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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A K BenedictG Slatter|title=Jonathan Dark or The Evidence Of GhostsBriar Book of the Dead|rating=45

|summary=Maria King sits by the Thames mudlarking - sifting through the washed up treasures - on a regular basis. Only today she finds a ring in a box with 'Marry me Maria' on the lid in braille. Blind from birth and now blind by choice, the words can be for no one else but Ms King. However a greater surprise awaits inside the box: the ring is still on a finger belonging to the last girl who received such a proposal. DI Jonathan Dark is assigned to the case, not realising what heThere's taken on or the sort a part of help he'll need me that wants to keep this just to call onmyself for however long I can. The dead are This secret magic of my own, all around himmine, his plan is not at last. I just want to let Maria join themenjoy it for a while.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409144550</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1409144550</amazonus>}}''

{{newreview|author= Daniel Polansky|title= Those Above|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=For three thousand years Those Above have ruled over their human subjects. From Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the glittering palaces of their eternal cityworld, they enforce their will with fire and sword. Twenty-five years ago, mankind mustered an army and rose up against them, only to be slaughtered in lies Silverton; a terrible battle. Whilst hope died that day, hatred survived. Whispers town under the protection of another revolt begin to stir throughout the oppressed: a widowed womanBriar's, dedicated to revenge: a general, family of witches who protect the only to defeat one of Those Above; town and a boy killer, who rises the wider world from the gutter to lead an uprisingDarklands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779915</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Den Patrick|title=The Girl on Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the Liar's Throne|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Lucien doesn’t want first non-witch to declare war on Landfall be born into her family for generations and its Silent Queenas such since she was young, Anea, whom he grew up with her training as an Orfano. She runs a dictatorship of militant suppression steward revolved around letters and suffering which is administration rather unlike than spells and potions. When her. Unbeknown to Luciengrandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the throne of Landfall is occupied by Eristown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, an imposter right and puppet used by those centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with far fewer scruples. Anea herself is imprisoned in the palace oubliette surrounded by Myrmidondead, putting her at the heart of a half-human army created by Erebus. There's little chance maelstrom of her escaping or getting very far if she didchaos. HoweverReeling from one family secret to another, for Anea 'little chanceEllie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is a challenge, not a preventativeunder threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200040</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview <!-- Upload 16/2 -->Frontpage|author=C E RobinsonRachel Greenlaw|title=Lilith: Eden's Planetary Princess (The Michael Archives Book 1)Compass and Blade

|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=35''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep,000 years ago a war the answering beat in heaven bleeds onto the planet Edenmy heart. King Joshua's angels are being harvested' Rosevear, their essence drained off a remote and their remaining bodies no good for anything apart from a euthanasia; a fate from which they can't be reincarnated. From this good essence is created evil Nephilimpartially forgotten island, creatures at survives on luring ships into the bidding of Satan's Overlords. Out of this battle between good and evil a planetary princess arises rocks and this first book in plundering the Michael Archives records wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her journey: the journey of Lilith from ordinary to extraordinary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B018N7F2B8</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Charlie Jane Anders|title= All The Birds In The Sky|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary= All of us have awakenings as teenagers, but Patricia's is more extreme than most – discovering that she is a witch one of the seven who can speak swim out to animals. Classmate Laurence's awakening is less disturbing but no less impressive survey the ruins – a scientific genius, he creates a two-second time machinerescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Growing up together, But when the mutual weirdness between Council Watch lays a trap to end the two bonds themwrecking, but life gets in they capture the way, island's leader and they end up on very different pathsMira's father. Meeting Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as adults in San Francisco, Laurence charming as he is an engineering genius trying secretive and with only coordinates to save the worldguide her, whereas Patricia is she sets off in search of a qualified witchfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, working hard as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to prove herself and cure those on the planet. As heart of the two are drawn back togethersmuggler's territory, and Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the fate future of the whole world threatened, Patricia her home and Laurence are forced to consider the fact that maybe they know each other better than anyone…ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785650556</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan DennardT Kingfisher|title=Truthwitch (The Witchlands Series)Thornhedge

|summary=Highway robbery is one of their talents so Safiya and Iseult don't envisage any problems. That is until they realise one of the soldiers defending the booty is 'You had a bloodwitchright to retake your place. It's an even bigger problem because truthwitches like Safiya are in demand…dangerously so! Meanwhile as the kingdom of Nubrevna reaches the end of a 20 year truce, Prince Merik desperately tries for a permanent peace. But there are those who would rather fight, including his own sister.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447282043</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephen Hunt|title= Foul Tides Turning|rating= 3.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= The people of Weyland always believed the slaversT Kingfisher' raids, which destroyed families and homes like s latest novella is a natural disaster, were lovely reimagining of a misfortune fairytale that couldn't be avertedis well known and well beloved. But it wasn't true. Their King, King Marcus, had struck whilst there is a deal – sacrificing his people princess trapped in exchange for technology and political power. But nowa tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, everyone knowsThornhedge is not her story. Jacob and Carter Carnehan escaped the slaversInstead, returning home with the truthour protagonist is Toadling, the true King, and a Princess as their hostage. Their purpose who was stolen away by fairies when she was to avoid war – but instead the truth prompts a civil war, new-born baby and an invasion force gathers secreted away to reclaim the princessland of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spells. Once again, Jacob and Carter will be separated – and this time they'll be fighting for something bigger than both of them…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575092106</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paula BrackstonNicole Jarvis|title=The Silver Witch (A Portrait in Shadow Chronicles)

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Ceramic artist Tilda moves to the house she and her husband envisaged their lives together in the wilds ''I want all of Wales. Unfortunately, due Florence to his tragic death a year agoknow my name'' Cast out from Rome, Tilda must move Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in alone and build Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a different life. In the same location a thousand years earlier Seren serves Prince Hywell as his village's seer home and shaman. Life isn't easy for where her eitherfuture can thrive rather than stagnate. She has enemiesBut as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, some a lot closer than the traditional threat self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from the Anglo Saxonsplagues and curses. Although The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries apart these two women's lives will come together with connotations for and guard it above all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who love promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and a deadly force that could go beyond thattheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472150651</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tim AkersThomas D Lee|title= The Pagan NightPerilous Times|rating= 43

|summary= The Celestial Church has all but eliminated ''Hate is the old pagan ways, ruling path of least resistance'' Set in the people with an iron hand. Demonic gheists terrorise the landnear-distant future, hunted by in a world on the warriors verge of the inquisitionclimate collapse, yet it's the battling factions within Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the Church day and agerescue what little remains. What no-old hatreds between north and south one expected was that tear one of the land apart. Malcolm Blakley, hero Knights of the Reaver War, seeks to end Round Table would answer the conflict between men, yet it falls to his son Ian and huntress Gwen Adair, to stop the killing before it tears the land apart – fighting mad gods, inquisitor priests, holy knights, and noble houses in battles of prejudice, politics, and power…call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297379</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Stars of Fortune (Guardians Trilogy)Delilah Recovered|rating=54|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Sasha suffers from nightmaresWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. The scary details may vary but the gist Out of the contents remain the same: the voice of a strangerwork, about to lose her flat, the presence of evil and the faces of five people on Dee is up for an island, none of which/whom she knowsaccountant's job. But it's not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She tries all she can to exorcise the darkness including transferring survives the faces and locations into her art attack but even the refuge of her talent and livelihood doesnnot unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She't works just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. In a moment Slivers of bravery Sasha discovers the identity memory of the island things that are not ordinary at all return to her and travels to where she knows it things will all begin and possibly endnever be the same... For there somewhere on Crete the other five wait and the evil materialises along with the events that three goddesses began eons ago.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349407797</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ken LiuHadeer Elsbai|title=The Grace Daughters of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty)Izdihar|rating=4.5

|summary=Mata Zyundu is on 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 way down rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in life having been a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into an aristocratic family deposed the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and burdened with all then join the resentment that goes military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with itNico. Meanwhile Giorgina on the charming Kuni Gara finds fame other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and success as feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a bandit leader after group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a lifetime surviving on the streets. The two form story of an unlikely friendship that's torn asunder as the Empire crumbles unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and they find themselves on opposite sides for better or, indeedcruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for worsetheir rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784973211</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= George MannHeather Fawcett|title= The Osiris Ritual: A Newbury and Hobbes InvestigationEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 34|genre= Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Sir Maurice NewburyEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, his majestyand she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's special agentwork, and his assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes are on the case once morevery first encyclopaedia of faeries. When a group of well- Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to-do explorers return from an Egyptian expeditionfaeries, they unveil a mummy and unleash an ancient mysteryshe is not so good with people. Soon So when she finds herself far, far North in the explorers are being picked off one by one and Newbury must solve small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the mystery if he village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to catch redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the culpritright track. But there Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's more than one brute frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the loose, while Newbury attempts to track down a rogue agent, Veronica takes the case of disappearing women into her own hands with dangerous consequences … faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298251</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Serge le Tendre, Regis Loisel and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)Christopher Golden|title=The Quest for the Time BirdRoad of Bones|rating=23.5|genre=Graphic NovelsHorror|summary=In order to defeat The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a vengeful godthousand miles across Siberia, who is within days it's one of getting out the world's most notorious routes. For months of his prison – the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a sacred conch shell – several things must happenhuge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. FirstBuilt because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, the conch must be united with the witch powerful enough and because he wanted to sustain the incantation keeping him locked upgive too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. Then she must use her helpers to endure great danger and You can easily find the information she seeks in the most perilous of places documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for knowledge 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 ultimate part project to fruition to claw back some of the puzzle – funds he'd invested in the Time Birdpair's prior TV projects. All this calls for heroesThey pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, but in gain the world company of fantasy anyone can call themselves a hero – from local beauty, and fetch up at the witchguide's own buxom daughter, Pelisse, to an old warrior called Bragon childhood village. And that the girl is forced 's where things start to unite with and fight alongside.go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782763627</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsAndrew Givler|title=Shadow Spell Soul Fraud (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy Debt Collection Book 21)

|summary=Twins Kael and Bree Skyborn witness ''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that Dan the battle Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in which their parents died exchange for his soul.'' Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and yet still want , when he fails to get even Matt to follow in their footsteps. The pair train as Seraphim, members of the winged force that are sign on the front dotted line of the war, proud to serve their people and the Theocrats who have devised the whole support system for their world. There are those who speak out against the Theocrats but even consorting with people like he's so desperate that means deathhe simply forges Matt's signature. Everyone knows it and yet…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506495</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ElliottOlivie Blake|title=Black Wolves (Black Wolves Trilogy)The Atlas Six|rating=54

|summary=Dannarah has achieved her childhood dream: she's a reeve marshalDark, sharp, one of the army who fly eagles to defend king and kingdom. However Dannarahhighly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six' s dream comes after a nightmare. Lady Dannarah (as she's more properly known) is daughter of King Anjihosh and his son Prince Atani both of whom have been killed. Two decades later the current ruler, her great nephew Jehosh gives Dannarah an ultimatum. She will be promoted to Grand Marshal if she brings him a bodyguard to guide him through dangerous times ahead and not just any bodyguard. He wants Kellas, the captain of the former Black Wolves, the elite royal guard who were disbanded makes its publishing debut after the regicides. Kellas had walked away from the palace in becoming a fog of shock and selfTik-blame and he may not want to come backTok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356503208</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex MarshallDaniel Abraham|title=A Crown for Cold Silver: Book One Age of the Crimson EmpireAsh|rating=4.5

|summary=Zosia seems just like any other old lady. Indeed that's We meet Alys under the mistake that Sir Efrain Hjort made as he presents her with her husbandmost northerly of Oldgate's headfour bridges, severed to encourage she has a knife in her compliancehand and a meeting that she dreads. As Zosia hears Meanwhile the screams coming from what used to be her village but now City of Kithamar is at a point in the site turning of Hjort's latest initiative Zosia makes a vowyears when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. She'll look up some It is the night between the funeral of her old acquaintances; to be more precise, a Prince and the five villains she used to leadcoronation of his successor. For Zosia isn't actually that ordinary. Zosia is a night the legendary Cobalt Queen – a little creakier now than when she faked her death of course, but one thing Kithamar is certain: she will avenge her peopleun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650283X</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen HickmanAnn Sei Lin|title= The Art of Stephen HickmanRebel Skies|rating= 45|genre= FantasyTeens|summary= Stephen Hickman Kurara has been spent her entire life as a well known artist servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the Fantasy and Science Fiction worlds for a number sky where soldiers of years now, having created covers for authors such as Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, the Empire come to drink and Larry Nivenmake merry between their conquests. His paintings are vibrantHowever, kineticwhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, sometimes scarysomeone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, often sensualto leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, traditional, and yet modern. soon Kurara won''The Art of Stephen Hickman'' collects hundreds of these paintingst have any say in the matter, and because the artist himself provides an intriguing commentary alongside which offers Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a fascinating glimpse shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the artistic processworld. 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>1783298456</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark MorrisB09Q3P283Y|title=The Society of Blood (Obsidian Heart book 2)Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=Vargus has milked Clyde Robbins signs up for the legend of US Army during the Gath, an avenging man of violence for hire, for as long as possibleVietnam War. Being He's not really that invested in the Gath has had its benefits but time to move on. As it happens fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a war is brewing career in Seveldrom so Vargus is going to fight on the side of right against the evil that is King Taikonmilitary. For Balfruss Seveldrom If he's honest - which Clyde usually is home so , with himself at least - hehasn's honoured to be t got many choices and this one , at least, gets him out of the six Battlemages King Mattias has selected to be the backbone of his defence now that Taikon has Zecorriarut he's in. As fate unfolds the future, Mattias' daughter Talandra will also play her part as the KingHe's spymaster. Vargus can kill an armed gang singlehanded. Balfruss can summon fire, command storms good in training and unmake stoneis quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. Talandra? She just hopes she can help save her country but as yet she doesnHe't realise quite how much it will cost hers chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B013KT3BQW</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David MitchellJennifer Saint|title=Slade HouseElektra|rating=54|genre=HorrorLiterary Fiction|summary=Once every nine years Jonah and Norah Greyer entertain a guest; each time a different person… or persons. Each visitor walks through 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the small black door story of Slade House for various reasons three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of their ownAncient Greece. Or at least they think they know why they're there but only Jonah Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Norah know Elektra are all bit players in the real reason – story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the only reasonmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473616689</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=AJ SmithDean Koontz|title=The Red Prince (The Long War)Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Spoilers ahead unless youMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He've treated yourself s not had the chance to get to the first two books…….The surviving sinisterbe a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, deadly Sisters (formerly the Seven Sisters) are slowly gaining global power and tortuous control. Itnow is starting a career on a needless magazine's not over for our heroes yet thoughstaff. Utha the albino cleric and his squire Randall are off But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to bag themselves another sister. They take with them the multisudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-talented Ruthcontrol, someone prone call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to funny turns but in a good wayderelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. Meanwhile the rest And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of our leaders are busy massing armies, leading interest to some unusual alliancesthem. Assassin Rham JasHelped to escape, travelling with the oddly behaving Kale, also has a witch he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in his sightscontrol, but his quest the discovery that he is partly personal. Saara Mistress not unique in having some kind of Pain still has his daughterburgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784080861</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Leigh BardugoTasha Suri|title= Six of Crows|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=In The Barrel, anything is possible for the right price, and no one knows this better than criminal mastermind, Kaz Brekker. When Kaz is offered a chance at a perilous mission that could turn his poverty-stricken life upside down, he is determined to see the task fulfilled - but he won't be able to do it alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1627792120</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert L Anderson|title=DreamlandJasmine Throne|rating=4.5

|summary=17 year old Dea has been to several schools in several townsOn the night of her sacred burning, moving with Princess Malini defies her mother as if pursued. It's always brother and refuses to step on to the samepyre. She'd make is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a friend and then community of people who got powers from the rumours would start about how she and her mum were crazy and mysterious deathless waters. But now the friend wouldn't talk to hertemple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. Dea isn't crazyOne day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. She becomes curiously ill from time to time but she has Instead of reporting her for such a cure: walking through people's dreams. There are rules gruesome crime, Malini claims that keep the girl saved her safe when she's doing this but when Connor moves in from an attacker and begs for the girl to the neighbourhood the rules become far less important and that's when Dea's life becomes far more dangerousher own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473621003</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ari MarmellGenevieve Gornichec|title=Hallow Point The Witch's Heart|rating=2.5 4

|summary=The first person perspective is not an easy one to pull off A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in fiction. Despite this, it has been a favourite forest at the edge of the gumshoe genre as getting behind nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the eyes stake three times because of a grizzled Private Investigator as they solve crimes and fall for femme fatales is incredibly satisfying if done wellOdin's wrath. All this is achievableHer attempts to live in peace, however, but what if you throw urban fantasy in too? Now you have a book are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that has was cut from her chest before she was tied to explain crime in the first personstake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, but also magic and in the case two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and another son that'Hallow Point'', 1930s Chicago slangs a snake. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781168253</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angus WatsonHannah Whitten|title=Reign of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy)For the Wolf

|summary=Spoilers ahead for [[Age of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy) by Angus Watson|Books 1]] In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and [[Clash of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy) by Angus Watson|2]]the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Lowa Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and Spring both mourn he is the one who will decide the deaths fate of Dug in their own wayskingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, each having reminders of the warrior they loved: Lowa carries around his baby while Spring carries around… well… Dug. They don't have time monsters he keeps contained to brood though. The Romans may the woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be taking their time but they haven't given up on returned—or so the invasion ideastories go. Meanwhile RagnallBut when Red enters the woods, still in Rome with Caesarexpecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is being given not a monster—he's a good reason to join them. And so it begins as both sides gather troops and galvanise assistance ready for the mater of all battlesman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502600</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sam SykesJohn Gwynne|title= The City Stained RedShadow Of The Gods|rating= 3.5

|summary=This story follows a ragtag team made up of murderers and misfits. Through with adventure and being paid to kill, Lenk leads the gang into the grand silk city of Cier'Djaal to hunt for the man who was yet to pay them for their service. Lenk is determined to live a normal human life and may be willing to leave his friends behind in order to do so, but soon they become tied up in a religious war that wreaks chaos upon the city and their plans for peace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575132183</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anna Caltabiano|title=The Time Shadow Of The Clockmaker|rating=4|genre=Fantasy |summary=''The Time Of The Clockmaker'' Gods 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, first installment of the somewhat intimidating Sixth Miss HatfieldBloodsworn Saga, murdered set 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 era of the clock that governs Rebecca's ability to travel through time), Rebecca is stunned to find herself back Vikings in the Court shadow of King Henry VIII. It seems that Ragnarok, when the hands of her mysterious clock Gods have somehow inadvertently been moved, during the course of a break-in, battled and Tudor England is the backdrop their bones lie scattered for Miss Hatfield's fight for survivalall to see.|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 This story 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 ultimate in High One's harpist embark on a journey across the realmFantasy, to discover his destiny and finally marry the second most beautiful woman in the land. But Morgon has a long way John Gwynne certainly does justice 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=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=When she was a young child Ceda took a blood oath to seek vengeance against the twelve kings of Sharakhai and , with good reason. Nowmythical creatures, years later, the oath hasn't been fulfilled but Ceda has plenty of other things to keep her occupiedarchaic language and battles galore. Whether couriering suspect packagesThis is a thick book, avoiding the asirim or risking her life in the combat pits to satisfy the blood thirsty crowd. Ceda has been biding her time with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that time is approaching. However, she's only one 19 year old girl whereas the kings are legion woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and have powers to call on that aren't altogether naturalgritty world in which our heroes must do battle. Blood must be avenged with blood; the only question is whose blood will it be?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473203007</amazonuk>0356514218

{{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 literally, in some cases. Now without fight or cause, they find themselves bored, searching for answers and fights wherever they can. But then the fight arrives, along with the Dark Court, the Empire and the greed of men. It soon becomes clear that a war fought thousands of years has not ended, but still rages fiercely Move on. A war that will take more than our adventurers to stop…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575088605</amazonuk>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]