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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donald HounamA G Slatter|title=Gifted|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fifteen-year-old Frank is a forensic sorcerer, employed to solve murders and other grisly crimes in a world where adults get the blur and lose their eyesight by their mid-twenties, and only the young have enough sorcerous power to summon demons and angels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552571873</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Hermione Eyre|title=Viper Wine|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Venetia Stanley lives in Seventeeth century London. A celebrated beauty, she has had poems written in honour of her, and portraits painted by one of the leading artists The Briar Book of the time. Married to a handsome, kind and adventurous man, Venetia is kept in a life of luxury, and, at first glance - has everything she could ever have dreamed of. Except Venetia is not happy. A woman who has made her name and fortune because of her beauty, she is convinced that her allure is quickly slipping through her fingers. Signing a pact with an apothecary for his famed restorative 'Viper Wine', Venetia is set on a dangerous path.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581663</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Pinborough|title=The Death HouseDead

|summary=The blurb '' There's a part of Cursed By Fire had me interestedthat wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I loved just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the openingworld, in which we meet Dethanlies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a former warrior cursed by family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the gods first non-witch to suffer an unending punishment be born into her family for daring to steal immortality from themgenerations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and follow his attempts centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to lead communicate with the armies dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of Hexis chaos. Reeling from one family secret to victory another, Ellie must decide who to appease one of trust and determine what to do as the vengeful godsBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034553493X</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian TchaikovskyRachel Greenlaw|title=Guns of the Dawn|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Emily Marshwic has led a priveleged life - wealthy and from a good family, she has known little discomfort. Until the war comes - a vicious, far reaching struggle that destroys whole nations and tears families apart. First the men are conscripted, and then, after many defeats - the women. Having seen her country ravaged, and hearing news of her brother's death, Emily signs up for the army - Compass and is plunged into situations more deadly than she can ever have imagined. As the tide of war turns - could Emily be the one to put an end to the bloodshed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447272676</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Randy Henderson|title=Finn Fancy Necromancy Blade

|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Douglas Coupland suggested that all families are psychotic and he may just be right if that family consists ''I can hear the song of necromancersthe sea. The usual family dynamic call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' 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 already a little messed up when you are one of four kids, but the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when you throw in the power Council Watch lays a trap to remove souls and reanimate end the deadwrecking, things can get even more complicatedthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. After 25 yearsDesperate to save him from death, Finn returns home Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to find guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that some things have changedlies 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, but his family will always Mira must be a nightmaredetermined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297239</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jen WilliamsT Kingfisher|title=The Iron GhostThornhedge

|summary=Wydrin of Crosshaven, Sir Sebastian and Lord Aaron Frith, the team of sell-swords now known as the Black Feather Three are employed by the people of Skaldshollow to steal back the heartstone from the Narhl. To the Shalds it's the means of making stone live; to the Narhls it's the very spirit of the mountain so where does that leave our adventurers? Not long to think about that as there seems to be an increase in mystic occurrences across the world and also You had a young assassin is polishing off entire families. Why? One thing that's clear is that Seb, Wydrin and Frith ''will'' get involved eventually… involved right up to their necksretake your place. The other thing they will see with clarity is that an old adversary is back and this time he's brought a friend!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472211138</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Melinda Salisbury|title=The Sin EaterT Kingfisher's Daughter |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In latest novella is a land lovely reimagining of fantasy, Twylla lives in the court, engaged to the princea fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But this whilst there is no fairytale – he is one of the only people she can touch, made immune to the poison carried a princess trapped in her veins. The embodiment of a goddesstower, Twylla is the executionersleeping under an eternal enchantment, forced to kill those who commit treason. Nearly everyone around Thornhedge is terrified of not herstory. Until new guard Lief arrivesInstead, our protagonist is Toadling, who could see her as was stolen away by fairies when she was a friend, or even romantically. The question of whether new-born baby and secreted away to the two could have a future together is an intriguing one, but before long, it’s the least land of Twylla’s worries as she’s thrown into danger by the queen’s obsession with destroying fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her enemiesveins and cast spells. Can she survive?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407147633</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaye WellsNicole Jarvis|title=Deadly SpellsA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Time has moved on since [[Cursed Moon: Prospero's War: Book Two by Jaye Wells|Cursed Moon]]. Kate's ex-lover, the devastatingly hunky but dangerous John Volos has been inaugurated as BabylonI want all of Florence to know my name's mayor and Kate's neighbourly old witch Baba has moved  Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in with which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the Prosperos. Meanwhile Kate has delivered on her promisepowerful Accademia, persuading the MEA wizard Mez self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to teach her brother Danny how to cook clean potions. Away protect the city and its citizens from everyday life, trouble is brewingplagues and curses. Two opposing gang members have been creatively killed which could mean a titThe all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for-tat rumble or centuries and guard it could be out-and-out gang warabove all else. Compared to the peril this could bringTo them, the journalist poking around in Kate's forbidden past is almost a side-showArtemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356503003</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna SmaillThomas D Lee|title=The ChimesPerilous Times|rating=53|genre=Fantasy|summary=Writing ''Hate is outlawed and no one remembers how to read. In fact memory itself is at the path of least resistance'' Set in the near-distant future, in a premium; people carry their memories around with them in their hands or any way they're able as each day their minds empty of so much. The world now answers to on the music verge of The Chimes summoning all to daily observance. The music is all. It lays aural paths for navigationclimate collapse, identifies people like a musical signature – the music Britain is everywherein great peril. The music is what brings young Simon British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to London after save the death of his parentsday and rescue what little remains. How did they die? Why is Simon here? Why is Lucien, What no-one expected was that one of his fellow River Thames mud larks so significant? Would Simon really want to know?the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444794523</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark AlderAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Son of the MorningDelilah Recovered|rating=54

|summary=The fourteenth century - Edward III sits upon the throneWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, trying be about to rebuild a country bought look up. Out of work, about to its kneeslose her flat, and conquer France - a land thought Dee is up for an accountant's job. But it's not to be rightfully his. However Edward has a major problem - it Dee is said that attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the Angels will only fight for Franceattack but not unscathed. Edward Witch hunters? What on earth has little choice - fail and fall in battle, convince the Angels that to switch sidesdo with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, or open the gates living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to hell her and begin a holy warthings will never be the same....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575115165</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreview|title=The Darkest Part of the ForestFrontpage|author=Holly BlackHadeer Elsbai|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summarytitle=The people Daughters of Fairfold know not to meddle with the faerie folk, they wear their socks inside out, fill their pockets with oatmeal and they stay out of the forest on the full moon. Tourists don’t know these things. People travel far and wide to see the faerie town and the sleeping boy in the glass coffin but one or two always go missing, never to be seen again. Tourists, the locals say, the folk don’t interfere with locals, if they do, you must be acting like a tourist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621736</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chris Evans|title=Of Bone and ThunderIzdihar|rating=4.5

|summary=Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The conscripted men and women Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the Kingdom's military forces are battling lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the Slyts rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in Luitoxa society pitted against them. The Kingdom's might may include Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the latest weaponry Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the ability to thaum military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the Slyts are elusive other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and have maintain their own waysreputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. The jungle Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is as hot as hell a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which is apt as they will all face blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their own hells rights and some may even survive. The odds aren’t good though; if the enemy doesn't get them, overcoming their own flying craft maypersonal obstacles. Nobody wants to be on the back of an overheated rag!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297557</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Den PatrickHeather Fawcett|title=The Boy Who Wept Blood (Erebus Sequence 2)Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=54|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Anea Emily Wilde is now an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the ruler very first encyclopaedia of Demesne butfaeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, rather than retain far North in the current aristocratic system small village of ruling housesHrafvsnik, she works towards a republic, empowering having somehow offended the plentiful but poor peasants. As no turkey votes for Christmasvillage matriarch, she is not all ruling houses align with sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her ideas, making life treacherous – fatally so final investigations for someher book back on the right track. DinoEnter Wendell Bambleby, her half-brother is doing dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all he can charm and delight, much to protect her but, AneaEmily's desire to spend most of her time with her scientific machines isn't doing her any favours in the popularity stakesfrustration. For Dino hiding away But why is not an option; he's got questions and here? What does he wants to live long enough to answer them.want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473211522</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=R D ShanksChristopher Golden|title=A Reverie Road of BrothersBones

|genre=General FictionHorror|summary=The castle Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of Delzeanthe world's walls have always protected Emperor Elimost notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, his sonsapocalyptic-level mud, sisterwhich dries into rutted, niece puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and nephew from the ravages other Siberian minerals, and poverty of the because he wanted to give too many people in the city beyonda lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. However the days may be numbered as You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a burgeoning revolution has infiltrated its walls thanks recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the rebel movement known as The Eyesproject to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. Their plan necessitates They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the unwitting involvement company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the spoilt, egotistical aforementioned niece, Princess Avaguide's childhood village. Unfortunately there will be collateral damage with tragic effects.And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1505631394</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jo WaltonAndrew Givler|title=What Makes This Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book So Great: Re-Reading The Classics Of Science Fiction And Fantasy|rating=5|genre=Anthologies|summary=Jo Walton has published over ten books, several of which have been award winning. On top of that, she has a voracious appetite for books - both as a well respected writer of original fiction, but as a well respected reviewer too. Not only does she have time to do all that, but she also writes a regular column for Tor.com, on Science Fiction and Fantasy books, and it is these columns that a selection of which are collected here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472111613</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Richard Harland|title=Song of the Slums1)

|summary=''Song Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of the Slumsa blissful life in exchange for his soul.'' fuses politics Poor Dan! I know, musicI know, social injustice and gaslight fantasywe shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman. Set in 1846 during the age of steam it tells the story of Astor Vance He never hits his targets and her mysterious servant/companion Verrol who are caught up in , when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the machinations of the plutocratic Swale family and must fight for survival in a world of intriguedotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1743310056</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria AveyardOlivie Blake|title=Red QueenThe Atlas Six

|summary=Things have certainly changed for Reuben Golding now that he is a werewolf. He's living with hardly a care for his journalism career in a huge, rich mansion in the woods in rural west coast US, with some exotic European retainers and servants, and several fellow werewolves, who are doing their best at times to help him in the transitionDark, and guiding him in the ways of the immortal. He's using his new-found powers to be a sort of vigilantesharp, ridding the world of evil people and rescuing their victimshighly inquisitive, but it's much closer to home that the change in his life really manifests itself. Just because he has cut ties to his past, it doesn't mean they cannot return to haunt him. The transaction that left him the mansion might not have been completely smooth after all. And even if he might have an endless future, itAtlas Six's not to say he's going to get the one he thinks he wants and deserves, especially where his lover Laura is concerned…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958493X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lynne Truss|title=Cat out of Hell|rating=3|genre=Horror|summary=Meet Alec Charlesworth. He's retired and decamped to an isolated coastal cottage with just his dog and loving memories of his colleague wife, now that she has died before her time. But the fusty librarian cannot rest too long before engaging in exploring some unusual computer files that were pinged across by someone at the college he worked at, just before he left. Bizarrely they show photographic and audio evidence of makes its publishing debut after becoming a talking cat called Roger, replete with Vincent Price voice – although they are also damaged by being included alongside some bad screenplay attempts about said cat. Worryingly, we soon see what at the most only a few of the characters can, that this cat is being accompanied by unusual and unexpected death – much like Alec's wifeTik-Tok sensation. It's only when Roger testifies to having been pushed through the ends of endurance and out the other side that we begin to doubt where the true evil in this story lies…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099585340</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick RothfussDaniel Abraham|title=The Slow Regard Age of Silent ThingsAsh

|summary=Deep below We meet Alys under the Universitymost northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the ancient home City of magic and learning, Kithamar is at a young girl lives amongst point in the caves, tunnels, turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and abandoned roomsall things are possible. In Seven days, her friend will be visiting - one It is the night between the funeral of her few friends, a Prince and someone who Auri cannot wait to seethe coronation of his successor. Those seven days are filled with Auri's preparations For a night the Kithamar is un- her hunt amongst the tunnels and caves for a proper gift, and her thoughts as she goes about her businessruled. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473209323</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Murdstone TrilogyAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Mal PeetRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Philip Murdstone is becoming Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a bit massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of a has-beenthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. The once-acclaimed children's author has won ''literary'' awardsHowever, dontchaknow. Literary. Got when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that? But these are past glories. His novels about young outsiders are no longer anything new. In factshe is a Crafter like him, his agent can't even sell his latestsomeone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. And Minerva Finch, said agentHe asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all about what she can sellhas known. ThereWell, soon Kurara won's nothing for itt have any say in the matter, she tells Philip, but because the Midori is destroyed by a foray into fantasy. He's going to have to write monstrous paper spirit known as a sword-shikigami, and-sorcery epicshe is forced to flee out into the world. She's even got an A4 blueprint of what's required: realmsjoins Himura aboard the Orihime, minions, dark lords, dwarves, elves, swordsa sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and all the rest a whole world of it. Fantasy, you see, is selling by the ''bucketloads, containerloads, downloads''.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200158</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09Q3P283Y|title=An English Ghost StoryShadebringer|author=Kim NewmanGrayson W Hooper|rating=4.5

|summary=The NaremoresClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a family with a troubled past, leave London in search of peace career in the quiet Somerset countrysidemilitary. Finding the perfect home – If he'The Hollows honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn' – appears to symbolise a turning point t got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the end of all their problemsrut he's in. The Hollow seems possessed of He's good in training and is quickly put onto a healing magic which can restore health and relationships as well as hopes and dreamsnon commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself. Unfortunately, the positive power of the Hollow is suddenly challenged and the family are plunged into horrors that perhaps they should have foreseen…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781165580</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Shifting Shadows: Stories From the World of Mercy ThompsonJennifer Saint|authortitle=Patricia BriggsElektra|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=To recap, then – meet Patricia Briggs. Besides one standalone book [[Aralorn: Masques and Wolfbsane 'Elektra' by Patricia Briggs|Aralorn]] her many novels have been set in one universe – a world in Jennifer Saint tells the NW USA where all kinds story of fantasy creatures three women who live in amongst humans, whether officially or otherwise. Car mechanic Mercy Thompson is part-coyote, and therefore can shapeshift, but we've also seen how she has other minor talents in solving problems and identifying threats that other aspects of the fantasy heavily male dominated world can deliverof Ancient Greece. Her colleagues have been faeCassandra, her best friends (and worst enemies) vampiresClytemnestra, and she's now the partner of the region's alpha werewolf – who employs a witch as fixer; everywhere you look there is lore as to how Elektra are all these species interrelate and bit players in the books drip with rules about every aspect story of living beyond the mundaneTrojan War. So far there is a minor trilogy set on Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the edges of Mercy's world, but eight major – and majorly successful – books fully focussed on her. But Patty Briggs must clearly silent women have a very restless imagination, and a will to narrate strong the most compelling stories, and the results have also led us to this fat volume of short stories, that come from instances, characters and times scattered throughout her mythologymost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356505278</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark MorrisDean Koontz|title=The Wolves of London - The Obsidian Heart Trilogy (Book 1)Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Alex Locke has grown from Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the young petty criminal chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he once was. Now a psychology lecturer with a beautiful 5-yearthree-day old daughter foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he has every incentive he needs IS now ''subject to stay straight. It would take sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something devastating to make – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him return that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his former life but devastation happensbank and prepare for going on the lam. Alex And all this is coerced into doing on last job: stealing a piece just in time for two of heart shaped obsidian from someone it didn’t belong those typical Men in Black types to in the first place. What are the consequences? Whatturn up and suggest he's so special about this piece of rock? As all hell breaks looseinterest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, Alex the discovery that he is about to find outnot unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781168660</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chrysler Szarlan Tasha Suri|title=The Hawley Book of the DeadJasmine Throne

|summary= Revelation (Reve) Maskelyne is On the latest night of a long line of girls named Revelations in her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the Sears familypyre. This has She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a significance she's unaware community of as she divides her time between a happy marriage, parenthood and sharing people who got powers from the limelight with her husband Jeremy as illusionist team The Amazing Maskelynesmysterious deathless waters. Until But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day she kills Jeremy… The tragic event triggers the realisation that , Malini witnesses a girl kill someone has been stalking Reve for most of her lifewith magic. For the protection Instead of reporting her 15-year-old twins and 10-year-old daughter, Reve runs to Hawley Five Cornersfor such a gruesome crime, a large New England estate Malini claims that's been in the family girl saved her from an attacker and begs for centuries. Reve has always known that not all magic is illusion but now she has the girl to rely on thatbecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780891466</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The FreeGenevieve Gornichec|authortitle=Brian RuckleyThe Witch's Heart

|summary=The Free are A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a band forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of mercenaries - magical warriors who have travelled her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the world and stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, however, are renowned quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for their skills in battle. Finally reaching Loki's charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a point where they can retire from warwolf, their leader Yulan is offered one final contract - one he cannot refuseand another son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501957</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ErenHannah Whitten|authortitle=Simon P ClarkFor the Wolf|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=People - MumIn Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, mostly - are keeping secrets from Olishe is the second daughter. Why have they had Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to leave London expect: within the woods is a wolf, and come he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to live in the country with Uncle Rob? Why hasn't Dad come too? Why does everyone keep turning off woods will be released, and the TV news every time it comes on? Why does Em's dad dislike Oli when fabled kings he doesn't even know him? When keeps hostage will Dad come? When will life never be returned—or so the stories go back . But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to normal? be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472110978</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edward CoxJohn Gwynne|title=The Relic GuildShadow Of The Gods|rating=4.5

|summary=The Genii War was so devastating that now, 40 years later, the world is a dismally different place. Shadow Of The Labyrinth, once a hub permitting access to unlimited locations Gods is now a prison. The policethe first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, under set in the control era of the Resident and his especially enabled Relic GuildVikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, maintain order. The war may have left lasting reverberations but at least when the Genii Gods have been destroyedbattled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. If they hadn't beenThis story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, combine their malevolent presence with the fact that the Relic Guild is not as strong in numbers as they once were mythical creatures, archaic language and things could worsen considerablybattles galore. Errrr… LabrysThis is a thick book, we have with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a problem!wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200296</amazonuk>0356514218