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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Celine Kiernan|title=The Poison Throne: Moorehawke Trilogy|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=After years away from her childhood home at the court, Wynter Moorhawke – now an apprentice carpenter to her seriously ill father Lorcan – returns, desperate to see her childhood friends Prince Alberon and his half-brother Razi. But Alberon is in exile, and his father King Jonathon, far from being the kind ruler Wynter remembers, reigns with an iron fist. As Razi, Jonathon’s illegitimate son, is appointed the unwilling heir to the throne, Wynter must help him and his friend Christopher survive in increasingly dangerous times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498211</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Denning|title=The Last Seal|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In 1380 the warlock Stephen Blake released the demon Dantalion from the Abyss, only for his nemesis Cornelius Silver to banish him straight away. Dantalion has nursed his wounds for nearly 300 years – and in 1666, descendants of the original pair clash as heaims to return to the world, and burn down London by starting the Great Fire. While the fire rages around London, and Dantalion’s followers try to break the seals which hold him in the Abyss, four unlikely heroes join forces to stop them from being destroyed – and to save the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956483550 </amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=China Mieville|title=Kraken|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Meet Billy Harrow, curator of molluscs and other pickled creatures. Imagine if you will Billy's thoughts on entering the chamber that houses the highlight of his museum's tour !- an immense squid, housed in a glass crate - only to find the entire thing - animal and tank Remove - impossibly removed. Imagine, too, the more esoteric kind of policeman and -woman needed to arrive, to tell him that his exhibit was the keystone of a mysterious cult with the end of times on their mind, and that they might just like Billy to infiltrate it and see what was precisely what. Just consider - is Billy, the man who bottled the giant squid, a John the Baptist to this cult, or a Judas?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0333989503</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim ButcherA G Slatter|title=Changes: The Dresden FilesBriar Book of the Dead
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=It's always wonderful to see a series going from strength to strength and getting better as it goes along. However, when this happens, there inevitably comes a point where it gets so good, you can't help but think that the next one can't possibly be any better as it feels like the series has peaked. ''Changes'', the twelfth in Jim ButcherThere's ''Dresden Files'' series, is such a book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497134</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Phoebe Reeves Murray|title=Ghost: Blood and Fire|rating=1.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Young Jennifer Rhys has been orphaned by the evilDark Angels. They can possess people and bite off their hands, andthere's something about living tattoos which you can take out part of boxesand paste into your skin. After growing up in an adolescentpsychiatric ward, she will grow up me that wants to keep this just to go on and confront them andfulfil her destiny. Or something like thatmyself for however long I can. Between the huge amount This secret magic ofpoorly drawn charactersmy own, the leaden prose, and the disappointingpictures of computerized 3-D modelsall mine, at last. I got lost just want to enjoy it for a few times andcouldnwhile.''t summon the interest to work out what was going on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808863</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Martin Millar|title=Lonely Werewolf Girl|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=The plot is simple - Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the werewolf protection of the title is 17 year old KalixBriar's, exiled from her a family due to her involvement in of witches who protect the town and the head of wider world from the clan’s deathDarklands. Her elder brother Though she has set always wished for magic, Ellie 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 price on steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her headgrandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and is pursuing Ellie takes her place beside her with all sources he can muster. It sounds horrific? It is indeedAs challenges come her way left, right and there are some truly gruesome scenescentre, as werewolves battle amongst themselves, or Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the humans who come into their orbit. Howeverdead, these scenes do serve putting her at the heart of a purpose (maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to remind us perhaps, that they are werewolvesanother, Ellie must decide who to trust and not humans?!), and by and large determine what to do not occupy too large a part in as the narrativeBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749942835</amazonuk>1803364548
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaye WellsRachel Greenlaw|title=The Mage in Black (Sabina Kane)Compass and Blade
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|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=After betraying ''I can hear the Dominae and siding with a Mage over song of the Vampires, Sabina Kane finds herself on the runsea. Leaving behind everything she knows, she travels with Mage, Adam, to meet the other half The call of her family – her twin sister, Maisie. Though the Mages welcome her with open armsdeep, Sabina, used to the cold, displeasure of her Dominae Grandmother, cananswering beat in my heart.''t quite accept their open affection, or their conviction that she has a destiny. Her only focus is on revenge, developing her Mage powers so she can defeat her Grandmother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497576</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Patricia Briggs|title=Silver Borne|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Mercy's life is just not getting any easierRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. The werewolf she lives with Mira, like her mother before her, is looking like going rogue – not snapping one of the seven who swim out of wolf form, which might have dangerous repercussions to survey the ruins for himself rescuing any survivors and those around himany treasure that lies within. Someone within But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the pack sheisland's leader and Mira's joined with seems father. Desperate to be playing psychic warfare on hersave him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and leading with only coordinates to guide her astray with errant mental suggestions. Worse still, she's opened sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the door of sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her (ill-fated) trailer and found death threats on the step beforefather, but not a fae assassin looking over things as her journey takes her from the middle distance. Could any watched streets of this have anything foreign islands to do with a mysterious fae book the heart of fairy lore shethe smuggler's been asked territory, Mira must be determined to look after?stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497991</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreview|author=Brian Ruckley|title=Fall of Thanes|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Godless world is descending into a kind of insanity. All order is breaking down and members of both the True Bloods and the Black Road are fighting amongst themselves. There is rioting in the streets and the armies of both sides have taken to mindless slaughter rather than organised conquest. Under Aeglyss' command, the Black Road armies are strengthening and his power is increasing as his body weakens. His control of the Shadow Chancellor is a step towards ending the rule of the Thanes by murdering the greatest among them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841494410</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kresley Cole|title=Pleasure of a Dark Prince|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Sexy half dressed hunk on cover? Check. Enticing title? Check. Sometimes there's nothing nicer than curling up with a glass of wine (or two!), some cheese and crackers and lovely hunky man – even if he is the main character in a book! I've never read Kresley Cole before but I love fantasy, especially with a romantic element and so I was looking forward to trying a new author.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849830363</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate GriffinT Kingfisher|title=The Midnight Mayor: A Matthew Swift Novel Thornhedge
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary='A telephone rang'You had a right to retake your place.''
I answered. After that… …itT Kingfisher's complicatedlatest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well beloved.'  Sorcerer Matthew Swift does But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not especially like dangerher story. In factInstead, after our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the events that led land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to him destroying the Tower draw magic from her veins and his former teacher, Robert Bakker, he'd prefer it greatly if danger would leave him to mind his own business, thank you very muchcast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497347</amazonuk>1803364238
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{{Frontpage
|author=Nicole Jarvis
|title=A Portrait in Shadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=''I want all of Florence to know my name''
{{newreview|author=Glenda Larke|title=The Last Stormlord (Stormlord Trilogy) |rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Last Stormlord is a unique story Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which explores her art can find a civilization on 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 Accademia, the brink self-proclaimed guardians of disaster. The world survives the healing magics that through paintings have the powers of a Stormmlord who brings water power to protect the parched lands of the Quartern city and its citizens from the distant seasplagues and curses. As the story opens the last Stormlord is weak The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and dyingguard it above all else. Choices are being made about who will receive waterTo them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who will not promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and the Quartern hovers on the brink of returning to a time of Random Rain: water that does not fall where or when it is needed. Without a new Stormlord the land will dietheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498114</amazonuk>1803362340
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 {{newreview|author=N K Jemisin|title=The Hundred-Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=A month after her mother's death, outcast Yeine Darr is summoned by her grandfather, king of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, to come to the palace of Sky. There named one of his three heirs, along with her feuding cousins, she quickly realizes that without allies she will surely lose the contest for the throne. Thus begins an epic quest to find her mother's murderer, save her own life, and fulfil a destiny she never knew she had.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498173</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=P C CastThomas D Lee|title=Divine by Choice (Goddess of Partholon)Perilous Times
|rating=3
|genre=Fantasy|summary=A few months after the Formorian war, Shannon Parker ''Hate is living the high life. Hailed as Goddess Incarnate, married to a man (well, centaur) who was born to love her, carrying her first child, the next daughter path of Epona and royally spoiled with amazing jewels and clothes, life really canleast resistance''t get much better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303586</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Laura Powell|title=The Master of Misrule|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In Set in the Arcanumnear-distant future, fortunes could be won and lost. The bizarre otherworld, just the slightest shift away from our own, had been home to in a life-altering game of chance, power and intelligence, based world on the tarot. Four teenaged Londoners had been witness to thisverge of climate collapse, then playersBritain is in great peril. But they'd found it wanting, and The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to level save the playing field, had thrown out the rulebookday and rescue what little remains. With What no-one expected was that, however, one of the Knights of the referee is no more, and Round Table would answer the Lord of Misrule is in charge. Free, too, to smother all of Britain with his unique brand of scratch-card lottery. Soon all humanity might be out of luckcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408302373</amazonuk>0356518523
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James A OwenAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Shadow Dragons (Imaginarium Geographica) Delilah Recovered
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=If you want to know where Tolkein, C S Lewis and their ilk got their ideas from, you might consider their jobs. No - not their work in Oxbridge universities. In this book, at least, John, Charles and Jack are guardians of a very important book, the Imaginarium Geographica, within which lives a lot of secret, vital information, and almost the soul of the land. They might not get a surname so we know immediately who is whom. They might be from a different world - there is certainly enough talk of those in these pages. But we'll see them meet a vanishing Cheshire cat, a certain Spanish knight we might have thought fictional, and more, en route to a quest of Arthurian proportions.
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{{newreview
|author=P C Cast
|title=Divine by Mistake (Goddess of Partholon)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Shannon Parker, broke Oklahoma English teacher, likes We meet Dee at a good bargain hunt at an auction. But she gets more than point when her moneylife isn's worth when she buys a vase with her likeness painted on itt going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Somehow transported to the magical world Out of Partholonwork, Shannon finds herself in the shoes of Rhiannonabout to lose her flat, her mirror double. Along with RhiannonDee is up for an accountant's station as Goddess Incarnate, Shannon finds herself landed with her doublejob. But it's less than enviable reputation and a Centaur husbandnot to be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303578</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Mayhew|title=Mortlock|rating=4Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters.5|genre=Teens|summary=Abyssinia, 1820. Three Englishment search for the Amarant, a mythical flower with She survives the power over life and death, in a strange desert oasisattack but not unscathed. On finding the flower surrounded by decaying faces, they realize Witch hunters? What on earth has that it is cursed, and take a blood oath never to remove it. London, 1854. 13 year old knife thrower Josie performs do with her guardian the Great CardamomDee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an especially gifted magician who we quickly learn is Chrimes, the coward ordinary life. Slivers of memory of the original three Englishmen. Their relatively peaceful existence is shattered when three macabre Aunts (note the capital letter, never a good sign…) descend on them, and Cardamom instructs Josie, with his dying breath, things that are not ordinary at all return to find the twin brother he'd never told her about and destroy things will never be the Amarantsame.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803925</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celine Kiernan|title=The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy)|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=In ''The Poison Throne'' what had been a benevolent kingdom has become characterised by repression and torture (which the book graphically describes). The magical aspects of the kingdom, its talking cats and ghosts, have been suppressed, while Alberon, the heir to the throne, has vanished. Wynter, along with Alberon's half brother Razi and his friend Christopher are increasingly at risk as they attempt to deal with this situation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498211</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Russell KirkpatrickHadeer Elsbai|title=Beyond the Wall The Daughters of Time (Broken Man)Izdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=A couple of aspects have summed up Russell KirkpatrickDrawing inspiration from Egypt, 's 'The Daughters of Izdihar'Broken Man'' trilogy explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for me so far. There has been a fascinating story the rights of women and weavers – those with some wonderful character building that has made it highly enjoyable. There have also been some of the most detailed maps I have ever seen magical abilities - in a fantasy seriessociety pitted against them. Nehal, offering more variation than I've seen in maps before and actually adding detail to some parts of born into the storyupper class, not merely acting as a guide. I was expecting more of wishes to attend the same from Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the final partmilitary, ''Beyond but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the Wall of Time'' other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and very much looking forward feels great pressure to it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496715</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kami Garcia provide for her family and Margaret Stohl|title=Beautiful Creatures|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Teenage boy meets mysterious new stranger in maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a small towngroup campaigning for women's rights. They fall Giorgina also happens to be in lovewith Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, he finds out she's harbouring from which blossoms a dark secret, the pair group of them try to find out if admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their relationship can work while she tries to keep him safe from her world. This kind of book appears to be released every few weeks since [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] became so successful – but rarely in the past few years has it been done as well as it has in Beautiful Creaturespersonal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141326085</amazonuk>0356520471
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jasper FfordeHeather Fawcett|title=Shades of Grey|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Sometimes with authors you just don't know what youEmily Wilde've been missing. Other times you do. Jasper Fforde has long been on my catch-up list. Snippets of Thursday Next and reviews and interviews were enough to convince me I had to get to know this work.  My chance finally came with the first in a completely new series: Shades s Encyclopaedia of Grey.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340963034</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Pamela Freeman|title=Full Circle (Castings Trilogy)Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Pamela Freeman's ''Castings'' trilogy Emily Wilde is written in an unusual way for a fantasy novel. It tells the story from the charactersexpert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life' points of views work, in a style more common to the chick-lit novels very first encyclopaedia of Josie Lloyd faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and Emlyn Reesspeaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. This interrupted So when she finds herself far, far North in the flow small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the story quite noticeably in ''Blood Ties''village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the first of the trilogyright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, but didn't seem quite so much of a distraction in the second part, ''Deep Water'to Emily's frustration. Unfortunately, this time But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around it works against the story.Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497037</amazonuk>0356519120
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan SkinnerChristopher Golden|title=Furnaces Road of ForgeBones
|rating=3.5
|genre=TeensHorror|summary=In this [[Blue Fire and Ice (The Land) by Alan Skinner|sequel]]Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's almost as you were, except here the mysterious powers one of the blue flame are not being used by some outlander arsonist, but have been usurped by two inept young scientists from the Myrmidots, to fuel their industryworld's most notorious routes. We can predict this will prove For months of the year it's a bad thing, but the breadth spread of sheet ice suspended above the journey to capture the flamepermafrost surrounding it, and the efforts while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of all our returning characters to put things right might still be a surprise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955726859</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Malcolm Walker|title=The Stone Crown|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Neither Emlyn nor Maxine feel completely at home in Yeaveburgh unremitting, apocalyptic- yet they both have roots therelevel mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. Emlyn I don's come back to the town in which he was born t think google streetview updates it very often. Built because his mother Stalin wanted so much uranium and sisterother Siberian minerals, archaeologistsand because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, are working on it legendarily cost a dig nearbylife every metre it covers. His father You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is in a care homefilm-maker, having suffered doing a nervous breakdown. Maxine returned recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the town project to live with her grandmother after her mother died fruition to claw back some of a heroin overdosethe funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. Emlyn is quiet and shy They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a bit geekylocal beauty, and lonely. Maxine is lonely too, but shefetch up at the guide'd never admit its childhood village. She And that's too spiky and defensive. They both feel like outsiders, and yet they both have a nagging sense that they are where they were meant things start to be. go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406321516</amazonuk>1803361476
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celia Friedman Andrew Givler|title=The Wings of Wrath Soul Fraud (The Magister TrilogyDebt Collection Book 1)
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The first part of Celia Friedman's ''Magister'' trilogy was Matt has a wonderfully dark piece of fantasyterrible life. It contained some beasts you wouldnSeriously—it't be surprised to come across in a horror novel and stretched the idea of magic being a draining power to an interesting place psychologicallys awful. The second part, ''Wings of Wrath'' It is more of a straight fantasy novel, lacking some of the horror elements so bad that made Dan the first part such Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a draw blissful life in exchange for me, but ithis soul.''s still a very good read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495336</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Wayne J Harris|title=Sins of the Angel|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Dr Gideon MatthewsPoor Dan! I know, a shouty hellfire and damnation preacherI know, has just delivered we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a sermon all about the evils of women being allowed into the church hierarchy terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and, on his way home afterwards, when he is murdered. The following day however he wakes up in hospital or, actually, an angel called Gabriel finds himself inside Dr Matthews' body, able fails to get even Matt to recall Dr Matthews' memories and thoughts and feelings but acting now as himself. Gabriel goes a little bit wild, finding himself overwhelmed by sign on the new feelings and desires he experiences in this body, sinning leftdotted line, right and centre and causing scandal at his every move. He is also wondering for what purpose he has been brought into this body and finds 's so desperate that he is dreaming about a demon, someone who is persuading an unknown monk to commit murders in Godsimply forges Matt's name and who seems to be getting closer and closer to Dr Matthews in order to kill him too...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1438994699</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=The Harvard Lampoon|title=Nightlight: A Parody of Twilight |rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Most people will have heard of the worldwide phenomenon that is [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]. The books by Stephenie Meyer and the film have made a legend of the romance between vampire Edward Mullen (Robert Pattinson plays the movie role) and teenage schoolgirl Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart)signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849013330</amazonuk>1958204021
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ElliottOlivie Blake|title=Traitors' Gate (Crossroads)The Atlas Six
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Kate Elliott's ''Crossroads'' series has so far come in largeDark, slightly off-putting chunks. They've been decent readssharp, by and large, with a huge cast of wonderfully drawn charactershighly inquisitive, but the sheer size and slow pace of the action has meant I didn't enjoy them as much as I may otherwise have done. 'The Atlas Six'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 makes its publishing debut after becoming a lot betterTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498351</amazonuk>1529095239
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda DownumDaniel Abraham|title=The Drowning CityAge of Ash|rating=34.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=In We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a nutshell, you're reading this because you're wondering whether The Drowning knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is good, bad or mediocreat a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. You've probably glanced at It is the night between the rating funeral of a Prince and guessed the lattercoronation of his successor. I'm afraid it's not quite that simpleFor a night the Kithamar is un-ruled. This is |isbn=0356515427}}{{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a debut that provokes decidedly mixed feelingsmassive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. I started off convinced However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that I was going she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to love this bookform paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. The cover art He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is effortlessly coolall she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the premise intriguingmatter, because the characters laden with potential for greatness Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the backdrop Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is certainly evocative.to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498149</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa McMannB09Q3P283Y|title=WakeShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Janie is seventeen and studying hard for college. She's also working lots of hours at a local nursing home to earn money for college as it's unlikely her alcoholic mother is going to provide much in the way of resources. College is Janie's only chance at a life better than the one she's lived so far and so you can't blame her for being so single-minded in the pursuit of her goal. Only one thing stands in her way...
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{{newreview
|author=Lauren Kate
|title=Fallen
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=A 17 year old girl at a new school meets a mysterious and impossibly good-looking boy, who she's immediately drawn to. He seems determined to either ignore her or be outright rude to her, until he saves her life, and the two of them end up drawn together. This isn't Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight'', but it certainly has striking similarities.
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Beth Durst
|title=Ice
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Cassie lives on an Arctic research station in Alaska. She loves the ice and 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 in Fairbanks. 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.
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{{newreview
|author=Jeanette Winterson
|title=The Battle of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=London 1601. Elizabeth I is getting on in years. Her capital city is a busy, bustling place. Boats fill the river and people fill the streets. Jack is happy because it's his birthday and his present is his heart's desire: an excitable black puppy named Max, who's a ''licking and a running and a leaping and a jumping and a tummy in the air and a tail wagging and a barking, racing, braking, spinning energy dog of delight''.
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{{newreview
|author=Kristin Cashore
|title=Fire
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Possessed of great beauty, Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the kind that drives men mad, Fire is used to people trying to kill herVietnam War. She isnHe't used to them doing it by accident. When a poacher s not really that invested in the woods outside her home accidentally shoots herfight against Communism, Fire nor is hard pressed to keep he particularly interested in a career in the temperamental Lord Archer from killing himmilitary. But as sure as Fire If he's honest - which Clyde usually is the man did not mean to cause her harm, she is made unsure by with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the strange fog that exists rut he's in. He's good in the mantraining and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's mindchuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905200129</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GemmellJennifer Saint|title=LegendElektra
|rating=4
|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Dros Delnoch, a massive fortress with six walls 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of defence, is three women who live in danger the heavily male dominated world of falling to the NadirAncient Greece. With its fallCassandra, the Drenai empire is soon to follow. The Nadir haven't lost yet and as a resultClytemnestra, morale among the defenders is low and desertions Elektra are rampantall bit players in the story of the Trojan War. The men long for a hero, but Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the legendary Druss has hidden himself away in silent women have the mountains most compelling stories and become a myththe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498580</amazonuk>1472273915
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terry Brooks Dean Koontz|title=A Princess of Landover (Magic Kingdom of Landover)Quicksilver|rating=32.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Mistaya has Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a lot to deal with 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 needless magazine's staff. But when this book. But then so do her parentsstarts 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 demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, Ben (human) cash the value of it out of his bank and Willow (half Dryad), as prepare for much of going on the lam. And all this is just in time they do not know where she for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is: your basic parental nightmare if you have a fifteen year old daughter whether you are interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the ruler discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a magical kingdom or notwhole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841495808</amazonuk>1542019885
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongTasha Suri|title=FrostbittenThe Jasmine Throne
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=It's back to On the werewolves in this latest volume in Armstrong's immensely popular Women night of the Otherworld seriesher sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and I must say I'm relieved because refuses to step on to the werewolves are my favouritespyre. Time's moved She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a little since we were with them lastcommunity of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. Elena and Clay are But now utterly settled in their wolfish marriage and their twins are three years old. Elena has just found out that Jeremy the temple is looking to retire and also to make her the new pack Alphanothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. Ambitious and competitiveOne day, she's the ideal pack member Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the job - but how will it affect girl saved her relationship with Clay, from an attacker and begs for the pack enforcer? To add girl to this worry, a contact from the past has churned up some unwanted memoriesbecome her own personal maidservant. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497762</amazonuk>0356515648
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mike CareyGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Felix Castor is a talented exorcist living 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, JulietWitch'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 GrossbartHeart
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=When Hegel A modern and Manfried 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's wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, however, are ticked offquickly 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, you know about it. Returning Angrboda begins to a town fall for vengeance - someone didnLoki't like their scrumping there as children s charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a half- they leave several deaddaughter, and several more corpses behind when a posse is sent off to seek its own justice. Theyson that're journeying south, graverobbing their way through mediaeval Europes a wolf, and they donanother son that'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 dones a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497835</amazonuk>1789097061
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Walter Moers Hannah Whitten|title=The Alchemaster's ApprenticeFor the Wolf|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Meet Echo In Red's family, the Cratfirst daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. He To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a rare example of his specieswolf, which and he is a cat that can speak every language known. His life among the miserable, permanently ill citizens one who will decide the fate of Malaisea their kingdom. If she is not great, which is whya worthy sacrifice, when the strange scientist from monsters he keeps contained to the castle that looms over everyone woods will be released, and everything offers him a month of entertaining gluttony before the fabled kings he kills Echokeeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, as opposed expecting nothing more than to three days' starving penury on be killed within the streetshour, she finds that the offer legends are lies. The wolf is acceptednot a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846552222</amazonuk>0356516369
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia BriggsJohn Gwynne|title=Hunting Ground (Alpha and Omega)The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Life with a werewolf The Shadow Of The Gods is a question the first installment of balances. You have to swing your new-found status as the motherly, calming, but powerful Omega wolfBloodsworn Saga, with his Alpha-male studly status. You have to equate his inner Brother Wolf being practically a different entity to his human side, and know when and how to relate to both. And you have to remember that you might be playfighting set in the snow one minute, and era of the next told by your father-in-law to go to Seattle, and act as figurehead for a revolution in werewolf life - and stand Vikings in the face shadow of a very wicked and powerful European werewolfRagnarok, vampires, and more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497959</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Audrey Niffenegger |title=Her Fearful Symmetry|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=When Elspeth Noblin dies of Leukemia, she leaves behind a strange bequest that will when the Gods have dramatic and tragic consequences. She leaves her London flat battled and their bones lie scattered for all the trappings of her life to the 'mirror' twins of her own twin sister who currently live outside Chicagosee. This story is news to the twins who didn't even know that they had an aunt. The only condition of her legacy is that the twinsultimate in High Fantasy, Julia and Valentina, have John Gwynne certainly does justice to live in the flatgenre, which is adjacent to Highgate Cemeterywith mythical creatures, for a year before they can sell itarchaic language and battles galore. It This is clear from the outset a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that Elspeth has secrets about her relationship with her twin sister Edie, which she is keen are woven together to keep hidden from the twins, but when it turns out that Elspeth hasn't quite left the apartment after her death, things get create a whole lot messier for everyonewonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224085611</amazonuk>0356514218
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{{newreview|author=Michelle Zink |title=Prophecy of the Sisters|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=This book is almost four hundred pages long, but I read it so quickly that it might as well have only had one hundred pages! Lia Milthorpe and her twin sister Alice have never really been allies, always slightly at odds with one another. When their father dies and they become orphans, the twins discover that they are enemies in truth, Move on opposing sides of a prophecy that could destroy the world. With the help of her new friends Sonia and Luisa, Lia must find the Keys before Alice does and prevent demons from taking over the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905654480</amazonuk>}}to [[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]