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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tim AkersA G Slatter|title= The Pagan NightBriar Book of the Dead|rating= 45|genre= Fantasy|summary= The Celestial Church has '' 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 but eliminated mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the old pagan waysworld, ruling lies Silverton; a town under the people with an iron hand. Demonic gheists terrorise protection of the landBriar's, hunted by a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the warriors of Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the inquisitionfirst non-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. When her grandmother suddenly dies, yet itEllie's cousin Audra becomes the battling factions within Briar Witch, the Church town's leader, and age-old hatreds between north Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and south that tear centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the land apartheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Malcolm BlakleyReeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, hero everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the Reaver Warsea. The call of the deep, seeks to end the conflict between menanswering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, yet it falls to his son Ian a remote and huntress Gwen Adairpartially forgotten island, to stop survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the killing wrecks. Mira, like her mother before it tears her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the land apart ruins – fighting mad godsrescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, inquisitor prieststhey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, holy knightsMira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, and noble houses she sets off in battles search of prejudicea family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, politicsas 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 power…the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297379</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsT Kingfisher|title=Stars of Fortune (Guardians Trilogy)Thornhedge

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Sasha suffers from nightmares''You had a right to retake your place. The scary details may vary but the gist of the contents remain the same: the voice '' T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a strangerfairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, the presence of evil and the faces of five people on sleeping under an islandeternal enchantment, none of which/whom she knowsThornhedge is not her story. She tries all Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she can was a new-born baby and secreted away to exorcise the darkness including transferring the faces and locations into her art but even the refuge land of fairie where her talent and livelihood doesn't work. In a moment of bravery Sasha discovers the identity of the island and travels childhood was spent being taught how to where she knows it will all begin draw magic from her veins and possibly end. For there somewhere on Crete the other five wait and the evil materialises along with the events that three goddesses began eons agocast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349407797</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ken LiuNicole Jarvis|title=The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty)A Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Mata Zyundu is on the way down ''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in life having been born into Florence seeking an aristocratic family deposed oasis in which her art can find a home and burdened with all where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians of the resentment healing magics that goes with it. Meanwhile through paintings have the power to protect the charming Kuni Gara finds fame city and success as a bandit leader after a lifetime surviving on the streetsits citizens from plagues and curses. The two form an unlikely friendship that's torn asunder as the Empire crumbles all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and they find themselves on opposite sides architecture for better orcenturies and guard it above all else. To them, indeed, for worseArtemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784973211</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= George MannThomas D Lee|title= The Osiris Ritual: A Newbury and Hobbes InvestigationPerilous Times|rating= 3|genre= Crime (Historical)Fantasy|summary=Sir Maurice Newbury, his majesty's special agent, and his assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes are on 'Hate is the case once more. When a group path of well-toleast resistance'' Set in the near-do explorers return from an Egyptian expeditiondistant future, they unveil in a mummy and unleash an ancient mystery. Soon the explorers are being picked off one by one and Newbury must solve the mystery if he is to catch the culprit. But there's more than one brute world on the loose, while Newbury attempts to track down a rogue agent, Veronica takes the case verge of disappearing women into her own hands with dangerous consequences … |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298251</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Serge le Tendreclimate collapse, Regis Loisel and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)|title=Britain is in great peril. The Quest for the Time Bird|rating=2.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=In order to defeat British Isles desperately needs a vengeful god, who is within days of getting out of his prison – a sacred conch shell – hero (or several things must happen. First, the conch must be united with the witch powerful enough ) to sustain save the incantation keeping him locked upday and rescue what little remains. Then she must use her helpers to endure great danger and find the information she seeks in the most perilous of places for knowledge What no-one expected was that one of the ultimate part Knights of the puzzle – Round Table would answer the Time Bird. All this calls for heroes, but in the world of fantasy anyone can call themselves a hero – from the witch's own buxom daughter, Pelisse, to an old warrior called Bragon that the girl is forced to unite with and fight alongside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782763627</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy Book 2)Delilah Recovered

|summary=Twins Kael and Bree Skyborn witness the battle in which their parents died and yet still want We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to follow in their footstepslook up. The pair train as Seraphim, members Out of the winged force that are on the front line of the warwork, proud about to serve their people and the Theocrats who have devised the whole support system lose her flat, Dee is up for their worldan accountant's job. But it's not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. There are those who speak out against She survives the Theocrats attack but even consorting not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with people like Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that means deathare not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the same.... Everyone knows it and yet…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506495</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ElliottHadeer Elsbai|title=Black Wolves (Black Wolves Trilogy)The Daughters of Izdihar|rating=54

|summary=Dannarah has achieved her childhood dream: sheDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''s a reeve marshal, one The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the army lives of two women who fly eagles to defend king and kingdom. However Dannarah' s dream comes after a nightmare. Lady Dannarah (as she's could not be more properly known) is daughter different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of King Anjihosh women and his son Prince Atani both of whom have been killedweavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Two decades later Nehal, born into the current rulerupper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her great nephew Jehosh gives Dannarah abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an ultimatumarranged marriage with Nico. She will be promoted to Grand Marshal if she brings him Giorgina on the other hand did not have a bodyguard privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to guide him through dangerous times ahead provide for her family and not just any bodyguard. He wants Kellasmaintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the captain Daughters of the former Black Wolves, the elite royal guard who were disbanded after the regicidesIzdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Kellas had walked away from the palace Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a fog story of shock an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and self-blame cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and he may not want to come backovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356503208</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex MarshallHeather Fawcett|title=A Crown for Cold Silver: Book One Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of the Crimson EmpireFaeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Zosia seems just like any other old lady. Indeed that's the mistake that Sir Efrain Hjort made as he presents Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her with her husbandlife's headwork, severed the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to encourage her compliancefaeries, she is not so good with people. As Zosia hears So when she finds herself far, far North in the screams coming from small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what used she has done, nor how to be redeem herself and put her village but now final investigations for her book back on the site of Hjort's latest initiative Zosia makes a vowright track. She'll look up some of Enter Wendell Bambleby, her old acquaintances; to be more precisedashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, the five villains she used much to leadEmily's frustration. For Zosia isn't actually that ordinary. But why is he here? What does he want? Zosia And what exactly is going on with the legendary Cobalt Queen – a little creakier now than when she faked her death of course, but one thing is certain: she will avenge her people.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650283X</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen HickmanChristopher Golden|title= The Art Road of Stephen HickmanBones|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyHorror|summary= Stephen Hickman has been The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a well known artist in thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the Fantasy and Science Fiction worlds for year it's a number spread of years nowsheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, having created covers for authors such as Harlan Ellisonwhile its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, Robert Heinleinapocalyptic-level mud, Anne McCaffreywhich dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and Larry Nivenother Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. His paintings are vibrant You can easily find documentaries about it online, kineticbut that's a bit rich, sometimes scaryfor one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, often sensualis a film-maker, traditionaldoing a recce with his cameraman buddy, and yet modern. John Prentiss – who''The Art s mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of Stephen Hickmanthe funds he'd invested in the pair' collects hundreds s prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of these paintingsa local beauty, and fetch up at the artist himself provides an intriguing commentary alongside which offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic processguide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298456</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark MorrisAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Society of Blood (Obsidian Heart book 2Debt Collection Book 1)

|summary=Vargus ''Matt has milked the legend of the Gath, an avenging man of violence for hire, for as long as possiblea terrible life. Being the Gath has had its benefits but time to move onSeriously—it's awful. As it happens a war It is brewing in Seveldrom so Vargus is going to fight on bad that Dan the side of right against the evil that Demon is King Taikon. For Balfruss Seveldrom is home so he's honoured to be one of the six Battlemages King Mattias has selected to be the backbone shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his defence now that Taikon has Zecorriasoul. As fate unfolds the future, Mattias' daughter Talandra will also play her part as the King's spymaster. Vargus can kill an armed gang singlehanded. Balfruss can summon fire, command storms and unmake stone. Talandra? She just hopes she can help save her country but as yet she doesn't realise quite how much it will cost her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B013KT3BQW</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=David Mitchell|title=Slade House|rating=5|genre=Horror|summary=Once every nine years Jonah and Norah Greyer entertain a guest; each time Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a different person… or personsterrible salesman. Each visitor walks through He never hits his targets and, when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the small black door of Slade House for various reasons of their own. Or at least they think they know why theydotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt're there but only Jonah and Norah know the real reason – the only reasons signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473616689</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=AJ SmithOlivie Blake|title=The Red Prince (The Long War)Atlas Six|rating=54

|summary=Spoilers ahead unless you've treated yourself to the first two books…….The surviving sinisterDark, sharp, deadly Sisters (formerly the Seven Sisters) are slowly gaining global power and tortuous control. Ithighly inquisitive, ''s not over for our heroes yet though. Utha the albino cleric and his squire Randall are off to bag themselves another sister. They take with them the multi-talented Ruth, someone prone to funny turns but in a good way. Meanwhile the rest of our leaders are busy massing armies, leading to some unusual alliances. Assassin Rham Jas, travelling with the oddly behaving Kale, also has a witch in his sights, but his quest is partly personal. Saara Mistress of Pain still has his daughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784080861</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author= Leigh Bardugo|title= The Atlas Six of Crows|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=In The Barrel, anything is possible for the right price, and no one knows this better than criminal mastermind, Kaz Brekker. When Kaz is offered '' makes its publishing debut after becoming a chance at a perilous mission that could turn his povertyTik-stricken life upside down, he is determined to see the task fulfilled - but he won't be able to do it aloneTok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1627792120</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert L AndersonDaniel Abraham|title=DreamlandAge of Ash

|summary=17 year old Dea We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has been to several schools a knife in several towns, moving with her mother as if pursuedhand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. It's always is the night between the same. She'd make funeral of a friend Prince and then the rumours would start about how she and her mum were crazy and the friend wouldn't talk to her. Dea isn't crazycoronation of his successor. She becomes curiously ill from time to time but she has For a cure: walking through people's dreams. There are rules that keep her safe when she's doing this but when Connor moves in to night the neighbourhood the rules become far less important and that's when Dea's life becomes far more dangerousKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473621003</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ari MarmellAnn Sei Lin|title=Hallow Point Rebel Skies|rating=2.5 |genre=FantasyTeens|summary=The first person perspective 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 not an easy one a Crafter like him, someone with the power to pull off in fictionform paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. Despite thisHe asks her to come with him, it to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has been a favourite of known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the gumshoe genre as getting behind matter, because the eyes of Midori is destroyed by a grizzled Private Investigator monstrous paper spirit known as they solve crimes a shikigami, and fall for femme fatales she is incredibly satisfying if done wellforced to flee out into the world. All this is achievableShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, but what if you throw urban fantasy in too? Now you have a book that has sky-ship whose express purpose is to explain crime in the first personhunt down shikigami, but also magic and in the case a whole world of ''Hallow Point'', 1930s Chicago slang. adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781168253</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angus WatsonB09Q3P283Y|title=Reign of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Spoilers ahead for [[Age of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy) by Angus Watson|Books 1]] and [[Clash of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy) by Angus Watson|2]]. Lowa and Spring both mourn the deaths of Dug in their own ways, each having reminders of the warrior they loved: Lowa carries around his baby while Spring carries around… well… Dug. They don't have time to brood though. The Romans may be taking their time but they haven't given up on the invasion idea. Meanwhile Ragnall, still in Rome with Caesar, is being given a good reason to join them. And so it begins as both sides gather troops and galvanise assistance ready for the mater of all battles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502600</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewShadebringer|author= Sam Sykes|title= The City Stained RedGrayson W Hooper|rating= 3.54

|summary=This story follows a ragtag team made Clyde Robbins signs up of murderers and misfits. Through with adventure and being paid to kill, Lenk leads for the gang into US Army during the grand silk city of CierVietnam War. He'Djaal to hunt for s not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the man who was yet to pay them for their servicemilitary. Lenk If he's honest - which Clyde usually is determined to live a normal human life , with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and may be willing to leave his friends behind this one, at least, gets him out of the rut he's in order to do so, but soon they become tied up . He's good in training and is quickly put onto a religious war that wreaks chaos upon the city and their plans for peacenon commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575132183</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna CaltabianoJennifer Saint|title=The Time Of The ClockmakerElektra

|genre=Fantasy Literary Fiction|summary='Elektra'The Time Of The Clockmaker'' is not so much a sequel to '[[The Seventh Miss Hatfield by Anna Caltabiano|The Seventh Miss Hatfield]], rather it's more like ''The Seventh Miss Hatfield : Part Deux''. Cynthia (Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who is now the aforementioned Seventh Miss Rebecca Hatfield and from this point we shall refer to her as such) has just seen her predecessor and mentor, the somewhat intimidating Sixth Miss Hatfield, murdered live in the only way it is possible for an immortal to die – she has been slain by another immortalheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Forced to flee for her life (with the clock that governs Rebecca's ability to travel through time)Cassandra, Clytemnestra, Rebecca is stunned to find herself back and Elektra are all bit players in the Court story of King Henry VIIIthe Trojan War. It seems Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the hands of her mysterious clock silent women have somehow inadvertently been moved, during the course of a break-in, most compelling stories and Tudor England is the backdrop for Miss Hatfield's fight for survivalmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200431</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Patricia McKillipDean Koontz|title= The Riddle-Master's GameQuicksilver|rating= 42.5|genre= FantasyThrillers|summary=IIn Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a realm where the wizards have long mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since diedhe was a three-day old foundling, but where magic and riddlry reignnow is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', no one takes much notice of the smallfor something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, peaceful kingdom call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of Hed. That is until the young Land Ruler Morgonhim that he go to a derelict diner, wins find a riddle game that sends gold coin worth a series events into motion that will shake fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the realmlam. Together And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he and the High One's harpist embark on a journey across the realm, of interest to discover his destiny and finally marry the second most beautiful woman in the landthem. But Morgon has a long way Helped to go and escape, he finds his journey flight is just interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the begginning discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of the impossible riddles before himburgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473212022</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bradley BeaulieuTasha Suri|title=Twelve Kings: The Song of the Shattered SandsJasmine Throne

|summary=When she was a young child Ceda took a blood oath to seek vengeance against the twelve kings of Sharakhai and with good reason. Now, years later, On the oath hasn't been fulfilled but Ceda has plenty night of other things to keep her occupied. Whether couriering suspect packagessacred burning, avoiding the asirim or risking Princess Malini defies her life in brother and refuses to step on to the combat pits pyre. She is immediately sent to satisfy be imprisoned on the blood thirsty crowdHirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. Ceda has been biding her time and that time But now the temple is approachingnothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. HoweverOne day, she's only one 19 year old Malini witnesses a girl whereas kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the kings are legion girl saved her from an attacker and have powers begs for the girl to call on that aren't altogether naturalbecome her own personal maidservant. Blood must be avenged with blood; the only question is whose blood will it be?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473203007</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Richard MorganGenevieve Gornichec|title= The Dark Defiles|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Ringil Eskiath, Egar Dragonbane and Archeth Indamaninarmal have been through hell. Almost literally, in some cases. Now without fight or cause, they find themselves bored, searching for answers and fights wherever they can. But then the fight arrives, along with the Dark Court, the Empire and the greed of men. It soon becomes clear that a war fought thousands of years has not ended, but still rages fiercely on. A war that will take more than our adventurers to stop…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575088605</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Debbie Viguie and James R Tuck|title= Mark of the Black Arrow (Robin Hood: Demons Bane 1)|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= A vast darkness is spreading. If left unchecked, it will engulf the world, and so Richard the Lionheart must depart England on a holy mission. In his absence, the safety of the realm is entrusted to his brother, Prince John. With the King departing, black sorcery grips the land, horrific creatures stalking the forests and threatening noble and peasant alike. A handful of rebels fight back, but are doomed to fail unless they can find a hero to lead them – and Robin Hood may be just the man for the job. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294361</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Debbie Viguie and James R Tuck|title= Mark of the Black Arrow (Robin Hood: Demons Bane #1)|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= A vast darkness is spreading. If left unchecked, it will engulf the world, and so Richard the Lionheart must depart England on a holy mission. In his absence, the safety of the realm is entrusted to his brother, Prince John. With the King departing, black sorcery grips the land, horrific creatures stalking the forests and threatening noble and peasant alike. A handful of rebels fight back, but are doomed to fail unless they can find a hero to lead them – and Robin Hood may be just the man for the job. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294361</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sebastien de Castell|title= TraitorWitch's Blade|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary= Falcio del Mond and his companions Kest and Brasti used to be Greatcoats; travelling Magister's upholding King's Law. Then they stood and watched as their King was killed by the Dukes who took control of the kingdom, and their company of 144 supposedly brave men and women are scattered throughout the land and reviled as traitors. The three are working as hired security while hoping to fulfil their last promise to the King, until one of their clients is killed and they're framed for his murder. Running for their lives, they're caught in a conspiracy which could have dark consequences for the entire land.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184866379X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Gardner|title= Grendel|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary= The first impression we get of Grendel in the epic poem ''Beowulf'' is not a good one. Life is fine for the townspeople of Heorot, the anonymous poet tells, 'until finally one, a fiend out of hell, began to work his evil in the world.' Grendel, there can be no doubt, is a monster, a beast, a marauder, a demon, a villain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473212014</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= George Mann|title= Affinity Bridge|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=London, 1901: airships and automata herald a shining future in a city of steam-powered road trains and carriages. Queen Victoria is still alive (after a fashion) and one of her trusted Crown Agents has his work cut out investigating some decidedly odd goings-on in the capital alongside the chaps at Scotland Yard. Revenant corpses and vengeful, ghostly policemen in the dense fog of Whitechapel don't phase Newbury, however, accustomed as he is to dabbling in the occult.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298278</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Benedict Jacka|title=VeiledHeart|rating=4.5

|summary=It's a time A modern and approachable reimagining of great change for future divining mage Alex Verus. He's come to the decision Norse myths that his apprentice Luna has reached centres around a stage where she needs more multi-faceted training than he can offerwitch named Angrboda. An additional teacher is therefore sought and one applicant She hides in particular isna forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin't exactly Mary Poppinss wrath. Meanwhile Alex adds a new chapter Her attempts to his life by working live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the Keepersstake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the Counciltwo start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's police forcea wolf, adding perhaps a little more danger than is good for him. However his past is never far away and no, another son that's not a good thingsnake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356504379</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom HoltHannah Whitten|title=The Good, For the Bad and the SmugWolf|rating=4.5

|summary=MordakIn Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, award winning goblin kingand the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on a quest for truth. His companion Efluviel her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a journalist whom wolf, and he'd sacked and is the one who is elf – that's two counts against her, without taking will decide the smugness into accountfate of their kingdom. Meanwhile If she is not a little man spins gold from strawworthy sacrifice, offering benefits as well as a riddle. He may sound familiarthe monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, but forget and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the fairy tale; this Rumplerimp… Rumpski… bloke has a more sophisticated strategystories go. Oh and have you heard about But when Red enters the two chaps who pre-invented woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the Hadron Collider in their garden shed? No? Wellhour, stay tunedshe finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502554</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie PhillipsJohn Gwynne|title=The Table Shadow Of Less Valued KnightsThe Gods|rating=4.5

|summary=Sir Humphrey has been demoted from King Arthur's Round Table to The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the Table shadow of Lesser Valued KnightsRagnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. The only way to get his comfier seat back This story is to redeem himself via a quest. Therefore when damsel Elaine seeks help to find her kidnapped fiancéthe ultimate in High Fantasy, Humphrey and his wardJohn Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, the teenage giant Conradwith mythical creatures, eagerly set fortharchaic language and battles galore. Meanwhile in the kingdom of TuftThis is a thick book, new Queen Martha has run away after with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a disastrous wedding to… a… well… disastrous Prince Edwinwonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle. She may not realise it yet, but she too will have a job for Humphrey!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099555875</amazonuk>0356514218