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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaye WellsA G Slatter|title=Dirty Magic: Prospero's War: The Briar Book Oneof the Dead
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|summary=Gray Wolf is '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the new magic drug in world, lies Silverton; a town but itunder the protection of the Briar's , a mite more evil than family of witches who protect the usual sex potions town and enchanted uppers and downersthe wider world from the Darklands. Gray Wolf ensures that Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the user becomes first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a craven devourer of flesh - human fleshsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. Kate ProsperoWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, cop seconded to Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the MEA (Briar Witch, the government agency charged with clearing the streets of dirtytown's leader, illegal magic) has and Ellie takes her place beside her work cut out. Unfortunately this work includes having As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to go into communicate with the Cauldrondead, putting her at the dangerous underbelly heart of a town called Babylonmaelstrom of chaos. However Kate has a lot Reeling from one family secret to proveanother, having been born an adept in that very underbelly Ellie must decide who to trust and now having determine what to face do as the forces that helped create the tragedy still haunting her. AlsoBriar witches' legacy, if she didn't everything they have enough sacrificed to worry aboutsurvive, her ex-lover is implicated in Gray Wolf's manufacture and her kid brother is choosing his own way in life; not a good thing, not a good thing at allunder threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650297X</amazonuk>1803364548
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsRachel Greenlaw|title=Dark Witch (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy)Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary=American Iona Sheehan moves to Ireland in order to discover her ancestors' roots and oh so much more. Her ancestors were witches and her cousins Branna and Conor O'Dwyer have acquired I can hear the family talent. Under their care and tutelage Iona has her own skills honed as she develops song of the magick passed down to her in between her work at the local stablessea. Unfortunately magick isn't the only thing to have survived the centuries. Cabahn, the nemesis The call of Sorcha, the first O'Dwyer dark witchdeep, has unfinished business with the cousins and not answering beat in a good waymy heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958588</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John R FultzT Kingfisher|title=Seven Sorcerers: Books of the Shaper: Volume 3Thornhedge|rating=45
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|summary=Vireon the Giant-King, Emperor Tyro and Feathered Serpent/Sorcerer Khama are readying their armies to face the Almighty Zyung, would be conqueror of the Five Cities, ''You had a Shaper and evil piece of work. Meanwhile Sharadza (Vireon's sister) and Iardu (the good Shaper, mostly) take on swifter forms right to beg assistance from every retake your place and being they can think of. For the time is coming when the world's freedom depends on victory against insurmountable odds. Back at the armies, Dahrima the Axe, giantess and leader of Vireon's spear-maiden body guard, has sworn to die for her king but also has some emotional issues. As for Ianthe and Gammir, thecauses of much suffering in the past, they once again have their own agendas that could mean Zyung is the least of anyone's worries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500837</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Girl With All the GiftsNicole Jarvis|authortitle=M R CareyA Portrait in Shadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Meet Melanie. Not something that's likely to happen, but it's a standard introduction and I'll run with it. If you do find her, it's either in a subterranean cell, or a classroom. Or the shower-room, where she and the other children get disinfected, and get to eat a bowl of maggots – the only nutrition they have want all week. All this is on a military base so secure they've only seen a few members of staff – either military or mostly lacklustre teachers – and theyFlorence to know my name've certainly no real hope of seeing sunlight. They are there because of the Breakdown, when most of the world got turned into ravenous, mindless ''hungries''. But these children did not turn all the way. And as unlikely as it is, as implausible a heroine as she is, young Melanie might just be the saviour of mankind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502732</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=Mark LinganeAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=I Love LucidDelilah Recovered|rating=3.54
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Lucid is more than We meet Dee at a full-immersion role play game; itpoint when her life isn's THE full-immersion role play gamet going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Its inventor Seth Pascal has ensured that all that needs Out of work, about to be done lose her flat, Dee is to plug in and the playerup for an accountant's brain will take them to the virtual world while during sleep, providing perfect lucidity and an alternative life within an avatarjob. However But it's also becoming the game not to die forbe. Yes, literally die for as players are being murdered while they're connectedDee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. Detective Evan Waugh is She survives the investigator given the case attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to prove that he still has what it takes. However theredo with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an added complication for both he ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and Seth as things will never be the investigation continuessame... Her name is Ellen, the woman for whom Lucid isn't just a way of life, it ''is'' her life.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00G0T342Q</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Time Traveller's AlmanacHadeer Elsbai|authortitle=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerThe Daughters of Izdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=ItDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar''s been two hundred years since Optimus Yarnspinner last went to explores the great literary city lives of Bookholmtwo women who could not be more different, where people trawled underground hells yet find themselves fighting for classic works the rights of Zamonian literature, women and our hero had an almighty, Odysseyweavers – those with magical abilities -like journey through the nether regions. He would not have ever expected to return, except for in a very intriguing letter he receives one day in his authorly garretsociety pitted against them. It contains such mysteryNehal, including born into the idea that he wrote it to himselfupper class, wishes to force him attend the Weaving Academy to journey back learn to Bookholm – control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a Bookholm completely rebuilt after privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the ending Daughters of the last novelIzdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. The city What follows is much more advanceda story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, the subterranean areas seemingly more at peace – yet something is definitely afootfrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578263</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=AJ SmithHeather Fawcett|title=The Black Guard (The Long War)Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Ro Canarn Emily Wilde is falling an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the brutal conquest very first encyclopaedia of the Red Knightsfaeries. Duke Hector, its ruler, Whilst she is on the verge of death brilliant at research and his twin offspring Lady Bronwyn and Lord Bromvy are on the runspeaking to faeries, outcast. However this she is merely a portent of greater troubles aheadnot so good with people. One So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the evil Seven Sisters village matriarch, she is seen accompanying not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the Red Knights so if there is a secret agenda itright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's not a good onefrustration. Meanwhile if Ro Canarn can fall, But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is anywhere safe anymoregoing on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855625</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Dance of CloaksChristopher Golden|authortitle=David DalglishRoad of Bones|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Thren Felhorn is The Kolyma Highway… the leader 'Road of Bones'… the Spider Guild and is a name feared by everyone in VeldarenR504. For good reason, Stretching for Thren has united the Guildsover a thousand miles across Siberia, those groups populated by the thieves and murderers it's one of the cityworld's most notorious routes. Thren’s long term aim is to lead For months of the Guilds in year it's a war against spread of sheet ice suspended above the Trifect – the three richest families who control the majority permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of the city’s legal activitiesunremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502783</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Bronze Gods|author=A A Aguire|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=One of the Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many reasons I love fantasy is discovering the new worlds that the authors have createdpeople a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. Where is the world? What kind creatures inhabit You can easily find documentaries about it? What are the customsonline, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, et ceterais a film-maker, et cetera. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating and steampunk mixed doing a recce with fantasy is his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the double hitpair's prior TV projects. Throw in some murder most frighteningly horrid and we have They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the makings company of a really good timelocal beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>1803361476
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tone AlmhjellAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Twistrose KeyDebt Collection Book 1)
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Olivia Taylor-Jones ''Matt has a charmed terrible life. Her family is rich, her fiance perfect and though she has some questions about her career, she knows that things will work themselves out. Until she learns that she's adopted - her true parents AmericaSeriously—it's most infamous serial killersawful. Suddenly on It is so bad that Dan the run from the media, Olivia finds shelter Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in the small town of Cainsvilleexchange for his soul. It's a strange sort of place - full of oddball characters and gargoyles that seem to only appear at certain times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184744511X</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caleb CarrOlivie Blake|title=The Legend of Broken|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=A historical manuscript has been found in what is now Germany (so the story goes) chronicling an ancient civilisation inhabiting the fortress city of Broken (or Brocken in the original German). Those who anger the government are cast out into the surrounding forests where they must face the dangers of man-eating wolves and worse. These outcasts can only survive by collaborating and becoming one tribe: the Bane. Although, to be honest, they're becoming a bit of a nuisance with their terrorist ways, therefore Sixt Arnem, Sentek of the Broken Army is ordered to eradicate them for once and for all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751551538</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Elysian Fields|author=Suzanne JohnsonAtlas Six
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Drusilla Jaco (DJ) is the sentinel for the preternatural community in the greater New Orleans area and is still recovering from bereavement, Katrina and broken ribs from her last adventure. No such luck as life taking things easy on her, however, as it is discovered that the copycat of a famous serial killer is not, in factDark, a copycat. The Axeman of New Orleans himself has been raised from the dead by a necromancer or necromancers unknown. To make matters worsesharp, her loup-garou fiend Jake bit her in a fit of pique and her best friend’s creepy boyfriend won’t leave her alone. She doesn’t know what he wants and she doesn’t know whether she’ll turn into a wolf at the next full moon but she does know that the Axeman is after herhighly inquisitive, specifically. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755397703</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Apocalypse Now Now|author=Charlie Human|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Baxter Zevcenko is a sixteen year old student in South Africa who believes everything in life is business related and for the sole purpose of increasing his own power. Baxter deals porn at his school and is the leader of a gang of misfits who have carved a niche within the school’s hierarchy out of the student populations need for smut. ''The group is called the Spider and Baxter believes himself to be the arachnid at the centre of an impressive web with the ability to manipulate and scheme his way to power and riches. His heroes are Rasputin and Machiavelli and we are made aware very early on that as well as being a despicable power hungry megalomaniac he is also quite possibly insane.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891318</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Benedict Jacka|title=Chosen|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Alex Verus, seer and London magic shop owner, has had a year of crowded uncomplication since we last caught up with him. Crowded because he now shares his small flat with unqualified but adept mages Anne and Variam as well as his apprentice Luna. Uncomplicated because his biggest problem seems to be progressing LunaAtlas Six's training and finding someone to pick up Anne and Variam's apprenticeship; not huge when his normal kind are makes its publishing debut after becoming a matter of life or death. However all is about to change. You remember that way back in his youth Alex worked for a dark mage? Well he was hoping to forget that. Was? Yes, past tense, for now Alex's past has invaded his present and is in danger of curtailing his future.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502309</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Susan Cooper|title=Ghost Hawk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I loved Susan Cooper's [[The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper|The Dark is Rising Sequence]], but as surprised as I am to say this Tik- this book is far better. While still suitable for older children, this is definitely a book that adults will want to read as well. The book is more mature than her early works, and while obviously gifted from the start, Cooper's talents have matured as well. This book is nothing short of a masterpieceTok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782300007</amazonuk>1529095239
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael J SullivanDaniel Abraham|title=The Crown Tower: Book 1 Age of The Riyria ChronicleAsh
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary= Hadrian Blackwater (ex-soldierWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, ex-lots- she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of-years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things) and Royce Melborn (exemplary thief and grump) are summoned to Melengar by Professor Arcadiuspossible. The duo may not know each other and arrive separately, but as they meet and begin It is the night between the Professor's mission together funeral of a legend is born: The Riyria. (That's elvish for two by Prince and the waycoronation of his successor.) Meanwhile For a prostitute named Gwen escapes to save her life. Across night the road (ok... she didn't run far) she goes into business leading her to a place in fantasy novel historyKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502279</amazonuk>0356515427
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Broken HomesAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Ben AaronovitchRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=I’ve been waiting for Broken Homes Kurara 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 come out for monthsdrink and make merry between their conquests. Months. When it arrived on my doorstepHowever, I whisked it awaywhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, cackling like Gollum over my new precious and was no use someone with the power to anyone until I’d finished it. Then sat and thought about it for form paper into whatever she desires – a whilepower sought after all across the Empire. Then re-read my favourite bits. The considered further. This is the conclusion I reached: if there are no further Peter Grant booksHe asks her to come with him, Mr Aaronovitch, you and I are going to have ''words''leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575132469</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robin Sloan|title=Mr PenumbraWell, soon Kurara won's 24-hour Bookstore|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Unemployed and desperate, Clay Jannon wants a job, t have any job! Sosay in the matter, despite not having touched because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper book in yearsspirit known as a shikigami, he jumps at and she is forced to flee out into the chance of working world. She joins Himura aboard the night shift at Mr Penumbra's 24 hour bookstore. Mr P is Orihime, a very particular employer. The books are lent (not sold) to members of a unique club. Clay sky-ship whose express purpose is to serve these visitors, log their visit in the smallest detail (including their moodhunt down shikigami, their choice of clothing and what they say). Oh and Clay must never open any a whole world of the books. He doesn't but he's curious. Perhaps if he realised where his curiosity would lead he'd be a little more cautious.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782391193</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09Q3P283Y|title=Cold Steel: Spiritwalker: Book ThreeShadebringer|author=Kate ElliottGrayson W Hooper
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The Master of Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Wild Hunt has stolen away Cat BarahalVietnam War. He's husbandnot really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the military. SheIf he's being blamed for a murder. Fire mage James Drake wants to kill her. And rebellion honest - which Clyde usually is burning up , with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the streets back rut he's in Europa. Can Cat save her man He's good in training and crush her enemies, and maybe even change her world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498858</amazonuk>is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Siege and StormJennifer Saint|authortitle=Leigh BardugoElektra
|rating=4
|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=On 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the run from story of three women who live in the Darklingheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, Alina and Mal Elektra are together at last. But when he emerges from all bit players in the Shadow Fold with a horrific new power, story of the Darkling could prove himself to be more dangerous than everTrojan War. Alina will be torn between her growing power, Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the man she loves, most compelling stories and her patriotism - can she survive the oncoming storm?most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621132</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate GriffinDean Koontz|title=The Glass God (Magicals Anonymous)Quicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Sharon LiMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, former coffee shop barista and current communityfor he's lived in a nun-supportrun orphanage since he was a three-worker-cum-apprentice-shaman, continues to run Magicals Anonymousday old foundling, and now is starting a self-help group for those with mystic issues. It sounds career on a simple life, however there thereneedless magazine's one factor that ensure that staff. But when this book starts he IS now 'simple' remains an illusion: her acquaintance with the Guardian subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of the Citymood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, Defender call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the Gate value of it out of his bank and so forth, The Midnight Mayor, aka Matthew Swiftprepare for going on the lam. MatthewAnd all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's workload includes investigating a number of supernatural disappearancesinterest to them. Or at least it did till Helped to escape, he too went missing. So who ya gonna call? Nofinds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, they don't call them; they call Sharon the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and along with the mission comes unwanted promotion: Sharon Li, Deputy Midnight Mayora whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500659</amazonuk>1542019885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Never PagesTasha Suri|authortitle=Graham ThomasThe Jasmine Throne
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=''There are two rules that On the Dream Investigator must follow:''<br>''1. Document everything.''<br>''2. Keep moving forward.'' Master G is in search night of his one true loveher sacred burning, LucyPrincess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. But Lucy She is lost in immediately sent to be imprisoned on the NeverRealm, the dimension Hirana: an ancient temple that separates was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the living from whatever comes aftermysterious deathless waters. In But now the NeverRealmtemple is nothing more than an overgrown, memories do not existdecaying ruin. So how is Master G - the Dream Investigator - to find One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her? From the very first momentfor such a gruesome crime, his journey into Malini claims that the NeverRealm is destroying his mind, turning thoughts girl saved her from an attacker and knowledge and recollection to sand, shifting sand. He will need courage to face begs for the nightmarish environment. He will need fortitude girl to resist the degeneration. He will need to find Brekker, his unreliable scientist friend. And he'll need the companionship of Paisley, a dog named after a carpet..become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956742203</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Before the FallGenevieve Gornichec|authortitle=Francis KnightThe Witch's Heart|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=After destroying MahalaA modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's power sourcewrath. Her attempts to live in peace, Rojan reallyhowever, really wants are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to keep his head downthe stake—and refuses to leave her alone. The Ministry thinks heAfter an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's dead - which helps - but with the last scraps of power fast fadingcharms, people are starving and the danger two start an unusual family made of riots up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and chaos loomsanother son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501671</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony RyanHannah Whitten|title=Blood Song: Book 1 of Raven's ShadowFor the Wolf
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Young Vaelin Al SornaIn Red's father takes him to family, the gates of first daughter becomes queen, and the Sixth Order of the Faith and leaves him theresecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. VaelinTo Red's father misfortune, she is the King's Battle Lord second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and Vaelin's mother someone he is the one who will decide the lad has sorely missed since her death but this doesn't matterfate of their kingdom. As If she is not a member of worthy sacrifice, the Order Vaelin has no family except his Order brethren. The long life-threatening training binds him closer monsters he keeps contained to his fellows while exposing him to greater dangers the woods will be released, and mysteries than the fabled kings he's ever knownkeeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. However one day he'll outgrow his comradesBut when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. One day heThe wolf is not a monster—he'll become a name whispered with fear and awe. For Vaelin will become s a deadly weapon: Hope Killer himselfman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502465</amazonuk>0356516369
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Mirror Chronicles: the Bell Between WorldsJohn Gwynne|authortitle=Ian JohnstoneThe Shadow Of The Gods|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The hero of this long and engrossing book Shadow Of The Gods is a boy the first installment of twelvethe Bloodsworn Saga, orphanedset in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, lonely when the Gods have battled and unlovedtheir bones lie scattered for all to see. He spends This story is the little free time he has ultimate in creating beautiful kites covered in complicatedHigh Fantasy, colourful designs until the day he meets a strange old man who sets him on the path and John Gwynne certainly does justice to his destiny as a saviour of not one but two worlds. But in line with the traditions of the genre, this path will be fraught with fearmythical creatures, danger archaic language and lossbattles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007491220</amazonuk>0356514218
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