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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim ButcherA G Slatter|title=Changes: The Dresden FilesBriar Book of the Dead
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|summary=It's always wonderful to see a series going from strength to strength and getting better as it goes along. However, when this happens, there inevitably comes a point where it gets so good, you can't help but think that the next one can't possibly be any better as it feels like the series has peaked. ''Changes'', the twelfth in Jim ButcherThere's ''Dresden Files'' series, is such a book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497134</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Phoebe Reeves Murray|title=Ghost: Blood and Fire|rating=1.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Young Jennifer Rhys has been orphaned by the evilDark Angels. They can possess people and bite off their hands, andthere's something about living tattoos which you can take out part of boxesand paste into your skin. After growing up in an adolescentpsychiatric ward, she will grow up me that wants to keep this just to go on and confront them andfulfil her destiny. Or something like thatmyself for however long I can. Between the huge amount This secret magic ofpoorly drawn charactersmy own, the leaden prose, and the disappointingpictures of computerized 3-D modelsall mine, at last. I got lost just want to enjoy it for a few times andcouldnwhile.''t summon the interest to work out what was going on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808863</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaye WellsRachel Greenlaw|title=The Mage in Black (Sabina Kane)Compass and Blade
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|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=After betraying ''I can hear the Dominae and siding with a Mage over the Vampires, Sabina Kane finds herself on the run. Leaving behind everything she knows, she travels with Mage, Adam, to meet the other half song of her family – her twin sister, Maisie. Though the Mages welcome her with open arms, Sabina, used to the cold, displeasure of her Dominae Grandmother, can't quite accept their open affection, or their conviction that she has a destiny. Her only focus is on revenge, developing her Mage powers so she can defeat her Grandmother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497576</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patricia Briggs|title=Silver Borne|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Mercy's life is just not getting any easiersea. The werewolf she lives with is looking like going rogue – not snapping out call of wolf formthe deep, which might have dangerous repercussions – for himself and those around him. Someone within the pack she's joined with seems to be playing psychic warfare on her, and leading her astray with errant mental suggestionsanswering beat in my heart. Worse still, she's opened the door of her (ill-fated) trailer and found death threats on the step before, but not a fae assassin looking over things from the middle distance. Could any of this have anything to do with a mysterious fae book of fairy lore she's been asked to look after?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497991</amazonuk>}}
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|summary='A telephone rang'You had a right to retake your place. I answered. After that…''
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|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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|rating=3
|genre=Fantasy|summary=A few months after the Formorian war, Shannon Parker ''Hate is living the high life. Hailed as Goddess Incarnate, married to a man (well, centaur) who was born to love her, carrying her first child, the next daughter path of Epona and royally spoiled with amazing jewels and clothes, life really canleast resistance''t get much better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303586</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James A OwenAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Shadow Dragons (Imaginarium Geographica) Delilah Recovered
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|summary=Shannon Parker, broke Oklahoma English teacher, likes We meet Dee at a good bargain hunt at an auction. But she gets more than point when her moneylife isn's worth when she buys a vase with her likeness painted on itt going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Somehow transported to the magical world Out of Partholonwork, Shannon finds herself in the shoes of Rhiannonabout to lose her flat, her mirror double. Along with RhiannonDee is up for an accountant's station as Goddess Incarnate, Shannon finds herself landed with her doublejob. But it's less than enviable reputation and a Centaur husbandnot to be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303578</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Mayhew|title=Mortlock|rating=4Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters.5|genre=Teens|summary=Abyssinia, 1820. Three Englishment search for the Amarant, a mythical flower with She survives the power over life and death, in a strange desert oasisattack but not unscathed. On finding the flower surrounded by decaying faces, they realize Witch hunters? What on earth has that it is cursed, and take a blood oath never to remove it. London, 1854. 13 year old knife thrower Josie performs do with her guardian the Great CardamomDee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an especially gifted magician who we quickly learn is Chrimes, the coward ordinary life. Slivers of memory of the original three Englishmen. Their relatively peaceful existence is shattered when three macabre Aunts (note the capital letter, never a good sign…) descend on them, and Cardamom instructs Josie, with his dying breath, things that are not ordinary at all return to find the twin brother he'd never told her about and destroy things will never be the Amarantsame.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803925</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celine Kiernan|title=The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy)|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=In ''The Poison Throne'' what had been a benevolent kingdom has become characterised by repression and torture (which the book graphically describes). The magical aspects of the kingdom, its talking cats and ghosts, have been suppressed, while Alberon, the heir to the throne, has vanished. Wynter, along with Alberon's half brother Razi and his friend Christopher are increasingly at risk as they attempt to deal with this situation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498211</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Russell KirkpatrickHadeer Elsbai|title=Beyond the Wall The Daughters of Time (Broken Man)Izdihar
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|summary=A couple of aspects have summed up Russell KirkpatrickDrawing inspiration from Egypt, 's 'The Daughters of Izdihar'Broken Man'' trilogy explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for me so farthe rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. There has been a fascinating story Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with some wonderful character building that has made it highly enjoyableNico. There have also been some of Giorgina on the most detailed maps I other hand did not have ever seen in a fantasy series, offering more variation than I've seen in maps before privileged upbringing like Nehal and actually adding detail feels great pressure to some parts provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the story, not merely acting as Daughters of Izdihar – a guidegroup campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. I was expecting more What follows is a story of the same an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from the final part, ''Beyond the Wall which blossoms a group of Time'' admirable women fighting for their rights and very much looking forward to itovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496715</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret StohlHeather Fawcett|title=Beautiful Creatures|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Teenage boy meets mysterious new stranger in a small town. They fall in love, he finds out sheEmily Wilde's harbouring a dark secret, the pair of them try to find out if their relationship can work while she tries to keep him safe from her world. This kind of book appears to be released every few weeks since [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] became so successful – but rarely in the past few years has it been done as well as it has in Beautiful Creatures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326085</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jasper Fforde|title=Shades of Grey|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Sometimes with authors you just don't know what you've been missing. Other times you do. Jasper Fforde has long been on my catch-up list. Snippets Encyclopaedia of Thursday Next and reviews and interviews were enough to convince me I had to get to know this work. My chance finally came with the first in a completely new series: Shades of Grey.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340963034</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Pamela Freeman|title=Full Circle (Castings Trilogy)Faeries
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|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Pamela Freeman's ''Castings'' trilogy Emily Wilde is written in an unusual way for a fantasy novel. It tells the story from the charactersexpert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life' points of views work, in a style more common to the chick-lit novels very first encyclopaedia of Josie Lloyd faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and Emlyn Reesspeaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. This interrupted So when she finds herself far, far North in the flow small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the story quite noticeably in ''Blood Ties''village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the first of the trilogyright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, but didn't seem quite so much of a distraction in the second part, ''Deep Water'to Emily's frustration. Unfortunately, this time But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around it works against the story.Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497037</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan SkinnerChristopher Golden|title=Furnaces Road of ForgeBones
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|genre=TeensHorror|summary=In this [[Blue Fire and Ice (The Land) by Alan Skinner|sequel]]Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's almost as you were, except here one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the mysterious powers year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the blue flame are not being used by some outlander arsonistpermafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, but have been usurped by two inept young scientists from the Myrmidotspuddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to fuel their industrygive too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. We You can predict this will prove easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bad thingbit rich, for one of our main characters, but Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the breadth project to fruition to claw back some of the journey to capture funds he'd invested in the flamepair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, and gain the efforts company of all our returning characters to put things right might still be a surpriselocal beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955726859</amazonuk>1803361476
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|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The first part of Celia Friedman's ''Magister'' trilogy was Matt has a wonderfully dark piece of fantasyterrible life. It contained some beasts you wouldnSeriously—it't be surprised to come across in a horror novel and stretched the idea of magic being a draining power to an interesting place psychologicallys awful. The second part, ''Wings of Wrath'' It is more of a straight fantasy novel, lacking some of the horror elements so bad that made Dan the first part such Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a draw blissful life in exchange for me, but ithis soul.''s still a very good read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495336</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ElliottOlivie Blake|title=Traitors' Gate (Crossroads)The Atlas Six
|rating=4
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|summary=Kate Elliott's ''Crossroads'' series has so far come in largeDark, slightly off-putting chunks. They've been decent readssharp, by and large, with a huge cast of wonderfully drawn charactershighly inquisitive, but the sheer size and slow pace of the action has meant I didn't enjoy them as much as I may otherwise have done. 'The Atlas Six'Traitors' Gate'', the third in the sequence is different in only one aspect; the character development is still there, the huge page count is still there, but the pacing is makes its publishing debut after becoming a lot betterTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498351</amazonuk>1529095239
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda DownumDaniel Abraham|title=The Drowning CityAge of Ash|rating=34.5
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|summary=In We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a nutshell, you're reading this because you're wondering whether The Drowning knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is good, bad or mediocreat a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. You've probably glanced at It is the night between the rating funeral of a Prince and guessed the lattercoronation of his successor. I'm afraid it's not quite that simpleFor a night the Kithamar is un-ruled. This is |isbn=0356515427}}{{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a debut that provokes decidedly mixed feelingsmassive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. I started off convinced However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that I was going she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to love this bookform paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. The cover art He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is effortlessly coolall she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the premise intriguingmatter, because the characters laden with potential for greatness Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the backdrop Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is certainly evocative.to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498149</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa McMannB09Q3P283Y|title=WakeShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Possessed of great beauty, Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the kind that drives men mad, Fire is used to people trying to kill herVietnam War. She isnHe't used to them doing it by accident. When a poacher s not really that invested in the woods outside her home accidentally shoots herfight against Communism, Fire nor is hard pressed to keep he particularly interested in a career in the temperamental Lord Archer from killing himmilitary. But as sure as Fire If he's honest - which Clyde usually is the man did not mean to cause her harm, she is made unsure by with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the strange fog that exists rut he's in. He's good in the mantraining and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's mindchuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905200129</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GemmellJennifer Saint|title=LegendElektra
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|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Dros Delnoch, a massive fortress with six walls 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of defence, is three women who live in danger the heavily male dominated world of falling to the NadirAncient Greece. With its fallCassandra, the Drenai empire is soon to follow. The Nadir haven't lost yet and as a resultClytemnestra, morale among the defenders is low and desertions Elektra are rampantall bit players in the story of the Trojan War. The men long for a hero, but Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the legendary Druss has hidden himself away in silent women have the mountains most compelling stories and become a myththe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498580</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terry Brooks Dean Koontz|title=A Princess of Landover (Magic Kingdom of Landover)Quicksilver|rating=32.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Mistaya has Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a lot to deal with mercurial character yet, for 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. But when this book. But then so do her parentsstarts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, Ben (human) cash the value of it out of his bank and Willow (half Dryad), as prepare for much of going on the lam. And all this is just in time they do not know where she for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is: your basic parental nightmare if you have a fifteen year old daughter whether you are interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the ruler discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a magical kingdom or notwhole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841495808</amazonuk>1542019885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongTasha Suri|title=FrostbittenThe Jasmine Throne
|rating=4
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|summary=It's back to On the werewolves in this latest volume in Armstrong's immensely popular Women night of the Otherworld seriesher sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and I must say I'm relieved because refuses to step on to 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 oldpyre. Elena has just found out that Jeremy She is looking immediately sent to retire and also to make her be imprisoned on the new pack Alpha. Ambitious and competitive, she's the ideal pack member for the job - but how will it affect her relationship Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with Clay, the pack enforcer? To add to this worry, a contact community of people who got powers from the past has churned up some unwanted memoriesmysterious deathless waters. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497762</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mike Carey|title=The Naming of But now the Beasts (Felix Castor)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Felix Castor temple is a talented exorcist living in London, with zombies, ghosts and succubi for friendsnothing more than an overgrown, and the odd humandecaying ruin. His best friendOne day, Rafi, has been taken over by Malini witnesses a demon called Asmodeus, girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for which Felix feels slightly responsible. As sucha gruesome crime, he needs to get Rafi back to normal - the problem is Malini claims 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) girl saved her from an attacker and Sue, Juliet's lover. At begs for the same time, there are horrible things going on in a central London gym, and Castor must do something about it before people start girl to diebecome her own personal maidservant. Can he solve all his problems without losing any of his loved ones? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496553</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jesse BullingtonGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Sad Tale of the Brothers GrossbartWitch's Heart
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|genre=Fantasy
|summary=When Hegel A modern and Manfried approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, however, are ticked offquickly 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, you know about it. Returning Angrboda begins to a town fall for vengeance - someone didnLoki't like their scrumping there as children s charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a half- they leave several deaddaughter, and several more corpses behind when a posse is sent off to seek its own justice. Theyson that're journeying south, graverobbing their way through mediaeval Europes a wolf, and they donanother son that'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 dones a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497835</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Walter Moers Hannah Whitten|title=The Alchemaster's ApprenticeFor the Wolf|rating=4.5
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|summary=Meet Echo In Red's family, the Cratfirst daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. He To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a rare example of his specieswolf, which and he is a cat that can speak every language known. His life among the miserable, permanently ill citizens one who will decide the fate of Malaisea their kingdom. If she is not great, which is whya worthy sacrifice, when the strange scientist from monsters he keeps contained to the castle that looms over everyone woods will be released, and everything offers him a month of entertaining gluttony before the fabled kings he kills Echokeeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, as opposed expecting nothing more than to three days' starving penury on be killed within the streetshour, she finds that the offer legends are lies. The wolf is acceptednot a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846552222</amazonuk>0356516369
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia BriggsJohn Gwynne|title=Hunting Ground (Alpha and Omega)The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Life with a werewolf The Shadow Of The Gods is a question the first installment of balances. You have to swing your new-found status as the motherlyBloodsworn Saga, calmingset in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, but powerful Omega wolf, with his Alpha-male studly status. You when the Gods have to equate his inner Brother Wolf being practically a different entity to his human side, battled and know when and how to relate their bones lie scattered for all to bothsee. And you have to remember that you might be playfighting This story is the ultimate in the snow one minuteHigh Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the next told by your father-in-law to go to Seattlegenre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and act as figurehead for battles galore. This is a revolution in werewolf life - thick book, with an intricate plot and stand in the face of fascinating characters that are woven together to create a very wicked wonderfully realistic and powerful European werewolf, vampires, and moregritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497959</amazonuk>0356514218
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