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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin J AndersonA G Slatter|title=The Map Of All Things (Terra Incognita)Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45
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|summary=After years of religious war between the Aidenists and the Urecari, with multiple atrocities on both sides, the known world has been divided. For each loss there is '' There's a retaliation, an upscale part of the damage until the war becomes a crusademe that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. In the centre This secret magic of my own, all this is Ishalemmine, a city that bridges the divideat last. Captured by the Urecari, who are now building a wall I just want to defend enjoy it, the Aidenists want it back, no matter what the costfor a while.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496596</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris WoodingRachel Greenlaw|title=Black Lung Captain: Tales of the Ketty JayCompass and Blade|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Things on board the Ketty Jay have never been as low. Darian Frey and his crew are even having trouble thieving from defenceless orphanages. So when the next token job-they-can't-refuse comes along, they fall under it's spell. An explorer has returned with tales of untold riches, courtesy of the most mysterious artefacts and treasures of an unknown civilization. The fact that the remains are those of an aircraft crashed in the most Arctic of rainforests, inhabited by the most evil beast-men monsters, is neither here nor there. The problems start with what they find there, which is worse than anyone could have expected - or indeed years ago, with a mysterious connection between the remains and the more unusual crewmember3...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575085177</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mia James|title=By Midnight|rating=5
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|summary=April Dunne doesn't really consider herself to be a genius, and her family certainly aren't rich - so how did she get accepted by the ultra-prestigious Ravenwood school when her family moved from Scotland to Highgate? She I can't work it out but has other problems to worry about, in any case, such as the two local murders and the way people at her school get angry when she tries to take their photograph. On hear the plus side, there's a seriously stunning boy she's drawn to straight away, Gabriel Swift, and she thinks he likes her, although his behaviour is weird at times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575095520</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jim Butcher|title=First Lord's Fury (Codex Alera)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In ''First Lord's Fury'', the concluding part in Jim Butcher's six-part ''Codex Alera'' series, the land of Alera is struggling under the weight song of an invasion by the Vordsea. The First Lord call of Alera has been killed in battle and with his son already dead and his grandson away fighting in Canea, there looks likely to be a power struggle within the Alerans themselves. Many Alerans have switched their allegiance to the Vorddeep, sensing that victory over them is impossible and believing that may be the only way to escape deathanswering beat in my heart. This gives the Vord access to Aleran furies, a powerful force that is the Alerans main weapon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498513</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=K J ParkerT Kingfisher|title=The Folding KnifeThornhedge
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|summary=Bassianus Arcadius Severus – call him Basso – is a man of many talents. All but guaranteed a life of ease as his birthright, he instead finds himself driven to excel, first as an executive trustee in his father’s bank, and then in the realm of politics. His rise to the zenith of public life is meteoric, fuelled by ambition, ruthlessness, and above all his ability to turn any defeat into a resounding victory. But with the Republic – and Basso’s own position and even life – under threat from enemies old and new, will his fall prove equally thunderous? Welcome to ''The Folding Knife'', the latest fantasy epic from K.J. Parker.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495123</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sherrilyn Kenyon|title=Infinity|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Nick Gautier, scholarship kid teased for his poverty and his mother's job as You had a stripper, finds life hard enough even before three of his friends try right to kill him when he stops them from mugging an elderly couple. But when the man who rescues him turns out to mix in seriously weird circles, things get really bizarre. If anything, really bizarre is a massive understatement. Nick goes on to meet demons, zombies, shape changers, and a host of other mysterious beings, many of whom he already knew in human form as his schoolmatesretake your place. He ends up on the frontline of a battle against zombies who are running riot in his home of New Orleans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190741021X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marjorie M Liu|title=The Iron Hunt (Hunter Kiss)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Maxine is the last in the line of the Wardens, who wear demons as tattoos in the day, making them invulnerable. At night, 'the boys' peel away and leave her open to attack – and there are an awful lot of people out to attack her. While she's spent her life, since inheriting the tattoos from her mother, tackling zombies (who are humans possessed by demons in this world, rather than 'traditional' zombies), she quickly finds there are far worse things out there in the prison dimension they call home. The death of an investigator trying to find her leads to strange alliances being formed, questions about her past being raised, and the end of the world approaching… unless she can stop it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498009</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Seth Grahame-Smith|title=Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary='Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.' That quote, on the Statue of Liberty, was probably not designed with the inclusion of vampires in mind. But by some means or another North America is rife with the things – hiding in plain sight, as the older ones can bear sunlight, with the help of darkened glasses. It might just come down to one eager young man to rid his new country of such things, on his way to something he’s a bit more known for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849014086</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chloe Neill|title=Firespell: The Dark Elite|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Lily Parker is sent to boarding school in Chicago when her parents get the opportunity to do some prestigious research work in Germany. She was expecting bitchy classmates, and she gets them – but she wasn’t prepared for her suitemate, Scout, who stays out late at night and reappears covered in bruises, a school full of secret hiding places, a principal who knows her parents and seems to have an entirely wrong idea about their work – or a mysterious group of supernatural teens called the Dark Elite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575095393</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard DenningNicole Jarvis|title=The Last SealA Portrait in Shadow
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|genre=TeensHistorical Fiction|summary=In 1380 the warlock Stephen Blake released the demon Dantalion from the Abyss, only for his nemesis Cornelius Silver to banish him straight away. Dantalion has nursed his wounds for nearly 300 years – and in 1666, descendants ''I want all of the original pair clash as heaims to return to the world, and burn down London by starting the Great Fire. While the fire rages around London, and Dantalion’s followers try to break the seals which hold him in the Abyss, four unlikely heroes join forces to stop them from being destroyed – and Florence to save the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956483550</amazonuk>}}know my name''
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{{Frontpage
|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=Martin MillarAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Lonely Werewolf GirlDelilah Recovered
|rating=4
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|summary=The plot is simple - the werewolf We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of the title is 17 year old Kalixwork, exiled from her family due about to lose her involvement in the head of the clan’s death. Her elder brother has set a price on her headflat, and Dee is pursuing her with all sources he can musterup for an accountant's job. But it's not to be. It sounds horrific? It Dee is indeed, and there are some truly gruesome scenes, as werewolves battle amongst attacked by two men calling themselves, or with witch hunters. She survives the humans who come into their orbitattack but not unscathed. However, these scenes Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do serve a purpose (to remind us perhapswith Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that they are werewolves, and not humans?!), and by ordinary at all return to her and large do not occupy too large a part in the narrative.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749942835</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jaye Wells|title=The Mage in Black (Sabina Kane)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=After betraying the Dominae and siding with a Mage over the Vampires, Sabina Kane finds herself on things will never be the runsame. Leaving behind everything she knows, she travels with Mage, Adam, to meet the other half 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497576</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia BriggsHadeer Elsbai|title=Silver BorneThe Daughters of Izdihar
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|summary=MercyDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''s life is just not getting any easier. The werewolf she Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives with is looking like going rogue – of two women who could not snapping out of wolf formbe more different, which might have dangerous repercussions – yet find themselves fighting for himself the rights of women and weavers – those around himwith magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Someone within Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the pack she's joined with seems Weaving Academy to learn to be playing psychic warfare on control herabilities and then join the military, and leading her astray but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with errant mental suggestionsNico. Worse still, she's opened Giorgina on the door of other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her (ill-fated) trailer family and found death threats on maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the step before, but not Daughters of Izdihar – a fae assassin looking over things from the middle distancegroup campaigning for women's rights. Could any of this have anything Giorgina also happens to do be in love with Nico. What follows is a mysterious fae book story of fairy lore she's been asked to look after?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>1841497991</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian RuckleyHeather Fawcett|title=Fall Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of ThanesFaeries
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|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=The Godless world Emily Wilde is descending into a kind an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of insanityfaeries. All order Whilst she is breaking down brilliant at research and members speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of both Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the True Bloods 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 Black Road are fighting amongst themselvesright track. There is rioting in the streets Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and the armies of both sides have taken delight, much to mindless slaughter rather than organised conquestEmily's frustration. Under Aeglyss' command, the Black Road armies are strengthening and his power But why is increasing as his body weakens. he here? What does he want? His control of the Shadow Chancellor And what exactly is a step towards ending going on with the rule of the Thanes by murdering the greatest among them.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841494410</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kresley ColeChristopher Golden|title=Pleasure Road of a Dark PrinceBones
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|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Sexy half dressed hunk on cover? CheckThe Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Enticing title? CheckStretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. Sometimes thereFor months of the year it's nothing nicer than curling up with a glass spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of wine (or two!)unremitting, some cheese apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and crackers other Siberian minerals, and lovely hunky man – even if 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, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the main character funds he'd invested in a book! the pair's prior TV projects. I've never read Kresley Cole before but I love fantasyThey pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, especially with gain the company of a romantic element local beauty, and so I was looking forward fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to trying a new author.go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849830363</amazonuk>1803361476
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate GriffinAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Midnight Mayor: A Matthew Swift Novel Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=54
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|summary='A telephone rang. I answered'Matt has a terrible life. After that… …itSeriously—it's complicatedawful. It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his soul.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Glenda LarkeOlivie Blake|title=The Last Stormlord (Stormlord Trilogy) Atlas Six
|rating=4
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|summary=The Last Stormlord is a unique story which explores a civilization on the brink of disaster. The world survives through the powers of a Stormmlord who brings water to the parched lands of the Quartern from the distant seas. As the story opens the last Stormlord is weak Dark, sharp, and dying. Choices are being made about who will receive waterhighly inquisitive, who will not and the Quartern hovers on the brink of returning to a time of Random Rain: water that does not fall where or when it is needed. Without ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a new Stormlord the land will dieTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498114</amazonuk>1529095239
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=N K JemisinDaniel Abraham|title=The Hundred-Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy)Age of Ash|rating=4.5
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|summary=A month after her motherWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's deathfour bridges, outcast Yeine Darr she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is summoned by her grandfather, king at a point in the turning of years when the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, to come to worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. It is the night between the palace funeral of Sky. There named one a Prince and the coronation of his three heirs, along with her feuding cousins, she quickly realizes that without allies she will surely lose the contest for the thronesuccessor. Thus begins an epic quest to find her mother's murderer, save her own life, and fulfil For a destiny she never knew she hadnight the Kithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498173</amazonuk>0356515427
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=P C CastAnn Sei Lin|title=Divine by Choice (Goddess of Partholon)Rebel Skies|rating=35|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=A few months after Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Formorian warMidori, Shannon Parker is living a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the high lifeEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Hailed as Goddess IncarnateHowever, married to when a man (well, centaur) who was born named Himura arrives to love tell herthat she is a Crafter like him, carrying someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her first childto come with him, to leave the next daughter life of Epona and royally spoiled with amazing jewels and clothesdreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, life really cansoon Kurara won't get much betterhave any say in the matter, because the 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 Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0778303586</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura PowellB09Q3P283Y|title=The Master of Misrule|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the Arcanum, fortunes could be won and lost. The bizarre otherworld, just the slightest shift away from our own, had been home to a life-altering game of chance, power and intelligence, based on the tarot. Four teenaged Londoners had been witness to this, then players. But they'd found it wanting, and to level the playing field, had thrown out the rulebook. With that, however, the referee is no more, and the Lord of Misrule is in charge. Free, too, to smother all of Britain with his unique brand of scratch-card lottery. Soon all humanity might be out of luck.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408302373</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewShadebringer|author=James A Owen|title=Shadow Dragons (Imaginarium Geographica) Grayson W Hooper
|rating=4
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|summary=Shannon Parker, broke Oklahoma English teacher, likes a good bargain hunt at an auctionClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. But she gets more than her moneyHe's worth when she buys a vase with her likeness painted on it. Somehow transported to not really that invested in the magical world of Partholonfight against Communism, Shannon finds herself nor is he particularly interested in a career in the shoes of Rhiannon, her mirror doublemilitary. Along with RhiannonIf he's station as Goddess Incarnatehonest - which Clyde usually is, Shannon finds herself landed with her doublehimself at least - he hasn's less than enviable reputation t got many choices and a Centaur husband.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303578</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Mayhew|title=Mortlock|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Abyssiniathis one, 1820. Three Englishment search for the Amarantat least, a mythical flower with gets him out of the power over life and death, rut he's in a strange desert oasis. On finding the flower surrounded by decaying faces, they realize that it He's good in training and is cursed, and take quickly put onto a blood oath never to remove itnon commissioned officer training course. London, 1854. 13 year old knife thrower Josie performs He's chuffed with her guardian the Great Cardamom, an especially gifted magician who we quickly learn is Chrimes, the coward 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, to find the twin brother he'd never told her about and destroy the Amaranthimself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803925</amazonuk>
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|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=A couple of aspects have summed up Russell Kirkpatrick's Elektra''Broken Man'' trilogy for me so far. There has been a fascinating by Jennifer Saint tells the story with some wonderful character building that has made it highly enjoyable. There have also been some of three women who live in the most detailed maps I have ever seen in a fantasy seriesheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, offering more variation than I've seen and Elektra are all bit players in maps before and actually adding detail to some parts of the story, not merely acting as a guide. I was expecting more of the same from Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the final part, ''Beyond silent women have the Wall of Time'' most compelling stories and very much looking forward to itthe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496715</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret StohlDean Koontz|title=Beautiful CreaturesQuicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=Teenage boy meets mysterious new stranger in Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a small town. They fall in lovemercurial character yet, for he finds out she's harbouring lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a dark secretthree-day old foundling, the pair and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of them try him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out if their relationship can work while she tries of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to keep him safe from her worldturn up and suggest he's of interest to them. This kind of book appears Helped to be released every few weeks since [[Twilight escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] became so successful – but rarely other instances of him acting without being in control, the past few years has it been done as well as it has discovery that he is not unique in Beautiful Creatureshaving some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141326085</amazonuk>1542019885
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|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Pamela Freeman's ''Castings'' trilogy is written in an unusual way for a fantasy novel. It tells On the story from the characters' points night of viewher sacred burning, in a style more common Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the chick-lit novels of Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Reespyre. This interrupted She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the flow Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the story quite noticeably in ''Blood Ties'', mysterious deathless waters. But now the first of the trilogytemple is nothing more than an overgrown, but didn't seem quite so much of a distraction in the second part, ''Deep Water''decaying ruin. UnfortunatelyOne day, this time around it works against the storyMalini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497037</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Skinner|title=Furnaces Instead of Forge|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In this [[Blue Fire and Ice (The Land) by Alan Skinner|sequel]]reporting her for such a gruesome crime, it's almost as you were, except here Malini claims that the mysterious powers of the blue flame are not being used by some outlander arsonist, but have been usurped by two inept young scientists girl saved her from the Myrmidots, to fuel their industry. We can predict this will prove a bad thing, but the breadth of the journey to capture the flame, an attacker and begs for the efforts of all our returning characters girl to put things right might still be a surprisebecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955726859</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malcolm WalkerGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Stone Crown|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Neither Emlyn nor Maxine feel completely at home in Yeaveburgh - yet they both have roots there. Emlyn's come back to the town in which he was born because his mother and sister, archaeologists, are working on a dig nearby. His father is in a care home, having suffered a nervous breakdown. Maxine returned to the town to live with her grandmother after her mother died of a heroin overdose. Emlyn is quiet and shy, a bit geeky, and lonely. Maxine is lonely too, but she'd never admit it. SheWitch's too spiky and defensive. They both feel like outsiders, and yet they both have a nagging sense that they are where they were meant to be. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406321516</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celia Friedman |title=The Wings of Wrath (The Magister Trilogy)Heart
|rating=4
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|summary=The first part A modern and 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 Celia Friedmanher past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's ''Magister'' trilogy was a wonderfully dark piece of fantasywrath. It contained some beasts you wouldn't be surprised Her attempts to come across live in a horror novel and stretched 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 idea of magic being a draining power stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an interesting place psychologically. The second partinitial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki''Wings of Wrath'' is more s charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a straight fantasy novelhalf-dead daughter, lacking some of the horror elements a son that made the first part such 's a draw for mewolf, but itand another son that's still a very good readsnake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841495336</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Wayne J HarrisHannah Whitten|title=Sins of For the AngelWolf|rating=3.5
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|summary=Dr Gideon MatthewsIn Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a shouty hellfire and damnation preachersacrifice. To Red's misfortune, has just delivered a sermon all about she is the evils of women being allowed second daughter. Sent alone into the church hierarchy and, woods with nothing but the cape on his way home afterwardsher back, he Red knows what to expect: within the woods is murdered. The following day however he wakes up in hospital or, actually, an angel called Gabriel finds himself inside Dr Matthews' bodya wolf, able to recall Dr Matthews' memories and thoughts and feelings but acting now as himselfhe is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. Gabriel goes If she is not a little bit wildworthy sacrifice, finding himself overwhelmed by the new feelings monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and desires the fabled kings he experiences in this bodykeeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, sinning leftexpecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, right and centre and causing scandal at his every move. He is also wondering for what purpose he has been brought into this body and she finds that he the legends are lies. The wolf is dreaming about not a demon, someone who is persuading an unknown monk to commit murders in Godmonster—he's name and who seems to be getting closer and closer to Dr Matthews in order to kill him too..a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1438994699</amazonuk>0356516369
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=The Harvard LampoonJohn Gwynne|title=Nightlight: A Parody of Twilight |rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Most people will have heard of the worldwide phenomenon that is [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]. The books by Stephenie Meyer and the film have made a legend of the romance between vampire Edward Mullen (Robert Pattinson plays the movie role) and teenage schoolgirl Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013330</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Elliott|title=Traitors' Gate (Crossroads)|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 a huge cast of wonderfully drawn characters, 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. ''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 a lot better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498351</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amanda Downum|title=Shadow Of The Drowning CityGods|rating=3.5
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|summary=In a nutshell, you're reading this because you're wondering whether The Drowning City Shadow Of The Gods is goodthe first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, bad or mediocreset in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. You've probably glanced at This story is the rating ultimate in High Fantasy, and guessed John Gwynne certainly does justice to the latter. I'm afraid it's not quite that simplegenre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is a debut that provokes decidedly mixed feelings. I started off convinced that I was going to love this thick book. The cover art is effortlessly cool, the premise intriguing, the with an intricate plot and fascinating characters laden with potential for greatness that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and the backdrop is certainly evocativegritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498149</amazonuk>0356514218
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