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|author=Jennifer SaintA G Slatter|title=ElektraThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionFantasy|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells 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 story Briar's, a family of three women witches who live in protect the heavily male dominated town and the wider world of Ancient Greecefrom the Darklands. CassandraThough she has always wished for magic, ClytemnestraEllie Briar is the first 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 Elektra are all bit players in potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the story of Briar Witch, the Trojan Wartown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the silent women have dead, putting her at the most compelling stories heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the most extreme furiesBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=19130978541803364548

|author=Dean KoontzRachel Greenlaw|title=QuicksilverCompass and Blade|rating=23.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver''I can hear the song of the sea. He's not had The call of the chance to get to be a mercurial character yetdeep, for hethe answering beat in my heart.''s lived in  Rosevear, a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundlingremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and now plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is starting a career on a needless magazine's staffone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when this book starts he IS now the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'subject s father. Desperate to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind''save him from death, for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it Mira makes a bargain with a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that wreck survivor who is as charming as he go is secretive and with only coordinates to a derelict dinerguide her, find she sets off in search of a gold coin worth a fortunefamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, cash as her journey takes her from the value watched streets of it out foreign islands to the heart of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest hesmuggler's of interest territory, Mira must be determined to them. Helped stop at nothing to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, save the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind future of burgeoning power – her home and a whole lot more besidesthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=15420198850008664730

|author=Tasha SuriT Kingfisher|title=The Jasmine ThroneThornhedge|rating=45

|summary= On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses ''You had a right to step on to the pyreretake your place. She '' T Kingfisher's latest novella is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community lovely reimagining of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless watersa fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But now the temple whilst there is nothing more than a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an overgrowneternal enchantment, decaying ruinThornhedge is not her story. One dayInstead, Malini witnesses our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a girl kill someone with new-born baby and secreted away to the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magicfrom her veins and cast spells. Instead |isbn=1803364238}}{{Frontpage|author=Nicole Jarvis|title=A Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''I want all of reporting Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her for such art can find a gruesome crimehome and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, Malini claims the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the girl saved her 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, Artemisia – an attacker ambitious young woman who promises trouble and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservantchange – has no place amongst them and their society.|isbn=03565156481803362340

|author=Genevieve GornichecThomas D Lee|title=The Witch's HeartPerilous Times|rating=43|genre=Fantasy|summary= A modern and approachable reimagining ''Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set in the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides near-distant future, in a forest at world on the edge verge of the nine worldsclimate collapse, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the stake three times because of Odin's wrathday and rescue what little remains. Her attempts to live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the What no-one expected was that was cut from her chest before she was tied to one of the stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period Knights of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and another son that's a snakeRound Table would answer the call.|isbn=17890970610356518523

|author=Hannah WhittenAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=For the WolfDelilah Recovered|rating=54

|summary=In RedWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn's familyt going as planned but things might, the first daughter becomes queenjust might, and the second daughter becomes a sacrificebe about to look up. To RedOut of work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's misfortune, she job. But it's not to be. Dee is the second daughterattacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. Sent alone into She survives the woods with nothing attack but the cape not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on her back, Red knows what earth has that to expect: within the woods is a wolfdo with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, and he is the one who will decide the fate living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of their kingdom. If she is things that are not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained ordinary at all return to the woods will be released, her and the fabled kings he keeps hostage things will never be returned—or so the stories gosame.. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=0356516369B0BKYFDLLV

|author=John GwynneHadeer Elsbai|title=The Shadow Of The GodsDaughters of Izdihar|rating=54

|summary=Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Shadow Of The Gods is Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the first installment lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the Bloodsworn Sagarights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, set in born into the era of upper class, wishes to attend the Vikings in Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the shadow of Ragnarokmilitary, when but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the Gods other hand did not have battled a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their bones lie scattered reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for all women's rights. Giorgina also happens to see. This story is the ultimate be in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, love with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galoreNico. This What follows is a thick bookstory of an unjust society, filled with an intricate plot hypocrisy and fascinating characters that are woven together to create cruelty, from which blossoms a wonderfully realistic group of admirable women fighting for their rights and gritty world in which our heroes must do battleovercoming their personal obstacles.|isbn=03565142180356520471

|author=H M LongHeather Fawcett|title=Hall Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of SmokeFaeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= Hessa Emily Wilde is an Eangi: a powerful priestess of expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the Goddess very first encyclopaedia of Warfaeries. That Whilst she is until brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is banished by her high priestess for not following her one order: to kill so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the traveller that visits her temple. Her whole town is burnt to small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the ground while village matriarch, she is praying for forgivenessnot sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and Hessa – now left alone – must find this traveller to atone put her final investigations for her weakness and win book back her goddess' favouron the right track. On Enter Wendell Bambleby, her journey, she encounters zealot soldiers, deceitful gods, dashingly handsome and newly awakened demons at every turn. It is a gruelling questinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and along the waydelight, she discovers a harrowing truth: the gods are dying, and the High Halls of the afterlife are fading. Soon Hessamuch to Emily's trust in her goddess weakens, and she frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is thrust into a battle between going on with the gods of the Old World and the New.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=17890949840356519120

|isbn=0356512479|author= Alix E HarrowChristopher Golden|title= The Once and Future WitchesRoad of Bones|rating= 3.5|genre= FantasyHorror|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'There… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's no such thing as witchesmost 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, but there used and because he wanted to begive too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix ' In 1893Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, after the purges and John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the burnings, witching has been reduced project to little more than weak charms and simple spells. If women want fruition to hold power claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their handsoh-so-chatty local guide, to have their voices heardgain the company of a local beauty, it is now through womenand fetch up at the guide's suffragechildhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|isbn=1803361476

|author= Andrea StewartAndrew Givler|title= The Bone Shard Daughter Soul Fraud (The Drowning EmpireDebt Collection Book 1)|rating=4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wantedMatt has a terrible life. Seriously—it'' In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic s awful. It is so bad that powers animal-like constructs, an heir to Dan the throne, a smuggler, and Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a warrior will fight to find their place blissful life in the worldexchange for his soul.''

Lin is the emperor's forgotten daughterPoor Dan! I know, kept locked away in a palace of secrets and closed doors. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throneI know, 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 we shouldn't feel sorry for the mysteries of her past and the forbidden art of bone shard magicsoul-catching demons. Yet Lin But he really is playing a deadly game and her quest for power will come at great costterrible salesman. With revolution in the air He never hits his targets and creeping closer and closer , when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the gates of the palacedotted line, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become a catalyst of change and save her peoplehe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|isbn=03565149431958204021

|author= Joan HeOlivie Blake|title= Descendant of the CraneThe Atlas Six|rating=54|genre= Fantasy|summary=''Heroes cannot be forged without villains''Princess Hesina of the kingdom of Yan has never wanted the throne. Instead of craving powerDark, sharp, she has always considered the crown her inescapable duty and shrank away from the responsibilities of being Queen. To herhighly inquisitive, it has always been a distant, faraway future. Until that is, it isn't. When her beloved father suddenly dies, she is thrust into ruling. But contrary to the official report, Hesina knows all is not as it seems, her father didn't die. He was murdered.Determined to seek the truth and discover her fatherThe Atlas Six''s killer, Princess Hesina will stop at nothing to find justice, even committing treason. Under the cover of darkness, her feet lead her to makes its publishing debut after becoming a soothsayer to learn what happened that day and who killed the KingTik-Tok sensation.|isbn=17890940461529095239

|author=Joanne M HarrisDaniel Abraham|title=A Pocketful Age of CrowsAsh|rating=4.5|genre= Confident ReadersFantasy|summary= I have always been We meet Alys under the most northerly of the mind that once youOldgate're above picture-book level and before you get to graphic sex & violences four bridges, there is no difference between books for children and books for adults. There are good books she has a knife in her hand and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor onesa meeting that she dreads. ''A Pocketful Meanwhile the City of Crows'' Kithamar is clearly aimed at a point in the younger readers as witness the use turning of years when the middle initial in the author's name to differentiate from her adult offersworlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. Ignore that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris It is mistress the night between the funeral of a Prince and the modern fairy talecoronation of his successor. This For a night the Kithamar is no different. It is an utter delightun-ruled.|isbn=14732221840356515427

|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallAnn Sei Lin|title= The Mermaid, the Witch and the SeaRebel Skies

|summary= On Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the pirate ship DoveMidori, Flora the girl has assumed a massive dining hall floating in the identity sky where soldiers of Florian the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man in an attempt named Himura arrives to fit in tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the crew. Life is hard as power to form paper into whatever she desires – a pirate, trust and empathy are power sought after all across the first things Empire. He asks her to be discardedcome with him, but anything has to be better than starving on leave the streetslife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. MeanwhileWell, soon Kurara won't have any say in the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards matter, because the DoveMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, headed off to be married and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a military man she's never met on some farsky-flung colony of the Nipran Empire. Neither of them expects ship whose express purpose is to be thrown together by fatehunt down shikigami, never mind fall in love…and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=15362043151406399590

|authorisbn=Baye HartshorneB09Q3P283Y|title=Ghosted: The Treason House TrilogyShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary='Julia Crawley has lost her job on ''Celebrity'' magazine and so she decides to cut her losses and return home to Clyde Robbins signs up for the village of Monmouth Cove on US Army during the Jersey Shore, hoping to return to her harder hitting journalistic roots via local newsVietnam War. 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 not really that: creepy Uncle Dex, who doesn't always keep his hands to himself.|isbn= B0829CP5BM}} {{Frontpage|author=A J Hackwith|title=The Library of invested in the Unwritten|rating=2|genre=Fantasy|summary=Bear with mefight against Communism, this summary nor is not going to be forced into he particularly interested in a career in the intended, one breath lengthmilitary. In this world, there is a corner of Hell that is employed to look after all the worldIf he's incomplete stories. (You'd think Heaven would look after literaturehonest - which Clyde usually is, but as it has no loss, no need and no variation from heavenly norm, you canwith himself at least - he hasn't have any decent narrative there.) Now got many choices and again something happens to the restless creativity on show – characters come to life as embodiments this one, at least, gets him out of the books theyrut he'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 a Hero type back into ink form, but has failed, resulting s 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 good in by yielding training and is quickly put onto a page of what is claimed to be Satannon commissioned officer training course. He'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 worldchuffed with himself.|isbn=1789093171

|author=H G Parry Jennifer Saint|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepElektra

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob a sensible lawyer 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who exists live 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 heavily male dominated worldof Ancient Greece. After years of protecting CharleyCassandra, Clytemnestra, Rob wants to discharge his duties and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out Elektra are all bit players in the story of both their handsthe Trojan War. As literary characters begin to appear everywhere, it soon becomes clear Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that someone out there shares Charley's powers and intends to use them for nefarious gains. Rob and Charley must team up to stop often the madness - in a battle to win before they, silent women have the characters most compelling stories and the world reach The End…most extreme furies.|isbn=03565137771472273915

|isbn=1250168546|author=Sarah KozloffDean Koontz|title=A Queen In HidingQuicksilver|rating=32.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary= World-building is Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die. And what a pleasure, then, chance to get to be a novel with world-building you actually want to delve into. Sarah Kozloffmercurial character yet, for he's debut novel presents lived in a startlingly rich nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and layered worldnow is starting a career on a 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, with call it a complex history supernatural urge – has demanded of connecting nations him that seems certain he go to have more to tapa derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the characters are interesting – if a little underdevelopedlam. But itAnd all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's a world I could – and did – eagerly buy intoof interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, and the struggle discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of each Queen to discover burgeoning power – and hone her magical talent felt very real and very apta whole lot more besides.|isbn=1542019885

|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)Tasha Suri|title=Orphans of the TideThe Jasmine Throne|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary= In On the last city night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on Earth, anyone can to the pyre. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the vessel Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of The Enemy - the god people who drowned got powers from the world - who has come to wreak havoc on mysterious deathless waters. But now the last of humanitytemple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. When One day, Malini witnesses a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a whalegruesome crime, Malini claims that the citizens immediately believe him to be girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, a girl inventor. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the boy, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if it means revealing become her deepest, darkest secrets..own personal maidservant.|isbn=02413844350356515648

|author= Luke ArnoldGenevieve Gornichec|title= The Last Smile in Sunder CityWitch's Heart|rating= 24|genre= Fantasy|summary= A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin''The Last Smile s wrath. Her attempts to live in Sunder Citypeace, 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 leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki'' is s charms, and the two start an urban fantasy noir written by Luke Arnold. It centres on unusual family made of up a Private Detectivehalf-dead daughter, Fetch Philipsa son that's a wolf, as he attempts to find a missing vampire in and another son that's a world filled with magical creatures where all the magic has suddenly disappeared with catastrophic consequencessnake.|isbn=0356512886 1789097061

|author= A K LarkwoodHannah Whitten|title= The Unspoken NameFor the Wolf|rating= 45|genre= Fantasy|summary= What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone is In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she would be sacrificed to her god is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her fourteenth birthdayback, yet when Red knows what to expect: within the opportunity ariseswoods is a wolf, she chooses to abandon everything she knows and flee with her lifehe is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. Who can blame her? Her god’s reach If she is limited and Csorwe intends not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to stay far beyond itthe woods will be released, yet fate is a funny thing and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when circumstances bring her back Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the reach of her god Csorwe learns hour, she finds that her god remembers her, and blames her very much indeedthe legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=12502389000356516369

|author=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)John Gwynne|title=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy TalesThe Shadow Of The Gods|rating=4.5

|summary=Curses. They're there throughout tales The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of faery Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and other fantastical folk – people being cursed their bones lie scattered for all to do thissee. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, or not and John Gwynne certainly does justice to be able to do that. Children can be cursedthe genre, as can princesses on the verge of marryingwith mythical creatures, archaic language and older people toobattles galore. It seems in This is a way there's no escaping it. Which is why the theme of this thick book of short stories is such a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed character, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that demonised place, are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and that other bewitched person. We'd be very wronggritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=17890915000356514218