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|summary=Lucien doesn’t want '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to declare war on Landfall and its Silent Queenmyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, Aneaall mine, whom he grew up with as an Orfanoat last. She runs I just want to enjoy it for a dictatorship of militant suppression and suffering which is rather unlike herwhile. Unbeknown to Lucien'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the throne protection of Landfall is occupied by Eristhe Briar's, an imposter a family of witches who protect the town and puppet used by those with far fewer scruplesthe wider world from the Darklands. Anea herself Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is imprisoned in the palace oubliette surrounded by Myrmidonfirst non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a half-human army created by Erebussteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. ThereWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's little chance leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of her escaping or getting very far if she dida maelstrom of chaos. HoweverReeling from one family secret to another, for Anea 'little chanceEllie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is a challenge, not a preventativeunder threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200040</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview <!-- Upload 16/2 -->Frontpage|author=C E RobinsonRachel Greenlaw|title=Lilith: Eden's Planetary Princess (The Michael Archives Book 1)Compass and Blade

|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=35''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep,000 years ago a war the answering beat in heaven bleeds onto the planet Edenmy heart. King Joshua's angels are being harvested' Rosevear, their essence drained off a remote and their remaining bodies no good for anything apart from a euthanasia; a fate from which they can't be reincarnated. From this good essence is created evil Nephilimpartially forgotten island, creatures at survives on luring ships into the bidding of Satan's Overlords. Out of this battle between good and evil a planetary princess arises rocks and this first book in plundering the Michael Archives records wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her journey: the journey of Lilith from ordinary to extraordinary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B018N7F2B8</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Charlie Jane Anders|title= All The Birds In The Sky|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary= All of us have awakenings as teenagers, but Patricia's is more extreme than most – discovering that she is a witch one of the seven who can speak swim out to animals. Classmate Laurence's awakening is less disturbing but no less impressive survey the ruins – a scientific genius, he creates a two-second time machinerescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Growing up together, But when the mutual weirdness between Council Watch lays a trap to end the two bonds themwrecking, but life gets in they capture the way, island's leader and they end up on very different pathsMira's father. Meeting Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as adults in San Francisco, Laurence charming as he is an engineering genius trying secretive and with only coordinates to save the worldguide her, whereas Patricia is she sets off in search of a qualified witchfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, working hard as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to prove herself and cure those on the planet. As heart of the two are drawn back togethersmuggler's territory, and Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the fate future of the whole world threatened, Patricia her home and Laurence are forced to consider the fact that maybe they know each other better than anyone…ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785650556</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan DennardT Kingfisher|title=Truthwitch (The Witchlands Series)Thornhedge

|summary=Highway robbery is one of their talents so Safiya and Iseult don't envisage any problems. That is until they realise one of the soldiers defending the booty is 'You had a bloodwitchright to retake your place. It's an even bigger problem because truthwitches like Safiya are in demand…dangerously so! Meanwhile as the kingdom of Nubrevna reaches the end of a 20 year truce, Prince Merik desperately tries for a permanent peace. But there are those who would rather fight, including his own sister.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447282043</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephen Hunt|title= Foul Tides Turning|rating= 3.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= The people of Weyland always believed the slaversT Kingfisher' raids, which destroyed families and homes like s latest novella is a natural disaster, were lovely reimagining of a misfortune fairytale that couldn't be avertedis well known and well beloved. But it wasn't true. Their King, King Marcus, had struck whilst there is a deal – sacrificing his people princess trapped in exchange for technology and political power. But nowa tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, everyone knowsThornhedge is not her story. Jacob and Carter Carnehan escaped the slaversInstead, returning home with the truthour protagonist is Toadling, the true King, and a Princess as their hostage. Their purpose who was stolen away by fairies when she was to avoid war – but instead the truth prompts a civil war, new-born baby and an invasion force gathers secreted away to reclaim the princessland of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spells. Once again, Jacob and Carter will be separated – and this time they'll be fighting for something bigger than both of them…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575092106</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paula BrackstonNicole Jarvis|title=The Silver Witch (A Portrait in Shadow Chronicles)

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Ceramic artist Tilda moves to the house she and her husband envisaged their lives together in the wilds ''I want all of Wales. Unfortunately, due Florence to his tragic death a year agoknow my name'' Cast out from Rome, Tilda must move Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in alone and build Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a different life. In the same location a thousand years earlier Seren serves Prince Hywell as his village's seer home and shaman. Life isn't easy for where her eitherfuture can thrive rather than stagnate. She has enemiesBut as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, some a lot closer than the traditional threat self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from the Anglo Saxonsplagues and curses. Although The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries apart these two women's lives will come together with connotations for and guard it above all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who love promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and a deadly force that could go beyond thattheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472150651</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tim AkersThomas D Lee|title= The Pagan NightPerilous Times|rating= 43

|summary= The Celestial Church has all but eliminated ''Hate is the old pagan ways, ruling path of least resistance'' Set in the people with an iron hand. Demonic gheists terrorise the landnear-distant future, hunted by in a world on the warriors verge of the inquisitionclimate collapse, yet it's the battling factions within Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the Church day and agerescue what little remains. What no-old hatreds between north and south one expected was that tear one of the land apart. Malcolm Blakley, hero Knights of the Reaver War, seeks to end Round Table would answer the conflict between men, yet it falls to his son Ian and huntress Gwen Adair, to stop the killing before it tears the land apart – fighting mad gods, inquisitor priests, holy knights, and noble houses in battles of prejudice, politics, and power…call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297379</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Stars of Fortune (Guardians Trilogy)|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Sasha suffers from nightmares. The scary details may vary but the gist of the contents remain the same: the voice of a stranger, the presence of evil and the faces of five people on an island, none of which/whom she knows. She tries all she can to exorcise the darkness including transferring the faces and locations into her art but even the refuge of her talent and livelihood doesn't work. In a moment of bravery Sasha discovers the identity of the island and travels to where she knows it will all begin 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 ago.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407797</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ken Liu|title=The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty)Delilah Recovered|rating=4.5

|summary=Mata Zyundu is on the way down in We meet Dee at a point when her life having been born into an aristocratic family deposed and burdened with all the resentment that goes with it. Meanwhile the charming Kuni Gara finds fame and success as a bandit leader after a lifetime surviving on the streets. The two form an unlikely friendship thatisn's torn asunder t going as the Empire crumbles and they find themselves on opposite sides for better orplanned but things might, indeedjust might, for worsebe about to look up.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784973211</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= George Mann|title= The Osiris Ritual: A Newbury and Hobbes Investigation|rating= 3|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=Sir Maurice NewburyOut of work, about to lose her flat, his majestyDee is up for an accountant's special agent, and his assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes are on the case once morejob. When a group of well-But it's not to-do explorers return from an Egyptian expedition, they unveil a mummy and unleash an ancient mysterybe. Soon the explorers are being picked off one Dee is attacked by one and Newbury must solve two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the mystery if he is to catch the culpritattack but not unscathed. But there's more than one brute Witch hunters? What on the loose, while Newbury attempts earth has that to track down a rogue agent, Veronica takes the case of disappearing women into her own hands do with dangerous consequences … |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298251</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Serge le TendreDee? She's just an ordinary woman, Regis Loisel and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)|title=The Quest for the Time Bird|rating=2living an ordinary life.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=In order to defeat a vengeful god, who is within days Slivers of getting out memory of his prison – a sacred conch shell – several things must happen. First, the conch must be united with the witch powerful enough that are not ordinary at all return to sustain the incantation keeping him locked up. Then she must use her helpers to endure great danger and find things will never be the information she seeks in the most perilous of places for knowledge of the ultimate part of the puzzle – the Time Birdsame... 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>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsHadeer Elsbai|title=Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy Book 2)Daughters of Izdihar

|summary=Twins Kael and Bree Skyborn witness Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the battle in which their parents died rights of women and yet still want to follow weavers – those with magical abilities - in their footstepsa society pitted against them. The pair train as SeraphimNehal, members of born into the winged force that are on upper class, wishes to attend the front line of Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the warmilitary, proud but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to serve provide for her family and maintain their people and reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Theocrats who have devised the whole support system Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for their worldwomen's rights. There are those who speak out against the Theocrats but even consorting Giorgina also happens to be in love with people like that means deathNico. Everyone knows it What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and yet…overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506495</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ElliottHeather Fawcett|title=Black Wolves (Black Wolves Trilogy)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Dannarah has achieved her childhood dream: she's a reeve marshal, one of the army who fly eagles to defend king and kingdom. However Dannarah' s dream comes after a nightmare. Lady Dannarah (as sheEmily Wilde's more properly known) is daughter of King Anjihosh and his son Prince Atani both of whom have been killed. Two decades later the current ruler, her great nephew Jehosh gives Dannarah an ultimatum. She will be promoted to Grand Marshal if she brings him a bodyguard to guide him through dangerous times ahead and not just any bodyguard. He wants Kellas, the captain of the former Black Wolves, the elite royal guard who were disbanded after the regicides. Kellas had walked away from the palace in a fog of shock and self-blame and he may not want to come back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356503208</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alex Marshall|title=A Crown for Cold Silver: Book One 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 youDark, sharp, and highly inquisitive, ''ve treated yourself to the first two books…….The surviving sinister, deadly Sisters (formerly the Seven Sisters) are slowly gaining global power and tortuous control. ItAtlas Six''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 multimakes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-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 daughterTok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784080861</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Leigh BardugoDaniel Abraham|title= Six Age 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 a chance at a perilous mission that could turn his poverty-stricken life upside down, he is determined to see the task fulfilled - but he won't be able to do it alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1627792120</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert L Anderson|title=DreamlandAsh

|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 DefilesWitch's Heart|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Ringil Eskiath, Egar Dragonbane A modern and Archeth Indamaninarmal have been through hellapproachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. Almost literallyShe hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in some cases. Now without fight or causepeace, they find themselves boredhowever, searching for answers and fights wherever they canare quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her alone. But then the fight arrivesAfter an initial period of mistrust, along with the Dark CourtAngrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, the Empire and the greed two start an unusual family made of men. It soon becomes clear up a half-dead daughter, a son that 's a war fought thousands of years has not endedwolf, but still rages fiercely onand another son that's a snake. A war that will take more than our adventurers to stop…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575088605</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Debbie Viguie and James R TuckHannah Whitten|title= Mark of For the Black Arrow (Robin Hood: Demons Bane 1)Wolf|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= A vast darkness is spreading. If left uncheckedIn Red's family, it will engulf the worldfirst daughter becomes queen, and so Richard the Lionheart must depart England on second daughter becomes a holy missionsacrifice. In his absenceTo Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the safety of woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the realm woods is entrusted to his brothera wolf, Prince Johnand he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. With If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the King departingwoods will be released, black sorcery grips and the land, horrific creatures stalking fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the forests and threatening noble and peasant alikestories go. A handful of rebels fight backBut when Red enters the woods, but are doomed to fail unless they can find a hero expecting nothing more than to lead them – and Robin Hood may be just killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man for the job. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294361</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Debbie Viguie and James R TuckJohn Gwynne|title= Mark of the Black Arrow (Robin Hood: Demons Bane #1)The Shadow Of The Gods|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= A vast darkness The Shadow Of The Gods is spreading. If left uncheckedthe first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, it will engulf set in the world, and so Richard era of the Lionheart must depart England on a holy mission. In his absence, Vikings in the safety shadow of Ragnarok, when the realm is entrusted Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to his brother, Prince Johnsee. With This story is the King departingultimate in High Fantasy, black sorcery grips and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the landgenre, horrific with mythical creatures stalking the forests , archaic language and threatening noble and peasant alikebattles galore. A handful of rebels fight backThis is a thick book, but with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are doomed woven together to fail unless they can find create a hero to lead them – wonderfully realistic and Robin Hood may be just the man for the jobgritty world in which our heroes must do battle. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294361</amazonuk>0356514218