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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' 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.''

{{newreview|author=Anne Rice|title=The Wolves Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of Midwinter|rating=2witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Things have certainly changed Though she has always wished for Reuben Golding now that he magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a werewolfsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. HeWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's living with hardly a care for his journalism career in a hugecousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, rich mansion in the woods in rural west coast UStown's leader, with some exotic European retainers and servantsEllie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and several fellow werewolvescentre, who are doing their best at times Ellie uncovers the rare ability to help him in communicate with the transitiondead, and guiding him in putting her at the ways heart of a maelstrom of the immortalchaos. He's using his new-found powers Reeling from one family secret to be a sort of vigilanteanother, ridding the world of evil people Ellie must decide who to trust and rescuing their victims, but it's much closer determine what to home that do as the change in his life really manifests itself. Just because he has cut ties to his pastBriar witches' legacy, it doesn't mean everything they cannot return to haunt him. The transaction that left him the mansion might not have been completely smooth after all. And even if he might have an endless future, it's not to say he's going sacrificed to get the one he thinks he wants and deservessurvive, especially where his lover Laura is concerned…under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009958493X</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|author=Lynne Truss|title=Cat out of Hell|rating=3|genre=Horror|summary=Meet Alec Charlesworth. He's retired Rosevear, a remote and decamped to an isolated coastal cottage with just his dog partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and loving memories of his colleague wifeplundering the wrecks. Mira, now that she has died like her mother before her time, 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 fusty librarian cannot rest too long before engaging in exploring some unusual computer files that were pinged across by someone at wrecking, they capture the college he worked atisland's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, just before Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he left. Bizarrely they show photographic is secretive and audio evidence with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a talking cat called Roger, replete with Vincent Price voice – although they are also damaged by being included alongside some bad screenplay attempts about said catfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. WorryinglyWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, we soon see what at as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the most only a few heart of the characters can, that this cat is being accompanied by unusual and unexpected death – much like Alecsmuggler's wife. It's only when Roger testifies territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to having been pushed through save the ends future of endurance her home and out the other side that we begin to doubt where the true evil in this story lies…ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099585340</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick RothfussT Kingfisher|title=The Slow Regard of Silent ThingsThornhedge|rating=4.5

|summary=Deep below the University, the ancient home of magic and learning, ''You had a young girl lives amongst the caves, tunnels, and abandoned rooms. In Seven days, her friend will be visiting - one of her few friends, and someone who Auri cannot wait right to seeretake your place. Those seven days are filled with Auri's preparations - her hunt amongst the tunnels and caves for a proper gift, and her thoughts as she goes about her business.  |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473209323</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|title=The Murdstone Trilogy|author=Mal Peet|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Philip Murdstone T Kingfisher's latest novella is becoming a bit lovely reimagining of a has-beenfairytale that is well known and well beloved. The once-acclaimed children's author has won ''literary'' awardsBut whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, dontchaknow. Literary. Got that? But these are past glories. His novels about young outsiders are no longer anything new. In factsleeping under an eternal enchantment, his agent can't even sell his latestThornhedge is not her story. And Minerva Finch, said agentInstead, our protagonist is all about what she can sell. There's nothing for itToadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she tells Philip, but was a foray into fantasy. He's going to have to write a swordnew-born baby and-sorcery epic. She's even got an A4 blueprint secreted away to the land of what's required: realms, minions, dark lords, dwarves, elves, swords, fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and all the rest of it. Fantasy, you see, is selling by the ''bucketloads, containerloads, downloads''cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200158</amazonuk>1803364238

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=An English Ghost StoryNicole Jarvis|authortitle=Kim NewmanA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=The Naremores, a family with a troubled past, leave London in search of peace in the quiet Somerset countryside. Finding the perfect home – 'The Hollow' – appears to symbolise a turning point and the end of I want all their problems. The Hollow seems possessed of a healing magic which can restore health and relationships as well as hopes and dreams. Unfortunately, the positive power of the Hollow is suddenly challenged and the family are plunged into horrors that perhaps they should have foreseen…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781165580</amazonuk>}}Florence to know my name''

{{newreview|title=Shifting Shadows: Stories From the World of Mercy Thompson|author=Patricia Briggs|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=To recapCast out from Rome, then – meet Patricia Briggs. Besides one standalone book [[Aralorn: Masques and Wolfbsane by Patricia Briggs|Aralorn]] Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her many novels have been set in one universe – art can find a world in the NW USA home and where all kinds of fantasy creatures live in amongst humans, whether officially or otherwiseher future can thrive rather than stagnate. Car mechanic Mercy Thompson is part-coyote, and therefore can shapeshift, but we've also seen how But as some as she enters Florentine society she has other minor talents in solving problems and identifying threats that other aspects of faces great opposition from the fantasy world can deliver. Her colleagues have been faepowerful Accademia, her best friends (and worst enemies) vampires, and she's now the partner self-proclaimed guardians of the region's alpha werewolf – who employs a witch as fixer; everywhere you look there is lore as healing magics that through paintings have the power to how protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all these species interrelate -male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and the books drip with rules about every aspect of living beyond the mundaneguard it above all else. So far there is a minor trilogy set on the edges of Mercy's worldTo them, but eight major Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and majorly successful change – books fully focussed on her. But Patty Briggs must clearly have a very restless imagination, has no place amongst them and a will to narrate strong stories, and the results have also led us to this fat volume of short stories, that come from instances, characters and times scattered throughout her mythologytheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356505278</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Mark Morris|title=The Wolves of London Set in the near- The Obsidian Heart Trilogy (Book 1)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Alex Locke has grown from distant future, in a world on the young petty criminal he once wasverge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. Now a psychology lecturer with a beautiful 5-year-old daughter he has every incentive he The British Isles desperately needs to stay straight. It would take something devastating to make him return to his former life but devastation happens. Alex is coerced into doing on last job: stealing a piece of heart shaped obsidian from someone it didn’t belong hero (or several) to in save the first placeday and rescue what little remains. What are no-one expected was that one of the consequences? What's so special about this piece Knights of rock? As all hell breaks loose, Alex is about to find outthe Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781168660</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chrysler Szarlan Amelia Estelle Dellos|title=The Hawley Book of the DeadDelilah Recovered

|summary= Revelation (Reve) Maskelyne is the latest of We meet Dee at a long line of girls named Revelations in the Sears family. This has a significance shepoint when her life isn's unaware of t going as she divides her time between a happy marriageplanned but things might, just might, parenthood and sharing the limelight with her husband Jeremy as illusionist team The Amazing Maskelynes. Until the day she kills Jeremy… The tragic event triggers the realisation that someone has been stalking Reve for most of her lifebe about to look up. For the protection Out of her 15-year-old twins and 10-year-old daughterwork, Reve runs about to Hawley Five Cornerslose her flat, a large New England estate thatDee is up for an accountant's job. But it's been in not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the family for centuriesattack but not unscathed. Reve Witch hunters? What on earth has always known that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all magic is illusion but now she has return to rely on thather and things will never be the same....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780891466</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The FreeHadeer Elsbai|authortitle=Brian RuckleyThe Daughters of Izdihar

|summary=Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Free are a band Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of mercenaries women and weavers – those with magical abilities - magical warriors who in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to 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 travelled the world a privileged upbringing like Nehal and are renowned feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their skills reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in battlelove with Nico. Finally reaching What follows is a point where they can retire story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from war, which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their leader Yulan is offered one final contract - one he cannot refusepersonal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501957</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ErenHeather Fawcett|authortitle=Simon P ClarkEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=People - MumEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, mostly - are keeping secrets from Oli. Why have they had to leave London and come researched meticulously, to live in the country with Uncle Rob? Why hasn't Dad come too? Why does everyone keep turning off the TV news every time it comes on? Why does Emwrite her life's dad dislike Oli when he doesn't even know him? When will Dad come? When will life go back to normal? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472110978</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Edward Cox|title=The Relic Guild|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Genii War was so devastating that now, 40 years laterwork, the world is a dismally different placevery first encyclopaedia of faeries. The LabyrinthWhilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, once a hub permitting access to unlimited locations she is now a prisonnot so good with people. The policeSo when she finds herself far, under far North in the control small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the Resident village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and his especially enabled Relic Guild, maintain order. The war may have left lasting reverberations but at least put her final investigations for her book back on the Genii have been destroyedright track. If they hadn't beenEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, combine their malevolent presence with the fact that the Relic Guild is not as strong in numbers as they once were all charm and things could worsen considerablydelight, much to Emily's frustration. Errrr… Labrys, we have a problem!But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200296</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Broken Eye (Lightbringer 3)Christopher Golden|authortitle=Brent WeeksRoad of Bones

|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=War is coming to The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the Seven Satrapies - not that world's most notorious routes. For months of 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. I don't think 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 in power want to admit a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre itcovers. The Color Prince may not have succeeded in keeping hold 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-maker, doing a recce with his super powerful Banes yetcameraman buddy, but John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's steadily moving through prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the Satrapiescompany of a local beauty, burning and killing everything in his path all fetch up at the sameguide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499099</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreview|author=Benedict Jacka|title=Hidden: An Alex Verus novel |rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Anne Walker, life mage and former good friend of Camden magic shop owner/future diviner Alex Verus is in trouble. Alex would love to help her but first he has to find her. Meanwhile his guilty past as a dark mage apprenticed to the less-than-nice Richard Drakh has come back to haunt him. In fact there are rumours that Richard himself is coming back to haunt Alex personally as Richard's more than mildly miffed about Alex's betrayal. Hang on Alex – it's going to be a bumpy ride!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502317</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angus WatsonAndrew Givler|title=Age of Iron Soul Fraud (The Iron Age TrilogyDebt Collection Book 1)|rating=4.5

|summary=Location: Here or hereabouts Date: 67BC. The Romans are coming but, before they turn up, the collection of disparate tribes they're destined to call Britannia 'Matt has other problemsa terrible life. There is much infighting among these mini-kingdoms and currently Dug the WarriorSeriously—it's region awful. It is subjected to a massive killing machine – so bad that Dan the army of King Zadar. Everything's fine though; Dug Demon is just one shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of the people who want to kill him. Yes, there's Dug, Lowa the talented archer-ess who used to work a blissful life in exchange for Zadar and Spring, a little girlhis soul. Some would say that they can't get through the army of thousands that surround the King but they're going to try anyway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502619</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Deborah Harkness|title=The Book of Life|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Historian witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont are back home in the 21st century but now face the tragic news of Aunt Sarah's partnerPoor Dan! I know, I know, Emwe shouldn's deatht feel sorry for soul-catching demons. Hard-to-get-along-with Baldwin has taken over as head of the de Clairmont clan and But he really is making life dangerously difficult for Diana, Matthew a terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and their unborn twins. If this isn't enough, they still need when he fails to get even Matt to find and remove sign on the secret manuscriptdotted line, Ashmole 782 – the Book of Life. However, they have very dangerous competitionhe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755384776</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreview|title=The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real MagicFrontpage|author=Emily Croy BarkerOlivie Blake|ratingtitle=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=Feeling the need for a little escapism and fantasy reading, I chose this debut novel by Emily Croy Barker, expecting an enchanted but modern fairy tale for grown ups. However, I have to say, I was a little disappointed. The book starts out brilliantly, introducing us to Nora in her mundane life as she struggles to write her university thesis whilst dealing with a relationship breakdown, then by chapter two, suddenly transports the reader to a magical other-world, rather like ''Alice in Wonderland'' or ''Harry Potter''. We then follow Nora as she meets the enchanting, beautiful, Ilissa in a land where everything turns out to be too good to be true and looks are very much deceiving. Nora is literally locked into marriage with Ilissa's son Raclin and we learn that her only way out of this entrapment is through the help of magician Aruendiel, an enemy of Ilissa and from another land named Uland. A promising start, suggesting unexpected events, conflicts, a fast paced story and twists to come. Unfortunately, for me, the intrigue soon faded and the exciting plot beyond this never really materialised.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405913096</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Codex Born|author=Jim C HinesAtlas Six

|summary=Bands are famed for having that tricky second album syndromeDark, but the same can be said for authors when writing the second book in a series. [[Libriomancer by Jim C Hines|Libriomancer]] was the first in sharp, and highly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a series that blasted onto the scene with an infectious enthusiasm that allowed you to forgive its one or two minor flawsTik-Tok sensation. Could the follow up continue the momentum, or will it stagnate?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953472</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Ripper AffairDaniel Abraham|authortitle=Lilith SaintcrowAge of Ash

|summary=Emma Bannon, Sorcerer Prime and servant to We meet Alys under the crownmost northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has been locked away a knife in her house for some time now, trying to avoid being drawn into affairs of treason hand and murder, thank you very mucha meeting that she dreads. But Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of years when Archibald Clare discovers the secret Emma has been keeping from him - in a violent incident worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. It is the night between the funeral of a court that takes Prince and the life coronation of Clare's manservant, Valentinelli - Emma finds herself unable to avoid being thrown back into the frayhis successor. For someone sorcerous a night the Kithamar is murdering frails un-ruled.|isbn=0356515427}}{{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the darker corners sky where soldiers of Londiniumthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, and though Emma would rather Clare spend time resting and recovering his facultieswhen 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 soon starts desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to realise that they may be leave the only ones capable life of stopping whatever danger dreary servitude that is blooming all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the nightmatter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world.She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500942</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben PeekB09Q3P283Y|title=The GodlessShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=4.5

|summary=These are strange times in Mieera, Clyde Robbins signs up for the land made from US Army during the bodies of dead godsVietnam War. The Leeran army He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is closing he particularly interested in on a Mieera defended only by a scratch army of citizens career in the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and The Darkthis one, at least, a band gets him out of mercenary saboteurs led by cynically tough Bueralan. Ayae the cartographerrut he's apprentice has a more personal crisisin. SheHe's pulled from good in training and is quickly put onto a burnt out building alive and totally unscathednon commissioned officer training course. This can only mean one thing: sheHe's one of the cursed. As the effects of this newly endowed immortality hit her she must decide what to dochuffed with himself. Zaifyr, the mysterious charmed man, has some ideas but then so do the sinister Keepers which doesn't help much. Meanwhile that army is getting closer…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447251245</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Hornor JacobsJennifer Saint|title=The IncorruptiblesElektra|rating=3.54|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Fisk and Shoestring are a couple 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the mercenaries paid to guard Ruman high born Cornelius and his family heavily male dominated world of spoiltAncient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, back-biting and Elektra are all bit players in-fighters on board their steamer, The Cornelian. The exception to the continuous badly-mooded is Cornelius' daughter, the healer, Livia. She seems to have struck up a rapport with Fisk; story of the reason why they get on so well seems hidden in a dark secret that Shoe hopes to crack if they live that longTrojan War. The truth is Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that life is cheap – often the Stretchers roam silent women have the land, bloodthirsty most compelling stories and dangerous ensuring that Fisk and Shoe earn every penny Cornelius allows themthe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057513366X</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen MaitlandDean Koontz|title=The Vanishing WitchQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers|summary=More and higher taxes are being levied on Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the English by teenage King Richard II and his uncle/advisor John of Gaunt chance to get to pay be a mercurial character yet, for the wars against Francehe's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. They may cause annoyance But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to the rich but theysudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind''re breaking the poor, people like Lincolnshire river boat man Gunter and his family. Meanwhile some for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, 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 better off are facing problems from other quarters. Cloth merchant Robert value of it out of Bassingham is losing his stock before it arrives due to theft bank and unrest among prepare for going on the weavers lam. And all this is just in Flanders. It's not a good time for two of those typical Men in Black types to be English turn up and eventually something will snap; wesuggest he're heading towards 1831 s of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and the peasants will be revoltinga whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147221501X</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaye WellsTasha Suri|title=Cursed Moon: Prospero's War: Book TwoThe Jasmine Throne|rating=54

|summary=It's now six weeks since Kate Prospero saved On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother Danny's life by cooking and refuses to step on to the illegal dirty magic antidote pyre. She is immediately sent to her Uncle Abe's poisonous recipebe imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. Abe But now the temple is safely in prison but Katenothing more than an overgrown, as an MEA cop trained to track and punish practitioners of dirty magicdecaying ruin. One day, now has Malini witnesses a secretgirl kill someone with magic. There are also other matters clawing at Instead of reporting her mind. A series of thefts and murders is disrupting Babylonfor such a gruesome crime, causing it to become more dangerous by Malini claims that the day - girl saved her from an attacker and that's saying something! Indeed as begs for the Halloween new moon approaches the murder and mayhem will increase. Meanwhile Kate is discovering even older secrets than hers which cause girl to become her to question everything she's been brought up to believeown personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650302X</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Genevieve Gornichec|title=The WidowWitch's House (Dagger and the Coin)|author=Daniel AbrahamHeart|rating=54

|summary=The fourth in Daniel Abraham’s majestic The Dagger A modern and approachable reimagining of the Coin series has pretty much everything you can want Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in an epic fantasy adventure – even more so than a forest at the first three. There’s action, war, politics, betrayal, great relationships between family and friends. There’s a surprising amount edge of laughter herethe nine worlds, even if it’s all rather bleak, as some remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the heroes are using gallows humour to cope with the amount stake three times because of death and destruction theyOdin're forced s wrath. Her attempts to see. Even better than any of thislive in peace, thoughhowever, is the superb characterisation. Abraham has given us perhaps half a dozen character arcs which are absolutely masterful. From quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the widowed woman trying stake—and refuses to save leave her country by betraying its leaderalone. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, while juggling and the two start an inappropriate romance with unusual family made of up a servant (these two are probably my favourite couple ever)half-dead daughter, to a villain who manages to be simultaneously evil enough to make your skin crawl yet often pitiable son that's a wolf, and, sometimes, even likeable, all of the main players here are brilliantly portrayed. I also think the dialogue here is outstanding, hugely quotableanother son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356504697</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=AJ SmithHannah Whitten|title=The Dark Blood (The Long War)For the Wolf

|summary=The lands of Ro are slowly being subjugated by In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the evil sorceresses known as The Seven Sisterssecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. Their only hope To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to kill them expect: within the woods is a wolf, and only he is the one man who will decide the fate of their kingdom. If she is up not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the task: the Dark Blood assassinwoods will be released, Rham Jas. He chooses master forger and fixer Kale as his assistant but, as this the fabled kings he keeps hostage will reduce Kale's life expectancy markedly, Kale's not keennever be returned—or so the stories go. Meanwhile UthaBut when Red enters the woods, albino Black Order clericexpecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, his squire Randall, axe maiden Halla Summer Wolf, Timon she finds that the Butcher et al legends are dragged into lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a bloody conflict during which they have to fight for more than just their own survivalman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178185226X</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy AdamsJohn Gwynne|title=The Rain-Soaked BrideShadow Of The Gods

|summary=The last thing that the afflicted people see before their death is a wet woman in white. Shadow Of 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) Gods is there to find out. This may not be the full extent first installment 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 Bloodsworn Saga, set 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 era of the Australian state of Victoria where she's Vikings in the final throes shadow of school. However she feels very much an outsiderRagnarok, especially after when the recent death of her mother. Mina's alienated further by her bullying elder brother Gods have battled and her father's attempts their bones lie scattered for all to move on with his life before Mina see. This story is ready. She has friends that she spends time with the ultimate in a disinterested Goth wayHigh Fantasy, 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 and John Gwynne certainly does justice to mind. 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 Raven's Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Reva, young adherent to the True World Faithwith mythical creatures, has archaic language and battles galore. This is a mission: murdering Lord Vaelin Al Sorna. Frentis (one time Sixth Order Brother to Vaelin) also has murder on his mind but can't help it as he works through the deathly wish-list of the mysterious woman who binds his will. Lyrna's brother Malcius now rules as King of the Unified Realm thick book, with an intricate plot and she's happy to remain princess. However someone else thinks differently; she's summoned fascinating characters that are woven together to create a meeting that will prepare 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 survivalwonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502449</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|author=Guy Adams|title=The Clown Service|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|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 of pounds more Move on 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 ''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 war. The waves of cyborg attacks are just the beginning – what follows is more devastating. Not only that but also the flood of refugees surging in daily is as much of a problem as a resource. Actually in one or two cases the word 'problem' is a bit of an understatement. In the middle of this hell Seb and Melanie are doing their best to fight and survive, although survival doesn't look like an option once they realise they have to go into the enemy's hive and bring the battle to the cyborgs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>}} {{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 it. She got her dream job writing comedy, she's about to get her own show, and she got her dream guy, Neal. Only, she's not so sure she has him anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409154912</amazonuk>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]