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|author=Hannah WhittenA G Slatter|title=For The Briar Book of the WolfDead

|summary=In Red'' 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 familyof witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first daughter becomes queennon-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 the second daughter becomes a sacrificepotions. To RedWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's misfortunecousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, she is the second daughtertown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Sent alone into As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the woods rare ability to communicate with nothing but the cape on dead, putting her backat the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Red knows Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to expect: within do as the woods Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is a wolf, under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and he is Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the one who will decide song of the fate sea. The call of their kingdomthe deep, the answering beat in my heart. If she is not '' Rosevear, a worthy sacrificeremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the monsters he keeps contained to rocks and plundering the woods will be releasedwrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, and is one of the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so seven who swim out to survey the stories goruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when Red enters the woodsCouncil Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, expecting nothing more than Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to be killed within the hourguide her, she finds sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the legends are liessea. The wolf is not a monster—heWith 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 a manterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=03565163690008664730

|author=John GwynneT Kingfisher|title=The Shadow Of The GodsThornhedge

|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods ''You had a right to retake your place.'' T Kingfisher's latest novella is the first installment a lovely reimagining of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled a fairytale that is well known and their bones lie scattered for all to seewell beloved. This story But whilst there is the ultimate a princess trapped in High Fantasya tower, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genresleeping under an eternal enchantment, with mythical creaturesThornhedge is not her story. Instead, archaic language and battles galore. This our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a thick book, with an intricate plot new-born baby and fascinating characters that are woven together secreted away to the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to create a wonderfully realistic draw magic from her veins and gritty world in which our heroes must do battlecast spells.|isbn=03565142181803364238

|author=H M LongNicole Jarvis|title=Hall of SmokeA Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary= Hessa is ''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an Eangi: oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful priestess of Accademia, the Goddess self-proclaimed guardians of War. That is until she is banished by her high priestess for not following her one order: to kill the traveller healing magics that visits her temple. Her whole town is burnt through paintings have the power to protect the ground while she is praying for forgiveness, city and Hessa – now left alone – must find this traveller to atone for her weakness its citizens from plagues and win back her goddess' favourcurses. On her journey, she encounters zealot soldiers, deceitful gods, The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and newly awakened demons at every turn. It is a gruelling quest, architecture for centuries and along the way, she discovers a harrowing truth: the gods are dying, and the High Halls of the afterlife are fadingguard it above all else. Soon Hessa's trust in her goddess weakensTo them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and she is thrust into a battle between the gods of the Old World change – has no place amongst them and the Newtheir society.|isbn=17890949841803362340

|isbn=0356512479|author= Alix E HarrowThomas D Lee|title= The Once and Future WitchesPerilous Times|rating= 53

|summary=''There's no such thing as witches, but there used to be.Hate is the path of least resistance''

In 1893Set in the near-distant future, after the purges and in a world on the burningsverge of climate collapse, witching has been reduced Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little more than weak charms and simple spellsremains. If women want to hold power in their hands, to have their voices heard, it is now through women's suffrageWhat no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|isbn=0356518523

|author= Andrea StewartAmelia Estelle Dellos|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Delilah Recovered|rating=4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=We meet Dee at a point when her life isn''I could never t going as planned but things might, just might, 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 constructsabout to look up. Out of work, an heir about to the thronelose her flat, a smuggler, and a warrior will fight Dee is up for an accountant's job. But it's not to find their place in the worldbe. Lin Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the emperorattack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's forgotten daughterjust an ordinary woman, kept locked away in a palace living an ordinary life. Slivers 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 memory of reviving a dying empire and in secret, she begins things that are not ordinary at all return to unlock one door after another, searching for the mysteries of her past and things will never be the forbidden art of bone shard magicsame.. Yet Lin is playing a deadly game and her quest for power will come at great cost. With revolution in the air and creeping closer and closer to the gates of the palace, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become a catalyst of change and save her people.|isbn=0356514943B0BKYFDLLV

|author= Joan HeHadeer Elsbai|title= Descendant The Daughters of the CraneIzdihar|rating=54|genre= Fantasy|summary=Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''Heroes cannot be forged without villainsThe Daughters of Izdihar''Princess Hesina explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the kingdom rights of Yan has never wanted women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the throne. Instead of craving powerupper class, she has always considered wishes to attend the crown Weaving Academy to learn to control her inescapable duty abilities and shrank away from then join the responsibilities of being Queen. To her, it has always been a distant, faraway future. Until that is, it isn't. When her beloved father suddenly diesmilitary, but instead she is thrust forced into rulingan arranged marriage with Nico. But contrary to Giorgina on the official report, Hesina knows all is other hand did not as it seemshave a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, her father didn't die. He was murdered.Determined to seek whilst secretly attending meetings of the truth and discover her fatherDaughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's killer, Princess Hesina will stop at nothing rights. Giorgina also happens to find justice, even committing treasonbe in love with Nico. Under the cover What follows is a story of darknessan unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, her feet lead her to from which blossoms a soothsayer to learn what happened that day group of admirable women fighting for their rights and who killed the Kingovercoming their personal obstacles.|isbn=17890940460356520471

|author=Joanne M HarrisHeather Fawcett|title=A Pocketful Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of CrowsFaeries|rating=54|genre= Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= I have always been 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 the mind that once you're above picture-book level faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and before you get speaking to graphic sex & violencefaeries, there she is no difference between books for children and books for adults. There are not so good books and poor oneswith people. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful of Crows'' is clearly aimed at So when she finds herself far, far North in the younger readers as witness the use small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the middle initial in the author's name village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to differentiate from redeem herself and put her final investigations for her adult offersbook back on the right track. Ignore that if you have loved anything from Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress of the modern fairy tales frustration. This But why is no different. he here? What does he want? It And what exactly is an utter delight.going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=14732221840356519120

|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallChristopher Golden|title= The Mermaid, the Witch and the SeaRoad of Bones|rating= 3.5|genre= TeensHorror|summary= On The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the pirate ship DoveR504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, Flora it's one of the girl has assumed world's most notorious routes. For months of the identity year it's a spread of Florian sheet ice suspended above the man in an attempt 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 fit in with the crewgive too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. Life You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is hard as a piratefilm-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, trust and empathy are John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the first things project to be discarded, but anything has fruition to be better than starving on claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the streetspair's prior TV projects. Meanwhile They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the Dove, headed off to be married to a military man sheguide's never met on some far-flung colony of the Nipran Empirechildhood village. Neither of them expects And that's where things start to be thrown together by fate, never mind fall in love…go awry…|isbn=15362043151803361476

|author=Baye HartshorneAndrew Givler|title=Ghosted: Soul Fraud (The Treason House TrilogyDebt Collection Book 1)

|summary='Julia Crawley 'Matt has lost her job on a terrible life. Seriously—it''Celebrity'' magazine and s awful. It is so she decides to cut her losses and return home to bad that Dan the village Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years 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 - a woman always ready to help younger relatives blissful life in need of a handexchange for his soul. There's only one problem with that: creepy Uncle Dex, who doesn't always keep his hands to himself.|isbn= B0829CP5BM}} {{Frontpage|author=A J Hackwith|title=The Library of the Unwritten|rating=2|genre=Fantasy|summary=Bear with mePoor Dan! I know, this summary is not going to be forced into the intendedI know, one breath lengthwe shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. In this world, there But he really is a corner of Hell that is employed to look after all the world's incomplete storiesterrible salesman. (You'd think Heaven would look after literature, but as it has no loss, no need He never hits his targets and no variation from heavenly norm, you can't have any decent narrative there.) Now and again something happens when he fails to the restless creativity on show – characters come 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 incidencedotted line, our heroine Claire has gone to Seattle to force a Hero type back into ink form, but has failed, 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 quotesultimate in High Fantasy, 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 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?which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=0356514218