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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ari MarmellA G Slatter|title=Hallow Point |rating=2.5 |genre=Fantasy|summary=The first person perspective is not an easy one to pull off in fiction. Despite this, it has been a favourite Briar Book of the gumshoe genre as getting behind the eyes of a grizzled Private Investigator as they solve crimes and fall for femme fatales is incredibly satisfying if done well. All this is achievable, but what if you throw urban fantasy in too? Now you have a book that has to explain crime in the first person, but also magic and in the case of ''Hallow Point'', 1930s Chicago slang. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781168253</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Angus Watson|title=Reign of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy)Dead

|summary=Spoilers ahead '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for [[Age however long I can. This secret magic of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy) by Angus Watson|Books 1]] and [[Clash of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy) by Angus Watson|2]]my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. Lowa and Spring both mourn '' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the deaths protection of Dug in their own waysthe Briar's, each having reminders a family of witches who protect the warrior they loved: Lowa carries around his baby while Spring carries around… well… Dugtown and the wider world from the Darklands. They don't have time Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to brood thoughbe 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. The Romans may be taking their time but they havenWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't given up on s cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the invasion ideatown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Meanwhile RagnallAs challenges come her way left, still in Rome right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with Caesarthe dead, is being given putting her at the heart of a good reason maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to join them. And so it begins do as both sides gather troops and galvanise assistance ready for the mater of all battlesBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502600</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sam SykesRachel Greenlaw|title= The City Stained RedCompass and Blade|rating= 3.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=This story follows a ragtag team made up ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of murderers and misfitsthe deep, the answering beat in my heart. Through with adventure '' Rosevear, a remote and being paid to killpartially forgotten island, Lenk leads survives on luring ships into the gang into rocks and plundering the grand silk city wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Cier'Djaal to hunt for the man seven who was yet swim out to pay them for their servicesurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Lenk is determined But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to live save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a normal human life wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and may be willing with only coordinates to leave his friends behind in order to do soguide her, but soon they become tied up she sets off in search of a religious war family secret that wreaks chaos upon lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the city 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 their plans for peacethe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132183</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna CaltabianoT Kingfisher|title=The Time Of The ClockmakerThornhedge|rating=4|genre=Fantasy |summary=''The Time Of The Clockmaker'' is not so much a sequel to '[[The Seventh Miss Hatfield by Anna Caltabiano|The Seventh Miss Hatfield]], rather it's more like ''The Seventh Miss Hatfield : Part Deux''. Cynthia (who is now the aforementioned Seventh Miss Rebecca Hatfield and from this point we shall refer to her as such) has just seen her predecessor and mentor, the somewhat intimidating Sixth Miss Hatfield, murdered in the only way it is possible for an immortal to die – she has been slain by another immortal. Forced to flee for her life (with the clock that governs Rebecca's ability to travel through time), Rebecca is stunned to find herself back in the Court of King Henry VIII. It seems that the hands of her mysterious clock have somehow inadvertently been moved, during the course of a break-in, and Tudor England is the backdrop for Miss Hatfield's fight for survival.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473200431</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Patricia McKillip|title= The Riddle-Master's Game|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=IIn a realm where the wizards have long since died, but where magic and riddlry reign, no one takes much notice of the small, peaceful kingdom of Hed. That is until the young Land Ruler Morgon, wins a riddle game that sends a series events into motion that will shake the realm. Together he and the High One's harpist embark on a journey across the realm, to discover his destiny and finally marry the second most beautiful woman in the land. But Morgon has a long way to go and his journey is just the begginning of the impossible riddles before him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473212022</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Bradley Beaulieu|title=Twelve Kings: The Song of the Shattered Sands|rating=45

|summary=When she was ''You had a young child Ceda took right to retake your place.'' T Kingfisher's latest novella is a blood oath to seek vengeance against the twelve kings lovely reimagining of Sharakhai a fairytale that is well known and with good reasonwell beloved. NowBut whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, years latersleeping under an eternal enchantment, the oath hasn't been fulfilled but Ceda has plenty of other things to keep Thornhedge is not her occupiedstory. Whether couriering suspect packagesInstead, avoiding our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the asirim or risking land of fairie where her life in the combat pits childhood was spent being taught how to satisfy the blood thirsty crowd. Ceda has been biding draw magic from her time veins and that time is approachingcast spells. However, she's only one 19 year old girl whereas the kings are legion and have powers to call on that aren't altogether natural. Blood must be avenged with blood; the only question is whose blood will it be?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473203007</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreview|author= Richard Morgan|title= The Dark Defiles|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Ringil Eskiath, Egar Dragonbane and Archeth Indamaninarmal have been through hell. Almost literallyCast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in some cases. Now without fight or cause, they which her art can find themselves bored, searching for answers a home and fights wherever they where her future canthrive rather than stagnate. But then as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the fight arrivespowerful Accademia, along with the Dark Court, self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the Empire city and the greed of menits citizens from plagues and curses. It soon becomes clear that a war fought thousands of years The all-male Accademia has not endedhoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, but still rages fiercely onArtemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society. A war that will take more than our adventurers to stop…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575088605</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Debbie Viguie and James R TuckThomas D Lee|title= Mark of the Black Arrow (Robin Hood: Demons Bane 1)Perilous Times|rating= 4.53

|summary= A vast darkness ''Hate is spreading. If left uncheckedthe path of least resistance'' Set in the near-distant future, it will engulf the in a world, and so Richard the Lionheart must depart England on a holy mission. In his absence, the safety verge of the realm climate collapse, Britain is entrusted in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to his brother, Prince John. With save the King departing, black sorcery grips the land, horrific creatures stalking the forests day and threatening noble and peasant alikerescue what little remains. A handful What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of rebels fight back, but are doomed to fail unless they can find a hero to lead them – and Robin Hood may be just the man for Round Table would answer the jobcall. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294361</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Debbie Viguie and James R TuckAmelia Estelle Dellos|title= Mark of the Black Arrow (Robin Hood: Demons Bane #1)Delilah Recovered|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= A vast darkness is spreading. If left unchecked, it will engulf the world, and so Richard the Lionheart must depart England on a holy mission. In his absence, the safety of the realm is entrusted to his brother, Prince John. With the King departing, black sorcery grips the land, horrific creatures stalking the forests and threatening noble and peasant alike. A handful of rebels fight back, but are doomed to fail unless they can find a hero to lead them – and Robin Hood may be just the man for the job. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294361</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sebastien de Castell|title= Traitor's Blade|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary= Falcio del Mond and his companions Kest and Brasti used to be Greatcoats; travelling Magister's upholding King's Law. Then they stood and watched as their King was killed by the Dukes who took control of the kingdom, and their company of 144 supposedly brave men and women are scattered throughout the land and reviled as traitors. The three are working as hired security while hoping to fulfil their last promise to the King, until one of their clients is killed and they're framed for his murder. Running for their lives, they're caught in a conspiracy which could have dark consequences for the entire land.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184866379X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Gardner|title= Grendel|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary= The first impression we get of Grendel in the epic poem ''Beowulf'' is not a good one. Life is fine for the townspeople of Heorot, the anonymous poet tells, 'until finally one, a fiend out of hell, began to work his evil in the world.' Grendel, there can be no doubt, is a monster, a beast, a marauder, a demon, a villain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473212014</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= George Mann|title= Affinity Bridge|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=London, 1901: airships and automata herald a shining future in a city 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=Veiled|rating=4.5

|summary=ItWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn's a time t going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of great change work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for future divining mage Alex Verusan accountant's job. HeBut it's come not to the decision that his apprentice Luna has reached a stage where she needs more multi-faceted training than he can offerbe. An additional teacher Dee is therefore sought and one applicant in particular isn't exactly Mary Poppinsattacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. Meanwhile Alex adds a new chapter Witch hunters? What on earth has that to his life by working do with the Keepers, the CouncilDee? She's police forcejust an ordinary woman, adding perhaps a little more danger than is good for himliving an ordinary life. However his past is never far away and no, Slivers of memory of things that's are not a good thingordinary at all return to her and things will never be the same....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356504379</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom HoltHadeer Elsbai|title=The Good, the Bad and the SmugDaughters of Izdihar|rating=4.5

|summary=MordakDrawing inspiration from Egypt, award winning goblin king''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, is on a quest yet find themselves fighting for truth. His companion Efluviel is a journalist whom he'd sacked the rights of women and who is elf weavers – that's two counts those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control herabilities and then join the military, without taking the smugness but instead she is forced into accountan arranged marriage with Nico. Meanwhile Giorgina on the other hand did not have a little man spins gold from strawprivileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, offering benefits as well as whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a riddlegroup campaigning for women's rights. He may sound familiarGiorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, but forget the fairy tale; this Rumplerimp… Rumpski… bloke has filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a more sophisticated strategy. Oh group of admirable women fighting for their rights and have you heard about the two chaps who pre-invented the Hadron Collider in overcoming their garden shed? No? Well, stay tunedpersonal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502554</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie PhillipsHeather Fawcett|title=The Table Of Less Valued KnightsEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Sir Humphrey Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has been demoted from King Arthurtravelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's Round Table to work, the Table very first encyclopaedia of Lesser Valued Knightsfaeries. The only way Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to get his comfier seat back faeries, she is to redeem himself via a questnot so good with people. Therefore So when damsel Elaine seeks help she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to find redeem herself and put her final investigations for her kidnapped fiancébook back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, Humphrey her dashingly handsome and his wardinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, the teenage giant Conradall charm and delight, eagerly set forthmuch to Emily's frustration. Meanwhile in But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the kingdom of Tuft, new Queen Martha has run away after a disastrous wedding to… a… well… disastrous Prince Edwin. She may not realise it yet, but she too will have a job for Humphrey!faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099555875</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James P BlaylockChristopher Golden|title=Beneath LondonRoad of Bones|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary= The collapse Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the Victoria Embankment uncovers R504. Stretching for over a passage to an unknown realm beneath thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the cityworld's most notorious routes. Langdon St. Ives sets out to explore For months of the year it, not knowing that 's a brilliant and wealthy psychopathic murderer is working to keep spread of sheet ice suspended above the underworldpermafrost surrounding it, while its 's secrets hidden for reasons spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of his ownunremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. St I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Ives Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and his stalwart friends investigate other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a string of ghastly crimes: the gruesome death of life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a witchbit rich, the kidnapping for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a blindfilm-maker, psychic girldoing a recce with his cameraman buddy, and John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the grim horrors project to fruition to claw back some of a secret hospital serve the strangefunds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, murderous ends gain the company of perhaps Sta local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. Ives And that' most dangerous nemesis yet.s where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783292601</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben AaronovitchAndrew Givler|title=Foxglove Summer Soul Fraud (Rivers of London 5The Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=54

|summary=After the disappearance of two girls in Herefordshire, PC Grant finds himself assisting with the investigation''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It may be countryside rather than is so bad that Dan the London patch he's used to, but crime Demon is crime, especially shocked when there's Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a supernatural element to it. He also has a little help and comfort from blissful life in exchange for his home patch to augment the ethereal beings… just in casesoul. And remember Lesley and ''that'' taser moment? She's not exactly totally off the scene either.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575132523</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Natasha Pulley|title=The Watchmaker of Filigree Street|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=London 1883: Thaniel SteepletonPoor Dan! I know, a telegraphist in a government officeI know, finds himself living and working in we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a city at siege during a Clan na Gael bombing campaignterrible salesman. ItHe never hits his targets and, when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the dotted line, he's around this time so desperate that he also realises that his pocket watch seems to have some odd, previously unnoticed functions. Grace Carrow, a simply forges Matt'bluestocking' physics student also owns such a watch. The two total strangers may think 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 aheads signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408854287</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony RyanOlivie Blake|title=Queen of Fire: Book 3 of Raven's ShadowThe Atlas Six

|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 songsharp, that precognition that made him such a strong and feared opponent in the past. Talking of opponentshighly inquisitive, the Volarians have a surprise – the mysterious entity known only as ''The Ally. To Vaelin heAtlas Six''s anything but and so he must go to the ends of the world (or at least to makes its publishing debut after becoming a pretty inhospitable climate) to find him… her… itTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650249X</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna Caltabiano|title= The Seventh Miss Hatfield|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= Cynthia is a simple, All American girl who whilst generally happy – she’s fed and watered with a roof over her head - and relatively care free, she is somewhat bored of her existence in Suburbia. Miss Hatfield is Cynthia’s mysterious and rarely seen neighbour. What an enigma she is and how compelling and irresistible it is for Cynthia to attempt to discover more about her. Ever hear the phrase ''Be careful what you wish for''?. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473200415</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus and Sean MurrayAbraham|title=Trollhunters|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 Age 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)Ash

|summary=FranceWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, 1914: A priest is murdered, if you could ascribe such she has a mundane term to such an act. He was actually pulled apart brutally, literally knife in her hand and totallya meeting that she dreads. The Catholic Inquisition sends one Meanwhile the City of its best to investigate: Poldek Tacit. Tacit may be Kithamar is at a tortured, troubled soul fighting point in the demons turning of his own past but years when it comes to eliciting information he's good, albeit via some questionable methodsthe worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. Meanwhile on It is the battle lines at Arras night between the British face funeral of a Prince and the Germans in coronation of his successor. For a war that will become even more horrific due to night the evil that walks among them as a dark, inescapable shadowKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>071564954X</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Naomi NovikAnn Sei Lin|title=UprootedRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Many years agoKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, in a village deep massive dining hall floating in Eastern Europe, the locals live a life sky where soldiers of relative peace the Empire come to drink and happiness - knowing make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to always avoid the wood tell her that borders their landshe is a Crafter like him, and safe in someone with the knowledge that they are guarded by power to form paper into whatever she desires – a powerful wizard - power sought after all across the DragonEmpire. Aware He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that he is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the one thing keeping them safe from the dangers of the woodmatter, because the villagers take part in Midori is destroyed by a ritual called 'The Choosing' every ten years - when monstrous paper spirit known as a young girl shikigami, and she is sent forced to serve flee out into the wizard for a decadeworld.Agnieszka is of age for She joins Himura aboard the choosingOrihime, but nobody fears that she will be picked a sky- her best friend Kasia ship whose express purpose is pretty and gracefulto hunt down shikigami, and sure to catch the eye a whole world 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...adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447294130</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael J WardB09Q3P283Y|title=The Eye of Winter’s FuryShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary= The Cold North awaits you…War is coming to ValeronClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, where an ill and ineffectual king nor is beset on all sides by he particularly interested in a career in the scheming of ambitious menmilitary. His youngest son, Prince Arran If he's honest - which Clyde usually is sent on a fool’s errand, with the real threat waiting to be revealed. Your are Prince Arran. The ghost princehimself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, a sickly boy who haunts gets him out of the palace libraryrut he's in. As danger threatens, you must finally prove yourself. Will you defy fate He's good in training and become is quickly put onto a great hero of legend? You decide in this epic fantasy adventurenon commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself. 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=''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 it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444923978</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luke ScullJennifer Saint|title=Sword Of The North (The Grim Company) Elektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=The heroes are scattered and seemingly powerless; 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the Age story of Ruin is indeed upon three women who live in the land as the new ruler may not be an improvement on the oldheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Back at the heroesCassandra, Clytemnestra, 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 Elektra are all bit players in the last time and what story of the Sword of Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the North? He, Brodar Kayne, continues to seek someone he thought he'd never see again even though there's no guarantee of finding her. Meanwhile he has more pressing problems in silent women have the form of a Brick most compelling stories and a Gruntthe most extreme furies. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781851557</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dave ZeltsermanDean Koontz|title=The Boy Who Killed DemonsQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Henry Dudlow is 15½ and has Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a hidden gift nun-run orphanage since he was 13a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. It was then But when this book starts he discovered that some people are in fact demons and IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – what's worsecall it unearthly intuition, call it mind- control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he can see their real demonic form. Howgo to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, after two years cash the value of knowing what Mr Hanley a couple it out of doors down is really like his bank and hearing that children are prepare for going missing under under on the most bizarre circumstances, itlam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's time of interest to them. Helped to do something about itescape, he finds his flight is 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 whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715649892</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy HounsomTasha Suri|title=StarbornThe Jasmine Throne|rating=3.54

|summary= On the day Kyndra comes night of ageher sacred burning, she accidentally destroys Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the relic of pyre. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient ceremony, ending centuries temple that was once filled with a community of tradition. So when terrible phenomena target her community, Kyndra is blamed. Fearing for her life, she is saved and rescued by two mysterious strangers – one people who wields got powers from the power of mysterious deathless waters. But now the Suntemple is nothing more than an overgrown, the other – the Moondecaying ruin. TogetherOne day, they flee to the hidden citadel Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of Naris. And herereporting her for such a gruesome crime, Kyndra experiences disturbing visions of Malini claims that the past, girl saved her from an attacker and is brutally tested in a bid begs for the girl to unlock become her own magic. If she survives the ordeal, she'll discover a force greater than she could ever have imaginedpersonal maidservant. But could it create as well as destroy? And can she control it, to right an ancient wrong?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447268458</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angus WatsonGenevieve Gornichec|title=Clash of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy)Witch's Heart|rating=4.5

|summary=Lowa is now queen A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at Maidun Castle as the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she, Dug was survived burnt at the reluctant (but highly effective) warrior and his young ward Spring attempt stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to defend it live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the local tribes chancing their arm. Spring seems stake—and refuses to have lost leave her magic but hopefully this is only temporaryalone. There are bigger worries however; Lowa knows After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that the Romans will come and so sends Ragnall and Dunstan's a wolf, former prince and his druid tutor Durstan to Rome on another son that's a mission to gather intelligence about the enemysnake. Unfortunately things don't go to plan on either front!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502627</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie BrennanHannah Whitten|title=Voyage of For the Basilisk: A Memoir by Lady Trent (A Natural History of Dragons 3)Wolf|rating=35

|summary=ItIn Red's time. Lady Trent – Isabella Camherst – can finally leave her educational soirees in her own salon family, the first daughter becomes queen, and go and discover more about her beloved dragonsthe second daughter becomes a sacrifice. This time itTo Red's going to be epic – not only has misfortune, she for is the first time taken her young son second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on herback, she Red knows what to expect: within the woods is on a sailing ship with a whole two years plying the seven seas to be looked forward to. The world wolf, and he is on the tip of a seesaw as regards dragons – just as one side weighs down with new knowledge, so who will decide the other side comes down with industrialised exploitation fate of the creatures – and Lady Trent must make sure that their kingdom. If she has is not a (decorousworthy sacrifice, Victorian-styled covered) firm bottom the monsters he keeps contained to keep things on the side she wantswoods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she has no idea how buttock-clenching finds that the whole voyage will turn out to be…legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783295066</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melanie RawnJohn Gwynne|title=Glass Thorns - Window Wall (Book Four) The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=4.5

|summary=The Touchstone Players begin another season butShadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, once again it differs from previous years. Now each set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the quartet Gods have become or are about to become fathers; battled and their bones lie scattered for all apart from Cade that is. He still has to find that special person but isn't particularly looking as he has problems of his ownsee. His kid brother Derien This story is starting the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to come into his own magical gifting which could potentially attract the wrong attentiongenre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. 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 JezThis is a thick book, one of Mieke's brothers. At least everyone believes it's with an accident until Mieke finds something suspicious intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in the debriswhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781166668</amazonuk>0356514218