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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__ {{newreview|author=Stefan Bachmann|title=The Peculiar|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=''Don't get yourself noticed and you won't get yourself hanged.'' Such is life for peculiars like Bartholomew Kettle and his sister Hettie. Their mother is human but their <!-- absent Remove - father is a Sidhe, a high fairy. Fairies are contemptuous of the half-breed peculiars and humans distrust and suspect them. Hapless peculiar children are often hanged by humans. And, even more worryingly, bodies of peculiars have been turning up recently, quite dead, covered in ancient faerie script and as empty of bone and organ as they are of life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0062195182</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jay KristoffA G Slatter|title=Stormdancer|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Warrior Masaru has raised his daughter, Yukiko, alone since his wife left. Yukiko is now 16; a feat more due latterly to her own strength and resourcefulness than his care. For since his wife's departure, Masaru has gone to pieces, addicted to gambling and the narcotic effects of lotus smoke. The days when he was the legendary Black Fox are behind him which is a shame as the Shogun (not a man known for calm reasoning or lack of ferocity) has a mission for them. Masaru, Yukiko and an entourage must hunt and capture the legendary stormtiger. But they're extinct aren't they? Well, no, they aren't as Yukiko discovers when the hunt goes terribly wrong and she's left alone with just a storm tiger for company. She fights to find a way home, learning as she goes the full extent to which the Shogun has worked against the good Briar Book of the nation in general and her family in particular. And the stormtiger? Let's just say he's had his wings clipped and he's not happy about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230759017</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=G Willow Wilson|title=Alif the UnseenDead
|rating=5
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|summary=Alif lives under an alias and he has a good reason for that: he'' There's a hakinista in an Arabian oil producing country part of me that, wants to put it mildly, doesn't encourage free speech. He sells IT know-how and wizardy keep this just to any covert organisation that works against the government, their agenda unimportant as myself for however long as the aim is the downfall I can. This secret magic of their oppression. But my own, all that's about to change as Alif falls in love andmine, as it's the wrong girl at the wrong time, is spurnedlast. His response I just want to this romantic let down is to create enjoy it for a computer programme that will identify her internet activity by her individual typing pattern. Unfortunately what works for him also works against himwhile. It's captured by the notoriously dangerous government censor 'The Hand' who also wants Alif and his hidden network of colleagues. Now Alif runs to preserve his life and those who have trusted him, his only possession an ancient manuscript from his former love. Just a book, albeit one that's accompanied by myths and old wives' tales rendering it irrelevant a logical world. However, sometimes the most desperate of times requires more than logic and, sometimes, a mere book of stories may be more than it seems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857895664</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine FisherRachel Greenlaw|title=The Obsidian MirrorCompass and Blade|rating=43.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Jake's father disappeared while working on a secret project with his best friend, 'I can hear the celebrated explorer and recluse Oberon Venn. Jake is sure that Venn is a murderer and sets out to prove it, dragging his teacher, Mr Wharton, into song of the investigationsea. But The call of the truth is perhaps even more frightening: David Wilde isn't deaddeep, he's lost the answering beat in timemy heart. Venn and his sidekick Piers are intent on re-entering the past to find him, using a device called the Chronoptika. But it's dangerous and they aren't the only ones hell bent on using the time machine. There's Sarah, who can turn herself invisible, and who's being pursued by a murderous Replicant and his wolf. And there's the scarred man with his acolyte and his strange weapon. And there are the Shee, who keep their own counsel, but have their own ambitions, and who enchant the forest on Venn's estate... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340970081</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian PhilipT Kingfisher|title=Wolfsbane (Rebel Angels)Thornhedge
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=''13'' picks up where ''Spell Bound'' left off. A terrorist group is still trying to expose the supernaturals and create You had a new world order. Our heroes, from among the ranks of the werewolves, the witches, the half-demons, the vampires, the necromancers and the sorcerer cabals, are trying right to stop themretake your place. Savannah takes centre stage and the majority of the narration. Her spells are still on the fritz but she thinks she knows why and she survived the explosion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498033</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=N K JemisinNicole Jarvis|title=The Shadowed Sun: Dreamblood: Book 2A Portrait in Shadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Ten years after the events of [[The Killing Moon: Dreamblood: Book 1 by N K Jemisin|The Killing Moon]], the events of the earlier book have left their mark on the world. Gujaareh is now under the oppressive rule of the Kisuati Protectorate. Worse, a plague of nightmares is killing the once peaceful city's inhabitants in their sleep. It falls to two unlikely heroes, Wanahomen, son 'I want all of the late Prince, and Hanani, the first female Florence to train as one of Hananjaknow my name''s priesthood, to try to save the city from both of these problems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500772</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=Michael BoccacinoAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Charlotte Markham and the House of DarklingDelilah Recovered|rating=54
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Widowed under tragic circumstances, Charlotte Markham needs an income and so sheWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn's employed by widower Henry Darrow t going as a governess for his sons James and Paulplanned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Their home 'Everton' may seem a typical Victorian mansion but the town Out of Blackfield isn't your average English small town; the Darrowwork, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's Nanny Prum is found murdered in a particularly grisly mannerjob. ItBut it's a mystery not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the local police attack but Charlottenot unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's friend Susannah has a clue if only they'd listen just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to herand things will never be the same. Meanwhile the Darrow boys' nights are spent dreaming of a house in the woods where their mother still lives. Charlotte decides to treat this head on and takes them for a walk to show them there's no substance to it. However, in doing so they discover the nightmare that is The House of Darkling.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781164460</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=K J ParkerHadeer Elsbai|title=Sharps|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Fencing - it's such an exotic, rarefied world with it's own language, that it's no surprise to remember the director of ''Alien'', ''Blade Runner'' and ''Prometheus'' started his career with a fencing film. And it's all over this fantasy, but not in the usual sword-and-sorcery way of old, as a delegation of swordsmen and -women visit Permia from Scheria - two fencing-loving countries that until recently have been at war. But why exactly are they going - separately, and as a group? Who is playing what kind The Daughters of diplomatic game between the two countries, and is a wielded sword the only danger they'll face?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499269</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Courtenay Grimwood|title=The Outcast BladeIzdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=After defeating Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the armies that threatened Venice single handedlylives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the newly knighted Sir Tycho finds himself rights of women and weavers – those with statusmagical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, wealth and born into the upper class, wishes to attend the subject of much interest Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the Venetian citizensmilitary, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. But all Tycho really wants is Lady GiuliettaGiorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, niece whilst secretly attending meetings of the cityDaughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's stewardrights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. Giulietta, grieving her dead husband, What follows is desperate to escape the backstabbing, poisonous world a story of the Venetian courtan unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and isn't in the mood cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for Tycho's clumsy attempts to woo hertheir rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498475</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaHeather Fawcett|title=Cursed: An Alex Verus Novel|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=A beautiful enchantress steps through the door just as an evil construct beast hurtles through the window. Not an obtuse Chinese saying, but a typical day in the life of future-diviner and magic shop owner, Alex Verus. Add to this the benign magical animal that seems to have died mysteriously and unmarked and you begin to realise something's afoot. ItEmily Wilde's the sort Encyclopaedia of day that could only be made worse by the realisation that Alex's curse-soaked friend Luna has fallen in love with someone other than Alex and... yes, the downward spiral has just taken another turn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650025X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cathy Farr|title=Moon CrossingFaeries
|rating=4
|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Wil Calloway returns Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to Saran in write her life's work, the most unwelcome very first encyclopaedia of circumstancesfaeries. Tally Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, Lady Elanor's young sistershe is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, has been abducted by the evil Lord Rexmoore far North in an attempt to find the whereabouts small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the Legacy. Tally doesn't know itvillage matriarch, but that won't save her. So Wil she is not sure what she has come done, nor how to rejoin his Fellmen friends redeem herself and mount a rescue missionput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. But it Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's not going to be easyfrustration. Gisella and Mortimer aren't talking. Seth But why is as accident-prone as ever. he here? What does he want? And Leon and his father are still deeply suspicious about Wil's part in Giles's death during what exactly is going on with the last Moon Chase. faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781485151</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon GrahameChristopher Golden|title=ReaperRoad of Bones|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Ex-cop Jim Reaper gave up on living after his fourteen-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 yearit's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-old daughter was raped level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and committed suicideother Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. To make matters worse You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, her attacker is let out a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of jail after serving only three yearsthe funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. Reaper comes They pick up with their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a plan to end himlocal beauty, and to end his own miserable life in one move. Only fetch up at the world has other plans with himguide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905802528</amazonuk>1803361476
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=H A GoodmanAndrew Givler|title=Breaking Soul Fraud (The Devil's Heart: A Logic of Demons NovelDebt Collection Book 1)
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=In this afterlife, Heaven is pretty much hands off. Angels whisper sweet nothings into human ears but don't go much further than that'Matt has a terrible life. If the living don't act on HeavenSeriously—it's advice, the angels simply practise what you might call courageous restraintawful. Hell, on It is so bad that Dan the other hand, Demon is much better organised. Set up like shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a sizeable corporation, its demons are purveyors of the Formula and relentless targets push the demons into becoming exceedingly effective - and dodgy - salesmenblissful life in exchange for his soul. Drink too much of the Formula and you're in big trouble - sinning all over the place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B007T0BDVE</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=N K JemisinOlivie Blake|title=The Killing Moon: Dreamblood: Book 1 Atlas Six
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Ehiru is a Gatherer. He visits those who are dying to help them pass away peacefully. He sends their souls to a safe place for eternityDark, while taking their dreamblood to heal others. Most people in his citysharp, Gujaarehand highly inquisitive, are happy with this. Then he Gathers ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a foreigner who's unwilling, and claims that the order of priests he belongs to are corrupt..Tik-Tok sensation. could this barbarian be correct?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500764</amazonuk>1529095239
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeri Smith-ReadyDaniel Abraham|title=ShineAge of Ash
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=After unexpectedly managing to expose a conspiracy to murder Prince AsterWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, Geder Palliako she has become a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the prince’s Protector and City of Kithamar is at a point in the hero turning of Anteayears when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. Dawson Kalliam It is working with him as the Anteans pursue night between the roots funeral of a Prince and the plot, with the possibility coronation of war breaking outhis successor. Elsewhere, Cithrin Bel Sarcour For a night the Kithamar is frustrated by a new notary stopping her from running her bank as she wants to, while Marcus Wester tries to protect herun-ruled. As if that wasn’t enough to keep things going, Master Kit has a goddess to kill…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498890</amazonuk>0356515427
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carolyn Jess-CookeAnn Sei Lin|title=The Boy Who Could See DemonsRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Alex can see demonsKurara has spent her entire life as 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. However, when a man 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's been able asks her to come with him, to ever since his dad left when he was five years oldleave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Some demons are hideousWell, some are frighteningsoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and some just lurk in corners doing not much at allshe is forced to flee out into the world. One She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is called Ruento hunt down shikigami, and he's Alex's best friend.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749953136</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy FarrB09Q3P283Y|title=Moon ChaseShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=When Wil dreams, itClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's as if he not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is inhabiting someone - or something - else's body. And when he wakes one morning after dreaming of particularly interested in a terrible crime and a desperate Fellhound, he knows career in the dog that military. If he can hear howling 's honest - which Clyde usually is that very Fellhound. Following Farrow to try to rescue her injured master, Wil is captured by the Saranians, who believe with himself at least - he is the hasn't got many choices and this one to have tried to murder young Seth Tanner. His sentence is harsh - track and kill , at least, gets him out of the Wraithe wolves rut he's in the Moon Chase and return alive and unharmed and go free, die . He's good in the attempt, or return injured training and be hangedis quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907652868</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian IrvineJennifer Saint|title=Vengeance: The Tainted Realm: Book 1Elektra|rating=54|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Tali is a slave born of slaves, forced to live and work underground 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the brutal Cythonians story of three women who, live in turnthe heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, have also been forced into a subterranean lifestyle. The land above them is HightspallClytemnestra, rightly theirs but taken over generations ago. Hightspall's occupiers and Elektra are led by a group all bit players in the story of noble houses, which brings the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us to Rix, that often the heir to his alcoholic father, silent women have the Lord Ricinius. They both live under most compelling stories and the thumb of his overbearing mother, Lady Ricinius, but then so do many othersmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498289</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander Gordon SmithDean Koontz|title=The FuryQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=Brick felt itMeet Quinn Quicksilver. Daisy felt it. Cal felt it. All three, unconnected kids, He's not had the same noisychance to get to be a mercurial character yet, throbbing headache at the same time for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three- day old foundling, and all aches went at the same time, in very disappointing circumstancesnow is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. Brick took his girlfriend But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to his favourite placesudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', an abandoned theme parkfor something – call it unearthly intuition, and found her response to both call it mind-control, call it and a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to be not what he expected. Daisy was a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the school Juliet, value of it out of his bank and found prepare for going on the experience quite traumatic - almost as bad as what she found back at homelam. Cal was more regularly after the attention, as the schoolAnd all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's best football playerof interest to them. Helped to escape, but found everyone's eyes turned to you he finds his flight is one thinginterrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, everyone turning against you the discovery that he is anothernot unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571276164</amazonuk>1542019885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=M L N HanoverTasha Suri|title=Unclean Spirits: Black Sun's DaughterThe Jasmine Throne
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Although On the world is moving towards equality in the workplacenight of her sacred burning, when you're fighting the supernatural, it seems Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to help step on to be a man. [[Changes: The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher]] features Harry Dresden, professional wizard and general smart ass and the exorcist of [[Thicker Than Water (Felix Castor) by Mike Carey]] is also malepyre. Admittedly, Lynda La Plante's DCI Jane Tennison She is a great female lead, but she's more immediately sent to be imprisoned on the everyday end Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of investigationpeople who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. But nowthe temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, M L N Hanover brings us Jayné HellerMalini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, who proves Malini claims that fighting demons the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the like isn't just a man's jobgirl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501221</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip ReeveGenevieve Gornichec|title=Goblins|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Poor Skarper. HeThe Witch's such a loser. In the violent and bloodthirsty goblin world where fighting and eating and taking other people's loot are all-time-favourite, number-one activities, he has a terrible handicap. He thinks. In fact, he's pretty clever, for a goblin, to the extent that he uses the goblins' bumwipe heaps for . . . reading. Yup, you heard me. Reading. The foolish hatchling works out that the black squiggles on the mouldering heaps of soft and crinkly stuff left, long ago, by the ancient inhabitants of the tower, are written words, and instead of going out raiding like any sensible goblin, he creeps off to a quiet corner to work out what they mean. Silly, eh?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407115278</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Griffin|title=The Minority CouncilHeart|rating=54
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=In Matthew Swift's London, just about anything is possible. As the Midnight Mayor, protector A modern and approachable reimagining of the city, Matthew has incredible power and resources at his disposal. Not Norse myths that he really wants themcentres around a witch named Angrboda. In fact he'd rather not have all the hassle, if he's quite honest. But She hides in a new drug is swamping forest at the streets edge of London - Fairy Dust. This deadly magical drug eventually turns its users into fairies, who then disintegrate into the dust that they've been takingnine worlds, ready to be collected and sold again. And this perverse practise is not Matthew's only issue. Some teenage vandals have had their souls sucked out and social worker Nabeela wants the help remembering nothing of the Midnight Mayor to work out exactly how her past life but that happened. But the more Matthew digs into both issues, the more he starts to realise fact that she was survived burnt at the source stake three times because of the problem may be closer than he initially thoughtOdin's wrath.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500632</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Benedict Jacka|title=Fated: An Alex Verus Novel|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=Alex Verus runs a little shop Her attempts to live in Camdenpeace, however, London selling magic tricks and bits and pieces. Some of the bits and pieces are a more magical than quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the magic tricks, for he is a diviner (someone who sees the future)stake—and refuses to leave her alone. IndeedAfter an initial period of mistrust, the day that his friend Luna finds a little red artefact, his ability comes in handy. There are some very powerful people looking Angrboda begins to fall for that little red Loki'thing'. Unfortunately they aren't powerful in a nice way s charms, and they're a jump or the two ahead start an unusual family made of Alex and Luna. For the powerful ones actually know what it is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500241</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jennifer Lynn Barnes|title=Every Other Day|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=When Kali sees the Orobouros mark on cheerleader, Bethany, at her high school, she doesn't hesitate in tempting the parasitic creature - up a Chupacabra half- out of Bethany and into her own body. The parasite is dead daughter, a death sentence for humans. Some days, Kalison that's blood is toxic to paranormal creatures. Some days she's blessed with strengtha wolf, speed and killer instinct, and the parasite feeding off her memories wouldnanother son that't have stood s a chance. But not on this day. On this day, Kali is completely human. And she has to survive the next 17 hours before she changes backsnake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085738970X</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela CarterHannah Whitten|title=Burning Your BoatsFor the Wolf
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Chiyo wakes up with In Red's family, the sun in her face first daughter becomes queen, and the grass at her backsecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. For a momentTo Red's misfortune, she feels almost as though she's in heavenis the second daughter. But Sent alone into the joy in woods with nothing but the moment is short-lived. Around cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is mayhem. Uniformed guards are fighting off two rogue warriors intent on freeing a band wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of captivestheir kingdom. Before If she knows itis not a worthy sacrifice, Chiyo is fighting alongside the warriorsmonsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, showing a ferocity and the meek and mild wife and mother fabled kings he keeps hostage will never knew be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she hadfinds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1257814419</amazonuk>0356516369
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert Jackson BennettJohn Gwynne|title=The TroupeShadow Of The Gods
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=George never knew his fatherThe Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, a man with whom his mother had a brief relationship when the Vaudeville - a travelling theatre company - came Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to townsee. Sixteen years later and George This story is following the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the footsteps he believes to be his father'sgenre, with mythical creatures, by playing piano at a theatre on the circuit archaic language and hoping his father will show upbattles galore. He doesn'tThis is a thick book, so George goes with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in search of him. The first glimpse George has of the man he thinks of as his father is at one of the troupe's shows. He is captivated not just by Silenus, but by the entire companywhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500403</amazonuk>0356514218
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