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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Mirror Chronicles: Briar Book of the Bell Between Worlds|author=Ian JohnstoneDead|rating=4.5

|summary=The hero '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long and engrossing book is a boy I can. This secret magic of twelvemy own, orphanedall mine, lonely and unlovedat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. He spends '' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the little free time he has in creating beautiful kites covered in complicatedworld, colourful designs until lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the day he meets Briar's, a strange old man family of witches who sets him on protect the path town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to his destiny be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a saviour of not one but two worldssteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. But in line As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the traditions dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the genreBriar witches' legacy, this path will be fraught with feareverything they have sacrificed to survive, danger and lossis under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007491220</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|author=Marie Harbon|title=Seven Point Eight: The First Chronicle|rating=3Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Following several main characters - scientist PaulMira, businessman Maxlike her mother before her, remote viewer Tahra is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and mystery woman Ava - across two time frames spanning any treasure that lies within. But when the 1940s Council Watch lays a trap to end the present daywrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'Seven Point Eight'' blends science fiction s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and fantasy with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a sprawlingfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, absorbingas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, diffuse novel that will attract fans Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of both genresher home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B005IBYKC0</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Royce ProutyT Kingfisher|title=Stoker's ManuscriptThornhedge|rating=45

|summary=In ''You had a world where vampires are the new romantic heroes, Stoker’s Manuscript is a bit of a Godsend. I, for one, am absolutely delighted right to find some good old fashioned evil as sin, night dwelling, blood guzzling, crucifix hating Romanian villains. Of course, this means sacrificing sexiness, romance and attractively sulking out of a window but since what we get in exchange is stunning views of Transylvania, thought-through biology (for want of a better word) of the creatures and stakes that are elevated beyond one person, I say sharpen up the spike pitretake your place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099574454</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Bee Ridgway|title=The River T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of No Return|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= Nick was born a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in England in 1790 and a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is rather partial to pickled bits of pig and beef jellynot her story. He finds this rather difficult to explain to his girlfriendsInstead, our protagonist is Toadling, him being who was stolen away by fairies when she was a young man new-born baby and this being America, 2013. His 19th century Napoleonic war wounds are hard to explain secreted away too. His second lease on life in the 21st century is thanks to the mysterious Guild whose main rule is that no one can return land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to the time or home country draw magic from which they originated. He doesn't mind as they pay him well for his silence but all this is about to change. Eventually they seem to think that they can send him back her veins and won't take no for an answer. Any thought of a possible catch is suppressed by thoughts of Julia, the girl Nick left behind in England. It's all a bit fishy thoughcast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718176987</amazonuk>1803364238

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mur LaffertyNicole Jarvis|title=The Shambling Guide to New York City (The Shambling Guides)A Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Zoe is an unemployed book editor who had to leave her last job, and indeed her last city, in rather a hurry. Zoe's personal exodus brings her to New York and the possibility 'I want all of a job that sounds perfect: editing a travel guide Florence to NYC itself. However, its projected readership isnknow my name''t one for which Zoe has written before. New York City is full of monsters or coterie to be polite. Vampires, werewolves, demons, sprites, zombies… the list goes on as all alternative life is there, both in and out of the office. So the first question is if she survives her colleagues, will she survive her readership? The second question being, of course, who or what is Granny Good Mae?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501906</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Stephen Lloyd Jones|title=The String Diaries|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Hannah Wilde flees into Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the Welsh mountains with daughter Leah and husband Nate while powerful Accademia, the life blood slowly seeps out self-proclaimed guardians of him. They run to escape the evil healing magics that has relentlessly haunted Hannah's family for generations. Some people see it as a Hungarian legend but through paintings have the power to protect the Wildes it's real city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and insatiable architecture for centuries and won't forget guard it above all else. To them. They know what to do: verify everyone, trust Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no one place amongst them and, if in any doubt, RUN! Although one day that may not be enoughtheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472204670</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Susan Cooper|title=The Dark is Rising Sequence|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=As a child, I read The Grey King, book 4 Set in Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Sequence. I loved the book so much it topped my Christmas list for yearsnear-distant future, but sadly Santa never delivered. As an adult I finally bought in a world on the entire sequence for myself. This book is intended as a child's bookverge of climate collapse, and it Britain is brilliant as book for children, but it is also well loved by many adults, whether as in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a cherished memory of their own childhood hero (or as a book discovered as an adultseveral) to save the day and rescue what little remains. I'll admit What no-one expected was that as child, this can book can completely draw into other worlds in a manner not possible for an adult, but this is still an excellent read, whatever age you may beone of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0140316884</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lilith SaintcrowAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=The Red Plague AffairDelilah Recovered|rating=54

|summary=Sorceress PrimeWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, Emma Bannonjust might, has done many things in service be about to look up. Out of Queen and Countrywork, and willingly. Her latest mission about to track down a missing doctor puts lose her in the path of a deadly contagion - the Red plague. Mentath Archibald Clare flat, Dee is perhaps the only person capable of helping her find the doctor in timeup for an accountant's job. But asking Clare, and Valentinelli his assassin servant, it's not to assist in be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the chase risks exposing them attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to the Reddo with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. And Clare does Slivers of memory of things that are not have ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the sorcerous advantages that Emma possessessame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500934</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan EeHadeer Elsbai|title=Angelfall (Penryn and the End The Daughters of Days Book 1)Izdihar

|summary=Angels have ransacked Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the Earth and humankind is facing lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the apocalypse. The people who are left are desperate rights of women and starvingweavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Penryn is one of Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the survivors Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the protector of her disabled younger sister Paigemilitary, and when Paige but instead she is kidnapped by forced into an angel for an unknown purpose Penryn has to do everything within her power to find and rescue herarranged marriage with Nico. Embarking Giorgina on the other hand did not have a quest containing all manner of horrors both human privileged upbringing like Nehal and supernatural, Penryn is forced feels great pressure to make dangerous decisions provide for her family and question her own humanity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144477851X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daniel Abraham|title=The Tyrantmaintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's Law (Dagger and the Coin)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Cithrin Bel Sarcour has arrived in Suddapal rights. Giorgina also happens to complete her apprenticeship with the Medean Bank, but her past actions may have put her be in danger. After being betrayed by his comrade Yardem, Marcus Wester has set out love with Kitap rol Keshmet to kill a goddessNico. Clara Kalliam, who should be disgraced after her husband's treason, What follows is surviving on the edge a story of high an unjust society thanks to her youngest son's friendship , filled with the Lord Regent Geder Palliako - hypocrisy and is ready to risk everything to save her nation cruelty, from Palliako. Meanwhile, all Geder wants is peace which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and prosperity for that nation. Even if it means killing everyone who disagrees with him to make sure he can get itovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316080705</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Howard Andrew JonesHeather Fawcett|title=The Desert of Souls (The Chronicle Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Sword and Sand)Faeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= Place: Baghdad Time: 8th century Arabian-Nights-Time A dying man gives DabirEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, tutor at the Caliphto write her life's palacework, a precious artefact, making him promise to look after itthe very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Unfortunately it gets stolen before he has the chance Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking tofaeries, she is not so good with people. Jaffar So when she finds herself far, far North in the son small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the Caliph's vizier realises that it village matriarch, she is not sure what she has magical qualities that make it even more precious than it appears done, nor how to redeem herself and isn't too well pleasedput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. He gives Dabir a chance to redeem himselfEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, sending him all charm and Asimdelight, Captain of the Caliphmuch to Emily's guard, to find itfrustration. The men set out But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on their quest facing danger, death, sorcery and someone whose presence could get them into even deeper trouble.with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781854637</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Courtenay GrimwoodChristopher Golden|title=The Exiled BladeRoad of Bones|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Tycho is back to face The Kolyma Highway… the dangerous intrigue 'Road of Bones'… the Venetian CourtR504. While he wants nothing more than to spend his nights with beautiful Guilietta Millioni Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, when it's one of the worst winter in living memory hits world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the citypermafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-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 other Siberian minerals, and Duchess Alexabecause he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's treacherous rival builds a stronghold bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is 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 the funds he'd invested in Montenegro and attacks Guiliettathe pair's sonprior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, Tycho must really take gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the responsibility of his office as Bladeguide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498505</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard FordAndrew Givler|title=Herald of the Storm|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Nobul is a blacksmith and ex-mercenary who thinks he has next to nothing until even that is taken away from him. Rag is a young waif, surviving on the streets from stealth and a talent for stealing. Waylian spends his days poring over books and dodging verbal abuse as a witch's apprentice. Meanwhile Merrick, drinker, gambler and for hire by anyone who can afford him Soul Fraud (i.e. by anyone) receives a commission he can't refuse no matter how much he'd like to. River the assassin and Kaira one of the temple guard Shieldmaidens just continue what they always do, day in, day out. For in Steelhaven daily life is a routine round of existence until one day something happens… and suddenly it's not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472203925</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Irvine|title=Rebellion: Tainted Realm: The Debt Collection Book 2|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The former heir Rixium is now just plain Rix as he flees his ancestral castle in Hightspall hotly pursued by the marauding Cythonians, invading his home along with his homeland. Accompanying Rix are Glynnie, a young maidservant and her little brother Benn. Hampered by his entanglement with the enemy resulting in the brutal loss of his right hand, Rix is also still mourning his best friend Tobry, killed when hurled from a tower. Meanwhile, Rix's other friend, a Pale and therefore ex-slave of the Cythonians, Tali has been kidnapped on the orders of the evil chancellor. He isn't the only one after her, just her current possessor. The other is Lyf, the Cythonian King who needs only one more of the legendary black pearls to secure his omnipotence, i.e. the black pearl embedded in Tali's head. Tali's escape from slavery came at a price, but the future for both her and Rix seems a lot more costly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498297</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brian McClellan|title=Promise of Blood (Powder Mage Trilogy1)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Adamat, investigator and ex-police inspector, is summoned to the Skyline Palace for, he assumes, an audience with the king. However, when he arrives, the grounds are in darkness and a greater darkness lurks within. The King's Hielman bodyguard are all dead and the royal family won't be around for much longer as Field Marshal Tamas of the home-grown Adros Military has led a coup. Tamas wants to hire Adamat for his investigating prowess but neither Adamat, Tamas nor the mages and sorcerers under Tamas' command realise what will be unleashed as a result… or perhaps Tamas does. Meanwhile a servant girl starts the fight for the survival of herself and a small but very important child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650199X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=C Robert Cargill|title=Dreams and Shadows|rating=54

|summary=Once upon ''Matt has a time, a sweet boy met a sweet girl and they fell perfectly in loveterrible life. Seriously—it's awful. Their love It is so bad that Dan the Demon is rich and fulfilling and true. They did what people in love doshocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: moved 10 years of a blissful life in together, got married, had a babyexchange for his soul. And then something most people don't believe exists crawls into their house through an open window and exchanges their perfect baby for a changeling. It's the start of something bigger than even the switcher can begin to imagine.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575130091</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Helen Lowe|title=The Gathering of the Lost|rating=4Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=It may only have taken But he really is a year for the second in the ''Wall of Night'' series terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and, when he fails to get even Matt to hit sign on the shelvesdotted line, but on Haarth five years have passed since [[The Heir of Night by Helen Lowe|The Heir of Night]] disappeared from the Wall. Shehe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's known not to have died in the Swarm attack, but was last seen in the wilds of Jaransor and many believe her now to be deadsignature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500039</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham ThomasOlivie Blake|title=Maria & The DevilAtlas Six

|summary=Dark, sharp, and highly inquisitive, ''The Devil has ridden outAtlas Six''. Maria's lover is Montana's most feared outlaw. He has left her alone in a secluded cabin deep in the wilderness. Maria is pregnant. Left in solitude, she develops a familiar routine that feels safe. But the isolation is pervasive and Maria's defences against it are crumbling. And while she waits for her lover to return, she is discovered by Rickman Chill, whose gang is tracking the Devil in makes its publishing debut after becoming a relentless quest for revengeTik-Tok sensation. What will happen when Chill discovers Maria's identity? Will the Devil return in time? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00BFEC2NI</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeDaniel Abraham|title=Beyond BeliefAge of Ash

|summary=In We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a city hemmed knife in by mountains her hand and a meeting that's grown she dreads. Meanwhile the only way it can - upwards - Rojan's job City of Kithamar is to find peopleat a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. Usually they're runaways or bounties, easy money It is the night between the funeral of a Prince and guilt free, just like Rojan likes itthe coronation of his successor. But then Rojan's niece For a night the Kithamar is taken, and despite never having met her, Rojan will do anything it takes to get her backun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501663</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melanie RawnAnn Sei Lin|title=Glass Thorns - Elsewhens (Glass Thorns 2)Rebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary= Only a little while Kurara has passed since we last spent time with Touchstoneher entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the touring theatre company that not only shows sky where soldiers of the audience the performanceEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, but enables them when a man named Himura arrives to experiencetell her that she is a Crafter like him, feel and taste it as a 4D hallucination. This time they're being taken beyond their comfort zone as they're cornered someone with the power to form paper into escorting whatever she desires – a princess home from power sought after all across the foreign ContinentEmpire. Meanwhile Cade Silversun is still getting his 'Elsewhens': He asks her to come with him, to leave the premonitions life of alternative futures dreary servitude that come as nightmares and daydreamsis all she has known. YesWell, Elsewhenssoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, those things that warned him about because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a woman; the same woman that friend shikigami, and colleague Mieka Windthistle she is in love withforced to flee out into the world. IndeedShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, Touchstone a sky-ship whose express purpose is forced to cope with foreign travelhunt down shikigami, foreign attitudes and, for some a whole world of them, the feeling that all isn't as it should be.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781166625</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aimee BenderB09Q3P283Y|title=Willful Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary= In this collection we're shown the reaction of ten men with terminal illness prognoses, a large man purchasing a very unusual pet and the case of a hard-done-by boyfriend. There are also delights like the shop that sells words crafted into what they read, a boy with keys instead of fingers and the beautifully touching tale of the pumpkin-headed mother who gives birth to an iron-headed baby. No, this isn't your average collection of predictable short stories; these are [[:Category:Aimee Bender|Aimee Bender]] short stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099558858</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewShadebringer|author=Will Storr|title=The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Killian Lone grows up in a home lacking in love and security. For these he relies on his elderly aunt Dorothy, an accomplished cook. Indeed his visits to Dorothy revolve around food as he absorbs all she can teach him, slowly inheriting her passion and skill along with her knowledge. This attachment to food then becomes his career choice, leading to the unfortunate discovery of a family secret that has remained hidden for a very long time. Why 'unfortunate'? There's a reason for its concealment… a very, very good reason.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780720807</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Luke Scull|title=The Grim CompanyGrayson W Hooper|rating=4.5

|summary=The gods are deadClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. The Magelords murdered them and hurled their bodies from heaven and are also slowly dominating He's not really that invested in the world below. Dorminia fight against Communism, nor is already he particularly interested in a career in their iron grasp, policed by the feared Crimson Watch and the terrorising Augmentorsmilitary. ItIf he's not even safe to think as Mind Hawks monitor and punish honest - which Clyde usually is, with pain himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and sufferingthis one, at least, gets him out of the rut he's in. However there is a resistance, albeit fragmented He's good in training and comparatively impotent but the situation is worsening so they must make quickly put onto a stand or lose everything (and everyone) they lovenon commissioned officer training course. Is the evil magic stronger than the heroesHe' own resources? They're dying to find outs chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851328</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James P BlaylockJennifer Saint|title=Lord Kelvin's MachineElektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=On a dark and rainy night, a weary but determined Langdon St. Ives rides out in hot pursuit 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of the villain three women who is holding his wife, Alice, captive. Catching up with his nemesis on the road, the resulting standoff between the two ends with St. Ives witnessing the cold-blooded murder of his beloved, shot live in the head at point blank range whilst pinned under the wheels heavily male dominated world of a carriageAncient Greece. It is a scene that will play out again and again in his mindCassandra, Clytemnestra, driving him to the brink of madness and desperation. There appears, however, to be a glimmer of hope Elektra are all bit players in the form story of a mysterious machine in the possession of the Royal Academy of Science; a machine Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that may hold often the secret to time itself. Is it possible for our hero to harness silent women have the power of Lord Kelvin’s Machine most compelling stories and rewrite history?the most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857689843</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James P BlaylockDean Koontz|title=HomunculusQuicksilver

|summary=What could possibly On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the connection between Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a mechanical toy crocodile that eats birdscommunity of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, a giant emeralddecaying ruin. One day, an oxygenator device for a spaceship and Malini witnesses a tiny alien man girl kill someone with the power magic. Instead of life and death? The answer, of coursereporting her for such a gruesome crime, is Malini claims that each item on this unusual list has been placed inside one of four identical boxes. The boxes are hidden in various locations in order to prevent the contents girl saved her from falling into an attacker and begs for the wrong hands, but evil has a habit of seeking things out...girl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857689827</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terence BlackerGenevieve Gornichec|title=The TwyningWitch's Heart|rating=54

|summary= Efren is A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a nobody witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the kingdom edge of rats till he witnesses the kidnapping nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the kingstake three times because of Odin's wrath. His future changes Her attempts to live in a moment as he's sent peace, however, 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 human world stake—and refuses to rescue himleave her alone. Talking After an initial period of humansmistrust, 11 year old Peter is abandoned by his parents and left Angrboda begins to scrape a living from Londonfall for Loki's streets. His affinity with animals gives him charms, and the name 'Dogboy' and employment with rat catcher Bob and scientist Dr Rosstwo start an unusual family made of up a half-Gibbon. The Doctordead daughter, a son that's ambition is to encourage humanity to annihilate the rats by dragging them into a war. Efren and Dogboywolf, both insignificant in their own worlds, must make both man and rodent see sense; easier said than doneanother son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781850704</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel O'MalleyHannah Whitten|title=The Rook (The Checquy Files)For the Wolf

|summary= A woman wakes up In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with amnesia surrounded by dead people wearing gloves. In nothing but the cape on her pocket she discovers back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a letter from Myfanwy Thomaswolf, and he is the previous inhabiter one who will decide the fate of her bodytheir kingdom. Myfanwy tells If she is not a strange story of working for 'worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the Checquy'woods will be released, a paranormal version of MI5 which has been permeated by a web of betrayal and dangerthe fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. The problem is But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that Myfanwy never discovered the source before her body changed hands (so to speak)legends are lies. The amnesiac has wolf is not a clear choice: to continue Myfanwymonster—he's investigation or to do a runner. It's her decision but Myfanwy's warning is less than encouraging: ::''Remember they want you dead.'' Something for her to bear in mind along with the fatal, unintended consequences of permitting cheap cheese into the UKman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908800372</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John R FultzGwynne|title=Seven Kings: Books of the Shaper: Volume 2The Shadow Of The Gods

|summary= Runaway slave Tong suicidally avenges his lost love but death seems to elude him. Meanwhile King Vireon The Shadow Of The Gods is happily married to the beautiful shape-shifting sorceress Aluafirst installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, although his sister has problems with her husbandset in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, King D'zanwhen the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. A courtesan This story is carrying his baby; odder still when you realise he's impotent. The Twin Kings of Uruzthe ultimate in High Fantasy, scholarly Lyrilan and war-hungry Tyro, can't agree on how John Gwynne certainly does justice to rule so Tyro's wife Talondra puts a real spanner in the works to force a decisiongenre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. However bad their lives currently are, evil This is spreading through their world like a dark shadow thick book, with an intricate plot and, fascinating characters that are woven together to make things worse still, Ianthe the Claw create a wonderfully realistic and Gammir the Reborn aren't as dead as everyone supposes them to begritty world in which our heroes must do battle. (You'd think the clue would be in Gammir's name wouldn't you?)|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500829</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|author=Melanie Rawn|title=Glass Thorns - Touchstone |rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Cayden is a hybrid being part elf, fae and human but all wizard. He also has a day job as a tregetour or playwright with his own touring company, Touchstone. They're ambitious and planning to get through the trials and into the upper flight. As you would expect from a wizard, this troupe doesn't just act; they also weave magic imbued in hallucinations and encased in glass withies. The problem is they're short of a glister, a troupe's wielder of withies. Or rather they were until Mieka arrives. Actually short's a good world as he's an elf but he also happens to be the best glister anyone's ever seen, thorns permitting. With one problem solved, another remains. Namely prophetic dreams that have haunted Cade since boyhood and they aren't improving, in fact they're more like nightmares.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781166609</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rosanne Licata|title=Blood Bonds: The Caravan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Raj is part Arab, part Roman. She's independent and strong-willed - too independent and strong-willed to fit well into a society where women belong in the home and only men can bring change to the world. So she runs away. Disguised as a boy, she is roaming the streets of Antioch when she encounters Bjornolf, a Danish king. Drawn to him in a way she can't explain, Raj stows away Move on the caravan he is guarding. As the journey continues, Raj must decide whether the terrible dangers to both Bjornolf and herself are worth risking if she reveals her true nature to him...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1770975667</amazonuk>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]