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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=AJ SmithA G Slatter|title=The Red Prince (The Long War)Briar Book of the Dead

|summary=Spoilers ahead unless you've treated yourself ' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the first two books…….The surviving sinisterworld, deadly Sisters (formerly lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Seven Sisters) are slowly gaining global power and tortuous control. ItBriar's not over for our heroes yet though. Utha , a family of witches who protect the albino cleric town and his squire Randall are off to bag themselves another sisterthe wider world from the Darklands. They take with them Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the multifirst non-talented Ruthwitch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, someone prone to funny turns but in her training as a good waysteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. Meanwhile When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the rest of our leaders are busy massing armiestown's leader, leading to some unusual alliancesand Ellie takes her place beside her. Assassin Rham JasAs challenges come her way left, travelling right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the oddly behaving Kaledead, also has putting her at the heart of a witch in his sightsmaelstrom of chaos. Reeling 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, but his quest is partly personal. Saara Mistress of Pain still has his daughterunder threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784080861</amazonuk>1803364548

Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the 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 trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Leigh BardugoT Kingfisher|title= Six of CrowsThornhedge|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=In The Barrel, anything ''You had a right to retake your place.'' T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is possible for the right price, well known and no one knows this better than criminal mastermind, Kaz Brekkerwell beloved. When Kaz But whilst there is offered a chance at princess trapped in a perilous mission that could turn his poverty-stricken life upside downtower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. Instead, he our protagonist is determined Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to see the task fulfilled - but he won't be able land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to do it alonedraw magic from her veins and cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1627792120</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert L AndersonNicole Jarvis|title=DreamlandA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=17 year old Dea has been ''I want all of Florence to several schools know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in several towns, moving with which her art can find a home and where her mother future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as if pursued. It's always she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the same. She'd make a friend and then power to protect the rumours would start about how she city and her mum were crazy its citizens from plagues and the friend wouldn't talk to hercurses. Dea isn't crazyThe all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. She becomes curiously ill from time to time but she To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has a cure: walking through people's dreams. There are rules that keep her safe when she's doing this but when Connor moves in to the neighbourhood the rules become far less important no place amongst them and that's when Dea's life becomes far more dangeroustheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473621003</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ari MarmellThomas D Lee|title=Hallow Point Perilous Times|rating=2.5 3|genre=Fantasy|summary=The first person perspective ''Hate is not an easy one to pull off the path of least resistance'' Set in fiction. Despite thisthe near-distant future, it has been in a favourite of world on the gumshoe genre as getting behind the eyes verge of a grizzled Private Investigator as they solve crimes and fall for femme fatales climate collapse, Britain is incredibly satisfying if done wellin great peril. All this is achievable, but what if you throw urban fantasy in too? Now you have The British Isles desperately needs a book that has hero (or several) to explain crime in save the first person, but also magic day and in rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the case Knights of ''Hallow Point'', 1930s Chicago slangthe Round Table would answer the call. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781168253</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angus WatsonAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Reign of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy)Delilah Recovered|rating=54

|summary=Spoilers ahead for [[Age of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy) by Angus Watson|Books 1]] and [[Clash of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy) by Angus Watson|2]]We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Lowa and Spring both mourn the deaths Out of Dug in their own wayswork, about to lose her flat, each having reminders of the warrior they loved: Lowa carries around his baby while Spring carries around… well… DugDee is up for an accountant's job. They donBut it't have time s not to brood thoughbe. The Romans may be taking their time Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but they haven't given up not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on the invasion idea. Meanwhile Ragnall, still in Rome earth has that to do with CaesarDee? She's just an ordinary woman, is being given a good reason living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to join them. And so it begins as both sides gather troops her and galvanise assistance ready for things will never be the mater of all battlessame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502600</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sam SykesHadeer Elsbai|title= The City Stained RedDaughters of Izdihar|rating= 3.54

|summary=This story follows a ragtag team made up Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of murderers women and misfitsweavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Through Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with adventure Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and being paid feels great pressure to killprovide for her family and maintain their reputation, Lenk leads the gang into whilst secretly attending meetings of the grand silk city Daughters of CierIzdihar – a group campaigning for women'Djaal s rights. Giorgina also happens to hunt for the man who was yet to pay them for their servicebe in love with Nico. Lenk What follows is determined to live a normal human life story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and may be willing to leave his friends behind in order to do socruelty, but soon they become tied up in from which blossoms a religious war that wreaks chaos upon the city group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their plans for peacepersonal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132183</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna CaltabianoHeather Fawcett|title=The Time Of The ClockmakerEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=Fantasy General Fiction|summary=''The Time Of The Clockmaker'' Emily Wilde is not so much a sequel an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life'[[The Seventh Miss Hatfield by Anna Caltabiano|The Seventh Miss Hatfield]]s work, rather it's more like ''The Seventh Miss Hatfield : Part Deux''the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Cynthia (who Whilst she is now the aforementioned Seventh Miss Rebecca Hatfield brilliant at research and from this point we shall refer speaking to her as such) has just seen her predecessor and mentorfaeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the somewhat intimidating Sixth Miss Hatfieldsmall village of Hrafvsnik, murdered in having somehow offended the only way it village matriarch, she is possible for an immortal to die – not sure what she has been slain by another immortal. Forced done, nor how to flee redeem herself and put her final investigations for her life (with the clock that governs Rebecca's ability to travel through time), Rebecca is stunned to find herself book back in on the Court of King Henry VIIIright track. It seems that the hands of Enter Wendell Bambleby, her mysterious clock have somehow inadvertently been moveddashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, during the course of a break-inall charm and delight, and Tudor England is the backdrop for Miss Hatfieldmuch to Emily's fight for survivalfrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200431</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Patricia McKillipChristopher Golden|title= The Riddle-Master's GameRoad of Bones|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyHorror|summary=IIn The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a realm where the wizards have long since diedthousand miles across Siberia, but where magic and riddlry reign, no it's one takes much notice of the smallworld's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, peaceful kingdom while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of Hedunremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. That is until the young Land Ruler Morgon Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, wins and because he wanted to give too many people a riddle game that sends lesson, it legendarily cost a series events into motion life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that will shake the realm. Together he and the High One's harpist embark on a journey across bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the realm, project to fruition to discover his destiny and finally marry claw back some of the second most beautiful woman funds he'd invested in the landpair's prior TV projects. But Morgon has They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a long way to go local beauty, and his journey is just fetch up at the begginning of the impossible riddles before himguide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473212022</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bradley BeaulieuAndrew Givler|title=Twelve Kings: Soul Fraud (The Song of the Shattered SandsDebt Collection Book 1)

|summary=When she was ''Matt has a young child Ceda took a blood oath to seek vengeance against the twelve kings of Sharakhai and with good reasonterrible life. Now, years later, the oath hasnSeriously—it't been fulfilled but Ceda has plenty of other things to keep her occupieds awful. Whether couriering suspect packages, avoiding It is so bad that Dan the asirim or risking her Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in the combat pits to satisfy the blood thirsty crowdexchange for his soul. Ceda has been biding her time and that time is approaching. 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473203007</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author= Richard Morgan|title= The Dark Defiles|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Ringil EskiathPoor Dan! I know, Egar Dragonbane and Archeth Indamaninarmal have been through hell. Almost literally, in some cases. Now without fight or causeI know, they find themselves bored, searching we shouldn't feel sorry for answers and fights wherever they cansoul-catching demons. But then the fight arriveshe really is a terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and, along with when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the Dark Courtdotted line, the Empire and the greed of men. It soon becomes clear he's so desperate that a war fought thousands of years has not ended, but still rages fiercely onhe simply forges Matt's signature. A war that will take more than our adventurers to stop…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575088605</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Debbie Viguie and James R TuckOlivie Blake|title= Mark of the Black Arrow (Robin Hood: Demons Bane 1)|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=Debbie Viguie and James R Tuck|title= Mark of the Black Arrow (Robin Hood: Demons Bane #1)|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=VeiledAtlas Six|rating=4.5

|summary=It's a time of great change for future divining mage Alex Verus. He's come to the decision that his apprentice Luna has reached a stage where she needs more multi-faceted training than he can offer. An additional teacher is therefore sought and one applicant in particular isn't exactly Mary Poppins. Meanwhile Alex adds a new chapter to his life by working with the KeepersDark, the Council's police forcesharp, adding perhaps a little more danger than is good for him. However his past is never far away and nohighly inquisitive, that's not 'The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a good thingTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356504379</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom HoltDaniel Abraham|title=The Good, the Bad and the SmugAge of Ash

|summary=Mordak, award winning goblin kingWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, is on a quest for truth. His companion Efluviel is she has a journalist whom he'd sacked knife in her hand and who is elf – a meeting that's two counts against her, without taking the smugness into accountshe dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a little man spins gold from straw, offering benefits as well as a riddlepoint in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. He may sound familiar, but forget It is the night between the fairy tale; this Rumplerimp… Rumpski… bloke has funeral of a more sophisticated strategyPrince and the coronation of his successor. Oh and have you heard about For a night the two chaps who preKithamar is un-invented the Hadron Collider in their garden shed? No? Well, stay tunedruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502554</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie PhillipsAnn Sei Lin|title=The Table Of Less Valued KnightsRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Sir Humphrey Kurara has been demoted from King Arthur's Round Table to spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the Table sky where soldiers of Lesser Valued Knightsthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. The only way However, when a man named Himura arrives to get his comfier seat back tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to redeem himself via form paper into whatever she desires – a questpower sought after all across the Empire. Therefore when damsel Elaine seeks help He asks her to find her kidnapped fiancé, Humphrey and his wardcome with him, to leave the teenage giant Conradlife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, eagerly set forth. Meanwhile soon Kurara won't have any say in the kingdom of Tuftmatter, new Queen Martha has run away after because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a disastrous wedding to… a… well… disastrous Prince Edwinshikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She may not realise it yetjoins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, but she too will have and a job for Humphrey!whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099555875</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James P BlaylockB09Q3P283Y|title=Beneath LondonShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=4.5

|summary= The collapse of Clyde Robbins signs up for the Victoria Embankment uncovers a passage to an unknown realm beneath US Army during the cityVietnam War. Langdon St. Ives sets out to explore it, He's not knowing really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a brilliant and wealthy psychopathic murderer is working to keep career in the underworldmilitary. If he's secrets hidden for reasons of his own. St. Ives honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and his stalwart friends investigate a string this one, at least, gets him out of ghastly crimes: the gruesome death of a witch, the kidnapping of a blind, psychic girl, rut he's in. He's good in training and the grim horrors of is quickly put onto a secret hospital serve the strange, murderous ends of perhaps Stnon commissioned officer training course. IvesHe' most dangerous nemesis yets chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783292601</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben AaronovitchJennifer Saint|title=Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London 5)Elektra|rating=54|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=After 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the disappearance story of two girls three women who live in Herefordshire, PC Grant finds himself assisting with the investigationheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. It may be countryside rather than the London patch he's used toCassandra, but crime is crimeClytemnestra, especially when there's a supernatural element to it. He also has a little help and comfort from his home patch to augment Elektra are all bit players in the story of the ethereal beings… just in caseTrojan War. And remember Lesley Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and ''that'' taser moment? She's not exactly totally off the scene eithermost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132523</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Natasha PulleyDean Koontz|title=The Watchmaker of Filigree StreetQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=London 1883: Thaniel SteepletonMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a telegraphist in nun-run orphanage since he was a government officethree-day old foundling, finds himself living and working in now is starting a city at siege during career on a Clan na Gael bombing campaign. Itneedless magazine's around staff. But when this time that book starts he also realises that his pocket watch seems IS now ''subject to have some oddsudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, previously unnoticed functions. Grace Carrowcall it mind-control, call it a 'bluestocking' physics student also owns such supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a watch. The two total strangers may think their watches oddderelict diner, but 'odd' takes on find a gold coin worth a new meaning when they meet Mr Morifortune, cash the Japanese watchmakervalue of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. His clockwork pet octopus And all this is only a small measure just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the oddity aheaddiscovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408854287</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony RyanTasha Suri|title=Queen of Fire: Book 3 of Raven's ShadowThe Jasmine Throne

|summary=THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THE FIRST TWO RAVEN SHADOW BOOKS (ONLY)Queen Lyrna has been badly burnt but lives On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to rule and seek vengeance through her massed armiesthe pyre. She also lifts is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the prohibition Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the Dark due to their healing properties and three Gifted, mysterious deathless waters. But now the practitioners of the power are promoted with less temple is nothing more than popular approvalan overgrown, decaying ruin. Meanwhile Lyrna's right hand man Vaelin Al Sorna has lost his blood songOne day, that precognition that made him such Malini witnesses a strong and feared opponent in the pastgirl kill someone with magic. Talking Instead of opponentsreporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the Volarians have a surprise – the mysterious entity known only as The Ally. To Vaelin he's anything but girl saved her from an attacker and so he must go to begs for the ends of the world (or at least girl to a pretty inhospitable climate) to find him… her… itbecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650249X</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna CaltabianoGenevieve Gornichec|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 Murray|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 of snatching the children. Last to go, Jack Sturgess. Cue the modern era and JackWitch'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)Heart|rating=4.5

|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 modern and totally. The Catholic Inquisition sends one approachable reimagining of its best to investigate: Poldek Tacitthe Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. Tacit may be She hides in a torturedforest at the edge of the nine worlds, troubled soul fighting the demons remembering nothing of his own her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when it comes 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. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to eliciting information hefall for Loki's goodcharms, albeit via some questionable methods. Meanwhile on and the battle lines at Arras the British face the Germans in two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a war son that will become even more horrific due to the evil 's a wolf, and another son that walks among them as 's a dark, inescapable shadowsnake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>071564954X</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Naomi NovikHannah Whitten|title=UprootedFor the Wolf

|summary=Many years ago, in a village deep in Eastern EuropeIn Red's family, the locals live a life of relative peace and happiness - knowing to always avoid the wood that borders their landfirst daughter becomes queen, and safe in the knowledge that they are guarded by second daughter becomes a powerful wizard - the Dragonsacrifice. Aware that he To Red's misfortune, she is the one thing keeping them safe from second daughter. Sent alone into the dangers of woods with nothing but the woodcape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the villagers take part in woods is a ritual called 'The Choosing' every ten years - when a young girl wolf, and he is sent to serve the wizard for a decadeone who will decide the fate of their kingdom.Agnieszka If she is of age for not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the choosing, but nobody fears that she woods will be picked - her best friend Kasia is pretty and gracefulreleased, and sure to catch the eye of fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the immortal Dragonstories go. HoweverBut when Red enters the woods, Agnieszka is not aware of expecting nothing more than to be killed within the talents hour, she holds finds that may attract the wizard - talents that the safety of the entire kingdom may come to depend on for their survival.legends are lies.The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447294130</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael J WardJohn Gwynne|title=The Eye of Winter’s FuryShadow Of The Gods|rating=45

|summary= The Cold North awaits you…War Shadow Of The Gods is coming to Valeronthe first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, where an ill and ineffectual king is beset on all sides by set in the era of the Vikings in the scheming shadow of ambitious men. His youngest son, Prince Arran is sent on a fool’s errandRagnarok, with when the real threat waiting Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to be revealedsee. Your are Prince Arran. The ghost princeThis story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, a sickly boy who haunts and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the palace librarygenre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. As danger threatensThis is a thick book, you must finally prove yourself. Will you defy fate with an intricate plot and become fascinating characters that are woven together to create a great hero of legend? You decide wonderfully realistic and gritty world in this epic fantasy adventurewhich our heroes must do battle. The cold north awaits you…are you ready for the challenge?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057509561X</amazonuk>0356514218

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