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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=David Petersen|title=Mouse Guard: Legends of The Guard|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=To start with, I have never heard of Mr Petersen and his Mouse Guard franchise. But I'm often up for an introduction to a fantasy cycle, and I always relish being welcomed to an author by the most esoteric, unusual, quirky and short route. My first entry to the His Dark Materials world was [[Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman|a collector's spin<!--off]], and I'm just as likely to start the Twilight series, if ever, with the latest brief whimsy. And for those of a similar mindRemove -set, this collection of tales from the pens of guest writers and illustrators, serves as an odd-shaped doorway on to this particular universe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681427</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Curtis JoblingA G Slatter|title=Wereworld: Rise The Briar Book of the WolfDead

|summary=Drew Ferran knows there'' There's a monster roaming the land where his family farm – he part of me that wants to keep this just doesn't realise it could be inside himto myself for however long I can. Until a terrible creature attacks his beloved motherThis secret magic of my own, triggering a transformation in himall mine, and leading his father and brother at last. I just want to believe he’s responsible enjoy it for her deatha while. Forced to flee to the most godforsaken parts of Lyssia, Drew becomes quickly embroiled in the world of the Werelords. Can he survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141333391</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Kate Griffin|title=The Neon Court|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Matthew SwiftWithin a remote mountain pass, far away from the Midnight Mayor ostensibly in charge of things magical about and within Londonworld, is in trouble. He wakes from lies Silverton; a summons in a burning tower blocktown under the protection of the Briar's, with an associate he'd rather not be with. In their escape a person diesfamily of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Only this death Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is set the first non-witch to cause out-be born into her family for generations and-out war between two legendary magical clansas such since she was young, the Neon Court her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and the Tribepotions. How can Swift be diplomatic enough for both sides? How can he resolve When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the matter without some form of guilt? And how can he find Briar Witch, the timetown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, when something has peppered London Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with cryptic 'Bad Wolf'-style graffitithe dead, word is out putting her at the person he woke with is heart of a fabled Chosen One everyone will slaughter formaelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, Swift is beset with everyone he wants everything they have sacrificed to meet being blinded by his enemiessurvive, and something has forced London into perpetual night?is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499013</amazonuk>1803364548

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen LoweRachel Greenlaw|title=The Heir of Night|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=If Night falls, all fall, so says the old legend. Oldest, first Compass and greatest of all the Derai Houses on the Wall, the house of Night is proud of its role as holders of the Keep of the Winds, primary defence on the Shield Wall of Night – a range of mountains that separates the lands of the original inhabitants of the planet the Derai know as Haarth from the regions of the Dark Swarm that threaten Derai and Haarth-folk alike.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500004</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rachel Neumeier|title=Griffin Mage: Law of the Broken EarthBlade

|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Mienthe is living in her cousin's courtly household when a man arrives from the realms to 'I can hear the west, claiming to be an agent on song of the run with a great secret. It takes much time and effort to try and work out how duplicitous this man may or may not be, and what his bounty actually is (a singular, blank book, in fact). This effort begins to reveal a strange and unknown talent and possible destiny for Mienthe. But before this can be explored fully, worse news comes from out eastsea. The peace wall keeping call of the evil griffins from laying waste to deep, the world is crumblinganswering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499021</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=K S Turner|title=Chronicles of Fate Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and Choice: Tumultus|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=This plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the follow up seven who swim out to [[Before survey the Gods (Chronicles of Fate ruins – rescuing any survivors and Choice) by K S Turner|Before The Gods]], a debut novel lauded for bringing any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a breath of fresh air trap to end the wrecking, they capture the world of speculative fiction and one of Bookbagisland's [[Bookbagleader and Mira's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009|top picks of 2009]]father. Tumultus Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is the second as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the planned trilogy and I was looking forward sea. With only nine days to seeing how unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the author would really cut loose now that readers were already familiar with watched streets of foreign islands to the Shaa-kutu and heart of the story of their link smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the origin future of her home and the human raceones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956224210</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin MillarT Kingfisher|title=The Good Fairies of New YorkThornhedge|rating=45

|summary=In this fairytale of New York, the Cornish fairy King's children are living in exile, hiding in Central Park from 'You had a nasty industrial revolution back home. They have friends from Ireland with them, and all have the ability right to startle the local squirrelsretake your place. Elsewhere two innocent scallywag fairies fleeing Scotland have arrived, and adopted a human each. Heather has joined up with Dinnie, the city's worst busker, a fat, alcoholic and lonely fan of TV ads for phone sex, while Morag befriends Kerry, a dying kleptomaniac beauty, just as alone for different reasons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749954205</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Rachel Aaron|title=The Spirit Thief: The Legend T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of Eli Monpress|rating=3a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=I'm relatively Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new -born baby and secreted away to the fantasy genre and it really is true - you should never judge the book by its genre (my quote). Having read a previous fantasy trilogy (more land of that later) I fairie where her childhood was looking forward spent being taught how to reading this book which has a similar lay-out draw magic from her veins and publishing formatcast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500101</amazonuk>1803364238

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=N K JemisinNicole Jarvis|title=The Inheritance Trilogy: The Broken KingdomsA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Ten years after the events ''I want all of [[The Hundred-Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy) by N K Jemisin|The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms]], godlings are able Florence to roam free and there are once again three gods – or are there? While people still worship bright Itempas, he was cast down by the Nightlord at the end of book one to wander the Earth, unable to die permanently but with no other powers unless he was protecting a mortal. Oree, an artist who can see magic but is otherwise blind, has known godlings for years and has even been the lover of one of them, but has never met anyone quite like her new lodger Shiny. With godlings dying, something which hasnknow my name't happened for many years, can narrator Oree and Shiny find out what's going on before Nahadoth destroys the entire city of Shadow in revenge for his murdered children?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498181</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Deborah Harkness|title=A Discovery of Witches|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The back cover is full of praise for this debut novel Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which has been involved in her art can find a publishing 'tussle'home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, no less. Impressive. I was looking forward the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to reading what all protect the fuss was aboutcity and its citizens from plagues and curses. The title is terrific tooall-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society. But was the book a terrific read?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755374029</amazonuk>1803362340

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=H A GoodmanThomas D Lee|title=Logic of Demons: The Quest for Nadine's SoulPerilous Times

|genre=Fantasy|summary=Devin is in pieces. His pregnant wife has been raped and murdered and revenge ''Hate is all he can think about. He listens to the advice path of his worried father-in-law - who counsels against doing anything rash - but listening is not the same as hearing. And Devin doesnleast resistance't truly hear his father-in-law's wise words at all. Instead, he focuses on the angry voice in his head, which tells him such an evil murderer has no right to live. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452018170</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Celine Kiernan|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Rebel Prince|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=After spending Set in the entire of [[Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded Shadows by Celine Kiernan|The Crowded Shadows]]near-distant future, the excellent second book in this series, looking for it, the Protector Lady Wynter Moorehawke has finally discovered a world on the hiddencamp verge of her childhood friend Prince Alberonclimate collapse, Britain is in great peril. Can she, along with her travelling companions Razi Kingsson - Alberon's brother - and Christopher Garron, persuade the Rebel Prince to make peace with his father, The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or is their quest several) to end in bloodshed save the day and failure?rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498238</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ElliottAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Spiritwalker: Cold MagicDelilah Recovered

|summary=In an alternate version of our world in the 19th centuryWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, where magic exists but technology is moving forward in the shape of massive airshipsjust might, 19 year old cousins Cat and Bee Hassi Barahal live normal livesbe about to look up. But without warningOut of work, the girls' world is thrown upside down as a cold mage, the arrogant Andevai arrives about to collect Cat as his bride - as a result of a bargain which was made many years ago without lose herknowledge. Taken away from her beloved familyflat, Cat Dee is brought into a society she knows little about where danger seems to lurk in every corner..up for an accountant's job. But Cat isnit't as helpless as everyone else assumes her s not to be; unknown to anybody, she can see the chains that magic forms, while she quickly picks up allies in some unusual places.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498815</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Janet Evanovich|title=Wicked Appetite|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Take one rather ditzy girl. Add a funny, extrovert friend, and another, more sensible one. Stir in Dee is attacked by two seriously attractive men, an unhinged pet or two, a slapstick plot and an unending series of carscalling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What have you goton earth has that to do with Dee? A Janet Evanovich novel! This has been the formula for the winning She'Stephanie Plum' series for yearss just an ordinary woman, about a hopelessly incompetent bounty hunter who never quite manages living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to choose between the two hunks in her life, and it has given much pleasure and amusementthings will never be the same.. But even the best formulas get stale, so this year Ms Evanovich has branched out into something new. Well, almost.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755352769</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gail CarrigerHadeer Elsbai|title=Blameless: The Parasol ProtectorateDaughters of Izdihar

|summary=Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''BlamelessThe Daughters of Izdihar'' opens explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with Alexia back magical abilities - in the family home. She hopes that this is a temporary situationsociety pitted against them. Not Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to put too fine a point on itattend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she has absolutely nothing in common is forced into an arranged marriage with her parents or her silly half-sistersNico. Her mother is outraged. Why? Well, because no married woman in proper Victorian society leaves her husband. It's simply Giorgina on the other hand did not done. Alexia's just done it have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and would probably say feels great pressure to provide for her mama that she couldn't give family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a ratgroup campaigning for women's arse either - except her mother would no doubt have a fainting fitrights. But scandal is loomingGiorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. And Alexia What follows is forced at some point to re-assess her situation. Underneath all those ridiculous ruffles a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and lace she is cruelty, from which blossoms a little put-out group of admirable women fighting for their rights and concerned - especially in her present conditionovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499730</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gail CarrigerHeather Fawcett|title=Changeless: The Parasol ProtectorateEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=I recently read (Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and reviewed) the first book [[Soulless: The Parasol Protectorate by Gail Carriger|Soulless]] in this trilogy she has travelled extensively, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Therefore I had high hopes for this book. But will it be as good? I crossed my fingers and started reading ... The feisty and fiery Alexia had left a bit of a lasting impression on me. I had no problem in picking up where I had left off. Carriger chooses not researched meticulously, to share with write her readers details of the wedding but I can picture the scene in my mindlife's eyework, all the same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499749</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celine Kiernan|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded Shadows|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=At the end of [[The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy) by Celine Kiernan|the very first book]] encyclopaedia of the Moorehawke Trilogy, The Poison Throne, Wynter Moorhawke, her childhood friend Razi, faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and her romantic interest Christopher were all desperatelytrying speaking to find Razi's half-brother Alberonfaeries, whose father Jonathon appeared to be driven insaneshe is not so good with people. I thought I knew exactly what to expect from this second novel So when she finds herself far, far North in the sequencesmall village of Hrafvsnik, but was thrown sideways by having somehow offended the massive detour taken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184149822X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brent Weeks|title=Lightbringer: The Black Prism|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Gavin Guile village matriarch, she is the Prismnot sure what she has done, the only person able nor how to split light into its entire spectrum of colours, which makes him the most powerful man in redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the worldright track. Peace between the seven Satrapies relies on his power Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, his all charm and witdelight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And a fragile peace has been maintained for what exactly is going on with the past sixteen years, since the False Prism War that devastated the world.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184149903X</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gail CarrigerChristopher Golden|title=Soulless: The Parasol Protectorate|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Miss Tarabotti fairly bounces (in a ladylike fashion, Road of course) onto the page. Her forthright character is refreshingly at odds with the rather snivelling wallflowers of the era. I just knew that Alexia was going to be bags of fun - and she was. She did not disappoint.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499722</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicole Peeler|title=Tempest RisingBones

|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Since The Kolyma Highway… the death 'Road of her boyfriendBones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, Jason, Jane True has been something it's one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a social outcast in Rockabill. Hated by most spread of sheet ice suspended above the general populacepermafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, who puddly dust. I don't think she had something google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to do with Jason's deathgive too many people a lesson, Jane has lived her it legendarily cost a life on pause for eight yearsevery metre it covers. Only Jane You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's clandestine nightly swim make her feel alivea bit rich, for one of our main characters, at peaceFelix 'Teig' Teigland, normal – which is odda film-maker, because swimming 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 treacherous pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and freezing sea waters is about as far from normal as a girl can getfetch up at the guide's childhood village. But Jane And that's always had an affinity for the ocean.where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499668</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan HillAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Small HandDebt Collection Book 1)

|summary=Adam Snow, an antiquarian book dealer, accidentally finds himself within the grounds of ''Matt has a derelict house hidden away in the countrysideterrible life. Seriously—it's awful. As he It is walking around so bad that Dan the lost garden he feels an invisible hand creep into Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his own. Drawn into investigating the history infernal offer: 10 years of the house, and whose hand it might be, he finds himself suffering from panic attacks as well as feeling the small hand again, a blissful life in different locations, each time pulling him closer and closer to dangerexchange for his soul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682363</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Kelley Armstrong|title=Waking the Witch (Women of the Otherworld)|rating=4Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Tired of doing the legwork for Paige He never hits his targets and Lucas, Savannah Levine – powerful witch/sorcerer with half-demon blood – is glad when he fails to finally get the chance even Matt to go it alone. For sign on the week. But what started as a babysitting gig soon progresses to a full blown case for the temporary head of Cortez-Winterbourne Investigationsdotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184149805X</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Vornholt, Arthur Byron Cover and Alice HendersonOlivie Blake|title=Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No. 1: Night of the Living Rerun; Coyote Moon; Portal Through TimeThe Atlas Six

|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=There is something really satisfying about a huge brick of a book: the prospect of settling down for hours Dark, sharp, and hours of reading pleasure is very tempting. And this book offers an even more tempting lure for Buffy fanshighly inquisitive, because it contains three whole stories, adding variety to the mix. It's absolutely ideal for 'The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a holiday readTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070606</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeri Smith-ReadyDaniel Abraham|title=ShadeAge of Ash

|summary=As soon as I read We meet Alys under the blurb on most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the front cover City of Kithamar is at a point in the book, I gained a pretty good idea turning of years when the tone worlds are at their thinnest and styleall things are possible. 'Reaping - it's It is the night between the funeral of a grim job but someone's got to do itPrince and the coronation of his successor.' This book is a little bit quirky, For a little bit out of night the ordinary. I was keen to start readingKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498599</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelly LinkAnn Sei Lin|title=Pretty MonstersRebel Skies|rating=35|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=It goes without sayingKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, but a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the greatest thing about fantasy fiction is that one can go anywhere with it, Empire come to drink and do anythingmake merry between their conquests. So However, when a young man can easily try and dig his girlfriend up and retrieve some poetry he romantically left named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her - only to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a hairy evening monstrous paper spirit known as a result. There can be a psychic link between a young ladshikigami, called Onion and doomed she is forced to die in flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a terrorist attacksky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and his cousin while she works as slave in an odd community a whole world of wizards. Several worlds can be accessed through an elderly woman's handbag, for better or worse.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847677843</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin J AndersonB09Q3P283Y|title=The Map Of All Things (Terra Incognita)Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=After years of religious war between Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Aidenists and Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the Urecari, with multiple atrocities on both sidesfight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the known world has been dividedmilitary. For each loss there If he's honest - which Clyde usually is a retaliation, an upscale with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the damage until the war becomes a crusaderut he's in. In the centre of all this He's good in training and is Ishalem, quickly put onto a city that bridges the dividenon commissioned officer training course. Captured by the Urecari, who are now building a wall to defend it, the Aidenists want it back, no matter what the costHe's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496596</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nancy Holder and Debbie ViguieJennifer Saint|title=Wicked: ResurrectionElektra

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=The eagerly-awaited conclusion to Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguié's Elektra''Wicked'' series is finally here. After over by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three years women who live in the heavily male dominated world of wondering and waiting to find out how this enthralling supernatural series will endAncient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, readers can finally dive straight into the war between good and evil with Resurrection and discover Elektra are all bit players in the answers to story of the secrets Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have been kept from themthe most compelling stories and the most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387373</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris WoodingDean Koontz|title=Black Lung Captain: Tales of the Ketty JayQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=Things on board Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the Ketty Jay have never been as low. Darian Frey chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and his crew are even having trouble thieving from defenceless orphanagesnow is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. So But when the next token job-they-canthis book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind''t, for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-refuse comes alongcontrol, they fall under call it's spell. An explorer a supernatural urge – has returned with tales demanded of untold richeshim that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, courtesy cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the most mysterious artefacts and treasures lam. And all this is just in time for two of an unknown civilization. The fact that the remains are those of an aircraft crashed typical Men in the most Arctic Black types to turn up and suggest he's of rainforests, inhabited by the most evil beast-men monsters, is neither here nor thereinterest to them. The problems start with what they find thereHelped to escape, which he finds his flight is worse than anyone could have expected - or indeed years agointerrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, with a mysterious connection between the remains discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and the a whole lot more unusual crewmember..besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575085177</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreview|author=Mia James|title=By Midnight|rating=5|genre=Teens|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 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 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim ButcherTasha Suri|title=First Lord's Fury (Codex Alera)The Jasmine Throne|rating=4.5

|summary=In ''First Lord's Fury'', On the concluding part in Jim Butcher's six-part ''Codex Alera'' seriesnight of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the land of Alera pyre. She is struggling under immediately sent to be imprisoned on the weight of Hirana: an invasion by the Vord. The First Lord of Alera has been killed in battle and ancient temple that was once filled with his son already dead and his grandson away fighting in Canea, there looks likely to be a power struggle within community of people who got powers from the Alerans themselvesmysterious deathless waters. Many Alerans have switched their allegiance to But now the Vordtemple is nothing more than an overgrown, sensing that victory over them is impossible and believing that may be the only way to escape deathdecaying ruin. This gives the Vord access to Aleran furiesOne day, Malini witnesses a powerful force girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that is the Alerans main weapongirl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498513</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel NeumeierGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Lord of the Changing Winds (Griffin Mage)Witch's Heart|rating=4.5

|summary=When a delegation A modern and approachable reimagining of diplomat, mage and soldiers enter the mountainous, rural areas to Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the east edge of the country to investigate - and remove the cause of - rumours of a host of griffins laying wastenine worlds, the last thing they expect to meet is one remembering nothing of their own kin, a shy teenager her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at that, helping the beasts out and magically healing themstake three times because of Odin's wrath. But then Kes, the young woman Her attempts to live in questionpeace, never expected to be there herself. She would never have assumed she had any powershowever, but are quickly thwarted when a mysterious man enters Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her village chest before she was tied to whisk the stake—and refuses to leave her away alone. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and teach her to tend the battletwo start an unusual family made of up a half-wounded fabulous creaturesdead daughter, she finds herself entering an unspeakably strange worlda son that's a wolf, and another son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498734</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=K J ParkerHannah Whitten|title=The Folding KnifeFor the Wolf

|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 excelIn Red's family, the first as an executive trustee in his father’s bankdaughter becomes queen, 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 second daughter becomes a resounding victorysacrifice. 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'To Red's misfortune, she is the latest fantasy epic from Ksecond daughter.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 a stripperSent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, finds life hard enough even before three of his friends try Red knows what to kill him when he stops them from mugging an elderly couple. But when expect: within the man who rescues him turns out to mix in seriously weird circles, things get really bizarre. If anything, really bizarre woods is a massive understatement. Nick goes on to meet demons, zombies, shape changerswolf, and a host of other mysterious beings, many of whom he already knew in human form as his schoolmates. He ends up on is the frontline of a battle against zombies one who are running riot in his home will decide the fate of New Orleanstheir kingdom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190741021X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marjorie M Liu|title=The Iron Hunt (Hunter Kiss)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Maxine If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the last in monsters he keeps contained to the line of the Wardenswoods will be released, who wear demons as tattoos in and the day, making them invulnerable. At night, 'fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the boys' peel away and leave her open to attack – and there are an awful lot of people out to attack herstories go. While she's spent her life, since inheriting But when Red enters the tattoos from her mother, tackling zombies (who are humans possessed by demons in this worldwoods, rather expecting nothing more than 'traditional' zombies)to be killed within the hour, she quickly finds there that the legends are far worse things out there in the prison dimension they call homelies. 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 itwolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498009</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Seth Grahame-SmithJohn Gwynne|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: Shadow Of The Dark EliteGods

|summary=Meet Billy HarrowThe Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, curator set in the era of molluscs and other pickled creatures. Imagine if you will Billy's thoughts on entering the chamber that houses Vikings in the highlight shadow of his museum's tour - an immense squidRagnarok, housed in a glass crate - only to find when the entire thing - animal Gods have battled and tank - impossibly removedtheir bones lie scattered for all to see. ImagineThis story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, too, the more esoteric kind of policeman and -woman needed John Gwynne certainly does justice to arrivethe genre, to tell him that his exhibit was the keystone of a mysterious cult with the end of times on their mindmythical creatures, archaic language and that they might just like Billy to infiltrate it and see what was precisely whatbattles galore. Just consider - This is Billya thick book, the man who bottled the giant squid, a John the Baptist with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to this cult, or create a Judas?wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0333989503</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|author=Jim Butcher|title=Changes: The Dresden Files|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=It's always wonderful Move on 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>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]