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|summary=Private Investigator Van H Avram is living in odd times. At least that's what he decides on the day he has to step over a dead body to get from his office to the street and not just any body: it' There's that of a skinny blond thing – the first part of many. However life goes on and bills have me that wants to be paid so when a woman called Mina walks into Van's office and asks him keep this just to find Hugo Jorgen he doesn't refusemyself for however long I can. Perhaps if This secret magic of my own, all mine, at that point he'd realised where the search would lead, the brutally bloodied body count he would uncover and the link last. I just want to enjoy it for a recurring childhood nightmare that materialises, then he may have refusedwhile. Too late now though…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1508455988</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Ronald Welch|title=The Gauntlet|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar''The Gauntlet'' was one s, a family of witches who protect the iconic books of my childhoodtown and the wider world from the Darklands. Why iconic? It's an overThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-used wordwitch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. Why not say When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie'most memorables cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, 'outstanding'and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, 'most magical right and exciting'centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, -- or simply 'best'? Any putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of those would chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do but I think Ias the Briar witches'll allow myself iconic. The gauntlet of the title justifies that wordlegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192738593</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donald HounamRachel Greenlaw|title=GiftedCompass and Blade

|summary=Fifteen-year-old Frank is ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a forensic sorcererremote and partially forgotten island, employed 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 solve murders survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and other grisly crimes in any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a world where adults get trap to end the blur wrecking, they capture the island's leader and lose their eyesight by their mid-twentiesMira'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 young have enough sorcerous power 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 summon demons save the future of her home and angelsthe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552571873</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hermione EyreT Kingfisher|title=Viper WineThornhedge|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=''You had a right to retake your place.'' T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spells.|isbn=1803364238}}{{Frontpage|author=Nicole Jarvis|title=A Portrait in Shadow

|summary=Venetia Stanley lives ''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Seventeeth century LondonFlorence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. A celebrated beauty, But as some as she enters Florentine society she has had poems written in honour of herfaces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, and portraits painted by one the self-proclaimed guardians of the leading artists of healing magics that through paintings have the time. Married power to a handsome, kind protect the city and adventurous man, Venetia is kept in a life of luxury, its citizens from plagues and, at first glance curses. The all- male Accademia has everything she could ever have dreamed ofhoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. Except Venetia is not happy. A To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has made her name no place amongst them 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 paththeir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581663</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah PinboroughThomas D Lee|title=The Death HousePerilous Times|rating=53|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=Toby would appear to be lucky, having the run of an isolated country mansion on a small island off the coast of Britain. But no. His domain only exists at night, and only then because he sleeps in the day and refuses to take the 'vitamin' pills given him by the staff of an evening. He Hate is a captive of a mansion that works as a place of exile for teenagers with the Defective gene. Whatever it would normally lead to, even having it risks becoming suddenly really quite ill, and being the cause path of least resistance'' Set in the nightnear-time lift ride distant future, in a world on the one way route to the top floor Sanatorium. But Toby has it good as these things goverge of climate collapse, the teenaged head boy almost out of the small collection of children Britain is in his Dorm, the only one not to have suffered great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a loss of life. But things are about to change – new inmates arrive hero (or several) to bulk up save the numbers, day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of them, Clara, is the agent Knights of that changethe Round Table would answer the call. For when she stumbles on Toby's nocturnal habits she doesn't want to sleep either…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473202329</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jacquelyn FrankAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Cursed By FireDelilah Recovered|rating=24

|summary=The blurb We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of Cursed By Fire had me interested. I loved the openingwork, in which we meet Dethanabout to lose her flat, a former warrior cursed 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 gods attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to suffer do with Dee? She's just an unending punishment for daring to steal immortality from themordinary woman, and follow his attempts to lead the armies living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of Hexis things that are not ordinary at all return to victory to appease one of her and things will never be the vengeful godssame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034553493X</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian TchaikovskyHadeer Elsbai|title=Guns The Daughters of the DawnIzdihar

|summary=Emily Marshwic has led a priveleged life - wealthy and Drawing inspiration from a good familyEgypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, she has known little discomfort. Until yet find themselves fighting for the war comes rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a vicioussociety pitted against them. Nehal, far reaching struggle that destroys whole nations and tears families apart. First born into the men are conscriptedupper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and thenjoin the military, after many defeats - but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the women. Having seen other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her country ravagedfamily and maintain their reputation, and hearing news whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of her brotherIzdihar – a group campaigning for women's deathrights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, Emily signs up filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for the army - their rights and is plunged into situations more deadly than she can ever have imaginedovercoming their personal obstacles. As the tide of war turns - could Emily be the one to put an end to the bloodshed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447272676</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Randy HendersonHeather Fawcett|title=Finn Fancy Necromancy Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm 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?|isbn=0356519120}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Golden|title=Road of Bones

|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Douglas Coupland suggested that all families are psychotic and he may just be right if that family consists The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of necromancersBones'… the R504. The usual family dynamic is already Stretching for over a little messed up when you are thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of four kids, but when you throw in the power to remove souls and reanimate world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the deadpermafrost surrounding it, things can get even more complicatedwhile its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. After 25 years Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, Finn returns home 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 a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some things have changedof the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, but his family will always be gain the company of a nightmarelocal beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297239</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jen WilliamsAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Iron GhostDebt Collection Book 1)|rating=54

|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 Matt has a young assassin is polishing off entire familiesterrible life. Why? One thing thatSeriously—it's clear is that Seb, Wydrin and Frith ''will'' get involved eventually… involved right up to their necksawful. The other thing they will see with clarity It is so bad that an old adversary Dan the Demon is back and this time heshocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his soul.''s brought a friend!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472211138</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Melinda Salisbury|title=The Sin Eater's Daughter |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In a land of fantasyPoor Dan! I know, Twylla lives in the courtI know, engaged to the princewe shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But this is no fairytale – he really is one of the only people she can touch, made immune to the poison carried in her veinsa terrible salesman. The embodiment of a goddessHe never hits his targets and, Twylla is the executioner, forced when he fails to kill those who commit treason. Nearly everyone around is terrified of her. Until new guard Lief arrives, who could see her as a friend, or get even romantically. The question of whether Matt to sign on the two could have a future together is an intriguing onedotted line, but before long, it’s the least of Twylla’s worries as she’s thrown into danger by the queen’s obsession with destroying her enemieshe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature. Can she survive?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407147633</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaye WellsOlivie Blake|title=Deadly SpellsThe Atlas Six|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|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 Babylon's mayor and Kate's neighbourly old witch Baba has moved in with the Prosperos. Meanwhile Kate has delivered on her promise, persuading the MEA wizard Mez to teach her brother Danny how to cook clean potions. Away from everyday life, trouble is brewing. Two opposing gang members have been creatively killed which could mean a tit-for-tat rumble or it could be out-and-out gang war. Compared to the peril this could bring, the journalist poking around in Kate's forbidden past is almost a side-show.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356503003</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anna Smaill|title=The Chimes|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Writing is outlawed and no one remembers how to read. In fact memory itself is at 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 the music of The Chimes summoning all to daily observance. The music is all. It lays aural paths for navigation, identifies people like a musical signature – the music is everywhere. The music is what brings young Simon to London after the death of his parents. How did they die? Why is Simon here? Why is Lucien, one of his fellow River Thames mud larks so significant? Would Simon really want to know?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444794523</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mark Alder|title=Son of the Morning|rating=5

|summary=The fourteenth century - Edward III sits upon the throneDark, trying to rebuild a country bought to its kneessharp, and conquer France - highly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a land thought to be rightfully his. However Edward has a major problem Tik- it is said that the Angels will only fight for France. Edward has little choice - fail and fall in battle, convince the Angels to switch sides, or open the gates to hell and begin a holy war..Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575115165</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreview|title=The Darkest Part of the ForestFrontpage|author=Holly BlackDaniel Abraham|ratingtitle=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The people 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 Age 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 ThunderAsh

|summary=The conscripted men and women We meet Alys under the most northerly of the KingdomOldgate's military forces are battling the Slyts four bridges, she has a knife in Luitoxher hand and a meeting that she dreads. The Kingdom's might may include Meanwhile the latest weaponry and City of Kithamar is at a point in the ability to thaum but turning of years when the Slyts worlds are elusive at their thinnest and have their own waysall things are possible. The jungle It is as hot as hell which is apt as they will all face their own hells the night between the funeral of a Prince and some may even survivethe coronation of his successor. The odds aren’t good though; if For a night the enemy doesn't get them, their own flying craft mayKithamar is un-ruled. Nobody wants to be on the back of an overheated rag!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297557</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Den PatrickAnn Sei Lin|title=The Boy Who Wept Blood (Erebus Sequence 2)Rebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Anea is now Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the ruler of Demesne butMidori, rather than retain a massive dining hall floating in the current aristocratic system sky where soldiers of ruling housesthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she works towards is a republicCrafter like him, empowering someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the plentiful but poor peasantsEmpire. As no turkey votes for Christmas, not all ruling houses align He asks her to come with her ideashim, making to leave the life treacherous – fatally so for some. Dino, her half-brother of dreary servitude that is doing all he can to protect her butshe has known. Well, Anea's desire to spend most of her time with her scientific machines isnsoon Kurara won't doing her have any favours say in the popularity stakes. For Dino hiding away matter, because the Midori is not an option; he's got questions destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and he wants she is forced to live long enough flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to answer them.hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473211522</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=R D ShanksB09Q3P283Y|title=A Reverie of Brothers|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The castle of Delzean's walls have always protected Emperor Eli, his sons, sister, niece and nephew from the ravages and poverty of the people in the city beyond. However the days may be numbered as a burgeoning revolution has infiltrated its walls thanks to the rebel movement known as The Eyes. Their plan necessitates the unwitting involvement of the spoilt, egotistical aforementioned niece, Princess Ava. Unfortunately there will be collateral damage with tragic effects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1505631394</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewShadebringer|author=Jo Walton|title=What Makes This 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 SlumsGrayson W Hooper

|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He''Song of s not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the Slumsmilitary. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn' fuses politicst got many choices and this one, musicat least, social injustice and gaslight fantasy. Set in 1846 during the age gets him out of steam it tells the story of Astor Vance and her mysterious servant/companion Verrol who are caught up rut he's in. He's good in the machinations of the plutocratic Swale family training and must fight for survival in is quickly put onto a world of intriguenon commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743310056</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria AveyardJennifer Saint|title=Red QueenElektra

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Mare is a Red - a race kept in lives of poverty and servitude 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the Silvers, a race with wealth and mutant powers that allow them to story of three women who live lives in the heavily male dominated world of luxuryAncient Greece. Learning to survive amongst the slum like conditions that the Reds inhabitCassandra, Clytemnestra, Mare is swiftly thrown into and Elektra are all bit players in the world story of the Silvers - one Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that proves to be more dangerous than she had ever imagined, with treachery, plots often the silent women have the most compelling stories and deadly games lurking round every cornerthe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paula BrackstonDean Koontz|title=The Midnight WitchQuicksilver|rating=32.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=London 1913: The Sixth Earl of Radnor dies, passing his mantle on to his daughter Lady Lilith MontgomeryMeet Quinn Quicksilver. No, it’s He's not had the earldom chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he passes 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 goes he go to her brother Freddie) but a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the position value of Head Witch it out of his bank and prepare for going on the Lazarus Covenlam. With the position comes responsibilities And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and secrets that have been kept for generationssuggest he's of interest to them. Divulging the secrets would break Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the coven code but there are dark entities abroad discovery that want them, no matter what… or who… it costshe is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472116402</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne RiceTasha Suri|title=The Wolves of MidwinterJasmine Throne|rating=2.54

|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 On the woods in rural west coast USnight of her sacred burning, with some exotic European retainers Princess Malini defies her brother and servants, and several fellow werewolves, who are doing their best at times refuses to step on to help him in the transition, and guiding him in the ways of the immortalpyre. He's using his new-found powers She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a sort community of vigilante, ridding people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. But now the world of evil people and rescuing their victimstemple is nothing more than an overgrown, but it's much closer to home that the change in his life really manifests itselfdecaying ruin. Just because he has cut ties to his pastOne day, it doesn't mean they cannot return to haunt himMalini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. The transaction Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that left him the mansion might not have been completely smooth after all. And even if he might have girl saved her from an endless future, it's not attacker and begs for the girl to say he's going to get the one he thinks he wants and deserves, especially where his lover Laura is concerned…become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009958493X</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lynne TrussGenevieve Gornichec|title=Cat out of Hell|rating=3|genre=Horror|summary=Meet Alec Charlesworth. HeThe Witch'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 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 wife. 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…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099585340</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Patrick Rothfuss|title=The Slow Regard of Silent ThingsHeart|rating=4.5

|summary=Deep below A modern and approachable reimagining of the University, Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the ancient home edge of magic and learningthe nine worlds, a young girl lives amongst remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the cavesstake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, tunnels, and abandoned rooms. In Seven dayshowever, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her friend will be visiting - 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 her few friendsmistrust, and someone who Auri cannot wait Angrboda begins to see. Those seven days are filled with Aurifall for Loki's preparations charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a half- her hunt amongst the tunnels and caves for dead daughter, a son that's a proper giftwolf, and her thoughts as she goes about her businessanother son that's a snake. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473209323</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Murdstone TrilogyHannah Whitten|authortitle=Mal PeetFor the Wolf

|summary=To recapIn Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, then – meet Patricia Briggs. Besides one standalone book [[Aralorn: Masques and Wolfbsane by Patricia Briggs|Aralorn]] her many novels have been set in one universe – the second daughter becomes a world in the NW USA where all kinds of fantasy creatures live in amongst humans, whether officially or otherwisesacrifice. Car mechanic Mercy Thompson is part-coyote, and therefore can shapeshiftTo Red's misfortune, but we've also seen how she has other minor talents in solving problems and identifying threats that other aspects of is the fantasy world can deliversecond daughter. Her colleagues have been faeSent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, her best friends (and worst enemies) vampiresRed knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and she's now he is the partner of the region's alpha werewolf – one who employs a witch as fixer; everywhere you look there is lore as to how all these species interrelate and will decide the books drip with rules about every aspect fate of living beyond the mundanetheir kingdom. So far there If she is not a minor trilogy set on worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the edges of Mercy's worldwoods will be released, but eight major – and majorly successful – books fully focussed on herthe fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But Patty Briggs must clearly have a very restless imaginationwhen Red enters the woods, and a will expecting nothing more than to narrate strong stories, and be killed within the results have also led us to this fat volume of short storieshour, she finds that come from instances, characters and times scattered throughout her mythologythe legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356505278</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark MorrisJohn Gwynne|title=The Wolves of London - Shadow Of The Obsidian Heart Trilogy (Book 1)Gods

|summary=Alex Locke has grown from The Shadow Of The Gods is the young petty criminal he once was. Now a psychology lecturer with a beautiful 5-year-old daughter he has every incentive he needs to stay straight. It would take something devastating to make him return to his former life but devastation happens. Alex is coerced into doing on last job: stealing a piece first installment of heart shaped obsidian from someone it didn’t belong to the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the first place. What are era of the Vikings in the consequences? What's so special about this piece shadow of rock? As Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all hell breaks loose, Alex is about to find outsee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781168660</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chrysler Szarlan |title=The Hawley Book of the Dead|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= Revelation (Reve) Maskelyne This story is the latest of a long line of girls named Revelations ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the Sears familygenre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This has a significance she's unaware of as she divides her time between is a happy marriagethick book, parenthood with an intricate plot and sharing the limelight with her husband Jeremy as illusionist team The Amazing Maskelynes. Until the day she kills Jeremy… The tragic event triggers the realisation fascinating characters that someone has been stalking Reve for most of her life. For the protection of her 15-year-old twins and 10-year-old daughter, Reve runs are woven together to Hawley Five Corners, create a large New England estate that's been wonderfully realistic and gritty world in the family for centuries. Reve has always known that not all magic is illusion but now she has to rely on thatwhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780891466</amazonuk>0356514218