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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Octavia E ButlerA G Slatter|title=KindredThe Briar Book of the Dead

|summary=Life is '' There's a nightmare 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 black women (and indeed men) back in a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the southern USA in 1815. For Dana thatBriar's just history as she lives over , a century away with her husband in their new LA apartmentfamily of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. However one day everything changes: Dana starts to feel faintThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the edges of first non-witch to be born into her modern life blur family for generations and as such since shewas young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's back in cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the era that can take more than town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her liberty. She knows As challenges come her time travel is somehow linked way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the 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 plantation ownerdo as the Briar witches's son Rufus but that doesn't help. In fact its knowledge that could make matters worselegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472214811</amazonuk>1803364548

Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'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 with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Den PatrickT Kingfisher|title=The Boy with the Porcelain BladeThornhedge|rating=45

|summary=Lucien has reached his 18th birthday and final testing. This is the important one for Lucien is Orfano and as such lives for the day when he passes and can be adopted by one of the four houses. He hopes for the Fonteini, the house of fighters and with it will come an understanding of all the mysteries of Landfall. However there are some mysteries that are secrets even from the Orfani and for ''You had a very good reasonright to retake your place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057513383X</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Louise Welsh|title=A Lovely Way to Burn (Plague Times Trilogy 1)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The summer T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of the great heat wave a fairytale that is also the summer of deathwell known and well beloved. Stevie thought nothing of the three establishment pillars turned snipers; the news just didn't registerBut whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. Then the illness came: plagueInstead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-like symptoms sweeping across the world. When Stevie's boyfriend dies it's easy to put it down born baby and secreted away to the pandemic but Stevie has a hunch and she won't stop till she's followed it, no matter what happens or who tries land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to stop draw magic from herveins and cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848546513</amazonuk>1803364238

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Night Broken (Mercy Thompson)Nicole Jarvis|authortitle=Patricia BriggsA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Phew. That's the sound of relief I gave when I found this book, the eighth in this lengthy genre series, was on form. As the quality had hardly ever dipped in the past you might be wondering why 'I sounded particularly anxious this time. Well, book seven was that dip, and this time round things have changed – for the first time the British market gets a hardback. But we've not jumped the shark. If anything, the fantasy side of this series is following on from [[Mercy Thompson: River Marked by Patricia Briggs|book six – River Marked]] and the fae implement that was so much a feature want all of that book is being requested by a dangerously powerful character. But the urban fantasy side of this series is not without its dangerous characters – as Mercy is forced Florence to bring the worried, frantic yet exceedingly manipulative figure of her husbandknow my name''s first wife into the shelter of their household…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650154X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Richard Ford|title=The Shattered Crown (Steelhaven: Book Two)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=''The king is dead… his city is next'' shouts the strapline, and it's not wrong!Following on Cast out from [[Herald of the Storm by Richard Ford|Herald of the Storm]]Rome, Janessa is the new queen and is quaking; she's young, inexperienced and watching the massed hordes of Amon Tugha approach to rout the kingdom of Steelhaven. This isn't the only problem Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her father's untimely death has left her with; there's art can find a whole heap of trouble (internal as much as external) home and hardly anyone Janessa where her future can trustthrive rather than stagnate. Little Rag is now in the Guild but it's not all she dreamt it would be or But as safe some as she'd hoped. Meanwhile Merrick enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the exself-mercenary and Kaira, proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the former spear maiden are settling into their new job as bodyguards power to protect the Queencity and its citizens from plagues and curses. Merrick, though, The all-male Accademia has other things to think about as his past comes back to haunt himhoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. Waylian the witch's assistant is still aliveTo them, which is good. And Regulus? He just wants to offer his men's swords in defence of Steelhaven but just didn't realise how difficult that would be, even before the fighting officially startsArtemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755394062</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|title=The Islands Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of Chaldea|author=Diana Wynne Jones and Ursula Jones|rating=4climate collapse, Britain is in great peril.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Imagine The British Isles desperately needs a story – a good old-fashioned adventure with journeys and magic and villains and young people finding their strengths despite hero (or several) to save the odds, day and coming at last to the place they belongrescue what little remains. Then imagine another story, a heartWhat no-touching one this time, about expected was that one of the writing Knights of that story, and you have the whole of this charming bookRound Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007542232</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LibriomancerAmelia Estelle Dellos|authortitle=Jim C HinesDelilah Recovered|rating=4.5

|summary=Pulp fantasy may be frowned upon by some who believe that novels should We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about emotions, inner journeys and despairto look up. Fantasy and science fiction can have all these things as wellOut of work, but they can also be funabout to lose her flat, entertaining and laser pistols. ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines Dee is a great exampleup for an accountant's job. It is a book that follows Isaac Vainio, a Libriomancer who has the power But it's not to draw magic from booksbe. He must use this gift to good effect when one day, whilst sitting comfortably cataloguing, he Dee is attacked by three vampirestwo men calling themselves witch hunters. Does She survives the attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that sound fun to youdo with Dee? If soShe's just an ordinary woman, read on; if not, this may living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the book for yousame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953456</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mur LaffertyHadeer Elsbai|title=Ghost Train to New Orleans: Book 2 The Daughters of the Shambling GuidesIzdihar

|summary= After delivering [[Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Shambling Guide to New York City (The Shambling Guides) by Mur Lafferty|The Shambling Guide to New York]]Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, a travel guide yet find themselves fighting for the coterie rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the undeadupper class, Zoe wishes to attend the inadvertent citytalker goes Weaving Academy to New Orleans learn to research 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 privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the next oneDaughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. She sets off Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a feeling story of forebodingan unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, but perhaps shefrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|isbn=0356520471}}{{Frontpage|author=Heather Fawcett|title=Emily Wilde's being overly pessimistic? I meanEncyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and shehas travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's travelling with two godswork, (one the very first encyclopaedia of whom faeries. Whilst she is a rather strident ex-Valkyrie), a baby dragon, two vampires (one of whom hates her) brilliant at research and Arthurspeaking to faeries, her boyfriend the Public Works employeeshe is not so good with people. (YesSo when she finds herself far, Public Works as far North in the body that polices andsmall village of Hrafvsnik, where necessaryhaving somehow offended the village matriarch, clears away she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the coterieright track.) Oh Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and by the waydelight, Arthur may be turning into a zombie soonmuch to Emily's frustration. The trip will be fine; But why is he here? What does he want? And what could possibly go wrongexactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501914</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne LeonardChristopher Golden|title=Moth and SparkRoad of Bones

|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Prince Corin has been bewitched by The Kolyma Highway… the dragons, something he'll forget until Road of Bones'… the time is right for him to free the fire breathers from enslavement to Emperor Hadon of MyceneR504. It doesn't stop there though - thatStretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's not all heone of the world's been bewitched bymost notorious routes. The commoner Tam happens to be attending For months of the summer court at his palace; year it's a house party for unmarried debs to find spread of sheet ice suspended above the husband permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of their parents' dreamsunremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. Tam isnI don't actually looking but Corin finds her anywaythink google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. However their world doesnYou can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig't run as smoothly as their hearts: war Teigland, is about a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to start, murderous treachery stalks claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the palace and Tam has visions she canpair't explains prior TV projects. Although as time goes on They pick up their purpose becomes cleareroh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. Tam and Corin realise And that their reason for being together extends beyond love – they've been brought together s where things start to save the world.go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670015709</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne M HarrisAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Gospel of LokiDebt Collection Book 1)|rating=54

|summary=Loki is ''Matt has a shape shifter and the most recent addition to the Norse gods in the halls of Asgardterrible life. Seriously—it's awful. He’s there to help It is so bad that Dan the likes of Odin and Thor but sometimes things go wrong or his actions are misunderstood. Loki definitely doesn’t deserve his ‘Trickster’ nickname and will explain why to anyone who will listen. This Demon is Loki's gospel, shocked when Matt turns down his long-overdue side infernal offer: 10 years of the story and it’s all here: how he arranged a mason to rebuild Asgard (shame about the horse), blissful life in exchange for his marriage to Sygni, the problems fathering a werewolf and giving birth to a foal, what Freyja’s gold necklace cost mankind and, of course, that day Thor became a beautiful bridesoul. (An occasion Thor has never spoken of since for some reason!) Indeed, Loki is there to help and facilitate - if anyone tells you differently, don’t believe them!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473202353</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent|author=Marie Brennan|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=We could all wish for a little of Lady Trent in ourselves. It's obvious what she feels she has inside herPoor Dan! I know, for ever since she was a young girl she ignored society and decorum and was interested in scienceI know, nature, and the discovery of all that was unknown about dragons. She even went on a hunt we shouldn't feel sorry for wolfsoul-drakes, disguised as a male, and that's a species that prefers female preycatching demons. But as renowned he really is a pioneer as she is, she has terrible salesman. He never told anyone in such detail of her life storieshits his targets and, starting with this one – a journey when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the colddotted line, mountainous land of Vystrana, which successfully uncovered a lot of the truth about dragons – but also a lot he's so desperate that was much harder to explain…he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783292393</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Unnatural CreaturesOlivie Blake|authortitle=Neil GaimanThe Atlas Six

|summary=Former knight Sir Sebastian Caverson Dark, sharp, and Wydrin of Crosshaven (aka Copper Cat) are swords for hire. On this occasion they're hired by Lord Aaron Frith of Blackwood to enter the Citadelhighly inquisitive, of which dark legends abound. They don't know what they need to do once in there, but that doesn't matter. The trip unleashes something that would have made them forget their purpose anyway, not to mention their pay: they awake YAtlas Six'Ruen, the last god. In return for the alarm call, Y'Ruen breathes death across the known world with makes its publishing debut after becoming a little family assistance but that's not the worst bit. The worst bit (at least for them) is that Sebastian and Wydrin are the only ones who can stop herTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472211111</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tanya HuffDaniel Abraham|title=The Enchantment Emporium (Enchantment Emporium 1)Age of Ash

|summary=All We meet Alys under the Gale family have powers and there are many in the clanmost northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, mostly women. This is one of the reasons that 24-year-old Allie (or Alysha Catherine Gale to the aunties) jumps at the chance of moving to the other side of Canada when her gran leaves she has a knife in her hand and a junk shopmeeting that she dreads. Ok, it may not be an ordinary junk shop and it could mean that Gran is dead but the fact that Meanwhile the love City of her life has left her for Kithamar is at a man makes her mind up. With point in the help turning of Joe O'Hallan, a tall leprechaun with a gift for selling yo-yos, Allie sorts out years when the Enchantment Emporium but once there she hasn't escaped worlds are at their thinnest and all supervisionthings are possible. Indeed, someone is watching her closely; very closely indeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169608</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jaye Wells|title=Dirty Magic: Prospero's War: Book One|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Gray Wolf It is the new magic drug in town but it's night between the funeral of a mite more evil than the usual sex potions Prince and enchanted uppers and downers. Gray Wolf ensures that the user becomes a craven devourer coronation of flesh - human flesh. Kate Prospero, cop seconded to the MEA (the government agency charged with clearing the streets of dirty, illegal magic) has her work cut out. Unfortunately this work includes having to go into the Cauldron, the dangerous underbelly of a town called Babylonhis successor. However Kate has For a lot to prove, having been born an adept in that very underbelly and now having to face night the forces that helped create the tragedy still haunting her. Also, if she didn't have enough to worry about, her exKithamar is un-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 allruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650297X</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsAnn Sei Lin|title=Dark Witch (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy)Rebel Skies|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 the family talent. Under their care and tutelage Iona Kurara has spent her own skills honed entire life as she develops a servant on the magick passed down to her Midori, a massive dining hall floating in between her work at the local stables. Unfortunately magick isn't sky where soldiers of the only thing Empire come to have survived the centuriesdrink and make merry between their conquests. CabahnHowever, the nemesis of Sorcha, the first O'Dwyer dark witchwhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, has unfinished business someone with the cousins and not in power to form paper into whatever she desires – a good waypower sought after all across the Empire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958588</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Last He asks her to come with him, to Rise|author=Francis Knight|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Rojan has spent his leave the life running from any sort of responsibilitydreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, but itsoon Kurara won's all catching up with him now. With t have any say in the Mishans and Storads both knocking on Mahala's doormatter, war seems inevitable. The inhabitants of Mahala are starving because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as trade dries upa shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the natural resources of the city all usedworld. And She joins Himura aboard the paltry amount Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of Glow the few pain mages can generate isn't enough to protect them.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650168X</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John R FultzB09Q3P283Y|title=Seven Sorcerers: Books of the Shaper: Volume 3Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=Vireon the Giant-King, Emperor Tyro and Feathered Serpent/Sorcerer Khama are readying their armies to face Clyde Robbins signs up for the Almighty Zyung, would be conqueror of US Army during the Five Cities, a Shaper and evil piece of workVietnam War. Meanwhile Sharadza (VireonHe's sister) and Iardu (not really that invested in the good Shaperfight against Communism, mostly) take on swifter forms to beg assistance from every place and being they can think of. For the time nor is coming when he particularly interested in a career in the worldmilitary. If he's freedom depends on victory against insurmountable odds. Back honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at the armiesleast - he hasn't got many choices and this one, Dahrima the Axeat least, giantess and leader gets him out of Vireonthe rut he's spear-maiden body guard, has sworn to die for her king but also has some emotional issuesin. As for Ianthe He's good in training and Gammir, thecauses of much suffering in the past, they once again have their own agendas that could mean Zyung is the least of anyonequickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's worrieschuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500837</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=World After (Penryn and the End of Days Book 2)Jennifer Saint|authortitle=Susan EeElektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Penryn successfully (depending on how you look at things) liberated her little sister Paige from the sick experiments of the angels now ruling over the world. Believed to be dead at the start of 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story, Penryn finds herself at the control centre of the human resistance movement whose treatment of her sister and other victims of angel brutality seems less than human. In order to protect her sister she feels the need to leave the resistance and risk life three women who live in the nearly destroyed heavily male dominated world amongst predators such as angels and even more horrifying creations spawned by the angels. All the while Pen clings to the hope of a reunion with Raffe, the angel responsible for saving her life and true owner of the powerful sword she carries with her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444778536</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Girl With All the Gifts|author=M R Carey|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Meet MelanieAncient Greece. 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 cellCassandra, or a classroom. Or the shower-room, where she and the other children get disinfectedClytemnestra, and get to eat a bowl of maggots – the only nutrition they have 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 they've certainly no real hope of seeing sunlight. They Elektra are there because of the Breakdown, when most of the world got turned into ravenous, mindless ''hungries''. But these children did not turn all bit players in the way. And as unlikely as it is, as implausible a heroine as she is, young Melanie might just be the saviour story of mankind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502732</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Rags and Bones|author=Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Anthologies|summary=Some of today's top authors have come together to retell classic tales - from fairy stories to Victorian-era fiction. As usual with this kind of anthology, it's a fairly hit-or-miss affair, but the hits here are so strong that they're well worth picking up the book for. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jay Kristoff|title=Kinslayer (Lotus Trojan War Trilogy 2)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Spoilers for [[Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff|Stormdancer]] follow soread it first!The Shogun is dead, murdered in the public square by 16 year old Kage rebelYukiko to avenge her family and in retribution for the evil hold that he hasover the dystopian land of Shima. He may be dead but Hiro (equally nastyand Yukiko's former lover) has a plan to take power which includes marryingAisha, the Shogun's sister and secret Kage sympathiser. Yukiko has to stopthe wedding with the help of Buruu, the flying thunder tiger and Kin, theformer Lotus Guild engineer. Yes, the Lotus Guild - the Shogun's lot.Yukiko has problems of her own as well, in Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that her ability to hear often thethoughts of animals and feel silent women have the emotions of anyone most compelling stories and anything is becominga curse. Meanwhile in Hiro's palace there works No One, below the radar andbeneath contempt, but one daymost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230759025</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeDean Koontz|title=I Love LucidQuicksilver|rating=32.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Lucid is more than a full-immersion role play game; itMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's THE full-immersion role play game. Its inventor Seth Pascal has ensured that all that needs not had the chance to get to be done is to plug a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and the playernow is starting a career on a needless magazine's brain will take them staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to the virtual world while during sleepsudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, providing perfect lucidity and an alternative life within an avatar. However call it's also becoming the game a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to die for. Yesa derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, literally die cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for as players are being murdered while they're connectedgoing on the lam. Detective Evan Waugh And all this is the investigator given the case just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to prove that turn up and suggest he still has what it takes. However there's an added complication for both of interest to them. Helped to escape, he and Seth as the investigation continues. Her name finds his flight is Elleninterrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the woman for whom Lucid isn't just discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a way of life, it ''is'' her lifewhole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00G0T342Q</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Time Traveller's AlmanacTasha Suri|authortitle=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerThe Jasmine Throne

|summary=It's been two hundred years since Optimus Yarnspinner last went to On the great literary city of Bookholm, where people trawled underground hells for classic works night of Zamonian literatureher sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and our hero had an almighty, Odyssey-like journey through refuses to step on to the nether regionspyre. He would not have ever expected She is immediately sent to return, except for a very intriguing letter he receives one day in his authorly garret. It contains such mystery, including be imprisoned on the idea Hirana: an ancient temple that he wrote it to himself, to force him to journey back to Bookholm – was once filled with a Bookholm completely rebuilt after the ending community of people who got powers from the last novelmysterious deathless waters. The city But now the temple is much nothing more advancedthan an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the subterranean areas seemingly more at peace – yet something is definitely afootgirl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578263</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=AJ SmithGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Black Guard (The Long War)Witch's Heart

|summary=Ro Canarn is falling to A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the brutal conquest edge of the Red Knightsnine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Duke HectorHer attempts to live in peace, its rulerhowever, is on 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 verge stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of death mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and his twin offspring Lady Bronwyn and Lord Bromvy are on the runtwo start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, outcast. However this is merely a portent of greater troubles ahead. One of the evil Seven Sisters is seen accompanying the Red Knights so if there is son that's a secret agenda itwolf, and another son that's not a good onesnake. Meanwhile if Ro Canarn can fall, is anywhere safe anymore?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855625</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Dance of CloaksHannah Whitten|authortitle=David DalglishFor the Wolf|rating=4.5

|summary=Thren Felhorn is the leader of the Spider Guild and is a name feared by everyone in Veldaren. For good reasonIn Red's family, for Thren has united the Guildsfirst daughter becomes queen, those groups populated by the thieves and murderers of the citysecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. Thren’s long term aim To Red's misfortune, she is to lead the Guilds in a war against the Trifect – the three richest families who control the majority of the city’s legal activitiessecond daughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502783</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Bronze Gods|author=A A Aguire|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=One of Sent alone into the many reasons I love fantasy is discovering woods with nothing but the new worlds that cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the authors have created. Where woods is the world? What kind creatures inhabit it? What are the customsa wolf, et cetera, et cetera. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating and steampunk mixed with fantasy he is the double hit. Throw in some murder most frighteningly horrid and we have one who will decide the makings fate of a really good timetheir kingdom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tone Almhjell|title=The Twistrose Key|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lin and her family are living in If she is not a rented house in worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the city because Lin's mother has been given her dream job as professor of traditional songs at woods will be released, and the university. Lin's novelist father doesn't mind: fabled kings he can write and play at riddling in keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the city as well as anywherestories go. But Lin hates it. She misses when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the farm where hour, she was brought up and she misses playing at troll-hunting with her friend Niklasfinds that the legends are lies. But most of all, she misses her pet vole, Rufus, who The wolf is buried under not a monster—he's a rosebushman. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001669</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=OmensJohn Gwynne|authortitle=Kelley ArmstrongThe Shadow Of The Gods

|summary=Olivia Taylor-Jones has a charmed life. Her family The Shadow Of The Gods is richthe first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, her fiance perfect set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and though she has some questions about her career, she knows that things will work themselves outtheir bones lie scattered for all to see. Until she learns that she's adopted - her true parents America's most infamous serial killers. Suddenly on This story is the run from ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the mediagenre, with mythical creatures, Olivia finds shelter in the small town of Cainsvillearchaic language and battles galore. It's This is a strange sort of place - full of oddball thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters and gargoyles that seem are woven together to only appear at certain timescreate a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184744511X</amazonuk>0356514218