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|summary=Lucid is more than a full-immersion role play game; it'' There's THE full-immersion role play game. Its inventor Seth Pascal has ensured a part of me that all that needs wants to be done is to plug in and the player's brain will take them keep this just to the virtual world while during sleep, providing perfect lucidity and an alternative life within an avatar. However it's also becoming the game to die myself forhowever long I can. YesThis secret magic of my own, all mine, literally die for as players are being murdered while they're connectedat last. Detective Evan Waugh is the investigator given the case I just want to prove that he still has what enjoy it takes. However there's an added complication for both he and Seth as the investigation continuesa while. Her name is Ellen, the woman for whom Lucid isn't just a way of life, it ''is'' her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00G0T342Q</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The Time TravellerWithin a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's Almanac|author=Anne VanderMeer , a family of witches who protect the town and Jeff VanderMeer|rating=4|genre=Anthologies|summary=From Hthe wider world from the Darklands.G Wells Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to ''Doctor Who''be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, there is something about her training as a good time-travel story that has steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the power to ignite Briar Witch, the imagination in a town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way unique to left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the genre. Perhaps it is due rare ability to communicate with the fact that when dealing with dead, putting her at the subject heart of a maelstrom of time travel, literally ''anything is possible''. Well, almost anything.chaos..apart Reeling from going back in time and killing your Grandfatherone family secret to another, which we know would cause an almighty paradox Ellie must decide who to trust and probably destroy determine what to do as the universeBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>1803364548

 {{newreview|title=The Labyrinth of Dreaming BooksFrontpage|author=Walter Moers|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=It's been two hundred years since Optimus Yarnspinner last went to the great literary city of Bookholm, where people trawled underground hells for classic works of Zamonian literature, and our hero had an almighty, Odyssey-like journey through the nether regions. He would not have ever expected to return, except for a very intriguing letter he receives one day in his authorly garret. It contains such mystery, including the idea that he wrote it to himself, to force him to journey back to Bookholm – a Bookholm completely rebuilt after the ending of the last novel. The city is much more advanced, the subterranean areas seemingly more at peace – yet something is definitely afoot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578263</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=AJ Smith|title=The Black Guard (The Long War)|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Ro Canarn is falling to the brutal conquest of the Red Knights. Duke Hector, its ruler, is on the verge of death and his twin offspring Lady Bronwyn and Lord Bromvy are on the run, outcast. However this is merely a portent of greater troubles ahead. One of the evil Seven Sisters is seen accompanying the Red Knights so if there is a secret agenda it's not a good one. Meanwhile if Ro Canarn can fall, is anywhere safe anymore?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855625</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRachel Greenlaw|title=A Dance of Cloaks|author=David Dalglish|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Thren Felhorn is the leader of the Spider Guild and is a name feared by everyone in Veldaren. For good reason, for Thren has united the Guilds, those groups populated by the thieves Compass and murderers of the city. Thren’s long term aim is to lead the Guilds in a war against the Trifect – the three richest families who control the majority of the city’s legal activities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502783</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Bronze Gods|author=A A AguireBlade|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=One of the many reasons I love fantasy is discovering the new worlds that the authors have created. Where is the world? What kind creatures inhabit it? What are the customs, et cetera, et cetera. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating and steampunk mixed with fantasy is the double hit. Throw in some murder most frighteningly horrid and we have the makings of a really good time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tone Almhjell|title=The Twistrose Key|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lin and her family are living in a rented house in the city because Lin's mother has been given her dream job as professor of traditional songs at the university. Lin's novelist father doesn't mind: he can write and play at riddling in the city as well as anywhere. But Lin hates it. She misses the farm where she was brought up and she misses playing at troll-hunting with her friend Niklas. But most of all, she misses her pet vole, Rufus, who is buried under a rosebush. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349001669</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Omens|author=Kelley Armstrong|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Olivia Taylor-Jones has a charmed life. Her family is rich, her fiance perfect and though she has some questions about her career, she knows that things will work themselves out. Until she learns that she's adopted - her true parents America's most infamous serial killers. Suddenly on the run from the media, Olivia finds shelter in the small town of Cainsville. It's a strange sort of place - full of oddball characters and gargoyles that seem to only appear at certain times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184744511X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)|author=Catherine Fisher|rating=43.5

|summary=Ok. Let's catch you up. Jake's father is still lost in time. Venn's wife is still dead. Summer, the Queen of the Shee, still hasn't made Venn her husband. Sarah still hasn't prevented I can hear the destruction song of the future by Janus. And the Scarred Man still hasn't done, well, whatever it is that he's trying to dosea. The Chronoptika, a mirror made call of black obsidian and a time travel device, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and the restdeep, but they all want different things from it. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Caleb Carr|title=The Legend of Broken|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=A historical manuscript has been found in what is now Germany (so the story goes) chronicling an ancient civilisation inhabiting the fortress city of Broken (or Brocken answering beat in the original German)my heart. Those who anger the government are cast out into the surrounding forests where they must face the dangers of man-eating wolves and worse. These outcasts can only survive by collaborating and becoming one tribe: the Bane. Although, to be honest, they're becoming a bit of a nuisance with their terrorist ways, therefore Sixt Arnem, Sentek of the Broken Army is ordered to eradicate them for once and for all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751551538</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Elysian Fields|author=Suzanne Johnson|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Drusilla Jaco (DJ) is the sentinel for the preternatural community in the greater New Orleans area and is still recovering from bereavement, Katrina and broken ribs from her last adventure. No such luck as life taking things easy on her, however, as it is discovered that the copycat of a famous serial killer is not, in fact, a copycat. The Axeman of New Orleans himself has been raised from the dead by a necromancer or necromancers unknown. To make matters worse, her loup-garou fiend Jake bit her in a fit of pique and her best friend’s creepy boyfriend won’t leave her alone. She doesn’t know what he wants and she doesn’t know whether she’ll turn into a wolf at the next full moon but she does know that the Axeman is after her, specifically. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755397703</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|title=Apocalypse Now Now|author=Charlie Human|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Baxter Zevcenko is Rosevear, a sixteen year old student in South Africa who believes everything in life is business related remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and for plundering the sole purpose of increasing his own powerwrecks. Baxter deals porn at his school and Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the leader of a gang of misfits seven who have carved swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a niche within trap to end the school’s hierarchy out of wrecking, they capture the student populations need for smutisland's leader and Mira's father. The group Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is called secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the Spider and Baxter believes himself sea. With only nine days to be unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the arachnid at watched streets of foreign islands to the centre heart of an impressive web with the ability smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to manipulate and scheme his way stop at nothing to power save the future of her home and riches. His heroes are Rasputin and Machiavelli and we are made aware very early on that as well as being a despicable power hungry megalomaniac he is also quite possibly insanethe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780891318</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaT Kingfisher|title=ChosenThornhedge

|summary=Alex Verus, seer and London magic shop owner, has had a year of crowded uncomplication since we 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 Luna. Uncomplicated because his biggest problem seems to be progressing Luna's training and finding someone to pick up Anne and Variam's apprenticeship; not huge when his normal kind are a matter of life or death. However all is about to change. You remember that way back in his youth Alex worked for had a dark mage? Well he was hoping right to forget thatretake your place. Was? Yes, past tense, for now Alex's past has invaded his present and is in danger of curtailing his future.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502309</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Susan Cooper|title=Ghost Hawk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I loved Susan CooperT Kingfisher's [[The Dark latest novella is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper|The Dark a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is Rising Sequence]]a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, but as surprised as I am to say this - this book Thornhedge is far betternot her story. While still suitable for older childrenInstead, this our protagonist is definitely Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a book that adults will want new-born baby and secreted away to the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to read as well. The book is more mature than draw magic from her early works, veins and while obviously gifted from the start, Cooper's talents have matured as well. This book is nothing short of a masterpiececast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782300007</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreview|author=Michael J Sullivan|title=The Crown Tower: Book 1 of The Riyria Chronicle|rating=4Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate.5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Hadrian Blackwater (ex-soldierBut as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, ex-lotsthe self-proclaimed guardians of-things) the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and Royce Melborn (exemplary thief its citizens from plagues and grump) are summoned to Melengar by Professor Arcadiuscurses. The duo may not know each other all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and arrive separatelyguard it above all else. To them, but as they meet Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and begin the Professor's mission together a legend is born: The Riyria. (That's elvish for two by the way.) Meanwhile a prostitute named Gwen escapes to save her life. Across the road (ok... she didn't run far) she goes into business leading her to a change – has no place in fantasy novel historyamongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502279</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|title=Broken Homes|author=Ben Aaronovitch|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=I’ve been waiting for Broken Homes to come out for months. Months. When it arrived Set in the near-distant future, in a world on my doorstepthe verge of climate collapse, I whisked it away, cackling like Gollum over my new precious and was no use Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to anyone until I’d finished it. Then sat save the day and thought about it for a whilerescue what little remains. Then reWhat no-read my favourite bits. The considered further. This is one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the conclusion I reached: if there are no further Peter Grant books, Mr Aaronovitch, you and I are going to have ''words''call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132469</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robin SloanAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Mr Penumbra's 24-hour BookstoreDelilah Recovered|rating=4.5

|summary=Unemployed and desperateWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, Clay Jannon wants a jobjust might, any job! Sobe about to look up. Out of work, despite not having touched a paper book in yearsabout to lose her flat, he jumps at the chance of working the night shift at Mr PenumbraDee is up for an accountant's job. But it's 24 hour bookstorenot to be. Mr P Dee is a very particular employerattacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. The books are lent (She survives the attack but not sold) to members of a unique clubunscathed. Clay is Witch hunters? What on earth has that to serve these visitorsdo with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, log their visit in the smallest detail (including their mood, their choice living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of clothing and what they say). Oh things that are not ordinary at all return to her and Clay must things will never open any of be the bookssame.. He doesn't but he's curious. Perhaps if he realised where his curiosity would lead he'd be a little more cautious.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782391193</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Cold Steel: Spiritwalker: Book ThreeHadeer Elsbai|authortitle=Kate ElliottThe Daughters of Izdihar

|summary=Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Master Daughters of the Wild Hunt has stolen away Cat BarahalIzdihar's husband. She's being blamed explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a murdersociety pitted against them. Fire mage James Drake wants Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to kill attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control herabilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. And rebellion is burning up Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the streets back Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in Europalove with Nico. Can Cat save her man What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and crush her enemiescruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and maybe even change her world?overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498858</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Siege and StormHeather Fawcett|authortitle=Leigh BardugoEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=On the run from the DarklingEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, Alina and Mal are together researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at lastresearch and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. But So when he emerges from she finds herself far, far North in the Shadow Fold with a horrific new powersmall village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the Darkling could prove himself village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to be more dangerous than everredeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Alina will be torn between Enter Wendell Bambleby, her growing powerdashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, the man she lovesall charm and delight, and her patriotism - can she survive much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the oncoming stormfaerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621132</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate GriffinChristopher Golden|title=The Glass God (Magicals Anonymous)Road of Bones|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyHorror|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 issuesThe Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. It sounds Stretching for over a simple lifethousand miles across Siberia, however there thereit's one factor that ensure that of the world'simples most notorious routes. For months of the year it' remains an illusion: her acquaintance with the Guardian s a spread of sheet ice suspended above the Citypermafrost surrounding it, Defender while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of the Gate and so forthunremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, The Midnight Mayorwhich dries into rutted, aka Matthew Swiftpuddly dust. MatthewI don's workload includes investigating a number of supernatural disappearancest think google streetview updates it very often. Or at least it did till Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too went missingmany people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. So You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who ya gonna call? '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. NoThey pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, they don't call them; they call Sharon and along with fetch up at the mission comes unwanted promotion: Sharon Li, Deputy Midnight Mayorguide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500659</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Never PagesAndrew Givler|authortitle=Graham ThomasSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)

|summary=''There are two rules Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that Dan the Dream Investigator must followDemon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer:''<br>''1. Document everything.''<br>''2. Keep moving forward10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his soul.''

Master G is in search of his one true lovePoor Dan! I know, I know, Lucywe shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But Lucy he really is lost in the NeverRealm, the dimension that separates the living from whatever comes aftera terrible salesman. In the NeverRealm, memories do not exist. So how is Master G - the Dream Investigator - to find her? From the very first moment, He never hits his journey into the NeverRealm is destroying his mind, turning thoughts and knowledge targets and recollection to sand, shifting sand. He will need courage when he fails to face the nightmarish environment. He will need fortitude get even Matt to resist sign on the degeneration. He will need to find Brekkerdotted line, his unreliable scientist friend. And he'll need the companionship of Paisley, a dog named after a carpet..s so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956742203</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Before the FallOlivie Blake|authortitle=Francis KnightThe Atlas Six|rating=4.5

|summary=After destroying Mahala's power sourceDark, sharp, Rojan reallyand highly inquisitive, really wants to keep his head down. ''The Ministry thinks heAtlas Six's dead ' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik- which helps - but with the last scraps of power fast fading, people are starving and the danger of riots and chaos loomsTok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501671</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony RyanDaniel Abraham|title=Blood Song: Book 1 Age 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 and leaves him there. Vaelin's father is the King's Battle Lord 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 to greater dangers 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 himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502465</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Mirror Chronicles: the Bell Between Worlds|author=Ian JohnstoneAsh

|summary=The hero We meet Alys under the most northerly of this long Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and engrossing book a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a boy point in the turning of twelve, orphaned, lonely years when the worlds are at their thinnest and unlovedall things are possible. He spends It is the little free time he has in creating beautiful kites covered in complicated, colourful designs until night between the day he meets funeral of a strange old man who sets him on Prince and the path to coronation of his destiny as successor. For a saviour of not one but two worlds. But in line with night the traditions of the genre, this path will be fraught with fear, danger and lossKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007491220</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie HarbonAnn Sei Lin|title=Seven Point Eight: The First ChronicleRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary=Following several main characters - scientist PaulKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, businessman Maxwhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, remote viewer Tahra and mystery woman Ava - someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across two time frames spanning the 1940s Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the present daylife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won''Seven Point Eight'' blends science fiction and fantasy t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a sprawlingmonstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, absorbingand she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, diffuse novel that will attract fans and a whole world of both genres.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B005IBYKC0</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Royce ProutyB09Q3P283Y|title=Stoker's ManuscriptShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=In a world where vampires are Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the new romantic heroesfight against Communism, Stoker’s Manuscript nor is he particularly interested in a bit of a Godsendcareer in the military. IIf he's honest - which Clyde usually is, for with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, am absolutely delighted to find some good old fashioned evil as sin, night dwelling, blood guzzlingat least, crucifix hating Romanian villains. Of course, this means sacrificing sexiness, romance and attractively sulking gets him out of a window but since what we get the rut he's in. He's good in exchange training and is stunning views of Transylvania, thought-through biology (for want of quickly put onto a better word) of the creatures and stakes that are elevated beyond one person, I say sharpen up the spike pitnon commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099574454</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bee RidgwayJennifer Saint|title=The River of No ReturnElektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary= Nick was born 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in England in 1790 and is rather partial to pickled bits the heavily male dominated world of pig and beef jellyAncient Greece. He finds this rather difficult to explain to his girlfriendsCassandra, Clytemnestra, him being a young man and this being America, 2013. His 19th century Napoleonic war wounds Elektra are hard to explain away too. His second lease on life all bit players in the 21st century is thanks to story of the mysterious Guild whose main rule is Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that no one can return to often the silent women have 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 most compelling stories 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. It's all a bit fishy thoughmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718176987</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mur LaffertyDean Koontz|title=The Shambling Guide to New York City (The Shambling Guides)Quicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Zoe is an unemployed book editor who Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to leave her last jobget to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and indeed her last city, in rather now is starting a career on a hurryneedless magazine's staff. ZoeBut when this book starts he IS now 's personal exodus brings her 'subject to New York and the possibility sudden or unpredictable changes of a job that sounds perfect: editing a travel guide to NYC itself. Howevermood or mind'', its projected readership isn't one for which Zoe something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has written before. New York City is full demanded of monsters or coterie him that he go to be polite. Vampiresa derelict diner, werewolvesfind a gold coin worth a fortune, demons, sprites, zombies… cash the list goes value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on as the lam. And all alternative life this is there, both just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and out suggest he's of the officeinterest to them. So the first question Helped to escape, he finds his flight is if she survives her colleagues, will she survive her readership? The second question interrupted by other instances of him acting without beingin control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of course, who or what is Granny Good Mae?burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501906</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen Lloyd JonesTasha Suri|title=The String DiariesJasmine Throne|rating=54

|summary= Hannah Wilde flees into On the Welsh mountains with daughter Leah night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and husband Nate while refuses to step on to the life blood slowly seeps out of himpyre. They run She is immediately sent to escape be imprisoned on the evil Hirana: an ancient temple that has relentlessly haunted Hannah's family for generations. Some was once filled with a community of people see it as a Hungarian legend but to who got powers from the Wildes it's real and insatiable and won't forget themmysterious deathless waters. They know what to do: verify everyoneBut now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, trust no one anddecaying ruin. One day, if in any doubtMalini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, RUN! Although one day Malini claims that may not be enoughthe girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472204670</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan CooperGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Dark is Rising SequenceWitch's Heart|rating=54

|summary=As A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a childforest at the edge of the nine worlds, I read The Grey King, book 4 in Susan Cooperremembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's The Dark Is Rising Sequencewrath. I loved Her attempts to live in 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 book so much it topped my Christmas list for years, but sadly Santa never deliveredstake—and refuses to leave her alone. As After an adult I finally bought the entire sequence initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for myself. This book is intended as a childLoki's bookcharms, and it is brilliant as book for childrenthe two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, but it is also well loved by many adults, whether as a cherished memory of their own childhood or as son that's a book discovered as an adult. Iwolf, and another son that'll admit that as child, this can book can completely draw into other worlds in s a manner not possible for an adult, but this is still an excellent read, whatever age you may besnake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0140316884</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lilith SaintcrowHannah Whitten|title=The Red Plague AffairFor the Wolf

|summary=Sorceress PrimeIn Red's family, Emma Bannonthe first daughter becomes queen, has done many things in service of Queen and Country, and willingly. Her latest mission to track down a missing doctor puts her in the path of second daughter becomes a deadly contagion - the sacrifice. To Red plague. Mentath Archibald Clare 's misfortune, she is perhaps the only person capable of helping her find the doctor in timesecond daughter. But asking Clare, and Valentinelli his assassin servant, to assist in Sent alone into the chase risks exposing them to woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red. And Clare does not have knows what to expect: within the sorcerous advantages that Emma possesses.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500934</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Susan Ee|title=Angelfall (Penryn and the End of Days Book 1)|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Angels have ransacked the Earth woods is a wolf, and humankind he is facing the apocalypse. The people one who are left are desperate and starvingwill decide the fate of their kingdom. Penryn If she is one of not a worthy sacrifice, the survivors and monsters he keeps contained to the protector of her disabled younger sister Paigewoods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Paige is kidnapped by an angel for an unknown purpose Penryn has Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to do everything be killed within her power to find and rescue herthe hour, she finds that the legends are lies. Embarking on The wolf is not a monster—he's a quest containing all manner of horrors both human and supernatural, Penryn is forced to make dangerous decisions and question her own humanityman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144477851X</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel AbrahamJohn Gwynne|title=The Tyrant's Law (Dagger and the Coin)Shadow Of The Gods

|summary=Cithrin Bel Sarcour has arrived The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in Suddapal to complete her apprenticeship with the Medean Bankshadow of Ragnarok, but her past actions may when the Gods have put her in danger. After being betrayed by his comrade Yardem, Marcus Wester has set out with Kitap rol Keshmet battled and their bones lie scattered for all to kill a goddesssee. Clara Kalliam, who should be disgraced after her husband's treason, This story is surviving on the edge of high society thanks ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to her youngest son's friendship the genre, with the Lord Regent Geder Palliako - mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is ready to risk everything to save her nation from Palliako. Meanwhilea thick book, all Geder wants is peace with an intricate plot and prosperity for fascinating characters that nation. Even if it means killing everyone who disagrees with him are woven together to make sure he can get itcreate a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316080705</amazonuk>0356514218

{{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 Move on 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>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]