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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alix E HarrowA G Slatter|title= The Once and Future WitchesBriar Book of the Dead|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''There's no such thing as witchesa part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, but there used at last. I just want to beenjoy it for a while.''
In 1893Within a remote mountain pass, after far away from the purges world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the burningswider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, witching has been reduced Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to little more 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 weak charms 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 simple spellscentre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. If women want Reeling from one family secret to hold power in their handsanother, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have their voices heardsacrificed to survive, it is now through women's suffrageunder threat.|isbn=03565124791803364548
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|author= Andrea StewartRachel Greenlaw|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Compass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre= FantasyTeens|summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wantedcan hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
In an empire controlled by Rosevear, a bone shard magic that powers animal-remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like constructsher mother before her, an heir is one of the seven who swim out to survey the throneruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the 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.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=T Kingfisher|title=Thornhedge|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=''You had a warrior will fight right to find their retake your place in the world.''
Lin is the emperorT Kingfisher's forgotten daughter, kept locked away in latest novella is a palace lovely reimagining of secrets a fairytale that is well known and closed doorswell beloved. When But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the thronestory. Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she vows to show him she is capable of reviving was a dying empire new-born baby and in secret, she begins secreted away to unlock one door after another, searching for the mysteries land of fairie where her past childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and the forbidden art cast spells.|isbn=1803364238}}{{Frontpage|author=Nicole Jarvis|title=A Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''I want all of bone shard magic.Florence to know my name''
Yet Lin is playing Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a deadly game home and where her quest for power will come at future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great cost. With revolution in opposition from the air and creeping closer and closer to powerful Accademia, the gates self-proclaimed guardians of the palacehealing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become a catalyst of Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and save her peopletheir society.|isbn=03565149431803362340
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|author= Joan HeThomas D Lee|title= Descendant of the CranePerilous Times|rating=53
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|summary=''Heroes cannot be forged without villainsHate is the path of least resistance''Princess Hesina of the kingdom of Yan has never wanted the throne. Instead of craving power, she has always considered Set in the crown her inescapable duty and shrank away from the responsibilities of being Queen. To her, it has always been a near-distant, faraway future. Until that is, it isn't. When her beloved father suddenly dies, she is thrust into ruling. But contrary to in a world on the official reportverge of climate collapse, Hesina knows all Britain is not as it seems, her father didn't diein great peril. He was murdered.Determined The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to seek save the truth day and discover her father's killer, Princess Hesina will stop at nothing to find justice, even committing treasonrescue what little remains. Under What no-one expected was that one of the cover Knights of darkness, her feet lead her to a soothsayer to learn what happened that day and who killed the KingRound Table would answer the call.|isbn=17890940460356518523
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|author=Joanne M HarrisAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=A Pocketful of CrowsDelilah Recovered|rating=54|genre= Confident ReadersFantasy|summary= I have always been We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. But it's not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the mind attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that once youare not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the same....|isbn=B0BKYFDLLV}}{{Frontpage|author=Hadeer Elsbai|title=The Daughters of Izdihar|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= Drawing inspiration from Egypt, 're above picture'The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities -book level in a society pitted against them. 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 forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and before you get feels great pressure to graphic sex & violenceprovide for her family and maintain their reputation, there whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is no difference between books a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for children their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|isbn=0356520471}}{{Frontpage|author=Heather Fawcett|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and books put her final investigations for adultsher book back on the right track. There are good books Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and poor onesdelight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And Joanne Harris does not produce poor oneswhat exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Golden|title=Road of Bones|rating=3. 5|genre=Horror|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the ''A Pocketful Road of CrowsBones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it' is clearly aimed at s one of the younger readers as witness world's most notorious routes. For months of the use year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the middle initial in the authorpermafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don's name t think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to differentiate from her adult offersgive too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. Ignore You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that if you have loved anything from 's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'ChocolatTeig'Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress s mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the modern fairy talefunds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. This is no differentThey pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. It is an utter delight.And that's where things start to go awry…|isbn=14732221841803361476
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|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallAndrew Givler|title= Soul Fraud (The Mermaid, the Witch and the SeaDebt Collection Book 1)|rating= 54|genre= TeensFantasy|summary= On the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl ''Matt has assumed a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that Dan the identity Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of Florian the man a blissful life in an attempt to fit in with the crewexchange for his soul.'' Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. Life But he really is hard as a pirateterrible salesman. He never hits his targets and, trust and empathy are the first things when he fails to be discarded, but anything has get even Matt to be better than starving sign on the streets. Meanwhiledotted line, the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards the Dove, headed off to be married to a military man shehe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's never met on some far-flung colony of the Nipran Empiresignature. Neither of them expects to be thrown together by fate, never mind fall in love…|isbn=15362043151958204021
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|author=Baye HartshorneOlivie Blake|title=Ghosted: The Treason House TrilogyAtlas Six
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Dark, sharp, and highly inquisitive, 'Julia Crawley has lost her job on 'The Atlas Six'Celebrity'' magazine and so she decides to cut her losses and return home to the village of Monmouth Cove on the Jersey Shore, hoping to return to her harder hitting journalistic roots via local news. She'll be staying with her grandmother makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik- a woman always ready to help younger relatives in need of a hand. There's only one problem with that: creepy Uncle Dex, who doesn't always keep his hands to himselfTok sensation.|isbn= B0829CP5BM1529095239}}
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|author=A J HackwithDaniel Abraham|title=The Library Age of the UnwrittenAsh|rating=24.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Bear with me, this summary is not going to be forced into We meet Alys under the intended, one breath length. In this world, there is a corner most northerly of Hell that is employed to look after all the worldOldgate's incomplete stories. four bridges, (You'd think Heaven would look after literature, but as it she has no loss, no need a knife in her hand and no variation from heavenly norm, you can't have any decent narrative therea meeting that she dreads.) Now and again something happens to Meanwhile the restless creativity on show – characters come to life as embodiments City of the books they're Kithamar is at a point in, and can even breach through to the human world. As a result turning of one such incidence, our heroine Claire has gone to Seattle to force a Hero type back into ink form, but has failed, resulting in him still livingyears when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. But it's also brought something much more important close to It is the fore – at night between the same time as this, funeral of a human at Prince and the Pearly Gates has tried to bribe coronation of his way in by yielding a page of what is claimed to be Satan's Biblesuccessor. The humble (and humbled) gatekeeper, For a night the angel Ramiel, Kithamar is on the hunt, but such is the import that Claire and her cohorts also feel the need to chase what fragments of it are floating about our worldun-ruled.|isbn=17890931710356515427
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|author=H G Parry Ann Sei Lin|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a sensible lawyer who exists massive dining hall floating in the "normal" world - sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and Charley make merry between their conquests. However, when a man who named Himura arrives to tell her that she is blessed a Crafter like him, someone with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him the power to bring literary characters form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the real worldEmpire. After years of protecting CharleyHe asks her to come with him, Rob wants to discharge his duties and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out the life of both their handsdreary servitude that is all she has known. As literary characters begin to appear everywhereWell, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares CharleyKurara won's powers t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and intends she is forced to use them for nefarious gainsflee out into the world. Rob and Charley must team up to stop She joins Himura aboard the madness Orihime, a sky- in a battle ship whose express purpose is to win before theyhunt down shikigami, the characters and the a whole world reach The End…of adventure awaits her…|isbn=03565137771406399590
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|isbn=1250168546B09Q3P283Y|authortitle=Sarah KozloffShadebringer|titleauthor=A Queen In HidingGrayson W Hooper|rating=34
|genre=Fantasy
|summary= World-building 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 backbone by military. If he's honest - which fantasy novels live and die. And what a pleasureClyde usually is, then, to get a novel with worldhimself at least -building you actually want to delve into. Sarah Kozloffhe hasn's debut novel presents a startlingly rich t got many choices and layered worldthis one, with a complex history at least, gets him out of connecting nations that seems certain to have more to tap, the rut he's in. He's good in training and the characters are interesting – if is quickly put onto a little underdevelopednon commissioned officer training course. But itHe's a world I could – and did – eagerly buy into, and the struggle of each Queen to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very aptchuffed with himself.
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|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)Jennifer Saint|title=Orphans of the TideElektra|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= In the last city on Earth, anyone can be 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the vessel story of The Enemy - the god three women who drowned live in the heavily male dominated world - who has come to wreak havoc on the last of humanityAncient Greece. When a mysterious boy is pulled from Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the corpse story of a whale, the citizens immediately believe him to be Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, a girl inventor. As silent women have the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute most compelling stories and the boy, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets..most extreme furies.|isbn=02413844351472273915
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|author= Luke ArnoldDean Koontz|title= The Last Smile in Sunder CityQuicksilver|rating= 2.5|genre= FantasyThrillers|summary= Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he'The Last Smile s lived in Sunder City'' a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is an urban fantasy noir written by Luke Arnold. It centres starting a career on a Private Detectiveneedless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', Fetch Philipsfor something – call it unearthly intuition, as call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he attempts go to a derelict diner, find a missing vampire in gold coin worth a world filled with magical creatures where fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the magic has suddenly disappeared with catastrophic consequencesdiscovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|isbn=0356512886 1542019885
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|author= A K LarkwoodTasha Suri|title= The Unspoken NameJasmine Throne|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= What does it mean On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to betray someone? What if that someone the pyre. She is a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would immediately sent to be sacrificed to her god imprisoned on her fourteenth birthday, yet when the opportunity arises, she chooses to abandon everything she knows and flee Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with her lifea community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. Who can blame her? Her god’s reach But now the temple is limited and Csorwe intends to stay far beyond itnothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, yet fate is Malini witnesses a funny thing and when circumstances bring her back within the reach girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her god Csorwe learns for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the girl saved her god remembers her, from an attacker and blames begs for the girl to become her very much indeedown personal maidservant.|isbn=12502389000356515648
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|author=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)Genevieve Gornichec|title=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy TalesThe Witch's Heart|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=CursesA modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. TheyShe hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin're there throughout tales of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed s wrath. Her attempts to do thislive in peace, however, or not are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to be able the stake—and refuses to do thatleave her alone. Children can be cursed, as can princesses on the verge After an initial period of marryingmistrust, and older people too. It seems in a way thereAngrboda begins to fall for Loki's no escaping it. Which is why charms, and the theme of this book two start an unusual family made of short stories is such up a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed characterhalf-dead daughter, a son that demonised place's a wolf, and another son that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrongs a snake.|isbn=17890915001789097061
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|author=Kathlaine C Gill and D Clark GillHannah Whitten|title=Madness Between Light and DarkFor the Wolf|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=ItIn Red's 1912family, the first daughter becomes queen, and at New Hope Sanatoriumthe second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, Christine Agnes Tupper she is fast growing upthe second daughter. Abandoned there by parents who were ashamed of Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her hunchbackback, she's nevertheless grown up Red knows what to an intelligent girl with expect: within the woods is a good heartwolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. Her encounters with If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the inhabitants of monsters he keeps contained to the asylum swiftly take her on a fascinatingwoods will be released, thrilling and sometimes terrifying journey of self-discoverythe fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, allowing Agnes expecting nothing more than to prove be killed within the hour, she finds that, even with the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a twisted spine, her heart is in the right place!man.|isbn=16411107080356516369
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|author= Alexandra ChristoJohn Gwynne|title= Into the Crooked PlaceThe Shadow Of The Gods|rating= 45|genre= TeensFantasy|summary= In The Shadow Of The Gods is the city first installment of Creijethe Bloodsworn Saga, Tavia, a magical con-artist, specialises set in wowing gullible tourists with cheap charms and trickery. However, when a new and powerful form the era of magic unlike anything seen the Vikings in decades begins trickling onto the streetsshadow of Ragnarok, nearly killing her close friend Saxony, Tavia begins when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to worrysee. At This story is the same time, her childhood best friend Wesleyultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the youngest underboss in the citygenre, discovers that Dante Ashwoodwith mythical creatures, the kingpin of the Creijen criminal underworldarchaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, has his sights set on with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world domination. It's now up to the four unlikely allies to bring down his plans..in which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=12503183780356514218
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{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Abercrombie -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0575095865.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0575095865/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Adua is going through a period of rapid industrial revolution, the old social structures being thrown into chaos as the factories go up. But, the old ways die hard in this land. In the north, the young heir to the Governorship Leo Dan Brock and his allies fight off the invading armies of Scale Ironhand and his nephew Stour Nightfall. He desperately wants reinforcements from the crown, but the debaucherous, self-loathing Crown Prince Orso is all they can spare. Savine Dan Glotka, investor and daughter of the High Inquisitor, plots to ascend to the top of the social hierarchy no matter the cost. But, with hatred and discontent growing among the working classes, her plans might never come to fruition. Under the tutelage of the world-weary old witch Isern-I-Phail, young Rikke struggles to control the Long Eye, something she was blessed (or possibly cursed) with. However, seeing the future and affecting it are two very different things...[[A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie|Full Review]] <!-- Maxwell N Andrews -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1983376353.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1983376353/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put Move on a par with comments about Marmite. You're supposed to love it or hate it and I'm halfway between, and likewise, the old adage is halfway true. From the cover of this I had a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. That was only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacy. But why was I two chapters in and just finding more and more characters, both human and animal, and more and more flashbacks, and no proof that this was what I'd bought in for? [[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews|Full Review]] <!-- Claire North -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:williamabbey.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0316316849/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Newest For Sharing Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]  When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a young boy in 1880's South Africa, he finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns the weight of the curse upon him, as the shadow of the dead boy begins to follow him across the world. Never stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of William. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in others, he also learns that the dark shadow is deadly – and seeks to kill the one he loves the most… [[The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North|Full Review]] <!-- Averill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1077651538.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1077651538/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Years of Fading Magic by Kenelm Averill]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]  ''What if you could subtly change the lives of ordinary people around you?'' Jessica Turner was one of the more radical teens to come out of Eastfield. A youth spent hanging out with a close crowd of friends was characterised by Jessica's role as a trendsetter, as an influencer, as a leader. Strangely charismatic, Jessica invited fascination and obsession. Nobody who met her forgot her. Or the days they spent in the Enclosure, a clearing in Eastfield woods that Jessica felt gave her power. But the group went its separate ways, as adolescent groups do, and her influence faded...[[The Years of Fading Magic by Kenelm Averill|Full Review]]  <!-- Hewitt -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1509896465.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509896465/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] ''The Nightjar'' is an unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a box on her doorstep one morning and her life begins to unravel, fast. From that very moment, her life is flooded with magic, loss, expectation and particularly, betrayal. As everything around her shifts, all that she knows, all that she thinks she knows, must change. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself? [[The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE --> |}