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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen MaitlandA G Slatter|title=The Plague CharmerBriar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5

|summary=The people '' There's a part of Porlock Weir have heard the rumours. King Edward III has fled with his family me that wants to the New Forest keep this just to escape the Plague in Londonmyself for however long I can. Will it remain confined to the city? The This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last time no one was safe and, according . I just want to Janveer, the strange woman fishermen rescued from the sea, enjoy it'll be the same again. Janveer has for a proposition though. She can save Porlock and all it will cost them is one lifewhile.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472235827</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mark Morris|title=The Wraiths of War (Obsidian Heart book 3)|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Although not dead as he thought he wasWithin a remote mountain pass, Alex Locke feels no closer to finding his missing daughter across time orfar away from the world, indeedlies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, unmasking a family of witches who protect the dark mantown and the wider world from the Darklands. HoweverThough she has always wished for magic, he knows what he has to do. Alex must use Ellie Briar is the obsidian heart first non-witch to travel back be born into her family for generations and fight in World War I beside the ghostly soldier who visited him a century or so later. It's not as simple as it seemssuch since she was young, her training as Alex keeps telling himself… or a steward revolved around letters and administration rather as Alexes (plural) keep telling himselfthan spells and potions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781168741</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kelley Armstrong|title= Otherworld Chills|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= I came to ArmstrongWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's ''Otherworld'' quite late in its development and it seems that shecousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's now wrapping it up to move on to other things. Billed as the 'final collection' of stories ''Chills'' allegedly completes several storylines of her best loved characters. I'd disagree. If Sherlock can survive Reichenbach then I'm sure Werewolvesleader, Vampires and demi-demotic Angels can survive whatever state they may have been left in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500683</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=Floored|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=1.Nemo has been brought back from death by Doctineer Viktor. The fact that she was once dead combined with Ellie takes her new form as a pleasure bot makes place beside her worthless – a human/robot hybrid zero. But even zeros have ambitionsAs challenges come her way left, even if they're dangerous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0994616414</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Edward Cox|title=The Watcher of Dead Time (Relic Guild 3)|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Genii are winning right and centre, Ellie uncovers the Relic Guild is gradually being eradicated. Clara rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the changeling survives to fight but for how long? The trauma heart of a maelstrom of what she's been through is taking its tollchaos. However she's still Relic Guild so the fight goes on. Meanwhile elsewhere Samuel leads the search for the Nephilim Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who may be to trust and determine what to do as the key Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to good triumphingsurvive, but that's not straightforward eitheris under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200369</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|author=K S Turner|title=Time: The Immortal Divide (The Chronicles of Fate Rosevear, a remote and Choice)|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= As we open thispartially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the third book of rocks and plundering the trilogywrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, Tachra is on one of the seven who swim out to survey the threshold of either victory or deathruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. As Arrun runs amokBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, Tachrathey capture the island's kutu allies disappear on paths that are separated from hers so sheleader and Mira's forced 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 rely on guide her own wit and power, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. As Tachra and With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her people teeter on from the edge watched streets of destruction, will that be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956224296</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jon Skovron|title= Hope and Red|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= Bleak Hope is a young girl orphaned at foreign islands to the tender age heart of eight when the emperorsmuggler's biomancers – mystics of biology with the power territory, Mira must be determined to make living things grow, decay or change into something else entirely – massacre her whole village. The lone survivor, Hope sneaks on board a travelling merchant ship and by chance becomes a servant stop at nothing to save the old Vinchen monastery, future of her home to and the empire's best warriors. There ones she is secretly trained by the greatest Vinchen warrior in history, and is driven by her dream of vengeance against those responsible for her parent's deathholds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316268119</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom LloydT Kingfisher|title= Stranger of Tempest|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=Lynx is a mercenary with a sense of honour; a dying breed in the Riven Kingdom. Failed by the nation he served and weary of the skirmishes that plague the continent's principalities, he walks the land in search of purpose. Bodyguard work keeps his belly full and his mage-gun loaded, and whilst it'll never bring a man fame or wealth, he's not forced to rely on others or kill without cause. When a kidnapped girl forces Lynx to join a mercenary company, the job seems simple enough, and the mercanaries less stupid and vicious than most he's met over the years. So long as there are no surprises or hidden agendas along the way, it should work out fine...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473213177</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anthony Ryan|title=The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria Thornhedge

|summary=Mercenary Clayden Torcreek ''You had a right to retake your place.'' T Kingfisher's latest novella is blood-blessed, i.e. one a lovely reimagining of the few able to translate a few drops of drake's blood into an extraordinary attribute. It gets even better than fairytale that: Clayden is unregistered, making him unexpected well known and eminently hireable when the department of Exceptional Initiatives need someone to track the fabled white drakewell beloved. His recruiter and contact But whilst there is covert agent Lizanne Lethbridge who a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is currently gathering intelligence while posing as a maid to the spoilt young Tekelanot her story. It's worth it though – Tekela's father has something of interest. The problem Instead, our protagonist is that Lizanne isn't the only one interested Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and so staying alive becomes increasingly difficult. Out at sea naval officer Hilemore is about secreted away to put his training to good use. Meanwhile in the inhospitable interior, Clayden's expedition only has land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to worry about savages draw magic from her veins and drakes of the gigantic, man-eating, fire breathing varietycast spells. That's alright then!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506398</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gregory MaguireNicole Jarvis|title= After Alice|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, she found Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rule and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But how did Victorian Oxford react to Alice's departure? When Alice's friend Ada, mentioned briefly in ''Alice A Portrait in Wonderland'' sets out to visit Alice, she arrives a minute too late. Tumbling down the rabbit hole herself, she embarks on an odyssey to find Alice and bring her safely home from this surreal world below the world. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472230469</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephen Donaldson|title=The King's JusticeShadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Through the forests and the driving rain rides Black, a man never more aptly named. He's approaching Settle's Crossways, although that is I want all of no concern Florence to himknow my name'' Cast out from Rome, for he is merely following 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 scent of evil. All purpose and little pause or scruplepowerful Accademia, he is on the trail self-proclaimed guardians of a killer, and Settle's Crossways, as luck would the healing magics that through paintings have it, is in need of the King's Justice. Black seems able power to control people's thoughts protect the city and deeds (its citizens from plagues and go without paying his way) just by rubbing an arm under his permanentlycurses. The all-worn black cape, but when he sounds out the parity in the town between the churches of light male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and darkguard it above all else. To them, he knows what exists there may take him to a darker place than even the last wars regarding the balance between those elemental forces Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and to a change – has no place where he really cannot take the control he's used to…amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214491</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen DonaldsonThomas D Lee|title=The Augur's GambitPerilous Times

|genre=Fantasy|summary=In a ''King LearHate is the path of least resistance''esque procedure Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the Queen Inimica Phlegathon DeVry IV has met with each verge of her five barons climate collapse, Britain is in turn, great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and seduced them all into accepting her proposal of marriagerescue what little remains. What does she mean by this bizarre procedure, which only seems to set them all against the other, especially when no-one expected was that one of the fourth to meet with her blabs to the fifth before his turn? And why does the final baron's efforts for his Queen before then rest on sending ships to the East, the likes Knights of which have never ever returned? And what is in store for the island Queendom, when Round Table would answer the royal family's own magical oracle can only see the end of their civilisation?call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214475</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel GodfreyAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=New PompeiiDelilah Recovered|rating=4.5

|summary=Classicist Nick Houghton is employed by Novus Particles to assist them with We meet Dee at a reconstruction of Pompeii – a reconstruction that includes the originalpoint when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, living first century inhabitants. NovusPart have discovered a way be about to pull historical artefacts (and indeed people) through time; an amazing innovationlook up. The conspiracy theorists mumble Out of work, about there being sinister reasons and the disappearance of key personnel helps to feed these rumourslose her flat, but Nick needs a job and this Dee is too good up for an opportunity accountant's job. But it's not to turn downbe. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. Anyway, Witch hunters? What on earth has thatto do with Dee? She's what he tells himself just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to combat her and things will never be the repercussions of saying nosame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298111</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher B HusbergHadeer Elsbai|title=Chaos Queen - Duskfall (The Chaos Queen Quintet)Daughters of Izdihar|rating=4.5

|summary=Winter and KnotDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar''s wedding is a brave move explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and not just because Winter is weavers – those with magical abilities - in a Tiellansociety pitted against them. Knot was brought back Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to life after nearly drowning attend the year beforeWeaving 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 fate that removed his memory. All he knows is that there are people chasing him privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and when Knotmaintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's angry… you just don't want Knot rights. Giorgina also happens to get angrybe in love with Nico. Meanwhile Cinzia What follows is a devout priestess story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a problem: her beloved sister is leading a religious revolt. Neither woman will come out group of this the same. Cinzia will need to think about her life afresh while Winter… Let's just say big changes lie aheadadmirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299150</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca AlexanderHeather Fawcett|title=The Secrets Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Time and FateFaeries|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Having killed Countess Elizabeth BathoryEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the revenant from the 16th centuryvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, 21st century Jackdaw Hammond did something she's regrettingis not so good with people. By depriving it So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of its hostHrafvsnik, having somehow offended the spirit Saraquel village matriarch, she is not sure what she has moved from done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the Countess right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to JackEmily's frustration. Can she get some help to banish it before someone else But why is he here? What does it a little more terminally both for Jack and Saraquelhe want? Meanwhile back in And what exactly is going on with the 16th century of Edward Kelley and Sir John Dee, Elizabeth Bathory still lives and Saraquel proves he can wreak havoc across time.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195326X</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tarn RichardsonChristopher Golden|title=The Fallen (The Darkest Hand) Road of Bones|rating=43.5

|summary=1915 and The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the war continuesR504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, not just as 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 conflict that will come to be known as World War 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 but a more supernatural fight between good and evildon't think google streetview updates it very often. The dark forces continue Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to move across give too many people a darkened Europelesson, evidenced by the increase in demon possession and hideously misshapen babiesit legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. When the Vatican fountain produces blood rather than waterYou can easily find documentaries about it online, the world knows 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 events spoken project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in Revelation may be underwaythe pair's prior TV projects. Inquisitor Poldek Tacit still has They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the will to fight but heguide's just one manchildhood village. Will one man be enough?And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715650599</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tarn RichardsonAndrew Givler|title=The Fallen Soul Fraud (The Darkest HandDebt Collection Book 1) |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 Jad's Holy Emperor Rudolfo, 'The Destroyer'Matt has a terrible life. The first, Leonora, knows what sheSeriously—it's doing right awful. It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down to hiding behind the cover his infernal offer: 10 years of a sham marriage assigned blissful life in exchange for that purposehis soul. The second'' Poor Dan! I know, PeroI know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a young artist kidnapped for the taskterrible salesman. He has no previous experience but never hits his targets and, when he's expendable so that's not completely necessary. Events transpire fails to ensure that both spies will need get even Matt to rely sign on mariner and merchant Marin and Serjani fighter Danica more than they think. Yet even they canthe dotted line, he't stop the conflict s so desperate thathe simply forges Matt's on the horizon. Rudolfo has his eye on extending his empire globally and Jad help anything that gets in the waysignature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473628105</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Aliya WhiteleyOlivie Blake|title= The Arrival of MissivesAtlas Six|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=BEWAREDark, sharp, spoilers for Book 1 ahead:The immortal Zaifyr is now in prison on Wila where he's facing trial for the murder of Keepers Fo and Bau. Ayaehighly inquisitive, the former apprentice is no longer the small child who walked unscathed from a burnt out shop. All she wants to do now is save lives but she's frustrated at every turn. Captain Aned Heast is on a mission he won't let drop; he wants The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a name for his band of mercenaries but not just any name. Meanwhile be afraid; somewhere out there is the Child. The Child is comingTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447251318</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenni FaganDaniel Abraham|title=The Sunlight PilgrimsAge of Ash

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=Dylan walks away from this familyWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's small London indie cinema four bridges, she has a knife in 2020 to live on her hand and a Scottish caravan sitemeeting 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. His new neighbours Constance It is the night between the funeral of a Prince and her transgender 12 year old Stella have troubles the coronation of their own, but the odd British winter isn't helpinghis successor. As For a night the country faces true Arctic temperatures life goes on… or at least it tries toKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434023302</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeAnn Sei Lin|title=Fault/lines (Hadron Damnation Book 0)Rebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=What starts off Kurara has spent her entire life as a day 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 should be remembered for she is a medical appointment soon becomes anything but for DCI Tracey Hanson. When planes start falling from Crafter like him, someone with the sky power to form paper into whatever she and DI Reggie Chambers are thrown together in desires – a power sought after all across the thick of itEmpire. In He asks her to come with him, to leave the midst life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the carnagematter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a teenager shikigami, and she is orphanedforced to flee out into the world. Definitely She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a tragic event but sky-ship whose express purpose is there more to it than that?hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>153061936X</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe AbercrombieB09Q3P283Y|title=Sharp EndsShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=I often feel that short stories are an indulgence on Clyde Robbins signs up for the part of US Army during the author, they get to write down a lot of their ideas that donVietnam War. He't s not really fit into that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a larger storycareer in the military. The stop/start nature of them never sits well If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with mehimself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, just as I am starting to get to know a character they are gone. One way gets him out of solving this would be to use characters that a fan will already know; perhaps explore the past, or the futurerut he's in. That sounds great for He's good in training and is quickly put onto a fan, but how do you do this whilst also catering for a new reader?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575104678</amazonuk>non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David SangerJennifer Saint|title=All Their Minds In TandemElektra|rating=54|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=October 1879: A stranger walks into New Georgetown, West Virginia to keep an appointment. He calls himself 'The MakerElektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and has a gift Elektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that gives him access to people's minds. Gradually he'll become deeply acquainted with often the silent women have the townsfolk but it mustn't sway him from what he's here to accomplish. One man, one mission most compelling stories and no guarantee how it will endthe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784293954</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joel MentmoreDean Koontz|title=SmartQuicksilver|rating=42.5

|summary=Jon and Skull – Matthew Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to his mum – are men with be a passion mercurial character yet, for technology he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and built now is starting a career on a business around thatneedless magazine's staff. They also embrace anything innovativeBut when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', as John for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has embraced Lucy; demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a smartphone app that monitors and assists with gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his health bank and life choicesprepare for going on the lam. Skull And all this is more into the idea just in time for two of expanding Tesla car technology those typical Men in Black types to turn up and so lets Jon get on with itsuggest he's of interest to them. Therefore when Jon goes missingHelped to escape, Skull he finds his flight is not only surprised but doesn't realise what Jon was caught up interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in. Shame control, the discovery that he didn't pay more attention as that would is not only help Skull find Jon, it may keep both unique in having some kind of them aliveburgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993484824</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jen WilliamsTasha Suri|title=The Silver Tide (Copper Cat) Jasmine Throne|rating=54

|summary=The Black Feather Three - Copper Cat Wydrin On the night of Crosshavenher sacred burning, Lord Aaron Frith Princess Malini defies her brother and Sir Sebastian - refuses to step on to the sought after sell-swords are always looking for their next adventure and, more importantly, their next pay daypyre. Sebastian She is still feeling lost after having immediately sent to leave his love behind but he'll come around. He has to; they've just been given be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a job by renowned pirate captain Devinia community of people who got powers from the Redmysterious deathless waters. They've been commissioned to help her and But now the crew of the aptly named ''Poison Chalice'' to go into temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a land famed for its monsters and ghosts. A place deep in girl kill someone with magic where people vanish. A place where none Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the three really want girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to go but they have no choice: Devinia the Red is Wydrin's mumbecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472211154</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedGenevieve Gornichec|title= Ace of Spiders|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Stanly is frustrated. Having set himself up as London's protector, he's finding that the everyday practicalities of superheroism are challenging at best, and downright tedious at worst. So itThe Witch's almost a relief when an attempt is made on his life and Stanly finds himself rushing headlong into a twisted adventure, with enemies new and old coming out of the woodwork. However, even with his friends and his ever-increasing power behind him, he may have bitten off more than he can chew this time. The monsters are coming… and nothing will ever be the same!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630675</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Adrian Selby|title=SnakewoodHeart

|summary=Kailen's Twenty are an elite; A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the edge of the type nine worlds, remembering nothing of mercenaries her past life but that live on in legend. It therefore stands to reason fact that she was survived burnt at the authorities want them dead but they arenstake three times because of Odin't the only oness wrath. As the guerrilla war between rebels and governing classes rages onHer attempts to live in peace, a lone assassinhowever, as elite as are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the Twentystake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, unknown even Angrboda begins to those on fall for Loki's charms, and the same side is on their trail. Who is he two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and why the vendetta? The answer will be revealed one day to those still alive to hear itanother son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356505529</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian TchaikovskyHannah Whitten|title=The Tiger and For the Wolf (Echoes of the Fall)|rating=4.5

|summary=Maniye is a girl torn between her motherIn Red's tribefamily, the tiger people first daughter becomes queen, and her fatherthe second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's wolvesmisfortune, she is the second daughter. She has always known Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her father back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, 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 he is only the one alternative for her: to run away, taking Hesprec who will decide the snake and proposed wolf blood sacrificefate of their kingdom. Although what If she hasn't reckoned on is just how much she has not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to learnthe woods will be released, her father's determination and the dogged perseverance of Broken Axefabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, lone wolf and hired killer. She also seems expecting nothing more than to be running towards a world on killed within the hour, she finds that the verge of legends are lies. The wolf is not a horrific war as Maniye places herself between a rock and monster—he's a very hard place indeedman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230770061</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A K BenedictJohn Gwynne|title=Jonathan Dark or The Evidence Shadow Of GhostsThe Gods|rating=45

|summary=Maria King sits by The Shadow Of The Gods is the Thames mudlarking - sifting through first installment of the washed up treasures - on a regular basis. Only today she finds a ring Bloodsworn Saga, set in a box with 'Marry me Maria' on the lid era of the Vikings in braille. Blind from birth and now blind by choicethe shadow of Ragnarok, when the words can be Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for no one else but Ms King. However a greater surprise awaits inside the box: the ring is still on a finger belonging all to the last girl who received such a proposalsee. DI Jonathan Dark This story is assigned to the caseultimate in High Fantasy, not realising what he's taken on or and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the sort of help he'll need to call on. The dead are all around him, his plan is not to let Maria join them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409144550</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Daniel Polansky|title= Those Above|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=For three thousand years Those Above have ruled over their human subjects. From the glittering palaces of their eternal city, they enforce their will with fire mythical creatures, archaic language and swordbattles galore. Twenty-five years agoThis is a thick book, mankind mustered with an army intricate plot and rose up against them, only to be slaughtered in a terrible battle. Whilst hope died fascinating characters that day, hatred survived. Whispers of another revolt begin are woven together to stir throughout the oppressed: create a widowed woman, dedicated to revenge: a general, the only to defeat one of Those Above; wonderfully realistic and a boy killer, who rises from the gutter to lead an uprisinggritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444779915</amazonuk>0356514218