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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David SangerA G Slatter|title=All Their Minds In TandemThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary=October 1879: A stranger walks into New Georgetown'' 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, West Virginia at last. I just want to keep an appointmentenjoy it for a while. He calls himself 'The Maker'  Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a gift that gives him access to peoplesteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's mindsleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Gradually he'll become deeply acquainted As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the townsfolk but it mustn't sway him dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what heto do as the Briar witches's here legacy, everything they have sacrificed to accomplish. One mansurvive, one mission and no guarantee how it will endis under threat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784293954</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1784293954</amazonus>1803364548

{{newreview|author=Joel Mentmore|title=Smart|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Jon Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and Skull – Matthew plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to his mum survey the ruins – are men with rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a passion for technology trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and built a business around thatMira's father. They also embrace anything innovativeDesperate to save him from death, as John has embraced Lucy; Mira makes a smartphone app that monitors and assists bargain with his health and life choices. Skull a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is more into the idea of expanding Tesla car technology secretive and so lets Jon get on with itonly coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Therefore when Jon goes missing, Skull is not With only surprised but doesn't realise nine days to unearth what Jon was caught up in. Shame he didnmight save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler't pay more attention as that would not only help Skull find Jons territory, it may keep both Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of them aliveher home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993484824</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>0993484824</amazonus>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jen WilliamsT Kingfisher|title=The Silver Tide (Copper Cat) Thornhedge

|summary=The Black Feather Three - Copper Cat Wydrin ''You had a right to retake your place.'' T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of Crosshaven, Lord Aaron Frith and Sir Sebastian - the sought after sell-swords are always looking for their next adventure a fairytale that is well known andwell beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, more importantlysleeping under an eternal enchantment, their next pay dayThornhedge is not her story. Sebastian Instead, our protagonist is still feeling lost after having Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to leave his love behind but he'll come around. He has to; they've just been given a job by renowned pirate captain Devinia the Red. They've been commissioned land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to help draw magic from her veins and the crew of the aptly named cast spells.|isbn=1803364238}}{{Frontpage|author=Nicole Jarvis|title=A Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''Poison ChaliceI want all of Florence to know my name'' to go into  Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a land famed for its monsters home and ghosts. A place deep in magic where people vanishher future can thrive rather than stagnate. A place where none But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians of the three really want healing magics that through paintings have the power to go but they have protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no choice: Devinia the Red is Wydrin's mumplace amongst them and their society.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472211154</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1472211154</amazonus>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedThomas D Lee|title= Ace of SpidersPerilous Times|rating= 53|genre= General FictionFantasy|summary= Stanly ''Hate is frustrated. Having set himself up as Londonthe path of least resistance's protector, he's finding that  Set in the everyday practicalities of superheroism are challenging at bestnear-distant future, and downright tedious at worst. So it's almost in a relief when an attempt is made world on his life and Stanly finds himself rushing headlong into a twisted adventure, with enemies new and old coming out the verge of the woodwork. Howeverclimate collapse, even with his friends and his ever-increasing power behind him, he may have bitten off more than he can chew this timeBritain is in great peril. The monsters are coming… British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and nothing will ever be rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the same!Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630675</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian SelbyAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=SnakewoodDelilah Recovered

|summary=KailenWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's Twenty are an elite; the type of mercenaries that live on in legendjob. It therefore stands But it's not to reason that be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the authorities want them dead attack but they aren't the only onesnot unscathed. As the guerrilla war between rebels and governing classes rages Witch hunters? What onearth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, a lone assassin, as elite as the Twenty, unknown even living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to those on her and things will never be the same side is on their trail. Who is he and why the vendetta? The answer will be revealed one day to those still alive to hear it...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356505529</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>0356505529</amazonus>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian TchaikovskyHadeer Elsbai|title=The Tiger and the Wolf (Echoes Daughters of the Fall)Izdihar|rating=4.5

|summary=Maniye is a girl torn between her motherDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar''s tribeexplores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the tiger people rights of women and her father's wolvesweavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. She has always known Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her father abilities and wolf chieftain killed her mother as soon as Maniye was born then join the military, but instead she has only just discovered his purpose for Maniye's lifeis forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. There is only one alternative for her: to run away, taking Hesprec Giorgina on the snake other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and proposed wolf blood sacrifice. Although what she hasn't reckoned on is just how much she has feels great pressure to learn, provide for her father's determination family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the dogged perseverance Daughters of Broken Axe, lone wolf and hired killerIzdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. She Giorgina also seems happens to be running towards in love with Nico. What follows is a world on the verge story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a horrific war as Maniye places herself between a rock group of admirable women fighting for their rights and a very hard place indeedovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230770061</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>0230770061</amazonus>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A K BenedictHeather Fawcett|title=Jonathan Dark or The Evidence Of GhostsEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Maria King sits by the Thames mudlarking - sifting through the washed up treasures - Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on a regular basis. Only today faerie lore, and she finds a ring in a box with has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life'Marry me Maria' on s work, the lid in braillevery first encyclopaedia of faeries. Blind from birth Whilst she is brilliant at research and now blind by choicespeaking to faeries, the words can be for no one else but Ms Kingshe is not so good with people. However a greater surprise awaits inside So when she finds herself far, far North in the box: small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the ring village matriarch, she is still not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on a finger belonging to the last girl right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who received such a proposalarrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. DI Jonathan Dark But why is assigned to the case, not realising he here? What does he want? And what he's taken exactly is going on or with the sort of help he'll need to call on. The dead are all faerie folk around him, his plan is not to let Maria join them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409144550</amazonuk>Hravsnik?|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1409144550</amazonus>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Daniel PolanskyChristopher Golden|title= Those AboveRoad of Bones|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyHorror|summary=For three The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand years Those Above have ruled over their human subjectsmiles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. From For months of the glittering palaces year it's a spread of their eternal citysheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, they enforce their will with fire and sword. Twentyapocalyptic-five years agolevel mud, which dries into rutted, mankind mustered an army puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and rose up against themother Siberian minerals, only and because he wanted to be slaughtered in give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a terrible battlelife every metre it covers. Whilst hope died You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that day's a bit rich, hatred survived. Whispers for one of another revolt begin to stir throughout the oppressed: our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a widowed womanfilm-maker, dedicated to revenge: doing a generalrecce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the only project to fruition to defeat one claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of Those Above; and a boy killerlocal beauty, who rises from and fetch up at the gutter guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to lead an uprising.go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444779915</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Den PatrickAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Girl on the Liar's ThroneDebt Collection Book 1)|rating=4.5

|summary=Lucien doesn’t want to declare war on Landfall and its Silent Queen, Anea, whom he grew up with as an Orfano. She runs ''Matt has a dictatorship of militant suppression and suffering which is rather unlike herterrible life. Unbeknown to Lucien, the throne of Landfall is occupied by Eris, an imposter and puppet used by those with far fewer scruplesSeriously—it's awful. Anea herself It is imprisoned in so bad that Dan the palace oubliette surrounded by Myrmidon, Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a half-human army created by Erebusblissful life in exchange for his soul. There's little chance of her escaping or getting very far if she did. However' Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for Anea 'little chance' soul-catching demons. But he really is a challengeterrible salesman. He never hits his targets and, when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the dotted line, not a preventativehe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200040</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreview <!-- Upload 16/2 -->Frontpage|author=C E RobinsonOlivie Blake|title=Lilith: Eden's Planetary Princess (The Michael Archives Book 1)Atlas Six|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=35,000 years ago a war in heaven bleeds onto the planet Eden. King Joshua's angels are being harvested, their essence drained off 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 Nephilim, creatures at the bidding of Satan's Overlords. Out of this battle between good and evil a planetary princess arises and this first book in the Michael Archives records 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 who can speak to animals. Classmate Laurence's awakening is less disturbing but no less impressive – a scientific genius, he creates a two-second time machine. Growing up together, the mutual weirdness between the two bonds them, but life gets in the way, and they end up on very different paths. Meeting as adults in San Francisco, Laurence is an engineering genius trying to save the world, whereas Patricia is a qualified witch, working hard to prove herself and cure those on the planet. As the two are drawn back together, and the fate of the whole world threatened, Patricia and Laurence are forced to consider the fact that maybe they know each other better than anyone…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650556</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Susan Dennard|title=Truthwitch (The Witchlands Series)|rating=54

|summary=Highway robbery is one of their talents so Safiya Dark, sharp, and Iseult donhighly inquisitive, 't envisage any problems. That is until they realise one of the soldiers defending the booty is a bloodwitch. 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 slaversAtlas Six' raids, which destroyed families and homes like a natural disaster, were a misfortune that couldn't be averted. But it wasn't true. Their King, King Marcus, had struck a deal – sacrificing his people in exchange for technology and political power. But now, everyone knows. Jacob and Carter Carnehan escaped the slavers, returning home with the truth, the true King, and makes its publishing debut after becoming a Princess as their hostageTik-Tok sensation. Their purpose was to avoid war – but instead the truth prompts a civil war, and an invasion force gathers to reclaim the princess. 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>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paula BrackstonDaniel Abraham|title=The Silver Witch (Shadow Chronicles)Age of Ash

|summary=Ceramic artist Tilda moves to We meet Alys under the house she and her husband envisaged their lives together in the wilds most northerly of Wales. Oldgate's four bridges, Unfortunately, due to his tragic death she has a year ago, Tilda must move knife in alone her hand and build a different lifemeeting that she dreads. In Meanwhile the same location City of Kithamar is at a thousand point in the turning of years earlier Seren serves Prince Hywell as his village's seer when the worlds are at their thinnest and shamanall things are possible. Life isn't easy for her either. She has enemies, some It is the night between the funeral of a lot closer than Prince and the traditional threat from the Anglo Saxonscoronation of his successor. Although centuries apart these two women's lives will come together with connotations for all who love them and For a deadly force that could go beyond thatnight the Kithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472150651</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tim AkersAnn Sei Lin|title= The Pagan NightRebel Skies|rating= 45|genre= FantasyTeens|summary= The Celestial Church Kurara has all but eliminated spent her entire life as a servant on the old pagan waysMidori, ruling a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the people with an iron handEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Demonic gheists terrorise the landHowever, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, hunted by someone with the warriors of power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the inquisitionEmpire. He asks her to come with him, yet it's to leave the battling factions within the Church and age-old hatreds between north and south life of dreary servitude that tear the land apartis all she has known. Malcolm BlakleyWell, hero of soon Kurara won't have any say in the Reaver Warmatter, seeks to end because the conflict between menMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, yet it falls to his son Ian and huntress Gwen Adair, she is forced to stop flee out into the killing before it tears world. She joins Himura aboard the land apart – fighting mad godsOrihime, inquisitor priests, holy knightsa sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and noble houses in battles a whole world of prejudice, politics, and power…adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297379</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora RobertsB09Q3P283Y|title=Stars of Fortune (Guardians Trilogy)|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Sasha suffers from nightmares. The scary details may vary but the gist of the contents remain the same: the voice of a stranger, the presence of evil and the faces of five people on an island, none of which/whom she knows. She tries all she can to exorcise the darkness including transferring the faces and locations into her art but even the refuge of her talent and livelihood doesn't work. In a moment of bravery Sasha discovers the identity of the island and travels to where she knows it will all begin and possibly end. For there somewhere on Crete the other five wait and the evil materialises along with the events that three goddesses began eons ago.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407797</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewShadebringer|author=Ken Liu|title=The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty)Grayson W Hooper|rating=4.5

|summary=Mata Zyundu is on Clyde Robbins signs up for the way down in life having been born into an aristocratic family deposed and burdened with all US Army during the resentment Vietnam War. He's not really that goes with it. Meanwhile invested in the charming Kuni Gara finds fame and success as fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a bandit leader after a lifetime surviving on career in the streetsmilitary. The two form an unlikely friendship thatIf he's torn asunder as the Empire crumbles honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and they find themselves on opposite sides for better orthis one, indeedat least, for worsegets him out of the rut he's in. He's good in training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784973211</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= George MannJennifer Saint|title= The Osiris Ritual: A Newbury and Hobbes InvestigationElektra|rating= 34|genre= Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=Sir Maurice Newbury'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, his majesty's special agentClytemnestra, and his assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes Elektra are on all bit players in the case once more. When a group story of well-to-do explorers return from an Egyptian expedition, they unveil a mummy and unleash an ancient mysterythe Trojan War. Soon Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the explorers are being picked off one by one most compelling stories and Newbury must solve the mystery if he is to catch the culpritmost extreme furies. But there's more than one brute on 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 … |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298251</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Serge le Tendre, Regis Loisel and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)Dean Koontz|title=The Quest for the Time BirdQuicksilver

|genre=Graphic NovelsThrillers|summary=In order Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to defeat get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a vengeful godthree-day old foundling, who and now is within days starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of getting out of his prison mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a sacred conch shell supernatural urge – several things must happen. First, the conch must be united with the witch powerful enough to sustain the incantation keeping has demanded of him locked up. Then she must use her helpers that he go to endure great danger and a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the information she seeks in the most perilous value of it out of places his bank and prepare for knowledge of the ultimate part of the puzzle – going on the Time Birdlam. All And all this calls is just in time for heroes, but two of those typical Men in the world of fantasy anyone can call themselves a hero – from the witchBlack types to turn up and suggest he's own buxom daughterof interest to them. Helped to escape, Pelissehe finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, to an old warrior called Bragon the discovery that the girl he is forced to unite with not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and fight alongsidea whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782763627</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsTasha Suri|title=Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy Book 2)Jasmine Throne

|summary=Dannarah has achieved On the night of her childhood dream: she's a reeve marshalsacred burning, one of Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the army who fly eagles pyre. She is immediately sent to defend king and kingdom. However Dannarah' s dream comes after be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a nightmare. Lady Dannarah (as she's more properly known) is daughter community of King Anjihosh and his son Prince Atani both of whom have been killedpeople who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. Two decades later But now the current rulertemple is nothing more than an overgrown, her great nephew Jehosh gives Dannarah an ultimatumdecaying ruin. She will be promoted to Grand Marshal if she brings him One day, Malini witnesses a bodyguard to guide him through dangerous times ahead and not just any bodyguardgirl kill someone with magic. He wants Kellas, the captain Instead of the former Black Wolvesreporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the elite royal guard who were disbanded after the regicides. Kellas had walked away girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the palace in a fog of shock and self-blame and he may not want girl to come backbecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356503208</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex MarshallGenevieve Gornichec|title=A Crown for Cold Silver: Book One of the Crimson EmpireThe Witch's Heart

|summary=Zosia seems just like any other old lady. Indeed that's A modern and approachable reimagining of the mistake Norse myths that Sir Efrain Hjort made as he presents her with her husband's head, severed to encourage her compliancecentres around a witch named Angrboda. As Zosia hears She hides in a forest at the edge of the screams coming from what used to be nine worlds, remembering nothing of her village past life but now that fact that she was survived burnt at the site stake three times because of HjortOdin's latest initiative Zosia makes a vowwrath. She'll look up some of her old acquaintances; Her attempts to be more preciselive in peace, however, the five villains she used to lead. For Zosia isn't actually that ordinary. Zosia is the legendary Cobalt Queen – a little creakier now than are quickly thwarted when she faked Loki shows up with her death of course, but literal heart—the one thing is certain: that was cut from her chest before she will avenge was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her peoplealone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650283X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephen Hickman|title= The Art After an initial period of Stephen Hickman|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Stephen Hickman has been a well known artist in the Fantasy and Science Fiction worlds for a number of years nowmistrust, having created covers Angrboda begins to fall for authors such as Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, and Larry Niven. His paintings are vibrant, kinetic, sometimes scary, often sensual, traditional, and yet modern. Loki''The Art of Stephen Hickman'' collects hundreds of these paintingss charms, and the artist himself provides two start an intriguing commentary alongside which offers unusual family made of up 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 half-dead daughter Alex Locke still needs to find the Obsidian Heart. The trail leads back from 21st century gangland London to the dark, dirty 19th century version of the capital. Here the streets a son that witnessed Jack the Ripper's murders only a couple of years before are just as lethal but the danger isn't totally human. Alex doesn't quite know how you'd classify itwolf, but it stands between him and the person who means the most to him so walking away isnanother son that't an options a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781168709</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen AryanHannah Whitten|title=BattlemageFor the Wolf

|summary=Vargus has milked In Red's family, the legend of first daughter becomes queen, and the Gathsecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, an avenging man of violence for hire, for as long as possibleshe is the second daughter. Being Sent alone into the Gath has had its benefits woods with nothing but time the cape on her back, Red knows what to move on. As it happens expect: within the woods is a war wolf, and he is brewing in Seveldrom so Vargus is going to fight on the side one who will decide the fate of right against the evil that is King Taikontheir kingdom. For Balfruss Seveldrom If she is home so not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he's honoured keeps contained to the woods will be one of released, and the six Battlemages King Mattias has selected to fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the backbone of his defence now that Taikon has Zecorriastories go. As fate unfolds But when Red enters the futurewoods, Mattias' daughter Talandra will also play her part as expecting nothing more than to be killed within the King's spymaster. Vargus can kill an armed gang singlehanded. Balfruss can summon firehour, 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 herfinds that the legends are lies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B013KT3BQW</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Mitchell|title=Slade House|rating=5|genre=Horror|summary=Once every nine years Jonah and Norah Greyer entertain The wolf is not a guest; each time monster—he's a different person… or persons. Each visitor walks through the small black door of Slade House for various reasons of their own. Or at least they think they know why they're there but only Jonah and Norah know the real reason – the only reasonman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473616689</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=AJ SmithJohn Gwynne|title=The Red Prince (Shadow Of The Long War)Gods

|summary=Spoilers ahead unless you've treated yourself to The Shadow Of The Gods is the first two books…….The surviving sinisterinstallment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, deadly Sisters (formerly when the Seven Sisters) are slowly gaining global power Gods have battled and tortuous control. It's not over their bones lie scattered for our heroes yet thoughall to see. Utha This story is the albino cleric ultimate in High Fantasy, and his squire Randall are off John Gwynne certainly does justice to bag themselves another sister. They take with them the multi-talented Ruthgenre, someone prone to funny turns but in a good way. Meanwhile the rest of our leaders are busy massing armieswith mythical creatures, leading to some unusual alliancesarchaic language and battles galore. Assassin Rham JasThis is a thick book, travelling with the oddly behaving Kale, also has an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a witch wonderfully realistic and gritty world in his sights, but his quest is partly personal. Saara Mistress of Pain still has his daughterwhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784080861</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|author= Leigh Bardugo|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 Move on 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=Dreamland|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=17 year old Dea has been to several schools in several towns, moving with her mother as if pursued. It's always the same. She'd make a friend and then the rumours would start about how she and her mum were crazy and the friend wouldn't talk to her. Dea isn't crazy. She becomes curiously ill from time to time but she 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 and that's when Dea's life becomes far more dangerous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473621003</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ari Marmell|title=Hallow Point |rating=2.5 |genre=Fantasy|summary=The first person perspective is not an easy one to pull off in fiction. Despite this, it has been a favourite of the gumshoe genre as getting behind the eyes of a grizzled Private Investigator as they solve crimes and fall for femme fatales is incredibly satisfying if done well. All this is achievable, but what if you throw urban fantasy in too? Now you have a book that has to explain crime in the first person, but also magic and in the case of ''Hallow Point'', 1930s Chicago slang. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781168253</amazonuk>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]