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|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.''
Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for 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 steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's 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 a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.
|isbn=1803364548
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|author= Alexandra ChristoRachel Greenlaw|title= Into the Crooked PlaceCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre= Teens|summary= In ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a world thriving with black magicremote and partially forgotten island, four young crooks embark survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, 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 quest trap to take down their criminal end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader after they discover and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as 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 the plot behind his dangerous new magicones she holds most dear.|isbn=12503183780008664730
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{{Frontpage
|author=T Kingfisher
|title=Thornhedge
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=''You had a right to retake your place.''
{T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spells.|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->1803364238}}<!-- Abercrombie -->{{Frontpage|-author=Nicole Jarvis| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|A Portrait in Shadow[[image:0575095865.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co4.uk/dp/0575095865/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5 | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie]]=genre== Historical Fiction[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever. On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes for help from the crown. But King Jezal's son, the feckless Prince Orso, is a man who specialises in disappointments. Savine dan Glokta - socialite, investor, and daughter of the most feared man in the Union - plans to claw her way to the top of the slag-heap of society by any means necessary. But the slums boil over with a rage that 'I want all the money in the world cannot control. The age of the machine dawns, but the age of magic refuses Florence to die. With the help of the mad hillwoman Isern-i-Phail, Rikke struggles to control the blessing, or the curse, of the Long Eye. Glimpsing the future is one thing, but with the guiding hand of the First of the Magi still pulling the strings, changing it will be quite another . . .[[A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie|Full Review]]know my name''
<!Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and 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 healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all- Maxwell N Andrews -->male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|-isbn=1803362340}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''Thomas D Lee|title=Perilous Times[[image:1983376353.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1983376353/ref3|genre=nosim?tagFantasy|summary=thebookbag-21]]''Hate is the path of least resistance''
Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.
|isbn=0356518523
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{{Frontpage
|author=Amelia Estelle Dellos
|title=Delilah Recovered
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary= We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. But it's not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has 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 return to her and things will never be the same....
|isbn=B0BKYFDLLV
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|author=Hadeer Elsbai
|title=The Daughters of Izdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary= 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 rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - 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 a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. 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 overcoming their personal obstacles.
|isbn=0356520471
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{{Frontpage
|author=Heather Fawcett
|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?
|isbn=0356519120
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{{Frontpage
|author=Christopher Golden
|title=Road of Bones
|rating=3.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the 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 a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. 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 cameraman buddy, 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 prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…
|isbn=1803361476
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{{Frontpage
|author=Andrew Givler
|title=Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his soul.''
| style=Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn''verticalt feel sorry for soul-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Lighthouse of catching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and, when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews]]==dotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|isbn=1958204021}}{{Frontpage[[image:3.5star.jpg|linkauthor=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensOlivie Blake|Teens]], [[:Category:Fantasytitle=The Atlas Six|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Confident Readersrating=4|Confident Readers]]genre=Fantasy|summary= Dark, sharp, and highly inquisitive, ''The phrase about never trusting Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a book by its cover is something I put on a par with comments about MarmiteTik-Tok sensation.|isbn=1529095239}}{{Frontpage|author=Daniel Abraham|title=Age of Ash|rating=4. You5|genre=Fantasy|summary= We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate're supposed to love it or hate it and I'm halfway betweens four bridges, and likewise the old adage is halfway true. From she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the cover City of this I had Kithamar is at a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and that attractive artwork point in the turning of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. That was only built on by years when the initial fictionalised quotes, with worlds are at their non-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacythinnest and all things are possible. But why was I two chapters in It is the night between the funeral of a Prince and just finding more and more characters, both human and animal, and more and more flashbacks, and no proof that this was what I'd bought in for? [[Lighthouse the coronation of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrewshis successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruled.|Full Review]]isbn=0356515427}}<!-- Claire North -->{{Frontpage|-author= Ann Sei Lin| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Rebel Skies|rating= 5[[image:williamabbey.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0316316849/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Teens| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Pursuit Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of William Abbey by Claire North]]=== [[image:3the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]However, when 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 desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]  When William Abbey fails to prevent leave the lynching life of a young boy in 1880's South Africa, he finds himself cursed by the grieving motherdreary servitude that is all she has known. A naïve English DoctorWell, he slowly learns soon Kurara won't have any say in the weight of matter, because the curse upon him, Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as the shadow of the dead boy begins a shikigami, and she is forced to follow him across flee out into the world. Never stoppingShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit a whole world of William. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in others, he also learns that the dark shadow is deadly – and seeks to kill the one he loves the most… [[The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North|Full Review]]adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}<!-- Averill -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=B09Q3P283Y| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper[[image:1077651538.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1077651538/ref4|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Fantasy| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Years of Fading Magic by Kenelm Averill]]=== [[image:4starClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]  He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn'What if you could subtly change the lives of ordinary people around you?'' Jessica Turner was t got many choices and this one , at least, gets him out of the more radical teens to come out of Eastfieldrut he's in. A youth spent hanging out with a close crowd of friends was characterised by JessicaHe's role as trendsetter, as influencer, as leader. Strangely charismatic, Jessica invited fascination good in training and obsessionis quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. Nobody who met her, forgot herHe's chuffed with himself. Or the days they spent in the Enclosure, a clearing in Eastfield woods that Jessica felt gave her power. But the group went its separate ways, as adolescent groups do, and her influence faded...[[The Years of Fading Magic by Kenelm Averill|Full Review]]  <!-- Hewitt -->}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Elektra|-rating=4| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Literary Fiction[[image:1509896465.jpg|linksummary=http://www'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509896465/ref=nosim?tagCassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furies.|isbn=thebookbag-21]]1472273915}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Dean Koontz|title=Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre===[[The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt]]===Thrillers[[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] ''The Nightjar'for he' s lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is an unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives starting a normal life in London until she finds career on a box on her doorstep one morning and her life begins needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to unravelsudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', fast. From that very momentfor something – call it unearthly intuition, her life is flooded with magiccall it mind-control, losscall it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, expectation and particularly, betrayal. As everything around her shiftsfind a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all that she knows, all that she thinks she knows, must changethis is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantlyHelped to escape, can she even trust herself? [[The Nightjar he finds his flight is interrupted by Deborah Hewitt|Full Review]] <!-- Shackle -->other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|-isbn=1542019885}}{{Frontpage| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|author=Tasha Suri[[image:1473225213.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473225213/refThe Jasmine Throne|rating=nosim?tag4|genre=thebookbag-21]] Fantasy| stylesummary="vertical-alignOn the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: top; text-align: left;"|===[[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle]]=== [[image:4an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters.5starBut now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Mike Shackle has written One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a really interesting and unusual story in ''We Are The Dead''; the tag line gruesome crime, Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the novel is 'No More Heroes' and that is what makes this story so different. There are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather the story is scattered with characters doing their own small part to survive, to fight back, girl to become her own personal maidservant.|isbn=0356515648}}{{Frontpage|author=Genevieve Gornichec|title=The Witch's Heart|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= A modern and to find vengeance, approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a world forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that has been utterly torn apartshe was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. The plot does not hang on any one characterHer attempts to live in peace, however, no are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one is important, anyone can die and many do, but, like ants working together, each small character achieves their own part of a much larger plot that is rich and complex and keeps that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the reader glued stake—and refuses to the storyleave her alone. [[We Are The Dead by Mike ShackleAfter an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and another son that's a snake.|Full Review]]isbn=1789097061}}<!-- Donnelly -->{{Frontpage|-author=Hannah Whitten| styletitle=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''For the Wolf|rating=5[[image:1471407977.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471407977/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  Fantasy| stylesummary=In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red'vertical-align: top; text-aligns misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: left;''|===[[Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly]]=== [[image:4within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] ''People If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will not forget. Or forgive. An ugly girl is too great an offense...be released, and the world is made for men. An ugly girl can fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be forgivenreturned—or so the stories go.'' ''Stepsister'' tells But when Red enters the gripping story of Cinderella's 'ugly' stepsisterwoods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, Isabelleshe finds that the legends are lies. WeThe wolf is not a monster—he've been told this fairy-tale over and over again throughout our lives and know the characters wells a man. But have you ever wondered what happened to the sisters after Cinderella married the Prince? Or why the sisters disliked her so much? [[Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly|Full Review]]isbn=0356516369}}<!-- Evan Winter -->{{Frontpage|-author=John Gwynne| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Shadow Of The Gods[[image:0356512940.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356512940/ref=nosim?tagrating=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Fantasy|summary===[[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Every so oftenShadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, as a reader, a book comes along that is utter when the Gods have battled and complete perfectiontheir bones lie scattered for all to see. This book story is one of those. Utter the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and complete perfectionbattles galore. Winter has created an absolute masterpiece of This is a novel, set in the fantasy land of Uhmlaba the reader is instantly thrown into warthick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle for survival for the Omehi people. Fleeing their homeland, they have to fight to remain on the only scrap of land they can reach. The culture of the Omehi people is rich and deep but not perfect, not sanctimonious. They have villains, they have faults, they are the invaders after all, but Winter creates a realistic and honest portrayal of a people desperate to survive, to save themselves and their culture for future generations. [[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter|Full Review]] <!-- Moyer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:178747920X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178747920X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Robin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, and retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he had built. Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to break the curse surrounding them and to save their lives. Setting off with a soldier, a Fey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in a maze of betrayals, complicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the throne…[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]] <!-- Wild-Palmer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1782692231.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782692231/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Tunnels Below by Nadine Wild-Palmer]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Meet Cecilia. It's her twelfth birthday, and after a scene that shows her parents to be wacky, witty and wonderful as if fresh from an American sit-com, the whole family is set to go out for a grand day of celebration. Cecilia is toting a large, silvered ball that her younger sister found as a present, but ends up dropping it, and watching it as it rolls right back from her grip into the very Underground carriage they had just left. Mind the gap. Back in the train with it she finds she is alone – and the train promptly hares off to leave her abandoned in pitch darkness at a stop no other train has ever taken her to… It's the outskirts, Cecilia will find, of a strange society of English-speaking humanised animals, and her first acquaintance, a fox-man, will tell her that all talk of a world above, with suns and fields and fresh air, is pooh-poohed as the nonsense gibberish of people who have wandered in darkness too much and forgotten their origins. Can she survive all this wondrous civilisation can throw at her and find her way back to the family she left behind – or will the dark leaders from the resident crow family subject her to their evil reign? [[The Tunnels Below by Nadine Wild-Palmer|Full Review]] <!-- Motayne -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:147367591X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/147367591X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Nocturna by Maya Motayne]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] A thief without a face, a prince who was never meant to be king, Finn and Alfie collide, as if thrown together by fate, to bring about a series of catastrophes and set in motion the release of a darkness that seeks to consume all the goodness and magic in the world. These two unlikely allies must try to put their own personal battles behind them and join forces to stop the evil from destroying everything they hold dear. [[Nocturna by Maya Motayne|Full Review]] <!-- Cooch -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0578444305.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0578444305/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] This novel is set about a hundred years into the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's left of the old United States is run from Center City. Women run this world and it is very proud of having defeated the old patriarchy. Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don't, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. And if that doesn't work, they're sent to work camps, away from open society, or even worse: expelled to the wilderness beyond the Central Authority's borders. [[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch|Full Review]] <!-- Ireland -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1789090873.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789090873/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Dread Nation by Justina Ireland]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''Two days after I was born … the dead rose up and started to walk on a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg '' Dread Nation narrates the unconventional life of Jane McKeene who was born days before the dead began to walk the streets. An event which in interrupting the civil war between the states altered American history forever. In the changed world, minorities are forced into conscription and under the new Native and Negro Re-education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to destroy the dead once and for all. For Jane and other girls like her, there is however the opportunity for a better life by being employed as an attendant. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and are valued above all else. [[Dread Nation by Justina Ireland|Full Review]] <!-- Burge -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471407764.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471407764/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Twisted Tree by Rachel Burge]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] Martha's world has changed. Blind in one eye after falling from a tree, she wakes with a disturbing gift. She can read people through their clothes, secrets tumble from the weave, revealing insights she doesn't really want, and knowledge she doesn't understand. She flees to her grandmother, Mormor's cabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to give, and stumbles into world of menace. [[The Twisted Tree by Rachel Burge|Full Review]] <!-- Hanrahan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0356511529.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356511529/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Hanrahan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Enter a world where Gods are real and violent, the Godswar rages far away, Gods lead huge armies of men and Saints, mortals given the power of the Gods, and thousands die as their capricious Gods battle for supremacy. Guerdon lies across the sea, and has kept the Godswar at bay so far. Geurdon's Gods are the Kept Gods, kept weakened and under the thumb of democracy but something is happening, something is stirring, how will the City defend against the coming evil? [[The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Hanrahan|Full Review]] <!-- Arden -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785039717.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785039717/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] ''The Winter of the Witch'' is the conclusion of the story following Vasya, Vasilisa Petronova, as she negotiates her way towards her destiny through the world of medieval males and the Catholic Church's perception of witchcraft. The story picks up directly from the action in the second novel, [[The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden|The Girl in the Tower]], and as a reader too much is lost if you haven't read this at the very least. My advice would be to read all three. The first two novels are beautiful and lyrical with extraordinary characters and a wonderful balance of magic and action. This final novel, however, is an absolute triumph. [[The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden|Full Review]] <!-- Blake -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1509876499.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509876499/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] ''You cannot put on a costume and become something else. You are a queen of Fennbirn island.'' Following on from [[Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake|Three Dark Crowns]] and its sequel [[One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake|One Dark Throne]], in ''Two Dark Reigns'' each of the Goddess' daughters have their own battles to fight. All her life, Katharine has dreamed of being the great Queen the island of Fennbirn deserves. Having won the crown though, she is facing trial after difficult trial and murmurs of dissent and revolution grow louder on the streets each and every day. And without evidence of her sisters' death does anyone but herself and the old queens buried under her skin, believe she is the one true Queen? [[Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake|Full Review]] <!-- Laura Solomon -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:9386897385.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/9386897385/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Nothing Lasting by Laura Solomon]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] We never know the man's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. It's what his mother used to call him, not least because he found it annoying. When we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, if not ''living'' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and drinking. Housework is a foreign country. When she dies she's not missed, firstly because she'd spent a couple of years in a mental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues to haunt Boyo. She wants him to achieve something in his life: what she has in mind is that he could be a famous arsonist. [[Nothing Lasting by Laura Solomon|Full Review]] <!-- Suri -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0356512002.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356512002/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Mehr is a girl trapped between two cultures. Her father comes from the ruling classes of the empire but her mother's people were outcasts, Amrithi nomads who worshipped the spirits of the sands. Caught one night performing these forbidden rites, Mehr is brought to the attention of the Emperor's most feared mystics, who force her into their service by way of an arranged marriage. 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