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{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15"A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''

<!Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-- Faulks 7/3 -->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| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade[[image:B079RJFN42|rating=3.jpg5|genre=Teens|linksummary=http://www.amazon''I can hear the song of the sea.coThe call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.uk/dp/B079RJFN42/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]''

| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Seer's Curse by J J Faulks]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Although ''The SeerT Kingfisher's Curse'' latest novella is billed as a pre-teen novel, I would say lovely reimagining of a fairytale that it would appeal to a wide audience interested in fantasy is well known and mythology, as well as just a good talebeloved. [[PAGE TITLE|Full Review]] <!-- Clayton -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Clayton_Belles.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473223962/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] ''One minute here But whilst there is richer than a thousand moments there'' In the resplendent world of Orléansprincess trapped in a tower, beauty runs through the blood of a select few: the Belles. Only they have the power to transform the appearance of a population cursed with grey skin and red eyessleeping under an eternal enchantment, who covet beauty above all else. Camellia Beauregard Thornhedge is a new generation Belle, ready to fulfil not her duty and help the people to love themselvesstory. Like her sistersInstead, she's in the running to be the favourite – the most accomplished Belle in the landour protagonist is Toadling, personally chosen who was stolen away by the royal family to live in the palace and tend to members of court, with the power to make a difference. It's what fairies when she's been wanting and training for her whole life… but so too have her sisters. And only the best will be selected. [[The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton|Full Review]] <!-- Quine -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Quine Beasts.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0992754941/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Meet Jaymi. He's was a worldnew-class video games designer, born baby and fresh secreted away 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 land 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, fairie where people progress through the world of the entity by spreading fake news about anyone 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 quo. With a much more Reithian approach, Jaymi goes freelance, and sets up a way of restoring the balance with a launch of his own, where aspects of his more humanitarian mind are played out by avatars of him in the game. He sees this as a way her childhood was spent being taught how to improve society draw magic from her veins and get his own back – but the chance of getting revenge more quickly comes about when those avatars leave their encoded background, and become fully playable characters in reality… [[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine|Full Review]] <!-- Arden -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Arden_Girl.jpg|left|link=https://wwwcast spells.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785031066?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785031066]]  | styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|1803364238===[[The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden]]===}} [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]Frontpage In the second book of the trilogy Katherine Arden builds on her original story to create something even better. This book is utterly wonderful and it is at the same time complex and gentle. The [[The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden|first book]] set up the characters in the Petronova family but sometimes left the characters feeling 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]] <!-- Bancroft -->author=Nicole Jarvis|-| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|A Portrait in Shadow[[image:Bancroft_Senlin2.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0356510816?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0356510816]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Historical Fiction===[[Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Thomas Senlin embarks on his honeymoon with high hopes. He and his young wife Marya are travelling on a sleeper train across Ur to that engineering marvel, that fabled centre of culture, the Tower of Babel. It's a place he's read books about, taught his pupils about, and longed to visit, but the bustling and chaotic surroundings of the Tower in the desert are a long way 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 and overwhelming place. For I want 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]]<br> <!-- Hill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Strange Weather by Joe Hill]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=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 Florence to the next. As Hill himself says know my name''the beauty of the world and the horror of the world were twined together'', never is this truer than in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with raw beauty. [[Strange Weather by Joe Hill|Full Review]] <!-- Jester -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]===

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]]Cast out from Rome, [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a cocky home and brash young man who dies and gets made where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michaelpowerful Accademia, 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 to sit on in their flat. [[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] |}{{newreview|author= K J Parker|title= The Two self-proclaimed guardians of Swords|rating= 3.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=This is a difficult book to review, to be honest, because I am still not sure if I liked it. It is the first book of a trilogy so I expected 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 and their role is to manipulate change – has no place amongst them and interfere to serve their own interestssociety. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506762</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen AryanThomas D Lee|title= Mageborn (Age of Dread)Perilous Times|rating= 43

|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

{{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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jason Segel and Kirsten MillerHadeer Elsbai|title= OtherworldThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating= 54

|summary=imon would Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not have considered himself be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a herosociety pitted against them. In factNehal, by all accountsborn into the upper class, particularly that of his parentswishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, Simon but instead she is forced into an epic failurearranged marriage with Nico. HeGiorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's largerights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, hefrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|isbn=0356520471}}{{Frontpage|author=Heather Fawcett|title=Emily Wilde's hairyEncyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, he and she has a ridiculously oversized nose travelled extensively, and heresearched meticulously, to write her life's been kicked out work, the very first encyclopaedia of boarding school and kept on a federal watch listfaeries. But Simon Whilst she is sure something brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is up not so good with his friend Kat. She won't speak to himpeople. So he resorts when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to buying an incredibly expensive new virtual reality video game redeem herself and put her final investigations for them both - Otherworldher book back on the right track. Otherworld engages your senses with graphics so good Enter Wendell Bambleby, you'll swear they are realher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and itdelight, much to Emily's here that Simon really wants to talk to Katfrustration. But it isn't real, it's a game… until a turn of events lands Simon in Otherworld in an all together different way. This time, whatever harm his avatar suffers has real consequences. And if it dieswhy is he here? Simon would rather not think about that. If What does he wants to save Kat, he has to keep pressing want? And what exactly is going on. Simon is with the chosen one, this is not a game. faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786073692</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Melissa CarusoChristopher Golden|title= The Tethered MageRoad of Bones|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyHorror|summary= The Raverran Empire is run by a doge and Kolyma Highway… the council 'Road of seven, the governing group formed by Bones'… the aristocratic families of EruviaR504. The Empire thrives from trade 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 childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|isbn=1803361476}}{{Frontpage|author=Andrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in danger exchange for his soul.'' Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and war is looming , when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the horizondotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356510611</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen Donaldson Olivie Blake|title= Seventh Decimate The Atlas Six|rating= 24|genre= Fantasy|summary= The Seventh Decimate is not a book with compelling characters or buzzing personalities; it is not a book that allowed me to invest in the struggles of its protagonistDark, Prince Bifaltsharp, with any particular ease. Though it is a book about war and the desperate extremes highly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a nation will go to ensure absolute victory against its greatest foeTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473221668</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Hornor JacobsDaniel Abraham|title=Infernal MachinesAge of Ash

|summary=Having discovered We meet Alys under the evil intent most northerly of the Autumn LordsOldgate's four bridges, Livia Cornelius is trying to beat the inferno she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the ensuing war City of Kithamar is creating at a point in order to get back to her husband Fiskthe turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. That's not as easy as it sounds though as she It is the night between the funeral of a Prince and her entourage including (her sister Carnelia and Livia's baby) will be caught up in the conflict more than they'd like to becoronation of his successor. Meanwhile Fisk along with fellow mercenary Shoe, doesn't have it any easier… and For a night the world Kithamar is burningun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057512413X</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kristen CiccarelliAnn Sei Lin|title=The Last NamsaraRebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a 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 she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09Q3P283Y|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=4.5

|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the rut he's in. He'Once there was s good in training and is quickly put onto a girl who was drawn to wicked things'non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Elektra|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='Elektra'The Last Namsara'' revolves around Asha, a fierce young woman by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who has whispered stories to dragons all her lifelive in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. But where once she told them in friendshipCassandra, Clytemnestra, now she uses stories to hunt and Elektra are all those bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that still plague her father's fracturing kingdomoften the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473222850</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mark AlderDean Koontz|title= Son of the NightQuicksilver|rating= 42.5|genre= FantasyThrillers|summary=In [[Son of Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the Morning by Mark Alder|Son of the Morning]]chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, author Mark Alder plunges the reader into for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a chaotic, dangerous worldthree-day old foundling, taking them back to the turbulent reign of Edward III and the dangers of the Hundred Years Warnow is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. Adding elements of fantasy and theology to the mix, Alder created an intriguing read which is continued in But when this book starts he IS now ''Son subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of the Nightmood or mind''. With Lucifer, Satanfor something – call it unearthly intuition, Godcall it mind-control, Devils and Angels interacting with call it a cast supernatural urge – has demanded of real him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and well researched charactersprepare for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, Alder continues he finds his exploration flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the Hundred Years war whilst rather incredibly keeping his readers as educated as they are entertaineddiscovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575115203</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keith DevineTasha Suri|title=Wilderness of IceThe Jasmine Throne

|summary=Hans Schröder was not best pleased On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to be going step on to the Nazi party headquarters in Alexanderplatz, Berlinpyre. It She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a snowy night in December 1937 and even then Heinrich Himmler community of people who got powers from the SS Protection Squadron had something mysterious deathless waters. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a reputation. Schröder know gruesome crime, Malini claims that his beliefs were not completely in tune with those of the party hierarchy, but on this occasion it was girl saved her from an order which would find him leading an expedition to Tibet in search of the yeti: Hitler attacker and Josef Mengele were keen to see if improvements could be made to begs for the master race and the thought of a humanoid with amazing capabilities was too tempting girl to dismiss. In January 1938 the expedition was on its way via Transylvaniabecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524681857</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom LloydGenevieve Gornichec|title= Princess of BloodThe Witch's Heart|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= Toil – unpredictable A modern and dangerous even for an assassinapproachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, now wears remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the Princess stake three times because of Blood on Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her jacket. Mercanery Lynx still has his doubts about literal heart—the one that was cut from her – but a new mission chest before she was tied to escort a dignitary soon throws the old team back togetherstake—and refuses to leave her alone. Travelling After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the two start an ancient city unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that conceals 's a mysterious labyrinthwolf, the situations go from bad to worse, with new threats and worse horrors on every corneranother son that's a snake. The group argue and bicker as they go along – but will they be too concerned with their own disputes to see the far blacker evil that threatens to surround them?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473213207</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tim AkersHannah Whitten|title= The Iron HoundFor the Wolf|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=Ruling with an iron handIn Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the Church has eliminated second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the ancient pagan wayssecond daughter. Yet demonic gheists terrorise Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the landcape on her back, hunted by Red knows what to expect: within the Inquisitionwoods is a wolf, while age-old hatreds rage between and he is the north one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and the southfabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. Three heroes Malcolm and Ian Blakeley and Gwendolyn Adair must end But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the bloodshed before chaos legends are lies. The wolf is unleashednot a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299509</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jess RichardsJohn Gwynne|title= City of CirclesThe Shadow Of The Gods|rating= 45|genre= Fantasy|summary= Danu The Shadow Of The Gods is a tightrope walker who is mourning her parentsthe first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, after a disease has ravaged set in the era of the circus where she grew up. Her mother has entrusted her with a locket that hides a secret. Over Vikings in the yearsshadow of Ragnarok, Danu pushes away her grief when the Gods have battled and develops elaborate and successful high-wire acts with Morrie, a charismatic hunchback who wants their bones lie scattered for all to marry hersee. When the circus returns to Danu's birthplace, Matryoshka, Danu This story is enchanted by the temples, spice mistsultimate in High Fantasy, and pleasure seekers within John Gwynne certainly does justice to the intoxicating outer circle district. Heregenre, she finally gains the courage to open her mother's locketwith mythical creatures, archaic language and discovers the name of battles galore. This is a stranger who lives behind the locked gate of the Inner Circle. Fated to remain in Matryoshkathick book, Danu attempts with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to resolve this mystery. Will she create a wonderfully realistic and Morrie ever be reunited, or will something far more unexpected be waiting for her gritty world in the mysterious heart of the city?which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473656680</amazonuk>0356514218