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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ElliottA G Slatter|title=Black Wolves (Black Wolves Trilogy)The Briar Book of the Dead

|summary=Dannarah has achieved her childhood dream: she'' There's a reeve marshal, one part of the army who fly eagles me that wants to keep this just to defend king and kingdommyself for however long I can. However Dannarah' s dream comes after a nightmare. Lady Dannarah (as she's more properly known) is daughter This secret magic of King Anjihosh and his son Prince Atani both of whom have been killed. Two decades later the current rulermy own, all mine, her great nephew Jehosh gives Dannarah an ultimatumat last. She will be promoted I just want to Grand Marshal if she brings him enjoy it for a bodyguard to guide him through dangerous times ahead and not just any bodyguardwhile. He wants Kellas'' Within a remote mountain pass, the captain of the former Black Wolves, the elite royal guard who were disbanded after the regicides. Kellas had walked far away from the palace in world, lies Silverton; a fog of shock and self-blame and he may not want to come back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356503208</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alex Marshall|title=A Crown for Cold Silver: Book One town under the protection of the Crimson Empire|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Zosia seems just like any other old lady. Indeed thatBriar's , a family of witches who protect the mistake that Sir Efrain Hjort made as he presents her with her husband's head, severed to encourage her compliance. As Zosia hears town and the screams coming wider world from what used to be her village but now the site of Hjort's latest initiative Zosia makes a vowDarklands. She'll look up some of her old acquaintances; to be more preciseThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the five villains she used first non-witch to lead. For Zosia isn't actually that ordinary. Zosia is the legendary Cobalt Queen – a little creakier now than when be born into her family for generations and as such since she faked her death of coursewas young, but one thing is certain: she will avenge her people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650283X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephen Hickman|title= The Art of Stephen Hickman|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Stephen Hickman has been training as a well known artist in the Fantasy steward revolved around letters and Science Fiction worlds for a number of years now, having created covers for authors such as Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, administration rather than spells and Larry Nivenpotions. His paintings are vibrant, kinetic, sometimes scary, often sensualWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, traditional, and yet modern. Ellie''The Art of Stephen Hickman'' collects hundreds of these paintings, and the artist himself provides an intriguing commentary alongside which offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic process. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298456</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mark Morris|title=The Society of Blood (Obsidian Heart book 2)|rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=In order to find his kidnapped daughter Alex Locke still needs to find the Obsidian Heart. The trail leads back from 21st century gangland London to s cousin Audra becomes the darkBriar Witch, dirty 19th century version of the capital. Here the streets that witnessed Jack the Rippertown's murders only a couple of years before are just as lethal but the danger isn't totally humanleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Alex doesn't quite know how you'd classify itAs challenges come her way left, but it stands between him right and centre, Ellie uncovers the person who means the most rare ability to him so walking away isn't an option.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781168709</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephen Aryan|title=Battlemage|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Vargus has milked communicate with the legend of dead, putting her at the Gath, an avenging man heart of violence for hire, for as long as possible. Being the Gath has had its benefits but time to move on. As it happens a war is brewing in Seveldrom so Vargus is going to fight on the side maelstrom of right against the evil that is King Taikonchaos. For Balfruss Seveldrom is home so he's honoured to be Reeling from one of the six Battlemages King Mattias has selected family secret to be the backbone of his defence now that Taikon has Zecorria. As fate unfolds the futureanother, Mattias' daughter Talandra will also play her part Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the KingBriar witches's spymaster. Vargus can kill an armed gang singlehanded. Balfruss can summon firelegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, command storms and unmake stone. Talandra? She just hopes she can help save her country but as yet she doesn't realise quite how much it will cost heris under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B013KT3BQW</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|author=David Mitchell|title=Slade House|rating=5|genre=Horror|summary=Once every nine years Jonah 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 Norah Greyer entertain Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a guest; each time wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a different person… or personsfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Each visitor walks through With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the small black door watched streets of Slade House for various reasons foreign islands to the heart of their own. Or the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at least they think they know why they're there but only Jonah nothing to save the future of her home and Norah know the real reason – the only reasonones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473616689</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=AJ SmithT Kingfisher|title=The Red Prince (The Long War)Thornhedge

|summary=Spoilers ahead unless you've treated yourself to the first two books…….The surviving sinister, deadly Sisters (formerly the Seven Sisters) are slowly gaining global power and tortuous control. It's not over for our heroes yet though. Utha the albino cleric and his squire Randall are off to bag themselves another sister. They take with them the multi-talented Ruth, someone prone to funny turns but in You had a good way. Meanwhile the rest of our leaders are busy massing armies, leading right to some unusual alliancesretake your place. Assassin Rham Jas, travelling with the oddly behaving Kale, also has a witch in his sights, but his quest is partly personal. Saara Mistress of Pain still has his daughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784080861</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author= Leigh Bardugo|title= Six T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of Crows|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=In The Barrel, anything 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)The Atlas Six|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= A vast darkness is spreading. If left uncheckedDark, it will engulf the worldsharp, and so Richard the Lionheart must depart England on a holy mission. In his absencehighly inquisitive, 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 'Atlas Six'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 (makes its publishing debut after becoming a fashion) and one of her trusted Crown Agents has his work cut out investigating some decidedly odd goingsTik-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 occultTok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298278</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaDaniel Abraham|title=VeiledAge of Ash

|summary=ItWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's a time of great change for future divining mage Alex Verus. four bridges, He's come to the decision that his apprentice Luna she has reached a stage where knife in her hand and a meeting that she needs more multi-faceted training than he can offerdreads. An additional teacher Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is therefore sought at a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and one applicant in particular isn't exactly Mary Poppinsall things are possible. Meanwhile Alex adds a new chapter to his life by working with It is the Keepers, night between the Council's police force, adding perhaps funeral of a little more danger than is good for himPrince and the coronation of his successor. However his past For a night the Kithamar is never far away and no, that's not a good thingun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356504379</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom HoltAnn Sei Lin|title=The Good, the Bad and the SmugRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=MordakKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, award winning goblin kinga massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, is on when a quest for truth. His companion Efluviel man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a journalist whom he'd sacked and who is elf – that's two counts against herCrafter like him, without taking someone with the smugness power to form paper into account. Meanwhile whatever she desires – a little man spins gold from straw, offering benefits as well as a riddlepower sought after all across the Empire. He may sound familiarasks her to come with him, but forget to leave the fairy tale; this Rumplerimp… Rumpski… bloke life of dreary servitude that is all she has a more sophisticated strategyknown. Oh and Well, soon Kurara won't have you heard about any say in the two chaps who pre-invented matter, because the Hadron Collider in their garden shed? No? WellMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, stay tunedand she is forced to flee out into the world.She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502554</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marie PhillipsB09Q3P283Y|title=The Table Of Less Valued KnightsShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=4.5

|summary=Sir Humphrey has been demoted from King ArthurClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's Round Table to not really that invested in the Table of Lesser Valued Knights. The only way to get his comfier seat back fight against Communism, nor is to redeem himself via he particularly interested in a questcareer in the military. Therefore when damsel Elaine seeks help to find her kidnapped fiancéIf he's honest - which Clyde usually is, Humphrey with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and his wardthis one, at least, gets him out of the teenage giant Conrad, eagerly set forthrut he's in. Meanwhile He's good in the kingdom of Tuft, new Queen Martha has run away after training and is quickly put onto a disastrous wedding to… a… well… disastrous Prince Edwinnon commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself. She may not realise it yet, but she too will have a job for Humphrey!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555875</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James P BlaylockJennifer Saint|title=Beneath LondonElektra|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary= The collapse 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the Victoria Embankment uncovers a passage to an unknown realm beneath the cityheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Langdon St. Ives sets out to explore itCassandra, Clytemnestra, not knowing that a brilliant and wealthy psychopathic murderer is working to keep Elektra are all bit players in the underworld's secrets hidden for reasons story of his ownthe Trojan War. St. Ives and his stalwart friends investigate a string of ghastly crimes: Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the gruesome death of a witch, silent women have the kidnapping of a blind, psychic girl, most compelling stories and the grim horrors of a secret hospital serve the strange, murderous ends of perhaps St. Ives' most dangerous nemesis yetextreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783292601</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben AaronovitchDean Koontz|title=Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London 5)Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=After Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the disappearance of two girls chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in Herefordshirea nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, PC Grant finds himself assisting with the investigationand now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. It may be countryside rather than the London patch But when this book starts heIS now 's used 'subject tosudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', but crime is crimefor something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, especially when there's call it a supernatural element urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it. He also has a little help out of his bank and comfort from his home patch to augment prepare for going on the ethereal beings… lam. And all this is just in case. And remember Lesley 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 discovery that'' taser moment? She's he is not exactly totally off the scene eitherunique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132523</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Natasha PulleyTasha Suri|title=The Watchmaker of Filigree StreetJasmine Throne|rating=4.5

|summary=London 1883: Thaniel Steepleton, a telegraphist in a government officeOn the night of her sacred burning, finds himself living Princess Malini defies her brother and working in refuses to step on to the pyre. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a city at siege during a Clan na Gael bombing campaigncommunity of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. It's around this time that he also realises that his pocket watch seems to have some oddBut now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, previously unnoticed functionsdecaying ruin. Grace CarrowOne day, Malini witnesses a 'bluestocking' physics student also owns girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a watch. The two total strangers may think their watches odd, but 'odd' takes on a new meaning when they meet Mr Morigruesome crime, Malini claims that the Japanese watchmaker. His clockwork pet octopus is only a small measure of girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the oddity aheadgirl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408854287</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony RyanGenevieve Gornichec|title=Queen of Fire: Book 3 of RavenThe Witch's ShadowHeart

|summary=THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THE FIRST TWO RAVEN SHADOW BOOKS (ONLY)Queen Lyrna has been badly burnt but lives to rule A modern and seek vengeance through her massed armiesapproachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She also lifts hides in a forest at the prohibition edge of the Dark due to their healing properties and three Giftednine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the practitioners stake three times because of the power Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, however, are promoted quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with less than popular approvalher literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her alone. Meanwhile LyrnaAfter an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's right hand man Vaelin Al Sorna has lost his blood songcharms, that precognition that made him such a strong and feared opponent in the past. Talking two start an unusual family made of opponentsup a half-dead daughter, the Volarians have a surprise – the mysterious entity known only as The Ally. To Vaelin heson that's anything but a wolf, and so he must go to the ends of the world (or at least to another son that's a pretty inhospitable climate) to find him… her… itsnake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650249X</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna CaltabianoHannah Whitten|title= The Seventh Miss HatfieldFor the Wolf|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= Cynthia is a simpleIn Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, All American girl who whilst generally happy – she’s fed and watered with the second daughter becomes a roof over her head - and relatively care freesacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is somewhat bored of the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her existence in Suburbia. Miss Hatfield back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is Cynthia’s mysterious a wolf, and rarely seen neighbourhe is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. What an enigma If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and how compelling and irresistible it is for Cynthia 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 attempt to discover more about herbe killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. Ever hear the phrase The wolf is not a monster—he''Be careful what you wish for''?s a man. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200415</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|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 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 RichardsonJohn Gwynne|title=The Damned (Shadow Of The Darkest Hand Trilogy) (Inquisitor Poldek Tacit 1)Gods|rating=4.5

|summary=FranceThe Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, 1914: A priest is murderedset in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, if you could ascribe such a mundane term when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to such an actsee. He was actually pulled apart brutallyThis story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, literally and totally. The Catholic Inquisition sends one of its best John Gwynne certainly does justice to investigate: Poldek Tacit. Tacit may be a torturedthe genre, troubled soul fighting the demons of his own past but when it comes to eliciting information he's goodwith mythical creatures, albeit via some questionable methodsarchaic language and battles galore. Meanwhile on the battle lines at Arras the British face the Germans in This is a war thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that will become even more horrific due are woven together to the evil that walks among them as create a dark, inescapable shadowwonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>071564954X</amazonuk>0356514218