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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jon SkovronA G Slatter|title= Hope and Red|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= Bleak Hope is a young girl orphaned at the tender age of eight when the emperor's biomancers – mystics of biology with the power to make living things grow, decay or change into something else entirely – massacre her whole village. The lone survivor, Hope sneaks on board a travelling merchant ship and by chance becomes a servant at the old Vinchen monastery, home to the empire's best warriors. There she is secretly trained by the greatest Vinchen warrior in history, and is driven by her dream Briar Book of vengeance against those responsible for her parent's death. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316268119</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tom Lloyd|title= Stranger of Tempest|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=Lynx is a mercenary with a sense of honour; a dying breed in the Riven Kingdom. Failed by the nation he served and weary of the skirmishes that plague the continent's principalities, he walks the land in search of purpose. Bodyguard work keeps his belly full and his mage-gun loaded, and whilst it'll never bring a man fame or wealth, he's not forced to rely on others or kill without cause. When a kidnapped girl forces Lynx to join a mercenary company, the job seems simple enough, and the mercanaries less stupid and vicious than most he's met over the years. So long as there are no surprises or hidden agendas along the way, it should work out fine...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473213177</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anthony Ryan|title=The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria Dead

|summary=Mercenary Clayden Torcreek is blood-blessed'' 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, iat last.eI just want to enjoy it for a while. one of '' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the few able to translate world, lies Silverton; a few drops town under the protection of drakethe Briar's blood into an extraordinary attribute. It gets even better than that: Clayden is unregistered, making him unexpected a family of witches who protect the town and eminently hireable when the department of Exceptional Initiatives need someone to track wider world from the fabled white drakeDarklands. His recruiter Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and contact is covert agent Lizanne Lethbridge who is currently gathering intelligence while posing as such since she was young, her training as a maid to the spoilt young Tekelasteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. ItWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's worth it though – Tekelacousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's father has something leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of interestchaos. The problem is that Lizanne isn't the only Reeling from one interested and so staying alive becomes increasingly difficult. Out at sea naval officer Hilemore is about family secret to put his training to good use. Meanwhile in the inhospitable interioranother, Clayden's expedition only has Ellie must decide who to worry about savages trust and drakes of determine what to do as the giganticBriar witches' legacy, man-eatingeverything they have sacrificed to survive, fire breathing varietyis under threat. That's alright then!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506398</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gregory MaguireRachel Greenlaw|title= After AliceCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyTeens|summary=When Alice fell down ''I can hear the rabbit holesong of the sea. The call of the deep, she found Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rule the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and abrasive egos as plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the world she left behindruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But how did Victorian Oxford react when the Council Watch lays a trap to Aliceend the wrecking, they capture the island's departure? When Aliceleader and Mira's friend Adafather. Desperate to save him from death, mentioned briefly in ''Alice in Wonderland'' sets out Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to visit Aliceguide her, she arrives sets off in search of a minute too latefamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Tumbling down With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the rabbit hole herselfwatched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, she embarks on an odyssey Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to find Alice and bring save the future of her safely home from this surreal world below and the worldones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472230469</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen DonaldsonT Kingfisher|title=The King's JusticeThornhedge|rating=4.5

|summary=Through the forests and the driving rain rides Black, ''You had a man never more aptly namedright to retake your place. He's approaching Settle' T Kingfisher's Crossways, although that latest novella is a lovely reimagining of no concern to him, for he a fairytale that is merely following the scent of evilwell known and well beloved. All purpose and little pause or scruple, he But whilst there is on the trail of a killerprincess trapped in a tower, and Settle's Crosswayssleeping under an eternal enchantment, as luck would have itThornhedge is not her story. Instead, our protagonist is in need of the King's Justice. Black seems able to control people's thoughts and deeds (and go without paying his way) just Toadling, who was stolen away by rubbing an arm under his permanently-worn black cape, but fairies when he sounds out the parity in the town between the churches of light and dark, he knows what exists there may take him to she was a darker place than even the last wars regarding the balance between those elemental forces – new-born baby and secreted away to a place where he really cannot take the control he's used to…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473214491</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephen Donaldson|title=The Augur's Gambit|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=In a ''King Lear''esque procedure, the Queen Inimica Phlegathon DeVry IV has met with each land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her five barons in turn, veins and seduced them all into accepting her proposal of marriagecast spells. What does she mean by this bizarre procedure, which only seems to set them all against the other, especially when the fourth to meet with her blabs to the fifth before his turn? And why does the final baron's efforts for his Queen before then rest on sending ships to the East, the likes of which have never ever returned? And what is in store for the island Queendom, when the royal family's own magical oracle can only see the end of their civilisation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214475</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel GodfreyNicole Jarvis|title=New PompeiiA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Classicist Nick Houghton is employed by Novus Particles to assist them with a reconstruction ''I want all of Pompeii – a reconstruction that includes the original, living first century inhabitants. NovusPart have discovered a way Florence to pull historical artefacts (and indeed people) through time; an amazing innovation. The conspiracy theorists mumble about there being sinister reasons and the disappearance of key personnel helps to feed these rumours, but Nick needs a job and this is too good an opportunity to turn down. Anyway, thatknow my name''s what he tells himself to combat the repercussions of saying no.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298111</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Christopher B Husberg|title=Chaos Queen - Duskfall (The Chaos Queen Quintet)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Winter and Knot's wedding is a brave move and not just because Winter is a Tiellan. Knot was brought back to life after nearly drowning the year beforeCast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a fate that removed his memory. All he knows is that there are people chasing him home and when Knot's angry… you just don't want Knot to get angry. Meanwhile Cinzia is a devout priestess with a problem: where her beloved sister is leading a religious revoltfuture can thrive rather than stagnate. Neither woman will come out of this But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the same. Cinzia will need to think about her life afresh while Winter… Let's just say big changes lie ahead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299150</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rebecca Alexander|title=The Secrets of Time and Fate|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Having killed Countess Elizabeth Bathorypowerful Accademia, the revenant from the 16th century, 21st century Jackdaw Hammond did something she's regretting. By depriving it self-proclaimed guardians of its host, the spirit Saraquel has moved from healing magics that through paintings have the Countess power to Jackprotect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. Can she get some help to banish The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it before someone above all else does it a little more terminally both for Jack . To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and Saraquel? Meanwhile back in the 16th century of Edward Kelley change – has no place amongst them and Sir John Dee, Elizabeth Bathory still lives and Saraquel proves he can wreak havoc across timetheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195326X</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Tarn Richardson|title=The Fallen (The Darkest Hand) |rating=4.5|genre=Horror|summary=1915 and Set in the war continuesnear-distant future, not just as in a world on the conflict that will come to be known as World War I but a more supernatural fight between good and evilverge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The dark forces continue British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to move across a darkened Europe, evidenced by save the increase in demon possession day and hideously misshapen babiesrescue what little remains. When the Vatican fountain produces blood rather than water, the world knows What no-one expected was that one of the events spoken Knights of in Revelation may be underway. Inquisitor Poldek Tacit still has the will to fight but he's just one manRound Table would answer the call. Will one man be enough?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715650599</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tarn RichardsonAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=The Fallen (The Darkest Hand) Delilah Recovered|rating=4.5|genre=Horror|summary=1915 and the war continues, not just as the conflict that will come to be known as World War I but a more supernatural fight between good and evil. The dark forces continue to move across a darkened Europe, evidenced by the increase in demon possession and hideously misshapen babies. When the Vatican fountain produces blood rather than water, the world knows that the events spoken of in Revelation may be underway. Inquisitor Poldek Tacit still has the will to fight but he's just one man. Will one man be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715650599</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paul Cornell|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 Sky|rating=5

|summary=Two spies employed by the Republic of Seresta are sent to the court of JadWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn's Holy Emperor Rudolfo, 'The Destroyer'. The firstt going as planned but things might, Leonorajust might, knows what she's doing right down be about to hiding behind the cover look up. Out of a sham marriage assigned for that purpose. The secondwork, Peroabout to lose her flat, Dee is a young artist kidnapped up for the task. He has no previous experience but hean accountant's expendable so thatjob. But it's not completely necessaryto be. Events transpire to ensure that both spies will need to rely on mariner and merchant Marin and Serjani fighter Danica more than they thinkDee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. Yet even they can't stop She survives the conflict attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has thatto do with Dee? She's on the horizonjust an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Rudolfo has his eye on extending his empire globally Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and Jad help anything that gets in things will never be the waysame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473628105</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Aliya WhiteleyHadeer Elsbai|title= The Arrival Daughters of MissivesIzdihar|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=In the aftermath of the Great War, Shirley Fearn dreams of challenging the conventions of rural England, where life is as unchanging as the seasons. The scarred veteran Mr Tiller, left disfigured by an impossible accident on the battlefields of France, brings with him a message: part prophecy, part warning. As Shirley's village prepares for the annual May Day celebrations, where a new queen will be crowned and the future reborn, she must choose between change and renewal – will the missives Mr Tiller brings prevent her mastering her identity?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907389377</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ben Peek|title=Leviathan's Blood (Children)|rating=5

|summary=BEWAREDrawing inspiration from Egypt, spoilers for Book 1 ahead:''The immortal Zaifyr is now in prison on Wila where heDaughters of Izdihar''s facing trial explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the murder rights of Keepers Fo women and Bauweavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. AyaeNehal, born into the former apprentice is no longer upper class, wishes to attend the small child who walked unscathed from a burnt out shop. All she wants Weaving Academy to learn to do now is save lives control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she's frustrated at every turnis forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Captain Aned Heast is Giorgina on the other hand did not have a mission he won't let drop; he wants privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a name group campaigning for his band of mercenaries but not just any namewomen's rights. Meanwhile Giorgina also happens to be afraid; somewhere out there is the Childin love with Nico. The Child What follows is cominga story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447251318</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenni FaganHeather Fawcett|title=The Sunlight PilgrimsEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4.5

|summary=Dylan walks away from this familyEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small London indie cinema in 2020 village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to live redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on a Scottish caravan sitethe right track. His new neighbours Constance Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and her transgender 12 year old Stella have troubles of their owndelight, but the odd British winter isnmuch to Emily't helpings frustration. As But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the country faces true Arctic temperatures life goes on… or at least it tries to.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434023302</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeChristopher Golden|title=Fault/lines (Hadron Damnation Book 0)Road of Bones|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=What starts off as a day that should be remembered The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a medical appointment soon becomes anything but for DCI Tracey Hansonthousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. When planes start falling from For months of the sky she and DI Reggie Chambers are thrown together in year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the thick permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates itvery often. In the midst of the carnageBuilt because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a teenager is orphanedlife every metre it covers. Definitely You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a tragic event but bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there more to it than encourage the project to fruition to 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 a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that?'s where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>153061936X</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe AbercrombieAndrew Givler|title=Sharp EndsSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)

|summary=I often feel ''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that short stories are an indulgence on Dan the part Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of the authora blissful life in exchange for his soul.'' Poor Dan! I know, I know, they get to write down a lot of their ideas that donwe shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really fit into is a larger storyterrible salesman. The stop/start nature of them He never sits well with mehits his targets and, just as I am starting when he fails to get even Matt to know a character they are gone. One way of solving this would be to use characters that a fan will already know; perhaps explore sign on the pastdotted line, or the futurehe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature. That sounds great for a fan, but how do you do this whilst also catering for a new reader?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575104678</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David SangerOlivie Blake|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 people's minds. Gradually he'll become deeply acquainted with the townsfolk but it mustn't sway him from what he's here to accomplish. One man, one mission and no guarantee how it will end.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784293954</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joel Mentmore|title=SmartAtlas Six

|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=Jon and Skull – Matthew to his mum – are men with a passion for technology and built a business around that. They also embrace anything innovativeDark, sharp, as John has embraced Lucy; a smartphone app that monitors and assists with his health and life choices. Skull is more into the idea of expanding Tesla car technology and so lets Jon get on with it. Therefore when Jon goes missinghighly inquisitive, Skull is not only surprised but doesn't realise what Jon was caught up in. Shame he didn't pay more attention as that would not only help Skull find Jon, it may keep both of them aliveThe Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993484824</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jen WilliamsDaniel Abraham|title=The Silver Tide (Copper Cat) Age of Ash|rating=4.5

|summary=The Black Feather Three - Copper Cat Wydrin We meet Alys under the most northerly of CrosshavenOldgate's four bridges, Lord Aaron Frith she has a knife in her hand and Sir Sebastian - a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of years when the sought after sell-swords worlds are always looking for at their next adventure thinnest and, more importantly, their next pay dayall things are possible. Sebastian It is still feeling lost after having 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 to help her and night between the crew funeral of the aptly named ''Poison Chalice'' to go into a land famed for its monsters Prince and ghoststhe coronation of his successor. A place deep in magic where people vanish. A place where none of the three really want to go but they have no choice: Devinia For a night the Red Kithamar is Wydrin's mumun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472211154</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedAnn Sei Lin|title= Ace of SpidersRebel Skies

|genre= General FictionTeens|summary= Stanly is frustrated. Having set himself up Kurara has spent her entire life as London's protectora servant on the Midori, he's finding that a massive dining hall floating in the everyday practicalities sky where soldiers of superheroism are challenging at best, the Empire come to drink and downright tedious at worstmake merry between their conquests. So it's almost However, when a relief when an attempt man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is made on his a Crafter like him, someone 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, to leave the life and Stanly finds himself rushing headlong into of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a twisted adventureshikigami, with enemies new and old coming she is forced to flee out of into the woodworkworld. HoweverShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, even with his friends and his evera sky-increasing power behind himship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, he may have bitten off more than he can chew this time. The monsters are coming… and nothing will ever be the same!a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630675</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian SelbyB09Q3P283Y|title=SnakewoodShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=KailenClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's Twenty are an elite; not really that invested in the type of mercenaries that live on fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in legendthe military. It therefore stands to reason that the authorities want them dead but they arenIf he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't the only ones. As the guerrilla war between rebels got many choices and governing classes rages onthis one, a lone assassinat least, as elite as gets him out of the Twenty, unknown even to those on the same side rut he's in. He's good in training and is on their trailquickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. Who is he and why the vendetta? The answer will be revealed one day to those still alive to hear itHe's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356505529</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian TchaikovskyJennifer Saint|title=The Tiger and the Wolf (Echoes of the Fall)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Maniye is a girl torn between her mother's tribe, the tiger people and her father'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 for Maniye's life. There is only one alternative for her: to run away, taking Hesprec the snake and proposed wolf blood sacrifice. Although what she hasn't reckoned on is just how much she has to learn, her father's determination and the dogged perseverance of Broken Axe, lone wolf and hired killer. She also seems to be running towards a world on the verge of a horrific war as Maniye places herself between a rock and a very hard place indeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230770061</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=A K Benedict|title=Jonathan Dark or The Evidence Of GhostsElektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Maria King sits 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the Thames mudlarking - sifting through story of three women who live in the washed up treasures - on a regular basisheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Only today she finds a ring Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in a box with 'Marry me Maria' on the lid in braille. Blind from birth and now blind by choice, story of the words can be for no one else but Ms KingTrojan War. However a greater surprise awaits inside Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the box: silent women have 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 he's taken on or most compelling stories and the sort of help he'll need to call on. The dead are all around him, his plan is not to let Maria join themmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409144550</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Daniel PolanskyDean Koontz|title= Those AboveQuicksilver|rating= 42.5|genre= FantasyThrillers|summary=For three thousand years Those Above have ruled over their human subjectsMeet Quinn Quicksilver. From He's not had the glittering palaces of their eternal citychance to get to be a mercurial character yet, they enforce their will with fire and sword. Twentyfor he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-five years agoday old foundling, mankind mustered an army and rose up against them, only to be slaughtered in now is starting a career on a terrible battleneedless magazine's staff. Whilst hope died that dayBut when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, hatred survived. Whispers call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of another revolt begin him that he go to stir throughout the oppressed: a widowed womanderelict diner, dedicated to revenge: find a gold coin worth a generalfortune, cash the only value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to defeat one escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of Those Above; him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a boy killer, who rises from the gutter to lead an uprisingwhole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444779915</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Den PatrickTasha Suri|title=The Girl on the Liar's Jasmine Throne|rating=4.5

|summary=Lucien doesn’t want On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to declare war step on Landfall and its Silent Queen, Anea, whom he grew up with as an Orfanoto the pyre. She runs is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a dictatorship community of militant suppression and suffering which is rather unlike herpeople who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. Unbeknown to Lucien, But now the throne of Landfall temple is occupied by Erisnothing more than an overgrown, an imposter and puppet used by those with far fewer scruplesdecaying ruin. Anea herself is imprisoned in the palace oubliette surrounded by MyrmidonOne day, Malini witnesses a half-human army created by Erebusgirl kill someone with magic. There's little chance Instead of reporting her escaping or getting very far if she did. However, for Anea 'little chance' is such a challengegruesome crime, not a preventativeMalini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200040</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreview <!-- Upload 16/2 -->Frontpage|author=C E RobinsonGenevieve Gornichec|title=Lilith: EdenThe Witch's Planetary Princess (The Michael Archives Book 1)Heart|rating=3.54

|summary=35,000 years ago A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a war witch named Angrboda. She hides in heaven bleeds onto a forest at the planet Eden. King Joshua's angels are being harvestededge of the nine worlds, 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 remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the bidding stake three times because of SatanOdin's Overlordswrath. Out of this battle between good and evil a planetary princess arises and this first book Her attempts to live in the Michael Archives records peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her journey: chest before she was tied to the journey of Lilith from ordinary stake—and refuses to extraordinaryleave her alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B018N7F2B8</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Charlie Jane Anders|title= All The Birds In The Sky|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary= All After an initial period of us have awakenings as teenagersmistrust, but Patricia's is more extreme than most – discovering that she is a witch who can speak Angrboda begins to animals. Classmate Laurencefall for Loki's awakening is less disturbing but no less impressive – a scientific geniuscharms, he creates a two-second time machine. Growing up together, the mutual weirdness between and the two bonds them, but life gets in the way, and they end start an unusual family made of up on very different paths. Meeting as adults in San Franciscoa half-dead daughter, Laurence is an engineering genius trying to save the world, whereas Patricia is a qualified witchson that's a wolf, working hard to prove herself and cure those on the planetanother son that's a snake. 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785650556</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan DennardHannah Whitten|title=Truthwitch (The Witchlands Series)For the Wolf

|summary=Highway robbery is one of their talents so Safiya In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and Iseult donthe second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red't envisage any problemss misfortune, she is the second daughter. That is until they realise one of Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the soldiers defending cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the booty woods is a bloodwitch. It's an even bigger problem because truthwitches like Safiya are in demand…dangerously so! Meanwhile as wolf, and he is the kingdom of Nubrevna reaches one who will decide the end fate of their kingdom. If she is not a 20 year truceworthy sacrifice, Prince Merik desperately tries for a permanent peacethe 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 there when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are those who would rather fight, including his own sisterlies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447282043</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen HuntJohn Gwynne|title= Foul Tides Turning|rating= 3.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= The people of Weyland always believed the slavers' 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 a Princess as their hostage. 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…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575092106</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paula Brackston|title=Shadow Of The Silver Witch (Shadow Chronicles)Gods|rating=4.5

|summary=Ceramic artist Tilda moves to The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the house she and her husband envisaged their lives together Vikings in the wilds shadow of WalesRagnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. UnfortunatelyThis story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, due and John Gwynne certainly does justice to his tragic death a year agothe genre, with mythical creatures, Tilda must move in alone archaic language and build a different lifebattles galore. In the same location This is a thousand years earlier Seren serves Prince Hywell as his village's seer and shaman. Life isn't easy for her either. She has enemiesthick book, some a lot closer than the traditional threat from the Anglo Saxons. Although centuries apart these two women's lives will come together with connotations for all who love them an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a deadly force that could go beyond thatwonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472150651</amazonuk>0356514218