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|summary=The Touchstone Players begin another season but, once again it differs from previous years. Now each '' There's a part of the quartet have become or are about me that wants to keep this just to become fathers; all apart from Cade that ismyself for however long I can. He still has to find that special person but isn't particularly looking as he has problems This secret magic of his my own, all mine, at last. His kid brother Derien is starting I just want to come into his own magical gifting which could potentially attract the wrong attentionenjoy it for a while. Cade's elsewhens (his visionary glimpses of possible futures) have also stopped; or rather he has chosen to thwart them. Meanwhile there has been an accident badly maiming Jez, one of Mieke's brothers. At least everyone believes it's an accident until Mieke finds something suspicious in the debris.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781166668</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Guy Adams|title=A Few Words For The Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Warning: spoilers Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a 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 first non-witch to be born into her family for both [[The Clown Service by Guy Adams|The Clown Service]] generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and [[The Rain-Soaked Bride by Guy Adams|The Rain-Soaked Bride]] so best read them firstpotions. Remember When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the near-demonic Fratfield? WellBriar Witch, the honeymooning Toby town's leader, and Tamara find themselves – Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and Fratfield – in centre, Ellie uncovers the South American jungle. Howeverrare ability to communicate with the dead, things aren’t running smoothly. Not only does Fratfield still control putting her at the forces heart of a maelstrom of nature, now he has some helpchaos. Meanwhile back home a hit man prepares Reeling from one family secret to continue his profession. The target? August Shininganother, TobyEllie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches's bosslegacy, friend and wanted as an interview subject by MI6everything they have sacrificed to survive, should he live that longis under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953197</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen HuntRachel Greenlaw|title=In Dark Service (Far Called Trilogy 1)Compass and Blade

|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Jacob Carnehan has settled down''I can hear the song of the sea. HeThe call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''s minding his own business while raising his son Carter Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and his days of adventure are - thankfully - long behind himplundering the wrecks. Carter Carnehan Mira, like her mother before her, is going one of the seven who swim out of his mind with boredomto survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. His humdrum life is dullBut 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 longs is secretive and with only coordinates to escapeguide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. To test himself against 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 worldones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575092076</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian TregillisT Kingfisher|title=The Mechanical (Alchemy War)Thornhedge

|summary=There is ''You had a truce between New France and the Dutch; a truce during which the Vicomtesse Berenice wants right to learn the secrets of the Clakkersretake your place. These are robotic slaves that power everything Dutch just beyond the New French border: culture, industry, domestic duties, transport and they're also the most dangerous, relentless kind ' T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of soldier the world has ever a fairytale that is well knownand well beloved. Common knowledge confirms they're incapable of free willBut whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, thoughtsleeping under an eternal enchantment, communication or freedomThornhedge is not her story. Common knowledge Instead, our protagonist is wrong: Clakkers' free will is suppressed Toadling, who was stolen away by pain, their thoughts fairies when she was a new-born baby and communication are only shared between themselves secreted away to the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and their freedom? Jax may be a Clakker, but he's working on freedomcast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502325</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George R R Martin and Lisa TuttleNicole Jarvis|title=Windhaven|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=As a huge fan of ''A Song of Ice and Fire'', I love George RR Martin’s writing style and the vivid world and characters he created, and was interested to see what his other work might be like. Conversely, not being at all familiar with Lisa Tuttle, I was even more intrigued to read this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473208947</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Patricia Briggs|title=Dead Heat: An Alpha and Omega novel|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=Just because you're werewolves, you still can find love, like Charles and Anna. Even with your new nature (although in his case, new is a couple of hundred years) you can still have joint hobbies. A little lycanthropy doesn't stop you wanting a fabulous horse to go riding through the mountains on. So Charles and Anna are holidaying on an Arabian stud farm to check out the stock and meet up with his old friends, when something nasty happens. One of the young women Portrait in the host Pack of werewolves suddenly turns nasty, and has to put herself through a serious ordeal just to stop herself from stabbing her young children. Such is the torment that Charles has to take the life-changing – but life-saving – decision to turn her. The problem is, the very magical strength to push the situation to such an end is definitely a mighty one – and things and people turning into nasty entities are going to be a recurring theme in the days ahead…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501620</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=George Mann|title=Ghosts of WarShadow|rating=34.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In 1920's Manhattan, a lone hero patrols the streets and the skies, using his immense wealth and futuristic technology to keep evil at bay. However, at the start of ''Ghosts of War'', the Ghost is in mourning, following the tragic events that concluded [[Ghosts of Manhattan by George Mann|Ghosts of Manhattan]], the first book in the series. Thankfully for the Ghost (and for the reader) - Manhattan is under seige, and he has little time to lick his wounds. Mechanical winged beasts roam the skies, an alcoholic ex-lover is back on the scene, and a British spy may have to be dealt with in order to prevent a cold war turning hot...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294140</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Karen Maitland|title=The Raven's Head|rating=5

|summary=In 13th century England, Gisa, niece and ward ''I want all of an apothecary attracts the attention of one of his more sinister clients. Elsewhere Wilky, a small child, is taken from his parents in lieu of a debt and then taken Florence to a monastery which is a cover for something less than Christian. Meanwhile in France, Vincent, a scribeknow my name''s apprentice, is framed for a theft and has to run for his life. The three will meet but under circumstances that turn out to be the stuff of dark, bloody nightmares.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472215060</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=Sucker|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Private Investigator Van H Avram is living Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in odd timeswhich her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. At least But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that's what he decides on through paintings have the day he has power to step over a dead body to get protect the city and its citizens from his office to the street plagues and not just any body: it's that of a skinny blond thing – the first of manycurses. However life goes on The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and bills have to be paid so when a woman called Mina walks into Van's office architecture for centuries and asks him to find Hugo Jorgen he doesn't refuseguard it above all else. Perhaps if at that point he'd realised where the search would leadTo them, the brutally bloodied body count he would uncover Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and the link to a recurring childhood nightmare that materialises, then he may have refusedtheir society. Too late now though…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1508455988</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Ronald Welch|title=The Gauntlet|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''The Gauntlet'' was one of Set in the iconic books of my childhood. Why iconic? It's an overnear-used word. Why not say 'most memorable'distant future, 'outstanding'in a world on the verge of climate collapse, 'most magical Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and exciting', rescue what little remains. What no-- or simply 'best'? Any one expected was that one of the Knights of those the Round Table would do but I think I'll allow myself iconic. The gauntlet of answer the title justifies that wordcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192738593</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donald HounamAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=GiftedDelilah Recovered|rating=3.54|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=Fifteen-year-old Frank is We meet Dee at a forensic sorcererpoint when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, employed be about to look up. Out of work, about to solve murders and other grisly crimes in a world where adults get the blur and lose their eyesight her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. But it's not to be. Dee is attacked by their mid-twentiestwo men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and only things will never be the young have enough sorcerous power to summon demons and angelssame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552571873</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|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 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 PinboroughHadeer Elsbai|title=The Death House|rating=5|genre=Teens|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 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 of the night-time lift ride on the one way route to the top floor Sanatorium. But Toby has it good as these things go, the teenaged head boy almost out of the small collection of children in his Dorm, the only one not to have suffered a loss of life. But things are about to change – new inmates arrive to bulk up the numbers, and one of them, Clara, is the agent Daughters of that change. For when she stumbles on Toby's nocturnal habits she doesn't want to sleep either…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473202329</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jacquelyn Frank|title=Cursed By FireIzdihar|rating=24

|summary=Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The blurb Daughters of Cursed By Fire had me interested. I loved Izdihar'' explores the openinglives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in which we meet Dethana society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, a former warrior cursed by wishes to attend the gods Weaving Academy to suffer an unending punishment for daring learn to steal immortality from themcontrol her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and follow his attempts feels great pressure to lead provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the armies Daughters of Hexis Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to victory to appease one be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of the vengeful godsadmirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034553493X</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian TchaikovskyHeather Fawcett|title=Guns Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of the DawnFaeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Emily Marshwic has led a priveleged life - wealthy Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and from a good family, she has known little discomfort. Until the war comes - a vicioustravelled extensively, far reaching struggle that destroys whole nations and tears families apart. First the men are conscriptedresearched meticulously, and then, after many defeats - the women. Having seen to write her country ravaged, and hearing news of her brotherlife's deathwork, Emily signs up for the army - very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is plunged into situations more deadly than not so good with people. So when she can ever have imagined. As finds herself far, far North in the tide small village of war turns - could Emily be Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the one village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put an end 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 bloodshedfaerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447272676</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Randy HendersonChristopher Golden|title=Finn Fancy Necromancy 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

|summary=Time has moved on since [[Cursed Moon: Prospero's War: Book Two by Jaye Wells|Cursed Moon]]. Kate's ex-loverDark, 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 promisesharp, 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 bringhighly inquisitive, the journalist poking around in Kate's forbidden past is almost 'The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a sideTik-showTok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356503003</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna SmaillDaniel Abraham|title=The ChimesAge of Ash|rating=4.5

|summary=Writing is outlawed We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and no one remembers how to reada meeting that she dreads. In fact memory itself Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a premium; people carry their memories around with them point in their hands or any way they're able as each day their minds empty the turning of so much. The world now answers to years when the music of The Chimes summoning worlds are at their thinnest and all to daily observancethings are possible. The music It is all. It lays aural paths for navigation, identifies people like the night between the funeral of a musical signature – Prince and the music is everywhere. The music is what brings young Simon to London after the death coronation of his parentssuccessor. How did they die? Why For a night the Kithamar is Simon here? Why is Lucien, one of his fellow River Thames mud larks so significant? Would Simon really want to know?un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444794523</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark AlderAnn Sei Lin|title=Son of the MorningRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=The fourteenth century - Edward III sits upon Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the throneMidori, trying to rebuild a country bought massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to its knees, drink and conquer France - a land thought to be rightfully hismake merry between their conquests. However Edward has , when a major problem - it man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is said that a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Angels will only fight for FranceEmpire. Edward He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has little choice - fail and fall known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in battlethe matter, convince because the Angels Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to switch sidesflee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, or open the gates a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hell hunt down shikigami, and begin a holy war...whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575115165</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Darkest Part of the ForestB09Q3P283Y|author=Holly Black|rating=4.5|genretitle=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 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>}}{{newreviewShadebringer|author=Chris Evans|title=Of Bone and ThunderGrayson W Hooper|rating=4.5

|summary=The conscripted men and women of Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the KingdomVietnam War. He's military forces are battling not really that invested in the Slyts fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in Luitoxa career in the military. The KingdomIf he's might may include the latest weaponry honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the ability to thaum but the Slyts are elusive rut he's in. He's good in training and have their own ways. The jungle is as hot as hell which is apt as they will all face their own hells and some may even survivequickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. The odds aren’t good though; if the enemy doesnHe't get them, their own flying craft mays chuffed with himself. Nobody wants to be on the back of an overheated rag!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297557</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Den PatrickJennifer Saint|title=The Boy Who Wept Blood (Erebus Sequence 2)Elektra|rating=54|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Anea is now 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the ruler story of Demesne but, rather than retain three women who live in the current aristocratic system heavily male dominated world of ruling houses, she works towards a republic, empowering the plentiful but poor peasantsAncient Greece. As no turkey votes for ChristmasCassandra, not all ruling houses align with her ideasClytemnestra, making life treacherous – fatally so for some. Dino, her half-brother is doing and Elektra are all he can to protect her but, Anea's desire to spend most bit players in the story of her time with her scientific machines isn't doing her any favours in the popularity stakesTrojan War. For Dino hiding away is not an option; he's got questions Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and he wants to live long enough to answer themthe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473211522</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=R D ShanksDean Koontz|title=A Reverie of BrothersQuicksilver|rating=32.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=The castle of DelzeanMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's walls have always protected Emperor Elinot had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, his sonsfor he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, sister, niece and nephew from the ravages and poverty 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 the people in the city beyond. However the days may be numbered as mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a burgeoning revolution supernatural urge – has infiltrated its walls thanks demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the rebel movement known as The Eyeslam. Their plan necessitates the unwitting involvement And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of the spoiltinterest to them. Helped to escape, egotistical aforementioned niecehe finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, Princess Ava. Unfortunately there will be collateral damage with tragic effectsthe discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1505631394</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jo WaltonTasha Suri|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 SlumsJasmine Throne

|summary=''Song On the night of the Slums'' fuses politicsher sacred burning, music, social injustice Princess Malini defies her brother and gaslight fantasyrefuses to step on to the pyre. Set in 1846 during She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the age Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of steam it tells people who got powers from the story of Astor Vance and her mysterious servant/companion Verrol who are caught up in deathless waters. But now the machinations temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the plutocratic Swale family girl saved her from an attacker and must fight begs for survival in a world of intriguethe girl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1743310056</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria AveyardGenevieve Gornichec|title=Red QueenThe Witch's Heart

|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=Mare is A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a Red - witch named Angrboda. She hides in a race kept in lives forest at the edge of poverty and servitude by the Silversnine worlds, a race with wealth and mutant powers remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that allow them to live lives she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of luxuryOdin's wrath. Learning Her attempts to survive amongst the slum like conditions live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the Reds inhabitstake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, Mare is swiftly thrown into and the world two start an unusual family made of the Silvers up a half- one dead daughter, a son that proves to be more dangerous than she had ever imagined's a wolf, with treachery, plots and deadly games lurking round every corneranother son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paula BrackstonHannah Whitten|title=The Midnight WitchFor the Wolf|rating=3.5

|summary=London 1913: The Sixth Earl of Radnor diesIn Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, passing his mantle on to his and the second daughter Lady Lilith Montgomerybecomes a sacrifice. NoTo Red's misfortune, it’s not she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the earldom he passes cape on (that goes her back, Red knows what to her brother Freddie) but expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the position of Head Witch fate of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the Lazarus Coven. With monsters he keeps contained to the position comes responsibilities woods will be released, and secrets that have been kept for generationsthe fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. Divulging But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the secrets would break hour, she finds that the coven code but there legends are dark entities abroad that want them, no matter what… or who… it costslies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472116402</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne RiceJohn Gwynne|title=The Wolves of MidwinterShadow Of The Gods|rating=2.5

|summary=Things have certainly changed for Reuben Golding now that he The Shadow Of The Gods 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 first installment of the transitionBloodsworn Saga, and guiding him set in the ways era of the immortal. He's using his new-found powers to be a sort Vikings in the shadow of vigilanteRagnarok, ridding when the world of evil people Gods have battled and rescuing their victims, but it's much closer bones lie scattered for all to home that see. This story is the change ultimate in his life really manifests itself. Just because he has cut ties to his pastHigh Fantasy, it doesn't mean they cannot return and John Gwynne certainly does justice to haunt him. The transaction that left him the mansion might not have been completely smooth after allgenre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. And even if he might have This is a thick book, with an endless future, it's not intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to say he's going to get the one he thinks he wants create a wonderfully realistic and deserves, especially where his lover Laura is concerned…gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009958493X</amazonuk>0356514218