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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edward CoxA G Slatter|title=The Relic GuildBriar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5

|summary=The Genii War was so devastating '' There's a part of me that nowwants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, 40 years laterall mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world is , lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a dismally different placefamily of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. The LabyrinthThough she has always wished for magic, once a hub permitting access Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to unlimited locations is now be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a prisonsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. The policeWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, under Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the control of Briar Witch, the Resident town's leader, and his especially enabled Relic Guild, maintain orderEllie takes her place beside her. The war may have As challenges come her way left lasting reverberations but , right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at least the Genii have been destroyedheart of a maelstrom of chaos. If Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they hadn't beenhave sacrificed to survive, combine their malevolent presence with the fact that the Relic Guild is not as strong in numbers as they once were and things could worsen considerablyunder threat. Errrr… Labrys, we have a problem!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200296</amazonuk>1803364548

Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Broken Eye (Lightbringer 3)T Kingfisher|authortitle=Brent WeeksThornhedge|rating=3.5

|summary=War is coming ''You had a right to the Seven Satrapies - not that most of the people in power want to admit itretake your place. The Color Prince may not have succeeded in keeping hold of his super powerful Banes yet, but he's steadily moving through the Satrapies, burning and killing everything in his path all the same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499099</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Benedict Jacka|title=Hidden: An Alex Verus novel |rating=4T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well beloved.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Anne WalkerBut whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, life mage and former good friend of Camden magic shop owner/future diviner Alex Verus Thornhedge is in trouble. Alex would love to help her but first he has to find not herstory. Meanwhile his guilty past as Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a dark mage apprenticed new-born baby and secreted away to the less-than-nice Richard Drakh has come back land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to haunt himdraw magic from her veins and cast spells. In fact there are rumours that Richard himself is coming back to haunt Alex personally as Richard's more than mildly miffed about Alex's betrayal. Hang on Alex – it's going to be a bumpy ride!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502317</amazonuk>1803364238

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angus WatsonNicole Jarvis|title=Age of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy)A Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|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 I want all of the people who want Florence to kill him. Yes, thereknow my name'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 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 Life|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Historian witch Diana Bishop Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont are back home in where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the 21st century but now face powerful Accademia, the tragic news self-proclaimed guardians of Aunt Sarah's partner, Em's deaththe healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. HardThe all-to-get-along-with Baldwin male Accademia has taken hoarded power over as head of the de Clairmont clan art and is making life dangerously difficult architecture for Diana, Matthew centuries and their unborn twinsguard it above all else. If this isn't enoughTo them, they still need to find Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and remove the secret manuscript, Ashmole 782 change – the Book of Life. However, they have very dangerous competitionhas no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755384776</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|title=The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic|author=Emily Croy Barker|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=Feeling Set in the need for a little escapism and fantasy reading, I chose this debut novel by Emily Croy Barker, expecting an enchanted but modern fairy tale for grown ups. However, I have to say, I was a little disappointed. The book starts out brilliantlynear-distant future, introducing us to Nora in her mundane life as she struggles to write her university thesis whilst dealing with a relationship breakdown, then by chapter two, suddenly transports world on the reader to a magical other-worldverge of climate collapse, rather like ''Alice Britain is in Wonderland'' or ''Harry Potter''great peril. We then follow Nora as she meets the enchanting, beautiful, Ilissa in The British Isles desperately needs a land where everything turns out hero (or several) to be too good to be true save the day and looks are very much deceivingrescue what little remains. Nora is literally locked into marriage with Ilissa's son Raclin and we learn What no-one expected was that her only way out one of this entrapment is through the help Knights of magician Aruendiel, an enemy of Ilissa and from another land named Uland. A promising start, suggesting unexpected events, conflicts, a fast paced story and twists to come. Unfortunately, for me, the intrigue soon faded and Round Table would answer the exciting plot beyond this never really materialisedcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405913096</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Codex BornAmelia Estelle Dellos|authortitle=Jim C HinesDelilah Recovered

|summary=Bands are famed for having that tricky second album syndromeWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, but the same can be said about to look up. Out of work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for authors when writing the second book in a seriesan accountant's job. But it's not to be. [[Libriomancer Dee is attacked by Jim C Hines|Libriomancer]] was two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the first in a series attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that blasted onto the scene to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an infectious enthusiasm ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that allowed you are not ordinary at all return to forgive its one or two minor flawsher and things will never be the same.... Could the follow up continue the momentum, or will it stagnate?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953472</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Ripper AffairHadeer Elsbai|authortitle=Lilith SaintcrowThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating=4.5

|summary=Emma BannonDrawing inspiration from Egypt, Sorcerer Prime and servant to ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the crownlives of two women who could not be more different, has been locked away yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in her house for some time nowa society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, trying wishes to avoid being drawn into affairs of treason attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and murderthen join the military, thank you very muchbut instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. But when Archibald Clare discovers Giorgina on the secret Emma has been keeping from him - in other hand did not have a violent incident at a court that takes privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the life Daughters of ClareIzdihar – a group campaigning for women's manservant, Valentinelli - Emma finds herself unable rights. Giorgina also happens to avoid being thrown back into the fraybe in love with Nico. For someone sorcerous What follows is murdering frails in the darker corners a story of Londiniuman unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and though Emma would rather Clare spend time resting and recovering his facultiescruelty, she soon starts to realise that they may be the only ones capable from which blossoms a group of stopping whatever danger is blooming in the nightadmirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500942</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben PeekHeather Fawcett|title=The GodlessEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=These are strange times in Mieera, the land made from the bodies of dead gods. The Leeran army Emily Wilde is closing in an expert academic scholar on a Mieera defended only by a scratch army of citizens faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and The Darkresearched meticulously, a band of mercenary saboteurs led by cynically tough Bueralan. Ayae the cartographerto write her life's apprentice has a more personal crisiswork, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. She's pulled from a burnt out building alive Whilst she is brilliant at research and totally unscathedspeaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. This can only mean one thing: So when she's one finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the cursed. As the effects of this newly endowed immortality hit her village matriarch, she must decide is not sure what she has done, nor how to doredeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. ZaifyrEnter Wendell Bambleby, the mysterious charmed manher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, has some ideas but then so do the sinister Keepers which doesnmuch to Emily't help muchs frustration. Meanwhile that army But why is getting closer…he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447251245</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Hornor JacobsChristopher Golden|title=The IncorruptiblesRoad of Bones

|summary=Fisk and Shoestring are ''Matt has a couple of the mercenaries paid to guard Ruman high born Cornelius and his family of spoilt, back-biting in-fighters on board their steamer, The Cornelianterrible life. The exception to the continuous badly-mooded is CorneliusSeriously—it' daughter, the healer, Livias awful. She seems to have struck up a rapport with Fisk; the reason why they get on It is so well seems hidden in a dark secret bad that Shoe hopes to crack if they live that long. The truth Dan the Demon is that shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life is cheap – the Stretchers roam the land, bloodthirsty and dangerous ensuring that Fisk and Shoe earn every penny Cornelius allows themin exchange for his soul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057513366X</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Karen Maitland|title=The Vanishing Witch|rating=4Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=More He never hits his targets and higher taxes are being levied on the English by teenage King Richard II and his uncle/advisor John of Gaunt , when he fails to pay for the wars against France. They may cause annoyance get even Matt to sign on the rich but they're breaking the poordotted line, people like Lincolnshire river boat man Gunter and his family. Meanwhile some of the better off are facing problems from other quarters. Cloth merchant Robert of Bassingham is losing his stock before it arrives due to theft and unrest among the weavers in Flanders. Ithe's not a good time to be English and eventually something will snap; weso desperate that he simply forges Matt're heading towards 1831 and the peasants will be revoltings signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147221501X</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaye WellsOlivie Blake|title=Cursed Moon: Prospero's War: Book TwoThe Atlas Six|rating=54

|summary=It's now six weeks since Kate Prospero saved her brother Danny's life by cooking the illegal dirty magic antidote to her Uncle Abe's poisonous recipe. Abe is safely in prison but KateDark, as an MEA cop trained to track and punish practitioners of dirty magicsharp, now has a secret. There are also other matters clawing at her mind. A series of thefts and murders is disrupting Babylonhighly inquisitive, causing it to become more dangerous by the day - and that's saying something! Indeed as the Halloween new moon approaches the murder and mayhem will increase. Meanwhile Kate is discovering even older secrets than hers which cause her to question everything she's been brought up to believeThe Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650302X</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreview|title=The Widow's House (Dagger and the Coin)Frontpage

|title=Age of Ash|rating=4.5

|summary=The fourth in Daniel Abraham’s majestic The Dagger and We meet Alys under the Coin series most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has pretty much everything you can want a knife in an epic fantasy adventure – even more so than the first three. There’s action, war, politics, betrayal, great relationships between family her hand and friendsa meeting that she dreads. There’s Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a surprising amount of laughter here, even if it’s all rather bleak, as some point in the turning of years when the heroes worlds are using gallows humour to cope with the amount of death at their thinnest and destruction they're forced to seeall things are possible. Even better than any of this, though, It is the superb characterisation. Abraham has given us perhaps half a dozen character arcs which are absolutely masterful. From night between the widowed woman trying to save her country by betraying its leader, while juggling an inappropriate romance with a servant (these two are probably my favourite couple ever), to funeral of a villain who manages to be simultaneously evil enough to make your skin crawl yet often pitiable Prince and, sometimes, even likeable, all the coronation of the main players here are brilliantly portrayedhis successor. I also think For a night the dialogue here Kithamar is outstanding, hugely quotableun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356504697</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=AJ SmithAnn Sei Lin|title=The Dark Blood (The Long War)Rebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=The lands Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of Ro are slowly being subjugated by the evil sorceresses known as The Seven Sisters. Their only hope is Empire come to kill them drink and only one make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is up a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the task: the Dark Blood assassin, Rham JasEmpire. He chooses master forger and fixer Kale as his assistant butasks her to come with him, as this will reduce Kale's to leave the life expectancy markedlyof dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, Kalesoon Kurara won's not keen. Meanwhile Uthat have any say in the matter, albino Black Order clericbecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, his squire Randalland she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, axe maiden Halla Summer Wolfa sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, Timon the Butcher et al are dragged into and a bloody conflict during which they have to fight for more than just their own survival.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178185226X</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy AdamsB09Q3P283Y|title=The Rain-Soaked BrideShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=54

|summary=The last thing Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the afflicted people see before their death fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a wet woman career in whitethe military. The last thing they feel If he's honest - which Clyde usually is their own personal rain cloud soaking them while everywhere else remains dry. All also happen to be , with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the rut he's in top government jobs. WhatHe's happening? British Intelligence Department 37 (good in the form of August Shining training and Toby Greene) is there to find outquickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. This may not be the full extent of the problems facing them though; not with a South Korean delegation coming to the UK for talks and AugustHe's sister April wanting to get in on the actchuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953162</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrez BergenJennifer Saint|title=Depth Charging Ice Planet GothElektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=16 year old Mina lives in Nede (that's Elektra'Needy' out loud), a suburb of by Jennifer Saint tells the Australian state story of Victoria where she's three women who live in the final throes heavily male dominated world of schoolAncient Greece. However she feels very much an outsiderCassandra, Clytemnestra, especially after the recent death of her mother. Mina's alienated further by her bullying elder brother and her father's attempts to move on with his life before Mina is ready. She has friends that she spends time with Elektra are all bit players in a disinterested Goth way, the friend who understands her most being Animeid. Animeid is even more different than Mina, being half-girl, half-bird, but neither story of them seems to mind. It doesn't affect anyone else after all – Mina's the only person who can see herTrojan War.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782796495</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anthony Ryan|title=Tower Lord: Book 2 of Raven's Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Reva, young adherent to Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the True World Faith, has a mission: murdering Lord Vaelin Al Sorna. Frentis (one time Sixth Order Brother to Vaelin) also has murder on his mind but can't help it as he works through silent women have the deathly wish-list of the mysterious woman who binds his will. Lyrna's brother Malcius now rules as King of the Unified Realm most compelling stories and she's happy to remain princess. However someone else thinks differently; she's summoned to a meeting that will prepare her for an uncertain future. Meanwhile the greatest threat the Realm has ever known advances. Friend or foe? The difference may be indiscernible but differentiating means survivalmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502449</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy AdamsDean Koontz|title=The Clown ServiceQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=If British Secret Intelligence Service operative Toby Greene worked Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for MacDonaldhe'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 heIS now ''d be sacked 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 ineptitudegoing on the lam. Unfortunately And all this is just in time for the nation he cost thousands two of pounds more those typical Men in Black types to train than your average burger-flipper so turn up and suggest he's off of interest to Section 37 insteadthem. The Section's label mentions anti-terrorism butHelped to escape, as he finds his former boss told Toby ''If the security service flight is the circusinterrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, then Section 37 us where we keep the clowns.'' Meanwhile an old school Russian spy discovery that he is coming to the UK with enough not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power to destroy London. This may only be Toby's first job for 37 – and will include a touch of astral projection but what could possibly go wrong?whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953154</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeTasha Suri|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The city has been rebuilt for war. The waves of cyborg attacks are just the beginning – what follows is more devastating. Not only that but also the flood of refugees surging in daily is as much of a problem as a resource. Actually in one or two cases the word 'problem' is a bit of an understatement. In the middle of this hell Seb and Melanie are doing their best to fight and survive, although survival doesn't look like an option once they realise they have to go into the enemy's hive and bring the battle to the cyborgs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Landline|author=Rainbow Rowell|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Georgie McCool has always known what she's wanted and pursued it until she has it. She got her dream job writing comedy, she's about to get her own show, and she got her dream guy, Neal. Only, she's not so sure she has him anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409154912</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy)|author=Marie Rutkoski|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Kestrel has two alternative futures ahead of her. As the daughter of a general of a vast, expansionist empire, she can make a politically advantageous marriage or she can enlist in the military. Kestrel doesn't want either and her life is spent in a delicate game of manoeuvres with her father as she tries to put off the decision.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408858207</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tim Hall|title=Shadow of the WolfJasmine Throne

|summary=The child Robin Loxley is mysteriously separated from his father during what had been a routine foray into On the forest. In grief night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and bewilderment Robin becomes a loner, choosing refuses to step on to raise himself. He's more than happy with the solitary lifestyle until he meets Marian Delbosque, spoilt daughter of local gentrypyre. Their friendship She is cemented as they play together but their future won't all immediately sent to be childish games. They have imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a quest and Robin, as a winter-born, has a destiny that he can't begin to guess. The clue is in community of people who got powers from the mysterious words he heard whispered in the forest after his father's disappearance: ''Not yetdeathless waters. Too soon. He must suffer But now the woundstemple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191020000X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stella Gemmell|title=The City|rating=4One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The City has been fighting for centuries, be it the recognised war Instead of Red versus Blue fuelled by the mysterious Emperor or the daily fight of the Dwellers struggling reporting her for existence in the sewer settlements. Such oppression breeds unlikely heroes. A former general, now such a fugitive from a questionable justicegruesome crime, a 16 year old soldier trying to out-run Malini claims that the girl saved her father's reputation, a famed Red army leader from an attacker and a little girl who believes in someone whom others hardly notice any more; these carry hope begs for the City, whether the City realises it or notgirl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552168955</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Tropic of Serpents (A Memoir by Lady Trent)Genevieve Gornichec|authortitle=Marie BrennanThe Witch's Heart

|summary=We are in sequel territory, so we must hope that things have escalated for Lady Trent, A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that she is finding life even harder than beforecentres around a witch named Angrboda. And it is – as much as she would like to go dragon hunting with her husband she cannot. (And by dragon hunting I don't mean killing them, I mean being a natural historian for the species She hides in a world that would rather massacre them for industrial purposes). Here, repressed by forest at the Victorian society she lives in, she can just about raise another exhibition together, to a different corner edge of the worldnine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but she won't find herself with the possibility of observing dragons – she is instead faced with the demand that fact that she MUST hunt dragons…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783292415</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Queen of was survived burnt at the Dark Things|author=C Robert Cargill|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Colby Stevens lost his best friend to an army stake three times because of fairies six months ago. And things havenOdin't got much better sinces wrath. The Seventy-Two, a powerful and angry bunch of demons want Colby Her attempts to deal with the Queen of the Dark Things. But Colby knowslive in peace, whatever the demons have planned for himhowever, it isn't good. Whatever he does is playing into their plans 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 are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with themes ranging her literal heart—the one that was cut from time travel and vampires her chest before she was tied to theology; at first glance it definitely appears the stake—and refuses to be leave her alone. After an eclectic mix. These stories are linked by the genre initial period of the weird westmistrust, which is defined by its elasticity. John Joseph AdamsAngrboda begins to fall for Loki' helpful introduction outlines s charms, and the main features two start an unusual family made of the weird west and provides up a clear, insightful guide to this littlehalf-known genre. Far from being mismatcheddead daughter, the eclectic nature of this collection is in fact the greatest strength of the weird west genre. Unconstrained by narrow generic conventions, the authors in this collection have plundered the deepest depths of their imaginations. The result? A colourfula son that's a wolf, memorable and, above all, another son that''imaginative'' collection of fictions a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783295465</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian IrvineHannah Whitten|title=Justice: Tainted Realm: Book 3For the Wolf

|summary=In Red''The final battle. The ultimate prices family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice.To Red'' The deads misfortune, regenerated King Lyf and his Cythonian army are poised to attack as she is the army of Axil Grandys, complete with the other four of second daughter. Sent alone into the five legendary Heroes. Rix has to stop them all woods with nothing but the help of Tali (the escaped Pale slave)cape on her back, Glynnie (Red knows what to expect: within the ex-maid)woods is a wolf, and an army he is the one who will decide the fate of Rix's own who would rather fight him than fight for himtheir kingdom. As Lyf If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and Axil both hunger for the final master pearl that sits beneath Tali's skull, fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the endgame approachesstories go. Meanwhile TobryBut when Red enters the woods, former best friend of Rix and now an unpredictably dangerous Caithe shape-shifterexpecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is still alive and without hope. Although the 10 year old Rannilt would argue with that last bitnot a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498300</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim ButcherJohn Gwynne|title=Skin Game (Dresden Files)The Shadow Of The Gods

|summary=Harry Dresden The Shadow Of The Gods is and has been a lot the first installment of things: the only wizard Bloodsworn Saga, set in the Chicago phone book, PI, reluctant Knight era of the Winter Court, even apparently dead. Now it looks as though he's about to relive the death bit but a bit more permanently. The parasite Vikings in his brain is still killing him while he's stranded as warden on the island penal colony shadow of Demonreach. Hold tight though – Ragnarok, when the good news is that he's about Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to be liberatedsee. The bad? The liberator This story is Queen Mab who wants Harry to do a bit of robbery beside a former arch enemy of his. If he refusesthe ultimate in High Fantasy, the parasite will kill him and then slope off John Gwynne certainly does justice to kill everyone he knows the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and cares about, including his little daughter Maggiebattles galore. However, nothing This is simplea thick book, even thiswith an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle. There are catches, hell's bells there are!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650090X</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|title=Manifest Destiny Volume 1|author=Chris Dingess, Matthew Roberts and Owen Gieni|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's 1804 and some newly-American soldiers are expanding the territory to the west, at the orders of President Jefferson – orders which allude to the pioneering party encountering some very unusual things. And they do – first a huge arc of greenery, putting the modern reader in mind of the Missouri landmark arch as bastardised by something along the lines of the Statue of Liberty in the original 'Planet of the Apes'. But when that site gets attacked the weirdness certainly starts to show itself…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1607069822</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Melanie Rawn|title=Glass Thorns - Thornlost|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Touchstone Players are back and now mostly married but the show must go Move on. Talking of which, it's their playwright Cayden's 21st naming day. He's come of age but his aristocratic mother would still rather he went to court as a courtier than the entertainer that his wizard/elven/fae heritage equips him for. However Cade has other concerns. He, the dwarf glister, Mieka who wields Cade's magic, Rafe (who manipulates it) and Jeska the masker (who can literally become anyone) are no longer the court favourites. Also, you remember the danger that Cade foresaw for Mieka from Mieka's wife in his elsewhen premonitions? Well, there's more! (There follows some spoilers for the previous novels so read them first before reading on.)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781166641</amazonuk>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]