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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pamela FreemanA G Slatter|title=Full Circle (Castings Trilogy)The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Pamela Freeman's 'There'Castingss 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, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' trilogy is written in an unusual way for Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a fantasy novel. It tells town under the story from protection of the charactersBriar' points s, a family of viewwitches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, in a style more common to Ellie Briar is the chickfirst non-lit novels of [[:Category:Josie Lloyd|Josie Lloyd]] witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and [[:Category:Emlyn Rees|Emlyn Rees]]potions. This interrupted When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the flow of Briar Witch, the story quite noticeably in ''Blood Ties'town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the first of rare ability to communicate with the trilogydead, but didn't seem quite so much putting her at the heart of a distraction in maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the second partBriar witches' legacy, ''Deep Water''. Unfortunatelyeverything they have sacrificed to survive, this time around it works against the storyis under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497037</amazonuk>1803364548
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan SkinnerRachel Greenlaw|title=Furnaces of ForgeCompass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In this [[Blue Fire and Ice (The Land) by Alan Skinner|sequel]], it's almost as you were, except here 'I can hear the mysterious powers song of the blue flame are not being used by some outlander arsonist, but have been usurped by two inept young scientists from the Myrmidots, to fuel their industrysea. We can predict this will prove a bad thing, but the breadth The call of the journey to capture the flamedeep, and the efforts of all our returning characters to put things right might still be a surpriseanswering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955726859</amazonuk>}}''
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{{Frontpage
|author=T Kingfisher
|title=Thornhedge
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=''You had a right to retake your place.''
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{{Frontpage
|author=Nicole Jarvis
|title=A Portrait in Shadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=''I want all of Florence to know my name''
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{{Frontpage
|author=Thomas D Lee
|title=Perilous Times
|rating=3
|genre= Fantasy
|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ElliottAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Traitors' Gate (Crossroads)Delilah Recovered
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Kate Elliott's ''Crossroads'' series has so far come in large, slightly off-putting chunks. They've been decent reads, by and large, with We meet Dee at a huge cast of wonderfully drawn characters, but the sheer size and slow pace of the action has meant I didnpoint when her life isn't enjoy them going as much as I may otherwise have done. ''Traitors' Gate''planned but things might, the third in the sequence is different in only one aspect; the character development is still therejust might, the huge page count is still therebe about to look up. Out of work, but the pacing is a lot better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498351</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amanda Downum|title=The Drowning City|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In a nutshellabout to lose her flat, you're reading this because you're wondering whether The Drowning City Dee is good, bad or mediocre. Youup for an accountant've probably glanced at the rating and guessed the latters job. I'm afraid But it's not quite that simpleto be. This Dee is a debut attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that provokes decidedly mixed feelingsto do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. I started off convinced Slivers of memory of things that I was going are not ordinary at all return to love this book. The cover art is effortlessly cool, the premise intriguing, the characters laden with potential for greatness her and things will never be the backdrop is certainly evocativesame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498149</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannHadeer Elsbai|title=WakeThe Daughters of Izdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Possessed Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of great beautytwo women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the kind that drives men madupper class, Fire is used wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to people trying learn to kill control her. She isn't used to them doing it by accident. When a poacher in abilities and then join the woods outside her home accidentally shoots hermilitary, Fire but instead she is hard pressed to keep the temperamental Lord Archer from killing himforced into an arranged marriage with Nico. But as sure as Fire is Giorgina on the man other hand did not mean have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to cause provide for her harmfamily and maintain their reputation, she is made unsure by whilst secretly attending meetings of the strange fog that exists in the manDaughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's mindrights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a 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>1905200129</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GemmellHeather Fawcett|title=LegendEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Dros DelnochEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, a massive fortress with six walls of defenceand researched meticulously, is in danger of falling to write her life's work, the Nadirvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. With its fallWhilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, the Drenai empire she is soon to follownot so good with people. The Nadir haven't lost yet and as a resultSo when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, morale among having somehow offended the defenders village matriarch, she is low not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and desertions are rampantput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. The men long for a heroEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, but the legendary Druss has hidden himself away in the mountains all charm and become a mythdelight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498580</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terry Brooks Christopher Golden|title=A Princess of Landover (Magic Kingdom Road of Landover)Bones
|rating=3.5
|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Mistaya has The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a lot to deal with in this bookthousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the 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 it very often. But then Built because Stalin wanted so do her parentsmuch uranium and other Siberian minerals, Ben (human) and Willow (half Dryad)because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, as for much one of the time they do not know where she our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is: your basic parental nightmare if you have a fifteen year old daughter whether you are film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, 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's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the ruler company of a magical kingdom or notlocal beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841495808</amazonuk>1803361476
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongAndrew Givler|title=FrostbittenSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)
|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 favouritesMatt has a terrible life. TimeSeriously—it's moved on a little since we were with them lastawful. Elena and Clay are now utterly settled in their wolfish marriage and their twins are three years old. Elena has just found out It is so bad that Jeremy Dan the Demon is looking to retire and also to make her the new pack Alphashocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his soul. 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>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jesse BullingtonOlivie Blake|title=The Sad Tale of the Brothers GrossbartAtlas Six
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=When Hegel Dark, sharp, and Manfried are ticked offhighly inquisitive, 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 donThe Atlas Six''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 donemakes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497835</amazonuk>1529095239
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Walter Moers Daniel Abraham|title=The Alchemaster's ApprenticeAge of Ash
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Meet Echo We meet Alys under the Crat. most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, He is she has a rare example of his species, which is knife in her hand and a cat meeting that can speak every language knownshe dreads. His life among Meanwhile the miserable, permanently ill citizens City of Malaisea Kithamar is not great, which at a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. It is why, when the strange scientist from night between the castle that looms over everyone funeral of a Prince and everything offers him the coronation of his successor. For a month of entertaining gluttony before he kills Echo, as opposed to three days' starving penury on the streets, night the offer Kithamar is acceptedun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846552222</amazonuk>0356515427
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia BriggsAnn Sei Lin|title=Hunting Ground (Alpha and Omega)Rebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Life with Kurara has spent her entire life as a werewolf is servant on the Midori, a question massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of balancesthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. You have However, when a man named Himura arrives to swing your new-found status as the motherly, calming, but powerful Omega wolftell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with his Alpha-male studly status. You have the power to equate his inner Brother Wolf being practically form paper into whatever she desires – a different entity power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to his human sidecome with him, and know when and how to relate to bothleave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. And you Well, soon Kurara won't have to remember that you might be playfighting any say in the snow one minutematter, and because the next told Midori is destroyed by your father-in-law to go to Seattle, and act a monstrous paper spirit known as figurehead for a revolution in werewolf life - shikigami, and stand in she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the face of Orihime, a very wicked and powerful European werewolf, vampiressky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and more.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497959</amazonuk>1406399590
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|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=It Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is not easy to move he particularly interested in with a werewolfcareer in the military. He If he's honest - which Clyde usually is two hundred years old or more, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and youthis one, at least, gets him out of the rut he've been a werewolf for three yearss in. He comes with generations of baggage, a father who is the capo di capi of werewolves 's good in North America, training and is quickly put onto a job as his assassin and general fiery dogsbodynon commissioned officer training course. You are only just beginning to get to grips with your new status, and his temperament, and how they are expected to mix before youHe're confirmed as a couple. So when it comes to him clearing up a mess s chuffed with regards to a lethal, rogue werewolf nearby - making humans take too much notice - the timing could have been betterhimself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497940</amazonuk>
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|rating=4
|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=The charismatic dwarf, Tungdil, abandoned at birth, and brought up 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the land heavily male dominated world of ''long-uns'' (humans), was raised and apprenticed to a magusAncient Greece. He finds that his peaceful life is about to change dramatically. Plucked from obscurity and anonymity, he is sent on a quest to find his fellow dwarvesCassandra, delivering messages en route: naturally, adventure will follow himClytemnestra, and perhaps he is even the long lost heir to the dwarves' throne - time will tell!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316049441</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christopher Moore|title=You Suck|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=You know that old adage about books and covers? Well this is a case Elektra are all bit players in point. The title isn't great, but the cover design for the paperback imprint is, like, duh!, the pits. It is so uncool…so unrep-resent-ative story of the book. This is not a cocktail thing. Not even a "Bloody Mary" thingTrojan War. Well, except for the tiny bit Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that is, but you'll discover that 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 often the second book in K.E. Mills' rogue agent series, which are about silent women have the exploits of wizard Gerald Dunwoody most compelling stories and his friends. In this book, Gerald has a new job as a secret agent for the Ottosland government. He's on a deadly mission to hunt down a saboteur, determined to make amends for his past. Meanwhile, his friends have set up an agency (Witches Incorporated) and are themselves heading for danger when they accidentally cross paths with Gerald's saboteurmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497282</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tad WilliamsDean Koontz|title=The Dragonbone ChairQuicksilver|rating=32.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=To Simon, an orphaned servant at Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the Hayholtchance to get to be a mercurial character yet, home of an aged kingfor he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, it seems that his life will forever be dull and mundanenow is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. The KingBut when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind's youthful glory days were long ago and Simon', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, who dreams call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of adventurehim that he go to a derelict diner, sees his peaceful but quiet life as find a gold coin worth a tragedy. When fortune, cash the old King dies value of it out of his son Elias is crowned, but begins to act strangely. Strange weather strikes the realm, terrifying beasts are attacking from the North, bank and prepare for going on the King, far from helping his people from these problems, is adding his own heavy taxeslam. Simon And all this is caught just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up on a journey that is as full of danger and intrigue as suggest he ever dreamed 's ofinterest to them. Helped to escape, but he finds it less than he hoped for. An ancient enemy his flight is stirringinterrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the High King Elias discovery that he is aiding this enemy and it seems the only hope for the kingdom lies not unique in the knowledge having some kind of the mysterious League of the Scroll burgeoning power – and the finding of three ancient swords of powera whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498394</amazonuk>1542019885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin J AndersonTasha Suri|title=The Edge of the WorldJasmine Throne
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The 'Furies' of On the title refer to elemental spirits night of earth, air, fireher sacred burning, water Princess Malini defies her brother and metal which bond with humans and grant them magical abilitiesrefuses to step on to the pyre. Welcome She is immediately sent to Alera, where all be imprisoned on the citizens have magical Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powersfrom the mysterious deathless waters. All except fifteen year old farm boy TaviBut now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a native girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the Calderon valley who girl saved her from an attacker and begs for some reason has been unable the girl to create any bonds with an elementalbecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497444</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Holt Genevieve Gornichec|title=May Contain Traces of MagicThe Witch's Heart
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=It's A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a hard life being witch named Angrboda. She hides in a salesman. Chris Popham spends all his time driving between customers trying to sell them things they don't really want to buy – products forest at the edge of JWW retailthe nine worlds, magical goodsremembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Portable parking spacesHer attempts to live in peace, bank holidays on a CDhowever, 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 Book stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of all Human Knowledgemistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the firmtwo start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's most popular producta wolf, DW6, only don't ask what itand another son that's for, because no one knowsa snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841495050</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian Keaney Hannah Whitten|title=The Mendini Canticle (Dr Sigmundus Trilogy)|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 For the military.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846160901</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marcus Alexander|title=Who is Charlie Keeper?Wolf|rating=35
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Twelve-year-old Charlie Keeper lives in In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a slightly peculiar house with slightly peculiar noises and slightly peculiar visitorssacrifice. Her life isnTo Red't so great; her parents disappeared years before and s misfortune, she lives is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her senile grandmother back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and under he is the auspices one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the wicked family lawyerwoods will be released, Mr Crowand the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. She really does need But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to get away. And get away be killed within the hour, she doesfinds that the legends are lies. Fleeing one of Mr CrowThe wolf is not a monster—he's particular nastinesses, Charlie falls through a gap between worlds and finds herself in Bellania, home of myth and legend, and place of magicman. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955891205</amazonuk>0356516369
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongJohn Gwynne|title=The Awakening (Darkest Powers 2)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We left poor Chloe Saunders just as she'd been taken captive by the rather sinister Edison Group. She'd only just escaped their clutches, too. And that was after she'd only just discovered that she's not a disturbed teenager, but an immensely powerful necromancer, capable of summoning ghosts and raising the dead. She's in good company; fellow captives Rae (half-demon) and Tori (witch) also have supernatural powers. Still free are Derek (werewolf) and Simon (sorcerer). |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497118</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jaine Fenn|title=Consorts of Heaven|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Fantasy and science fiction are genres that mesh well together. Some authors have written successfully across both genres, but not usually in the same story. Jaine Fenn has managed to combine both in one book and it's an interesting read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575083239</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Margo Lanagan|title=Tender Morsels|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Liga's upbringing has not been a happy one. Her mother died young. Her father has sexually abused her and forced herbal concoctions on her in order to abort the resulting pregancies - except the last one. After his death, she was gang-raped by village boys and fell pregnant again. In her degradation and despair, she resolves to throw herself and her baby off a cliff. But the moon-babby takes pity upon her and spirits her away to an alternate reality in which people are kind and everything is safe. Here, she brings up her daughters - the pacific Branza and the fiery Urdda - in peace and harmony. It is, after all, her heart's desire. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385613237</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jim Butcher|title=Turn Coat (Dresden Files)Shadow Of The Gods
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Some time ago, I read The Shadow Of The Gods is the ninth book from Jim Butcher's ''Dresden Files'' series. [[White Night (Dresden Case Files) by Jim Butcher|White Night]] was a decent enough book, but did conform to a couple first installment of the more obvious clichés and this took Bloodsworn Saga, set in the edge off it for me. But with era of the eleventh Vikings in the seriesshadow of Ragnarok, Butcher seems to when the Gods have been improving as he goes along battled and I found ''Turn Coat'' their bones lie scattered for all to be far more enjoyablesee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496979</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steve Augarde|title=Winter Wood (The Various)|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''We are all one. I am This story is the fly upon my own cheek, and in another life I watch myself through his eye''. Pegs, an amazing flying horse that speaks in colours, gives Winter Wood's schoolgirl heroine, Midge, his parting words ultimate in this splendid fantasy adventure which can be enjoyed by confident readersHigh Fantasy, teens and adults alike.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>055254969X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=D J MacHale|title=The Rivers of Zadaa (Pendragon)|rating=4|John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre=Teens|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 elsemythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. So if I say there This is a lot here that boils down to Eloi vs Morlock, it's to point out I'm quite sure our author has knowledge of The Time Machine, in thick book or on film, with an intricate plot and wanted fascinating characters that are woven together to do something a little similar. And the key word is 'little' - there's create a lot that's Machale's own here in the balance between his two races. One is above ground, one a lot paler for being subterranean, wonderfully realistic and the battleground between the two - played out on and under the desert capital city on Zadaa, gritty world in a heated time of drought, is perfect for the big bad, Saint Dane, to get his claws intowhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384854</amazonuk>0356514218
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