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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James P BlaylockA G Slatter|title=Beneath LondonThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5

|summary= The collapse '' There's a part of the Victoria Embankment uncovers a passage me that wants to keep this just to an unknown realm beneath the citymyself for however long I can. Langdon StThis secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. Ives sets out I just want to explore enjoy itfor a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, not knowing that a brilliant family of witches who protect the town and wealthy psychopathic murderer the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is working the first non-witch to keep 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. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the underworldtown's secrets hidden for reasons leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of his ownchaos. StReeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat. Ives |isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and his stalwart friends investigate a string Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of ghastly crimes: the gruesome death sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a witchremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the kidnapping rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a blindtrap to end the wrecking, psychic girlthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and the grim horrors with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret hospital serve that lies buried deep in the strangesea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, murderous ends as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of perhaps St. Ivesthe smuggler' s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dangerous nemesis yetdear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783292601</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben AaronovitchT Kingfisher|title=Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London 5)Thornhedge

|summary=After the disappearance ''You had a right to retake your place.'' T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of two girls a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in Herefordshirea tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, PC Grant finds himself assisting with the investigationThornhedge is not her story. It may be countryside rather than the London patch he's used toInstead, but crime our protagonist is crimeToadling, especially who was stolen away by fairies when there's a supernatural element to it. He also has she was a little help new-born baby and comfort from his home patch secreted away to augment the ethereal beings… just in case. And remember Lesley land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and ''that'' taser moment? She's not exactly totally off the scene eithercast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132523</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Natasha PulleyNicole Jarvis|title=The Watchmaker of Filigree StreetA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=London 1883: Thaniel Steepleton''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, a telegraphist Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a government office, finds himself living home and working in a city at siege during a Clan na Gael bombing campaignwhere her future can thrive rather than stagnate. It's around this time 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 he also realises that his pocket watch seems through paintings have the power to have some odd, previously unnoticed functionsprotect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. Grace CarrowTo them, a 'bluestocking' physics student also owns such a watch. The two total strangers may think Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their watches odd, but 'odd' takes on a new meaning when they meet Mr Mori, the Japanese watchmaker. His clockwork pet octopus is only a small measure of the oddity aheadsociety.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408854287</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony RyanThomas D Lee|title=Queen of Fire: Book 3 of Raven's ShadowPerilous Times|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THE FIRST TWO RAVEN SHADOW BOOKS (ONLY)Queen Lyrna has been badly burnt but lives to rule and seek vengeance through her massed armies. She also lifts the prohibition of the Dark due to their healing properties and three Gifted, the practitioners of the power are promoted with less than popular approval. Meanwhile Lyrna's right hand man Vaelin Al Sorna has lost his blood song, that precognition that made him such a strong and feared opponent in the past. Talking of opponents, the Volarians have a surprise – the mysterious entity known only as The Ally. To Vaelin he's anything but and so he must go to the ends of the world (or at least to a pretty inhospitable climate) to find him… her… it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650249X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anna Caltabiano|title= The Seventh Miss Hatfield|rating= 4.53

|summary= Cynthia ''Hate is a simplethe path of least resistance'' Set in the near-distant future, All American girl who whilst generally happy – she’s fed and watered with in a roof over her head - and relatively care freeworld on the verge of climate collapse, she Britain is somewhat bored of her existence in Suburbiagreat peril. Miss Hatfield is Cynthia’s mysterious The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and rarely seen neighbourrescue what little remains. What an enigma she is and how compelling and irresistible it is for Cynthia to attempt to discover more about her. Ever hear no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the phrase ''Be careful what you wish for''?call. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200415</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus and Sean MurrayAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=TrollhuntersDelilah Recovered|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=West Coast USA in the 1960s, and the city is wracked and wrecked by a slew of missing children reports. The parents with their new anguishes, and new rules against playing out after dark, have no idea of the horrors in their vicinity – literally under their feet lies a city of trolls, guilty of snatching the children. Last to go, Jack Sturgess. Cue the modern era and Jack's younger, now grown-up brother Jim, and Jim Jr live a sheltered life in the most barricaded and secure home imaginable, and Jim Jr's life is as exciting as you'd expect. Unfortunately, however, the trolls are about to make a return to their nastiest of ways – and their intentions are a lot more surprising than Jim Jr could ever predict…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405192</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tarn Richardson|title=The Damned (The Darkest Hand Trilogy) (Inquisitor Poldek Tacit 1)|rating=4.5

|summary=FranceWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, 1914: A priest is murderedjust might, if you could ascribe such a mundane term be about to such an actlook up. He was actually pulled apart brutallyOut of work, literally and totallyabout to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. The Catholic Inquisition sends one of its best But it's not to investigate: Poldek Tacitbe. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. Tacit may be a tortured, troubled soul fighting She survives the demons of his own past attack but when it comes not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to eliciting information hedo with Dee? She's goodjust an ordinary woman, albeit via some questionable methodsliving an ordinary life. Meanwhile on the battle lines Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at Arras the British face the Germans in a war that all return to her and things will become even more horrific due to never be the evil that walks among them as a dark, inescapable shadowsame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>071564954X</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Naomi Novik|title=Uprooted|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Many years ago, in a village deep in Eastern Europe, the locals live a life of relative peace and happiness - knowing to always avoid the wood that borders their land, and safe in the knowledge that they are guarded by a powerful wizard - the Dragon. Aware that he is the one thing keeping them safe from the dangers of the wood, the villagers take part in a ritual called 'The Choosing' every ten years - when a young girl is sent to serve the wizard for a decade.Agnieszka is of age for the choosing, but nobody fears that she will be picked - her best friend Kasia is pretty and graceful, and sure to catch the eye of the immortal Dragon. However, Agnieszka is not aware of the talents she holds that may attract the wizard - talents that the safety of the entire kingdom may come to depend on for their survival...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447294130</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael J WardHadeer Elsbai|title=The Eye Daughters of Winter’s FuryIzdihar

|summary= Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Cold North awaits you…War is coming to ValeronDaughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, where an ill and ineffectual king is beset on all sides by yet find themselves fighting for the scheming rights of ambitious menwomen and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. His youngest sonNehal, born into the upper class, Prince Arran wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is sent forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a fool’s errandprivileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, with whilst secretly attending meetings of the real threat waiting Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be revealedin love with Nico. Your are Prince Arran. The ghost prince, What follows is a sickly boy who haunts the palace library. As danger threatensstory of an unjust society, you must finally prove yourself. Will you defy fate filled with hypocrisy and become cruelty, from which blossoms a great hero group of legend? You decide in this epic fantasy adventure. The cold north awaits you…are you ready admirable women fighting for the challenge?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057509561X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Taran Matharu|title=The Novice|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''The Novice'', Taran Matharu’s Wattpad sensation has already received a staggering five million reads. This book doesn’t just survive the hype; it deserves ittheir rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444923978</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luke ScullHeather Fawcett|title=Sword Of The North (The Grim Company) Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=The heroes are scattered Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and seemingly powerless; researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the Age very first encyclopaedia of Ruin faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is indeed upon the land as the new ruler may not be an improvement on the oldso good with people. Back at So when she finds herself far, far North in the heroessmall village of Hrafvsnik, Emerul having somehow offended the half-mage village matriarch, she is reduced not sure what she has done, nor how to sending a messenger rather than acting upon it himself redeem herself and Shanna is reduced to being that messengerput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Davarus Cole is dying but it won't be the last time Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and what of the Sword of the North? Heinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, Brodar Kayneall charm and delight, continues much to seek someone he thought he'd never see again even though thereEmily's no guarantee of finding herfrustration. Meanwhile But why is he here? What does he has more pressing problems in want? And what exactly is going on with the form of a Brick and a Grunt. faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781851557</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dave ZeltsermanChristopher Golden|title=The Boy Who Killed Demons|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Henry Dudlow is 15½ and has had a hidden gift since he was 13. It was then he discovered that some people are in fact demons and – what's worse- he can see their real demonic form. How, after two years of knowing what Mr Hanley a couple Road of doors down is really like and hearing that children are going missing under under the most bizarre circumstances, it's time to do something about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649892</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lucy Hounsom|title=StarbornBones

|genre=FantasyHorror|summary= On The Kolyma Highway… the day Kyndra comes 'Road of ageBones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, she accidentally destroys it's one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the relic year it's a spread of an ancient ceremonysheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, ending centuries while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of traditionunremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. So when terrible phenomena target her community 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, Kyndra is blamedit legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. Fearing You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for her lifeone of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, she is saved and rescued by two mysterious strangers a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – one who wields 's mostly there to encourage the power project to fruition to claw back some of the Sun, funds he'd invested in the other – the Moonpair's prior TV projects. Together They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, they flee to gain the hidden citadel company of Naris. And here, Kyndra experiences disturbing visions of the pasta local beauty, and is brutally tested in a bid to unlock her own magic. If she survives fetch up at the ordeal, sheguide'll discover a force greater than she could ever have imagineds childhood village. But could it create as well as destroy? And can she control it, that's where things start to right an ancient wrong?go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447268458</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angus WatsonAndrew Givler|title=Clash of Iron Soul Fraud (The Iron Age TrilogyDebt Collection Book 1)|rating=4.5

|summary=Lowa ''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is now queen at Maidun Castle as she, Dug so bad that Dan the reluctant (but highly effective) warrior and Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his young ward Spring attempt to defend it from the local tribes chancing their armsoul.'' Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. Spring seems to have lost her magic but hopefully this But he really is only temporarya terrible salesman. There are bigger worries however; Lowa knows that the Romans will come and so sends Ragnall He never hits his targets and Dunstan, former prince and his druid tutor Durstan when he fails to get even Matt to Rome sign on a mission to gather intelligence about the enemydotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature. Unfortunately things don't go to plan on either front!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502627</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie BrennanOlivie Blake|title=Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir by Lady Trent (A Natural History of Dragons 3)The Atlas Six|rating=34

|summary=ItDark, sharp, and highly inquisitive, '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 Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a seesaw as regards dragons – just as one side weighs down with new knowledge, so the other side comes down with industrialised exploitation of the creatures – and Lady Trent must make sure that she has a (decorous, VictorianTik-styled covered) firm bottom to keep things on the side she wantsTok sensation. But she has no idea how buttock-clenching the whole voyage will turn out to be…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783295066</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melanie RawnDaniel Abraham|title=Glass Thorns - Window Wall (Book Four) Age of Ash

|summary=The Touchstone Players begin another season butWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, once again it differs from previous years she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Now each Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of years when the quartet have become or worlds are about to become fathers; at their thinnest and all apart from Cade that isthings are possible. He still has to find that special person but isn't particularly looking as he has problems of his own. His kid brother Derien It is starting to come into his own magical gifting which could potentially attract the wrong attention. Cade's elsewhens (his visionary glimpses night between the funeral of possible futures) have also stopped; or rather he has chosen to thwart them. Meanwhile there has been an accident badly maiming Jez, one a Prince and the coronation of Mieke's brothershis successor. At least everyone believes it's an accident until Mieke finds something suspicious in For a night the debrisKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781166668</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy AdamsAnn Sei Lin|title=A Few Words For The DeadRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary= Warning: spoilers for both [[The Clown Service by Guy Adams|The Clown Service]] 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 [[The Rain-Soaked Bride by Guy Adams|The Rain-Soaked Bride]] so best read them firstmake merry between their conquests. Remember the near-demonic Fratfield? WellHowever, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the honeymooning Toby and Tamara find themselves power to form paper into whatever she desires – and Fratfield – in a power sought after all across the South American jungleEmpire. HoweverHe asks her to come with him, things aren’t running smoothly. Not only does Fratfield still control to leave the forces life of nature, now he dreary servitude that is all she has some helpknown. Meanwhile back home Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a hit man prepares shikigami, and she is forced to continue his professionflee out into the world. The target? August ShiningShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, Toby's bossa sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, friend and wanted as an interview subject by MI6, should he live that long.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953197</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen HuntB09Q3P283Y|title=In Dark Service (Far Called Trilogy 1)Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=3.54

|summary=Jacob Carnehan has settled downClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's minding his own business while raising his son Carternot really that invested in the fight against Communism, and his days of adventure are nor is he particularly interested in a career in the military. If he's honest - thankfully which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - long behind he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him. Carter Carnehan is going out of his mind with boredomthe rut he's in. His humdrum life He's good in training and is dull, and he longs to escapequickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. To test He's chuffed with himself against the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575092076</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian TregillisJennifer Saint|title=The Mechanical (Alchemy War)Elektra|rating=54|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=There is a truce between New France and 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the Dutch; a truce during which story of three women who live in the Vicomtesse Berenice wants to learn the secrets heavily male dominated world of the ClakkersAncient Greece. These are robotic slaves that power everything Dutch just beyond the New French border: cultureCassandra, industryClytemnestra, domestic duties, transport and they're also Elektra are all bit players in the most dangerous, relentless kind story of soldier the world has ever knownTrojan War. Common knowledge confirms they're incapable of free will, thought, communication or freedom. Common knowledge is wrong: Clakkers' free will is suppressed by pain, their thoughts Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and communication are only shared between themselves and their freedom? Jax may be a Clakker, but he's working on freedomthe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502325</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George R R Martin and Lisa TuttleDean Koontz|title=WindhavenQuicksilver|rating=32.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=As Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a huge fan of needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''A Song subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of Ice and Firemood or mind'', I love George RR Martin’s writing style for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the vivid world lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and characters suggest he created's of interest to them. Helped to escape, and was interested to see what he finds his flight is interrupted by other work might be like. Converselyinstances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not being at all familiar with Lisa Tuttle, I was even unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more intrigued to read this bookbesides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473208947</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia BriggsTasha Suri|title=Dead Heat: An Alpha and Omega novelThe Jasmine Throne|rating=34

|summary=Just because you're werewolvesOn the night of her sacred burning, you still can find love, like Charles Princess Malini defies her brother and Annarefuses to step on to the pyre. Even She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with your new nature (although in his case, new is a couple community of hundred years) you can still have joint hobbiespeople who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. A little lycanthropy doesn't stop you wanting a fabulous horse to go riding through But now the mountains on. So Charles and Anna are holidaying on temple is nothing more than an Arabian stud farm to check out the stock and meet up with his old friendsovergrown, when something nasty happensdecaying ruin. One of the young women in the host Pack of werewolves suddenly turns nastyday, and has to put herself through Malini witnesses a serious ordeal just to stop herself from stabbing girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her young children. Such is the torment for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that Charles has to take the life-changing – but life-saving – decision to turn girl saved her. The problem is, the very magical strength to push the situation to such from an end is definitely a mighty one – attacker and things and people turning into nasty entities are going begs for the girl to be a recurring theme in the days ahead…become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501620</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George MannGenevieve Gornichec|title=Ghosts of WarThe Witch's Heart|rating=3.54

|summary=In 1920's Manhattan, A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a lone hero patrols forest at the streets and edge of the skies, using his immense wealth and futuristic technology to keep evil at bay. Howevernine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the start stake three times because of Odin''Ghosts of War''s wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, the Ghost is in mourninghowever, following 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 tragic events that concluded [[Ghosts stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of Manhattan by George Mann|Ghosts of Manhattan]]mistrust, the first book in the series. Thankfully Angrboda begins to fall for the Ghost (and for the reader) - Manhattan is under seigeLoki's charms, and he has little time to lick his wounds. Mechanical winged beasts roam the skies, two start an alcoholic exunusual family made of up a half-lover is back on the scenedead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and another son that's a British spy may have to be dealt with in order to prevent a cold war turning hot..snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294140</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen MaitlandHannah Whitten|title=The Raven's HeadFor the Wolf

|summary=Private Investigator Van H Avram is living in odd times. At least thatIn Red's what he decides on family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the day he has to step over second daughter becomes a dead body to get from his office to the street and not just any body: itsacrifice. To Red's that of a skinny blond thing – misfortune, she is the first of manysecond daughter. However life goes Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on and bills have her back, Red knows what to be paid so when expect: within the woods is a woman called Mina walks into Van's office wolf, and asks him to find Hugo Jorgen he doesn't refuseis the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. Perhaps if at that point If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he'd realised where keeps contained to the search would leadwoods will be released, and the brutally bloodied body count fabled kings he would uncover and keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the link woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a recurring childhood nightmare that materialises, then he may have refusedman. Too late now though…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1508455988</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ronald WelchJohn Gwynne|title=The Gauntlet|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''The Gauntlet'' was one of the iconic books of my childhood. Why iconic? It's an over-used word. Why not say 'most memorable', 'outstanding', 'most magical and exciting', -- or simply 'best'? Any of those would do but I think I'll allow myself iconic. The gauntlet of the title justifies that word.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738593</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Donald Hounam|title=Gifted|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fifteen-year-old Frank is a forensic sorcerer, employed to solve murders and other grisly crimes in a world where adults get the blur and lose their eyesight by their mid-twenties, and only the young have enough sorcerous power to summon demons and angels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552571873</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Hermione Eyre|title=Viper Wine|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Venetia Stanley lives in Seventeeth century London. A celebrated beauty, she has had poems written in honour of her, and portraits painted by one of the leading artists 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=Shadow Of The Death HouseGods

|summary=The blurb Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of Cursed By Fire had me interested. I loved the openingBloodsworn Saga, set in which we meet Dethan, a former warrior cursed by the gods to suffer an unending punishment for daring to steal immortality from them, and follow his attempts to lead era of the armies of Hexis to victory to appease one of Vikings in the vengeful gods.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034553493X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Adrian Tchaikovsky|title=Guns shadow of the Dawn|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Emily Marshwic has led a privileged life - wealthy and from a good familyRagnarok, she has known little discomfort. Until when the war comes - a vicious, far reaching struggle that destroys whole nations Gods have battled and tears families aparttheir bones lie scattered for all to see. First This story is the men are conscriptedultimate in High Fantasy, and then, after many defeats - John Gwynne certainly does justice to the women. Having seen her country ravagedgenre, and hearing news of her brother's deathwith mythical creatures, Emily signs up for the army - archaic language and battles galore. This 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 a thick book, with an end to the bloodshed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447272676</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Randy Henderson|title=Finn Fancy Necromancy |rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Douglas Coupland suggested that all families are psychotic intricate plot and he may just be right if fascinating characters that family consists of necromancers. The usual family dynamic is already a little messed up when you are one of four kids, but when you throw in the power woven together to remove souls create a wonderfully realistic and reanimate the dead, things can get even more complicated. After 25 years, Finn returns home to find that some things have changed, but his family will always be a nightmaregritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297239</amazonuk>0356514218