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<!-- Quine -->{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5*[[image:Quine Beasts.jpg|leftgenre=Fantasy|linksummary=http://www'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can.amazonThis secret magic of my own, all mine, at last.coI just want to enjoy it for a while.uk/dp/0992754941/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]''
Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=[[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine]]Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
[[image:3Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within.5starBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father.jpgDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|linkisbn=Category:{0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=T Kingfisher|title=Thornhedge|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction=5|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:genre=Fantasy|Fantasy]]summary=''You had a right to retake your place.''
Meet Jaymi. HeT Kingfisher's latest novella is a world-class video games designer, and fresh to a new mansion in the Hollywood Hills on the basis of some recent success. But he's seen the future and he doesn't like it. His current employers, able to bring any amount lovely reimagining of class, skill and culture to the world of gameplay, are beset on appealing to the most lunkheaded and lowest common denominators instead. Indeed, their next big thing will change the world for the worse – it will be a massively disturbing environment, where people progress through the world of the entity by spreading fake news about anyone fairytale that is well known and everyone else on the planet, whether they're playing along or not, and by getting kind of prestige points on spoiling and shaming anything beyond a user-accepted, algorithm-designed, status quowell beloved. With But whilst there is a much more Reithian approach, Jaymi goes freelance, and sets up a way of restoring the balance with princess trapped in a launch of his owntower, where aspects of his more humanitarian mind are played out by avatars of him in the game. He sees this as a way to improve society and get his own back – but the chance of getting revenge more quickly comes about when those avatars leave their encoded backgroundsleeping under an eternal enchantment, and become fully playable characters in reality… [[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Arden -->*[[image:Arden_Girl.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785031066?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785031066]] ===[[The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] In the second book of the trilogy Katherine Arden builds on Thornhedge is not her original story to create something even better. This book Instead, our protagonist is utterly wonderful and it is at the same time complex and gentle. The [[The Bear and the Nightingale Toadling, who was stolen away by Katherine Arden|first book]] set up the characters in the Petronova family but sometimes left the characters feeling fairies when she was a little thin; this book builds on the first to give depth to the family members and their ties to each other. It's a great story but I would strongly advise reading the two books in order to get the full effect of the plot. [[The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden|Full Review]]<br> *[[image:Bancroft_Senlin2.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0356510816?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbagnew-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0356510816]] ===[[Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Thomas Senlin embarks on his honeymoon with high hopes. He born baby and his young wife Marya are travelling on a sleeper train across Ur secreted away to that engineering marvel, that fabled centre of culture, the Tower land of Babel. It's a place he's read books about, fairie where her childhood was spent being taught his pupils about, and longed how to visit, but the bustling and chaotic surroundings of the Tower in the desert are a long way draw magic from the quiet fishing village in which Senlin teaches. When he loses sight of Marya shortly after their arrival, he has no option but to look for her in this strange veins and overwhelming placecast spells. For all his background reading before the trip, he is ill-prepared for what he finds in the Tower, both its marvels and its horrors, and thus begins Thomas Senlin's arduous quest to recover his wife. [[Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft|Full Review]]isbn=1803364238<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Hill -->*[[image:Hill_Strange.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147322117X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147322117X]] ===[[Strange Weather by Joe Hill]]==author=Nicole Jarvis [[image:5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Strange Weather is a collection of four short novels all linked by, unsurprisingly, strange and cataclysmic weather. Each novel is distinct and showcases Hill's restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events and makes them bitingly, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautiful, often switching from one sentence to the next. As Hill himself says ''the beauty of the world and the horror of the world were twined together'', never is this truer than A Portrait in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with raw beauty. [[Strange Weather by Joe Hill|Full Review]]<br>Shadow<!-- Jester -->*[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]5|genre===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]===Historical Fiction[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer ''I want all of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface Florence to sit on in their flat. [[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]]<br>know my name''
 {{newreview|author= K J Parker|title= The Two of Swords|rating= 3Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=This is a difficult book to review, to be honestBut as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, because I am still not sure if I liked it. It is the first book self-proclaimed guardians of a trilogy so I expected the healing magics that a lot of it would be through paintings have the power to set protect the scene city and its citizens from plagues and the characters but this doesn't really happencurses. The novel is set during a long standing war between east all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and west that has been going on architecture for so long no-one is really sure why they are fightingcenturies and guard it above all else. Currently in command are the Belot brothersTo them, each one a military genius Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and each one fighting for the opposing side, there is also the guild of craftsmen whose purpose we never fully know change – has no place amongst them and their role is to manipulate and interfere to serve their own interestssociety. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506762</amazonuk>1803362340
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen AryanThomas D Lee|title= Mageborn (Age of Dread)Perilous Times|rating= 43
|genre= Fantasy
|summary=''Magic will destroy us allHate is the path of least resistance''
Ten years after Set in the devastating battlemage war when mages used their immense power to tear each other apart and sundered near-distant future, in a world on the world itselfverge of climate collapse, suspicion of those who wield magic Britain is at an all-time highin great peril. With The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the recent resurrection of the Red Tower, an institution for students to learn to control day and expand their magic, Seekers visit villages each month to test children for magical abilitiesrescue what little remains. But for those children and their families it is not a gift, it is a cursed For Habreel, who will never forget the destruction during the war, What no-one expected was that one of the elimination Knights of all magic will save countless lives and is the only solution to long lasting stability. He will stop at nothing to achieve his aim; he will deal with Round Table would answer the devil, crush villages and kill anyone in his waycall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356508471</amazonuk>0356518523
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alice HoffmanAmelia Estelle Dellos|title= The Rules of MagicDelilah Recovered|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction Fantasy|summary= IWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn've read several t going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of Alice Hoffman's novelswork, although strangelyabout to lose her flat, not the one sheDee is up for an accountant's most famous for job. But it''Practical Magic'', which went on s not to be made into a film. ''The Rules of Magic'' Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the long-awaited prequel attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to that bookdo with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, and tells the story living an ordinary life. Slivers of three siblings memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the Owens family; Franny, Jet and Vincentsame... The two sisters, Franny and Jet, go on to become the two aunts in the ''Practical Magic'' story.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471157679</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jason Segel and Kirsten MillerHadeer Elsbai|title= OtherworldThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating= 54
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=imon would not have considered himself a hero. In factDrawing inspiration from Egypt, by all accounts, particularly that ''The Daughters of his parents, Simon is an epic failure. HeIzdihar's large, he's hairyexplores the lives of two women who could not be more different, he has a ridiculously oversized nose and he's been kicked out yet find themselves fighting for the rights of boarding school women and kept on weavers – those with magical abilities - in a federal watch listsociety pitted against them. But Simon Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is sure something is up forced into an arranged marriage with his friend KatNico. She won't speak Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to him. So he resorts to buying an incredibly expensive new virtual reality video game provide for them both - Otherworld. Otherworld engages your senses with graphics so goodher family and maintain their reputation, you'll swear they are real, and itwhilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's here that Simon really wants rights. Giorgina also happens to talk to Katbe in love with Nico. But it isn't real, it's What follows is a game… until a turn story of events lands Simon in Otherworld in an all together different way. This timeunjust society, whatever harm his avatar suffers has real consequences. And if it dies? Simon would rather not think about that. If he wants to save Katfilled with hypocrisy and cruelty, he has to keep pressing on. Simon is the chosen one, this is not from which blossoms a gamegroup of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786073692</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Melissa CarusoHeather Fawcett|title= The Tethered MageEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= The Raverran Empire Emily Wilde is run by a doge an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the council very first encyclopaedia of sevenfaeries. 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 governing group formed by small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the aristocratic families village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Golden|title=Road of EruviaBones|rating=3. 5|genre=Horror|summary=The Empire thrives from tradeKolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, culture and the obedience it's one of the cities surrounding Raverraworld's most notorious routes. The Empire has obtained this power and dominance by harnessing and controlling For months of the magic year it's a spread of Eruvia and all sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring'magesees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-markedlevel mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don'' that possess 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 itcovers. For years the Raverran empire has known peace You can easily find documentaries about it online, but with whispers that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a rebellionfilm-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the discovery project to fruition to claw back some of a firethe funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-warlock and chatty local guide, gain the disappearance company of childrena local beauty, and fetch up at the Empireguide's authority over Eruvia is in danger and war is looming on the horizonchildhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356510611</amazonuk>1803361476
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen Donaldson Andrew Givler|title= Seventh Decimate Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)|rating= 24|genre= Fantasy|summary= The Seventh Decimate is not ''Matt has a book with compelling characters or buzzing personalities; it terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is not a book so bad that allowed me to invest in Dan the struggles Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of its protagonista blissful life in exchange for his soul.'' Poor Dan! I know, Prince BifaltI know, with any particular easewe shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. Though it But he really is a book about war terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and , when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the dotted line, he's so desperate extremes a nation will go to ensure absolute victory against its greatest foethat he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473221668</amazonuk>1958204021
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Hornor JacobsOlivie Blake|title=Infernal MachinesThe Atlas Six|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Having discovered the evil intent of the Autumn LordsDark, sharp, and highly inquisitive, Livia Cornelius is trying to beat the inferno that the ensuing war is creating in order to get back to her husband Fisk. That's not as easy as it sounds though as she and her entourage including (her sister Carnelia and Livia's baby) will be caught up in the conflict more than theyThe Atlas Six'd like to be. Meanwhile Fisk along with fellow mercenary Shoe, doesn't have it any easier… and the world is burningmakes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057512413X</amazonuk>1529095239
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kristen CiccarelliDaniel Abraham|title=The Last NamsaraAge of Ash
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate''Once there was a girl who was drawn to wicked things'' ''The Last Namsara'' revolves around Ashas four bridges, she has a fierce young woman who has whispered stories to dragons all knife in her lifehand and a meeting that she dreads. But where once she told them Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in friendship, now she uses stories to hunt the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all those that still plague her father's fracturing kingdomthings are possible. It is the night between the funeral of a Prince and the coronation of his successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473222850</amazonuk>0356515427
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mark AlderAnn Sei Lin|title= Son of the NightRebel Skies|rating= 45|genre= FantasyTeens|summary=In [[Son of Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the Morning by Mark Alder|Son sky where soldiers of the Morning]]Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, author Mark Alder plunges when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the reader power to form paper into whatever she desires – a chaoticpower sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, dangerous world, taking them back to leave the turbulent reign life of Edward III and dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the dangers of matter, because the Hundred Years War. Adding elements of fantasy Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and theology she is forced to flee out into the mixworld. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, Alder created an intriguing read which a sky-ship whose express purpose is continued in ''Son of the Night''. With Lucifer, Satan, Godto hunt down shikigami, Devils and Angels interacting with a cast of real and well researched characters, Alder continues his exploration whole world of the Hundred Years war whilst rather incredibly keeping his readers as educated as they are entertained.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575115203</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith DevineB09Q3P283Y|title=Wilderness of IceShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Hans Schröder was Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not best pleased to be going to really that invested in the Nazi party headquarters fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in Alexanderplatz, Berlin. It was a snowy night career in December 1937 the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and even then Heinrich Himmler this one, at least, gets him out of the SS Protection Squadron had something of rut he's in. He's good in training and is quickly put onto a reputationnon commissioned officer training course. Schröder know that his beliefs were not completely in tune He's chuffed with those himself.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Elektra|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the party hierarchyheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, but on this occasion it was an order which would find him leading an expedition to Tibet Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in search the story of the yeti: Hitler and Josef Mengele were keen to see if improvements could be made to Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the master race most compelling stories and the thought of a humanoid with amazing capabilities was too tempting to dismiss. In January 1938 the expedition was on its way via Transylvaniamost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524681857</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom LloydDean Koontz|title= Princess of BloodQuicksilver|rating= 42.5|genre= FantasyThrillers|summary= Toil – unpredictable and dangerous even Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for an assassinhe's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now wears the Princess of Blood is starting a career on her jacketa needless magazine's staff. Mercanery Lynx still has his doubts about her But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something but call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a new mission supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to escort a dignitary soon throws the old team back together. Travelling to an ancient city that conceals derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a mysterious labyrinthfortune, cash the situations go from bad to worse, with new threats value of it out of his bank and worse horrors prepare for going on every cornerthe lam. The group argue And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and bicker as they go along – but will they be too concerned with their own disputes suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to see escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the far blacker evil discovery that threatens to surround them?he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473213207</amazonuk>1542019885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tim AkersTasha Suri|title= The Iron HoundJasmine Throne|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=Ruling with an iron handOn the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the Church has eliminated pyre. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient pagan waystemple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. Yet demonic gheists terrorise But now the landtemple is nothing more than an overgrown, hunted by the Inquisitiondecaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, while age-old hatreds rage between Malini claims that the north girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the south. Three heroes Malcolm and Ian Blakeley and Gwendolyn Adair must end the bloodshed before chaos is unleashedgirl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299509</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jess RichardsGenevieve Gornichec|title= City of CirclesThe Witch's Heart|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Danu is A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a tightrope walker who is mourning her parents, after witch named Angrboda. She hides in a disease has ravaged forest at the circus where edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she grew upwas survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her mother has entrusted attempts to live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her with a locket literal heart—the one that hides a secret. Over was cut from her chest before she was tied to the years, Danu pushes away her grief and develops elaborate and successful high-wire acts with Morrie, a charismatic hunchback who wants stake—and refuses to marry leave heralone. When the circus returns After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to Danufall for Loki's birthplace, Matryoshka, Danu is enchanted by the temples, spice mistscharms, and pleasure seekers within the intoxicating outer circle district. Heretwo start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, she finally gains the courage to open her mothera son that's locketa wolf, and discovers the name of another son that's a stranger who lives behind the locked gate of the Inner Circle. Fated to remain in Matryoshka, Danu attempts to resolve this mysterysnake. Will she and Morrie ever be reunited, or will something far more unexpected be waiting for her in the mysterious heart of the city?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473656680</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian LivingstoneHannah Whitten|title=Fighting Fantasy: The Port of PerilFor the Wolf|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy |summary=As I promised I would when I looked back at In Red's family, the beginning of first daughter becomes queen, and the 35 year history of ''Fighting Fantasysecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red'' gamebooks [[Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone|(here)]]s misfortune, I took to she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the brand-new-for-2017 volume woods with my pennothing but the cape on her back, mapping paperRed knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and most importantly, dicehe is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. For the first time in If she is not a longworthy sacrifice, long timethe monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, I would not read a book for reviewand the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. I would play it. And soBut when Red enters the woods, armed with healthy staminaexpecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, reasonable luck but frankly embarrassing skill, I set offshe finds that the legends are lies. This The wolf is the report of that journey – as well as hopefully being the usual useful book reviewnot a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407181297</amazonuk>0356516369
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony RyanJohn Gwynne|title=The Legion of Flame: Book Two of the Draconis MemoriaShadow Of The Gods
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=WARNING: There are spoilers for [[The Waking Fire: Book One Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of Draconis Memoria by Anthony Ryan|Book 1]] from the beginning.Lizanne LethridgeBloodsworn Saga, Blood-Blessed and secret agent set in the era of the Exceptional Initiatives Division has survived another missionVikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, only when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to be forced to go out againsee. This time it entails a man-hunt story is the ultimate in a place from which no one has emerged alive. Talking about aliveHigh Fantasy, Claydon Torcreek, having escaped several types of death in the jungles now goes and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the southern ice genre, with Hilemore in their current attempt to defeat the dragons mythical creatures, archaic language and put the world on a safe footingbattles galore. What if all that waits for them This is more dragons a thick book, with an intricate plot and more inventive ways fascinating characters that are woven together to die? That's create a thought that's soon banished from his mindwonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle. 'This is where we save the world' says Clay… but he's been wrong before!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506401</amazonuk>0356514218
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