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|summary=''The king is dead… his city is next'' shouts the strapline, and itThere's not wrong!Following on from [[Herald a part of the Storm by Richard Ford|Herald of the Storm]], Janessa is the new queen and is quaking; she's young, inexperienced and watching the massed hordes of Amon Tugha approach me that wants to keep this just to rout the kingdom of Steelhavenmyself for however long I can. This isn't the only problem her father's untimely death has left her with; there's a whole heap secret magic of trouble (internal as much as external) and hardly anyone Janessa can trust. Little Rag is now in the Guild but it's not my own, all she dreamt it would be or as safe as she'd hoped. Meanwhile Merrick the ex-mercenary and Kairamine, the former spear maiden are settling into their new job as bodyguards to the Queenat last. Merrick, though, has other things I just want to think about as his past comes back to haunt himenjoy it for a while. Waylian the witch's assistant is still alive, which is good. And Regulus? He just wants to offer his men's swords in defence of Steelhaven but just didn't realise how difficult that would be, even before the fighting officially starts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755394062</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The Islands Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of Chaldea|author=Diana Wynne Jones witches who protect the town and Ursula Jones|rating=4the wider world from the Darklands.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Imagine a story – a good oldThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-fashioned adventure with journeys witch to be born into her family for generations and magic as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and villains administration rather than spells and young people finding their strengths despite potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the oddstown's leader, and coming at last Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the place they belong. Then imagine another storydead, putting her at the heart of a heart-touching maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one this timefamily secret to another, about Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the writing of that storyBriar witches' legacy, and you everything they have the whole of this charming booksacrificed to survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007542232</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|title=Libriomancer|author=Jim C Hines|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Pulp fantasy may be frowned upon by some who believe that novels should be about emotionsRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, inner journeys survives on luring ships into the rocks and despairplundering the wrecks. Fantasy and science fiction can have all these things as wellMira, but they can also be funlike her mother before her, entertaining is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and laser pistolsany treasure that lies within. ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines is But when the Council Watch lays a great example. It is a book that follows Isaac Vainiotrap to end the wrecking, a Libriomancer who has they capture the power island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to draw magic save him from books. He must use this gift to good effect when one day, whilst sitting comfortably cataloguingdeath, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is attacked by three vampiressecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Does that sound fun With only nine days to you? If sounearth what might save her father, read on; if notas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, this may not Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the book for youones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953456</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mur LaffertyT Kingfisher|title=Ghost Train to New Orleans: Book 2 of the Shambling GuidesThornhedge|rating=45

|summary= After delivering [[The Shambling Guide to New York City (The Shambling Guides) by Mur Lafferty|The Shambling Guide to New York]], ''You had a travel guide for the coterie of the undead, Zoe the inadvertent citytalker goes right to New Orleans to research the next oneretake your place. She sets off with a feeling of foreboding, but perhaps she's being overly pessimistic? I mean, she's travelling with two gods, (one of whom is a rather strident ex-Valkyrie), a baby dragon, two vampires (one of whom hates her) and Arthur, her boyfriend the Public Works employee. (Yes, Public Works as in the body that polices and, where necessary, clears away the coterie.) Oh and by the way, Arthur may be turning into a zombie soon. The trip will be fine; what could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501914</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Anne Leonard|title=Moth and Spark|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Prince Corin has been bewitched by the dragons, something heT Kingfisher'll forget until the time s latest novella is right for him to free the fire breathers from enslavement to Emperor Hadon a lovely reimagining of Mycenea fairytale that is well known and well beloved. It doesn't stop But whilst there though - that's is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not all he's been bewitched her story. Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by. The commoner Tam happens to be attending the summer court at his palace; fairies when she was a house party for unmarried debs new-born baby and secreted away to find the husband land of their parents' dreams. Tam isn't actually looking but Corin finds fairie where her anyway. However their world doesn't run as smoothly as their hearts: war is about childhood was spent being taught how to start, murderous treachery stalks the palace draw magic from her veins and Tam has visions she can't explain. Although as time goes on their purpose becomes clearer. Tam and Corin realise that their reason for being together extends beyond love – they've been brought together to save the worldcast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670015709</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreview|author=Joanne M Harris|title=The Gospel of Loki|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Loki is Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a shape shifter home and the most recent addition to the Norse gods in the halls of Asgardwhere her future can thrive rather than stagnate. He’s there to help But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from 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 gospelpowerful Accademia, his longthe self-overdue side proclaimed guardians of the story and it’s all here: how he arranged a mason to rebuild Asgard (shame about healing magics that through paintings have the horse), his marriage power to Sygni, protect the problems fathering a werewolf city and giving birth to a foal, what Freyja’s gold necklace cost mankind its citizens from plagues and, of course, that day Thor became a beautiful bridecurses. (An occasion Thor The all-male Accademia has never spoken of since hoarded power over art and architecture for some reason!) Indeedcenturies and guard it above all else. To them, Loki is there to help Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and facilitate - if anyone tells you differently, don’t believe change – has no place amongst them!and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473202353</amazonuk>1803362340

{{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 Set in ourselves. It's obvious what she feels she has inside herthe near-distant future, for ever since she was in a young girl she ignored society and decorum and was interested in science, nature, and world on the discovery verge of all that was unknown about dragons. She even went on a hunt for wolf-drakesclimate collapse, disguised as a male, and that's a species that prefers female prey. But as renowned a pioneer as she Britain is, she has never told anyone in such detail of her life stories, starting with this one – great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a journey hero (or several) to save the cold, mountainous land day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of Vystrana, which successfully uncovered a lot the Knights of the truth about dragons – but also a lot that was much harder to explain…Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783292393</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Unnatural CreaturesAmelia Estelle Dellos|authortitle=Neil GaimanDelilah Recovered

|summary=Former knight Sir Sebastian Caverson and Wydrin of Crosshaven (aka Copper Cat) are swords for hireWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. On this occasion they're hired by Lord Aaron Frith Out of Blackwood work, about to enter the Citadellose her flat, of which dark legends aboundDee is up for an accountant's job. They donBut it't know what they need s not to do once in there, be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but that doesn't matternot unscathed. The trip unleashes something Witch hunters? What on earth has that would have made them forget their purpose anyway, not to mention their pay: they awake Ydo with Dee? She'Ruens just an ordinary woman, the last godliving an ordinary life. In return for the alarm call, Y'Ruen breathes death across the known world with a little family assistance but Slivers of memory of things that's are not the worst bit. The worst bit (ordinary at least for them) is that Sebastian all return to her and Wydrin are things will never be the only ones who can stop hersame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472211111</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tanya HuffHadeer Elsbai|title=The Enchantment Emporium (Enchantment Emporium 1)Daughters of Izdihar|rating=4.5

|summary=All Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the Gale family have powers lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and there are many weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the clanupper class, mostly women. This is one of wishes to attend the reasons that 24-year-old Allie (or Alysha Catherine Gale Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the aunties) jumps at military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the chance 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 moving to the other side Daughters of Canada when her gran leaves her Izdihar – a junk shopgroup campaigning for women's rights. Ok, it may not Giorgina also happens to be an ordinary junk shop and it could mean that Gran in love with Nico. What follows is dead but the fact that the love of her life has left her for a man makes her mind up. With the help story of Joe O'Hallanan unjust society, a tall leprechaun filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a gift group of admirable women fighting for selling yo-yos, Allie sorts out the Enchantment Emporium but once there she hasn't escaped all supervision. Indeed, someone is watching her closely; very closely indeedtheir rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781169608</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaye WellsHeather Fawcett|title=Dirty Magic: ProsperoEmily Wilde's War: Book OneEncyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=54|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Gray Wolf Emily Wilde is the new magic drug in town but itan expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's a mite more evil than work, the usual sex potions very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and enchanted uppers and downersspeaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. Gray Wolf ensures that the user becomes a craven devourer of flesh - human flesh. Kate ProsperoSo when she finds herself far, cop seconded to the MEA (the government agency charged with clearing far North in the streets small village of dirtyHrafvsnik, illegal magic) has her work cut out. Unfortunately this work includes having to go into somehow offended the Cauldronvillage matriarch, the dangerous underbelly of a town called Babylon. However Kate she is not sure what she has a lot done, nor how to prove, having been born an adept in that very underbelly redeem herself and now having to face the forces that helped create put her final investigations for her book back on the tragedy still haunting herright track. Also, if she didn't have enough to worry aboutEnter Wendell Bambleby, her ex-lover is implicated in Gray Wolf's manufacture dashingly handsome and her kid brother is choosing his own way in life; not a good thinginsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, not a good thing at allcharm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650297X</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsChristopher Golden|title=Dark Witch (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy)Road of Bones

|genre=Women's FictionHorror|summary=American Iona Sheehan moves to Ireland in order to discover her ancestorsThe Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones' roots and oh so much more… the R504. Her ancestors were witches and her cousins Branna and Conor OStretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it'Dwyer have acquired s one of the family talentworld's most notorious routes. Under their care and tutelage Iona has her own skills honed as she develops For months of the magick passed down to her in between her work at year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the local stablespermafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. Unfortunately magick isn I don't the only thing think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to have survived the centuriesgive too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. Cabahn You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, the nemesis for one of Sorchaour main characters, the first OFelix 'Teig'Dwyer dark witchTeigland, is a film-maker, has unfinished business doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the cousins and not funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a good waylocal beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749958588</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Last to RiseAndrew Givler|authortitle=Francis KnightSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=4.5

|summary=Rojan ''Matt has spent his a terrible life running from any sort of responsibility, but it's all catching up with him now. With the Mishans and Storads both knocking on MahalaSeriously—it's door, war seems inevitableawful. The inhabitants of Mahala are starving as trade dries up, It is so bad that Dan the natural resources Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of the city all useda blissful life in exchange for his soul. And the paltry amount of Glow the few pain mages can generate isn't enough to protect them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650168X</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=John R Fultz|title=Seven Sorcerers: Books of the Shaper: Volume 3|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Vireon the Giant-KingPoor Dan! I know, Emperor Tyro and Feathered Serpent/Sorcerer Khama are readying their armies to face the Almighty Zyung, would be conqueror of the Five CitiesI know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a Shaper and evil piece of workterrible salesman. Meanwhile Sharadza (Vireon's sister) He never hits his targets and Iardu (the good Shaper, mostly) take on swifter forms when he fails to get even Matt to beg assistance from every place and being they can think of. For the time is coming when the world's freedom depends sign on victory against insurmountable odds. Back at the armies, Dahrima the Axedotted line, giantess and leader of Vireonhe's spear-maiden body guard, has sworn to die for her king but also has some emotional issues. As for Ianthe and Gammir, thecauses of much suffering in the past, they once again have their own agendas so desperate that could mean Zyung is the least of anyonehe simply forges Matt's worriessignature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500837</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=World After (Penryn and the End of Days Book 2)Olivie Blake|authortitle=Susan EeThe Atlas Six

|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 storyDark, sharp, 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 to the hope of highly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a reunion with Raffe, the angel responsible for saving her life and true owner of the powerful sword she carries with herTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444778536</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Girl With All the GiftsDaniel Abraham|authortitle=M R CareyAge of Ash

|summary=Meet Melanie. Not something thatWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's likely to happenfour bridges, but it's she has a standard introduction knife in her hand and I'll run with it. If you do find her, it's either in a subterranean cell, or a classroommeeting that she dreads. Or Meanwhile the shower-room, where she and City of Kithamar is at a point in the other children get disinfected, and get to eat a bowl turning of maggots – years when the only nutrition they have worlds are at their thinnest and all weekthings are possible. All this It is on a military base so secure they've only seen the night between the funeral of a few members of staff – either military or mostly lacklustre teachers – Prince and they've certainly no real hope of seeing sunlight. They are there because of the Breakdown, when most coronation of the world got turned into ravenous, mindless ''hungries''his successor. But these children did not turn all For a night the way. And as unlikely as it Kithamar is, as implausible a heroine as she is, young Melanie might just be the saviour of mankindun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502732</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rags and BonesAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)Rebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=AnthologiesTeens|summary=Some Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of today's top authors have the Empire come together to retell classic tales - from fairy stories 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 Victorian-era fictionform paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. As usual He asks her to come with this kind him, to leave the life of anthologydreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, itsoon Kurara won's t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a fairly hit-or-miss affairmonstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, but and she is forced to flee out into the hits here are so strong that they're well worth picking up world. She joins Himura aboard the book for. Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jay KristoffB09Q3P283Y|title=Kinslayer (Lotus War Trilogy 2)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Spoilers for [[Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff|Stormdancer]] follow soread it first!The Shogun is dead, murdered in the public square by 16 year old Kage rebelYukiko to avenge her family and in retribution for the evil hold that he hasover the dystopian land of Shima. He may be dead but Hiro (equally nastyand Yukiko's former lover) has a plan to take power which includes marryingAisha, the Shogun's sister and secret Kage sympathiser. Yukiko has to stopthe wedding with the help of Buruu, the flying thunder tiger and Kin, theformer Lotus Guild engineer. Yes, the Lotus Guild - the Shogun's lot.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 is becominga curse. Meanwhile in Hiro's palace there works No One, below the radar andbeneath contempt, but one day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230759025</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewShadebringer|author=Mark Lingane|title=I Love LucidGrayson W Hooper|rating=3.54

|summary=Lucid is more than a full-immersion role play game; it's THE full-immersion role play game. Its inventor Seth Pascal has ensured that all that needs to be done is to plug in and Clyde Robbins signs up for the player's brain will take them to US Army during the virtual world while during sleep, providing perfect lucidity and an alternative life within an avatarVietnam War. However itHe's also becoming not really that invested in the game to die for. Yesfight against Communism, literally die for as players are being murdered while they're connected. Detective Evan Waugh nor is he particularly interested in a career in the investigator given the case to prove that military. If he still has what it takes. However there's an added complication for both he and Seth as the investigation continues. Her name honest - which Clyde usually is Ellen, the woman for whom Lucid isnwith himself at least - he hasn't just a way got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of life, it the rut he's in. He's good in training and isquickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He'' her lifes chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00G0T342Q</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Time Traveller's AlmanacJennifer Saint|authortitle=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerElektra

|genre=AnthologiesLiterary Fiction|summary=From H.G Wells to 'Elektra'Doctor Who'', there is something about a good time-travel by Jennifer Saint tells the story that has of three women who live in the power to ignite heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the imagination in a way unique to story of the genreTrojan War. Perhaps it is due to Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the fact that when dealing with silent women have the subject of time travel, literally ''anything is possible''. Well, almost anything...apart from going back in time and killing your Grandfather, which we know would cause an almighty paradox most compelling stories and probably destroy the universemost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Labyrinth of Dreaming BooksDean Koontz|authortitle=Walter MoersQuicksilver|rating=32.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=ItMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's been two hundred years since Optimus Yarnspinner last went not had the chance to get to the great literary city of Bookholmbe a mercurial character yet, where people trawled underground hells for classic works of Zamonian literaturehe's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and our hero had an almighty, Odyssey-like journey through the nether regionsnow is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. He would not have ever expected But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to returnsudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', except for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a very intriguing letter he receives one day in his authorly garret. It contains such mystery, including the idea supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he wrote it go to himselfa derelict diner, to force him to journey back to Bookholm – find a gold coin worth a Bookholm completely rebuilt after fortune, cash the ending value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the last novellam. The city And all this is much more advancedjust in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the subterranean areas seemingly discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more at peace – yet something is definitely afootbesides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578263</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=AJ SmithTasha Suri|title=The Black Guard (The Long War)Jasmine Throne

|summary=Ro Canarn is falling to On the brutal conquest night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the Red Knightspyre. Duke Hector, its ruler, She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the verge Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of death and his twin offspring Lady Bronwyn and Lord Bromvy are on people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. But now the runtemple is nothing more than an overgrown, outcastdecaying ruin. However this is merely One day, Malini witnesses a portent of greater troubles aheadgirl kill someone with magic. One Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the evil Seven Sisters is seen accompanying girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the Red Knights so if there is a secret agenda it's not a good onegirl to become her own personal maidservant. Meanwhile if Ro Canarn can fall, is anywhere safe anymore?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855625</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Dance of CloaksGenevieve Gornichec|authortitle=David DalglishThe Witch's Heart|rating=4.5

|summary=Thren Felhorn is the leader A modern and approachable reimagining of the Spider Guild and is Norse myths that centres around a name feared by everyone in Veldarenwitch named Angrboda. For good reason, for Thren has united the Guilds, those groups populated by the thieves and murderers of the city. Thren’s long term aim is to lead the Guilds She hides in a war against forest at the Trifect – the three richest families who control the majority edge of the city’s legal activities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502783</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Bronze Gods|author=A A Aguire|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=One nine worlds, remembering nothing of the many reasons I love fantasy is discovering the new worlds her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the authors have createdstake three times because of Odin's wrath. Where is the world? What kind creatures inhabit it? What are the customsHer attempts to live in peace, et ceterahowever, et cetera. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating and steampunk mixed quickly thwarted when Loki shows up 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 literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the city because Lin's mother has been given stake—and refuses to leave her dream job as professor alone. After an initial period of traditional songs at the university. Linmistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's novelist father doesn't mind: he can write charms, and play at riddling in the city as well as anywhere. But Lin hates it. She misses the farm where she was brought two start an unusual family made of up and she misses playing at trolla half-hunting with her friend Niklas. But most of alldead daughter, she misses her pet volea son that's a wolf, Rufus, who is buried under and another son that's a rosebushsnake. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001669</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=OmensHannah Whitten|authortitle=Kelley ArmstrongFor the Wolf

|summary=Olivia Taylor-Jones has In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a charmed lifesacrifice. Her family is richTo Red's misfortune, her fiance perfect and though she has some questions about is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her careerback, she Red knows that things what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will work themselves outdecide the fate of their kingdom. Until If she learns that she's adopted - her true parents America's most infamous serial killersis not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. Suddenly on But when Red enters the run from woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the mediahour, Olivia she finds shelter in that the small town of Cainsvillelegends are lies. ItThe wolf is not a monster—he's a strange sort of place - full of oddball characters and gargoyles that seem to only appear at certain timesman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184744511X</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreview|title=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)Frontpage|author=Catherine FisherJohn Gwynne|ratingtitle=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 Carr|title=Shadow Of The Legend of BrokenGods|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 Johnson|rating=45

|summary=Drusilla Jaco (DJ) The Shadow Of The Gods is the sentinel for first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the preternatural community Vikings in the greater New Orleans area and is still recovering from bereavementshadow of Ragnarok, Katrina when the Gods have battled and broken ribs from her last adventuretheir bones lie scattered for all to see. No such luck as life taking things easy on her, however, as it This story is discovered that the copycat of a famous serial killer is not, ultimate in factHigh Fantasy, a copycat. The Axeman of New Orleans himself has been raised from and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the dead by a necromancer or necromancers unknown. To make matters worsegenre, with mythical creatures, her loup-garou fiend Jake bit her in a fit of pique archaic language and her best friend’s creepy boyfriend won’t leave her alonebattles galore. She doesn’t know what he wants This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and she doesn’t know whether she’ll turn into fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wolf at the next full moon but she does know that the Axeman is after her, specificallywonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755397703</amazonuk>0356514218

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