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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca AlexanderA G Slatter|title=The Secrets Briar Book of Time and Fatethe Dead|rating=4.5

|summary=Having killed Countess Elizabeth Bathory'' 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, the revenant all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the 16th centuryworld, 21st century Jackdaw Hammond did something shelies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's regretting. By depriving it , a family of its host, witches who protect the town and the spirit Saraquel has moved wider world from the Countess to JackDarklands. Can Though she get some help has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to banish it before someone else does it be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a little more terminally both for Jack steward 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 leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and Saraquel? Meanwhile back in centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the 16th century dead, putting her at the heart of Edward Kelley a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and Sir John Deedetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, Elizabeth Bathory still lives and Saraquel proves he can wreak havoc across timeeverything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195326X</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|author=Tarn Richardson|title=The Fallen (The Darkest Hand) |rating=4.5|genre=Horror|summary=1915 and the war continuesRosevear, not just as the conflict that will come to be known as World War I but a more supernatural fight between good remote and evil. The dark forces continue to move across a darkened Europepartially forgotten island, evidenced by survives on luring ships into the increase in demon possession rocks and hideously misshapen babiesplundering the wrecks. When Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the Vatican fountain produces blood rather than water, seven who swim out to survey the world knows ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that the events spoken of in Revelation may be underwaylies within. Inquisitor Poldek Tacit still has But when the will Council Watch lays a trap to fight but heend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's just one manfather. Will one man be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715650599</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tarn Richardson|title=The Fallen (The Darkest Hand) |rating=4.5|genre=Horror|summary=1915 and the war continuesDesperate to save him from death, not just Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as the conflict that will come to be known charming as World War I but a more supernatural fight between good he is secretive and evil. The dark forces continue with only coordinates to move across guide her, she sets off in search of a darkened Europe, evidenced by family secret that lies buried deep in the increase in demon possession and hideously misshapen babiessea. When the Vatican fountain produces blood rather than waterWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the world knows that watched streets of foreign islands to the events spoken heart of in Revelation may be underway. Inquisitor Poldek Tacit still has the will to fight but hesmuggler's just one manterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. Will one man be enough?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715650599</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul CornellT Kingfisher|title= Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy |summary=The Great Detecitve's ghost has walked London's streets for an age, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger throug his chest. But what's the motive? And who - or what - could kill a ghost? When policing London's supernatural underworld, eliminating the impossible is not an option. DI James Quill and his detectives have learnt this the hard way. Gifted with the Sight, they'll pursue a criminial genius - who'll lure them into a Sherlockian maze of clues and evidence. The team also have thier own demons to fight. They've been to Hell and back (literally) but now the unit is falling apart...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273265</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Guy Gavriel Kay|title=Children of Earth and SkyThornhedge

|summary=Two spies employed by the Republic of Seresta are sent ''You had a right to the court of Jadretake your place.'s Holy Emperor Rudolfo, 'The Destroyer'. The first, Leonora, knows what she T Kingfisher's doing right down to hiding behind the cover latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a sham marriage assigned for fairytale that purposeis well known and well beloved. The secondBut whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, Perosleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is a young artist kidnapped for the task. He has no previous experience but he's expendable so that's not completely necessaryher story. Events transpire Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to ensure that both spies will need the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to rely on mariner and merchant Marin draw magic from her veins and Serjani fighter Danica more than they think. Yet even they can't stop the conflict that's on the horizon. Rudolfo has his eye on extending his empire globally and Jad help anything that gets in the waycast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473628105</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Aliya WhiteleyNicole Jarvis|title= The Arrival of MissivesA Portrait in Shadow|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Historical Fiction|summary=In the aftermath ''I want all of the Great War, Shirley Fearn dreams of challenging the conventions of rural EnglandFlorence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where life is her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as unchanging some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the seasons. The scarred veteran Mr Tillerpowerful Accademia, left disfigured by an impossible accident on the battlefields self-proclaimed guardians of France, brings with him a message: part prophecy, part warningthe healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. As Shirley's village prepares The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for the annual May Day celebrationscenturies and guard it above all else. To them, where a new queen will be crowned Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and the future reborn, she must choose between change – has no place amongst them and renewal – will the missives Mr Tiller brings prevent her mastering her identity?their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907389377</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben PeekThomas D Lee|title=Leviathan's Blood (Children)Perilous Times|rating=53|genre=Fantasy|summary=BEWARE''Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set in the near-distant future, spoilers for Book 1 ahead:The immortal Zaifyr is now in prison a world on Wila where he's facing trial for the murder verge of Keepers Fo and Bau. Ayaeclimate collapse, the former apprentice Britain is no longer the small child who walked unscathed from in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a burnt out shop. All she wants hero (or several) to do now is save lives but she's frustrated at every turnthe day and rescue what little remains. Captain Aned Heast is on a mission he won't let drop; he wants a name for his band What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of mercenaries but not just any name. Meanwhile be afraid; somewhere out there is the Child. The Child is comingRound Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447251318</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenni FaganAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=The Sunlight PilgrimsDelilah Recovered|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Dylan walks away from this family's small London indie cinema in 2020 to live on a Scottish caravan site. His new neighbours Constance and her transgender 12 year old Stella have troubles of their own, but the odd British winter isn't helping. As the country faces true Arctic temperatures life goes on… or at least it tries to.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023302</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=Fault/lines (Hadron Damnation Book 0)|rating=4.5

|summary=What starts off We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as a day that should planned but things might, just might, be remembered for a medical appointment soon becomes anything but about to look up. Out of work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for DCI Tracey Hansonan accountant's job. When planes start falling from the sky she and DI Reggie Chambers are thrown together in the thick of But it's not to be. In the midst of the carnage, a teenager Dee is orphanedattacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. Definitely a tragic event She survives the attack but is there more not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to it than do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that?are not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the same....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>153061936X</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe AbercrombieHadeer Elsbai|title=Sharp EndsThe Daughters of Izdihar

|summary=I often feel that short stories are an indulgence on Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the part lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the author, they get to write down a lot rights of their ideas that don't really fit into women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a larger storysociety pitted against them. The stop/start nature of them never sits well with meNehal, born into the upper class, just as I am starting wishes to get attend the Weaving Academy to know a character they are gone. One way of solving this would be learn to use characters that a fan will already know; perhaps explore control her abilities and then join the pastmilitary, or but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the future. That sounds other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for a fanher family and maintain their reputation, but how do you do this whilst also catering secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for a new reader?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575104678</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Sanger|title=All Their Minds In Tandem|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=October 1879: A stranger walks into New Georgetown, West Virginia to keep an appointment. He calls himself 'The Maker' and has a gift that gives him access to peoplewomen's mindsrights. Gradually he'll become deeply acquainted Giorgina also happens to be in love with the townsfolk but it mustn't sway him from what he's here to accomplishNico. One manWhat follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, one mission from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and no guarantee how it will endovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784293954</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joel MentmoreHeather Fawcett|title=SmartEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Jon Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and Skull – Matthew to his mum – are men with a passion for technology she has travelled extensively, and built a business around that. They also embrace anything innovativeresearched meticulously, as John has embraced Lucy; a smartphone app that monitors and assists with his health and to write her life choices's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Skull Whilst she is more into the idea of expanding Tesla car technology brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so lets Jon get on good with itpeople. Therefore So when Jon goes missingshe finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, Skull she is not only surprised but doesn't realise sure what Jon was caught up inshe has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Shame he didnEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily't pay more attention as that would not only help Skull find Jon, it may keep both of them alives frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993484824</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jen WilliamsChristopher Golden|title=The Silver Tide (Copper Cat) Road of Bones|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=The Black Feather Three - Copper Cat Wydrin Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of CrosshavenBones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, Lord Aaron Frith and Sir Sebastian - it's one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the sought after sellpermafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-swords are always looking for their next adventure andlevel mud, more importantlywhich dries into rutted, their next pay daypuddly dust. Sebastian is still feeling lost after having to leave his love behind but heI don'll come aroundt think google streetview updates it very often. He has Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to; they've just been given give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a job by renowned pirate captain Devinia the Redlife every metre it covers. TheyYou can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a 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've been commissioned s mostly there to help her and encourage the crew project to fruition to claw back some of the aptly named funds he'd invested in the pair'Poison Chalice'' to go into s prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a land famed for its monsters local beauty, and ghostsfetch up at the guide's childhood village. A place deep in magic And that's where people vanish. A place where none of the three really want things start to go but they have no choice: Devinia the Red is Wydrin's mum.awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472211154</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedAndrew Givler|title= Ace of Spiders|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Stanly is frustrated. Having set himself up as London's protector, he's finding that the everyday practicalities of superheroism are challenging at best, and downright tedious at worst. So it's almost a relief when an attempt is made on his life and Stanly finds himself rushing headlong into a twisted adventure, with enemies new and old coming out of the woodwork. However, even with his friends and his ever-increasing power behind him, he may have bitten off more than he can chew this time. Soul Fraud (The monsters are coming… and nothing will ever be the same!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630675</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Adrian Selby|title=SnakewoodDebt Collection Book 1)

|summary=Kailen''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's Twenty are an elite; the type of mercenaries that live on in legendawful. It therefore stands to reason is so bad that Dan the authorities want them dead but they aren't the only ones. As the guerrilla war between rebels and governing classes rages on, a lone assassin, as elite as the Twenty, unknown even to those on the same side Demon 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>}}{{newreview|author=Adrian Tchaikovsky|title=The Tiger and the Wolf (Echoes shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of the Fall)|rating=4a blissful life in exchange for his soul.5''|genre=Fantasy|summary=Maniye is a girl torn between her mother's tribePoor Dan! I know, I know, the tiger people and her fatherwe shouldn's wolves. She has always known her father and wolf chieftain killed her mother as soon as Maniye was born but she has only just discovered his purpose t feel sorry for Maniye's lifesoul-catching demons. There But he really is only one alternative for her: to run away, taking Hesprec the snake and proposed wolf blood sacrificea terrible salesman. Although what she hasn't reckoned on is just how much she has to learn, her father's determination He never hits his targets and the dogged perseverance of Broken Axe, lone wolf and hired killer. She also seems when he fails to get even Matt to be running towards a world sign on the verge of a horrific war as Maniye places herself between a rock and a very hard place indeeddotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230770061</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A K BenedictOlivie Blake|title=Jonathan Dark or The Evidence Of GhostsAtlas Six

|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 Dark, sharp, 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 casehighly inquisitive, not realising what he's taken on or the sort of help he'll need to call on. The dead are all around him, his plan is not to let Maria join them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409144550</amazonuk>}}{{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 the glittering palaces of their eternal city, they enforce their will with fire and sword. TwentyAtlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-five years ago, mankind mustered an army and rose up against them, only to be slaughtered in a terrible battle. Whilst hope died that day, hatred survived. Whispers of another revolt begin to stir throughout the oppressed: a widowed woman, dedicated to revenge: a general, the only to defeat one of Those Above; and a boy killer, who rises from the gutter to lead an uprisingTok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444779915</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Den PatrickDaniel Abraham|title=The Girl on the Liar's ThroneAge of Ash

|summary=Lucien doesn’t want to declare war on Landfall and its Silent QueenWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, Anea, whom he grew up with as an Orfano. She runs she has a dictatorship of militant suppression knife in her hand and suffering which is rather unlike hera meeting that she dreads. Unbeknown to Lucien, Meanwhile the throne City of Landfall Kithamar is occupied by Eris, an imposter and puppet used by those with far fewer scruples. Anea herself is imprisoned at a point in the palace oubliette surrounded by Myrmidon, a half-human army created by Erebus. There's little chance turning of her escaping or getting very far if she did. However, for Anea 'little chance' is a challenge, not a preventative.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473200040</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- Upload 16/2 -->|author=C E Robinson|title=Lilith: Eden's Planetary Princess (The Michael Archives Book 1)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=35,000 years ago a war in heaven bleeds onto when the planet Eden. King Joshua's angels worlds are being harvested, at their essence drained off thinnest and their remaining bodies no good for anything apart from a euthanasia; a fate from which they can't be reincarnatedall things are possible. From this good essence It is created evil Nephilim, creatures at the bidding night between the funeral of a Prince and the coronation of Satan's Overlordshis successor. Out of this battle between good and evil For a planetary princess arises and this first book in night the Michael Archives records her journey: the journey of Lilith from ordinary to extraordinaryKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B018N7F2B8</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Charlie Jane AndersAnn Sei Lin|title= All The Birds In The SkyRebel Skies

|genre= FantasyTeens|summary= All Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of us have awakenings as teenagersthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, but Patricia's is more extreme than most – discovering when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a witch who can speak Crafter like him, someone with the power to animals. Classmate Laurence's awakening is less disturbing but no less impressive form paper into whatever she desires – a scientific genius, he creates a two-second time machinepower sought after all across the Empire. Growing up togetherHe asks her to come with him, to leave the mutual weirdness between the two bonds themlife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, but life gets soon Kurara won't have any say in the waymatter, and they end up on very different paths. Meeting because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as adults in San Franciscoa shikigami, Laurence and she is an engineering genius trying forced to save flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, whereas Patricia a sky-ship whose express purpose is a qualified witch, working hard to prove herself and cure those on the planet. As the two are drawn back togetherhunt down shikigami, and the fate of the a whole world threatened, Patricia and Laurence are forced to consider the fact that maybe they know each other better than anyone…of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785650556</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan DennardB09Q3P283Y|title=Truthwitch (The Witchlands Series)Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=54

|summary=Highway robbery Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is one of their talents so Safiya and Iseult donhe particularly interested in a career in the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't envisage any problems. That is until they realise got many choices and this one , at least, gets him out of the soldiers defending the booty is a bloodwitchrut he's in. ItHe's an even bigger problem because truthwitches like Safiya are good in demand…dangerously so! Meanwhile as the kingdom of Nubrevna reaches the end of training and is quickly put onto a 20 year truce, Prince Merik desperately tries for a permanent peacenon commissioned officer training course. But there are those who would rather fight, including his own sisterHe's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447282043</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen HuntJennifer Saint|title= Foul Tides TurningElektra|rating= 3.54|genre= FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary= The people 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of Weyland always believed three women who live in the slavers' raids, which destroyed families and homes like a natural disaster, were a misfortune that couldn't be averted. But it wasn't trueheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Their KingCassandra, King MarcusClytemnestra, had struck a deal – sacrificing his people and Elektra are all bit players in exchange for technology and political power. But now, everyone knows. Jacob and Carter Carnehan escaped the slavers, returning home with story of the truth, Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the true King, and a Princess as their hostage. Their purpose was to avoid war – but instead silent women have the truth prompts a civil war, most compelling stories and an invasion force gathers to reclaim the princessmost extreme furies. 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>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paula BrackstonDean Koontz|title=The Silver Witch (Shadow Chronicles)Quicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Ceramic artist Tilda moves Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to the house she and her husband envisaged their lives together in the wilds of Wales. Unfortunately, due get to his tragic death be a year agomercurial character yet, Tilda must move for he's lived in alone a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and build now is starting a different life. In the same location career on a thousand years earlier Seren serves Prince Hywell as his villageneedless magazine's seer and shamanstaff. Life isnBut when this book starts he IS now 't easy 'subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for her either. She something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has enemiesdemanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, some find a gold coin worth a lot closer than fortune, cash the traditional threat from value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the Anglo Saxonslam. Although centuries apart these And all this is just in time for two womenof those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's lives will come together with connotations for all who love 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 he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a deadly force that could go beyond thatwhole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472150651</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tim AkersTasha Suri|title= The Pagan NightJasmine Throne|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= The Celestial Church has all but eliminated the old pagan ways, ruling the people with an iron hand. Demonic gheists terrorise the land, hunted by the warriors of the inquisition, yet it's the battling factions within the Church and age-old hatreds between north and south that tear the land apart. Malcolm Blakley, hero of the Reaver War, seeks to end 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…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297379</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nora Roberts|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>}}{{newreview|author=Ken Liu|title=The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty)|rating=4.5

|summary=Mata Zyundu is on On the way down in life having been born into an aristocratic family deposed night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and burdened with all refuses to step on to the resentment that goes with itpyre. Meanwhile the charming Kuni Gara finds fame and success as a bandit leader after a lifetime surviving She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the streets. The two form Hirana: an unlikely friendship ancient temple that's torn asunder as the Empire crumbles and they find themselves on opposite sides for better or, indeed, for worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784973211</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= George Mann|title= The Osiris Ritual: A Newbury and Hobbes Investigation|rating= 3|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=Sir Maurice Newbury, his majesty's special agent, and his assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes are on the case was once more. When filled with a group community of well-to-do explorers return people who got powers from an Egyptian expedition, they unveil a mummy and unleash an ancient mysterythe mysterious deathless waters. Soon But now the explorers are being picked off one by one and Newbury must solve the mystery if he temple is to catch the culprit. But there's nothing 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 … |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298251</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Serge le Tendrean overgrown, Regis Loisel and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)|title=The Quest for the Time Bird|rating=2decaying ruin.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=In order to defeat a vengeful godOne day, who is within days of getting out of his prison – Malini witnesses a sacred conch shell – several things must happen. First, the conch must be united girl kill someone with the witch powerful enough to sustain the incantation keeping him locked upmagic. Then she must use Instead of reporting her helpers to endure great danger and find the information she seeks in the most perilous of places for knowledge of the ultimate part of the puzzle – the Time Bird. All this calls for heroessuch a gruesome crime, but in Malini claims that the world of fantasy anyone can call themselves a hero – girl saved her from the witch's own buxom daughter, Pelisse, to an old warrior called Bragon that attacker and begs for the girl is forced to unite with and fight alongsidebecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782763627</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsGenevieve Gornichec|title=Shadow Spell (The Cousins OWitch'Dwyer Trilogy Book 2)s Heart

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Spoilers ahead for Book 1, ''Dark Witch''A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda.Life goes on for She hides in a forest at the edge of the O'Dwyer cousins nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that doesn’t mean theyfact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin've given up on Cabahns wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, however, the evil one who has stalked their family for centuries. He hasn't given are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up on them either unfortunately. As the cousins' resolve increases so does their links with their 13th century ancestors her literal heart—the one that was cut from when their powers – as well as their problems – originatedher chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her alone. Meanwhile After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the problem two start an unusual family made of their friend Meara Quinn may seem paltry by comparison but itup a half-dead daughter, a son that's still a problem. Shewolf, and another son that's desperate not to fall in love with Connor O'Dwyera snake. Good luck with that Meara!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749958618</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David DalglishHannah Whitten|title=Skyborn: 1 (The Seraphim Trilogy)For the Wolf|rating=4.5

|summary=Twins Kael In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and Bree Skyborn witness the battle in which their parents died and yet still want to follow in their footstepssecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. The pair train as SeraphimTo Red's misfortune, members of she is the winged force that are on second daughter. Sent alone into the front line of woods with nothing but the warcape on her back, proud Red knows what to serve their people expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the Theocrats one who have devised will decide the whole support system for fate of their worldkingdom. There are those who speak out against If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the Theocrats but even consorting with people like hour, she finds that means deaththe legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man. Everyone knows it and yet…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506495</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ElliottJohn Gwynne|title=Black Wolves (Black Wolves Trilogy)The Shadow Of The Gods

|summary=Dannarah has achieved her childhood dream: she's a reeve marshalThe Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, one set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the army who fly eagles Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to defend king and kingdom. However Dannarah' s dream comes after a nightmaresee. Lady Dannarah (as she's more properly known) This story is daughter of King Anjihosh and his son Prince Atani both of whom have been killed. Two decades later the current rulerultimate in High Fantasy, her great nephew Jehosh gives Dannarah an ultimatum. She will be promoted and John Gwynne certainly does justice to Grand Marshal if she brings him a bodyguard to guide him through dangerous times ahead and not just any bodyguard. He wants Kellasthe genre, the captain of the former Black Wolveswith mythical creatures, the elite royal guard who were disbanded after the regicidesarchaic language and battles galore. Kellas had walked away from the palace in This is a fog of shock thick book, with an intricate plot and self-blame fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and he may not want to come backgritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356503208</amazonuk>0356514218