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|author=Genevieve GornichecA G Slatter|title=The Witch's HeartBriar Book of the Dead|rating=45

|summary= A modern and approachable reimagining '' There's a part of the Norse myths me that centres around 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 witch named Angrbodawhile. She hides in '' Within a forest at remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the edge protection of the nine worldsBriar's, remembering nothing a family of her past life but that fact that witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she was survived burnt at has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts first non-witch to live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with be born into her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before family for generations and as such since she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave young, her alonetraining as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. After an initial period of mistrustWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, Angrboda begins to fall for Lokithe town's charmsleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, putting her at the heart of a son that's a wolfmaelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and another son thatdetermine what to do as the Briar witches's a snakelegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=17890970611803364548

|author=Hannah WhittenRachel Greenlaw|title=For the WolfCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=In Red's family, 'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the first daughter becomes queendeep, and the second daughter becomes a sacrificeanswering beat in my heart. To Red's misfortune' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, she is the second daughter. Sent alone survives on luring ships into the woods with nothing but rocks and plundering the cape on wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her back, Red knows what is one of the seven who swim out to expect: survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within . But when the woods is Council Watch lays a wolftrap 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 the one who will decide the fate secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, family secret that lies buried deep in the monsters he keeps contained sea. With only nine days to the woods will be releasedunearth what might save her father, and as her journey takes her from the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so watched streets of foreign islands to the stories go. But when Red enters heart of the woodssmuggler's territory, expecting Mira must be determined to stop at nothing more than to be killed within save the future of her home and the hour, ones she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a manholds 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's awful. It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his soul.'Celebrity' Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn' magazine t feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and so she decides , when he fails to cut her losses and return home get even Matt to the village of Monmouth Cove sign on the Jersey Shoredotted line, 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 in need of a hand. Therehe's only one problem with so desperate that: creepy Uncle Dex, who doesnhe simply forges Matt't always keep his hands to himselfs signature.|isbn= B0829CP5BM1958204021}}

|author=A J HackwithOlivie Blake|title=The Library of the UnwrittenAtlas Six|rating=24

|summary=Bear with meDark, this summary is not going to be forced into the intendedsharp, one breath length. In this worldand highly inquisitive, there is a corner of Hell that is employed to look after all the world's incomplete stories. (You'd think Heaven would look after literature, but as it has no loss, no need and no variation from heavenly norm, you canThe Atlas Six't have any decent narrative there.) Now and again something happens to the restless creativity on show – characters come to life as embodiments of the books they're in, and can even breach through to the human world. As a result of one such incidence, our heroine Claire has gone to Seattle to force makes its publishing debut after becoming a Hero type back into ink form, but has failed, resulting in him still living. But it'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 Satan'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 worldTik-Tok sensation.|isbn=17890931711529095239

|author=H G Parry Daniel Abraham|title=The Unlikely Escape Age of Uriah HeepAsh|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a sensible lawyer who exists knife in the "normal" world - her hand and Charley a man who meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is blessed with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into at a point in the real world. After turning of years of protecting Charley, Rob wants to discharge his duties and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both when the worlds are at their hands. As literary characters begin to appear everywhere, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's powers thinnest and intends to use them for nefarious gainsall things are possible. Rob It is the night between the funeral of a Prince and Charley must team up to stop the madness - in coronation of his successor. For a battle to win before they, night the characters and the world reach The End…Kithamar is un-ruled.|isbn=03565137770356515427

|isbn=1250168546|author=Sarah KozloffAnn Sei Lin|title=A Queen In HidingRebel Skies|rating=35|genre=FantasyTeens|summary= World-building is Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the backbone by which fantasy novels live Empire come to drink and diemake merry between their conquests. And what However, when a pleasure, then, man named Himura arrives to get tell her that she is a novel Crafter like him, someone with world-building you actually want the power to delve form paper intowhatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. Sarah Kozloff's debut novel presents a startlingly rich and layered worldHe asks her to come with him, with a complex history to leave the life of connecting nations dreary servitude that seems certain to is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have more to tapany say in the matter, and because the characters are interesting – if Midori is destroyed by a little underdeveloped. But it's monstrous paper spirit known as a world I could – shikigami, and did – eagerly buy she is forced to flee out intothe world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and the struggle a whole world of each Queen to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very apt.adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590

|authorisbn=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)B09Q3P283Y|title=Orphans of the TideShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary= In Clyde Robbins signs up for the last city on Earth, anyone can be US Army during the vessel of The Enemy - Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the god who drowned fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the world military. If he's honest - who has come to wreak havoc on the last of humanity. When a mysterious boy which Clyde usually is pulled from the corpse of a whale, the citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel with himself at least - all except for young Ellie Lancasterhe hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, a girl inventor. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute gets him out of the boy, Ellie must prove that rut he 's in. He's good in training and is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secretsquickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course.He's chuffed with himself..|isbn=0241384435

|author= Luke ArnoldJennifer Saint|title= The Last Smile in Sunder CityElektra|rating= 24|genre= FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary= 'Elektra'The Last Smile by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in Sunder City'' is an urban fantasy noir written by Luke Arnoldthe heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. It centres on a Private DetectiveCassandra, Fetch PhilipsClytemnestra, as he attempts to find a missing vampire and Elektra are all bit players in a world filled with magical creatures where all the magic has suddenly disappeared with catastrophic consequencesstory of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furies.|isbn=0356512886 1472273915

|author= A K LarkwoodDean Koontz|title= The Unspoken NameQuicksilver|rating= 42.5|genre= FantasyThrillers|summary= What does it mean Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to betray someone? What if that someone be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a god? Csorwe needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has been raised knowing demanded of him that she would be sacrificed he go to her god on her fourteenth birthdaya derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, yet when cash the opportunity arises, she chooses to abandon everything she knows value of it out of his bank and flee with her lifeprepare for going on the lam. Who can blame her? Her god’s reach And all this is limited just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and Csorwe intends suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to stay far beyond itescape, yet fate he finds his flight is a funny thing and when circumstances bring her back within interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the reach discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers her, burgeoning power – and blames her very much indeeda whole lot more besides.|isbn=12502389001542019885

|author=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)Tasha Suri|title=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy TalesThe Jasmine Throne|rating=4.5

|summary=Curses. They're there throughout tales On the night of faery her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and other fantastical folk – people being cursed refuses to do this, or not step on to be able the pyre. She is immediately sent to do that. Children can be cursed, as can princesses imprisoned on the verge Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of marryingpeople who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, and older people toodecaying ruin. It seems in One day, Malini witnesses a way there's no escaping itgirl kill someone with magic. Which is why the theme of this book Instead of short stories is reporting her for such a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed charactergruesome crime, Malini claims that demonised place, the girl saved her from an attacker and that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrongbegs for the girl to become her own personal maidservant.|isbn=17890915000356515648

|author=Kathlaine C Gill and D Clark GillGenevieve Gornichec|title=Madness Between Light and DarkThe Witch's Heart|rating=3.54

|summary=It's 1912, A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at New Hope Sanatoriumthe edge of the nine worlds, Christine Agnes Tupper is fast growing up. Abandoned there by parents who were ashamed remembering nothing of her hunchback, past life but that fact that shewas survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's nevertheless grown up to an intelligent girl with a good heartwrath. Her encounters attempts to live in peace, 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 inhabitants stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of the asylum swiftly take her on a fascinatingmistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, thrilling and sometimes terrifying journey the two start an unusual family made of selfup a half-discoverydead daughter, allowing Agnes to prove a son that's a wolf, even with and another son that's a twisted spine, her heart is in the right place!snake.|isbn=16411107081789097061

|author= Alexandra ChristoHannah Whitten|title= Into For the Crooked PlaceWolf|rating= 45|genre= TeensFantasy|summary= In Red's family, the city of Creije, Taviafirst daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a magical con-artistsacrifice. To Red's misfortune, specialises in wowing gullible tourists she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with cheap charms and trickery. Howevernothing but the cape on her back, when Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a new wolf, and powerful form he is the one who will decide the fate of magic unlike anything seen in decades begins trickling onto their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the streetswoods will be released, nearly killing her close friend Saxony, Tavia begins to worryand the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. At But when Red enters the same timewoods, her childhood best friend Wesley, the youngest underboss in expecting nothing more than to be killed within the cityhour, discovers she finds that Dante Ashwood, the kingpin of the Creijen criminal underworld, has his sights set on world dominationlegends are lies. ItThe wolf is not a monster—he's now up to the four unlikely allies to bring down his plans..a man.|isbn=12503183780356516369

|isbnauthor=0575095865John Gwynne|title=A Little Hatred|author=Joe AbercrombieThe Shadow Of The Gods

|summary=Adua The Shadow Of The Gods is going through a period the first installment of rapid industrial revolution, the old social structures being thrown into chaos as the factories go up. ButBloodsworn Saga, the old ways die hard set in this land. In the north, era of the young heir to Vikings in the Governorship Leo Dan Brock and his allies fight off the invading armies shadow of Scale Ironhand and his nephew Stour Nightfall. He desperately wants reinforcements from the crownRagnarok, but when the debaucherous, self-loathing Crown Prince Orso is Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all they can spareto see. Savine Dan Glotka, investor and daughter of This story is the ultimate in High InquisitorFantasy, plots to ascend and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the top of the social hierarchy no matter the cost. Butgenre, with hatred mythical creatures, archaic language and discontent growing among the working classes, her plans might never come to fruitionbattles galore. Under the tutelage of the world-weary old witch Isern-I-PhailThis is a thick book, young Rikke struggles to control the Long Eye, something she was blessed (or possibly cursed) with. However, seeing the future an intricate plot and affecting it fascinating characters that are two very different things..woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=0356514218