|summary=Imagine a world where pigs can do quantum mechanics, and where female solicitors turn into chickens. Add a dry cleaner that moves (literally, from the roof tiles to the basement) from town to town every forty-eight hours, a couple of medieval knights who've fought every day for centuries, and a magical ring (or pencil sharpener, depending on the mood it's in). Stir in a bit of property developing, a thaumaturgical detective and an old man who lives in a cloud. Result? You haven't even begun to probe the depths of this crazy, absurd, complex and hilarious book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495077</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daniel Abraham
|title=The Dagger and Coin: The Dragon's Path
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=A hero of renown, jaded by fighting and ready to leave the city before war breaks out. The only son of a noble house, taking more of an interest in books than swords. A court baron who strives to keep his king from being killed by traitors. And a young girl, left orphaned, disguised as a boy in a desperate attempt to smuggle the city's fortune to safety. Reading the cast list for the
first volume of Daniel Abraham's new fantasy epic, you'd be forgiven for thinking you'd read very similar works before. You'd also be completely wrong.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498874</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=S L Grey
|title=The Mall
|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=I must admit that the front cover is extremely eye-catching and that drop of blood gives a hint as to what the book's all about. There are two central characters and their stories are told in the first person in alternating chapters. So first up, is Rhoda - and boy does she have attitude. She's babysitting for a friend and decides to take the youngster to a local shopping mall. Nothing wrong there, you could say except that it's late at night (the boy should really be in bed) and the shops are starting to shut for the night. Rhoda is a bit of a mess. She takes drugs, although she says she's not reliant on them, so when the 'kid' goes and does a disappearing act on her, she's both fuming and scared. Grey locates her story in Jo'burg and there's an element of threatening violence within its pages.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857890425</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Jesse Bullington
|title=The Enterprise of Death
|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=It's the 1500s in Europe, and two women are being transported against their will across the continent. One, an African Moorish beauty is being delivered to the King of Spain as ransom payment, but she and two servants are to end up in the home of a mighty necromancer instead. Elsewhere, a Swiss soldier taking a young witch to those in charge of the Spanish Inquisition finds his cargo is even more dangerous than he thought.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499129</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Patricia Briggs
|title=Mercy Thompson: River Marked
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Mercy, the female car mechanic who is half-Native American and half-Caucasian, and can turn into a coyote, has bitten the bullet and married Adam, the Alpha werewolf of the region. But not long into their honeymoon at an idyllic riverside camping ground they have to themselves, she finds something is about to break their peace. Their presence there was, shall we say, requested, for a killer is lurking in the river waters, and only they can see to it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497975</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Jon Courtenay Grimwood
|title=The Fallen Blade: Act One of the Assassini
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=I'm always in two minds about books that echo other works of literature. I'm all for reworking myths and legends – they're so ancient and have been so often retold, even before arriving at the accepted 'true' versions, they're fair game – but works of literature written in recent enough history to have been actually ''written'' and still widely read in their original form? It can go one way or the other.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498459</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Jaye Wells
|title=Sabina Kane: Green-Eyed Demon
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Sabina Kane is on a mission. Her evil grandmother Lavinia, Alpha Domina of the whole vampire race, has kidnapped her twin sister from beneath Sabina's nose, and Sabina isn't about to let her get away with it. Not this time. Sabina knows time is short if she's to rescue Maisie alive and put an end to Lavinia once and for all, but before she can storm in and kick ass, she has to find her. And that's no easy task.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497584</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Trent Jamieson
|title=Managing Death
|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=I reviewed the [[Death Most Definite by Trent Jamieson|first book]] in this series and, even although it's not a genre I would normally choose to read, I was pleasantly surprised. Would this second book (which are often difficult to pull off with the same degree of success) be as good or as entertaining? Time to find out ...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498602</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=K J Parker
|title=The Hammer
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The met'Oc family have three sons. One is strong, super-industrious, but too busy to do more than patch up their farm. The second is a vicious thing, eager to ride roughshod over people like a western film's worst bandit, even when it belies the met'Oc's noble origins. And the youngest, Gig, is... not employed. Not thought highly of. Not allowed out of their compound, or to think too much. But he is courageous enough to try and leave, firm of mind to ignore something horrific that happened seven years before, and gutsy enough to succeed in escaping. Or is he? How far can he ever leave his destiny behind in this backward frontier town?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184149514X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Asa Jones
|title=The Illustrated Mind of Mike Reeves
|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Mike Reeves doesn't have his troubles to seek. His wife was brutally raped some four or five years ago and whilst she might seem to be recovered she cannot stand to be touched by a man – any man, Mike included. Quite suddenly Mike was alone, in every way – until he found himself drawn to the darker arts and began to dabble in Tarot, the Runes and I Ching. He's guided by two spirits. Sean is a wise and benevolent older man and Debbie, well she… isn't. She's the one who satisfies Mike's sexual needs. If that's all sounding rather good, then hesitate a moment, for with the good comes the bad and the bad is in the form of Tony a (very) real-life gangster who's been doing his own dabbling in the spirit world. When their worlds clash Mike has a problem which could well be more than he can handle.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>160693905X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Paul Hoffman
|title=The Left Hand of God
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=Cale is fourteen and his life so far has not been one to envy. Brought to the Redeemers' Sanctuary as just a toddler, he's lived within its militant religious fanaticism for all the years he can remember. Beaten, brutalised and half-starved, Cale and his fellow acolytes are being raised to fight an ongoing and bloody war against heretics. Cale is of special interest to Bosco, a Redeemer Lord Militant, and we soon realise why. Cale is intelligent, ruthless, quick, and has the ability to kill without remorse. He is an asset.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141333553</amazonuk>
}}
