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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melanie RawnA G Slatter|title=Glass Thorns - Touchstone The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5

|summary= Cayden is '' There's a hybrid being part elfof me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, fae and human but all wizardmine, at last. He also has I just want to enjoy it for a day job as while.'' Within a tregetour or playwright with his own touring companyremote mountain pass, far away from the world, Touchstone. Theylies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar're ambitious s, a family of witches who protect the town and planning to get through the trials and into wider world from the upper flightDarklands. As you would expect from a wizardThough she has always wished for magic, this troupe doesn't just act; they also weave magic imbued in hallucinations Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and encased in glass withies. The problem is they're short of a glisteras such since she was young, her training as a troupe's wielder of withies. Or steward revolved around letters and administration rather they were until Mieka arrivesthan spells and potions. Actually shortWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's a good world as hecousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's an elf but he also happens leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to be communicate with the best glister anyone's ever seendead, thorns permittingputting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. With Reeling from one problem solvedfamily secret to another, another remains. Namely prophetic dreams that have haunted Cade since boyhood Ellie must decide who to trust and they arendetermine what to do as the Briar witches't improvinglegacy, in fact everything they're more like nightmareshave sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781166609</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|author=Rosanne Licata|title=Blood Bonds: The Caravan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Raj is part ArabRosevear, part Roman. She's independent a remote and strong-willed - too independent and strong-willed to fit well partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into a society where women belong in the home rocks and only men can bring change to plundering the worldwrecks. So she runs away. Disguised as a boyMira, like her mother before her, she is roaming one of the streets of Antioch seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when she encounters Bjornolfthe Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, a Danish kingthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Drawn 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 a way she can't explainfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, Raj stows away on as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the caravan he is guarding. As heart of the journey continuessmuggler's territory, Raj Mira must decide whether be determined to stop at nothing to save the terrible dangers to both Bjornolf future of her home and herself are worth risking if the ones she reveals her true nature to him..holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1770975667</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreview|author=Celia Friedman|title=Legacy Of Kings (Magister 3)|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Three years T Kingfisher's latest novella is a long time to wait between parts lovely reimagining of a trilogyfairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, especially one as good as Celia Friedman's Magister Trilogysleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. I'm not someone blessed with great patienceInstead, which has made the wait interminableour protagonist is Toadling, but finally I get who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to find out what happened the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to Kamala draw magic from her veins and the other Magisters and to see how Salvator Aurelius is coping with being the first Penitent Kingcast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841495360</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreview|author=Patricia Briggs|title=Aralorn: Masques and Wolfbsane|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Here is what seems quite a rum [[:Category:Patricia Briggs|Patricia Briggs]] compendium – her first attempt at a fantasy novelCast out from Rome, published and read by roughly six men and Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an orc back oasis in the early 1990s, which her art can find a home and what would appear where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the fourth book in the same series, dusted off after they both got a rewrite in 2010powerful Accademia, and together at last for the curious completist. And if self-proclaimed guardians of the rewriting ironed out a few creases it shows just how much there was needed done – for healing magics that through paintings have the first book is still full of minor problems – a man immune power to, or invisible to, magic unless when it's needed for protect the plot, a host of exposition city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all throughout, -male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and much that marks guard it down as a debut effortabove all else. It doesn't mean it's not worth reading howeverTo them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501647</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Jim Butcher|title=Cold Days|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Happy birthday Harry Dresden! And what a birthday as life becomes a little hectic for the Winter Court Knight. He returns to life in time to fight Set in the Winter Palacenear-distant future, have in a near death experience at world on the hands verge of darkclimate collapse, mini-people, then Britain is nearly killed again in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (by a friend this timeor several) and his island of Demonreach is about to explode taking a chunk of save the USA with itday and rescue what little remains. He therefore has 24 hours to save some world. Oh, and you know those headaches he's been having? HIs head is on What no-one expected was that one of the verge Knights of exploding too. Indeed, it's the sort of birthday that it's hardly worth reanimating forRound Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500896</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jesse BullingtonAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=The Folly of the WorldDelilah Recovered

|summary=It is the 1420s, and We meet Dee at a lot of what we now think of point when her life isn't going as The Netherlands is underwaterplanned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Crossing the deluge is a most unlikely trio – a posh man seeking something with the help Out of the otherswork, including a girl who has survived his sometimes-fatal testabout to lose her flat, and a manic fellow fresh from saving himself upon the gallows, who might or might Dee is up for an accountant's job. But it's not have been down to hell in be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the interimattack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that quest is, and how it will lead to nightmaresdo with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, deaths galore and a lot living an ordinary life. Slivers of other interesting parts memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the story, is for you to discover, in this absorbing cross-genre piecesame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500888</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graeme K TalboysHadeer Elsbai|title=Stealing Into Winter: being the first adventure from the chronicles of Jeniche The Daughters of Antar Izdihar

|summary=Streetwise young thief Jeniche wakes up to find her prison cellDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''s walls collapsing around her. This is no natural disaster but an invasion by the Occassans, mercilessly brandishing The Daughters of Izdihar'moskets'explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, weapons that fire death rendering yet find themselves fighting for the native Makamban cudgels futilerights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Whilst scouring Nehal, born into the streets upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and avoiding then join the marauding armymilitary, Jeniche visits old haunts, checking but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on her friends the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and wondering what feels great pressure to do next. This last part is solved provide for her: a band of Tunduri monks family and nuns, including maintain their young God-King himself, want a guide to take them home to Tundurreputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the land Daughters of winter beyond the desertIzdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. The journey may Giorgina also happens to be hazardous but nothing's safe anymorein love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and socruelty, accompanied by the muscular, slow-witted stable owner, Trag from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and mysterious swordsman Alltud, overcoming their journey beginspersonal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178099625X</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris WoodingHeather Fawcett|title=The Iron JackalEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=For once I donEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life't feel like devoting my s work, the very first paragraph to a teasing plot summaryencyclopaedia of faeries. And while I'm here Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to judge the book and faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the coversmall village of Hrafvsnik, even having somehow offended the British paperback blurb agreesvillage matriarch, and gives nothing away in its woolliness. I am duty bound to say this she is the third book not sure what she has done, nor how to feature Darian Frey redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the rest of the crew of his flying craft the ''Ketty Jay''right track. If pressed I will say it starts with him indulging in a further instance of thieveryEnter Wendell Bambleby, making a mistakeher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and then finding just how delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is in the science fantasy universe that can possibly get between him and he here? What does he want? And what might repair exactly is going on with the damage.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620853</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate GriffinChristopher Golden|title=Stray SoulsRoad of Bones|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Sharon Li has The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a normal job in a London coffee shop but doesnthousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world't feel normals most notorious routes. SheFor months of the year it's beginning to realise shea spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring's sees it turn into a shamanhuge blodge of unremitting, especially when she is apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so at one with the citymuch uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, she vanishesit legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. In order to meet others whoYou can easily find documentaries about it online, but that'll understands a bit rich, for one of our main characters, she starts Magicals AnonymousFelix 'Teig' Teigland, is a selffilm-help group for maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the mystically confused coming project to terms with their giftsfruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. The meetings come with various beveragesThey pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, biscuitsgain the company of a local beauty, a Facebook page and a very good turnout. However all is not herbal tea and crunchy-creams as someone or something seems to be stealing fetch up at the spirits that make Londonguide's soul and another something walks the streets tearing people limb from limbchildhood village. The city is dying and gradually Sharon realises And that Magicals Anonymous are more than just a social group. As odd as it sounds 's where things start to look at them, the Midnight Mayor wants them to save the capital.go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500640</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly BlackAndrew Givler|title=Red Glove Soul Fraud (Curse Workers 2)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cassel lives in a world where magic is frowned upon. Practice is banned and everyone wears gloves to prevent being worked. Cassel himself is a transformation worker - the rarest type. And he is the most powerful transformation worker in living memory. This makes him extremely valuable to the crime families who use curses to support and maintain their empires. It also makes him extremely dangerous as far as the authorities are concerned. And that's why Cassel tries to keep his status to himself, since he discovered it in the [[The White Cat (Curse Workers, Debt Collection Book 1) by Holly Black|first book]] in this ''Curse Workers'' sequence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575096764</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brent Weeks|title=The Blinding Knife (Lightbringer 2)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Gavin Guile thought he had five years left to complete his seven great purposes. But now it seems he has less than one. He might be the Prism - the most powerful light drafter in the Seven Satrapies, capable of drafting huge amounts of light without risk of losing his mind to the colours - but he's lost blue. He can't see it or draft it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499072</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stefan Bachmann|title=The Peculiar|rating=4.5

|summary=''DonMatt has a terrible life. Seriously—it't get yourself noticed and you won't get yourself hangeds awful. It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his soul.''

Such is life Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for peculiars like Bartholomew Kettle and his sister Hettiesoul-catching demons. Their mother But he really is human but their - absent - father is a Sidhe, a high fairyterrible salesman. Fairies are contemptuous of the half-breed peculiars and humans distrust He never hits his targets and suspect them. Hapless peculiar children are often hanged by humans. And, when he fails to get even more worryinglyMatt to sign on the dotted line, 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 lifehe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0062195182</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jay KristoffOlivie Blake|title=StormdancerThe Atlas Six|rating=54

|summary=Warrior Masaru has raised his daughterDark, Yukikosharp, 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 pieceshighly inquisitive, 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 arenThe Atlas Six'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 makes its publishing debut after becoming a way home, learning as she goes the full extent to which the Shogun has worked against the good 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 itTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230759017</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=G Willow WilsonDaniel Abraham|title=Alif the Unseen|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Alif lives under an alias and he has a good reason for that: he's a hakinista in an Arabian oil producing country that, to put it mildly, doesn't encourage free speech. He sells IT know-how and wizardy to any covert organisation that works against the government, their agenda unimportant as long as the aim is the downfall of their oppression. But all that's about to change as Alif falls in love and, as it's the wrong girl at the wrong time, is spurned. His response to this romantic let down is to create a computer programme that will identify her internet activity by her individual typing pattern. Unfortunately what works for him also works against him. It's captured by the notoriously dangerous government censor 'The Hand' who also wants Alif and his hidden network Age 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>}} {{newreview|author=Benedict Jacka|title=Taken: An Alex Verus NovelAsh

|summary=Alex VerusWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, future-diviner she has a knife in her hand and erstwhile Camden magic shop owner has dusted himself off after a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in the rigours turning of [[Cursed: An Alex Verus Novel by Benedict Jacka|Cursed]] years when the worlds are at their thinnest and is good to go once moreall things are possible. He continues training Luna as his apprentice but all It is not completely well. Alex has been asked to investigate the disappearance night between the funeral of apprentices by Council representative, Talisid. Now, Alex's involvement with the Council (a Prince and indeed Talisid) hasn't always been good for Alex's health in the past, but his commissioning may be a sign coronation of his enhanced reputation and this time there's a note of self-interest: Luna may be the next to vanishsuccessor. Alex receives For a tipnight the Kithamar is un-off that Fountain's Reach (a stately home with a mysterious past) has something to do with it and, as luck would have it, it's also the venue for the next apprentice tournament which Luna has entered. The investigation begins and hopefully they'll survive to see it through to the endruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500268</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine FisherAnn Sei Lin|title=The Obsidian MirrorRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jake's father disappeared while working Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a secret project with his best friend, massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the celebrated explorer Empire come to drink and recluse Oberon Vennmake merry between their conquests. Jake is sure However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that Venn she is a murderer and sets out Crafter like him, someone with the power to prove it, dragging his teacher, Mr Wharton, form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the investigationEmpire. But the truth is perhaps even more frightening: David Wilde isn't dead, he's lost in time. Venn and his sidekick Piers are intent on re-entering the past He asks her to find come with him, using a device called to leave the Chronoptikalife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. But it's dangerous and they arenWell, soon Kurara won't have any say in the only ones hell bent on using matter, because the time machine. There's Sarah, who can turn herself invisible, and who's being pursued Midori is destroyed by a murderous Replicant monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and his wolf. And there's she is forced to flee out into the scarred man with his acolyte and his strange weaponworld. And there are She joins Himura aboard the SheeOrihime, who keep their own counsel, but have their own ambitionsa sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and who enchant the forest on Venn's estate... a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340970081</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janet EvanovichB09Q3P283Y|title=Wicked BusinessShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=A young womanClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, newly married. Discovering her husband nor is not all he seemsparticularly interested in a career in the military. That If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he has secrets. That she has needshasn't got many choices and this one, wantsat least, desiresgets him out of the rut he's in. That she will need to take things into her own hands if she He's good in training and is ever to be satisfied in her new role as wifequickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007163541</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongJennifer Saint|title=13 (Women of the Otherworld)Elektra|rating=3.54|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary='Elektra'13'' picks up where ''Spell Bound'' left off. A terrorist group is still trying to expose by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the supernaturals and create a new heavily male dominated world orderof Ancient Greece. Our heroesCassandra, from among the ranks of the werewolves, the witches, the half-demons, the vampiresClytemnestra, the necromancers and the sorcerer cabals, Elektra are trying to stop them. Savannah takes centre stage and all bit players in the majority story of the narrationTrojan War. Her spells are still on Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the fritz but she thinks she knows why most compelling stories and she survived the explosionmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498033</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lilith SaintcrowDean Koontz|title=The Iron Wyrm AffairQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Someone is killing off Mentaths Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three- geniusesday old foundling, logic machines - in the city of London and itnow is starting a career on a needless magazine's up staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to Emma Bannonsudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', sorcerer Primefor something – call it unearthly intuition, to protect their next target Archibald Clare. Emma is powerful and resourcefulcall it mind-control, but she call it a supernatural urge – has problems demanded of her own - such as whether she can trust her Shieldhim that he go to a derelict diner, Mikalfind a gold coin worth a fortune, who killed cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the last sorcerer whose service he was inlam. And while Clare all this is as keen as she just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to uncover the conspiracy behind the murdersturn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the illogical world discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of sorcery burgeoning power – and the logical minds of Mentaths don't mix wella whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500926</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=N K JemisinTasha Suri|title=The Shadowed Sun: Dreamblood: Book 2Jasmine Throne|rating=4.5

|summary=Ten years after On the events night of [[The Killing Moon: Dreamblood: Book 1 by N K Jemisin|The Killing Moon]]her sacred burning, the events of the earlier book have left their mark Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the worldpyre. Gujaareh She is now under immediately sent to be imprisoned on the oppressive rule Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the Kisuati Protectoratemysterious deathless waters. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. WorseOne day, Malini witnesses a plague girl kill someone with magic. Instead of nightmares is killing the once peaceful city's inhabitants in their sleep. It falls to two unlikely heroesreporting her for such a gruesome crime, Wanahomen, son of Malini claims that the late Prince, girl saved her from an attacker and Hanani, begs for the first female to train as one of Hananja's priesthood, girl to try to save the city from both of these problemsbecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500772</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanette WintersonGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Daylight GateWitch's Heart|rating=4.5

|summary=1610s Lancashire, A modern and Alice Nutter is approachable reimagining of the best landowner you could wish forNorse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. Single, rich and connected, she takes no sides She hides in a forest at the edge of the religious schisms James I has inheritednine worlds, and takes no bull from those trying to oppress remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the poor, putting them up and feeding them when no-one else willstake three times because of Odin's wrath. But those poor are seen as sinful by others - amoral, dirty Her attempts to live in mindpeace, body and spirithowever, and in league are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the devilstake—and refuses to leave her alone. And people are beginning After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to question Alicefall for Loki's attitudescharms, choice and the two start an unusual family made of company up a half- and ageless beauty. Thisdead daughter, thena son that's a wolf, is the based-on-truth story of how Alice Nutter got to be one of the accused in the Pendle Witch trialsand another son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099561859</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stuart SharpHannah Whitten|title=Court of DreamsFor the Wolf|rating=4.5

|summary=Thomas and Nicola are no longer students. Finals finishedIn Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, Nicola can start planning life after uni and with Thomas... and then he dumps herthe second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To be fair, Thomas has a great job offer abroad and doesn't think that Nicola would want to go but NicolaRed's still flaming angrymisfortune, she is the second daughter. Adhering to Sent alone into the 'and another thing' school of arguing, Nicola tracks Thomas down. He's already busy dealing woods with someone nothing but being the assertive modern woman she cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods isa wolf, Nicola barges in front of and he is the one who will decide the hit man attempting to kill her now ex-boyfriend so she can give him yet another piece fate of her mindtheir kingdom. In If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the ensuing tussle (hit man trying to skewer Thomas and Thomas trying monsters he keeps contained to prevent Nicola from becoming an ex-person as well as an ex-girlfriend) the formerly blissful couple fall back into a tree... woods will be released, and then onwards, through the tree towards somewhere that's other worldly in all meanings of fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the phrasestories go. For they land in But when Red enters the Court of Dreamswoods, which isn't necessarily a good thing. Meanwhile expecting nothing more than to be killed within the tumble has separated Nicola and Thomashour, she finds that the hit man legends are lies. The wolf is not only determined but also a local lad so knows his way around and Thomasmonster—he' mother has neglected to tell him s a thing or two about his origins, as he's just about to find outman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0982991320</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael BoccacinoJohn Gwynne|title=Charlotte Markham and the House of DarklingThe Shadow Of The Gods

|summary=Widowed under tragic circumstancesThe Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, Charlotte Markham needs an income and so she's employed by widower Henry Darrow as a governess for his sons James and Paul. Their home 'Everton' may seem a typical Victorian mansion but set in the town era of Blackfield isn't your average English small town; the Darrow's Nanny Prum is found murdered Vikings in a particularly grisly manner. It's a mystery to the local police but Charlotte's friend Susannah has a clue if only they'd listen shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to hersee. Meanwhile This story is the Darrow boys' nights are spent dreaming of a house ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the woods where their mother still livesgenre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. Charlotte decides This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to treat this head on create a wonderfully realistic and takes them for a walk to show them there's no substance to it. However, gritty world in doing so they discover the nightmare that is The House of Darklingwhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781164460</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|author=K J Parker|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 Move on 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 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 Blade|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=After defeating the armies that threatened Venice single handedly, the newly knighted Sir Tycho finds himself with status, wealth and the subject of much interest to the Venetian citizens. But all Tycho really wants is Lady Giulietta, niece of the city's steward. Giulietta, grieving her dead husband, is desperate to escape the backstabbing, poisonous world of the Venetian court, and isn't in the mood for Tycho's clumsy attempts to woo her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498475</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Benedict Jacka|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. It's the sort 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 Crossing|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Wil Calloway returns to Saran in the most unwelcome of circumstances. Tally, Lady Elanor's young sister, has been abducted by the evil Lord Rexmoore in an attempt to find the whereabouts of the Legacy. Tally doesn't know it, but that won't save her. So Wil has come to rejoin his Fellmen friends and mount a rescue mission. But it's not going to be easy. Gisella and Mortimer aren't talking. Seth is as accident-prone as ever. And Leon and his father are still deeply suspicious about Wil's part in Giles's death during the last Moon Chase. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781485151</amazonuk>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]