Changes

[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen MaitlandA G Slatter|title=The Vanishing Witch|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=More and higher taxes are being levied on the English by teenage King Richard II and his uncle/advisor John Briar Book of Gaunt to pay for the wars against France. They may cause annoyance to the rich but they're breaking the poor, people like Lincolnshire river boat man Gunter and his family. Meanwhile some of the better off are facing problems from other quarters. Cloth merchant Robert of Bassingham is losing his stock before it arrives due to theft and unrest among the weavers in Flanders. It's not a good time to be English and eventually something will snap; we're heading towards 1831 and the peasants will be revolting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147221501X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jaye Wells|title=Cursed Moon: Prospero's War: Book TwoDead

|summary=It's now six weeks since Kate Prospero saved her brother Danny' There's life by cooking the illegal dirty magic antidote a part of me that wants to keep this just to her Uncle Abe's poisonous recipemyself for however long I can. Abe is safely in prison but KateThis secret magic of my own, as an MEA cop trained to track and punish practitioners of dirty magicall mine, now has a secret. There are also other matters clawing at her mindlast. A series of thefts and murders is disrupting Babylon, causing I just want to enjoy it to become more dangerous by the day - and thatfor a while.'s saying something! Indeed as the Halloween new moon approaches the murder and mayhem will increase. Meanwhile Kate is discovering even older secrets than hers which cause her to question everything she's been brought up to believe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650302X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The WidowWithin a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's House (Dagger , a family of witches who protect the town and the Coin)|author=Daniel Abraham|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The fourth in Daniel Abraham’s majestic The Dagger and wider world from the Coin series Darklands. Though she has pretty much everything you can want in an epic fantasy adventure – even more so than always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first threenon-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. There’s actionWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, warEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, politicsthe town's leader, betrayal, great relationships between family and friendsEllie takes her place beside her. There’s a surprising amount of laughter hereAs challenges come her way left, even if it’s all rather bleakright and centre, as some of Ellie uncovers the heroes are using gallows humour rare ability to cope communicate with the amount of death and destruction they're forced to see. Even better than any of thisdead, though, is putting her at the superb characterisation. Abraham has given us perhaps half heart of a dozen character arcs which are absolutely masterfulmaelstrom of chaos. From the widowed woman trying Reeling from one family secret to save her country by betraying its leaderanother, while juggling an inappropriate romance with a servant (these two are probably my favourite couple ever), to a villain Ellie must decide who manages to be simultaneously evil enough trust and determine what to make your skin crawl yet often pitiable anddo as the Briar witches' legacy, sometimeseverything they have sacrificed to survive, even likeable, all of the main players here are brilliantly portrayed. I also think the dialogue here is outstanding, hugely quotableunder threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356504697</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|author=AJ Smith|title=The Dark Blood (The Long War)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The lands of Ro are slowly being subjugated by Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the evil sorceresses known as The Seven Sisterswrecks. Their only hope Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to kill them survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and only one man is up any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the task: wrecking, they capture the Dark Blood assassin, Rham Jas. He chooses master forger and fixer Kale as his assistant but, as this will reduce Kaleisland's life expectancy markedly, Kaleleader and Mira's not keenfather. Meanwhile UthaDesperate to save him from death, albino Black Order clericMira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, his squire Randallshe 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, axe maiden Halla Summer Wolfas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Timon Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the Butcher et al are dragged into a bloody conflict during which they have to fight for more than just their own survivalones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178185226X</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy AdamsT Kingfisher|title=The Rain-Soaked BrideThornhedge

|summary=The last thing that the afflicted people see before their death is a wet woman in white. The last thing they feel is their own personal rain cloud soaking them while everywhere else remains dry. All also happen to be in top government jobs. What's happening? British Intelligence Department 37 (in the form of August Shining and Toby Greene) is there to find out. This may not be the full extent of the problems facing them though; not with a South Korean delegation coming to the UK for talks and August's sister April wanting to get in on the act.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953162</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andrez Bergen|title=Depth Charging Ice Planet Goth|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=16 year old Mina lives in Nede (that's 'Needy' out loud), a suburb of the Australian state of Victoria where she's in the final throes of school. However she feels very much an outsider, especially after the recent death of her mother. Mina's alienated further by her bullying elder brother and her father's attempts to move on with his life before Mina is ready. She has friends that she spends time with in You had a disinterested Goth way, the friend who understands her most being Animeid. Animeid is even more different than Mina, being half-girl, half-bird, but neither of them seems right to mindretake your place. It doesn't affect anyone else after all – Mina's the only person who can see her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782796495</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Anthony Ryan|title=Tower Lord: Book 2 of RavenT Kingfisher's Shadow|rating=4latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story.5|genre=Fantasy|summary= RevaInstead, young adherent to the True World Faithour protagonist is Toadling, has who was stolen away by fairies when she was a mission: murdering Lord Vaelin Al Sorna. Frentis (one time Sixth Order Brother new-born baby and secreted away to Vaelin) also has murder on his mind but can't help it as he works through the deathly wish-list land of the mysterious woman who binds his will. Lyrna's brother Malcius now rules as King of the Unified Realm and she's happy to remain princess. However someone else thinks differently; she's summoned fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to a meeting that will prepare draw magic from her for an uncertain future. Meanwhile the greatest threat the Realm has ever known advances. Friend or foe? The difference may be indiscernible but differentiating means survivalveins and cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502449</amazonuk>1803364238

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy AdamsNicole Jarvis|title=The Clown ServiceA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=If British Secret Intelligence Service operative Toby Greene worked for MacDonald's he'd be sacked for ineptitude. Unfortunately for the nation he cost thousands I want all of pounds more Florence to train than your average burger-flipper so he's off to Section 37 instead. The Section's label mentions anti-terrorism but, as his former boss told Toby know my name''If the security service is the circus, then Section 37 us where we keep the clowns.'' Meanwhile an old school Russian spy is coming to the UK with enough power to destroy London. This may only be Toby's first job for 37 and will include a touch of astral projection but what could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953154</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The city has been rebuilt for warCast 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. The waves But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians of cyborg attacks are just the beginning – what follows is more devastating. Not only healing magics that but also through paintings have the flood of refugees surging in daily is as much of a problem as a resource. Actually in one or two cases power to protect the word 'problem' is a bit of an understatementcity and its citizens from plagues and curses. In the middle of this hell Seb The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and Melanie are doing their best to fight architecture for centuries and surviveguard it above all else. To them, although survival doesn't look like Artemisia – an option once they realise they have to go into the enemy's hive ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and bring the battle to the cyborgstheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|title=Landline|author=Rainbow Rowell|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Georgie McCool has always known what she's wanted and pursued it until she has itSet in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. She got her dream job writing comedy, she's about The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to get her own show, save the day and she got her dream guy, Nealrescue what little remains. Only, she's not so sure she has him anymoreWhat no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409154912</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreview|title=The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy)|author=Marie Rutkoski|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Kestrel has two alternative futures ahead of her. As the daughter of a general of a vast, expansionist empire, she can make a politically advantageous marriage or she can enlist in the military. Kestrel doesn't want either and her life is spent in a delicate game of manoeuvres with her father as she tries to put off the decision.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408858207</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim HallAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Shadow of the WolfDelilah Recovered

|summary=The child Robin Loxley is mysteriously separated from his father during what had been We meet Dee at a routine foray into the forestpoint when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. In grief and bewilderment Robin becomes a lonerOut of work, choosing about to raise himselflose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. HeBut it's more than happy with the solitary lifestyle until he meets Marian Delbosque, spoilt daughter of local gentrynot to be. Their friendship Dee is cemented as they play together attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but their future won't all be childish gamesnot unscathed. They have a quest and Robin, as a winter-born, Witch hunters? What on earth has a destiny that he canto do with Dee? She't begin s just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to guessher and things will never be the same. The clue is in the mysterious words he heard whispered in the forest after his father's disappearance: ''Not yet. Too soon. He must suffer the wounds.''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191020000X</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stella GemmellHadeer Elsbai|title=The CityDaughters of Izdihar|rating=4.5

|summary=Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The City has been Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for centuries, be it the recognised war rights of Red versus Blue fuelled by women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the mysterious Emperor or upper class, wishes to attend the daily fight of Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the Dwellers struggling for existence in military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the sewer settlements. Such oppression breeds unlikely heroes. A former general, now other hand did not have a fugitive from a questionable justiceprivileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a 16 year old soldier trying to out-run her fathergroup campaigning for women's reputationrights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, a famed Red army leader filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a little girl who believes in someone whom others hardly notice any more; these carry hope group of admirable women fighting for the City, whether the City realises it or nottheir rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552168955</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Tropic of Serpents (A Memoir by Lady Trent)Heather Fawcett|authortitle=Marie BrennanEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=We are in sequel territoryEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, so we must hope that things have escalated for Lady Trentand she has travelled extensively, and that she is finding researched meticulously, to write her life even harder than before's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. And it Whilst she is – as much as brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she would like to go dragon hunting is not so good with her husband people. So when she cannot. (And by dragon hunting I don't mean killing themfinds herself far, I mean being a natural historian for far North in the species in a world that would rather massacre them for industrial purposes). Heresmall village of Hrafvsnik, repressed by having somehow offended the Victorian society village matriarch, she lives in, is not sure what she can just about raise another exhibition togetherhas done, nor how to a different corner of redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the worldright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, but she wonmuch to Emily't find herself with the possibility of observing dragons – she s frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is instead faced going on with the demand that she MUST hunt dragons…faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783292415</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Queen of the Dark ThingsChristopher Golden|authortitle=C Robert CargillRoad of Bones|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Colby Stevens lost his best friend to an army The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of fairies six the world's most notorious routes. For months agoof the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. And things haven I don't got think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much better sinceuranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. The Seventy You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-Twomaker, doing a powerful and angry bunch of demons want Colby recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to deal with encourage the Queen project to fruition to claw back some of the Dark Thingsfunds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. But Colby knows They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, whatever gain the demons have planned for himcompany of a local beauty, it isnand fetch up at the guide't good. Whatever he does is playing into their plans in some way or anothers childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575130148</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dead Man's HandAndrew Givler|authortitle=John Joseph Adams Soul Fraud (editor)|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=''Dead Man's Hand'' features short stories with themes ranging from time travel and vampires to theology; at first glance it definitely appears to be an eclectic mix. These stories are linked by the genre of the weird west, which is defined by its elasticity. John Joseph Adams' helpful introduction outlines the main features of the weird west and provides a clear, insightful guide to this little-known genre. Far from being mismatched, the eclectic nature of this collection is in fact the greatest strength of the weird west genre. Unconstrained by narrow generic conventions, the authors in this collection have plundered the deepest depths of their imaginations. The result? A colourful, memorable and, above all, ''imaginative'' collection of fiction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295465</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Irvine|title=Justice: Tainted Realm: Debt Collection Book 31)|rating=54

|summary=''The final battleMatt has a terrible life. The ultimate priceSeriously—it's awful. It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his soul.''

The deadPoor Dan! I know, regenerated King Lyf I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and his Cythonian army are poised , when he fails to attack as is the army of Axil Grandys, complete with the other four of the five legendary Heroes. Rix has get even Matt to stop them all with the help of Tali (the escaped Pale slave), Glynnie (sign on the ex-maid)dotted line, and an army of Rixhe's own who would rather fight him than fight for him. As Lyf and Axil both hunger for the final master pearl so desperate that sits beneath Talihe simply forges Matt's skull, the endgame approaches. Meanwhile Tobry, former best friend of Rix and now an unpredictably dangerous Caithe shape-shifter, is still alive and without hope. Although the 10 year old Rannilt would argue with that last bitsignature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498300</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim ButcherOlivie Blake|title=Skin Game (Dresden Files)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Harry Dresden is and has been a lot of things: the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, PI, reluctant Knight of the Winter Court, even apparently dead. Now it looks as though he's about to relive the death bit but a bit more permanently. The parasite in his brain is still killing him while he's stranded as warden on the island penal colony of Demonreach. Hold tight though – the good news is that he's about to be liberated. The bad? The liberator is Queen Mab who wants Harry to do a bit of robbery beside a former arch enemy of his. If he refuses, the parasite will kill him and then slope off to kill everyone he knows and cares about, including his little daughter Maggie. However, nothing is simple, even this. There are catches, hell's bells there are!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650090X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Manifest Destiny Volume 1|author=Chris Dingess, Matthew Roberts and Owen Gieni|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's 1804 and some newly-American soldiers are expanding the territory to the west, at the orders of President Jefferson – orders which allude to the pioneering party encountering some very unusual things. And they do – first a huge arc of greenery, putting the modern reader in mind of the Missouri landmark arch as bastardised by something along the lines of the Statue of Liberty in the original 'Planet of the Apes'. But when that site gets attacked the weirdness certainly starts to show itself…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1607069822</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Melanie Rawn|title=Glass Thorns - ThornlostAtlas Six

|summary=The Touchstone Players are back Dark, sharp, and now mostly married but the show must go on. Talking of whichhighly inquisitive, it's their playwright Cayden's 21st naming day. HeThe Atlas Six''s come of age but his aristocratic mother would still rather he went to court as makes its publishing debut after becoming a courtier than the entertainer that his wizard/elven/fae heritage equips him for. However Cade has other concerns. He, the dwarf glister, Mieka who wields Cade's magic, Rafe (who manipulates it) and Jeska the masker (who can literally become anyone) are no longer the court favourites. Also, you remember the danger that Cade foresaw for Mieka from Mieka's wife in his elsewhen premonitions? Well, there's more! (There follows some spoilers for the previous novels so read them first before reading onTik-Tok sensation.)|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781166641</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca AlexanderDaniel Abraham|title=The Secrets Age of Life and DeathAsh

|summary=A girl covered We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in magic sigils dies in London watched by Jackdaw (Jack) Hammond. Jack had tried to cure her but the girl escapedhand and a meeting that she dreads. Now Jack has another chance to provide Meanwhile the treatment linking them with Elizabethan alchemist/mathematician/royal advisor John Dee. Indeed some would even call Dee City of Kithamar is at a sorcererpoint in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. Jack could achieve so much if she does it better It is the night between the next time but funeral of a Prince and the fight won't be easycoronation of his successor. She's not the only one who wants her new subject, although she may be For a night the only one who knows how to save herKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953243</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Hilda and the Black HoundAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Luke PearsonRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=Hilda 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 drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Black Hound Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is the fourth book all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the “Hildafolk” seriesmatter, each of which because the Midori is destroyed by a self-contained tale about monstrous paper spirit known as a highly inquisitive little girl shikigami, and her adventuresshe is forced to flee out into the world. This time Hilda She joins Himura aboard the Sparrow Scouts Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and befriends a house spirit whilst in the meantime a mysterious beast stalks the town whole world of Trolberg.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909263184</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tanya HuffB09Q3P283Y|title=The Wild Ways: An Enchantment Emporium Novel (Enchantment Emporium 2)Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=4.5

|summary=Charlie Gale, the lass who has magic in her music (literally!), leaves Clyde Robbins signs up for the rest of the family behind to play at a Celtic festival on US Army during the Canadian coastVietnam War. You can never leave He's not really that invested in the Gale family behind though even when the problem fight against Communism, nor is an oil company drilling offshore he particularly interested in a seal sanctuary area. This may not be a popular occupation but the oil company has the clout to use a little leverage. Charlie pits herself against them with the help of a Selkie family but career in the process (family link incoming) also pits herself against the formidable Aunt Catherinemilitary. Back home Allie If he's honest - which Clyde usually is having trouble , with Jackhimself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the young sorcerer dragon they rescued from the underworld last timerut he's in. Indeed, He's good in the Gale households theretraining and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's no such thing as peace and quiet anymore!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169624</amazonuk>chuffed with himself.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack CohenJennifer Saint|title=The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day (Science of Discworld 4)Elektra|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=The wizards 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the Unseen University heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are custodians all bit players in the story of Roundworldthe Trojan War. It may Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furies.|isbn=1472273915}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be different from their own turtlea mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-carried Discworld (itday old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's round staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a start!) but they're still rather fond supernatural urge – has demanded of it. Howeverhim that he go to a derelict diner, there's find a gold coin worth a problem: fortune, cash the Church value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the Latter Day Omnians have taken a shine lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to it too turn up and would like suggest he's of interest to claim itthem. A court case will decide the winnerHelped to escape, a court case that will have a guest spectator. For Marjorie Daw (yeshe finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, like the nursery rhyme) has arrived from Roundworld just discovery that he is not unique in timehaving some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides. What on Earth will happen next?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091949807</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Octavia E ButlerTasha Suri|title=KindredThe Jasmine Throne|rating=54

|summary=Life 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 Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a nightmare for black women (and indeed men) back in community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. But now the southern USA in 1815temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. For Dana that's just history as she lives over One day, Malini witnesses a century away girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her husband in their new LA apartment. However one day everything changes: Dana starts to feel faintfor such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the edges of girl saved her modern life blur from an attacker and she's back in begs for the era that can take more than her liberty. She knows girl to become her time travel is somehow linked to plantation owner's son Rufus but that doesn't help. In fact its knowledge that could make matters worseown personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472214811</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Den PatrickGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Boy with the Porcelain BladeWitch's Heart

|summary=Lucien has reached his 18th birthday A modern and final testingapproachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. This is She hides in a forest at the edge of the important one for Lucien is Orfano and as such lives for nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the day stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when he passes and can be adopted by Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one of that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the four housesstake—and refuses to leave her alone. He hopes After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for the FonteiniLoki's charms, and the house of fighters and with it will come two start an understanding unusual family made of all the mysteries of Landfall. However there are some mysteries up a half-dead daughter, a son that are secrets even from the Orfani 's a wolf, and for another son that's a very good reasonsnake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057513383X</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise WelshHannah Whitten|title=A Lovely Way to Burn (Plague Times Trilogy 1)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The summer of the great heat wave is also the summer of death. Stevie thought nothing of the three establishment pillars turned snipers; the news just didn't register. Then the illness came: plague-like symptoms sweeping across For the world. When Stevie's boyfriend dies it's easy to put it down 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 to stop her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848546513</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Night Broken (Mercy Thompson)|author=Patricia BriggsWolf|rating=4.5

|summary=Phew. ThatIn Red's family, the sound of relief I gave when I found this bookfirst daughter becomes queen, and the eighth in this lengthy genre seriessecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, was on formshe is the second daughter. As Sent alone into the quality had hardly ever dipped in woods with nothing but the past you might be wondering why I sounded particularly anxious this time. Wellcape on her back, book seven was that dipRed knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and this time round things have changed – for he is the first time one who will decide the British market gets a hardbackfate of their kingdom. But we've If she is not jumped a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the shark. If anythingwoods will be released, 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 fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so much a feature of that book is being requested by a dangerously powerful characterthe stories go. But when Red enters the urban fantasy side of this series is not without its dangerous characters – as Mercy is forced woods, expecting nothing more than to bring be killed within the worriedhour, frantic yet exceedingly manipulative figure of her husbandshe finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's first wife into the shelter of their household…a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650154X</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard FordJohn Gwynne|title=The Shattered Crown (Steelhaven: Book Two)Shadow Of The Gods|rating=4.5

|summary=''The king Shadow Of The Gods is dead… his city is next'' shouts the straplinefirst installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, and it's not wrong!Following on from [[Herald set in the era of the Storm by Richard Ford|Herald Vikings in the shadow of the Storm]]Ragnarok, Janessa is when the new queen Gods have battled and is quaking; she's young, inexperienced and watching the massed hordes of Amon Tugha approach their bones lie scattered for all to rout the kingdom of Steelhavensee. This isn't story is the only problem her father's untimely death has left her with; there's a whole heap of trouble (internal as much as external) and hardly anyone Janessa can trust. Little Rag is now ultimate in the Guild but it's not all she dreamt it would be or as safe as she'd hoped. Meanwhile Merrick the ex-mercenary High Fantasy, and Kaira, the former spear maiden are settling into their new job as bodyguards John Gwynne certainly does justice to the Queen. Merrickgenre, thoughwith mythical creatures, has other things to think about as his past comes back to haunt himarchaic language and battles galore. Waylian the witch's assistant This is still alivea thick book, which is good. And Regulus? He just wants with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to offer his men's swords create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in defence of Steelhaven but just didn't realise how difficult that would be, even before the fighting officially startswhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755394062</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|title=The Islands of Chaldea|author=Diana Wynne Jones and Ursula Jones|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Imagine a story – a good old-fashioned adventure with journeys and magic and villains and young people finding their strengths despite the odds, and coming at last Move on to the place they belong. Then imagine another story, a heart-touching one this time, about the writing of that story, and you have the whole of this charming book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007542232</amazonuk>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]