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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Last to RiseA G Slatter|authortitle=Francis KnightThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Rojan has spent his life running from any sort '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of responsibilitymy own, but all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy itfor a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's all catching up with him now, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. With Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the Mishans first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and Storads both knocking on Mahalaadministration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's doorcousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, war seems inevitablethe town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. The inhabitants of Mahala are starving as trade dries upAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the natural resources of rare ability to communicate with the city all used. And dead, putting her at the paltry amount heart of Glow a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the few pain mages can generate isnBriar witches't enough legacy, everything they have sacrificed to protect themsurvive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650168X</amazonuk>1803364548
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{{Frontpage
|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=World After (Penryn and the End of Days Book 2)T Kingfisher|authortitle=Susan EeThornhedge|rating=45
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Penryn successfully (depending on how you look at things) liberated her little sister Paige from the sick experiments of the angels now ruling over the world. Believed to be dead at the start of the story, Penryn finds herself at the control centre of the human resistance movement whose treatment of her sister and other victims of angel brutality seems less than human. In order to protect her sister she feels the need to leave the resistance and risk life in the nearly destroyed world amongst predators such as angels and even more horrifying creations spawned by the angels. All the while Pen clings ''You had a right to the hope of a reunion with Raffe, the angel responsible for saving her life and true owner of the powerful sword she carries with herretake your place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444778536</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rags and BonesNicole Jarvis|authortitle=Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)A Portrait in Shadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=AnthologiesHistorical Fiction|summary=Some ''I want all of today's top authors have come together Florence to retell classic tales - from fairy stories to Victorian-era fiction. As usual with this kind of anthology, itknow my name's a fairly hit-or-miss affair, but the hits here are so strong that they're well worth picking up the book for. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>}}
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{{Frontpage
|author=Thomas D Lee
|title=Perilous Times
|rating=3
|genre= Fantasy
|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Time Traveller's AlmanacAmelia Estelle Dellos|authortitle=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerDelilah Recovered
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=ItWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn's been two hundred years since Optimus Yarnspinner last went t going as planned but things might, just might, be about to the great literary city look up. Out of Bookholmwork, about to lose her flat, where people trawled underground hells Dee is up for classic works of Zamonian literature, and our hero had an almighty, Odyssey-like journey through the nether regionsaccountant's job. He would But it's not have ever expected to return, except for a very intriguing letter he receives one day in his authorly garretbe. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. It contains such mystery, including She survives the idea attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that he wrote it to himselfdo with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to force him to journey back to Bookholm – a Bookholm completely rebuilt after her and things will never be the ending of the last novelsame... The city is much more advanced, the subterranean areas seemingly more at peace – yet something is definitely afoot.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578263</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=AJ SmithHadeer Elsbai|title=The Black Guard (The Long War)Daughters of Izdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Ro Canarn is falling to Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the brutal conquest lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the Red Knightsrights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Duke HectorNehal, its rulerborn into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the verge of death other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and his twin offspring Lady Bronwyn feels great pressure to provide for her family and Lord Bromvy are on the runmaintain their reputation, outcast. However this is merely a portent whilst secretly attending meetings of greater troubles ahead. One the Daughters of the evil Seven Sisters is seen accompanying the Red Knights so if there is Izdihar – a secret agenda itgroup campaigning for women's not rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a good onegroup of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles. Meanwhile if Ro Canarn can fall, is anywhere safe anymore?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855625</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Dance of CloaksHeather Fawcett|authortitle=David DalglishEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Thren Felhorn Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the leader very first encyclopaedia of the Spider Guild faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is a name feared by everyone in Veldarennot so good with people. For good reasonSo when she finds herself far, for Thren has united far North in the Guildssmall village of Hrafvsnik, those groups populated by having somehow offended the thieves village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and murderers of put her final investigations for her book back on the cityright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. Thren’s long term aim But why is to lead the Guilds in a war against the Trifect – the three richest families who control he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the majority of the city’s legal activities.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502783</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bronze GodsChristopher Golden|authortitle=A A AguireRoad of Bones|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeHorror|summary=One The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the many reasons I love fantasy is discovering R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the new worlds that the authors have createdworld's most notorious routes. Where is For months of the world? What kind creatures inhabit year it? What are 's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the customspermafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, et ceteraapocalyptic-level mud, et ceterawhich dries into rutted, puddly dust. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and steampunk mixed because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with fantasy is his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the double hitpair's prior TV projects. Throw in some murder most frighteningly horrid and we have They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the makings company of a really good timelocal beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>1803361476
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tone AlmhjellAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Twistrose KeyDebt Collection Book 1)
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Olivia Taylor-Jones ''Matt has a charmed terrible 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 AmericaSeriously—it's most infamous serial killersawful. Suddenly on It is so bad that Dan the run from the media, Olivia finds shelter Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in the small town of Cainsvilleexchange for his soul. 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>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caleb CarrOlivie Blake|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 in the original German). 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 JohnsonAtlas Six
|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 factDark, a copycat. The Axeman of New Orleans himself has been raised from the dead by a necromancer or necromancers unknown. To make matters worsesharp, 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 herhighly inquisitive, specifically. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755397703</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Apocalypse Now Now|author=Charlie Human|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Baxter Zevcenko is a sixteen year old student in South Africa who believes everything in life is business related and for the sole purpose of increasing his own power. Baxter deals porn at his school and is the leader of a gang of misfits who have carved a niche within the school’s hierarchy out of the student populations need for smut. ''The group is called the Spider and Baxter believes himself to be the arachnid at the centre of an impressive web with the ability to manipulate and scheme his way to power 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 insane.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891318</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Benedict Jacka|title=Chosen|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|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 LunaAtlas Six's training and finding someone to pick up Anne and Variam's apprenticeship; not huge when his normal kind are makes its publishing debut after becoming a matter of life or death. However all is about to change. You remember that way back in his youth Alex worked for a dark mage? Well he was hoping to forget that. 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 Cooper's [[The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper|The Dark is Rising Sequence]], but as surprised as I am to say this Tik- this book is far better. While still suitable for older children, this is definitely a book that adults will want to read as well. The book is more mature than her early works, and while obviously gifted from the start, Cooper's talents have matured as well. This book is nothing short of a masterpieceTok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782300007</amazonuk>1529095239
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael J SullivanDaniel Abraham|title=The Crown Tower: Book 1 Age of The Riyria ChronicleAsh
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary= Hadrian Blackwater (ex-soldier, ex-lots-of-things) and Royce Melborn (exemplary thief and grump) are summoned to Melengar by Professor Arcadius. The duo may not know each other and arrive separately, but as they We meet and begin Alys under the Professormost northerly of Oldgate's mission together four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and a legend is born: The Riyriameeting that she dreads. (That's elvish for two by Meanwhile the way.) Meanwhile City of Kithamar is at a prostitute named Gwen escapes to save her lifepoint in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. Across It is the night between the road (ok... she didn't run far) she goes into business leading her to funeral of a place in fantasy novel history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502279</amazonuk>}} {{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 on my doorstep, I whisked it away, cackling like Gollum over my new precious Prince and was no use to anyone until I’d finished itthe coronation of his successor. Then sat and thought about it for For a while. Then renight the Kithamar is un-read my favourite bits. The considered further. This is the conclusion I reached: if there are no further Peter Grant books, Mr Aaronovitch, you and I are going to have ''words''ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132469</amazonuk>0356515427
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robin SloanAnn Sei Lin|title=Mr Penumbra's 24-hour BookstoreRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Unemployed and desperate, Clay Jannon wants Kurara has spent her entire life as a job, any job! Soservant on the Midori, despite not having touched a paper book massive dining hall floating in years, he jumps at the chance sky where soldiers of working the night shift at Mr Penumbra's 24 hour bookstoreEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Mr P However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a very particular employerCrafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. The books are lent (not sold) He asks her to come with him, to members leave the life of a unique clubdreary servitude that is all she has known. Clay is to serve these visitorsWell, log their visit soon Kurara won't have any say in the smallest detail (including their moodmatter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, their choice of clothing and what they say)she is forced to flee out into the world. Oh She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and Clay must never open any a whole world 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 cautious.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782391193</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09Q3P283Y|title=Cold Steel: Spiritwalker: Book ThreeShadebringer|author=Kate ElliottGrayson W Hooper
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The Master of Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Wild Hunt has stolen away Cat BarahalVietnam War. He's husbandnot really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the military. SheIf he's being blamed for a murder. Fire mage James Drake wants to kill her. And rebellion honest - which Clyde usually is burning up , with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the streets back rut he's in Europa. Can Cat save her man He's good in training and crush her enemies, and maybe even change her world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498858</amazonuk>is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Siege and StormJennifer Saint|authortitle=Leigh BardugoElektra
|rating=4
|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=On 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the run from story of three women who live in the Darklingheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, Alina and Mal Elektra are together at last. But when he emerges from all bit players in the Shadow Fold with a horrific new power, story of the Darkling could prove himself to be more dangerous than everTrojan War. Alina will be torn between her growing power, Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the man she loves, most compelling stories and her patriotism - can she survive the oncoming storm?most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621132</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate GriffinDean Koontz|title=The Glass God (Magicals Anonymous)Quicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Sharon LiMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, former coffee shop barista and current communityfor he's lived in a nun-supportrun orphanage since he was a three-worker-cum-apprentice-shaman, continues to run Magicals Anonymousday old foundling, and now is starting a self-help group for those with mystic issues. It sounds career on a simple life, however there thereneedless magazine's one factor that ensure that staff. But when this book starts he IS now 'simple' remains an illusion: her acquaintance with the Guardian subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of the Citymood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, Defender call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the Gate value of it out of his bank and so forth, The Midnight Mayor, aka Matthew Swiftprepare for going on the lam. MatthewAnd all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's workload includes investigating a number of supernatural disappearancesinterest to them. Or at least it did till Helped to escape, he too went missing. So who ya gonna call? Nofinds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, they don't call them; they call Sharon the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and along with the mission comes unwanted promotion: Sharon Li, Deputy Midnight Mayora whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500659</amazonuk>1542019885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Never PagesTasha Suri|authortitle=Graham ThomasThe Jasmine Throne
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=''There are two rules that On the Dream Investigator must follow:''<br>''1. Document everything.''<br>''2. Keep moving forward.'' Master G is in search night of his one true loveher sacred burning, LucyPrincess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. But Lucy She is lost in immediately sent to be imprisoned on the NeverRealm, the dimension Hirana: an ancient temple that separates was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the living from whatever comes aftermysterious deathless waters. In But now the NeverRealmtemple is nothing more than an overgrown, memories do not existdecaying ruin. So how is Master G - the Dream Investigator - to find One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her? From the very first momentfor such a gruesome crime, his journey into Malini claims that the NeverRealm is destroying his mind, turning thoughts girl saved her from an attacker and knowledge and recollection to sand, shifting sand. He will need courage to face begs for the nightmarish environment. He will need fortitude girl to resist the degeneration. He will need to find Brekker, his unreliable scientist friend. And he'll need the companionship of Paisley, a dog named after a carpet..become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956742203</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Before the FallGenevieve Gornichec|authortitle=Francis KnightThe Witch's Heart|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=After destroying MahalaA modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's power sourcewrath. Her attempts to live in peace, Rojan reallyhowever, really wants are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to keep his head downthe stake—and refuses to leave her alone. The Ministry thinks heAfter an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's dead - which helps - but with the last scraps of power fast fadingcharms, people are starving and the danger two start an unusual family made of riots up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and chaos loomsanother son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501671</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony RyanHannah Whitten|title=Blood Song: Book 1 of Raven's ShadowFor the Wolf
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Young Vaelin Al SornaIn Red's father takes him to family, the gates of first daughter becomes queen, and the Sixth Order of the Faith and leaves him theresecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. VaelinTo Red's father misfortune, she is the King's Battle Lord second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and Vaelin's mother someone he is the one who will decide the lad has sorely missed since her death but this doesn't matterfate of their kingdom. As If she is not a member of worthy sacrifice, the Order Vaelin has no family except his Order brethren. The long life-threatening training binds him closer monsters he keeps contained to his fellows while exposing him to greater dangers the woods will be released, and mysteries than the fabled kings he's ever knownkeeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. However one day he'll outgrow his comradesBut when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. One day heThe wolf is not a monster—he'll become a name whispered with fear and awe. For Vaelin will become s a deadly weapon: Hope Killer himselfman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502465</amazonuk>0356516369
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Mirror Chronicles: the Bell Between WorldsJohn Gwynne|authortitle=Ian JohnstoneThe Shadow Of The Gods|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The hero of this long and engrossing book Shadow Of The Gods is a boy the first installment of twelvethe Bloodsworn Saga, orphanedset in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, lonely when the Gods have battled and unlovedtheir bones lie scattered for all to see. He spends This story is the little free time he has ultimate in creating beautiful kites covered in complicatedHigh Fantasy, colourful designs until the day he meets a strange old man who sets him on the path and John Gwynne certainly does justice 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 fearmythical creatures, danger archaic language and lossbattles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007491220</amazonuk>0356514218
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