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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angus WatsonA G Slatter|title=Age of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Location: Here or hereabouts Date: 67BC. The Romans are coming but, before they turn up, the collection of disparate tribes they're destined to call Britannia has other problems. There is much infighting among these mini-kingdoms and currently Dug the Warrior's region is subjected to a massive killing machine – the army of King Zadar. Everything's fine though; Dug is just one of the people who want to kill him. Yes, there's Dug, Lowa the talented archer-ess who used to work for Zadar and Spring, a little girl. Some would say that they can't get through the army Briar Book of thousands that surround the King but they're going to try anyway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502619</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Deborah Harkness|title=The Book of LifeDead
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|summary=Historian witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont are back home in the 21st century but now face the tragic news of Aunt Sarah's partner, Em' There's death. Hard-a part of me that wants to keep this just to-get-along-with Baldwin has taken over as head of the de Clairmont clan and is making life dangerously difficult myself for Diana, Matthew and their unborn twinshowever long I can. If this isn't enoughThis secret magic of my own, they still need to find and remove the secret manuscriptall mine, Ashmole 782 – the Book of Lifeat last. However, they have very dangerous competitionI just want to enjoy it for a while.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755384776</amazonuk>}}''
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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|author=Ben PeekT Kingfisher|title=The GodlessThornhedge|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=These are strange times in Mieera, the land made from the bodies of dead gods. The Leeran army is closing in on a Mieera defended only by a scratch army of citizens and The Dark, a band of mercenary saboteurs led by cynically tough Bueralan. Ayae the cartographer's apprentice has a more personal crisis. She's pulled from You had a burnt out building alive and totally unscathedright to retake your place. This can only mean one thing: she's one of the cursed. As the effects of this newly endowed immortality hit her she must decide what to do. Zaifyr, the mysterious charmed man, has some ideas but then so do the sinister Keepers which doesn't help much. Meanwhile that army is getting closer…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447251245</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen MaitlandNicole Jarvis|title=The Vanishing WitchA Portrait in Shadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=More and higher taxes are being levied on the English by teenage King Richard II and his uncle/advisor John of Gaunt to pay for the wars against France. They may cause annoyance to the rich but they're breaking the poor, people like Lincolnshire river boat man Gunter and his family. Meanwhile some 'I want all of the better off are facing problems from other quarters. Cloth merchant Robert of Bassingham is losing his stock before it arrives due Florence to theft and unrest among the weavers in Flanders. Itknow my name's not a good time to be English and eventually something will snap; we're heading towards 1831 and the peasants will be revolting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147221501X</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|author=AJ SmithAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=The Dark Blood (The Long War)Delilah Recovered|rating=54
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The lands of Ro are slowly being subjugated by the evil sorceresses known We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as The Seven Sistersplanned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Their only hope is Out of work, about to kill them and only one man lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. But it's not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the task: the Dark Blood assassin, Rham Jasattack but not unscathed. He chooses master forger and fixer Kale as his assistant but, as this will reduce KaleWitch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life expectancy markedly, Kale's not keen. Meanwhile Utha, albino Black Order cleric, his squire Randall, axe maiden Halla Summer Wolf, Timon the Butcher et al Slivers of memory of things that are dragged into a bloody conflict during which they have not ordinary at all return to fight for more than just their own survivalher and things will never be the same....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178185226X</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy AdamsHadeer Elsbai|title=The Rain-Soaked BrideDaughters of Izdihar|rating=54
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The last thing that Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the afflicted people see before their death is lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a wet woman in white. The last thing they feel is their own personal rain cloud soaking society pitted against them while everywhere else remains dry. All also happen Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to be in top government jobs. What's happening? British Intelligence Department 37 (in attend the form of August Shining Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and Toby Greene) then join the military, but instead she is there to find outforced into an arranged marriage with Nico. This may not be the full extent of Giorgina on the problems facing them though; other hand did not with have a South Korean delegation coming privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the UK Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for talks and Augustwomen's sister April wanting rights. Giorgina also happens to get be in on the actlove with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953162</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrez BergenHeather Fawcett|title=Depth Charging Ice Planet GothEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Georgie McCool Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has always known what shetravelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's wanted work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and pursued it until speaking to faeries, she has itis not so good with people. She got her dream job writing comedy So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she's about is not sure what she has done, nor how to get redeem herself and put her own showfinal investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and she got her dream guyinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, Neal. Onlyall charm and delight, shemuch to Emily's not so sure she has him anymorefrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409154912</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy)Christopher Golden|authortitle=Marie RutkoskiRoad of Bones|rating=43.5|genre=TeensHorror|summary=Kestrel has two alternative futures ahead The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of herBones'… the R504. As Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the daughter world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a general spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a vasthuge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, expansionist empirewhich dries into rutted, she can make a politically advantageous marriage or she can enlist in the militarypuddly dust. Kestrel doesn I don't want either think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and her other Siberian minerals, and 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 spent in a delicate game of manoeuvres film-maker, doing a recce with her father as she tries his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to put off encourage the decisionproject to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858207</amazonuk>1803361476
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim HallAndrew Givler|title=Shadow of the WolfSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The child Robin Loxley is mysteriously separated from his father during what had been ''Matt has a routine foray into the forest. In grief and bewilderment Robin becomes a loner, choosing to raise himselfterrible life. HeSeriously—it's more than happy with the solitary lifestyle until he meets Marian Delbosque, spoilt daughter of local gentryawful. Their friendship It is cemented as they play together but their future won't all be childish games. They have a quest and Robin, as a winter-born, has a destiny so bad that he can't begin to guess. The clue Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in the mysterious words he heard whispered in the forest after exchange for his father's disappearance: ''Not yet. Too soon. He must suffer the woundssoul.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191020000X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Tropic of Serpents (A Memoir by Lady Trent)Olivie Blake|authortitle=Marie BrennanThe Atlas Six
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=We are in sequel territoryDark, so we must hope that things have escalated for Lady Trentsharp, and that she is finding life even harder than before. And it is – as much as she would like to go dragon hunting with her husband she cannot. (And by dragon hunting I donhighly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six''t mean killing them, I mean being a natural historian for the species in makes its publishing debut after becoming a world that would rather massacre them for industrial purposes)Tik-Tok sensation. Here, repressed by the Victorian society she lives in, she can just about raise another exhibition together, to a different corner of the world, but she won't find herself with the possibility of observing dragons – she is instead faced with the demand that she MUST hunt dragons…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783292415</amazonuk>1529095239
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Queen of the Dark ThingsDaniel Abraham|authortitle=C Robert CargillAge of Ash
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Colby Stevens lost his best friend to an army We meet Alys under the most northerly of fairies six months ago. And things havenOldgate't got much better since. The Seventy-Twos four bridges, she has a powerful and angry bunch of demons want Colby to deal with the Queen of the Dark Things. But Colby knows, whatever the demons have planned for him, it isn't good. Whatever he does is playing into their plans knife in some way or another.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575130148</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Dead Man's Hand|author=John Joseph Adams (editor)|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=''Dead Man's Hand'' features short stories with themes ranging from time travel her hand and vampires to theology; at first glance it definitely appears to be an eclectic mixa meeting that she dreads. These stories are linked by Meanwhile the genre City of the weird west, which Kithamar is defined by its elasticity. John Joseph Adams' helpful introduction outlines at a point in the main features turning of years when the weird west worlds are at their thinnest and provides a clear, insightful guide to this little-known genreall things are possible. Far from being mismatched, It is the night between the eclectic nature funeral of this collection is in fact a Prince and the greatest strength coronation of the weird west genrehis successor. Unconstrained by narrow generic conventions, For a night the authors in this collection have plundered the deepest depths of their imaginations. The result? A colourful, memorable and, above all, ''imaginative'' collection of fictionKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783295465</amazonuk>0356515427
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian IrvineAnn Sei Lin|title=Justice: Tainted Realm: Book 3Rebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=''The final battle. The ultimate priceKurara 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.'' The deadHowever, regenerated King Lyf and his Cythonian army are poised when a man named Himura arrives to attack as tell her that she is the army of Axil Grandysa Crafter like him, complete someone with the other four of power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the five legendary HeroesEmpire. Rix has He asks her to stop them all come with him, to leave the help life of Tali (dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the escaped Pale slave)matter, Glynnie (because the ex-maid)Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and an army of Rix's own who would rather fight him than fight for himshe is forced to flee out into the world. As Lyf and Axil both hunger for the final master pearl that sits beneath Tali's skull, She joins Himura aboard the endgame approaches. Meanwhile TobryOrihime, former best friend of Rix and now an unpredictably dangerous Caithe shapea sky-shiftership whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, is still alive and without hope. Although the 10 year old Rannilt would argue with that last bit.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498300</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim ButcherB09Q3P283Y|title=Skin Game (Dresden Files)Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=54
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Harry Dresden is and has been a lot of things: Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the only wizard Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the Chicago phone bookfight against Communism, PI, reluctant Knight of nor is he particularly interested in a career in the Winter Court, even apparently deadmilitary. Now it looks as though If he's about to relive the death bit but a bit more permanently. The parasite in his brain honest - which Clyde usually is still killing him while , with himself at least - hehasn's stranded as warden on the island penal colony t got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of Demonreach. Hold tight though – the good news is that rut he's about to be liberatedin. The bad? The liberator He's good in training and is Queen Mab who wants Harry to do a bit of robbery beside quickly put onto a former arch enemy of his. If he refuses, the parasite will kill him and then slope off to kill everyone he knows and cares about, including his little daughter Maggienon commissioned officer training course. However, nothing is simple, even this. There are catches, hellHe's bells there are!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650090X</amazonuk>chuffed with himself.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Manifest Destiny Volume 1Jennifer Saint|authortitle=Chris Dingess, Matthew Roberts and Owen GieniElektra
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic NovelsLiterary Fiction|summary=It's 1804 and some newly-American soldiers are expanding Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the territory to the west, at story of three women who live in the orders heavily male dominated world of President Jefferson – orders which allude to the pioneering party encountering some very unusual thingsAncient Greece. And they do – first a huge arc of greeneryCassandra, Clytemnestra, putting and Elektra are all bit players in the modern reader in mind story of the Missouri landmark arch as bastardised by something along Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the lines of silent women have the Statue of Liberty in the original 'Planet of most compelling stories and the Apes'most extreme furies. But when that site gets attacked the weirdness certainly starts to show itself…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1607069822</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, 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 value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just 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 discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|isbn=1542019885}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melanie RawnTasha Suri|title=Glass Thorns - ThornlostThe Jasmine Throne
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The Touchstone Players are back and now mostly married but On the show must go on. Talking night of whichher sacred burning, it's their playwright Cayden's 21st naming dayPrincess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. He's come of age but his aristocratic mother would still rather he went She is immediately sent to court as be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a courtier than community of people who got powers from the entertainer that his wizard/elven/fae heritage equips him formysterious deathless waters. However Cade has other concernsBut now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. HeOne day, the dwarf glister, Mieka who wields Cade's Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic, Rafe (who manipulates it) and Jeska the masker (who can literally become anyone) are no longer the court favourites. AlsoInstead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, you remember Malini claims that the danger that Cade foresaw for Mieka girl saved her from Mieka's wife in his elsewhen premonitions? Well, there's more! (There follows some spoilers an attacker and begs for the previous novels so read them first before reading ongirl to become her own personal maidservant.)|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781166641</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca AlexanderGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Secrets of Life and DeathWitch's Heart|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=A girl covered modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in magic sigils dies in London watched by Jackdaw (Jack) Hammond. Jack had tried to cure 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 girl escapedstake three times because of Odin's wrath. Now Jack has another chance Her attempts to provide the treatment linking them live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with Elizabethan alchemist/mathematician/royal advisor John Dee. Indeed some would even call Dee a sorcerer. Jack could achieve so much if her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she does it better was tied to the next time but the fight won't be easystake—and refuses to leave her alone. SheAfter an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's not charms, and the only one who wants her new subjecttwo start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, although she may be the only one who knows how to save herand another son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953243</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Hilda and the Black HoundHannah Whitten|authortitle=Luke PearsonFor the Wolf|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsFantasy|summary=Hilda In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the Black Hound second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the fourth book in second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the “Hildafolk” seriescape on her back, each Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of which their kingdom. If she is not a self-worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained tale about a highly inquisitive little girl to the woods will be released, and her adventuresthe fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. This time Hilda joins But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the Sparrow Scouts and befriends legends are lies. The wolf is not a house spirit whilst in the meantime monster—he's a mysterious beast stalks the town of Trolbergman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909263184</amazonuk>0356516369
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tanya HuffJohn Gwynne|title=The Wild Ways: An Enchantment Emporium Novel (Enchantment Emporium 2)Shadow Of The Gods|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Charlie GaleThe Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, the lass who has magic set in her music (literally!), leaves the rest era of the family behind to play at a Celtic festival on Vikings in the Canadian coast. You can never leave the Gale family behind though even shadow of Ragnarok, when the problem is an oil company drilling offshore in a seal sanctuary areaGods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This may not be a popular occupation but story is the oil company has the clout ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to use a little leverage. Charlie pits herself against them with the help of a Selkie family but in the process (family link incoming) also pits herself against the formidable Aunt Catherine. Back home Allie is having trouble genre, with Jackmythical creatures, the young sorcerer dragon they rescued from the underworld last timearchaic language and battles galore. IndeedThis is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in the Gale households there's no such thing as peace and quiet anymore!which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781169624</amazonuk>0356514218
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