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|summary=Pulp fantasy may be frowned upon by some who believe that novels should be about emotions, inner journeys and despair. Fantasy and science fiction can have all these things as well, but they can also be fun, entertaining and laser pistols. ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines is a great example. It is '' There's a book part of me that follows Isaac Vainio, a Libriomancer who has the power wants to draw magic from books. He must use keep this gift just to good effect when one daymyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, whilst sitting comfortably cataloguingall mine, he is attacked by three vampiresat last. Does that sound fun I just want to you? If so, read on; if not, this may not be the book enjoy it for youa while.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953456</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Mur Lafferty|title=Ghost Train to New Orleans: Book 2 of Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the Shambling Guides|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= After delivering [[The Shambling Guide to New York City (The Shambling Guides) by Mur Lafferty|The Shambling Guide to New York]]world, lies Silverton; a travel guide for town under the coterie protection of the undeadBriar's, Zoe a family of witches who protect the town and the inadvertent citytalker goes to New Orleans to research wider world from the next oneDarklands. She sets off with Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a feeling of forebodingsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, but perhaps sheEllie's being overly pessimistic? I meancousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, shethe town's travelling with two godsleader, (one of whom is a rather strident ex-Valkyrie), a baby dragon, two vampires (one of whom hates and Ellie takes her) and Arthur, place beside her boyfriend the Public Works employee. (YesAs challenges come her way left, Public Works as in the body that polices right andcentre, where necessaryEllie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, clears away putting her at the coterieheart of a maelstrom of chaos.) Oh Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and by determine what to do as the wayBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, Arthur may be turning into a zombie soonis under threat. The trip will be fine; what could possibly go wrong?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501914</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|author=Anne Leonard|title=Moth Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and Spark|rating=3plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Prince Corin has been bewitched by the dragonsMira, like her mother before her, something he'll forget until is one of the time is right for him seven who swim out to free survey the fire breathers from enslavement to Emperor Hadon of Mycene. It doesn't stop there though - ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that's not all he's been bewitched bylies within. The commoner Tam happens to be attending But when the summer court at his palace; Council Watch lays a house party for unmarried debs trap to find end the wrecking, they capture the husband of their parentsisland' dreams. Tam isns leader and Mira't actually looking but Corin finds her anyways father. However their world doesn't run Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as smoothly charming as their hearts: war he is about secretive and with only coordinates to startguide her, murderous treachery stalks she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the palace and Tam has visions she can't explainsea. Although With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as time goes on their purpose becomes clearer. Tam and Corin realise that their reason for being together extends beyond love – theyher journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler've been brought together s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the worldfuture of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670015709</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne M HarrisT Kingfisher|title=The Gospel of LokiThornhedge

|summary=Loki is a shape shifter and the most recent addition to the Norse gods in the halls of Asgard. He’s there to help the likes of Odin and Thor but sometimes things go wrong or his actions are misunderstood. Loki definitely doesn’t deserve his ‘Trickster’ nickname and will explain why to anyone who will listen. This is Loki's gospel, his long-overdue side of the story and it’s all here: how he arranged 'You had a mason right to rebuild Asgard (shame about the horse), his marriage to Sygni, the problems fathering a werewolf and giving birth to a foal, what Freyja’s gold necklace cost mankind and, of course, that day Thor became a beautiful brideretake your place. (An occasion Thor has never spoken of since for some reason!) Indeed, Loki is there to help and facilitate - if anyone tells you differently, don’t believe them!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473202353</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent|author=Marie Brennan|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=We could all wish for a little of Lady Trent in ourselves. It's obvious what she feels she has inside her, for ever since she was a young girl she ignored society and decorum and was interested in science, nature, and the discovery of all that was unknown about dragons. She even went on a hunt for wolf-drakes, disguised as a male, and that's a species that prefers female prey. But as renowned a pioneer as she is, she has never told anyone in such detail of her life stories, starting with this one – a journey to the cold, mountainous land of Vystrana, which successfully uncovered a lot of the truth about dragons – but also a lot that was much harder to explain…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783292393</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Unnatural Creatures|author=Neil Gaiman|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=T Kingfisher''I wished I could visit s latest novella is a Museum lovely reimagining of Unnatural History, but even so, I was glad a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there wasn't one... If someone actually caught is a werewolf, or princess trapped in a dragontower, if they tamed a manticore or stabled a unicornsleeping under an eternal enchantment, put them in bottlesThornhedge is not her story. Instead, dissected them, then they could be only one thingour protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and they would no longer live in secreted away to the shadowy places between the things I knew and the world land of the impossible, which fairie where her childhood was, I was certain, the only place that mattered.'' So says Neil Gaiman in the introduction spent being taught how to this anthology of sixteen ''unnatural creatures'' (to capitalise or not to capitalise, that is the question)draw magic from her veins and cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408845466</amazonuk>1803364238

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jen WilliamsNicole Jarvis|title=The Copper PromiseA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Former knight Sir Sebastian Caverson and Wydrin of Crosshaven (aka Copper Cat) are swords for hire. On this occasion they're hired by Lord Aaron Frith 'I want all of Blackwood Florence to enter the Citadel, of which dark legends abound. They don't know what they need to do once in there, but that doesn't matter. The trip unleashes something that would have made them forget their purpose anyway, not to mention their pay: they awake Ymy name'Ruen, the last god. In return for the alarm call, Y'Ruen breathes death across the known world with a little family assistance but that's not the worst bit. The worst bit (at least for them) is that Sebastian and Wydrin are the only ones who can stop her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472211111</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Tanya Huff|title=The Enchantment Emporium (Enchantment Emporium 1)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=All the Gale family have powers and there are many Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in the clan, mostly women. This is one of the reasons that 24-year-old Allie (or Alysha Catherine Gale to the aunties) jumps at the chance of moving to the other side of Canada when her gran leaves which her art can find a junk shop. Ok, it may not be an ordinary junk shop home and it could mean that Gran is dead but the fact that the love of where her life has left her for a man makes her mind upfuture can thrive rather than stagnate. With But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the help of Joe O'Hallanpowerful Accademia, a tall leprechaun with a gift for selling yothe self-yos, Allie sorts out proclaimed guardians of the Enchantment Emporium but once there she hasn't escaped all supervision. Indeed, someone is watching her closely; very closely indeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169608</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jaye Wells|title=Dirty Magic: Prospero's War: Book One|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Gray Wolf is healing magics that through paintings have the new magic drug in town but it's a mite more evil than power to protect the usual sex potions city and enchanted uppers its citizens from plagues and downerscurses. Gray Wolf ensures that the user becomes a craven devourer of flesh The all- human flesh. Kate Prospero, cop seconded to the MEA (the government agency charged with clearing the streets of dirty, illegal magic) male Accademia has her work cut outhoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. Unfortunately this work includes having to go into the CauldronTo them, the dangerous underbelly of a town called Babylon. However Kate has a lot to prove, having been born Artemisia – an adept in that very underbelly ambitious young woman who promises trouble and now having to face the forces that helped create the tragedy still haunting her. Also, if she didn't have enough to worry about, her ex-lover is implicated in Gray Wolf's manufacture change – has no place amongst them and her kid brother is choosing his own way in life; not a good thing, not a good thing at alltheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650297X</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Nora Roberts|title=Dark Witch (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy)|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=American Iona Sheehan moves to Ireland Set in order to discover her ancestors' roots and oh so much more. Her ancestors were witches and her cousins Branna and Conor O'Dwyer have acquired the family talent. Under their care and tutelage Iona has her own skills honed as she develops near-distant future, in a world on the magick passed down to her verge of climate collapse, Britain is in between her work at the local stablesgreat peril. Unfortunately magick isn't the only thing The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to have survived save the centuriesday and rescue what little remains. Cabahn, What no-one expected was that one of the nemesis Knights of Sorcha, the first O'Dwyer dark witch, has unfinished business with Round Table would answer the cousins and not in a good waycall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749958588</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Last to RiseAmelia Estelle Dellos|authortitle=Francis KnightDelilah Recovered|rating=4.5

|summary=Rojan has spent his We meet Dee at a point when her life running from any sort isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of responsibilitywork, but about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. But it's all catching up with him nownot to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. With She survives the Mishans and Storads both knocking attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on Mahalaearth has that to do with Dee? She's doorjust an ordinary woman, war seems inevitableliving an ordinary life. The inhabitants Slivers of memory of Mahala things that are starving as trade dries up, not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the natural resources of the city all usedsame... And the paltry amount of Glow the few pain mages can generate isn't enough to protect them.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650168X</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John R FultzHadeer Elsbai|title=Seven Sorcerers: Books The Daughters of the Shaper: Volume 3Izdihar

|summary=Vireon Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the Giant-Kinglives of two women who could not be more different, Emperor Tyro and Feathered Serpent/Sorcerer Khama are readying their armies to face yet find themselves fighting for the Almighty Zyung, would be conqueror rights of the Five Cities, women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a Shaper and evil piece of worksociety pitted against them. Meanwhile Sharadza (Vireon's sister) and Iardu (Nehal, born into the good Shaperupper class, mostly) take on swifter forms wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to beg assistance from every place control her abilities and being they can think of. For then join the time military, but instead she is coming when the world's freedom depends forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on victory against insurmountable odds. Back at the armiesother hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, Dahrima whilst secretly attending meetings of the Axe, giantess and leader Daughters of VireonIzdihar – a group campaigning for women's spear-maiden body guard, has sworn rights. Giorgina also happens to die for her king but also has some emotional issuesbe in love with Nico. As for Ianthe What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and Gammircruelty, thecauses from which blossoms a group of much suffering in the past, they once again have admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their own agendas that could mean Zyung is the least of anyone's worriespersonal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500837</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=World After (Penryn and the End of Days Book 2)Heather Fawcett|authortitle=Susan EeEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Penryn successfully (depending Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar 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 storyfaerie lore, 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 has travelled extensively, 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 researched meticulously, to the hope of a reunion with Raffe, the angel responsible for saving write her life and true owner of the powerful sword she carries with her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444778536</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Girl With All the Gifts|author=M R Carey|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Meet Melanie. Not something that's likely to happenwork, but it's a standard introduction and I'll run with it. If you do find her, it's either in a subterranean cell, or a classroomthe very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Or the shower-room, where Whilst she is brilliant at research and the other children get disinfectedspeaking to faeries, and get to eat a bowl of maggots – the only nutrition they have all week. All this she is on a military base not so secure they've only seen a few members of staff – either military or mostly lacklustre teachers – and they've certainly no real hope of seeing sunlightgood with people. They are there because of the Breakdown, So when most of the world got turned into ravenous, mindless ''hungries''. But these children did not turn all the way. And as unlikely as it is, as implausible a heroine as she isfinds herself far, young Melanie might just be far North in the saviour small village of mankind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502732</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Rags and Bones|author=Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Anthologies|summary=Some of today's top authors have come together to retell classic tales - from fairy stories to Victorian-era fiction. As usual with this kind of anthologyHrafvsnik, it's a fairly hit-or-miss affairhaving somehow offended the village matriarch, but the hits here are so strong that they're well worth picking up the book for. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jay Kristoff|title=Kinslayer (Lotus War Trilogy 2)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Spoilers for [[Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff|Stormdancer]] follow soread it first!The Shogun she is deadnot sure what she has done, murdered in the public square by 16 year old Kage rebelYukiko nor how to avenge redeem herself and put her family and in retribution final investigations for her book back on the evil hold that he hasover the dystopian land of Shimaright track. He may be dead but Hiro (equally nastyand Yukiko's former lover) has a plan to take power which includes marryingAishaEnter Wendell Bambleby, the Shogun's sister her dashingly handsome and secret Kage sympathiser. Yukiko has to stopthe wedding with the help of Buruuinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, the flying thunder tiger all charm and Kindelight, theformer Lotus Guild engineer. Yes, the Lotus Guild - the Shogunmuch to Emily's lotfrustration.Yukiko has problems of her own as well, in that her ability to hear thethoughts of animals and feel the emotions of anyone and anything But why is becominga curse. he here? What does he want? Meanwhile in Hiro's palace there works No One, below And what exactly is going on with the radar andbeneath contempt, but one day.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230759025</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeChristopher Golden|title=I Love LucidRoad of Bones

|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Lucid is more than The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a full-immersion role play game; thousand miles across Siberia, it's THE full-immersion role play gameone of the world's most notorious routes. Its inventor Seth Pascal has ensured that all that needs to be done is to plug in and For months of the playeryear it's brain will take them to a spread of sheet ice suspended above the virtual world permafrost surrounding it, while during sleepits 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, providing perfect lucidity and an alternative because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life within an avatarevery metre it covers. However You can easily find documentaries about itonline, but that's also becoming the game to die a bit rich, for. Yesone of our main characters, literally die for as players are being murdered while theyFelix 'Teig're connected. Detective Evan Waugh Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the investigator given project to fruition to claw back some of the case to prove that funds he still has what it takes. However there'd invested in the pair's an added complication for both he and Seth as the investigation continuesprior TV projects. Her name is EllenThey pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the woman for whom Lucid isn't just company of a way of lifelocal beauty, it and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that'is'' her life.s where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00G0T342Q</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Time Traveller's AlmanacAndrew Givler|authortitle=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)

|genre=AnthologiesFantasy|summary=From H.G Wells to ''Doctor WhoMatt has a terrible life. Seriously—it'', there s awful. It is something about a good time-travel story so bad that has Dan the power to ignite the imagination in a way unique to the genre. Perhaps it Demon is due to the fact that shocked when dealing with the subject Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of time travel, literally ''anything is possiblea blissful life in exchange for his soul.''. Well, almost anything...apart from going back in time and killing your Grandfather, which we know would cause an almighty paradox and probably destroy the universe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books|author=Walter Moers|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=ItPoor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn's been two hundred years since Optimus Yarnspinner last went to the great literary city of Bookholm, where people trawled underground hells t feel sorry for classic works of Zamonian literature, and our hero had an almighty, Odysseysoul-like journey through the nether regionscatching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman. He would not have ever expected to return, except for a very intriguing letter he receives one day in never hits his authorly garret. It contains such mysterytargets and, including the idea that when he wrote it fails to himself, get even Matt to force him to journey back to Bookholm – a Bookholm completely rebuilt after the ending of sign on the last novel. The city is much more advanceddotted line, the subterranean areas seemingly more at peace – yet something is definitely afoothe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578263</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=AJ SmithOlivie Blake|title=The Black Guard (The Long War)Atlas Six

|summary=Ro Canarn is falling to the brutal conquest of the Red Knights. Duke HectorDark, its rulersharp, is on the verge of death and his twin offspring Lady Bronwyn and Lord Bromvy are on the runhighly inquisitive, 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 'The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a good oneTik-Tok sensation. Meanwhile if Ro Canarn can fall, is anywhere safe anymore?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855625</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Dance of CloaksDaniel Abraham|authortitle=David DalglishAge of Ash

|summary=Thren Felhorn is We meet Alys under the leader most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the Spider Guild and City of Kithamar is at a name feared by everyone point in Veldaren. For good reason, for Thren has united the Guilds, those groups populated by turning of years when the thieves worlds are at their thinnest and murderers of the cityall things are possible. Thren’s long term aim It is to lead the Guilds in night between the funeral of a war against Prince and the Trifect – the three richest families who control the majority coronation of his successor. For a night the city’s legal activitiesKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502783</amazonuk>0356515427

{{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara 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, 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. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and 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, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09Q3P283Y|title=Bronze GodsShadebringer|author=A A AguireGrayson W Hooper

|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=One of Clyde Robbins signs up for the many reasons I love fantasy is discovering US Army during the new worlds Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the authors have createdmilitary. Where If he's honest - which Clyde usually is the world? What kind creatures inhabit it? What are the customs, et ceterawith himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, et cetera. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating and steampunk mixed with fantasy is gets him out of the double hitrut he's in. Throw He's good in some murder most frighteningly horrid training and we have the makings of is quickly put onto a really good timenon commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tone AlmhjellJennifer Saint|title=The Twistrose KeyElektra

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Lin 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and her family Elektra are living in a rented house all bit players in the city because Lin's mother has been given her dream job as professor story of traditional songs at the universityTrojan War. Lin's novelist father doesn't mind: he can write and play at riddling in Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the city as well as anywhere. But Lin hates it. She misses silent women have the farm where she was brought up most compelling stories and she misses playing at troll-hunting with her friend Niklas. But the most of all, she misses her pet vole, Rufus, who is buried under a rosebushextreme furies. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001669</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=OmensDean Koontz|authortitle=Kelley ArmstrongQuicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Olivia TaylorMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-Jones has run orphanage since he was a charmed life. Her family is richthree-day old foundling, her fiance perfect and though she has some questions about her now is starting a careeron a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', she knows for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that things will work themselves he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it outof his bank and prepare for going on the lam. Until she learns that sheAnd all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's adopted - her true parents America's most infamous serial killersof interest to them. Suddenly on the run from the mediaHelped to escape, Olivia he finds shelter his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the small town discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of Cainsville. It's burgeoning power – and a strange sort of place - full of oddball characters and gargoyles that seem to only appear at certain timeswhole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184744511X</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreview|title=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)Frontpage|author=Catherine Fisher|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|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 the destruction of the future by Janus. And the Scarred Man still hasn't done, well, whatever it is that he's trying to do. The Chronoptika, a mirror made of black obsidian and a time travel device, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and the rest, 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 CarrTasha Suri|title=The Legend of BrokenJasmine Throne|rating=34

|summary=A historical manuscript has been found in what On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. She is now Germany (so immediately sent to be imprisoned on the story goes) chronicling Hirana: an ancient civilisation inhabiting the fortress city temple that was once filled with a community of Broken (or Brocken in the original German). Those people who anger got powers from the government are cast out into the surrounding forests where they must face the dangers of man-eating wolves and worsemysterious deathless waters. These outcasts can only survive by collaborating and becoming one tribe: But now the Banetemple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. AlthoughOne day, to be honest, they're becoming Malini witnesses a bit girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a nuisance with their terrorist ways, therefore Sixt Arnemgruesome crime, Sentek of Malini claims that the Broken Army is ordered to eradicate them for once girl saved her from an attacker and begs for allthe girl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751551538</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Elysian FieldsGenevieve Gornichec|authortitle=Suzanne JohnsonThe Witch's Heart

|summary=Drusilla Jaco (DJ) is A modern and approachable reimagining of the sentinel for Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the preternatural community in edge of the greater New Orleans area and is still recovering from bereavementnine worlds, Katrina and broken ribs from remembering nothing of her last adventure. No such luck as past life taking things easy on her, however, as it is discovered but that fact that she was survived burnt at the copycat stake three times because of a famous serial killer is not, Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in factpeace, a copycat. The Axeman of New Orleans himself has been raised from the dead by a necromancer or necromancers unknown. To make matters worsehowever, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her loup-garou fiend Jake bit literal heart—the one that was cut from her in a fit of pique and her best friend’s creepy boyfriend won’t chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her alone. She doesn’t know what he wants After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and she doesn’t know whether she’ll turn into the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf at the next full moon but she does know , and another son that the Axeman is after her, specifically's a snake. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755397703</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Apocalypse Now NowHannah Whitten|authortitle=Charlie HumanFor the Wolf|rating=3.5

|summary=Baxter Zevcenko is In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sixteen year old student in South Africa who believes everything in life sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is business related and for the sole purpose of increasing his own powersecond daughter. Baxter deals porn at his school 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 he is the leader of a gang of misfits one who have carved a niche within will decide the school’s hierarchy out fate of the student populations need for smuttheir kingdom. The group If she is called not a worthy sacrifice, the Spider and Baxter believes himself monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and the arachnid at fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the centre of an impressive web with stories go. But when Red enters the ability woods, expecting nothing more than to manipulate and scheme his way to power and richesbe killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. His heroes are Rasputin and Machiavelli and we are made aware very early on that as well as being The wolf is not a monster—he's a despicable power hungry megalomaniac he is also quite possibly insaneman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780891318</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaJohn Gwynne|title=ChosenThe Shadow Of The Gods

|summary=Alex VerusThe Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, seer and London magic shop ownerset in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, 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 when the Gods have battled and Variam as well as his apprentice Lunatheir bones lie scattered for all to see. Uncomplicated because his biggest problem seems to be progressing Luna's training This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and finding someone John Gwynne certainly does justice to pick up Anne the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and Variam's apprenticeship; not huge when his normal kind are a matter of life or deathbattles galore. However all This is about a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to change. You remember that way back in his youth Alex worked for create a dark mage? Well he was hoping to forget that. Was? Yes, past tense, for now Alex's past has invaded his present wonderfully realistic and is gritty world in danger of curtailing his futurewhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502309</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|author=Susan Cooper|title=Ghost Hawk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I loved Susan Cooper's Move on to [[The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper|The Dark is Rising SequenceNewest For Sharing Reviews]], 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 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 masterpiece.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782300007</amazonuk>}}