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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen DonaldsonA G Slatter|title=The King's JusticeBriar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5

|summary=Through the forests and the driving rain rides Black'' 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 man never more aptly namedwhile. He's approaching Settle' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's Crossways, although that is a family of no concern to himwitches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, for he Ellie Briar is merely following the scent of evil. All purpose first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and little pause or scrupleas such since she was young, he is on the trail of her training as a killersteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, and SettleEllie's Crosswayscousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, as luck would have it, is in need of the Kingtown's Justiceleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Black seems able to control people's thoughts As challenges come her way left, right and deeds (and go without paying his way) just by rubbing an arm under his permanently-worn black capecentre, but when he sounds out Ellie uncovers the parity in rare ability to communicate with the town between dead, putting her at the churches heart of light and darka maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, he knows what exists there may take him Ellie must decide who to a darker place than even the last wars regarding the balance between those elemental forces – trust and determine what to a place where he really cannot take do as the control heBriar witches's used to…legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214491</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen DonaldsonRachel Greenlaw|title=The Augur's GambitCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=In a ''King Lear''esque procedureI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the Queen Inimica Phlegathon DeVry IV has met with each of her five barons answering beat in turnmy heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and seduced them all partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into accepting the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her proposal mother before her, is one of marriage. What does she mean by this bizarre procedure, which only seems the seven who swim out to set them all against survey the other, especially ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the fourth to meet with her blabs Council Watch lays a trap to end the fifth before his turn? And why does wrecking, they capture the final baronisland's leader and Mira's efforts for his Queen before then rest on sending ships 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 Eastsea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the likes watched streets of which have never ever returned? And what is in store for foreign islands to the island Queendom, when heart of the royal familysmuggler's own magical oracle can only see territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the end future of their civilisation?her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214475</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel GodfreyT Kingfisher|title=New PompeiiThornhedge|rating=4.5

|summary=Classicist Nick Houghton is employed by Novus Particles to assist them with ''You had a reconstruction of Pompeii – a reconstruction that includes the original, living first century inhabitants. NovusPart have discovered a way right to pull historical artefacts (and indeed people) through time; an amazing innovationretake your place. The conspiracy theorists mumble about there being sinister reasons and the disappearance of key personnel helps to feed these rumours, but Nick needs a job and this is too good an opportunity to turn down. Anyway, that's what he tells himself to combat the repercussions of saying no.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298111</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Christopher B Husberg|title=Chaos Queen - Duskfall (The Chaos Queen Quintet)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Winter and KnotT Kingfisher's wedding latest novella is a brave move and not just because Winter is lovely reimagining of a Tiellan. Knot was brought back to life after nearly drowning the year before, a fate fairytale that removed his memory. All he knows is that there are people chasing him well known and when Knot's angry… you just don't want Knot to get angrywell beloved. Meanwhile Cinzia But whilst there is a devout priestess with princess trapped in a problem: tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her beloved sister story. Instead, our protagonist is leading Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a religious revolt. Neither woman will come out new-born baby and secreted away to the land of this the same. Cinzia will need fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to think about draw magic from her life afresh while Winter… Let's just say big changes lie aheadveins and cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299150</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca AlexanderNicole Jarvis|title=The Secrets of Time and FateA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Having killed Countess Elizabeth Bathory''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, the revenant 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 16th centurypowerful Accademia, 21st century Jackdaw Hammond did something she's regretting. By depriving it the self-proclaimed guardians of its host, the spirit Saraquel has moved from healing magics that through paintings have the Countess power to Jackprotect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. Can she get some help to banish The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it before someone above all else does it a little more terminally both for Jack . To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and Saraquel? Meanwhile back in the 16th century of Edward Kelley and Sir John Dee, Elizabeth Bathory still lives change – has no place amongst them and Saraquel proves he can wreak havoc across timetheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195326X</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Tarn Richardson|title=The Fallen (The Darkest Hand) |rating=4.5|genre=Horror|summary=1915 and Set in the war continuesnear-distant future, not just as in a world on the conflict that will come to be known as World War I but a more supernatural fight between good and evilverge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The dark forces continue British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to move across a darkened Europe, evidenced by save the increase in demon possession day and hideously misshapen babiesrescue what little remains. When the Vatican fountain produces blood rather than water, the world knows What no-one expected was that one of the events spoken Knights of in Revelation may be underway. Inquisitor Poldek Tacit still has the will to fight but he's just one manRound Table would answer the call. Will one man be enough?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715650599</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tarn RichardsonAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=The Fallen (The Darkest Hand) Delilah Recovered|rating=4.5|genre=Horror|summary=1915 and the war continues, not just as the conflict that will come to be known as World War I but a more supernatural fight between good and evil. The dark forces continue to move across a darkened Europe, evidenced by the increase in demon possession and hideously misshapen babies. When the Vatican fountain produces blood rather than water, the world knows that the events spoken of in Revelation may be underway. Inquisitor Poldek Tacit still has the will to fight but he's just one man. Will one man be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715650599</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paul Cornell|title= Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy |summary=The Great Detecitve's ghost has walked London's streets for an age, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger throug his chest. But what's the motive? And who - or what - could kill a ghost? When policing London's supernatural underworld, eliminating the impossible is not an option. DI James Quill and his detectives have learnt this the hard way. Gifted with the Sight, they'll pursue a criminial genius - who'll lure them into a Sherlockian maze of clues and evidence. The team also have thier own demons to fight. They've been to Hell and back (literally) but now the unit is falling apart...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273265</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Guy Gavriel Kay|title=Children of Earth and Sky|rating=5

|summary=Two spies employed by the Republic of Seresta are sent to the court of JadWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn's Holy Emperor Rudolfo, 'The Destroyer'. The firstt going as planned but things might, Leonorajust might, knows what she's doing right down be about to hiding behind the cover look up. Out of a sham marriage assigned for that purpose. The secondwork, Peroabout to lose her flat, Dee is a young artist kidnapped up for the task. He has no previous experience but hean accountant's expendable so thatjob. But it's not completely necessaryto be. Events transpire to ensure that both spies will need to rely on mariner and merchant Marin and Serjani fighter Danica more than they thinkDee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. Yet even they can't stop She survives the conflict attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has thatto do with Dee? She's on the horizonjust an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Rudolfo has his eye on extending his empire globally Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and Jad help anything that gets in things will never be the waysame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473628105</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Aliya WhiteleyHadeer Elsbai|title= The Arrival Daughters of MissivesIzdihar|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=In the aftermath of the Great War, Shirley Fearn dreams of challenging the conventions of rural England, where life is as unchanging as the seasons. The scarred veteran Mr Tiller, left disfigured by an impossible accident on the battlefields of France, brings with him a message: part prophecy, part warning. As Shirley's village prepares for the annual May Day celebrations, where a new queen will be crowned and the future reborn, she must choose between change and renewal – will the missives Mr Tiller brings prevent her mastering her identity?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907389377</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ben Peek|title=Leviathan's Blood (Children)|rating=5

|summary=BEWAREDrawing inspiration from Egypt, spoilers for Book 1 ahead:''The immortal Zaifyr is now in prison on Wila where heDaughters of Izdihar''s facing trial explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the murder rights of Keepers Fo women and Bauweavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. AyaeNehal, born into the former apprentice is no longer upper class, wishes to attend the small child who walked unscathed from a burnt out shop. All she wants Weaving Academy to learn to do now is save lives control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she's frustrated at every turnis forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Captain Aned Heast is Giorgina on the other hand did not have a mission he won't let drop; he wants 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 name group campaigning for his band of mercenaries but not just any namewomen's rights. Meanwhile Giorgina also happens to be afraid; somewhere out there is the Childin love with Nico. The Child What follows is cominga 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447251318</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenni FaganHeather Fawcett|title=The Sunlight PilgrimsEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4.5

|summary=Dylan walks away from this familyEmily 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 London indie cinema in 2020 village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to live redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on a Scottish caravan sitethe right track. His new neighbours Constance Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and her transgender 12 year old Stella have troubles of their owndelight, but the odd British winter isnmuch to Emily't helpings frustration. As But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the country faces true Arctic temperatures life goes on… or at least it tries to.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434023302</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeChristopher Golden|title=Fault/lines (Hadron Damnation Book 0)Road of Bones|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=What starts off as a day that should be remembered The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a medical appointment soon becomes anything but for DCI Tracey Hansonthousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. When planes start falling from For months of the sky she and DI Reggie Chambers are thrown together in year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the thick 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 itvery often. In the midst of the carnageBuilt 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 teenager is orphanedlife every metre it covers. Definitely You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a tragic event but 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 more to it than 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>153061936X</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe AbercrombieAndrew Givler|title=Sharp EndsSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)

|summary=I often feel ''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that short stories are an indulgence on Dan the part Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of the authora blissful life in exchange for his soul.'' Poor Dan! I know, I know, they get to write down a lot of their ideas that donwe shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really fit into is a larger storyterrible salesman. The stop/start nature of them He never sits well with mehits his targets and, just as I am starting when he fails to get even Matt to know a character they are gone. One way of solving this would be to use characters that a fan will already know; perhaps explore sign on the pastdotted line, or the futurehe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature. That sounds great for a fan, but how do you do this whilst also catering for a new reader?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575104678</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David SangerOlivie Blake|title=All Their Minds In Tandem|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=October 1879: A stranger walks into New Georgetown, West Virginia to keep an appointment. He calls himself 'The Maker' and has a gift that gives him access to people's minds. Gradually he'll become deeply acquainted with the townsfolk but it mustn't sway him from what he's here to accomplish. One man, one mission and no guarantee how it will end.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784293954</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joel Mentmore|title=SmartAtlas Six

|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=Jon and Skull – Matthew to his mum – are men with a passion for technology and built a business around that. They also embrace anything innovativeDark, sharp, as John has embraced Lucy; a smartphone app that monitors and assists with his health and life choices. Skull is more into the idea of expanding Tesla car technology and so lets Jon get on with it. Therefore when Jon goes missinghighly inquisitive, Skull is not only surprised but doesn't realise what Jon was caught up in. Shame he didn't pay more attention as that would not only help Skull find Jon, it may keep both of them aliveThe Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993484824</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jen WilliamsDaniel Abraham|title=The Silver Tide (Copper Cat) Age of Ash|rating=4.5

|summary=The Black Feather Three - Copper Cat Wydrin We meet Alys under the most northerly of CrosshavenOldgate's four bridges, Lord Aaron Frith she has a knife in her hand and Sir Sebastian - a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of years when the sought after sell-swords worlds are always looking for at their next adventure thinnest and, more importantly, their next pay dayall things are possible. Sebastian It is still feeling lost after having to leave his love behind but he'll come around. He has to; they've just been given a job by renowned pirate captain Devinia the Red. They've been commissioned to help her and night between the crew funeral of the aptly named ''Poison Chalice'' to go into a land famed for its monsters Prince and ghoststhe coronation of his successor. A place deep in magic where people vanish. A place where none of the three really want to go but they have no choice: Devinia For a night the Red Kithamar is Wydrin's mumun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472211154</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedAnn Sei Lin|title= Ace of SpidersRebel Skies

|genre= General FictionTeens|summary= Stanly is frustrated. Having set himself up Kurara has spent her entire life as London's protectora servant on the Midori, he's finding that a massive dining hall floating in the everyday practicalities sky where soldiers of superheroism are challenging at best, the Empire come to drink and downright tedious at worstmake merry between their conquests. So it's almost However, when a relief when an attempt man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is made on his 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, to leave the life and Stanly finds himself rushing headlong into of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a twisted adventureshikigami, with enemies new and old coming she is forced to flee out of into the woodworkworld. HoweverShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, even with his friends and his evera sky-increasing power behind himship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, he may have bitten off more than he can chew this time. The monsters are coming… and nothing will ever be the same!a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630675</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian SelbyB09Q3P283Y|title=SnakewoodShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=KailenClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's Twenty are an elite; not really that invested in the type of mercenaries that live on fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in legendthe military. It therefore stands to reason that the authorities want them dead but they arenIf he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't the only ones. As the guerrilla war between rebels got many choices and governing classes rages onthis one, a lone assassinat least, as elite as gets him out of the Twenty, unknown even to those on the same side rut he's in. He's good in training and is on their trailquickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. Who is he and why the vendetta? The answer will be revealed one day to those still alive to hear itHe's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356505529</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian TchaikovskyJennifer Saint|title=The Tiger and the Wolf (Echoes of the Fall)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Maniye is a girl torn between her mother's tribe, the tiger people and her father's wolves. She has always known her father and wolf chieftain killed her mother as soon as Maniye was born but she has only just discovered his purpose for Maniye's life. There is only one alternative for her: to run away, taking Hesprec the snake and proposed wolf blood sacrifice. Although what she hasn't reckoned on is just how much she has to learn, her father's determination and the dogged perseverance of Broken Axe, lone wolf and hired killer. She also seems to be running towards a world on the verge of a horrific war as Maniye places herself between a rock and a very hard place indeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230770061</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=A K Benedict|title=Jonathan Dark or The Evidence Of GhostsElektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Maria King sits 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the Thames mudlarking - sifting through story of three women who live in the washed up treasures - on a regular basisheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Only today she finds a ring Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in a box with 'Marry me Maria' on the lid in braille. Blind from birth and now blind by choice, story of the words can be for no one else but Ms KingTrojan War. However a greater surprise awaits inside Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the box: silent women have the ring is still on a finger belonging to the last girl who received such a proposal. DI Jonathan Dark is assigned to the case, not realising what he's taken on or most compelling stories and the sort of help he'll need to call on. The dead are all around him, his plan is not to let Maria join themmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409144550</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Daniel PolanskyDean Koontz|title= Those AboveQuicksilver|rating= 42.5|genre= FantasyThrillers|summary=For three thousand years Those Above have ruled over their human subjectsMeet Quinn Quicksilver. From He's not had the glittering palaces of their eternal citychance to get to be a mercurial character yet, they enforce their will with fire and sword. Twentyfor he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-five years agoday old foundling, mankind mustered an army and rose up against them, only to be slaughtered in now is starting a career on a terrible battleneedless magazine's staff. Whilst hope died that dayBut when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, hatred survived. Whispers call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of another revolt begin him that he go to stir throughout the oppressed: a widowed womanderelict diner, dedicated to revenge: find a gold coin worth a generalfortune, cash the only value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to defeat one escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of Those Above; him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a boy killer, who rises from the gutter to lead an uprisingwhole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444779915</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Den PatrickTasha Suri|title=The Girl on the Liar's Jasmine Throne|rating=4.5

|summary=Lucien doesn’t want On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to declare war step on Landfall and its Silent Queen, Anea, whom he grew up with as an Orfanoto the pyre. She runs is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a dictatorship community of militant suppression and suffering which is rather unlike herpeople who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. Unbeknown to Lucien, But now the throne of Landfall temple is occupied by Erisnothing more than an overgrown, an imposter and puppet used by those with far fewer scruplesdecaying ruin. Anea herself is imprisoned in the palace oubliette surrounded by MyrmidonOne day, Malini witnesses a half-human army created by Erebusgirl kill someone with magic. There's little chance Instead of reporting her escaping or getting very far if she did. However, for Anea 'little chance' is such a challengegruesome crime, not a preventativeMalini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200040</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreview <!-- Upload 16/2 -->Frontpage|author=C E RobinsonGenevieve Gornichec|title=Lilith: EdenThe Witch's Planetary Princess (The Michael Archives Book 1)Heart|rating=3.54

|summary=35,000 years ago A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a war witch named Angrboda. She hides in heaven bleeds onto a forest at the planet Eden. King Joshua's angels are being harvestededge of the nine worlds, their essence drained off 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 Nephilim, creatures remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the bidding stake three times because of SatanOdin's Overlordswrath. Out of this battle between good and evil a planetary princess arises and this first book Her attempts to live in the Michael Archives records peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her journey: chest before she was tied to the journey of Lilith from ordinary stake—and refuses to extraordinaryleave her alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B018N7F2B8</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Charlie Jane Anders|title= All The Birds In The Sky|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary= All After an initial period of us have awakenings as teenagersmistrust, but Patricia's is more extreme than most – discovering that she is a witch who can speak Angrboda begins to animals. Classmate Laurencefall for Loki's awakening is less disturbing but no less impressive – a scientific geniuscharms, he creates a two-second time machine. Growing up together, the mutual weirdness between and the two bonds them, but life gets in the way, and they end start an unusual family made of up on very different paths. Meeting as adults in San Franciscoa half-dead daughter, Laurence is an engineering genius trying to save the world, whereas Patricia is a qualified witchson that's a wolf, working hard to prove herself and cure those on the planetanother son that's a snake. As the two are drawn back together, and the fate of the whole world threatened, Patricia and Laurence are forced to consider the fact that maybe they know each other better than anyone…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785650556</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan DennardHannah Whitten|title=Truthwitch (The Witchlands Series)For the Wolf

|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 a bloodwitch. ItIn Red'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 trucefamily, 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 slavers' raidsfirst daughter becomes queen, which destroyed families and homes like the second daughter becomes a natural disaster, were a misfortune that couldn't be avertedsacrifice. But it wasnTo Red't true. Their Kings misfortune, King Marcus, had struck a deal – sacrificing his people in exchange for technology and political powershe is the second daughter. But now, everyone knows. Jacob and Carter Carnehan escaped Sent alone into the slavers, returning home woods with nothing but the truthcape on her back, the true King, and a Princess as their hostage. Their purpose was Red knows what to avoid war – but instead expect: within the truth prompts woods is a civil warwolf, and an invasion force gathers to reclaim he is the princess. Once again, Jacob and Carter one who will be separated – and this time they'll be fighting for something bigger than both decide the fate of them…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575092106</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paula Brackston|title=The Silver Witch (Shadow Chronicles)|rating=4their kingdom.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Ceramic artist Tilda moves to the house If she and her husband envisaged their lives together in is not a worthy sacrifice, the wilds of Wales. Unfortunately, due monsters he keeps contained to his tragic death a year agothe woods will be released, Tilda must move in alone and build a different life. In the same location a thousand years earlier Seren serves Prince Hywell as his village's seer and shaman. Life isn't easy for her either. She has enemies, some a lot closer than the traditional threat from fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the Anglo Saxons. Although centuries apart these two women's lives will come together with connotations for all who love them and a deadly force that could stories go beyond that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150651</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tim Akers|title= The Pagan Night|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= The Celestial Church has all but eliminated But when Red enters the old pagan wayswoods, ruling the people with an iron hand. Demonic gheists terrorise expecting nothing more than to be killed within the landhour, hunted by she finds that the warriors of the inquisition, yet itlegends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's the battling factions within the Church and age-old hatreds between north and south that tear the land aparta man. Malcolm Blakley, hero of the Reaver War, seeks to end 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297379</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsJohn Gwynne|title=Stars of Fortune (Guardians Trilogy)The Shadow Of The Gods

|summary=Mata Zyundu The Shadow Of The Gods is on the way down first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in life having been born into an aristocratic family deposed and burdened with all the resentment that goes with it. Meanwhile era of the charming Kuni Gara finds fame and success as a bandit leader after a lifetime surviving on Vikings in the streets. The two form an unlikely friendship that's torn asunder as shadow of Ragnarok, when the Empire crumbles Gods have battled and they find themselves on opposite sides their bones lie scattered for better orall to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, indeed, for worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784973211</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= George Mann|title= The Osiris Ritual: A Newbury and Hobbes Investigation|rating= 3|John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=Sir Maurice Newbury, his majesty's special agentwith mythical creatures, archaic language and his assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes are on the case once morebattles galore. When This is a group of well-to-do explorers return from thick book, with an Egyptian expedition, they unveil a mummy intricate plot and unleash an ancient mystery. Soon the explorers fascinating characters that are being picked off one by one woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and Newbury gritty world in which our heroes must solve the mystery if he is to catch the culpritdo battle. But there's more than one brute on the loose, while Newbury attempts to track down a rogue agent, Veronica takes the case of disappearing women into her own hands with dangerous consequences … |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298251</amazonuk>0356514218