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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A G S DenningSlatter|title=Warlock Holmes - The Hell-Hound Briar Book of the BaskervillesDead|rating=4.5|genre=ParanormalFantasy|summary=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote '' There's a lot part of Sherlock Holmes storiesme that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, but not that many novelsall mine, at last. Holmes adventures were mostly kept I just want to enjoy it for a short story length that allowed a quick build up and reveal that would fit into an episodic tellingwhile. The best known novel is ''The Hound  Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Baskervilles'Briar' s, a family of witches who protect the town and anyone who parodies the great detective would eventually need to cover wider world from the tale of Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the cursed Baskerville first non-witch to be born into her familyfor generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. They donWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town't s leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come more parodic than Warlock Holmes her way left, right and although he may have died centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the end 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 last bookBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, this won't stop him investigating one of his greatest casesis under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299738</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Christina Henry Rachel Greenlaw|title= Lost BoyCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyTeens|summary= Everybody has their own story to tell''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and more often than not people only see things from plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one perspectiveof the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. In But when the original Peter Pan Captain Hook is an angryCouncil Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, perhaps slightly jealousthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, tyrant. But why Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he this way? Christina Henry weaves is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a terrifying narrative together family secret that lies buried deep in response the sea. With only nine days to such a questionunearth what might save her father, a response that has as her journey takes her from the potential watched streets of foreign islands to alter the readerheart of the smuggler's perception territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the original work foreverones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178565568X</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= V E SchwabT Kingfisher|title= Our Dark DuetThornhedge|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''Monsters, mayhem, revengeYou had a right to retake your place.''

Six months after the final events of T Kingfisher''This Savage Song'', Verity s latest novella is in chaos. All-out war has broken out and the city a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is now divided into two – with monsters gaining more well known and more territory in the North and humans battling for survival in the Southwell beloved. At the centre of the action But whilst there is August Flynna princess trapped in a tower, a monster of incredible power who once longed to be human. He will now stop at nothing to fight and play the part he believes he must. No matter what the costsleeping under an eternal enchantment, no matter how much of himself he losesThornhedge is not her story. MeanwhileInstead, Kate Harkerour protagonist is Toadling, V City escapee and kick-ass monster hunter, has been busy in Prosperity. But with the arrival of who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new monster leaving devastation in its wake -born baby and heading straight for Verity, Kate knows she must secreted away to return. She must fight for humanity's survival and play the land of fairie where her part just like August. Alliances will be tested; old enemies will rise childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from the dead her veins and past mistakes will come to haunt both August and Kate at every turncast spells.Will they be enough to save the city? And will they each be enough to save themselves from the darkest places within?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785652761</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= R J BarkerNicole Jarvis|title= Age of AssassinsA Portrait in Shadow|rating= 34.5|genre= FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary= Age ''I want all of Assassins is a very ordinary fantasy novelFlorence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which at 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 same time manages to slip in powerful Accademia, the occasional surprise. The central protagonists are a pair self-proclaimed guardians of assassins, Girton Club-Foot and his master, Merela Karn, also known as Death’s Jester. They find themselves hired by a Queen the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect her son, an obnoxious prince, the city and its citizens from plagues and to find out who is behind the threats on his lifecurses. In doing so they discover a host of plots The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and problems, leaving no part of life in the castle untouched. Plots architecture for centuries and Machiavellian figures are evident at every turn as noble families fight over the throne of a dying kingguard it above all else. In the meantime between sorcerers in the stablesTo them, bitter rivalries between the Artemisia – an ambitious young men woman who vie to be heir to the throne, promises trouble and the moves of great families, there is change – has no lack of suspects. As such the novel is as much a mystery as it is a fantasy place amongst them and as much as coming of age story as it is either of thosetheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356508544</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom HoltThomas D Lee|title= The Management Style of the Supreme BeingsPerilous Times|rating= 53

|summary= Imagine, if you will, that ''Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set in the local deity and his wellnear-beloved son Jay decide to retire from the god business and go fishing instead. After alldistant future, they've been working in a world on, and for, the planet for millenniaverge of climate collapse, and it Britain is really is time they took in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a breakhero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little remains. And What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Venturi brothers, who already manage several other planets, have made them a very generous bid for Round Table would answer the franchisecall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650669X</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Bound: An Alex Verus NovelDelilah Recovered|rating=54

|summary=Warning: From the beginning this contains spoilers for past books.Alex Verus, seer, mage and former owner of We meet Dee at a now incinerated London magic shop, is no longer under a death warrant but that doesnpoint when her life isn't mean that people don't want him deadgoing as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. His only chance Out of survival isn't promising either: he's gone back work, about to the place of nightmares. He and Anne are now working lose her flat, Dee is up for his old apprentice master, Richard Drakh. Richardan accountant's reasons are never straightforward so job. But it's a mystery as not to why he's made Alex an offer he'd be killed to refuse. Unsurprisingly, Alex isn't Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the only one who wants attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to the answer either. Oh and remember Racheldo with Dee? She's back and… well… shall we say she has issues?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....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650719X</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreview <!-- remove 5/6 -->Frontpage|author=Mark LinganeHadeer Elsbai|title=BL!NK (Hadron Damnation Book 1)The Daughters of Izdihar

|summary=iYe is a smasher: a child who is capable Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of sending back pictures of the future by travelling out to where the past and future meet. Smashers donIzdihar''t usually live to see their teens as explores the information generally returns without them. However iYe's mother, Captain Trix Raiden, is determined he'll lives of two women who could not be more different , yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and, indeed he is, weavers – those with magical abilities - in many waysa society pitted against them. Not only does iYe surviveNehal, he is a chip off born into the same block as Callyupper class, wishes to attend the planetary hero. However there is a darker side: iYe carries a message that Earth doesn't want Weaving Academy to hear. The planet is used learn to dealing with control her abilities and then join the aliens that Cally originally fought military, but worse instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on its way. ''We are coming the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to kill you.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0994616457</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= James Abbott|title= The Never King|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= The land provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of Stravimon is in chaos. Cedius the Wise died leaving the traitorous Mardonius to ascend to the throne. In far off HellDaughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's Keep (the most deadly and remote prison rights. Giorgina also happens to be in the Kingdom; love with Nico. What follows is a place no prisoner has ever returned from alive) Xavir Argentum is contacted by Cedius' former Spy Masterstory of an unjust society, Landril. Betrayalfilled with hypocrisy and cruelty, intrigue, violence and magic follow as we travel across this strange but familiar land on from which blossoms a quest group of admirable women fighting for vengeance, justice their rights and freedomovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509803114</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura LamHeather Fawcett|title=Masquerade (Micah Grey Trilogy)Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= ItEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's been a remarkable journey for our young protagonistwork, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. It wasn't long ago that Micah Grey was still living So when she finds herself far, far North in the life small village of Iphigenia LaurusHrafvsnik, daughter of a noble familyhaving somehow offended the village matriarch, trapped in a gilded cage forever hiding her true self. Since running awayshe is not sure what she has done, Micah has managed nor how to reinvent himself, first as a circus acrobat, redeem herself and then as a magician's apprenticeput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Along the way he's discovered love Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and friendships that have helped keep him afloatinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, even as betrayal all charm and tragedy seem ready delight, much to strike at every turnEmily's frustration. But there's only so long why is he here? What does he can keep running. His powers are growing, want? And what exactly is going on with the Chimaera are returning, and Ellada is about to reach a violent tipping point. faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509807780</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brian StaveleyChristopher Golden|title= SkullswornRoad of Bones|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyHorror|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it'"Love is like killings 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," she saidpuddly 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 do can easily find documentaries about it with every part online, but that's a bit rich, for one of youour main characters, or not at all.” Felix 'Teig' Pyrre Teigland, is a skullsworn; one film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who is devoted 's mostly there to encourage the God project to fruition to claw back some of Death. Trained as an assassin and having studied under the deadliest killers funds he'd invested in the world since she was eightpair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, Pyrre is about to embark upon her final trial. A trial in which success will mean elevation to gain the rank company of priestessa local beauty, while failure will mean deathand fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150982295X</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= V E SchwabAndrew Givler|title=A Conjuring of LightSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)|rating= 54

|summary= The Darker Shade of Magic trilogy concludes by continuing with ''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that Dan the story Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of Lila Bard, finding her way through the different Londonsa blissful life in exchange for his soul.'' Poor Dan! I know, one with magic, one without magicI know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a London where magic has near enough destroyed their world terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and the last London, which balances precariously when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the edge of obliviondotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0765387468</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire NorthOlivie Blake|title= The End of the DayAtlas Six|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= At the end of the day, Death visits everyone. Right before that, Charlie does. You might meet him in a hospital, in a warzone, or at the scene of a traffic accident.Then again, you might meet him at the North Pole - he gets everywhere. From jungles to deserts to tundra, you may come across Charlie. Would you shake him by the hand, take the gift he offers, or would you pay no attention to the words he says? Sometimes he is sent as a courtesy, sometimes as a warning. He never knows which.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316316741</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jen Williams|title=The Ninth Rain (The Winnowing Flame Trilogy 1) |rating=54

|summary=Ebora is dying along with its tree-like god Ysegril but Hestillion is doing all she can to keep him alive. In fact she'll go to any lengths to save him… any lengths at all. Hest's brother Tormalin can't sit around Dark, sharp, and wait for the end so hehighly inquisitive, 's engaged by Lady Vincenza (Vintage) de Grazon to be her factotum and hired sword during her quest for knowledge. It's turning into more of an adventure than theyThe Atlas Six'd planned even before Fell witch and fugitive Noon joins them. Now the trio must work together, putting prejudices and passions aside (others' as well as their own). The Ninth Rain is coming and more than Ebora is in dangermakes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472235177</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrezej SapkowskiDaniel Abraham|title= The Lady Age of the LakeAsh|rating=3|genre= Fantasy |summary= This book was quite captivating in the beginning. The idea that the truths of ancient history and mythology can be unearthed by exploring them in the dreams of a talented sleeper is rather enchanting. It's an interesting idea, one that merges history and fantasy creating an almost dream like feel within the writing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147321159X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stefan Mohamed|title= Stanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came the superpowers. And the super powered allies. And the mysterious enemies. And the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. And the apocalypse. Now he's not sure what he is. Or where he is. Or how exactly one is supposed to proceed after saving the world. All he knows is that his story isn't finished4. Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630764</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Brian McClellan|title=Sins of Empire|rating=5

|summary=The fantasy genre is home to some We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the best books that I have ever read, but also some City of Kithamar is at a point in the worst. The very nature turning of epic stories that span generations means that few fantasy books rock up under 400 pages years when the worlds are at their thinnest and many all things are part of long running series or trilogiespossible. When done badly, fantasy books are bloated It is the night between the funeral of a Prince and boring affairs that rattle the coronation of every cliché the genre has had to offer since Bilbo exited Bag End, but done well they can be brillianthis successor. They can be ''Sins of Empire'' by Brian McClellanFor a night the Kithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650929X</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marisa SilverAnn Sei Lin|title= Little NothingRebel Skies

|genre= Literary Fiction Teens|summary=In an unnamed country at Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the beginning sky where soldiers of the last centuryEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a peasant couple longs for Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a childpower sought after all across the Empire. In despair they turn He asks her to gypsy tonics and archaic prescriptionscome with him, and one cold wintery nightto leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, the couplesoon Kurara won's wish comes true. But t have any say in the silence that follows matter, because the birth forewarns of darker days Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to comeflee out into the world. Strangers look on askance and fall speechless in She joins Himura aboard the child's presenceOrihime, and villagers protectively hush their children as they pass on narrow market lanes. Pavla a sky-ship whose express purpose is no ordinary childto hunt down shikigami, but then this is no ordinary tale.and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786071274</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marissa MeyerB09Q3P283Y|title= Heartless|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= How did the Queen of Hearts become the monster we know from Alice's story? Welcome to Meyer's Wonderland and the peaceful kingdom of Hearts, where a young Lady called Catherine's heart's desire is to be … the best baker in all of Hearts. But while her mother tolerates her hobby, Catherine knows she will never consider it as a serious path for her daughter, unless Catherine can convince her. However, Catherine's dreams start to get that much more complicated once a mysterious stranger appears, a royal suitor materialises and deadly beast starts stalking the once safe Kingdom. What is Cath's destiny? To be the dreadful queen we all know or to be a dedicated bakery owner? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509814132</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewShadebringer|author= Amanda Hocking|title= FreeksGrayson W Hooper|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= In the spring of 1987, the carnival comes to small-town Caudry, Louisiana. Then events take a dangerous turn. For Mara Beznik, the carnival is home. It's also a place of secrets, hidden powers and a buried past - making it hard to connect with outsiders. However, sparks fly when she meets local boy Gabe Alvarado. As they become inseparable, Mara realizes Gabe is hiding his own secrets. And his family legacy could destroy Mara's world. They find the word 'freeks' sprayed on trailers, as carnival employees start disappearing. Then workers wind up dead, killed in disturbing ways by someone or something. Mara is determined to unlock the mystery, with Gabe's help. But can they really halt this campaign of fear?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509807659</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephanie Garber|title=Caraval|rating=54

|summary=Scarlett Dragna has had one desire all her life: to visit a Caraval. These interactive events put on by magician and entrepreneur Legend are world famous but very exclusiveClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. ItHe's therefore not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a huge surprise when Scarlett and her sister Tella receive ticketscareer in the military. These will take them away from their sadistic father and prisonIf he's honest -like island home for the first time. Caraval which Clyde usually is never what , with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one expects though and when Tella is kidnapped, Scarlett experiences at least, gets him out of the sinister side of a game rut he's in. He's good in which nothing training and is what it seemsquickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473629144</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neil GaimanJennifer Saint|title=Stardust: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisationElektra|rating=3.54|genre=Fantasy Literary Fiction|summary=Tristan Thorn has never wanted to cross the Wall from his sleepy English village to the land of Faerie beyond. However, when the girl of his dreams – the beautiful Victoria Forester – promises to be his bride if he retrieves a fallen star, he has no choice. Without hesitation, Tristan sets out on a quest that will lead him into a series of bizarre adventures and set him against the dark forces of the strange and magical land of Stormhold. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785295624</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Susan Dennard|title=Windwitch (The Witchlands Series)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Merik Nihar, the Windwitch and former fleet admiral, must lay low on account of the fact that everyone believes him dead. He knows the attempted assassination was instigated by his sister, Vivia, but he doesn't yet realise how this attempt will change him and his powers. Safi meanwhile is regretting using her Truthwitch skills to help the Empress Vaness. Apart from anything else, itElektra's deadly dull and has taken her away from Iseult, friend and Threadsister. Eventually though by Jennifer Saint tells the dull disappears and it's not only Safi story of three women who's left with live in the deadly as allies appear from unexpected places and friendships are doubted while their heavily male dominated world teetersof Ancient Greece.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447282302</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Su Bristow|title= Sealskin|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy |summary= Donald is a young fishermanCassandra, eking out a lonely living on the west coast of Scotland. One night he witnesses something miraculous ...and makes a terrible mistake. His action changes lives - not only his ownClytemnestra, but those of his family and the entire tightly knit community Elektra are all bit players in which they live. Can he ever atone for the wrong he has done, and can love grow when its foundation is violence?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633607</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jon Skovron|title= Bane and Shadow|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''I am beyond redemption'' ''Bane and Shadow'' picks up a year after the final events story of the [[Hope and Red by Jon Skovron|first installment]] in the Empire of Storms series, which I highly recommend reading if you haven't alreadyTrojan War. Following Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the great characters we met in silent women have the previous novel, ''Bane most compelling stories and Shadow'' has even more action with brilliant battles, nail-biting tension and a new darkness to the storymost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356507157</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=E M DaveyDean Koontz|title=The Napoleon ComplexQuicksilver|rating=42.5

|summary=Journalist Jake WolseyMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's brush with not had the Book of Fate chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and that fatal Etruscan lightening isnnow is starting a career on a needless magazine't overs staff. Historical quotesBut when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', intrigue and for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a call for help from former lover and MI6 operative Jenny start gold coin worth a whole new search for fortune, cash the source value of it out of power his bank and destructionprepare for going on the lam. This And all this is just in time itfor two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's linked of interest to them. Helped to Napoleon Bonaparte and the odd inclusion escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of an Etruscan scroll him acting without being in his portrait. If control, the scroll discovery that he is what Jake not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and Jenny think it is, where has it gone? Our heroes aren't the only curious people and, while their search takes them across the world, it's as much about fatality avoidance as it is treasure huntinga whole lot more besides. Who will get the answer first and at what cost to themselves… and civilisation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715651080</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Charlie LaidlawTasha Suri|title= The Things We Learn When We're DeadJasmine Throne|rating= 54|genre= General FictionFantasy|summary= On the way to a dinner party, Lorna Love steps into the path night of an oncoming car. Waking up in what appears to be a hospitalher sacred burning, but a hospital in which wine is served for supper, everyone avoids Princess Malini defies her questions, brother and her nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Connery, it soon transpires that Lorna is in Heaven, or, at least, refuses to step on HVNto the pyre. Because HVN She is a lost, dysfunctional spaceship, and God immediately sent to be imprisoned on the aging hippy captain. At first Lorna can remember nothing, but as her memories return – some good, some bad, she realises Hirana: an ancient temple that she has was once filled with a decision to make, and that maybe, she needs to find a way home…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786150352</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Terry Goodkind|title= Death's Mistress|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= We start this novel as a Heroine and a hero travelling through community of people who got powers from the forest, in search of a witchmysterious deathless waters. I immediately love it, when But now the focus temple is on the female lead and the male lead is painted as a bit of a pompous twonk, with nothing more care for clothes and jewellerythan an overgrown, than for saving mankinddecaying ruin. HoweverOne day, it becomes harder to like her as the book winds its tale, when you realise that she is Malini witnesses a heartless, murdering, uncaring, psychopathgirl kill someone with magic. It becomes relatively clear that she has been damaged from Instead of reporting her for such a young age (which was a while ago, seeing as she's almost 200 years old)gruesome crime, Malini claims that has had effects on how she has lived the girl saved her life until this point. However, their goal of spreading from an attacker and begs for the word of Emperor's Rahl victory over the evil Emperor Janang girl to the furthest reaches of his kingdom, becomes diverted, when prophecy leaves the world and an old witch imparts the knowledge of an old prophecy that foretells that Nicci will save the worldbecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786691639</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian TregillisGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Liberation: Book Three of The Alchemy WarsWitch's Heart

|summary=The war between A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the New Dutch and edge of the New French continue aided and complicated by nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the Mechanicalsstake three times because of Odin' rebellions wrath. In fact Her attempts to live in peace, however, 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 day stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the world ended comes as two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a shock to everyoneson that's a wolf, not to mention and another son that's a bloody messsnake. Let the apocalypse begin!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502341</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luke ScullHannah Whitten|title=Dead Man's Steel (Grim Company)For the Wolf|rating=4.5

|summary=The fehd move on, killing humanity with ruthless efficiency. The remaining heroes are trying to win the war but theyIn Red've got issues of their own. Brodar Kaynes family, the Sword of the Northfirst daughter becomes queen, joins forces against fehd with Carn Bloodfist which has its problems since Brodar killed Carn's father. Davarus Cole and Sasha are slightly imprisoned whereas Eremul the Halfmage is still raging wherever possiblesecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. This raging takes turns with coming to terms with the shock of his apprenticeTo Red's true identity. Indeed the former apprentice, Isaacmisfortune, she is fulfilling his true potential although not on the side that Eremul had envisagedsecond daughter. These heroes – all that remains of Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the Grim Company - are humanity's only hope… Good luck humanity!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185159X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Brandon Sanderson|title= Arcanum Unbounded|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy |summary= Brandon Sanderson woods is more cannon than man. He fires out more works than any other author of fantasy. Not only does he write an awe inspiring amount of novelsa wolf, but and he also writes various short fictions that go alongside them. And in here, for is the first time, all one who will decide the major ones are collected togetherfate of their kingdom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473218039</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= James Young|title= Rise of If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the Dust Child|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction |summary=An age has passed since the fall of monsters he keeps contained to the old worldwoods will be released, and the rise of fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the malignant Dust peoplestories go. Amongst But when Red enters the terrors of this new agewoods, humanity still lingers expecting nothing more than to be killed within the wreckage of civilisationhour, held together by the promise of a better existence in she finds that the next life. But not all legends are satisfied by this dogmalies. Within the smoggy city of Fort Palmer, eight year old Doran and his friend Alena stand apart, struggling to retain the lost glory of their faith. But the unquiet dead and the forces of faith do The wolf is not take kindly to those who try to fix a broken world. As the quest to save the future leads each of them down monster—he's a dark path, they are cast apart - struggling to overcome the monstrous dusters and the fear within themselves, desperate to see each other againman. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524634379</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben AaronovitchJohn Gwynne|title=The Hanging Tree (Rivers of London 6)Shadow Of The Gods

|summary=When Lady Tyburn rescued Police Officer Peter Grant she put him The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in her debtthe shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. Now it's payback time as her daughter This story is implicated the ultimate in a murder. Is this just another drug related killing? NoHigh Fantasy, Peter is only involved in crime related and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the supernatural side of life genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and since both Lady Ty battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and daughter fascinating characters that are river goddesses, there's much woven together to investigatecreate a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132558</amazonuk>0356514218