generations. Some people see it t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a Hungarian legend but shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the Wildes it's real and insatiable and won't forget themworld. They know what She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to do: verify everyonehunt down shikigami, trust no one and, if in any doubt, RUN! Although one day that may not be enough.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472204670</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan CooperB09Q3P283Y|title=The Dark is Rising Sequence|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|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 a cherished memory 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 in a manner not possible for an adult, but this is still an excellent read, whatever age you may be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0140316884</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewShadebringer|author=Lilith Saintcrow|title=The Red Plague AffairGrayson W Hooper|rating=54

|summary=Sorceress PrimeClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, Emma Bannon, has done many things nor is he particularly interested in service of Queen and Country, and willingly. Her latest mission to track down a missing doctor puts her career in the path of a deadly contagion military. If he's honest - the Red plague. Mentath Archibald Clare which Clyde usually is perhaps the only person capable , with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of helping her find the doctor rut he's in time. But asking Clare, He's good in training and Valentinelli his assassin servant, to assist in the chase risks exposing them to the Redis quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. And Clare does not have the sorcerous advantages that Emma possessesHe's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500934</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan EeJennifer Saint|title=Angelfall (Penryn and the End of Days Book 1)Elektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Angels have ransacked 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the Earth and humankind is facing the apocalypse. The people story of three women who are left are desperate and starving. Penryn is one of live in the survivors and the protector heavily male dominated world of her disabled younger sister PaigeAncient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, 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 a quest containing Elektra are all manner bit players in the story of horrors both human the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and supernatural, Penryn is forced to make dangerous decisions and question her own humanitythe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144477851X</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel AbrahamDean Koontz|title=The Tyrant's Law (Dagger and the Coin)Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Cithrin Bel Sarcour has arrived in Suddapal Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to complete her apprenticeship with the Medean Bankbe a mercurial character yet, but her past actions may have put her for he's lived in dangera nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. After being betrayed by his comrade YardemBut when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, Marcus Wester call it a supernatural urge – has set out with Kitap rol Keshmet demanded of him that he go to kill a goddess. Clara Kalliamderelict diner, who should be disgraced after her husband's treasonfind a gold coin worth a fortune, is surviving cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the edge lam. And all this is just in time for two of high society thanks those typical Men in Black types to her youngest sonturn up and suggest he's friendship with the Lord Regent Geder Palliako - and is ready of interest to risk everything them. Helped to save her nation from Palliako. Meanwhileescape, all Geder wants he finds his flight is peace and prosperity for interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that nation. Even if it means killing everyone who disagrees with him to make sure he can get itis not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316080705</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Howard Andrew JonesTasha Suri|title=The Desert of Souls (The Chronicle of Sword and Sand)Jasmine Throne

|summary= Place: Baghdad Time: 8th century Arabian-Nights-Time A dying man gives Dabir, tutor at On the Caliph's palacenight of her sacred burning, a precious artefact, making him promise Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to look after itthe pyre. Unfortunately it gets stolen before he has the chance She is immediately sent to. Jaffar be imprisoned on the son Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the Caliph's vizier realises that it has magical qualities that make it even mysterious deathless waters. But now the temple is nothing more precious than it appears and isn't too well pleasedan overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. He gives Dabir Instead of reporting her for such a chance to redeem himselfgruesome crime, sending him Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and Asim, Captain of begs for the Caliph's guard, girl to find it. The men set out on their quest facing danger, death, sorcery and someone whose presence could get them into even deeper troublebecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781854637</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Courtenay GrimwoodGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Exiled Blade|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Tycho is back to face the dangerous intrigue of the Venetian Court. While he wants nothing more than to spend his nights with beautiful Guilietta Millioni, when the worst winter in living memory hits the city, and Duchess AlexaWitch's treacherous rival builds a stronghold in Montenegro and attacks Guilietta's son, Tycho must really take up the responsibility of his office as Blade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498505</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Ford|title=Herald of the StormHeart|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 (i.e. by anyone) 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=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The former heir Rixium is now just plain Rix as he flees his ancestral castle in Hightspall hotly pursued by the marauding Cythonians, invading his home along with his homeland. Accompanying Rix are Glynnie, a young maidservant and her little brother Benn. 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, Rix's other friend, a Pale and therefore ex-slave of the Cythonians, Tali has been kidnapped on the orders of the evil chancellor. He isn't the only one after her, just her current possessor. The other is Lyf, the Cythonian King who needs only one more of the legendary black pearls to secure his omnipotence, i.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=54

|summary= Adamat, investigator A modern and ex-police inspectorapproachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, is summoned remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to the Skyline Palace forlive in peace, he assumeshowever, an audience 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 kingstake—and refuses to leave her alone. HoweverAfter an initial period of mistrust, when he arrives, the grounds are in darkness and a greater darkness lurks within. The KingAngrboda begins to fall for Loki's Hielman bodyguard are all dead charms, and the royal two start an unusual family won't be around for much longer as Field Marshal Tamas made of the homeup a half-grown Adros Military has led dead daughter, a son that's a coup. Tamas wants to hire Adamat for his investigating prowess but neither Adamatwolf, Tamas nor the mages and sorcerers under Tamasanother son that' command realise what will be unleashed as s a result… or perhaps Tamas does. Meanwhile a servant girl starts the fight for the survival of herself and a small but very important childsnake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650199X</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=C Robert CargillHannah Whitten|title=Dreams and ShadowsFor the Wolf

|summary=Once upon a timeIn Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sweet boy met a sweet girl and they fell perfectly in lovesacrifice. Their love To Red's misfortune, she is rich and fulfilling and truethe second daughter. They did Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what people in love doto expect: moved in togetherwithin the woods is a wolf, 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 he is the start of something bigger than even one who will decide the switcher can begin to imagine.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575130091</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Helen Lowe|title=The Gathering fate of the Lost|rating=4their kingdom.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=It may only have taken If she is not a year for worthy sacrifice, the second in the ''Wall of Night'' series monsters he keeps contained to hit the shelveswoods will be released, but on Haarth five years have passed since [[The Heir of Night by Helen Lowe|The Heir of Night]] disappeared from and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the Wallstories go. She's known not to have died in But when Red enters the Swarm attackwoods, but was last seen in the wilds of Jaransor and many believe her now expecting nothing more than to be dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500039</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Graham Thomas|title=Maria & The Devil|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=''The Devil has ridden out''. Maria's lover is Montana's most feared outlaw. He has left her alone in a secluded cabin deep in killed within the wilderness. Maria is pregnant. Left in solitudehour, she develops a familiar routine finds that feels safe. But the isolation is pervasive and Maria's defences against it legends are crumblinglies. And while she waits for her lover to return, she The wolf is discovered by Rickman Chill, whose gang is tracking the Devil in not a relentless quest for revenge. What will happen when Chill discovers Mariamonster—he's identity? Will the Devil return in time? a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00BFEC2NI</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{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 up around the block but he lives in hope that 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 to live long enough to pay him. Meanwhile elsewhere, the Engine powering the world (literally) is dying, although the populous is blissfully oblivious. Is there a connection? Joshua Richards doesn't know, but there seems to be a huge part of himself he's not acquainted with either… at least not yet. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0987478605</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francis KnightJohn Gwynne|title=Fade To BlackThe Shadow Of The Gods

|summary=In a city hemmed The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in by mountains that's grown the only way it can - upwards - Rojan's job is shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to find peoplesee. Usually they're runaways or bountiesThis story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, easy money and guilt freeJohn Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, just like Rojan likes itwith mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. But then Rojan's niece This is takena thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and despite never having met her, Rojan will gritty world in which our heroes must do anything it takes to get her backbattle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501663</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|author=Melanie Rawn|title=Glass Thorns - Elsewhens (Glass Thorns 2)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Only a little while has passed since we last spent time with Touchstone, the touring theatre company that not only shows the audience the performance, but enables them Move on to experience, feel and taste it as a 4D hallucination. 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 is still getting his 'Elsewhens': the premonitions of alternative futures that come as nightmares and daydreams. Yes, Elsewhens, 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 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>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]