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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= George MannA G Slatter|title= Affinity Bridge|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=London, 1901: airships and automata herald a shining future in a city The Briar Book of steam-powered road trains and carriages. Queen Victoria is still alive (after a fashion) and one of her trusted Crown Agents has his work cut out investigating some decidedly odd goings-on in the capital alongside the chaps at Scotland Yard. Revenant corpses and vengeful, ghostly policemen in the dense fog of Whitechapel don't phase Newbury, however, accustomed as he is to dabbling in the occult.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298278</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Benedict Jacka|title=VeiledDead|rating=4.5

|summary=It'' There's a time part of great change me that wants to keep this just to myself for future divining mage Alex Verushowever long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. He'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's come to , a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the decision that his apprentice Luna Darklands. Though she has reached a stage where always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she needs more multi-faceted was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than he can offerspells and potions. An additional teacher is therefore sought When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and one applicant in particular isn't exactly Mary PoppinsEllie takes her place beside her. Meanwhile Alex adds a new chapter As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to his life by working communicate with the Keepersdead, putting her at the Council's police force, adding perhaps heart of a little more danger than is good for himmaelstrom of chaos. However his past is never far away Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and nodetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, that's not a good thingis under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356504379</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom HoltRachel Greenlaw|title=The Good, the Bad Compass and the SmugBlade|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Mordak''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, award winning goblin kingthe answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, is a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on a quest for truthluring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. His companion Efluviel 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 journalist whom hetrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island'd sacked s leader and who is elf – thatMira's two counts against her, without taking the smugness into accountfather. Meanwhile a little man spins gold Desperate to save him from strawdeath, offering benefits Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as well charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a riddlefamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. He may sound familiarWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, but forget as her journey takes her from the fairy tale; this Rumplerimp… Rumpski… bloke has a more sophisticated strategy. Oh and have you heard about watched streets of foreign islands to the two chaps who pre-invented heart of the Hadron Collider in their garden shed? No? Wellsmuggler's territory, stay tunedMira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502554</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie PhillipsT Kingfisher|title=The Table Of Less Valued KnightsThornhedge|rating=4.5

|summary=Sir Humphrey has been demoted from King Arthur''You had a right to retake your place.'' T Kingfisher's Round Table to the Table latest novella is a lovely reimagining of Lesser Valued Knightsa fairytale that is well known and well beloved. The only way to get his comfier seat back But whilst there is to redeem himself via a quest. Therefore when damsel Elaine seeks help to find her kidnapped fiancéprincess trapped in a tower, Humphrey and his wardsleeping under an eternal enchantment, the teenage giant ConradThornhedge is not her story. Instead, eagerly set forth. Meanwhile in the kingdom of Tuftour protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new Queen Martha has run -born baby and secreted away after a disastrous wedding to… a… well… disastrous Prince Edwinto the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spells. She may not realise it yet, but she too will have a job for Humphrey!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099555875</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James P BlaylockNicole Jarvis|title=Beneath LondonA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary= The collapse ''I want all of the Victoria Embankment uncovers a passage Florence to an unknown realm beneath the city. Langdon St. Ives sets know my name'' Cast out to explore itfrom Rome, not knowing that Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a brilliant home and wealthy psychopathic murderer is working to keep the underworld's secrets hidden for reasons of his own. Stwhere her future can thrive rather than stagnate. Ives and his stalwart friends investigate a string of ghastly crimes: But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the gruesome death of a witchpowerful Accademia, the kidnapping self-proclaimed guardians of a blind, psychic girl, and the grim horrors of a secret hospital serve healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the strangecity 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. To them, murderous ends of perhaps St. Ives' most dangerous nemesis yetArtemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783292601</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben AaronovitchThomas D Lee|title=Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London 5)Perilous Times|rating=53|genre=Fantasy|summary=After ''Hate is the disappearance path of two girls least resistance'' Set in Herefordshirethe near-distant future, PC Grant finds himself assisting with in a world on the investigation. It may be countryside rather than the London patch he's used toverge of climate collapse, but crime Britain is crime, especially when there's a supernatural element to itin great peril. He also has The British Isles desperately needs a little help and comfort from his home patch hero (or several) to augment save the ethereal beings… just in caseday and rescue what little remains. And remember Lesley and ''What no-one expected was that'' taser moment? She's not exactly totally off one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the scene eithercall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132523</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Natasha PulleyAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=The Watchmaker of Filigree StreetDelilah Recovered|rating=4.5

|summary=London 1883: Thaniel Steepleton, a telegraphist in a government office, finds himself living and working in a city We meet Dee at siege during a Clan na Gael bombing campaign. Itpoint when her life isn's around this time that he also realises that his pocket watch seems t going as planned but things might, just might, be about to have some oddlook up. Out of work, previously unnoticed functions. Grace Carrowabout to lose her flat, a Dee is up for an accountant'bluestockings job. But it' physics student also owns such a watchs not to be. The Dee is attacked by two total strangers may think their watches odd, men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She'odd' takes on a new meaning when they meet Mr Moris just an ordinary woman, the Japanese watchmakerliving an ordinary life. His clockwork pet octopus is only a small measure Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the oddity aheadsame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408854287</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony RyanHadeer Elsbai|title=Queen The Daughters of Fire: Book 3 of Raven's ShadowIzdihar

|summary=THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THE FIRST TWO RAVEN SHADOW BOOKS (ONLY)Queen Lyrna has been badly burnt but Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives to rule of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and seek vengeance through her massed armiesweavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. She also lifts Nehal, born into the prohibition of upper class, wishes to attend the Dark due Weaving Academy to their healing properties learn to control her abilities and three Giftedthen join the military, the practitioners of the power are promoted but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with less than popular approvalNico. Meanwhile Lyrna's right Giorgina on the other hand man Vaelin Al Sorna has lost his blood song, that precognition that made him such did not have a strong privileged upbringing like Nehal and feared opponent in feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the past. Talking Daughters of opponents, the Volarians have Izdihar – a surprise – the mysterious entity known only as The Ally. To Vaelin hegroup campaigning for women's anything but and so he must go rights. Giorgina also happens to the ends be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of the world (or at least to an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a pretty inhospitable climate) to find him… her… itgroup of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650249X</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna CaltabianoHeather Fawcett|title= The Seventh Miss HatfieldEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= Cynthia Emily Wilde is a simplean expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, All American girl who whilst generally happy – she’s fed and watered with a roof over researched meticulously, to write her head - and relatively care freelife's work, she is somewhat bored the very first encyclopaedia of her existence in Suburbiafaeries. Miss Hatfield Whilst she is Cynthia’s mysterious brilliant at research and rarely seen neighbourspeaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. What an enigma So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is and not sure what she has done, nor how compelling to redeem herself and irresistible it is put her final investigations for Cynthia to attempt to discover more about herbook back on the right track. Ever hear the phrase Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily''Be careful s frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what you wish for''exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200415</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus and Sean MurrayChristopher Golden|title=TrollhuntersRoad of Bones|rating=43.5|genre=TeensHorror|summary=West Coast USA in The Kolyma Highway… the 1960s, and 'Road of Bones'… the city is wracked and wrecked by R504. Stretching for over a slew thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of missing children reportsthe world's most notorious routes. The parents with their new anguishes, and new rules against playing out after dark, have no idea For months of the horrors in their vicinity – literally under their feet lies year it's a city spread of trollssheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, guilty while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of snatching the childrenunremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Last Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to gogive too many people a lesson, Jack Sturgessit legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. Cue the modern era and JackYou can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's youngera bit rich, for one of our main characters, now grownFelix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-up brother Jimmaker, and Jim Jr live doing a sheltered life in the most barricaded and secure home imaginablerecce with his cameraman buddy, and Jim JrJohn Prentiss – who's life is as exciting as youmostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd expectinvested in the pair's prior TV projects. UnfortunatelyThey pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, howevergain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the trolls are about guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to make a return to their nastiest of ways – and their intentions are a lot more surprising than Jim Jr could ever predict…go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405192</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tarn RichardsonAndrew Givler|title=The Damned Soul Fraud (The Darkest Hand Trilogy) (Inquisitor Poldek Tacit Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=France, 1914: A priest is murdered, if you could ascribe such a mundane term to such an act. He was actually pulled apart brutally, literally and totally. The Catholic Inquisition sends one of its best to investigate: Poldek Tacit. Tacit may be a tortured, troubled soul fighting the demons of his own past but when it comes to eliciting information he's good, albeit via some questionable methods. Meanwhile on the battle lines at Arras the British face the Germans in a war that will become even more horrific due to the evil that walks among them as a dark, inescapable shadow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071564954X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|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 Ward|title=The Eye of Winter’s Fury

|summary= The Cold North awaits you…War is coming to Valeron, where an ill and ineffectual king is beset on all sides by the scheming of ambitious men. His youngest son, Prince Arran is sent on ''Matt has a fool’s errand, with the real threat waiting to be revealedterrible life. Your are Prince ArranSeriously—it's awful. The ghost prince, a sickly boy who haunts It is so bad that Dan the palace library. As danger threatens, you must finally prove yourself. Will you defy fate and become Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a great hero of legend? You decide blissful life in this epic fantasy adventureexchange for his soul. The cold north awaits you…are you ready for the challenge?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057509561X</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Taran Matharu|title=The Novice|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn''The Novice'', Taran Matharu’s Wattpad sensation has already received t feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a staggering five million readsterrible salesman. This book doesn’t just survive He never hits his targets and, when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the hype; it deserves itdotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444923978</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luke ScullOlivie Blake|title=Sword Of The North (The Grim Company) Atlas Six

|summary=The heroes are scattered Dark, sharp, and seemingly powerless; the Age of Ruin is indeed upon the land as the new ruler may not be an improvement on the old. Back at the heroeshighly inquisitive, Emerul the half-mage is reduced to sending a messenger rather than acting upon it himself and Shanna is reduced to being that messenger. Davarus Cole is dying but it won't be the last time and what of the Sword of the North? He, Brodar Kayne, continues to seek someone he thought he'd never see again even though thereThe Atlas Six''s no guarantee of finding her. Meanwhile he has more pressing problems in the form of makes its publishing debut after becoming a Brick and a GruntTik-Tok sensation. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781851557</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dave ZeltsermanDaniel Abraham|title=The Boy Who Killed DemonsAge of Ash

|summary=Henry Dudlow is 15½ We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and has had a hidden gift since he was 13meeting that she dreads. It was then he discovered that some people Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of years when the worlds are in fact demons at their thinnest and – what's worse- he can see their real demonic formall things are possible. How, after two years It is the night between the funeral of knowing what Mr Hanley a couple Prince and the coronation of doors down his successor. For a night the Kithamar is really like and hearing that children are going missing under under the most bizarre circumstances, it's time to do something about itun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715649892</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy HounsomAnn Sei Lin|title=StarbornRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary= On Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the day Kyndra comes of ageMidori, she accidentally destroys a massive dining hall floating in the relic sky where soldiers of an ancient ceremonythe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, ending centuries of tradition. So when terrible phenomena target a man named Himura arrives to tell her community, Kyndra that she is blamed. Fearing for her lifea Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she is saved and rescued by two mysterious strangers desires – one who wields the a power of sought after all across the Sun, the other – the MoonEmpire. TogetherHe asks her to come with him, they flee to leave the hidden citadel life of Narisdreary servitude that is all she has known. And hereWell, Kyndra experiences disturbing visions of soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the pastMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is brutally tested in a bid forced to unlock her own magicflee out into the world. If she survives She joins Himura aboard the ordealOrihime, she'll discover a force greater than she could ever have imagined. But could it create as well as destroy? And can she control itsky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, to right an ancient wrong?and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447268458</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angus WatsonB09Q3P283Y|title=Clash of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy)Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=4.5

|summary=Lowa is now queen at Maidun Castle as she, Dug Clyde Robbins signs up for the reluctant (but highly effective) warrior and his young ward Spring attempt to defend it from US Army during the local tribes chancing their armVietnam War. Spring seems to have lost her magic but hopefully this He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is only temporaryhe particularly interested in a career in the military. There are bigger worries however; Lowa knows that the Romans will come If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and so sends Ragnall and Dunstanthis one, at least, former prince gets him out of the rut he's in. He's good in training and his druid tutor Durstan to Rome on is quickly put onto a mission to gather intelligence about the enemynon commissioned officer training course. Unfortunately things donHe't go to plan on either front!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502627</amazonuk>s chuffed with himself.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie BrennanJennifer Saint|title=Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir by Lady Trent (A Natural History of Dragons 3)Elektra|rating=34|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|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 itElektra's going to be epic – not only has she for by Jennifer Saint tells the first time taken her young son with her, she is on a sailing ship with a whole two years plying story of three women who live in the seven seas to be looked forward to. The heavily male dominated world is on the tip of a seesaw as regards dragons – just as one side weighs down with new knowledgeAncient Greece. Cassandra, so Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the other side comes down with industrialised exploitation story of the creatures – Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and Lady Trent must make sure that she has a (decorous, Victorian-styled covered) firm bottom to keep things on the side she wantsmost extreme furies. But she has no idea how buttock-clenching the whole voyage will turn out to be…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783295066</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melanie RawnDean Koontz|title=Glass Thorns - Window Wall (Book Four) Quicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=The Touchstone Players begin another season but, once again it differs from previous yearsMeet Quinn Quicksilver. Now each of He's not had the quartet have become or are about chance to get to become fathers; all apart from Cade that be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now isstarting a career on a needless magazine's staff. He still But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find that special person but isn't particularly looking as he has problems a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his ownbank and prepare for going on the lam. His kid brother Derien And all this is starting just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to come into his own magical gifting which could potentially attract the wrong attention. Cadeturn up and suggest he's elsewhens (his visionary glimpses of possible futures) have also stopped; or rather he has chosen interest to thwart them. Meanwhile there has been an accident badly maiming JezHelped to escape, one he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of Mieke's brothers. At least everyone believes it's an accident until Mieke finds something suspicious him acting without being in control, the debrisdiscovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781166668</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy AdamsTasha Suri|title=A Few Words For The DeadJasmine Throne|rating=54

|summary= Warning: spoilers for both [[The Clown Service by Guy Adams|The Clown Service]] and [[The Rain-Soaked Bride by Guy Adams|The Rain-Soaked Bride]] so best read them first. Remember On the near-demonic Fratfield? Wellnight of her sacred burning, the honeymooning Toby Princess Malini defies her brother and Tamara find themselves – and Fratfield – in refuses to step on to the South American junglepyre. However, things aren’t running smoothlyShe is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. Not only does Fratfield still control But now the forces of naturetemple is nothing more than an overgrown, now he has some helpdecaying ruin. Meanwhile back home One day, Malini witnesses a hit man prepares to continue his professiongirl kill someone with magic. The target? August ShiningInstead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Toby's boss, friend Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and wanted as an interview subject by MI6, should he live that longbegs for the girl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953197</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen HuntGenevieve Gornichec|title=In Dark Service (Far Called Trilogy 1)The Witch's Heart|rating=3.54

|summary=Jacob Carnehan has settled downA modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. HeShe hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's minding his own business while raising his son Carterwrath. Her attempts to live in peace, however, and his days of adventure are - thankfully - long behind himquickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her alone. Carter Carnehan is going out After an initial period of his mind with boredom. His humdrum life is dullmistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and he longs to escape. To test himself against the worldtwo start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and another son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575092076</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian TregillisHannah Whitten|title=The Mechanical (Alchemy War)For the Wolf

|summary=There is a truce between New France In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the Dutch; second daughter becomes a truce during which sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the Vicomtesse Berenice wants second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to learn expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the secrets one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the Clakkers. These are robotic slaves that power everything Dutch just beyond monsters he keeps contained to the New French border: culture, industry, domestic dutieswoods will be released, transport and they're also the most dangerous, relentless kind of soldier fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the world has ever knownstories go. Common knowledge confirms they're incapable of free willBut when Red enters the woods, thoughtexpecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, communication or freedomshe finds that the legends are lies. Common knowledge The wolf is wrong: Clakkers' free will is suppressed by pain, their thoughts and communication are only shared between themselves and their freedom? Jax may be not a Clakker, but hemonster—he's working on freedoma man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502325</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George R R Martin and Lisa TuttleJohn Gwynne|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 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 War|rating=3.5|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=Shadow Of The Raven's HeadGods

|summary=Private Investigator Van H Avram The Shadow Of The Gods is living the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in odd times. At least that's what he decides on the day he has to step over a dead body to get from his office to era of the Vikings in the street and not just any body: it's that shadow of a skinny blond thing – Ragnarok, when the first of many. However life goes on and bills Gods have to be paid so when a woman called Mina walks into Van's office battled and asks him their bones lie scattered for all to find Hugo Jorgen he doesn't refusesee. Perhaps if at that point he'd realised where This story is the search would leadultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the brutally bloodied body count he would uncover genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and the link fascinating characters that are woven together to create a recurring childhood nightmare that materialises, then he may have refusedwonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle. Too late now though…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1508455988</amazonuk>0356514218

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