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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie BrennanA G Slatter|title=Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir by Lady Trent (A Natural History of Dragons 3)|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=It's time. Lady Trent – Isabella Camherst – can finally leave her educational soirees in her own salon and go and discover more about her beloved dragons. This time it's going to be epic – not only has she for the first time taken her young son with her, she is on a sailing ship with a whole two years plying the seven seas to be looked forward to. The world is on the tip of a seesaw as regards dragons – just as one side weighs down with new knowledge, so the other side comes down with industrialised exploitation Briar Book of the creatures – and Lady Trent must make sure that she has a (decorous, Victorian-styled covered) firm bottom to keep things on the side she wants. But she has no idea how buttock-clenching the whole voyage will turn out to be…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295066</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Melanie Rawn|title=Glass Thorns - Window Wall (Book Four) Dead|rating=4.5

|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=WindhavenA Portrait in Shadow|rating=34.5|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=As a huge fan of ''A Song I want all of Ice and FireFlorence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, I love George RR Martin’s writing style Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in 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 powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the vivid world city and characters he created, its citizens from plagues and was interested to see what his other work might be likecurses. Conversely, not being at The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all familiar with Lisa Tuttleelse. To them, I was even more intrigued to read this bookArtemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473208947</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia BriggsThomas D Lee|title=Dead Heat: An Alpha and Omega novelPerilous Times

|genre=Fantasy|summary=Just because you're werewolves'Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set in the near-distant future, you still can find love, like Charles and Anna. Even with your new nature (although in his casea world on the verge of climate collapse, new Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a couple of hundred yearshero (or several) you can still have joint hobbies. A little lycanthropy doesn't stop you wanting a fabulous horse to go riding through save the mountains on. So Charles day and Anna are holidaying on an Arabian stud farm to check out the stock and meet up with his old friends, when something nasty happensrescue what little remains. One What no-one expected was that one of the young women in the host Pack Knights 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 Round Table would answer the life-changing – but life-saving – decision to turn hercall. 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501620</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George MannAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Ghosts of WarDelilah Recovered|rating=3.54

|summary=In 1920We meet Dee at a point when her life isn's Manhattant going as planned but things might, a lone hero patrols the streets and the skiesjust might, using his immense wealth and futuristic technology be about to keep evil at baylook up. HoweverOut of work, at the start of about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. But it'Ghosts of War'', the Ghost s not to be. Dee is in mourning, following the tragic events that concluded [[Ghosts of Manhattan attacked by George Mann|Ghosts of Manhattan]], two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the first book in the seriesattack but not unscathed. Thankfully for the Ghost (and for the reader) - Manhattan is under seige, and he Witch hunters? What on earth has little time that to lick his wounds. Mechanical winged beasts roam the skiesdo with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an alcoholic ex-lover is back on the scene, ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and a British spy may have to things will never be dealt with in order to prevent a cold war turning hotthe same....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294140</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen MaitlandHadeer Elsbai|title=The Raven's Head|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In 13th century England, Gisa, niece and ward of an apothecary attracts the attention Daughters 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 to a monastery which is a cover for something less than Christian. Meanwhile in France, Vincent, a scribe'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=SuckerIzdihar|rating=4.5

|summary=Private Investigator Van H Avram is living Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in odd timesa society pitted against them. At least that's what he decides on Nehal, born into the day he has upper class, wishes to step over a dead body attend the Weaving Academy to get from his office learn to the street control her abilities and not just any body: it's that of a skinny blond thing – then join the first of manymilitary, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. However life goes Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and bills have feels great pressure to be paid so when provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a woman called Mina walks into Vangroup campaigning for women's office and asks him rights. Giorgina also happens to find Hugo Jorgen he doesn't refusebe in love with Nico. Perhaps if at that point he'd realised where the search would leadWhat follows is a story of an unjust society, the brutally bloodied body count he would uncover filled with hypocrisy and the link to cruelty, from which blossoms a recurring childhood nightmare that materialises, then he may have refusedgroup of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles. Too late now though…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1508455988</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ronald WelchHeather Fawcett|title=The GauntletEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life''The Gauntlet'' was one of s work, the iconic books very first encyclopaedia of my childhoodfaeries. Why iconic? It's an over-used word Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. Why So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not say 'most memorable'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, 'outstanding'her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, 'most magical all charm and exciting'delight, -- or simply 'bestmuch to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? Any of those would do but I think I'll allow myself iconic. The gauntlet of And what exactly is going on with the title justifies that word.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192738593</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donald HounamChristopher Golden|title=GiftedRoad of Bones

|genre=TeensHorror|summary=Fifteen-The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the yearit's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-old Frank level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a forensic sorcererfilm-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, employed John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to solve murders and other grisly crimes fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in a world where adults get the blur and lose pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their eyesight by their midoh-so-twentieschatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and only fetch up at the young have enough sorcerous power guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to summon demons and angels.go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552571873</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hermione EyreAndrew Givler|title=Viper WineSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)|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 Pinborough|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 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 Fire|rating=2

|summary=The blurb ''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 Cursed By Fire had me interesteda blissful life in exchange for his soul. '' Poor Dan! I know, I loved the openingknow, in which we meet Dethan, shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a former warrior cursed by the gods to suffer an unending punishment for daring to steal immortality from themterrible salesman. He never hits his targets and, and follow his attempts to lead the armies of Hexis when he fails to victory get even Matt to appease one of sign on the vengeful godsdotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034553493X</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian TchaikovskyOlivie Blake|title=Guns of the DawnThe Atlas Six

|summary=Emily Marshwic has led a priveleged life - wealthy and from a good familyDark, she has known little discomfort. Until the war comes - a vicioussharp, far reaching struggle that destroys whole nations and tears families apart. First the men are conscripted, and thenhighly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after many defeats becoming a Tik- the womenTok sensation. Having seen her country ravaged, and hearing news of her brother's death, Emily signs up for the army - 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447272676</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Randy HendersonDaniel Abraham|title=Finn Fancy Necromancy Age of Ash|rating=34.5

|summary=Douglas Coupland suggested that all families are psychotic We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and he may just be right if a meeting that family consists she dreads. Meanwhile the City of necromancers. The usual family dynamic Kithamar is already at a little messed up when you are one point in the turning of four kids, but years when you throw in the power to remove souls worlds are at their thinnest and reanimate the dead, all things can get even more complicatedare possible. After 25 years, Finn returns home to find that some things have changed, but It is the night between the funeral of a Prince and the coronation of his family will always be successor. For a nightmarenight the Kithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297239</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jen WilliamsAnn Sei Lin|title=The Iron GhostRebel Skies|rating=5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09Q3P283Y|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=4

|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 Clyde Robbins signs up for the heartstone from US Army during the NarhlVietnam War. To the Shalds itHe'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 not really that as there seems to be an increase invested in mystic occurrences across the world and also fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a young assassin is polishing off entire familiescareer in the military. Why? One thing thatIf he's clear honest - which Clyde usually is that Seb, Wydrin and Frith ''will'with himself at least - he hasn' get involved eventually… involved right up to their necks. The other thing they will see with clarity is that an old adversary is back t got many choices and this time one, at least, gets him out of the rut he's brought in. He's good in training and is quickly put onto a friend!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472211138</amazonuk>non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melinda SalisburyJennifer Saint|title=The Sin Eater's Daughter Elektra|rating=54|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=In a land 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of fantasy, Twylla lives three women who live in the courtheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, engaged to the prince. But this is no fairytale – he is one of the only people she can touchClytemnestra, made immune to and Elektra are all bit players in the poison carried in her veins. The embodiment story of a goddess, Twylla is the executioner, forced to kill those who commit treason. Nearly everyone around is terrified of herTrojan War. Until new guard Lief arrives, who could see her as a friend, or even romantically. The question of whether Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the two could silent women have a future together is an intriguing one, but before long, it’s the least of Twylla’s worries as she’s thrown into danger by most compelling stories and the queen’s obsession with destroying her enemiesmost extreme furies. Can she survive?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407147633</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaye WellsDean Koontz|title=Deadly SpellsQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Time has moved on since [[Cursed Moon: ProsperoMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's War: Book Two by Jaye Wells|Cursed Moon]]. Katenot had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's exlived in a nun-loverrun orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, the devastatingly hunky but dangerous John Volos has been inaugurated as Babylon's mayor and Katenow is starting a career on a needless magazine's neighbourly old witch Baba has moved in with the Prosperosstaff. Meanwhile Kate 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 delivered on her promise, persuading the MEA wizard Mez demanded of him that he go to teach her brother Danny how to cook clean potions. Away from everyday lifea derelict diner, trouble is brewing. Two opposing gang members have been creatively killed which could mean find a gold coin worth a tit-for-tat rumble or fortune, cash the value of it could be out-of his bank and-out gang warprepare for going on the lam. Compared to the peril And all this could bring, the journalist poking around is just in time for two of those typical Men in KateBlack types to turn up and suggest he's forbidden past of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is almost interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a side-showwhole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356503003</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna SmaillTasha Suri|title=The ChimesJasmine Throne|rating=54

|summary=Writing is outlawed On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and no one remembers how refuses to step on to readthe pyre. In fact memory itself She is at immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a premium; community of people carry their memories around with them in their hands or any way they're able as each day their minds empty of so muchwho got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. The world But now answers to the music of The Chimes summoning all to daily observance. The music temple is allnothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. It lays aural paths for navigationOne day, identifies people like Malini witnesses a musical signature – the music is everywheregirl kill someone with magic. The music is what brings young Simon to London after the death Instead of his parents. How did they die? Why is Simon here? Why is Lucienreporting her for such a gruesome crime, one of his fellow River Thames mud larks so significant? Would Simon really want Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to know?become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444794523</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark AlderGenevieve Gornichec|title=Son of the MorningThe Witch's Heart|rating=54

|summary=The fourteenth century - Edward III sits upon A modern and approachable reimagining of the throne, trying to rebuild Norse myths that centres around a country bought to its knees, and conquer France - a land thought to be rightfully hiswitch named Angrboda. However Edward has She hides in a major problem - it is said forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the Angels will only fight for Francestake three times because of Odin's wrath. Edward has little choice - fail and fall Her attempts to live in battlepeace, convince 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 Angels stake—and refuses to switch sidesleave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, or open Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the gates to hell two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and begin another son that's a holy war..snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575115165</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreview|title=The Darkest Part of the ForestFrontpage|author=Holly Black|rating=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 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 EvansHannah Whitten|title=Of Bone and Thunder|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The conscripted men and women of the Kingdom's military forces are battling For the Slyts in Luitox. The Kingdom's might may include the latest weaponry and the ability to thaum but the Slyts are elusive 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 survive. The odds aren’t good though; if the enemy doesn't get them, their own flying craft may. Nobody wants to be on the back of an overheated rag!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297557</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Den Patrick|title=The Boy Who Wept Blood (Erebus Sequence 2)Wolf

|summary=Anea is now In Red's family, the ruler of Demesne butfirst daughter becomes queen, rather than retain and the current aristocratic system of ruling housessecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she works towards a republic, empowering is the plentiful but poor peasantssecond daughter. As no turkey votes for Christmas, not all ruling houses align Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her ideasback, making life treacherous – fatally so for some. DinoRed knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, her half-brother and he is doing all he can to protect her but, Anea's desire to spend most the one who will decide the fate of her time with her scientific machines isn't doing her any favours in the popularity stakestheir kingdom. For Dino hiding away If she is not an option; a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he's got questions and he wants keeps contained to live long enough to answer them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473211522</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=R D Shanks|title=A Reverie of Brothers|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The castle of Delzean's walls have always protected Emperor Elithe woods will be released, his sons, sister, niece and nephew from the ravages and poverty of the people in fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the city beyondstories go. However But when Red enters the days may woods, expecting nothing more than to be numbered as a burgeoning revolution has infiltrated its walls thanks to killed within the rebel movement known as The Eyes. Their plan necessitates hour, she finds that the unwitting involvement of the spoilt, egotistical aforementioned niece, Princess Avalegends are lies. Unfortunately there will be collateral damage with tragic effectsThe wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1505631394</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jo WaltonJohn Gwynne|title=What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading The Classics Shadow Of Science Fiction And FantasyThe Gods

|summary=''Song The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Slums'' fuses politics, musicBloodsworn Saga, social injustice and gaslight fantasy. Set set in 1846 during the age era of steam it tells the story of Astor Vance and her mysterious servant/companion Verrol who are caught up Vikings in the machinations shadow of Ragnarok, when the plutocratic Swale family Gods have battled and must fight their bones lie scattered for survival in a world of intrigueall to see.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743310056</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Victoria Aveyard|title=Red Queen|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Mare This story is a Red - a race kept the ultimate in lives of poverty High Fantasy, and servitude by John Gwynne certainly does justice to the Silversgenre, a race with wealth mythical creatures, archaic language and mutant powers that allow them to live lives of luxurybattles galore. Learning to survive amongst the slum like conditions that the Reds inhabit, Mare This is swiftly thrown into the world of the Silvers - one that proves to be more dangerous than she had ever imagineda thick book, with treachery, plots an intricate plot and deadly games lurking round every corner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paula Brackston|title=The Midnight Witch|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=London 1913: The Sixth Earl of Radnor dies, passing his mantle on to his daughter Lady Lilith Montgomery. No, it’s not the earldom he passes on (fascinating characters that goes are woven together to her brother Freddie) but the position of Head Witch of the Lazarus Coven. With the position comes responsibilities create a wonderfully realistic and secrets that have been kept for generations. Divulging the secrets would break the coven code but there are dark entities abroad that want them, no matter what… or who… it costsgritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472116402</amazonuk>0356514218