132,585
edits
Changes
no edit summary
[[Category:Fantasy|*]]
[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ElliottA G Slatter|title=Traitors' Gate (Crossroads)The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Kate Elliott's 'There'Crossroads'' series has so far come in large, slightly off-putting chunkss a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. They've been decent readsThis secret magic of my own, by and largeall mine, with a huge cast of wonderfully drawn characters, but the sheer size and slow pace of the action has meant at last. I didn't just want to enjoy them as much as I may otherwise have doneit for a while. ''Traitors' Gate'', the third in the sequence is different in only one aspect; the character development is still there, the huge page count is still there, but the pacing is a lot better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498351</amazonuk>}}
}}
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Cassie lives on an Arctic research station in Alaska''I can hear the song of the sea. She loves The call of the ice and deep, the wilderness of her remote home and she'd definitely prefer to spend her time on tracking polar bears and fending off frostbite rather than on mixing with her peers and enjoying college and home comforts back answering beat in Fairbanksmy heart. However, things aren't all rosy. Cassie's mother died when she was just a baby and she can't help feeling a huge hole in her heart. Her scientist father is remote and unloving and her grandmother left the station after an argument with him when Cassie was still very young. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386571</amazonuk>}}
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kristin CashoreT Kingfisher|title=FireThornhedge
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Possessed of great beauty, the kind that drives men mad, Fire is used to people trying to kill her. She isn't used to them doing it by accident. When 'You had a poacher in the woods outside her home accidentally shoots her, Fire is hard pressed right to keep the temperamental Lord Archer from killing himretake your place. But as sure as Fire is the man did not mean to cause her harm, she is made unsure by the strange fog that exists in the man's mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905200129</amazonuk>}}'
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terry Brooks Nicole Jarvis|title=A Princess of Landover (Magic Kingdom of Landover)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Mistaya has a lot to deal with in this book. But then so do her parents, Ben (human) and Willow (half Dryad), as for much of the time they do not know where she is: your basic parental nightmare if you have a fifteen year old daughter whether you are the ruler of a magical kingdom or not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495808</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kelley Armstrong|title=Frostbitten|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=It's back to the werewolves in this latest volume in Armstrong's immensely popular Women of the Otherworld series, and I must say I'm relieved because the werewolves are my favourites. Time's moved on a little since we were with them last. Elena and Clay are now utterly settled in their wolfish marriage and their twins are three years old. Elena has just found out that Jeremy is looking to retire and also to make her the new pack Alpha. Ambitious and competitive, she's the ideal pack member for the job - but how will it affect her relationship with Clay, the pack enforcer? To add to this worry, a contact from the past has churned up some unwanted memories. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497762</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mike Carey|title=The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Felix Castor is a talented exorcist living Portrait in London, with zombies, ghosts and succubi for friends, and the odd human. His best friend, Rafi, has been taken over by a demon called Asmodeus, for which Felix feels slightly responsible. As such, he needs to get Rafi back to normal - the problem is that Asmodeus has other ideas - basically to kill everyone who has anything to do with Rafi. Felix himself is probably on the list, but before he worries about himself, he needs to do something about his closest friends - namely Pen, his landlady, Juliet, a succubus (a demonic female spirit) and Sue, Juliet's lover. At the same time, there are horrible things going on in a central London gym, and Castor must do something about it before people start to die. Can he solve all his problems without losing any of his loved ones? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496553</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jesse Bullington|title=The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=When Hegel and Manfried are ticked off, you know about it. Returning to a town for vengeance - someone didn't like their scrumping there as children - they leave several dead, and several more corpses behind when a posse is sent off to seek its own justice. They're journeying south, graverobbing their way through mediaeval Europe, and they don't care how many people they have to kill, betray, get vengeance on, or blaspheme, or what they have to eat or drink, until their task is done.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497835</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Walter Moers |title=The Alchemaster's ApprenticeShadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Meet Echo the Crat. He is a rare example ''I want all of his species, which is a cat that can speak every language known. His life among the miserable, permanently ill citizens of Malaisea is not great, which is why, when the strange scientist from the castle that looms over everyone and everything offers him a month of entertaining gluttony before he kills Echo, as opposed Florence to three daysknow my name'' starving penury on the streets, the offer is accepted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846552222</amazonuk>}}
}}
{{Frontpage
|author=Thomas D Lee
|title=Perilous Times
|rating=3
|genre= Fantasy
|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia Briggs Amelia Estelle Dellos|title=Cry WolfDelilah Recovered
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=It 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 work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. But it's not easy to move in with a werewolfbe. He Dee is attacked by two hundred years old or more, and you've been a werewolf for three yearsmen calling themselves witch hunters. He comes with generations of baggage, a father who is She survives the capo di capi of werewolves in North America, and a job as his assassin and general fiery dogsbodyattack but not unscathed. You are only just beginning to get Witch hunters? What on earth has that to grips do with your new statusDee? She's just an ordinary woman, and his temperament, and how they living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are expected not ordinary at all return to mix before you're confirmed as a coupleher and things will never be the same... So when it comes to him clearing up a mess with regards to a lethal, rogue werewolf nearby - making humans take too much notice - the timing could have been better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497940</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=K S Turner Hadeer Elsbai|title=Before the Gods (Chronicles of Fate and Choice)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=''Before The Gods'' is presented as an enigma, wrapped in a puzzle and shrouded in mystery. The front is adorned by a beguiling image created by the author. A glance at the back cover serves only to tantalise rather than reveal what might be in store. ''This is where it all began. Everything. Love, hate, good, evil, us and them. This is before they were gods.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956224202</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Barb and J C Hendee |title=Child Daughters of a Dead God|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Margiere, half-human, half-vampire, is being drawn south by dreams of an icebound castle. Her quest to discover a mysterious ancient artefact borders on obsession – a dangerous one that threatens the lives of her travelling companions. But little sage, Wynn, will follow her, seeking knowledge for her guild on the long forgotten history of their world, as will Chap and Elven warrior Sgäille, who swore an oath of guardianship to Margiere and Leesil.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497312</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Markus Heitz |title=The DwarvesIzdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The charismatic dwarf, Tungdil, abandoned at birthDrawing inspiration from Egypt, and brought up in the land of ''long-unsThe Daughters of Izdihar'' (humans)explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, was raised yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and apprenticed to weavers – those with magical abilities - in a magussociety pitted against them. He finds that his peaceful life is about Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to change dramatically. Plucked from obscurity control her abilities and anonymitythen join the military, he but instead she is sent forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a quest privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to find his fellow dwarvesprovide for her family and maintain their reputation, delivering messages en route: naturallywhilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, adventure will follow himfilled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and perhaps he is even the long lost heir to the dwarves' throne - time will tell!overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316049441</amazonuk>0356520471
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher MooreHeather Fawcett|title=You SuckEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=You know that old adage about books and covers? Well this Emily Wilde is a case in point. The title isn't greatan expert academic scholar on faerie lore, but the cover design for the paperback imprint isand she has travelled extensively, likeand researched meticulously, duh!to write her life's work, the pitsvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. It Whilst she is so uncool…so unrep-resent-ative of the book. This brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not a cocktail thingso good with people. Not even a "Bloody Mary" thing. Well, except for the tiny bit that isSo when she finds herself far, but you'll discover that far North in due course.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498092</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K E Mills|title=Witches Incorporated (Rogue Agent)|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=''Witches Incorporated'' is the second book in K.E. Mills' rogue agent seriessmall village of Hrafvsnik, which are about having somehow offended the exploits of wizard Gerald Dunwoody and his friends. In this bookvillage matriarch, Gerald she is not sure what she has a new job as a secret agent done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the Ottosland governmentright track. He's on a deadly mission to hunt down a saboteurEnter Wendell Bambleby, determined to make amends for his past. Meanwhileher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, his friends have set up an agency (Witches Incorporated) all charm and are themselves heading for danger when they accidentally cross paths with Geralddelight, much to Emily's saboteurfrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497282</amazonuk>0356519120
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tad WilliamsChristopher Golden|title=The Dragonbone ChairRoad of Bones
|rating=3.5
|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=To Simon, an orphaned servant at The Kolyma Highway… the Hayholt, home 'Road of an aged kingBones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it seems that his life will forever be dull and mundane's one of the world's most notorious routes. The King For months of the year it's youthful glory days were long ago and Simon, who dreams a spread of adventuresheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees his peaceful but quiet life as it turn into a tragedy. When the old King dies his son Elias is crownedhuge blodge of unremitting, but begins to act strangely. Strange weather strikes the realmapocalyptic-level mud, terrifying beasts are attacking from the Northwhich dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and the Kingother Siberian minerals, far from helping his and because he wanted to give too many people from these problemsa lesson, is adding his own heavy taxesit legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. Simon is caught up on You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a journey that is as full of danger and intrigue as he ever dreamed bit rich, for one ofour main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, but finds it less than he hoped for. An ancient enemy is stirringa film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the High King Elias is aiding this enemy and it seems project to fruition to claw back some of the only hope for the kingdom lies funds he'd invested in the knowledge of pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the mysterious League company of the Scroll a local beauty, and fetch up at the finding of three ancient swords of powerguide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498394</amazonuk>1803361476
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin J AndersonAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Edge of the WorldDebt Collection Book 1)
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy |summary=Kevin J. Anderson is perhaps better known for his Science Fiction books, such as continuations to the ''Dune'Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it' Saga and numerous ''X-Files'' and ''Star Trek'' bookss awful. Having only ever read It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his ''X-Files'' books, I was unsure how I would like infernal offer: 10 years of a fantasy book by someone who was so ingrained blissful life in my mind as a Science Fiction authorexchange for his soul. I needn't have worried, his first foray into the fantasy genre is a good start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496634</amazonuk>}}'
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim Butcher Olivie Blake|title=Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera) |rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=The 'Furies' of the title refer to elemental spirits of earth, air, fire, water and metal which bond with humans and grant them magical abilities. Welcome to Alera, where all the citizens have magical powers. All except fifteen year old farm boy Tavi, a native of the Calderon valley who for some reason has been unable to create any bonds with an elemental.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497444</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Holt |title=May Contain Traces of MagicAtlas Six
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=It's a hard life being a salesman. Chris Popham spends all his time driving between customers trying to sell them things they don't really want to buy – products of JWW retailDark, magical goods. Portable parking spacessharp, bank holidays on a CDand highly inquisitive, the Book of all Human Knowledge, and the firm's most popular product, DW6, only don't ask what itThe Atlas Six''s for, because no one knowsmakes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841495050</amazonuk>1529095239
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian Keaney Daniel Abraham|title=The Mendini Canticle (Dr Sigmundus Trilogy)Age of Ash|rating=4|genre=Teens |summary=In this fantasy world, the nasty king is dead, but that does not mean things are going well for the resistance fighters we are interested in - for what they immediately see is their guiding light replace him, and appear to be even worse. Meanwhile, in the country next door, another young hero is wondering how his best friend has disappeared. He encounters a passing mystical, elder man with token white hair, who explains it is down to magic - but they see the rest of the friend's family being taken by the military.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846160901</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marcus Alexander|title=Who is Charlie Keeper?|rating=35
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Twelve-year-old Charlie Keeper lives We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in a slightly peculiar house with slightly peculiar noises and slightly peculiar visitors. Her life isn't so great; her parents disappeared years before hand and a meeting that she lives with her senile grandmother and under dreads. Meanwhile the auspices City of Kithamar is at a point in the wicked family lawyer, Mr Crow. She really does need to get away. And get away she does. Fleeing one turning of Mr Crow's particular nastinesses, Charlie falls through a gap between years when the worlds are at their thinnest and finds herself in Bellania, home all things are possible. It is the night between the funeral of myth a Prince and legend, and place the coronation of magichis successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruled. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955891205</amazonuk>0356515427
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongAnn Sei Lin|title=The Awakening (Darkest Powers 2)Rebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=We left poor Chloe Saunders just Kurara has spent her entire life as she'd been taken captive by a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the rather sinister Edison GroupEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. She'd only just escaped their clutchesHowever, too. And when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that was she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after she'd only just discovered all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all shehas known. Well, soon Kurara won's not t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a disturbed teenager, but an immensely powerful necromancermonstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, capable of summoning ghosts and raising she is forced to flee out into the deadworld. She's in good company; fellow captives Rae (halfjoins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-demon) ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and Tori (witch) also have supernatural powers. Still free are Derek (werewolf) and Simon (sorcerer). a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497118</amazonuk>1406399590
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jaine FennB09Q3P283Y|title=Consorts of HeavenShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Some time ago, I read Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the ninth book from Jim ButcherVietnam War. He's ''Dresden Files'' series. [[White Night (Dresden Case Files) by Jim Butcher|White Night]] was a decent enough booknot really that invested in the fight against Communism, but did conform to nor is he particularly interested in a couple of the more obvious clichés and this took career in the edge off it for memilitary. But If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with the eleventh in the series, Butcher seems to have been improving as himself at least - he goes along hasn't got many choices and I found ''Turn Coat'' to be far more enjoyable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496979</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steve Augarde|title=Winter Wood (The Various)|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''We are all this one. I am , at least, gets him out of the fly upon my own cheek, and rut he's in another life I watch myself through his eye''. Pegs, an amazing flying horse that speaks in colours, gives Winter WoodHe's schoolgirl heroine, Midge, his parting words good in this splendid fantasy adventure which can be enjoyed by confident readers, teens training and adults alikeis quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>055254969X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=D J MacHaleJennifer Saint|title=The Rivers of Zadaa (Pendragon)Elektra
|rating=4
|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Don't get me wrong - I never mean to disparage a book when I convert its mood, plot or impression into a two or Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three word comparison with something elsewomen who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. So if I say there is a lot here that boils down to Eloi vs MorlockCassandra, it's to point out I'm quite sure our author has knowledge of The Time MachineClytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in book or on film, and wanted to do something a little similar. And the key word is 'little' - there's a lot that's Machale's own here in story of the balance between his two racesTrojan War. One is above ground, one a lot paler for being subterranean, and Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the battleground between silent women have the two - played out on most compelling stories and under the desert capital city on Zadaa, in a heated time of drought, is perfect for the big bad, Saint Dane, to get his claws intomost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384854</amazonuk>1472273915
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=D J MacHaleDean Koontz|title=Blackwater (Pendragon)Quicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=One of Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the most telling pages chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in this book a nun-run orphanage since he was the one with the authora three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's CV on, which declares his prior career in film and TVstaff. ItBut when this book starts he IS now 's one '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 demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the hallmarks value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the best genre TV series that each episode can immerse you lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in a universe unique Black types to that weekturn up and suggest he's programmeof interest to them. Helped to escape, while never losing sight he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the grand, major story arc. And to discovery that rule I can begin to add the best he is not unique in having some kind of teen fantasy fiction, such as thisburgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384846</amazonuk>1542019885
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaye WellsTasha Suri|title=Red-headed StepchildThe Jasmine Throne
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=In a world where relations between mage-kind On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and vampire-kind are so bad they exist refuses to step on to the brink of war, being halfblood pyre. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a major liability. Though she has been a loyal servant community of people who got powers from the Dominae, mysterious deathless waters. But now the vampire rulerstemple is nothing more than an overgrown, since birthdecaying ruin. One day, Sabina Kane has always been something Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the girl saved her from an outcast, fit attacker and begs for only one profession – assassinating. And she's very good at itthe girl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497568</amazonuk>0356515648
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=D J MacHaleGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Reality Bug (Pendragon)Witch's Heart
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Matthew Swift is doing something he didn't expect to ever do again - waking up A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in an unfamiliar bedroom. It should have been his bedroom, and once upon a time it wasforest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but he shouldn't be waking up, as he that fact that she was killed horrifically a couple survived burnt at the stake three times because of years agoOdin's wrath. He has been investedHer attempts to live in peace, or infestedhowever, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with something her literal heart—the one that has brought him back was cut from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to lifeleave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for revenge - on the killer or killersLoki's charms, andthe two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, he claimsa son that's a wolf, on those who brought him back to the earthand another son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497339</amazonuk>1789097061
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mike CareyHannah Whitten|title=Thicker Than Water (Felix Castor)For the Wolf|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Mike Carey is not In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a name Isacrifice. To Red'd come across befores misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on hearing her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he'd written is the book that one who will decide the film ''Constantine'' was based on, I was certainly interested in his workfate of their kingdom. ''Ticker Than Water'' If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the fourth in his series involving Felix Castor woods will be released, and whilst that gave me slight pause about coming in the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to an already well established seriesbe killed within the hour, my desire to check out Careyshe finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's work outweighed any concerns I hada man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496561</amazonuk>0356516369
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen R LawheadJohn Gwynne|title=Tuck (King Raven Trilogy)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The struggle for Elfael reaches its conclusion in the third volume of Lawhead's Robin Hood trilogy. In this book, we see things through Friar Tuck's eyes. Bryn ap Brychan has been betrayed by the greedy William Rufus, who reneged on his promise to restore the Raven King's rightful throne to him, despite owing his life to the Welsh rebel. So it's back to the forest to regroup and plan again. But time is against the Grellon - Abbot Hugo is planning to bring men in force and to wipe out Bryn and his followers once and for all. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905654138</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Max Frei|title=Shadow Of The StrangerGods|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Max is a dreamer, in that he does a lot of it, partly tempered by his naturally off-kilter circadian rhythm and night-shift routine. He is used to thinking back on, and chasing, dreams, but even he is surprised when he permanently dreams himself into a different world, a country called the Unified Kingdom, and the city of Echo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575089741</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Siddell|title=Gunnerkrigg Court: Orientation|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=While having used the internet for several years now I have never needed to use the favourites option much – there is a routine for my comings and goings online that I can handle, and I don't think I regret losing out on a regular visit to any particular site much. The downside of this is that a lot of online graphic novels have probably passed me by, as I habitually don't form the habit of clicking to them. It's a relief then that one very well-acclaimed example, Gunnerkrigg Court, has come to my attention in book form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184856175X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Trudi Canavan|title=The Magician's Apprentice|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=It seems that wherever you go in fantasy circles at present, Trudi Canavan's work comes highly praised. Reviews of her current and past work speak of it in glowing terms and readers have clearly felt the same way, giving her high marks on websites like Amazon and propelling her to the top of the ''Sunday Times'' bestseller lists. Here at The Bookbag, however, we're a discerning bunch and previous reviews of her work have criticised her weak character development. Having had my first taste of her work, I can see both points of view, but would agree more strongly with the latter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495972</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=M F W Curran|title=The Hoard of Mhorrer|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=M. F. W. Curran's previous novel, [[The Secret War by M F W Curran|Shadow Of The Secret War]]Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, provided set in the era of the reader with a great opening into this seriesVikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. Curran builds his characters very well This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and then puts them into a very gripping story. It was John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with great anticipation I jumped straight into the follow upmythical creatures, ''The Hoard of Mhorrer''archaic language and battles galore. Whilst it contains many of the elements that made the first This is a thick book so good, it is different enough with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to be more than just create a copy of what worked so well last timewonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>023070980X</amazonuk>0356514218
}}