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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Jon Courtenay Grimwood|title=The Fallen Blade: Act One of the Assassini|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=I'm always in two minds about books that echo other works of literature. I'm all for reworking myths and legends – they're so ancient and have been so often retold, even before arriving at the accepted 'true' versions, they're fair game – but works of literature written in recent enough history to have been actually ''written'' and still widely read in their original form? It can go one way or the other.|amazonuk= <amazonuk!-- Remove -->1841498459</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaye WellsA G Slatter|title=Sabina Kane: Green-Eyed Demon|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Sabina Kane is on a mission. Her evil grandmother Lavinia, Alpha Domina The Briar Book of the whole vampire race, has kidnapped her twin sister from beneath Sabina's nose, and Sabina isn't about to let her get away with it. Not this time. Sabina knows time is short if she's to rescue Maisie alive and put an end to Lavinia once and for all, but before she can storm in and kick ass, she has to find her. And that's no easy task.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497584</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Trent Jamieson|title=Managing DeathDead|rating=3.5

|summary=I reviewed the [[Death Most Definite by Trent Jamieson|first book]] in this series and, even although it'' There's not a genre I would normally choose part of me that wants to keep this just to read, myself for however long I was pleasantly surprisedcan. Would this second book (which are often difficult to pull off with the same degree This secret magic of success) be as good or as entertaining? Time my own, all mine, at last. I just want to find out enjoy it for a while...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498602</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=K J Parker|title=The Hammer|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=The metWithin a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar'Oc s, a family have three sonsof witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. One Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is strong, superthe first non-industriouswitch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, but too busy to do more her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than patch up their farmspells and potions. The second is a vicious thingWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, eager to ride roughshod over people like a western filmEllie's worst banditcousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, even when it belies the met'Octown's noble originsleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. And As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the youngestdead, Gig, is... not employed. Not thought highly putting her at the heart of a maelstrom ofchaos. Not allowed out of their compoundReeling from one family secret to another, or Ellie must decide who to think too much. But he is courageous enough trust and determine what to try and leavedo as the Briar witches' legacy, firm of mind everything they have sacrificed to ignore something horrific that happened seven years beforesurvive, and gutsy enough to succeed in escapingis under threat. Or is he? How far can he ever leave his destiny behind in this backward frontier town?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184149514X</amazonuk>1803364548

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Asa JonesRachel Greenlaw|title=The Illustrated Mind of Mike ReevesCompass and Blade

|summary=Cale is fourteen and his life so far has not been one to envy. Brought to the Redeemers' Sanctuary as just a toddler, he's lived within its militant religious fanaticism for all I can hear the song of the years he can remembersea. Beaten, brutalised and half-starved, Cale and his fellow acolytes are being raised to fight an ongoing and bloody war against heretics. Cale is The call of special interest to Boscothe deep, a Redeemer Lord Militant, and we soon realise why. Cale is intelligent, ruthless, quick, and has the ability to kill without remorseanswering beat in my heart. He is an asset. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141333553</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Colin Pascoe|title=Troika|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=At the beginning of his story he had been what he called 'Rosevear, a normal person'remote and partially forgotten island, married with a job in a care home. One day when he was out with his dog he walked survives on luring ships into an area of absolute quiet, which then went black the rocks and all feeling left his bodyplundering the wrecks. It would be a month Mira, like her mother before he returned home her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and unsurprisingly, everything had changedany treasure that lies within. But it wasnwhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island't just the loss of his job s leader and his wifeMira's disbelief father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of his explanation for his absence a family secret that was differentlies buried deep in the sea. He had changed too. He had knowledge that would prove With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be dangerousdetermined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755212878</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{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 mind-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 JoblingT Kingfisher|title=Wereworld: Rise of the WolfThornhedge

|summary=Drew Ferran knows there''You had a right to retake your place.'' T Kingfisher's latest novella is a monster roaming the land where his family farm – he just doesn't realise it could be inside him. Until lovely reimagining of a terrible creature attacks his fairytale that is well known and well beloved mother, triggering . But whilst there is a transformation princess trapped in hima tower, and leading his father and brother to believe he’s responsible for sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her deathstory. Forced to flee Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the most godforsaken parts land of Lyssia, Drew becomes quickly embroiled in the world of the Werelordsfairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spells. Can he survive?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141333391</amazonuk>1803364238

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate GriffinNicole Jarvis|title=The Neon CourtA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Matthew Swift, the Midnight Mayor ostensibly in charge ''I want all of things magical about and within London, is in trouble. He wakes from a summons in a burning tower block, with an associate he'd rather not be with. In their escape a person dies. Only this death is set Florence to cause out-and-out war between two legendary magical clans, the Neon Court and the Tribe. How can Swift be diplomatic enough for both sides? How can he resolve the matter without some form of guilt? And how can he find the time, when something has peppered London with cryptic know my name'Bad Wolf'-style graffiti, word is out the person he woke with is a fabled Chosen One everyone will slaughter for, Swift is beset with everyone he wants to meet being blinded by his enemies, and something has forced London into perpetual night?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499013</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Helen Lowe|title=The Heir of Night|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=If Night fallsCast out from Rome, all fall, so says the old legendArtemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. Oldest, first and greatest of all the Derai Houses on the Wall, the house of Night is proud of its role But 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 some as Haarth she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the regions of powerful Accademia, the Dark Swarm that threaten Derai and Haarthself-folk alike.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500004</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rachel Neumeier|title=Griffin Mage: Law proclaimed guardians of the Broken Earth|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Mienthe is living in her cousin's courtly household when a man arrives from the realms to healing magics that through paintings have the west, claiming power to be an agent on protect the run with a great secret. It takes much time city and effort to try its citizens from plagues and work out how duplicitous this man may or may not be, and what his bounty actually is (a singular, blank book, in fact)curses. This effort begins to reveal a strange The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and unknown talent architecture for centuries and possible destiny for Mientheguard it above all else. But before this can be explored fullyTo them, worse news comes from out east. The peace wall keeping the evil griffins from laying waste to the world is crumblingArtemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499021</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=K S Turner|title=Chronicles of Fate and Choice: Tumultus|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=This is Set in the follow up to [[Before near-distant future, in a world on the Gods (Chronicles verge of Fate and Choice) by K S Turner|Before climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The Gods]], British Isles desperately needs a debut novel lauded for bringing a breath of fresh air hero (or several) to save the world of speculative fiction day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of Bookbag's [[Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009|top picks of 2009]]. Tumultus is the second Knights of the planned trilogy and I was looking forward to seeing how the author Round Table would really cut loose now that readers were already familiar with the Shaa-kutu and the story of their link to the origin of answer the human racecall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956224210</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin MillarAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=The Good Fairies of New YorkDelilah Recovered

|summary=In this fairytale 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 New Yorkwork, about to lose her flat, the Cornish fairy KingDee is up for an accountant's children are living in exile, hiding in Central Park from a nasty industrial revolution back homejob. They have friends from Ireland with them, and all have the ability But it's not to startle the local squirrelsbe. Elsewhere Dee is attacked by two innocent scallywag fairies fleeing Scotland have arrived, and adopted a human eachmen calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. Heather Witch hunters? What on earth has joined up that to do with Dinnie, the cityDee? She's worst buskerjust an ordinary woman, a fat, alcoholic living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and lonely fan of TV ads for phone sex, while Morag befriends Kerry, a dying kleptomaniac beauty, just as alone for different reasonsthings will never be the same....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749954205</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel AaronHadeer Elsbai|title=The Spirit Thief: The Legend of Eli Monpress|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=I'm relatively new 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 Daughters of that later) I was looking forward to reading this book which has a similar lay-out and publishing format.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500101</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=N K Jemisin|title=The Inheritance Trilogy: The Broken KingdomsIzdihar|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Ten years after the events of [[The Hundred-Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy) by N K Jemisin|The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms]], godlings are able 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 hasn'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 which has been involved in a publishing 'tussle', no less. Impressive. I was looking forward to reading what all the fuss was about. The title is terrific too. But was the book a terrific read?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755374029</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=H A Goodman|title=Logic of Demons: The Quest for Nadine's Soul|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=Devin is in pieces. His pregnant wife has been raped and murdered and revenge is all he can think about. He listens to the advice of his worried father-in-law - who counsels against doing anything rash - but listening is not the same as hearing. And Devin doesn'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

|summary=After spending Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the entire lives of [[Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded Shadows by Celine Kiernan|The Crowded Shadows]]two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the excellent second book rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in this seriesa society pitted against them. Nehal, looking for itborn into the upper class, wishes to attend the Protector Lady Wynter Moorehawke has finally discovered Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the hiddencamp of her childhood friend Prince Alberon. Can military, but instead she, along is 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 travelling companions Razi Kingsson - Alberon's brother - family and Christopher Garronmaintain their reputation, persuade whilst secretly attending meetings of the Rebel Prince Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to make peace be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with his fatherhypocrisy and cruelty, or is from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their quest to end in bloodshed rights and failure?overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498238</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ElliottHeather Fawcett|title=Spiritwalker: Cold MagicEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=In Emily Wilde is an alternate version 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 our world in the 19th centuryfaeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, where magic exists but technology she is moving forward not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the shape small village of massive airshipsHrafvsnik, 19 year old cousins Cat and Bee Hassi Barahal live normal lives. But without warninghaving somehow offended the village matriarch, the girls' world she is thrown upside down as a cold magenot sure what she has done, the arrogant Andevai arrives nor how to collect Cat as his bride - as a result of a bargain which was made many years ago without redeem herself and put her final investigations for herknowledgebook back on the right track. Taken away from Enter Wendell Bambleby, her beloved familydashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, Cat is brought into a society she knows little about where danger seems much to lurk in every corner..Emily's frustration. But Cat isn't as helpless as everyone else assumes her to be; unknown to anybody, she can see why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the chains that magic forms, while she quickly picks up allies in some unusual places.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498815</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janet EvanovichChristopher Golden|title=Wicked AppetiteRoad of Bones

|genre=General FictionHorror|summary=Take The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one rather ditzy girlof the world's most notorious routes. Add For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a funnyhuge blodge of unremitting, extrovert friendapocalyptic-level mud, and anotherwhich dries into rutted, more sensible onepuddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Stir in two seriously attractive men Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, an unhinged pet or twoand because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a slapstick plot and an unending series of carslife every metre it covers. What have you got? A Janet Evanovich novel! This has been the formula You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for the winning one of our main characters, Felix 'Stephanie PlumTeig' series for yearsTeigland, is a film-maker, about doing a hopelessly incompetent bounty hunter recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who never quite manages 's mostly there to choose between encourage the two hunks project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in her lifethe pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and it has given much pleasure and amusement. But even fetch up at the best formulas get stale, so this year Ms Evanovich has branched out into something new. Well, almostguide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755352769</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gail CarrigerAndrew Givler|title=Blameless: Soul Fraud (The Parasol ProtectorateDebt Collection Book 1)

|summary=''Blameless'' opens with Alexia back in the family home. She hopes that this is Matt has a temporary situation. Not to put too fine a point on it, she has absolutely nothing in common with her parents or her silly half-sisters. Her mother is outraged. Why? Well, because no married woman in proper Victorian society leaves her husband. It's simply not doneterrible life. AlexiaSeriously—it's just done it and would probably say to her mama that she couldn't give a rat's arse either - except her mother would no doubt have a fainting fitawful. But scandal It is looming. And Alexia is forced at some point to re-assess her situation. Underneath all those ridiculous ruffles and lace she so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a little put-out and concerned - especially blissful life in her present conditionexchange for his soul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499730</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Gail Carriger|title=Changeless: The Parasol Protectorate|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Poor Dan! I recently read (and reviewed) the first book [[Soulless: The Parasol Protectorate by Gail Carriger|Soulless]] in this trilogy and thoroughly enjoyed it. Therefore know, I had high hopes know, we shouldn't feel sorry for this booksoul-catching demons. But will it be as good? I crossed my fingers and started reading ..he really is a terrible salesman. The feisty He never hits his targets and fiery Alexia had left a bit of a lasting impression , when he fails to get even Matt to sign on me. I had no problem in picking up where I had left off. Carriger chooses not to share with her readers details of the wedding but I can picture the scene in my minddotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's eye, all the samesignature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499749</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{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 first 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brent WeeksOlivie Blake|title=Lightbringer: The Black PrismAtlas Six|rating=54

|summary=Gavin Guile is the PrismDark, the only person able to split light into its entire spectrum of colourssharp, and highly inquisitive, which ''The Atlas Six'' makes him the most powerful man in the world. Peace between the seven Satrapies relies on his power, his charm and wit. And its publishing debut after becoming a fragile peace has been maintained for the past sixteen years, since the False Prism War that devastated the worldTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184149903X</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gail CarrigerDaniel Abraham|title=Soulless: The Parasol ProtectorateAge of Ash

|summary=Miss Tarabotti fairly bounces (We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and a ladylike fashion, meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of course) onto the page. Her forthright character Kithamar is refreshingly at odds with a point in the rather snivelling wallflowers turning of years when the eraworlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. I just knew that Alexia was going to be bags It is the night between the funeral of fun - a Prince and she wasthe coronation of his successor. She did not disappointFor a night the Kithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499722</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicole PeelerAnn Sei Lin|title=Tempest RisingRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Since Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the death of her boyfriendMidori, Jason, Jane True has been something of a social outcast massive dining hall floating in Rockabill. Hated by most the sky where soldiers of the general populaceEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, who think when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she had something is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to do form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with Jason's deathhim, Jane to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has lived her life on pause for eight yearsknown. Only JaneWell, soon Kurara won's clandestine nightly swim make her feel alive, at peace, normal – which is oddt have any say in the matter, because swimming in the treacherous and freezing sea waters Midori is about as far from normal destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a girl can getshikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. But Jane's always had an affinity for She joins Himura aboard the ocean.Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499668</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan HillB09Q3P283Y|title=The Small HandShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=Adam SnowClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, an antiquarian book dealer, accidentally finds himself within the grounds of nor is he particularly interested in a derelict house hidden away career in the countrysidemilitary. As If he 's honest - which Clyde usually is walking around the lost garden , with himself at least - he feels an invisible hand creep into his own. Drawn into investigating the history of the house, hasn't got many choices and whose hand it might bethis one, he finds himself suffering from panic attacks as well as feeling the small hand againat least, in different locations, each time pulling gets him closer and closer to danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682363</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kelley Armstrong|title=Waking the Witch (Women out of the Otherworld)|rating=4rut he's in.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Tired of doing the legwork for Paige He's good in training and Lucas, Savannah Levine – powerful witch/sorcerer with half-demon blood – is glad to finally get the chance to go it alonequickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. For the week. But what started as a babysitting gig soon progresses to a full blown case for the temporary head of Cortez-Winterbourne InvestigationsHe's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184149805X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Vornholt, Arthur Byron Cover and Alice HendersonJennifer Saint|title=Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No. 1: Night of the Living Rerun; Coyote Moon; Portal Through TimeElektra

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=There is something really satisfying about a huge brick 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of a book: three women who live in the prospect heavily male dominated world of settling down for hours Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and hours Elektra are all bit players in the story of reading pleasure is very temptingthe Trojan War. And this book offers an even more tempting lure for Buffy fans, because it contains three whole Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories, adding variety to and the mix. It's absolutely ideal for a holiday readmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070606</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeri Smith-ReadyDean Koontz|title=ShadeQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=Meet AuraQuinn Quicksilver. She was one of He's not had the first people in the world chance to get to be born after The Shifta mercurial character yet, beyond which every newborn for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was opened to the world of the ghostsa three-day old foundling, hearing and seeing them whether they liked 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 not. Her boyfriendmind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, Logancall it mind-control, who she wants to make love call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the first lam. And all this is just in time on the night for two of his seventeenth birthday, suddenly dies first instead - making him one those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of the many ghosts Aura might be able interest to helpthem. But Helped to escape, he finds his flight is something interrupted by other instances of greater help buried him acting without being in a school project, touching on standing stone circlescontrol, the solstices, the mysteries discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of her own family's past - burgeoning power – and a new young man in her life?whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389406</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Trent JamiesonTasha Suri|title=Death Most DefiniteThe Jasmine Throne

|summary=As soon as I read On the blurb night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the front cover of pyre. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the book, I gained Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a pretty good idea community of people who got powers from the tone and stylemysterious deathless waters. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. 'Reaping - it's One day, Malini witnesses a grim job but girl kill someone's got to do itwith magic.' This book is Instead of reporting her for such a little bit quirkygruesome crime, a little bit out of Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the ordinary. I was keen girl to start readingbecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498599</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelly LinkGenevieve Gornichec|title=Pretty MonstersThe Witch's Heart|rating=34

|summary=It goes without sayingA 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 her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the greatest thing about fantasy fiction is that one can go anywhere with itstake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, however, and do anything. So a young man can easily try and dig his girlfriend are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up and retrieve some poetry he romantically left with her - only literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to have a hairy evening as a resultleave her alone. There can be a psychic link between a young ladAfter an initial period of mistrust, called Onion and doomed Angrboda begins to die in a terrorist attackfall for Loki's charms, and his cousin while she works as slave in the two start an odd community unusual family made of wizards. Several worlds can be accessed through an elderly womanup a half-dead daughter, a son that's handbaga wolf, for better or worseand another son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847677843</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin J AndersonHannah Whitten|title=The Map Of All Things (Terra Incognita)For the Wolf|rating=45

|summary=After years of religious war between In Red's family, the Aidenists first daughter becomes queen, and the Urecarisecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with multiple atrocities nothing but the cape on both sidesher back, Red knows what to expect: within the known world has been divided. For each loss there woods is a retaliationwolf, an upscale of and he is the damage until one who will decide the war becomes fate of their kingdom. If she is not a crusade. In worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the centre of all this is Ishalemwoods will be released, a city that bridges and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the dividestories go. Captured by But when Red enters the Urecariwoods, who are now building a wall expecting nothing more than to defend it, be killed within the Aidenists want it backhour, no matter what she finds that the costlegends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496596</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreview|author=Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie|title=Wicked: Resurrection|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The eagerly-awaited conclusion to Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguié's ''Wicked'' series is finally here. After over three years of wondering and waiting to find out how this enthralling supernatural series will end, readers can finally dive straight into the war between good and evil with Resurrection and discover the answers to the secrets that have been kept from them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387373</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris WoodingJohn Gwynne|title=Black Lung Captain: Tales of the Ketty Jay|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. Shadow Of 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 crewmember...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575085177</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mia James|title=By MidnightGods

|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=April Dunne doesn't really consider herself to be a geniusThe Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, and her family certainly aren't rich - so how did she get accepted by set in the era of 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, Vikings in any casethe shadow of Ragnarok, such as when the two local murders Gods have battled and the way people at her school get angry when she tries their bones lie scattered for all to take their photographsee. On This story is the plus sideultimate in High Fantasy, there's a seriously stunning boy she's drawn and John Gwynne certainly does justice to straight awaythe genre, Gabriel Swiftwith mythical creatures, archaic language and she thinks he likes herbattles galore. This is a thick book, although his behaviour is weird at timeswith 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>0575095520</amazonuk>0356514218

{{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 of an invasion by the Vord. The First Lord of Alera has been killed in battle and with his son already dead and his grandson away fighting in Canea, there looks likely Move on to be a power struggle within the Alerans themselves. Many Alerans have switched their allegiance to the Vord, sensing that victory over them is impossible and believing that may be the only way to escape death. This gives the Vord access to Aleran furies, a powerful force that is the Alerans main weapon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498513</amazonuk>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]