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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katherine ArdenA G Slatter|title= The Girl in Briar Book of the TowerDead|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary= In the second book '' There's a part of the trilogy Katherine Arden builds on her original story me that wants to keep this just to create something even bettermyself for however long I can. This book is utterly wonderful and secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it is at the same time complex and gentlefor a while. The [[The Bear and '' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the Nightingale by Katherine Arden|first book]] set up world, lies Silverton; a town under the characters in protection of the Petronova Briar's, a family but sometimes left of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the characters feeling a little thin; this book builds on Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to give depth to the be born into her family members for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and their ties to each otherpotions. ItWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's a great story but I would strongly advise reading 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 centre, Ellie uncovers the two books in order rare ability to get communicate with the full effect 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 to do as the plotBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785031066</amazonuk>1803364548

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Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=T Kingfisher|title=[[Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft]]Thornhedge|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=''You had a right to retake your place.''

[[image:4T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well beloved.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Thomas Senlin embarks on his honeymoon with high hopes. He and his young wife Marya are travelling on But whilst there is a princess trapped in a sleeper train across Ur to that engineering marveltower, that fabled centre of culturesleeping under an eternal enchantment, the Tower of BabelThornhedge is not her story. It's a place he's read books aboutInstead, taught his pupils aboutour protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and longed secreted away to visit, but the bustling and chaotic surroundings land of the Tower in the desert are a long way fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from the quiet fishing village in which Senlin teaches. When he loses sight of Marya shortly after their arrival, he has no option but to look for her in this strange veins and overwhelming placecast spells. For all his background reading before the trip, he is ill-prepared for what he finds |isbn=1803364238}}{{Frontpage|author=Nicole Jarvis|title=A Portrait in the Tower, both its marvels and its horrors, and thus begins Thomas Senlin's arduous quest to recover his wifeShadow|rating=4. [[Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft5|Full Review]]genre=Historical Fiction<br>|summary=''I want all of Florence to know my name''

{{newreview|author= Joe Hill|title= Strange Weather|rating= 5|genre= Horror |summary= Strange Weather is a collection of four short novels all linked byCast out from Rome, unsurprisingly, strange and cataclysmic weather. Each novel is distinct and showcases Hill's restrained yet vivid style Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which takes everyday events her art can find a home and makes them bitingly, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautiful, often switching from one sentence to the next. As Hill himself says ''the beauty of the world and the horror of the world were twined together'', never is this truer where her future can thrive rather than in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with raw beautystagnate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147322117X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= David Jester|title= Forever After: a dark comedy|rating= 4|genre= Paranormal|summary= Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michaelpowerful Accademia, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510704361</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= K J Parker|title= The Two self-proclaimed guardians of Swords|rating= 3.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=This is a difficult book to review, to be honest, because I am still not sure if I liked it. It is the first book of a trilogy so I expected healing magics that a lot of it would be through paintings have the power to set protect the scene city and the characters but this doesn't really happenits citizens from plagues and curses. The novel is set during a long standing war between east all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and west that has been going on architecture for so long no-one is really sure why they are fightingcenturies and guard it above all else. Currently in command are the Belot brothersTo them, each one a military genius Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and each one fighting for the opposing side, there is also the guild of craftsmen whose purpose we never fully know change – has no place amongst them and their role is to manipulate and interfere to serve their own interestssociety. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506762</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen AryanThomas D Lee|title= Mageborn (Age of Dread)Perilous Times|rating= 43

|summary=''Magic will destroy us allHate is the path of least resistance''

Ten years after Set in the devastating battlemage war when mages used their immense power to tear each other apart and sundered near-distant future, in a world on the world itselfverge of climate collapse, suspicion of those who wield magic Britain is at an all-time highin great peril. With The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the recent resurrection of the Red Tower, an institution for students to learn to control day and expand their magic, Seekers visit villages each month to test children for magical abilitiesrescue what little remains. But for those children and their families it is not a gift, it is a cursed For Habreel, who will never forget the destruction during the war, What no-one expected was that one of the elimination Knights of all magic will save countless lives and is the only solution to long lasting stability. He will stop at nothing to achieve his aim; he will deal with Round Table would answer the devil, crush villages and kill anyone in his waycall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356508471</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alice HoffmanAmelia Estelle Dellos|title= The Rules of MagicDelilah Recovered|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction Fantasy|summary= IWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn've read several t going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of Alice Hoffman's novelswork, although strangelyabout to lose her flat, not the one sheDee is up for an accountant's most famous for job. But it''Practical Magic'', which went on s not to be made into a film. ''The Rules of Magic'' Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the long-awaited prequel attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to that bookdo with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, and tells the story living an ordinary life. Slivers of three siblings memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the Owens family; Franny, Jet and Vincentsame... The two sisters, Franny and Jet, go on to become the two aunts in the ''Practical Magic'' story.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471157679</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jason Segel and Kirsten MillerHadeer Elsbai|title= OtherworldThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating= 54

|summary=imon would Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not have considered himself be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a herosociety pitted against them. In factNehal, by all accountsborn into the upper class, particularly that of his parentswishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, Simon but instead she is forced into an epic failurearranged marriage with Nico. HeGiorgina on the other hand did not have a 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 group campaigning for women's largerights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, hefrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|isbn=0356520471}}{{Frontpage|author=Heather Fawcett|title=Emily Wilde's hairyEncyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, he and she has a ridiculously oversized nose travelled extensively, and heresearched meticulously, to write her life's been kicked out work, the very first encyclopaedia of boarding school and kept on a federal watch listfaeries. But Simon Whilst she is sure something brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is up not so good with his friend Kat. She won't speak to himpeople. So he resorts when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to buying an incredibly expensive new virtual reality video game redeem herself and put her final investigations for them both - Otherworldher book back on the right track. Otherworld engages your senses with graphics so good Enter Wendell Bambleby, you'll swear they are realher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and itdelight, much to Emily's here that Simon really wants to talk to Katfrustration. But it isn't real, it's a game… until a turn of events lands Simon in Otherworld in an all together different way. This time, whatever harm his avatar suffers has real consequences. And if it dieswhy is he here? Simon would rather not think about that. If What does he wants to save Kat, he has to keep pressing want? And what exactly is going on. Simon is with the chosen one, this is not a game. faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786073692</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Melissa CarusoChristopher Golden|title= The Tethered MageRoad of Bones|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyHorror|summary= The Raverran Empire is run by a doge and Kolyma Highway… the council 'Road of seven, the governing group formed by Bones'… the aristocratic families of EruviaR504. The Empire thrives from trade Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, culture and the obedience it's one of the cities surrounding Raverraworld's most notorious routes. The Empire has obtained this power and dominance by harnessing and controlling For months of the magic year it's a spread of Eruvia and all sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring'magesees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-markedlevel mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don'' that possess t think google streetview updates it very often. Built 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 life every metre itcovers. For years the Raverran empire has known peace You can easily find documentaries about it online, but with whispers that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a rebellionrecce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the discovery project to fruition to claw back some of a firethe funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-warlock and chatty local guide, gain the disappearance company of childrena local beauty, and fetch up at the Empireguide's authority over Eruvia is in danger and war is looming on the horizonchildhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356510611</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen Donaldson Andrew Givler|title= Seventh Decimate Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)|rating= 24|genre= Fantasy|summary= The Seventh Decimate is not ''Matt has a book with compelling characters or buzzing personalities; it terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is not a book so bad that allowed me to invest in Dan the struggles Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of its protagonista blissful life in exchange for his soul.'' Poor Dan! I know, Prince BifaltI know, with any particular easewe shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. Though it But he really is a book about war terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and , when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the dotted line, he's so desperate extremes a nation will go to ensure absolute victory against its greatest foethat he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473221668</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Hornor JacobsOlivie Blake|title=Infernal MachinesThe Atlas Six|rating=4.5

|summary=Having discovered the evil intent of the Autumn LordsDark, sharp, and highly inquisitive, Livia Cornelius is trying to beat the inferno that the ensuing war is creating in order to get back to her husband Fisk. That's not as easy as it sounds though as she and her entourage including (her sister Carnelia and Livia's baby) will be caught up in the conflict more than theyThe Atlas Six'd like to be. Meanwhile Fisk along with fellow mercenary Shoe, doesn't have it any easier… and the world is burningmakes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057512413X</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kristen CiccarelliDaniel Abraham|title=The Last NamsaraAge of Ash

|summary=We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate''Once there was a girl who was drawn to wicked things'' ''The Last Namsara'' revolves around Ashas four bridges, she has a fierce young woman who has whispered stories to dragons all knife in her lifehand and a meeting that she dreads. But where once she told them Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in friendship, now she uses stories to hunt the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all those that still plague her father's fracturing kingdomthings are possible. It is the night between the funeral of a Prince and the coronation of his successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473222850</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mark AlderAnn Sei Lin|title= Son of the NightRebel Skies|rating= 45|genre= FantasyTeens|summary=In [[Son of Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the Morning by Mark Alder|Son sky where soldiers of the Morning]]Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, author Mark Alder plunges when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the reader power to form paper into whatever she desires – a chaoticpower sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, dangerous world, taking them back to leave the turbulent reign life of Edward III and dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the dangers of matter, because the Hundred Years War. Adding elements of fantasy Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and theology she is forced to flee out into the mixworld. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, Alder created an intriguing read which a sky-ship whose express purpose is continued in ''Son of the Night''. With Lucifer, Satan, Godto hunt down shikigami, Devils and Angels interacting with a cast of real and well researched characters, Alder continues his exploration whole world of the Hundred Years war whilst rather incredibly keeping his readers as educated as they are entertained.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575115203</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith DevineB09Q3P283Y|title=Wilderness of IceShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=Hans Schröder was Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not best pleased to be going to really that invested in the Nazi party headquarters fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in Alexanderplatz, Berlin. It was a snowy night career in December 1937 and even then Heinrich Himmler of the SS Protection Squadron had something of a reputationmilitary. Schröder know that his beliefs were not completely in tune If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with those of the party hierarchyhimself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, but on this occasion it was an order which would find gets him leading an expedition to Tibet in search out of the yeti: Hitler and Josef Mengele were keen to see if improvements could be made to the master race rut he's in. He's good in training and the thought of is quickly put onto a humanoid non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with amazing capabilities was too tempting to dismiss. In January 1938 the expedition was on its way via Transylvaniahimself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524681857</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom LloydJennifer Saint|title= Princess of BloodElektra|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary= Toil – unpredictable and dangerous even for an assassin, now wears 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the Princess story of Blood on her jacket. Mercanery Lynx still has his doubts about her – but a new mission to escort a dignitary soon throws three women who live in the old team back togetherheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Travelling to an ancient city that conceals a mysterious labyrinthCassandra, the situations go from bad to worseClytemnestra, with new threats and worse horrors on every cornerElektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. The group argue Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and bicker as they go along – but will they be too concerned with their own disputes to see the far blacker evil that threatens to surround them?most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473213207</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tim AkersDean Koontz|title= The Iron HoundQuicksilver|rating= 42.5|genre= FantasyThrillers|summary=Ruling with an iron handMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, the Church has eliminated the ancient pagan waysfor he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. Yet demonic gheists terrorise the landBut when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', hunted by the Inquisitionfor something – call it unearthly intuition, while agecall it mind-old hatreds rage between control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the north value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the southlam. Three heroes Malcolm And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and Ian Blakeley and Gwendolyn Adair must end suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the bloodshed before chaos discovery that he is unleashednot unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299509</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jess RichardsTasha Suri|title= City of CirclesThe Jasmine Throne|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Danu is a tightrope walker who is mourning On the night of her parentssacred burning, after a disease has ravaged Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the circus where she grew uppyre. Her mother has entrusted her with a locket She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that hides a secret. Over the years, Danu pushes away her grief and develops elaborate and successful high-wire acts was once filled with Morrie, a charismatic hunchback community of people who wants to marry hergot powers from the mysterious deathless waters. When But now the circus returns to Danu's birthplace, Matryoshka, Danu temple is enchanted by the templesnothing more than an overgrown, spice mistsdecaying ruin. One day, and pleasure seekers within the intoxicating outer circle districtMalini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. HereInstead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, she finally gains Malini claims that the courage to open girl saved her mother's locket, from an attacker and discovers begs for the name of a stranger who lives behind the locked gate of the Inner Circle. Fated girl to remain in Matryoshka, Danu attempts to resolve this mysterybecome her own personal maidservant. Will she and Morrie ever be reunited, or will something far more unexpected be waiting for her in the mysterious heart of the city?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473656680</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian LivingstoneGenevieve Gornichec|title=Fighting Fantasy: The Port of PerilWitch's Heart|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy |summary=As I promised I would when I looked back A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the beginning edge of the 35 year history nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin''Fighting Fantasy'' gamebooks [[Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock s wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone|(here)]]mistrust, I took Angrboda begins to the brand-new-fall for-2017 volume with my pen, mapping paperLoki's charms, and most importantly, dice. For the first time in two start an unusual family made of up a longhalf-dead daughter, long time, I would not read a book for review. I would play it. And soson that's a wolf, armed with healthy stamina, reasonable luck but frankly embarrassing skill, I set off. This is the report of and another son that journey – as well as hopefully being the usual useful book review's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407181297</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony RyanHannah Whitten|title=The Legion of Flame: Book Two of For the Draconis MemoriaWolf

|summary=WARNING: There are spoilers for [[The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria by Anthony Ryan|Book 1]] from In Red's family, the beginning.Lizanne Lethridgefirst daughter becomes queen, Blood-Blessed and secret agent of the Exceptional Initiatives Division has survived another mission, only to be forced to go out again. This time it entails second daughter becomes a man-hunt in a place from which no one has emerged alivesacrifice. Talking about aliveTo Red's misfortune, Claydon Torcreek, having escaped several types of death in she is the jungles now goes to second daughter. Sent alone into the southern ice woods with Hilemore in their current attempt nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to defeat expect: within the dragons woods is a wolf, and put he is the world on a safe footingone who will decide the fate of their kingdom. What if all that waits for them If she is more dragons 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 inventive ways than to die? That's a thought be killed within the hour, she finds that's soon banished from his mindthe legends are lies. 'This The wolf is where we save the world' says Clay… but henot a monster—he's been wrong before!a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506401</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ritchie Valentine SmithJohn Gwynne|title=Words of Fury: Volume 2 (Words of Power)The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=45

|summary=Warning: Spoilers ahead…Emmanuel (Man) KinrossThe Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, Yoshi, Joahset in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Voice Gods have battled and Dirk Faslane are their bones lie scattered for all fleeing the Lord of the North in a giant floating bubbleto see. This story is a delicate conveyance when you consider that the stakes are high ultimate in High Fantasy, andJohn Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, if caught by the evil Lord of the Northwith mythical creatures, the world as they know it will endarchaic language and battles galore. They just need to get to the Waning of the MoonThis is a thick book, a psychic fortress with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that spells safety but there's still are woven together to create a long way to go wonderfully realistic and the odds are very much against them. The Lord of the North has more power than they've seen yet and more devastating ways to use itgritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1544214839</amazonuk>0356514218