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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannA G Slatter|title=WakeThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=Janie is seventeen and studying hard for college. She'' There's also working lots a part of hours at a local nursing home me that wants to keep this just to earn money myself for college as it's unlikely her alcoholic mother is going to provide much in the way however long I can. This secret magic of resourcesmy own, all mine, at last. College is Janie's only chance at I just want to enjoy it for a life better than the one shewhile.'s lived so far and so you can't blame her for being so single-minded in the pursuit of her goal. Only one thing stands in her way...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385036</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Beth DurstRachel Greenlaw|title=IceCompass and Blade
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|summary=Cassie lives on an Arctic research station in Alaska''I can hear the song of the sea. She loves The call of the ice and deep, the wilderness of her remote home and she'd definitely prefer to spend her time on tracking polar bears and fending off frostbite rather than on mixing with her peers and enjoying college and home comforts back answering beat in Fairbanksmy heart. However, things aren't all rosy. Cassie's mother died when she was just a baby and she can't help feeling a huge hole in her heart. Her scientist father is remote and unloving and her grandmother left the station after an argument with him when Cassie was still very young. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386571</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kristin CashoreT Kingfisher|title=FireThornhedge
|rating=5
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|summary=Possessed of great beauty, the kind that drives men mad, Fire is used to people trying to kill her. She isn't used to them doing it by accident. When a poacher in the woods outside her home accidentally shoots her, Fire is hard pressed to keep the temperamental Lord Archer from killing him. But as sure as Fire is the man did not mean to cause her harm, she is made unsure by the strange fog that exists in the man's mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905200129</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Gemmell|title=Legend|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Dros Delnoch, You had a massive fortress with six walls of defence, is in danger of falling right to the Nadir. With its fall, the Drenai empire is soon to follow. The Nadir haven't lost yet and as a result, morale among the defenders is low and desertions are rampant. The men long for a hero, but the legendary Druss has hidden himself away in the mountains and become a myth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498580</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Terry Brooks |title=A Princess of Landover (Magic Kingdom of Landover)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Mistaya has a lot to deal with in this book. But then so do her parents, Ben (human) and Willow (half Dryad), as for much of the time they do not know where she is: retake your basic parental nightmare if you have a fifteen year old daughter whether you are the ruler of a magical kingdom or notplace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495808</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kelley Armstrong|title=Frostbitten|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=It's back to the werewolves in this latest volume in Armstrong's immensely popular Women of the Otherworld series, and I must say I'm relieved because the werewolves are my favourites. Time's moved on a little since we were with them last. Elena and Clay are now utterly settled in their wolfish marriage and their twins are three years old. Elena has just found out that Jeremy is looking to retire and also to make her the new pack Alpha. Ambitious and competitive, she's the ideal pack member for the job - but how will it affect her relationship with Clay, the pack enforcer? To add to this worry, a contact from the past has churned up some unwanted memories. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497762</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mike Carey|title=The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Felix Castor is a talented exorcist living in London, with zombies, ghosts and succubi for friends, and the odd human. His best friend, Rafi, has been taken over by a demon called Asmodeus, for which Felix feels slightly responsible. As such, he needs to get Rafi back to normal - the problem is that Asmodeus has other ideas - basically to kill everyone who has anything to do with Rafi. Felix himself is probably on the list, but before he worries about himself, he needs to do something about his closest friends - namely Pen, his landlady, Juliet, a succubus (a demonic female spirit) and Sue, Juliet's lover. At the same time, there are horrible things going on in a central London gym, and Castor must do something about it before people start to die. Can he solve all his problems without losing any of his loved ones? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496553</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jesse Bullington|title=The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=When Hegel and Manfried are ticked off, you know about it. Returning to a town for vengeance - someone didn't like their scrumping there as children - they leave several dead, and several more corpses behind when a posse is sent off to seek its own justice. They're journeying south, graverobbing their way through mediaeval Europe, and they don't care how many people they have to kill, betray, get vengeance on, or blaspheme, or what they have to eat or drink, until their task is done.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497835</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia BriggsNicole Jarvis|title=Hunting Ground (Alpha and Omega)A Portrait in Shadow
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|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Life with a werewolf is a question ''I want all of balances. You have Florence to swing your new-found status as the motherly, calming, but powerful Omega wolf, with his Alpha-male studly status. You have to equate his inner Brother Wolf being practically a different entity to his human side, and know when and how to relate to both. And you have to remember that you might be playfighting in the snow one minute, and the next told by your father-in-law to go to Seattle, and act as figurehead for a revolution in werewolf life - and stand in the face of a very wicked and powerful European werewolf, vampires, and more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497959</amazonuk>}}my name''
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|author=Thomas D Lee
|title=Perilous Times
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|genre= Fantasy
|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia Briggs Amelia Estelle Dellos|title=Cry WolfDelilah Recovered
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|summary=It is not easy to move in with We meet Dee at a werewolf. He is two hundred years old or more, and youpoint when her life isn've been a werewolf for three years. He comes with generations of baggage, a father who is the capo di capi of werewolves in North Americat going as planned but things might, and a job as his assassin and general fiery dogsbody. You are only just beginning to get to grips with your new statusmight, and his temperament, and how they are expected to mix before you're confirmed as a couple. So when it comes be about to him clearing look up a mess with regards to a lethal, rogue werewolf nearby - making humans take too much notice - the timing could have been better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497940</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K S Turner |title=Before the Gods (Chronicles Out of Fate and Choice)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=''Before The Gods'' is presented as an enigmawork, wrapped in a puzzle and shrouded in mystery. The front is adorned by a beguiling image created by the author. A glance at the back cover serves only about to tantalise rather than reveal what might be in store. ''This is where it all began. Everything. Love, hate, goodlose her flat, evil, us and them. This Dee is before they were godsup for an accountant's job.But it''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956224202</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Barb and J C Hendee |title=Child of a Dead God|rating=3s not to be.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Margiere, half-human, half-vampire, Dee is being drawn south attacked by dreams of an icebound castletwo men calling themselves witch hunters. Her quest to discover a mysterious ancient artefact borders on obsession – a dangerous one that threatens She survives the lives of her travelling companionsattack but not unscathed. But little sage, Wynn, will follow her, seeking knowledge for her guild Witch hunters? What on the long forgotten history of their world, as will Chap and Elven warrior Sgäilleearth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, who swore living an oath ordinary life. Slivers of memory of guardianship things that are not ordinary at all return to Margiere her and Leesilthings will never be the same....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497312</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Markus Heitz Hadeer Elsbai|title=The DwarvesDaughters of Izdihar
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|summary=The charismatic dwarf, Tungdil, abandoned at birthDrawing inspiration from Egypt, and brought up in the land of ''long-unsThe Daughters of Izdihar'' (humans)explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, was raised yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and apprenticed to weavers – those with magical abilities - in a magussociety pitted against them. He finds that his peaceful life is about Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to change dramatically. Plucked from obscurity control her abilities and anonymitythen join the military, he but instead she is sent forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a quest privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to find his fellow dwarvesprovide for her family and maintain their reputation, delivering messages en route: naturallywhilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, adventure will follow himfilled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and perhaps he is even the long lost heir to the dwarves' throne - time will tell!overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316049441</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher MooreHeather Fawcett|title=You SuckEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
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|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=You know that old adage about books and covers? Well this Emily Wilde is a case in point. The title isn't greatan expert academic scholar on faerie lore, but the cover design for the paperback imprint isand she has travelled extensively, likeand researched meticulously, duh!to write her life's work, the pitsvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. It Whilst she is so uncool…so unrep-resent-ative of the book. This brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not a cocktail thingso good with people. Not even a "Bloody Mary" thing. Well, except for the tiny bit that isSo when she finds herself far, but you'll discover that far North in due course.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498092</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K E Mills|title=Witches Incorporated (Rogue Agent)|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=''Witches Incorporated'' is the second book in K.E. Mills' rogue agent seriessmall village of Hrafvsnik, which are about having somehow offended the exploits of wizard Gerald Dunwoody and his friends. In this bookvillage matriarch, Gerald she is not sure what she has a new job as a secret agent done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the Ottosland governmentright track. He's on a deadly mission to hunt down a saboteurEnter Wendell Bambleby, determined to make amends for his past. Meanwhileher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, his friends have set up an agency (Witches Incorporated) all charm and are themselves heading for danger when they accidentally cross paths with Geralddelight, much to Emily's saboteurfrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497282</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tad WilliamsChristopher Golden|title=The Dragonbone ChairRoad of Bones
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|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=To Simon, an orphaned servant at The Kolyma Highway… the Hayholt, home 'Road of an aged kingBones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it seems that his life will forever be dull and mundane's one of the world's most notorious routes. The King For months of the year it's youthful glory days were long ago and Simon, who dreams a spread of adventuresheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees his peaceful but quiet life as it turn into a tragedy. When the old King dies his son Elias is crownedhuge blodge of unremitting, but begins to act strangely. Strange weather strikes the realmapocalyptic-level mud, terrifying beasts are attacking from the Northwhich dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and the Kingother Siberian minerals, far from helping his and because he wanted to give too many people from these problemsa lesson, is adding his own heavy taxesit legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. Simon is caught up on a journey that is as full of danger and intrigue as he ever dreamed of You can easily find documentaries about it online, but finds it less than he hoped for. An ancient enemy is stirringthat's a bit rich, the High King Elias is aiding this enemy and it seems the only hope for the kingdom lies in the knowledge one of the mysterious League of the Scroll and the finding of three ancient swords of power.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498394</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kevin J Anderson|title=The Edge of the World|rating=4|genre=Fantasy |summary=Kevin J. Anderson our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is perhaps better known for a film-maker, doing a recce with his Science Fiction bookscameraman buddy, such as continuations John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair'Dune'' Saga and numerous ''Xs prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-Files'' and ''Star Trek'' books. Having only ever read his ''Xso-Files'' bookschatty local guide, I was unsure how I would like gain the company of a fantasy book by someone who was so ingrained in my mind as a Science Fiction authorlocal beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. I needn And that't have worried, his first foray into the fantasy genre is a good s where things start.to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496634</amazonuk>1803361476
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie Brennan Andrew Givler|title=In Ashes LieSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction Fantasy|summary=It's September 1666 and although the mortals' Civil War is over the war amongst the fae is still raging in LondonMatt has a terrible life. ThereSeriously—it's now a greater threat to awful. It is so bad that Dan the Onyx Court and it could destroy everything Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a spark starts a fire which blissful life in exchange for three days spreads through the city devouring everything in its pathhis soul. Can the mortals and the fae unite to find a way to defeat a foe which neither can better on their own?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497185</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Holt Olivie Blake|title=May Contain Traces of MagicThe Atlas Six
|rating=4
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|summary=It's a hard life being a salesman. Chris Popham spends all his time driving between customers trying to sell them things they don't really want to buy – products of JWW retailDark, magical goods. Portable parking spacessharp, bank holidays on a CDand highly inquisitive, the Book of all Human Knowledge, and the firm's most popular product, DW6, only don't ask what itThe Atlas Six''s for, because no one knowsmakes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841495050</amazonuk>1529095239
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian Keaney Daniel Abraham|title=The Mendini Canticle (Dr Sigmundus Trilogy)Age of Ash|rating=4|genre=Teens |summary=In this fantasy world, the nasty king is dead, but that does not mean things are going well for the resistance fighters we are interested in - for what they immediately see is their guiding light replace him, and appear to be even worse. Meanwhile, in the country next door, another young hero is wondering how his best friend has disappeared. He encounters a passing mystical, elder man with token white hair, who explains it is down to magic - but they see the rest of the friend's family being taken by the military.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846160901</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marcus Alexander|title=Who is Charlie Keeper?|rating=35
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|summary=Twelve-year-old Charlie Keeper lives We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in a slightly peculiar house with slightly peculiar noises and slightly peculiar visitors. Her life isn't so great; her parents disappeared years before hand and a meeting that she lives with her senile grandmother and under dreads. Meanwhile the auspices City of Kithamar is at a point in the wicked family lawyer, Mr Crow. She really does need to get away. And get away she does. Fleeing one turning of Mr Crow's particular nastinesses, Charlie falls through a gap between years when the worlds are at their thinnest and finds herself in Bellania, home all things are possible. It is the night between the funeral of myth a Prince and legend, and place the coronation of magichis successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruled. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955891205</amazonuk>0356515427
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongAnn Sei Lin|title=The Awakening (Darkest Powers 2)Rebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=We left poor Chloe Saunders just Kurara has spent her entire life as she'd been taken captive by a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the rather sinister Edison GroupEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. She'd only just escaped their clutchesHowever, too. And when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that was she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after she'd only just discovered all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all shehas known. Well, soon Kurara won's not t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a disturbed teenager, but an immensely powerful necromancermonstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, capable of summoning ghosts and raising she is forced to flee out into the deadworld. She's in good company; fellow captives Rae (halfjoins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-demon) ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and Tori (witch) also have supernatural powers. Still free are Derek (werewolf) and Simon (sorcerer). a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497118</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jaine FennB09Q3P283Y|title=Consorts of HeavenShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Some time ago, I read Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the ninth book from Jim ButcherVietnam War. He's ''Dresden Files'' series. [[White Night (Dresden Case Files) by Jim Butcher|White Night]] was a decent enough booknot really that invested in the fight against Communism, but did conform to nor is he particularly interested in a couple of the more obvious clichés and this took career in the edge off it for memilitary. But If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with the eleventh in the series, Butcher seems to have been improving as himself at least - he goes along hasn't got many choices and I found ''Turn Coat'' to be far more enjoyable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496979</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steve Augarde|title=Winter Wood (The Various)|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''We are all this one. I am , at least, gets him out of the fly upon my own cheek, and rut he's in another life I watch myself through his eye''. Pegs, an amazing flying horse that speaks in colours, gives Winter WoodHe's schoolgirl heroine, Midge, his parting words good in this splendid fantasy adventure which can be enjoyed by confident readers, teens training and adults alikeis quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>055254969X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=D J MacHaleJennifer Saint|title=The Rivers of Zadaa (Pendragon)Elektra
|rating=4
|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Don't get me wrong - I never mean to disparage a book when I convert its mood, plot or impression into a two or three word comparison with something else. So if I say there is a lot here that boils down to Eloi vs Morlock, itElektra's to point out I'm quite sure our author has knowledge by Jennifer Saint tells the story of The Time Machine, three women who live in book or on film, and wanted to do something a little similar. And the key word is 'little' - there's a lot that's Machale's own here in the balance between his two racesheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. One is above groundCassandra, one a lot paler for being subterraneanClytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the battleground between the two - played out on and under the desert capital city on Zadaa, in a heated time story of drought, is perfect for the big bad, Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint Dane, to get his claws into.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384854</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=D J MacHale|title=Blackwater (Pendragon)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=One of shows us that often the silent women have the most telling pages in this book was the one with the author's CV on, which declares his prior career in film compelling stories and TV. It's one of the hallmarks of the best genre TV series that each episode can immerse you in a universe unique to that week's programme, while never losing sight of the grand, major story arc. And to that rule I can begin to add the best of teen fantasy fiction, such as thismost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384846</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaye WellsDean Koontz|title=Red-headed StepchildQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=In Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a world where relations between magemercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-kind and vampirerun orphanage since he was a three-kind are so bad they exist on the brink of warday old foundling, being halfblood and now is starting a career on a major liabilityneedless magazine's staff. Though she has been a loyal servant But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of the Dominaemood or mind'', the vampire rulersfor something – call it unearthly intuition, since birthcall it mind-control, Sabina Kane call it a supernatural urge – has always been something demanded of an outcasthim that he go to a derelict diner, fit find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for only one profession – assassinatinggoing on the lam. And sheall this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's very good at itof 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 whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497568</amazonuk>1542019885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=D J MacHaleTasha Suri|title=The Reality Bug (Pendragon)Jasmine Throne
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Mike Carey On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. She is not a name I'd come across before, but immediately sent to be imprisoned on hearing he'd written the book Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the film ''Constantine'' was based on, I was certainly interested in his workmysterious deathless waters. ''Ticker Than Water'' But now the temple is the fourth in his series involving Felix Castor and whilst that gave me slight pause about coming in to nothing more than an already well established seriesovergrown, my desire to check out Carey's work outweighed any concerns I had|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496561</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephen R Lawhead|title=Tuck (King Raven Trilogy)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The struggle for Elfael reaches its conclusion in the third volume of Lawhead's Robin Hood trilogydecaying ruin. In this bookOne day, we see things through Friar Tuck's eyesMalini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Bryn ap Brychan has been betrayed by the greedy William RufusInstead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, who reneged on his promise to restore Malini claims that the Raven King's rightful throne to him, despite owing his life to the Welsh rebel. So it's back to the forest to regroup girl saved her from an attacker and plan again. But time is against begs for the Grellon - Abbot Hugo is planning to bring men in force and girl to wipe out Bryn and his followers once and for allbecome her own personal maidservant. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905654138</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Max FreiGenevieve Gornichec|title=The StrangerWitch's Heart
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Max is A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a dreamer, witch named Angrboda. She hides in that he does a lot forest at the edge of itthe nine worlds, partly tempered by his naturally off-kilter circadian rhythm and night-shift routineremembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. He is used Her attempts to thinking back onlive in peace, and chasinghowever, 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 mistrust, dreamsAngrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, but even he is surprised when he permanently dreams himself into and the two start an unusual family made of up a different worldhalf-dead daughter, a country called the Unified Kingdomson that's a wolf, and the city of Echoanother son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575089741</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom SiddellHannah Whitten|title=Gunnerkrigg Court: OrientationFor the Wolf|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=While having used the internet for several years now I have never needed to use the favourites option much – there is a routine for my comings and goings online that I can handle, and I don't think I regret losing out on a regular visit to any particular site much. The downside of this is that a lot of online graphic novels have probably passed me by, as I habitually don't form the habit of clicking to them. It's a relief then that one very well-acclaimed example, Gunnerkrigg Court, has come to my attention in book form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184856175X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Trudi Canavan|title=The Magician's Apprentice|rating=3
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|summary=It seems that wherever you go in fantasy circles at presentIn Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, Trudi Canavanand the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's work comes highly praisedmisfortune, she is the second daughter. Reviews of Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her current and past work speak of it in glowing terms and readers have clearly felt back, Red knows what to expect: within the same waywoods is a wolf, giving her high marks on websites like Amazon and propelling her to he is the one who will decide the top fate of the ''Sunday Times'' bestseller liststheir kingdom. Here at The BookbagIf she is not a worthy sacrifice, howeverthe monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, we're a discerning bunch and previous reviews of her work have criticised her weak character developmentthe fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. Having had my first taste of her workBut when Red enters the woods, I can see both points of viewexpecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, but would agree more strongly with she finds that the latterlegends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841495972</amazonuk>0356516369
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=M F W CurranJohn Gwynne|title=The Hoard of MhorrerShadow Of The Gods|rating=45
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=M. F. W. Curran's previous novel, [[The Secret War by M F W Curran|Shadow Of The Secret War]]Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, provided set in the era of the reader with a great opening into this seriesVikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. Curran builds his characters very well This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and then puts them into a very gripping story. It was John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with great anticipation I jumped straight into the follow upmythical creatures, ''The Hoard of Mhorrer''archaic language and battles galore. Whilst it contains many of the elements that made the first This is a thick book so good, it is different enough with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to be more than just create a copy of what worked so well last timewonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>023070980X</amazonuk>0356514218
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