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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celine KiernanA G Slatter|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded Shadows|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=At the end of [[The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy) by Celine Kiernan|the first book]] Briar Book of the Moorehawke Trilogy, The Poison Throne, Wynter Moorhawke, her childhood friend Razi, and her romantic interest Christopher were all desperatelytrying to find Razi's half-brother Alberon, whose father Jonathon appeared to be driven insane. I thought I knew exactly what to expect from this second novel in the sequence, but was thrown sideways by the massive detour taken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184149822X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brent Weeks|title=Lightbringer: The Black PrismDead
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|summary=Gavin Guile is the Prism, the only person able '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to split light into its entire spectrum myself for however long I can. This secret magic of coloursmy own, which makes him the most powerful man in the world. Peace between the seven Satrapies relies on his powerall mine, his charm and witat last. And I just want to enjoy it for a fragile peace has been maintained for the past sixteen years, since the False Prism War that devastated the worldwhile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184149903X</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicole PeelerRachel Greenlaw|title=Tempest RisingCompass and Blade
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|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Since ''I can hear the death song of her boyfriend, Jason, Jane True has been something of a social outcast in Rockabillthe sea. Hated by most The call of the general populacedeep, who think she had something to do with Jason's death, Jane has lived her life on pause for eight yearsthe answering beat in my heart. Only Jane's clandestine nightly swim make her feel alive, at peace, normal – which is odd, because swimming in the treacherous and freezing sea waters is about as far from normal as a girl can get. But Jane's always had an affinity for the ocean.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499668</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongT Kingfisher|title=Waking the Witch (Women of the Otherworld)Thornhedge|rating=4.5
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|summary=Tired of doing the legwork for Paige and Lucas, Savannah Levine – powerful witch/sorcerer with half-demon blood – is glad to finally get the chance to go it alone. For the week. But what started as ''You had a babysitting gig soon progresses right to a full blown case for the temporary head of Cortez-Winterbourne Investigationsretake your place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184149805X</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeri Smith-ReadyNicole Jarvis|title=ShadeA Portrait in Shadow
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|genre=TeensHistorical Fiction|summary=Meet Aura. She was one ''I want all of the first people in the world Florence to be born after The Shift, beyond which every newborn was opened to the world of the ghosts, hearing and seeing them whether they liked to or not. Her boyfriend, Logan, who she wants to make love to for the first time on the night of his seventeenth birthday, suddenly dies first instead - making him one of the many ghosts Aura might be able to help. But is something of greater help buried in a school project, touching on standing stone circles, the solstices, the mysteries of her own familyknow my name''s past - and a new young man in her life?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389406</amazonuk>}}
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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=Kevin J AndersonAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=The Map Of All Things (Terra Incognita)Delilah Recovered
|rating=4
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|summary=After years 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 religious war between the Aidenists and the Urecariwork, with multiple atrocities on both sidesabout to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. But it's not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the known world attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has been divided. For each loss there is a retaliationthat to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an upscale ordinary life. Slivers of the damage until the war becomes a crusade. In the centre memory of all this is Ishalem, a city things that bridges the divide. Captured by the Urecari, who are now building a wall not ordinary at all return to defend it, her and things will never be the Aidenists want it back, no matter what the costsame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496596</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nancy Holder and Debbie ViguieHadeer Elsbai|title=Wicked: ResurrectionThe Daughters of Izdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=In ''First Lord's Fury''Drawing inspiration from Egypt, the concluding part in Jim Butcher's six-part ''Codex AleraThe Daughters of Izdihar'' series, explores the land lives of Alera is struggling under two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the weight rights of an invasion by the Vord. The First Lord of Alera has been killed in battle women and weavers – those with his son already dead and his grandson away fighting magical abilities - in Caneaa society pitted against them. Nehal, there looks likely born into the upper class, wishes to be a power struggle within attend the Alerans themselves. Many Alerans have switched their allegiance Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the Vordmilitary, sensing that victory over them but instead she is impossible forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and believing that may be maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the only way Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to escape deathbe in love with Nico. This gives the Vord access to Aleran furiesWhat follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a powerful force that is the Alerans main weapongroup of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498513</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel NeumeierHeather Fawcett|title=The Lord of the Changing Winds (Griffin Mage)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=When a delegation of diplomat, mage and soldiers enter the mountainous, rural areas to the east of the country to investigate - and remove the cause of - rumours of a host of griffins laying waste, the last thing they expect to meet is one of their own kin, a shy teenager at that, helping the beasts out and magically healing them. But then Kes, the young woman in question, never expected to be there herself. She would never have assumed she had any powers, but when a mysterious man enters her village to whisk her away and teach her to tend the battle-wounded fabulous creatures, she finds herself entering an unspeakably strange world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498734</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K J Parker|title=The Folding Knife|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|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 Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia 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=InfinityFaeries
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|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Nick GautierEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, scholarship kid teased for his poverty and his motherresearched meticulously, to write her life's job as a stripperwork, finds life hard enough even before three the very first encyclopaedia of his friends try to kill him when he stops them from mugging an elderly couplefaeries. But when the man who rescues him turns out Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to mix in seriously weird circlesfaeries, things get really bizarre. If anything, really bizarre she is a massive understatementnot so good with people. Nick goes on to meet demons So when she finds herself far, zombies, shape changers, and a host of other mysterious beings, many of whom he already knew far North in human form as his schoolmates. He ends up on the frontline of a battle against zombies who are running riot in his home small village 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 WardensHrafvsnik, who wear demons as tattoos in having somehow offended the dayvillage matriarch, making them invulnerable. At nightshe is not sure what she has done, 'the boys' peel away nor how to redeem herself and leave put her open to attack – and there are an awful lot of people out to attack final investigations for herbook back on the right track. While she's spent her life Enter Wendell Bambleby, since inheriting the tattoos from her motherdashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, tackling zombies (who are humans possessed by demons in this worldall charm and delight, rather than much to Emily'traditional' zombies), she quickly finds there are far worse things out there in the prison dimension they call homes frustration. 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 But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the world approaching… unless she can stop it.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498009</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Seth Grahame-SmithChristopher Golden|title=Abraham Lincoln Vampire HunterRoad of Bones
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|genre=HumourHorror|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand 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'Give me your tiredsees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, your poorpuddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, Your huddled masses yearning and because he wanted to breathe freegive too many people a lesson, The wretched refuse of your teeming shoreit legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that' That quotes a bit rich, on the Statue for one of Libertyour main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, was probably not designed doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the inclusion project to fruition to claw back some of vampires the funds he'd invested in mindthe pair's prior TV projects. But by some means or another North America is rife with the things – hiding in plain sightThey pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, as gain the older ones can bear sunlightcompany of a local beauty, with and fetch up at the help of darkened glassesguide's childhood village. It might just come down to one eager young man to rid his new country of such And that's where things, on his way start to something he’s a bit more known for.go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849014086</amazonuk>1803361476
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|genre=Fantasy
|summary=After years away from her childhood home at the court, Wynter Moorhawke – now an apprentice carpenter to her seriously ill father Lorcan – returns, desperate to see her childhood friends Prince Alberon and his half-brother Razi''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. But Alberon It is in exile, and his father King Jonathon, far from being so bad that Dan the kind ruler Wynter remembers, reigns with an iron fist. As Razi, Jonathon’s illegitimate son, Demon is appointed the unwilling heir to the throne, Wynter must help him and shocked when Matt turns down his friend Christopher survive infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in increasingly dangerous times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498211</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Denning|title=The Last Seal|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In 1380 the warlock Stephen Blake released the demon Dantalion from the Abyss, only exchange for his nemesis Cornelius Silver to banish him straight away. Dantalion has nursed his wounds for nearly 300 years – and in 1666, descendants 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 to save the worldsoul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956483550</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim ButcherOlivie Blake|title=Changes: The Dresden Files|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|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 Butcher'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 of boxesand paste into your skin. After growing up in an adolescentpsychiatric ward, she will grow up to go on and confront them andfulfil her destiny. Or something like that. Between the huge amount ofpoorly drawn characters, the leaden prose, and the disappointingpictures of computerized 3-D models, I got lost a few times andcouldn't summon the interest to work out what was going on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808863</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martin Millar|title=Lonely Werewolf GirlAtlas Six
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The plot is simple - the werewolf of the title is 17 year old Kalix, exiled from her family due to her involvement in the head of the clan’s death. Her elder brother has set a price on her headDark, and is pursuing her with all sources he can muster. It sounds horrific? It is indeedsharp, and there are some truly gruesome sceneshighly inquisitive, as werewolves battle amongst themselves, or with the humans who come into their orbit. However, these scenes do serve ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a purpose (to remind us perhaps, that they are werewolves, and not humans?!), and by and large do not occupy too large a part in the narrativeTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749942835</amazonuk>1529095239
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaye WellsDaniel Abraham|title=The Mage in Black (Sabina Kane)Age of Ash|rating=34.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=After betraying We meet Alys under the Dominae most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and siding with a Mage over meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the Vampires, Sabina Kane finds herself on City of Kithamar is at a point in the run. Leaving behind everything she knows, she travels with Mage, Adam, to meet turning of years when the other half of her family – her twin sister, Maisieworlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. Though It is the Mages welcome her with open arms, Sabina, used to night between the cold, displeasure funeral of her Dominae Grandmother, can't quite accept their open affection, or their conviction that she has a destinyPrince and the coronation of his successor. Her only focus For a night the Kithamar is on revenge, developing her Mage powers so she can defeat her Grandmotherun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497576</amazonuk>0356515427
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia BriggsAnn Sei Lin|title=Silver BorneRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Mercy's Kurara has spent her entire life is just not getting any easieras a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. The werewolf However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she lives with is looking a Crafter like going rogue – not snapping out of wolf him, someone with the power to form, which might have dangerous repercussions paper into whatever she desires – for himself and those around a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him. Someone within , to leave the pack life of dreary servitude that is all shehas known. Well, soon Kurara won's joined with seems to be playing psychic warfare on hert have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and leading her astray with errant mental suggestions. Worse still, she's opened is forced to flee out into the door of her (ill-fated) trailer and found death threats on world. She joins Himura aboard the step beforeOrihime, but not a fae assassin looking over things from the middle distance. Could any of this have anything sky-ship whose express purpose is to do with hunt down shikigami, and a mysterious fae book whole world of fairy lore she's been asked to look after?adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497991</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian RuckleyB09Q3P283Y|title=Fall of ThanesShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The Godless world is descending into a kind of insanity. All order is breaking down and members of both Clyde Robbins signs up for the True Bloods and US Army during the Black Road are fighting amongst themselvesVietnam War. There He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is rioting he particularly interested in a career in the streets and the armies of both sides have taken to mindless slaughter rather than organised conquestmilitary. Under AeglyssIf he' commands honest - which Clyde usually is, the Black Road armies are strengthening with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and his power is increasing as his body weakens. His control this one, at least, gets him out of the Shadow Chancellor is a step towards ending the rule of the Thanes by murdering the greatest among them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841494410</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kresley Cole|title=Pleasure of a Dark Prince|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Sexy half dressed hunk on cover? Check. Enticing title? Checkrut he's in. Sometimes thereHe's nothing nicer than curling up with a glass of wine (or two!), some cheese and crackers good in training and lovely hunky man – even if he is the main character in quickly put onto a book! Inon commissioned officer training course. He've never read Kresley Cole before but I love fantasy, especially s chuffed with a romantic element and so I was looking forward to trying a new authorhimself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849830363</amazonuk>
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|rating=4
|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=The Last Stormlord is a unique 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story which explores a civilization on the brink of disaster. The world survives through the powers of a Stormmlord three women who brings water to live in the parched lands heavily male dominated world of the Quartern from the distant seasAncient Greece. As Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the story opens of the last Stormlord is weak and dyingTrojan War. Choices are being made about who will receive water, who will not and Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the Quartern hovers on silent women have the brink of returning to a time of Random Rain: water that does not fall where or when it is needed. Without a new Stormlord most compelling stories and the land will diemost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498114</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=N K JemisinDean Koontz|title=The Hundred-Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy)Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=A month after her motherMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's deathnot had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, outcast Yeine Darr for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is summoned by her grandfatherstarting 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, king call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of the Hundred Thousand Kingdomshim that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, to come to cash the palace value of Sky. There named one it out of his three heirs, along with her feuding cousins, she quickly realizes that without allies she will surely lose the contest bank and prepare for going on the thronelam. Thus begins an epic quest And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to find her motherturn up and suggest he's murdererof interest to them. Helped to escape, save her own lifehe 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 fulfil a destiny she never knew she hadwhole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498173</amazonuk>1542019885
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|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Shannon Parker, broke Oklahoma English teacher, likes a good bargain hunt at an auction. But she gets more than her money's worth when she buys a vase with her likeness painted on it. Somehow transported to On the magical world night of Partholon, Shannon finds herself in the shoes of Rhiannon, her mirror double. Along with Rhiannon's station as Goddess Incarnatesacred burning, Shannon finds herself landed with Princess Malini defies her double's less than enviable reputation brother and a Centaur husbandrefuses to step on to the pyre.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303578</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Mayhew|title=Mortlock|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Abyssinia, 1820. Three Englishment search for She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Amarant, Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a mythical flower with community of people who got powers from the power over life and death, in a strange desert oasismysterious deathless waters. On finding But now the flower surrounded by decaying faces, they realize that it temple is cursednothing more than an overgrown, and take a blood oath never to remove itdecaying ruin. LondonOne day, 1854Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. 13 year old knife thrower Josie performs with Instead of reporting 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 for such a good sign…) descend on themgruesome crime, and Cardamom instructs Josie, with his dying breath, to find Malini claims that the twin brother he'd never told girl saved her about from an attacker and destroy begs for the Amarantgirl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803925</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celine KiernanGenevieve Gornichec|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 AlberonWitch's half brother Razi and his friend Christopher are increasingly at risk as they attempt to deal with this situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498211</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Russell Kirkpatrick|title=Beyond the Wall of Time (Broken Man)Heart
|rating=4
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|summary=A couple modern and approachable reimagining of aspects have summed up Russell Kirkpatrick's ''Broken Man'' trilogy for me so farthe Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. There has been She hides in a fascinating story with some wonderful character building that has made it highly enjoyable. There have also been some forest at the edge of the most detailed maps I have ever seen in a fantasy seriesnine worlds, offering more variation than Iremembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin've seen s wrath. Her attempts to live in maps peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before and actually adding detail she was tied to some parts of the story, not merely acting as a guidestake—and refuses to leave her alone. I was expecting more After an initial period of the same from the final partmistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki''Beyond s charms, and the Wall two start an unusual family made of Timeup a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and another son that' and very much looking forward to its a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496715</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret StohlHannah Whitten|title=Beautiful CreaturesFor the Wolf
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Sometimes with authors you just donIn Red't know what yous family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red've been missings misfortune, she is the second daughter. Other times you do. Jasper Fforde has long been Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on my catch-up listher back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. Snippets of Thursday Next If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and reviews and interviews were enough the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to convince me I had to get to know this workbe killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. My chance finally came with the first in The wolf is not a monster—he's a completely new series: Shades of Greyman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340963034</amazonuk>0356516369
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pamela FreemanJohn Gwynne|title=Full Circle (Castings Trilogy)The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=45
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Pamela Freeman's ''Castings'' trilogy The Shadow Of The Gods is written the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in an unusual way for a fantasy novel. It tells the story from era of the Vikings in the characters' points shadow of viewRagnarok, in a style more common to when the chick-lit novels of Josie Lloyd Gods have battled and Emlyn Reestheir bones lie scattered for all to see. This interrupted story is the flow of the story quite noticeably ultimate in ''Blood Ties''High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the first of the trilogygenre, but didn't seem quite so much of a distraction in the second partwith mythical creatures, ''Deep Water''archaic language and battles galore. UnfortunatelyThis is a thick book, this time around it works against the storywith an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497037</amazonuk>0356514218
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