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|isbn=0356512479|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=1803364548

|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 wanted'' In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructs, an heir to can hear the throne, a smuggler, and a warrior will fight to find their place in song of the worldsea. Lin is The call of the emperor's forgotten daughterdeep, kept locked away in a palace of secrets and closed doors. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to show him she is capable of reviving a dying empire and answering beat in secret, she begins to unlock one door after another, searching for the mysteries of her past and the forbidden art of bone shard magicmy heart.''

Yet Lin Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is playing one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a deadly game 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 quest for power will come at great cost, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With revolution in only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the air and creeping closer and closer watched streets of foreign islands to the gates heart of the palacesmuggler's territory, Lin Mira must decide just how far she will be determined to go stop at nothing to become a catalyst save the future of change her home and save her peoplethe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=03565149430008664730

|author= Joan HeT Kingfisher|title= Descendant of the CraneThornhedge

|genre= Fantasy|summary=''Heroes cannot be forged without villainsYou had a right to retake your place.''Princess Hesina of the kingdom of Yan has never wanted the throne. Instead of craving power, she has always considered the crown her inescapable duty and shrank away from the responsibilities T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of being Queen. To her, it has always been a distant, faraway future. Until fairytale that is, it isn't. When her well known and well beloved father suddenly dies, she is thrust into ruling. But contrary to the official reportwhilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Hesina knows all Thornhedge is not as it seems, her father didn't diestory. He Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was murdered.Determined to seek the truth stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and discover her father's killer, Princess Hesina will stop at nothing secreted away to find justice, even committing treason. Under the cover land of darkness, fairie where her feet lead childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her to a soothsayer to learn what happened that day veins and who killed the Kingcast spells.|isbn=17890940461803364238

|author=Joanne M HarrisNicole Jarvis|title=A Pocketful of CrowsPortrait in Shadow|rating=4.5|genre= Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary= ''I have always been want all of the mind that once youFlorence to know my name''re above picture-book level and before you get to graphic sex & violence Cast out from Rome, there is no difference between books for children Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and books for adultswhere her future can thrive rather than stagnate. There are good books and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful of Crows'' is clearly aimed at But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the younger readers as witness powerful Accademia, the use self-proclaimed guardians of the middle initial in healing magics that through paintings have the author's name power to differentiate protect the city and its citizens from her adult offersplagues and curses. Ignore that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress of the modern fairy taleThe all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. This is To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no different. It is an utter delightplace amongst them and their society.|isbn=14732221841803362340

|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallThomas D Lee|title= The Mermaid, the Witch and the SeaPerilous Times|rating= 53|genre= TeensFantasy|summary= On ''Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set in the pirate ship Dovenear-distant future, Flora in a world on the girl has assumed the identity verge of Florian the man in an attempt to fit climate collapse, Britain is in with the crewgreat peril. Life is hard as The British Isles desperately needs a pirate, trust and empathy are the first things hero (or several) to be discarded, but anything has to be better than starving on save the streetsday and rescue what little remains. Meanwhile, What no-one expected was that one of the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards Knights of the Dove, headed off to be married to a military man she's never met on some far-flung colony of Round Table would answer the Nipran Empirecall. Neither of them expects to be thrown together by fate, never mind fall in love…|isbn=15362043150356518523

|author=Baye HartshorneAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Ghosted: The Treason House TrilogyDelilah Recovered

|summary='Julia Crawley has lost We meet Dee at a point when her job on life isn''Celebrity'' magazine and so she decides t going as planned but things might, just might, be about to cut her losses and return home to the village look up. Out of Monmouth Cove on the Jersey Shorework, hoping to return about to lose her harder hitting journalistic roots via local newsflat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. SheBut it'll s not to be staying . Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with her grandmother - a Dee? She's just an ordinary woman always ready to help younger relatives in need , living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of a hand. There's only one problem with things that: creepy Uncle Dex, who doesn't always keep his hands are not ordinary at all return to himselfher and things will never be the same....|isbn= B0829CP5BMB0BKYFDLLV}}

|author=A J HackwithHadeer Elsbai|title=The Library Daughters of the UnwrittenIzdihar|rating=24

|summary=Bear with meDrawing inspiration from Egypt, this summary is ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not going to be forced more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the intendedupper class, one breath length. In this world, there is a corner of Hell that is employed wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to look after all control her abilities and then join the world's incomplete stories. (You'd think Heaven would look after literaturemilitary, but as it has no loss, no need and no variation from heavenly norm, you can't have any decent narrative thereinstead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico.) Now and again something happens to the restless creativity Giorgina on show – characters come to life as embodiments of the books they're in, other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and can even breach through feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the human world. As a result Daughters of one such incidence, our heroine Claire has gone to Seattle to force Izdihar – a Hero type back into ink form, but has failed, resulting in him still living. But itgroup campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also brought something much more important close happens to the fore – at the same time as this, a human at the Pearly Gates has tried to bribe his way be in by yielding love with Nico. What follows is a page story of what is claimed to be Satan's Bible. The humble (an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and humbled) gatekeepercruelty, the angel Ramiel, is on the hunt, but such is the import that Claire from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and her cohorts also feel the need to chase what fragments of it are floating about our worldovercoming their personal obstacles.|isbn=17890931710356520471

|author=H G Parry Heather Fawcett|title=The Unlikely Escape Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Uriah HeepFaeries

|summary=Brothers Rob Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and Charley have struggled researched meticulously, to see eye to eye for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in write her life's work, the "normal" world - very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and Charley a man who speaking to faeries, she is blessed not so good with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the real world. After years small village of protecting CharleyHrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, Rob wants nor how to discharge his duties redeem herself and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their handsput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. As literary characters begin Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to appear everywhere, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares CharleyEmily's powers and intends to use them for nefarious gainsfrustration. Rob and Charley must team up to stop the madness - in a battle to win before they, the characters and But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the world reach The End…faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=03565137770356519120

|isbn=1250168546|author=Sarah KozloffChristopher Golden|title=A Queen In HidingRoad of Bones|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary= World-building is The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the backbone by which fantasy novels live and dieR504. And what Stretching for over a pleasurethousand miles across Siberia, thenit's 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, to get while its 'spring' sees it turn into a novel with worldhuge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-building you actually want to delve level mud, which dries intorutted, puddly dust. Sarah Kozloff I don's debut novel presents a startlingly rich t think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and layered worldother Siberian minerals, with and because he wanted to give too many people a complex history of connecting nations that seems certain to have more to taplesson, and the characters are interesting – if it legendarily cost a little underdevelopedlife every metre it covers. But You can easily find documentaries about itonline, but that's a world I could bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – and did – eagerly buy intowho's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, and gain the struggle company of each Queen to discover a local beauty, and hone her magical talent felt very real and very aptfetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|isbn=1803361476

|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)Andrew Givler|title=Orphans of the TideSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary= In the last city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who ''Matt has come to wreak havoc on the last of humanitya terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. When a mysterious boy It is pulled from so bad that Dan the corpse Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a whaleblissful life in exchange for his soul.'' Poor Dan! I know, the citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul- all except for young Ellie Lancaster, catching demons. But he really is a girl inventorterrible salesman. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares He never hits his targets and, when he fails to get even Matt to execute sign on the boydotted line, Ellie must prove he's so desperate that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets..simply forges Matt's signature.|isbn=02413844351958204021

|author= Luke ArnoldOlivie Blake|title= The Last Smile in Sunder CityAtlas Six|rating= 24|genre= Fantasy|summary= Dark, sharp, and highly inquisitive, ''The Last Smile in Sunder CityAtlas Six'' is an urban fantasy noir written by Luke Arnold. It centres on a Private Detective, Fetch Philips, as he attempts to find a missing vampire in makes its publishing debut after becoming a world filled with magical creatures where all the magic has suddenly disappeared with catastrophic consequencesTik-Tok sensation.|isbn=0356512886 1529095239

|author= A K LarkwoodDaniel Abraham|title= The Unspoken NameAge of Ash|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= What does it mean to betray someone? What if We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that someone she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to her god on her fourteenth birthday, yet point in the turning of years when the opportunity arises, she chooses to abandon everything she knows worlds are at their thinnest and flee with her lifeall things are possible. Who can blame her? Her god’s reach is limited and Csorwe intends to stay far beyond it, yet fate It is the night between the funeral of a funny thing Prince and when circumstances bring her back within the reach coronation of her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers her, and blames her very much indeedhis successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruled.|isbn=12502389000356515427

|author=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)Ann Sei Lin|title=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy TalesRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Curses. They're there throughout tales Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of faery the Empire come to drink and other fantastical folk 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 – people being cursed a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to do thiscome with him, or not to be able to do leave the life of dreary servitude thatis all she has known. Children can be cursedWell, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as can princesses on the verge of marryinga shikigami, and older people too. It seems in a way there's no escaping itshe is forced to flee out into the world. Which is why She joins Himura aboard the theme of this book of short stories is such Orihime, a standout – we may well think we know all there sky-ship whose express purpose is to know about this accursed character, that demonised placehunt down shikigami, and that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrong.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=17890915001406399590

|authorisbn=Kathlaine C Gill and D Clark GillB09Q3P283Y|title=Madness Between Light and DarkShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=3.54

|summary=ItClyde 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 1912honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at New Hope Sanatoriumleast, Christine Agnes Tupper gets him out of the rut he's in. He's good in training and is fast growing upquickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. Abandoned there by parents who were ashamed of her hunchback, sheHe's nevertheless grown up to an intelligent girl chuffed with a good hearthimself. Her encounters with the inhabitants of the asylum swiftly take her on a fascinating, thrilling and sometimes terrifying journey of self-discovery, allowing Agnes to prove that, even with a twisted spine, her heart is in the right place!|isbn=1641110708

|author= Alexandra ChristoJennifer Saint|title= Into the Crooked PlaceElektra|rating= 4|genre= TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= In 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the city story of Creije, Tavia, a magical con-artist, specialises three women who live in wowing gullible tourists with cheap charms and trickerythe heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. HoweverCassandra, Clytemnestra, when a new and powerful form Elektra are all bit players in the story of magic unlike anything seen in decades begins trickling onto the streets, nearly killing her close friend Saxony, Tavia begins to worryTrojan War. At the same time, her childhood best friend Wesley, the youngest underboss in the city, discovers Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that Dante Ashwood, often the kingpin of silent women have the Creijen criminal underworld, has his sights set on world domination. It's now up to most compelling stories and the four unlikely allies to bring down his plans..most extreme furies.|isbn=12503183781472273915

|isbnauthor=0575095865Dean Koontz|title=A Little Hatred|author=Joe AbercrombieQuicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Adua is going through Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a period of rapid industrial revolutionmercurial character yet, the for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old social structures being thrown into chaos as the factories go upfoundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But, the old ways die hard in when this land. In the north, the young heir book starts he IS now ''subject to the Governorship Leo Dan Brock and his allies fight off the invading armies sudden or unpredictable changes of Scale Ironhand and his nephew Stour Nightfall. He desperately wants reinforcements from the crownmood or mind'', but the debaucherousfor something – call it unearthly intuition, selfcall it mind-loathing Crown Prince Orso is all they can spare. Savine Dan Glotkacontrol, investor and daughter call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of the High Inquisitorhim that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, plots to ascend to cash the top value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the social hierarchy no matter the costlam. But, with hatred And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and discontent growing among the working classes, her plans might never come suggest he's of interest to fruitionthem. Under the tutelage Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of the world-weary old witch Isern-I-Phail, young Rikke struggles to him acting without being in control the Long Eye, something she was blessed (or possibly cursed) with. However, seeing the future discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and affecting it are two very different things..a whole lot more besides.|isbn=1542019885

|isbnauthor=1983376353Tasha Suri|title=Lighthouse of the Netherworlds|author=Maxwell N AndrewsThe Jasmine Throne|rating=3.54

|summary=The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step 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 pyre. She is halfway true. From immediately sent to be imprisoned on the cover of this I had a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and Hirana: an ancient temple that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. That was only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, once filled with their non-standard spelling, as if texts a community of scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacypeople who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. But why was I two chapters in and just finding now the temple is nothing more and more charactersthan an overgrown, both human and animaldecaying ruin. One day, and more and more flashbacksMalini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and no proof that this was what I'd bought in begs for?the girl to become her own personal maidservant.|isbn=0356515648

|isbnauthor=williamabbeyGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Pursuit of William Abbey|author=Claire NorthWitch's Heart|rating=3.54

|summary=When William Abbey fails to prevent A modern and approachable reimagining of the lynching of Norse myths that centres around a young boy witch named Angrboda. She hides in 1880a 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's South Africawrath. Her attempts to live in peace, however, he finds himself cursed by 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 grieving motherstake—and refuses to leave her alone. A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns the weight After an initial period of the curse upon himmistrust, as the shadow of the dead boy Angrboda begins to follow him across the world. Never stoppingfall for Loki's charms, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit the two start an unusual family made of William. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths up a half-dead daughter, a son that he hears in others's a wolf, he also learns and another son that the dark shadow is deadly – and seeks to kill the one he loves the most…'s a snake.|isbn=1789097061

|isbnauthor=1077651538Hannah Whitten|title=The Years of Fading Magic|author=Kenelm AverillFor the Wolf|rating=45

|summary=Jessica Turner was one of In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the more radical teens to come out of Eastfieldsecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. A youth spent hanging out with a close crowd of friends was characterised by JessicaTo Red's role as a trendsettermisfortune, as an influencershe is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, as Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a leader. Strangely charismaticwolf, Jessica invited fascination and obsession. Nobody he is the one who met her forgot herwill decide the fate of their kingdom. Or If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the days they spent in monsters he keeps contained to the Enclosurewoods will be released, a clearing in Eastfield woods that Jessica felt gave her powerand the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the group went its separate wayswoods, as adolescent groups doexpecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, and her influence faded.she finds that the legends are lies.The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=0356516369

|isbnauthor=1509896465John Gwynne|title=The Nightjar|author=Deborah HewittShadow Of The Gods|rating=4.5

|summary=''The Nightjar'' Shadow Of The Gods is an unusual the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and exciting their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story. Alice Wyndham lives a normal life is the ultimate in London until she finds a box on her doorstep one morning High Fantasy, and her life begins John Gwynne certainly does justice to unravelthe genre, fast. From that very moment, her life is flooded with magic, lossmythical creatures, expectation archaic language and particularly, betrayalbattles galore. As everything around her shiftsThis is a thick book, all with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that she knows, all that she thinks she knows, are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must changedo battle. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself?|isbn=0356514218