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|author=John GwynneA G Slatter|title=The Shadow Of The GodsBriar Book of the Dead

|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment '' 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 Bloodsworn Sagaworld, set in lies Silverton; a town under the era protection of the Vikings in the shadow Briar's, a family of Ragnarok, when witches who protect the Gods have battled town and their bones lie scattered the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for all to see. This story magic, Ellie Briar is the ultimate in High Fantasyfirst 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 John Gwynne certainly does justice to potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the genreBriar Witch, with mythical creaturesthe town's leader, archaic language and battles galoreEllie takes her place beside her. This is a thick bookAs challenges come her way left, with an intricate plot right and fascinating characters that are woven together centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to create communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a wonderfully realistic maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and gritty world in which our heroes must determine what to do battleas the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=03565142181803364548

|author=H M LongRachel Greenlaw|title=Hall of SmokeCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary= Hessa is an Eangi: a powerful priestess ''I can hear the song of the Goddess sea. The call of Warthe deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. That is until she is banished by Mira, like her high priestess for not following mother before her , is one order: of the seven who swim out to kill survey the traveller ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that visits her templelies within. Her whole town is burnt But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the ground while she is praying for forgivenesswrecking, they capture the island's leader and Hessa – now left alone – must find this traveller to atone for her weakness and win back her goddessMira' favours father. On her journeyDesperate to save him from death, she encounters zealot soldiers, deceitful gods, and newly awakened demons at every turn. It Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is a gruelling quest, secretive and along the waywith only coordinates to guide her, she discovers sets off in search of a harrowing truth: family secret that lies buried deep in the gods are dyingsea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, and as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the High Halls heart of the afterlife are fading. Soon Hessasmuggler's trust in her goddess weakensterritory, and she is thrust into a battle between Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the gods future of the Old World her home and the Newones she holds most dear.|isbn=17890949840008664730

|isbn=0356512479|author= Alix E HarrowT Kingfisher|title= The Once and Future WitchesThornhedge|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''There's no such thing as witches, but there used You had a right to beretake your place.''

In 1893T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, after the purges who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the burnings, witching has been reduced land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to little more than weak charms draw magic from her veins and simple cast spells. If women want to hold power in their hands, to have their voices heard, it is now through women's suffrage.|isbn=1803364238

|author= Andrea StewartNicole Jarvis|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)A Portrait in Shadow

|genre= FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wantedwant all of Florence to know my name'' In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructs, an heir to the throne, a smuggler, and a warrior will fight to find their place in the world. Lin is the emperor's forgotten daughter, 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 in secret, she begins to unlock one door after another, searching for the mysteries of her past and the forbidden art of bone shard magic.

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

|author= Joan HeThomas D Lee|title= Descendant of the CranePerilous Times|rating=53

|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

|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 the mind that once you're above picture-book level and before you get work, about to graphic sex & violencelose her flat, there Dee is no difference between books up for children and books for adultsan accountant's job. But it's not to be. There are good books and poor onesDee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. And Joanne Harris does She survives the attack but not produce poor onesunscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She''A Pocketful s just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of Crows'' is clearly aimed things that are not ordinary at the younger readers as witness the use of the middle initial in the author's name all return to differentiate from her adult offers. Ignore that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you and things will know that Harris is mistress of never be the modern fairy talesame.. This is no different. It is an utter delight.|isbn=1473222184B0BKYFDLLV

|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallHadeer Elsbai|title= The Mermaid, the Witch and the SeaDaughters of Izdihar|rating= 54|genre= TeensFantasy|summary= On Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the pirate ship Dovelives of two women who could not be more different, Flora the girl has assumed yet find themselves fighting for the identity rights of Florian women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the man in an attempt upper class, wishes to fit in with attend the crew. Life is hard as a pirate, trust Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and empathy are then join the first things to be discardedmilitary, but anything has to be better than starving instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the streets. Meanwhileother 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 young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards the Dove, headed off to be married to Daughters of Izdihar – a military man shegroup campaigning for women's never met on some far-flung colony of the Nipran Empirerights. Neither of them expects Giorgina also happens to be thrown together by fatein love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, never mind fall in love…from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|isbn=15362043150356520471

|author=Baye HartshorneHeather Fawcett|title=Ghosted: The Treason House TrilogyEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary='Julia Crawley has lost her job Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on ''Celebrity'' magazine faerie lore, and so she decides has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to cut write her losses life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and return home speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Monmouth Cove on Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the Jersey Shorevillage matriarch, hoping to return she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her harder hitting journalistic roots via local newsbook back on the right track. She Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily'll be staying s frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with her grandmother 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 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it'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, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic- level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a woman always ready to help younger relatives in need of lesson, it legendarily cost a handlife every metre it covers. There You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's only a bit rich, for one problem of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with that: creepy Uncle Dexhis cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who doesn't always keep his hands s mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to himselfclaw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|isbn= B0829CP5BM1803361476}}

|author=A J HackwithAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Library of the UnwrittenDebt Collection Book 1)|rating=24

|summary=Bear with me, this summary ''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is not going to be forced into so bad that Dan the intended, one breath length. In this world, there Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a corner of Hell that is employed to look after all the worldblissful life in exchange for his soul.'s incomplete stories. (You'd think Heaven would look after literature, but as it has no loss Poor Dan! I know, no need and no variation from heavenly normI know, you canwe shouldn't have any decent narrative therefeel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman.) Now He never hits his targets and again something happens to the restless creativity on show – characters come , when he fails to life as embodiments of the books they're in, and can get even breach through Matt to sign on the human world. As a result of one such incidence, our heroine Claire has gone to Seattle to force a Hero type back into ink form, but has faileddotted line, resulting in him still living. But ithe's also brought something much more important close to the fore – at the same time as this, a human at the Pearly Gates has tried to bribe his way in by yielding a page of what is claimed to be Satanso desperate that he simply forges Matt's Bible. The humble (and humbled) gatekeeper, the angel Ramiel, 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 worldsignature.|isbn=17890931711958204021

|author=H G Parry Olivie Blake|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepAtlas Six

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in the "normal" world - and Charley a man who is blessed with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real world. After years of protecting CharleyDark, sharp, Rob wants to discharge his duties and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. As literary characters begin to appear everywherehighly inquisitive, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's powers and intends to use them for nefarious gains'The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation. Rob and Charley must team up to stop the madness - in a battle to win before they, the characters and the world reach The End…|isbn=03565137771529095239

|isbn=1250168546|author=Sarah KozloffDaniel Abraham|title=A Queen In HidingAge of Ash|rating=34.5

|summary= World-building is We meet Alys under the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die. And what a pleasure, then, to get a novel with world-building you actually want to delve into. Sarah Kozloffmost northerly of Oldgate's debut novel presents four bridges, she has a startlingly rich knife in her hand and layered world, with a complex history meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of connecting nations that seems certain to have more to tap, years when the worlds are at their thinnest and the characters all things are interesting – if a little underdevelopedpossible. But it's It is the night between the funeral of a world I could – and did – eagerly buy into, Prince and the struggle coronation of each Queen to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very apthis successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruled.|isbn=0356515427

|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)Ann Sei Lin|title=Orphans of the TideRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary= In Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the last city on EarthMidori, anyone can be a massive dining hall floating in the vessel sky where soldiers of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has Empire come to wreak havoc on the last of humanitydrink and make merry between their conquests. When However, when a mysterious boy man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is pulled from a Crafter like him, someone with the corpse of power to form paper into whatever she desires – a whale, power sought after all across the citizens immediately believe Empire. He asks her to come with him , to be leave the Vessel - life of dreary servitude that is all except for young Ellie Lancastershe 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 girl inventorshikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute She joins Himura aboard the boyOrihime, Ellie must prove that he a sky-ship whose express purpose is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepestto hunt down shikigami, darkest secrets...and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=02413844351406399590

|authorisbn= Luke ArnoldB09Q3P283Y|title= The Last Smile in Sunder CityShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating= 24|genre= Fantasy|summary= Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He''The Last Smile s not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in Sunder Citythe military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn' is an urban fantasy noir written by Luke Arnold. It centres on a Private Detectivet got many choices and this one, Fetch Philipsat least, as gets him out of the rut he attempts to find a missing vampire 's in. He's good in training and is quickly put onto a world filled with magical creatures where all the magic has suddenly disappeared non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with catastrophic consequenceshimself.|isbn=0356512886

|author= A K LarkwoodJennifer Saint|title= The Unspoken NameElektra|rating= 4|genre= FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary= What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone is a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to her god on her fourteenth birthday, yet when 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the opportunity arisesheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, she chooses to abandon everything she knows and flee with her life. Who can blame her? Her god’s reach is limited and Csorwe intends to stay far beyond itClytemnestra, yet fate is a funny thing and when circumstances bring her back within Elektra are all bit players in the reach story of her god Csorwe learns the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that her god remembers her, often the silent women have the most compelling stories and blames her very much indeedthe most extreme furies.|isbn=12502389001472273915

|author=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)Dean Koontz|title=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy TalesQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=CursesMeet Quinn Quicksilver. TheyHe're there throughout tales of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do this, or s not had the chance to be able get to do that. Children can be curseda mercurial character yet, as can princesses on the verge of marryingfor he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and older people too. It seems in now is starting a career on a way thereneedless magazine's no escaping itstaff. Which is why the theme of But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of short stories is such mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a standout supernatural urge – we may well think we know has demanded of 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 prepare for going on the lam. And all there this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to know about this accursed characterturn 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 discovery that demonised place, he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and that other bewitched person. We'd be very wronga whole lot more besides.|isbn=17890915001542019885

|author=Kathlaine C Gill and D Clark GillTasha Suri|title=Madness Between Light and DarkThe Jasmine Throne|rating=3.54

|summary=It's 1912On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and at New Hope Sanatorium, Christine Agnes Tupper refuses to step on to the pyre. She is fast growing up. Abandoned there by parents who were ashamed of her hunchback, she's nevertheless grown up immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an intelligent girl ancient temple that was once filled with a good heartcommunity of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. Her encounters But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with the inhabitants magic. Instead of the asylum swiftly take reporting her on for such a fascinatinggruesome crime, thrilling Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and sometimes terrifying journey of self-discovery, allowing Agnes begs for the girl to prove that, even with a twisted spine, become her heart is in the right place!own personal maidservant.|isbn=16411107080356515648

|author= Alexandra ChristoGenevieve Gornichec|title= Into the Crooked PlaceThe Witch's Heart|rating= 4|genre= TeensFantasy|summary= In A modern and approachable reimagining of the city of Creije, Tavia, Norse myths that centres around a magical con-artist, specialises witch named Angrboda. She hides in wowing gullible tourists with cheap charms and trickery. However, when a new and powerful form forest at the edge of magic unlike anything seen in decades begins trickling onto the streetsnine worlds, nearly killing remembering nothing of her close friend Saxonypast life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, Tavia begins however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to worryleave her alone. At the same timeAfter an initial period of mistrust, her childhood best friend WesleyAngrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the youngest underboss in the citytwo start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, discovers a son that Dante Ashwood's a wolf, the kingpin of the Creijen criminal underworld, has his sights set on world domination. Itand another son that's now up to the four unlikely allies to bring down his plans..a snake.|isbn=12503183781789097061

|isbnauthor=0575095865Hannah Whitten|title=A Little Hatred|author=Joe AbercrombieFor the Wolf

|summary=Adua is going through a period of rapid industrial revolutionIn Red's family, the old social structures being thrown into chaos as first daughter becomes queen, and the factories go upsecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. ButTo Red's misfortune, she is the old ways die hard in this landsecond daughter. In Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the northcape on her back, the young heir Red knows what to expect: within the Governorship Leo Dan Brock woods is a wolf, and his allies fight off he is the one who will decide the invading armies fate of Scale Ironhand and his nephew Stour Nightfalltheir kingdom. He desperately wants reinforcements from the crown, but the debaucherous, self-loathing Crown Prince Orso If she is all they can spare. Savine Dan Glotkanot a worthy sacrifice, investor and daughter of the High Inquisitor, plots to ascend monsters he keeps contained to the top of the social hierarchy no matter the cost. Butwoods will be released, with hatred and discontent growing among the working classes, her plans might fabled kings he keeps hostage will never come to fruitionbe returned—or so the stories go. Under the tutelage of But when Red enters the world-weary old witch Isern-I-Phailwoods, young Rikke struggles expecting nothing more than to control be killed within the Long Eyehour, something she was blessed (or possibly cursed) with. However, seeing finds that the future and affecting it legends are two very different things.lies.The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=0356516369

|isbnauthor=1983376353John Gwynne|title=Lighthouse of the Netherworlds|author=Maxwell N AndrewsThe Shadow Of The Gods|rating=3.5

|summary=The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover Shadow Of The Gods is something I put on a par with comments about Marmite. You're supposed to love it or hate it and I'm halfway between, and likewisethe first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the old adage is halfway true. From Vikings in the cover shadow of this I had a child-friendly fantasyRagnarok, what with that name when the Gods have battled and that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching their bones lie scattered for an attractive water plantall to see. That was only built on by This story is the initial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spellingultimate in High Fantasy, 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 charactersJohn Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, both human and animalwith mythical creatures, archaic language and more and more flashbacksbattles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and no proof fascinating characters that this was what I'd bought are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in for?}}{{Frontpagewhich our heroes must do battle.|isbn=williamabbey|title=The Pursuit of William Abbey|author=Claire North|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=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…0356514218