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==Fantasy==
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{{newreview
|author=Sherrilyn Kenyon
|title=Infinity
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Nick Gautier, scholarship kid teased for his poverty and his mother's job as a stripper, finds life hard enough even before three of his friends try to kill him when he stops them from mugging an elderly couple. But when the man who rescues him turns out to mix in seriously weird circles, things get really bizarre. If anything, really bizarre is a massive understatement. Nick goes on to meet demons, zombies, shape changers, and a host of other mysterious beings, many of whom he already knew in human form as his schoolmates. He ends up on the frontline of a battle against zombies who are running riot in his home of New Orleans.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190741021X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marjorie M Liu
|summary=London 1601. Elizabeth I is getting on in years. Her capital city is a busy, bustling place. Boats fill the river and people fill the streets. Jack is happy because it's his birthday and his present is his heart's desire: an excitable black puppy named Max, who's a ''licking and a running and a leaping and a jumping and a tummy in the air and a tail wagging and a barking, racing, braking, spinning energy dog of delight''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880042X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kristin Cashore
|title=Fire
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Possessed of great beauty, the kind that drives men mad, Fire is used to people trying to kill her. She isn't used to them doing it by accident. When a poacher in the woods outside her home accidentally shoots her, Fire is hard pressed to keep the temperamental Lord Archer from killing him. But as sure as Fire is the man did not mean to cause her harm, she is made unsure by the strange fog that exists in the man's mind.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905200129</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Gemmell
|title=Legend
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Dros Delnoch, a massive fortress with six walls of defence, is in danger of falling to the Nadir. With its fall, the Drenai empire is soon to follow. The Nadir haven't lost yet and as a result, morale among the defenders is low and desertions are rampant. The men long for a hero, but the legendary Druss has hidden himself away in the mountains and become a myth.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498580</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Terry Brooks
|title=A Princess of Landover (Magic Kingdom of Landover)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Mistaya has a lot to deal with in this book. But then so do her parents, Ben (human) and Willow (half Dryad), as for much of the time they do not know where she is: your basic parental nightmare if you have a fifteen year old daughter whether you are the ruler of a magical kingdom or not.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495808</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kelley Armstrong
|title=Frostbitten
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=It's back to the werewolves in this latest volume in Armstrong's immensely popular Women of the Otherworld series, and I must say I'm relieved because the werewolves are my favourites. Time's moved on a little since we were with them last. Elena and Clay are now utterly settled in their wolfish marriage and their twins are three years old. Elena has just found out that Jeremy is looking to retire and also to make her the new pack Alpha. Ambitious and competitive, she's the ideal pack member for the job - but how will it affect her relationship with Clay, the pack enforcer? To add to this worry, a contact from the past has churned up some unwanted memories.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497762</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mike Carey
|title=The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Felix Castor is a talented exorcist living in London, with zombies, ghosts and succubi for friends, and the odd human. His best friend, Rafi, has been taken over by a demon called Asmodeus, for which Felix feels slightly responsible. As such, he needs to get Rafi back to normal - the problem is that Asmodeus has other ideas - basically to kill everyone who has anything to do with Rafi. Felix himself is probably on the list, but before he worries about himself, he needs to do something about his closest friends - namely Pen, his landlady, Juliet, a succubus (a demonic female spirit) and Sue, Juliet's lover. At the same time, there are horrible things going on in a central London gym, and Castor must do something about it before people start to die. Can he solve all his problems without losing any of his loved ones?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496553</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jesse Bullington
|title=The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=When Hegel and Manfried are ticked off, you know about it. Returning to a town for vengeance - someone didn't like their scrumping there as children - they leave several dead, and several more corpses behind when a posse is sent off to seek its own justice. They're journeying south, graverobbing their way through mediaeval Europe, and they don't care how many people they have to kill, betray, get vengeance on, or blaspheme, or what they have to eat or drink, until their task is done.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497835</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Walter Moers
|title=The Alchemaster's Apprentice
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Meet Echo the Crat. He is a rare example of his species, which is a cat that can speak every language known. His life among the miserable, permanently ill citizens of Malaisea is not great, which is why, when the strange scientist from the castle that looms over everyone and everything offers him a month of entertaining gluttony before he kills Echo, as opposed to three days' starving penury on the streets, the offer is accepted.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846552222</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Patricia Briggs
|title=Hunting Ground (Alpha and Omega)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Life with a werewolf is a question of balances. You have to swing your new-found status as the motherly, calming, but powerful Omega wolf, with his Alpha-male studly status. You have to equate his inner Brother Wolf being practically a different entity to his human side, and know when and how to relate to both. And you have to remember that you might be playfighting in the snow one minute, and the next told by your father-in-law to go to Seattle, and act as figurehead for a revolution in werewolf life - and stand in the face of a very wicked and powerful European werewolf, vampires, and more.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497959</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Audrey Niffenegger
|title=Her Fearful Symmetry
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When Elspeth Noblin dies of Leukemia, she leaves behind a strange bequest that will have dramatic and tragic consequences. She leaves her London flat and all the trappings of her life to the 'mirror' twins of her own twin sister who currently live outside Chicago. This is news to the twins who didn't even know that they had an aunt. The only condition of her legacy is that the twins, Julia and Valentina, have to live in the flat, which is adjacent to Highgate Cemetery, for a year before they can sell it. It is clear from the outset that Elspeth has secrets about her relationship with her twin sister Edie, which she is keen to keep hidden from the twins, but when it turns out that Elspeth hasn't quite left the apartment after her death, things get a whole lot messier for everyone.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224085611</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michelle Zink
|title=Prophecy of the Sisters
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=This book is almost four hundred pages long, but I read it so quickly that it might as well have only had one hundred pages! Lia Milthorpe and her twin sister Alice have never really been allies, always slightly at odds with one another. When their father dies and they become orphans, the twins discover that they are enemies in truth, on opposing sides of a prophecy that could destroy the world. With the help of her new friends Sonia and Luisa, Lia must find the Keys before Alice does and prevent demons from taking over the world.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905654480</amazonuk>
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