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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sadie S ForsytheA G Slatter|title=The Weeping Empress|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Chiyo wakes up with the sun in her face and the grass at her back. For a moment, she feels almost as though she's in heaven. But the joy in the moment is short-lived. Around her is mayhem. Uniformed guards are fighting off two rogue warriors intent on freeing a band Briar Book of captives. Before she knows it, Chiyo is fighting alongside the warriors, showing a ferocity the meek and mild wife and mother never knew she had.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1257814419</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Jackson Bennett|title=The TroupeDead

|summary=George never knew his father, a man with whom his mother had a brief relationship when the Vaudeville - a travelling theatre company - came to town. Sixteen years later and George is following in the footsteps he believes to be his father'' There's, by playing piano at a theatre on the circuit and hoping his father will show up. He doesn't, so George goes in search part of himme that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. The first glimpse George has This secret magic of the man he thinks of as his father is my own, all mine, at one of the troupe's showslast. He is captivated not I just by Silenus, but by the entire companywant to enjoy it for a while.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500403</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Rachel Aaron|title=The Legend Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of Eli Monpress|rating=4witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The important thing, when reading or reviewing booksThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to take them on their own termsbe born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and not to try administration rather than spells and make something of them that they do not claim to bepotions. Do not seek laugh-out-loud humour from horror stories (except by accident)When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Do not expect picture books As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to discuss communicate with the ins and outs dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of astrophysicschaos. And Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do not demand great depth from a series of fantasy novels where as the heroBriar witches's first action is to steal a king on the grounds thatlegacy, everything they have sacrificed to be perfectly honestsurvive, no one will actually miss him very muchis under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500861</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|author=Maria V Snyder|title=Touch Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Power: Avry of Kazan Book 1|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=The game is upthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Despite But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the risk that she would be betrayed Avry couldnisland's leader and Mira't stop herself s father. Desperate to save him from healing death, Mira makes a bargain with a sick childwreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, and after years on the run she is sets off in search of a cell awaiting executionfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Then a band of misfit companions offer With only nine days to unearth what might save her freedomfather, in return for healing their prince. Unfortunately, said prince is as her journey takes her from the one who spread watched streets of foreign islands to the idea heart of the healerssmuggler' guilt in s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the first place, future of her home and as such he is Avry's sworn enemythe ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848450656</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James TreadwellT Kingfisher|title=AdventThornhedge|rating=4.5

|summary=A December Night 1537: the greatest magus in the world packs everything up and heads down to the harbour. He's booked his passage 'You had a right to England under a new name, heading for a new life. But it is a stormy night, and when the jumble of rags that follows him, speaks in the voice of one he once loved and demands back what he took from her, he refuses. Inside the box he carries, wrapped in wool, in a calfskin pouch warded with every spell he could conjure is a ring apparently made out of woodretake your place. 'Inside the ring was all the magic in the world.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444728466</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Julianna Baggott|title=Pure|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=A Hiroshima-like event called T Kingfisher''the Detonations'' has transformed life on earths latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. Shortly after the DetonationsBut whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, when the survivors were still hoping for some form of help to arrivesleeping under an eternal enchantment, a cloud of leaflets were released all bearing the same message: 'We know you are hereThornhedge is not her story. Instead, our brothers protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and sisters. We will, one day, emerge from secreted away to the Dome land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to join you in peace. For now, we watch draw magic from afar, benevolentlyher veins and cast spells.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755385489</amazonuk>1803364238

  {{newreview|author=Anne Rice|title=The Wolf Gift|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Reuben is on the up, make no mistake about it. He will turn from a good journalist to a great journalist - it's just that most of his family, his girlfriend and his editor all patronise him with diminutive nicknames based on his boyish good looks. While staying at a secluded cliff-side mansion in the Californian forests, and researching the back-story of it being on the market for the first time in decades, he survives a bloody attack, and ends up with the house his. And, of course, he receives the Gift - and becomes a werewolf. What does this mean for him - and for others, and just what are the secrets remaining in the strange mansion?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701187441</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle LovricNicole Jarvis|title=Talina A Portrait in the TowerShadow

|genre=Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary=Nineteenth century Venice can seem a sinister place, full of secrets, misty forgotten islands and magic, both good and 'baddened'. It does, however, have its brighter, warmer side, with cosy, comforting grannies and delicious recipes, and Talina loves it dearly. But then the mangy, rabid Ravageurs arrive, creatures part-way between wolves and hyenas, and claim the city as their ancestral home. Men, women and children are stolen away in the night, as are cats and rats, but the inhabitants refuse to believe the full horror I want all of what is happening, preferring instead Florence to blame a neighbouring town.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444003380</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ali Shaw|title=The Man Who Rained|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Do you remember being a child who had only just learned how to read? Do you remember the very first time you read a fairy story that no-one had told you before? Can you recapture the joy of entering a truly magical land and (for a time) believing it was real?know my name''

No? Then I recommend Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that you read Ali Shaw's second novel 'through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The Man Who Rained'all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857890328</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Margo Lanagan|title=The Brides of Rollrock Island|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=On Rollrock IslandSet in the near-distant future, in a world on the fishermen find their brides from the sea through the usurial offices verge of the witch Miskaellaclimate collapse, Britain is in great peril. They're selkies; seal women who shed their skins to become human. Their husbands are obsessed by them and the men without The British Isles desperately needs a selkie will risk anything hero (or several) to become part of save the enchantment, even their human wives day and children and half their lifetime earningsrescue what little remains. Soon there are What no human women left on Rollrock - one expected was that one of the adults to Knights of the mainland and Round Table would answer the female selkie babies to the ocean. There are just dads and mams and little boyscall. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857560336</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John R FultzAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Seven Princes: Books of the Shaper: Volume 1Delilah Recovered|rating=3.54

|summary=Elhathym gatecrashes We meet Dee at a feast at the court point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of Vod-the-Giant-King demanding the thronework, which he asserts was his 3about to lose her flat,000 years ago. Vod Dee is a little incredulous and refuses to abdicateup for an accountant's job. Elhathym then lives up But it's not to his job description (evil sorcerer), destroying the entire courtbe.Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters.She survives the attack but not unscathed. apart from his son, Prince D’zan who manages Witch hunters? What on earth has that to escape do with his bodyguardDee? She's just an ordinary woman, Olthacus the Stoneliving an ordinary life. Prince D’zan wants to fight to regain his kingdom but the only way Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to counter Elhathym her and his armies of things will never be the dead is to form alliances with other nations; alliances that create friendships but also bring treachery and betrayalsame... Behind it all is Iardu the Shaper, a creation god-like figure who plans and plots.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500810</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreview|author=Robin Wasserman|title=The Book of Blood and Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Nora is an unusual heroine. She is sharp, snarky and funny, and her wry tone and contemporary references will resonate with her readers. But she is also uncompromisingly geeky, and she opts to complete her independent study assignment by joining her three friends at the local university in a research project on the Voynich Manuscript by Edward Kelley (This manuscript actually exists, and has taxed the abilities of some of the greatest code-breakers in the world in the last hundred years.). However Professor Hoffpauer does not consider Nora mature enough to work on the manuscript itself, despite the fact that her linguistic ability is far superior to that of the others, and instead he gives her the lesser task of translating the letters of Kelley's step-daughter Elizabeth Weston. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411445</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Curtis JoblingHadeer Elsbai|title=Wereworld: Shadow of the Hawk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=At the start of Shadow of the Hawk, our heroes are in disarray. Drew, having bitten off his hand to escape Vanmorten and the undead, is in captivity, about to be forced to fight as a gladiator. The Staglord Manfred and the Wereshark Vega, two of the three remaining members Daughters of the Wolf's Council, are on the run, spiriting Drew's mother to safety. And Hector, the third of the Council... oh, Hector!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141340495</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Darynda Jones|title=First Grave on the RightIzdihar|rating=4.5

|summary=Charley Davidson is a private investigator with a difference - she's the Grim Reaper, ushering souls towards the light. When three lawyers Drawing inspiration from the same firm are murderedEgypt, they ask her to solve the case to allow them to rest in peace. With the help of her uncle, a detective, she sets out to do just that - as long as she can avoid being distracted by the nightly dreams she's having of a sexy entity…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749956046</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael J Sullivan|title=Rise 'The Daughters of Empire|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Izdihar''Rise explores the lives of Empire''two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the second volume rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in The Riyria Revelations, starts a year after [[Theft of Swords by Michael J Sullivan|Theft of Swords]] finishedsociety pitted against them. The Imperialist forces are encamped across Nehal, born into the river from Melengarupper class, biding their time before they rout and capture Alric’s kingdom. However, it’s ok as Princess Arista has a plan. She will send Hadrian Blackwater and Royce Melborn wishes to enlist attend the help of Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the nationalists. Ohmilitary, and Arista wants to go too... and Hadrian but instead she is getting fed up forced into an arranged marriage with an adventurer’s life Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and wants feels great pressure to retire... provide for her family and Gwenmaintain their reputation, Royce’s girlfriend, has had a premonition whilst secretly attending meetings of death surrounding the enterprise... so what could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501078</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gillian Philip|title=Frost Child|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fans Daughters of Gillian PhilipIzdihar – a group campaigning for women's Firebrand novels will rights. Giorgina also happens to be thrilled to get their hands on this stunning prequel, set when Seth's mother Lilith met his father, the Sithe captain Griogair, for the first timein love with Nico. Starting with Griogair rescuing the youngster from the Lammyr, who have kept her captive for years, it What follows Lilith trying to settle into the way is a story of life of the Sithe as Griogair keeps an uneasy eye on her... unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and those cruelty, from which blossoms a group of us who've read [[Firebrand (Rebel Angels) by Gillian Philip|Firebrand]] admirable women fighting for their rights and [[Rebel Angels: Bloodstone by Gillian Philip|Bloodstone]] realise that he's right to be worried. When a young Sithe boy starts to bully Lilith, he's clearly taking a massive risk..overcoming their personal obstacles. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B006NXYEBE</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael J SullivanHeather Fawcett|title=Theft Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of SwordsFaeries

|summary=Bohane Emily Wilde is a thoroughly lawless townan expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, set in what would appear to be some kind write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of parallel universefaeries. We are told it Whilst she is set in 2053brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, but it's a town without any technology or modern luxuriesshe is not so good with people. It's a violent place fuelled by alcohol So when she finds herself far, drugs and lust with a patois style language that takes a little work to get into. Novels with this kind far North in the small village of premise have to be beyond good if they are to interest Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the annual literary prize judges; this village matriarch, she is one such not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and ''City of Bohane'' is nominated for this yearinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's Costa First Novel prizefrustration. It But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is stunningly good.going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224090577</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher Golden (Editor)|title=Monster's CornerRoad of Bones|rating=43.5|genre=AnthologiesHorror|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'The Monster… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's Corner'' is a collection one of tales that are told from the monsterworld's perspectivemost notorious routes. It takes For months of the idea that we are all year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the heroes permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of our own story unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and has because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a gloriously good time with life every metre itcovers. Ranging from the thought You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-provoking maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the strange, project to fruition to claw back some of the shocking and gory – theyfunds he'd invested in the pair're a great selection of stories from s prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the likes company of [[:Category:Kelley Armstrong|Kelley Armstrong]], [[:Category:Kevin J Anderson|Kevin J. Anderson]]a local beauty, Sarah Pinborough and many othersfetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749957859</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jackson PearceAndrew Givler|title=SweetlySoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)

|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=This book is the second in ''Matt has a series of fairy tale retellings (the first being [[Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce|Sisters Red]]) which, without being closely connected, share common elementsterrible life. They both deal with the paranormal, including the Fenris, which are about as far from the glamorous and sexy werewolves of recent books and films as you can getSeriously—it's awful. They stalk. They kill. They eat. End of story. The two books also look at It is so bad that Dan the aftermath Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of an attack, and how it changes the lives of those who survivea blissful life in exchange for his soul. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900595</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Joanne Harris|title=Runelight|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn''Runelight'' continues several years after [[Runemarks by Joanne Harris|Runemarks]] left offt feel sorry for soul-catching demons. The rescue of the gods has left But he really is a rift between the Worlds which allows demons terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and assorted ephemera to escape from Chaos into Malbry and spread towards World's End, a lawless city now it has no Order when he fails to maintain it. With Odin dead and the surviving gods power-stripped and forced get even Matt to inhabit bodies of Folk, there is little chance of re-establishing Order. And with sign on the End of the Worlds prophesied in just twelve daysdotted line, the task of rebuilding Asgard and preventing it is Herculeanhe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085753081X</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreview|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl|title=Beautiful Chaos|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Those of you who've been hooked on this series already will remember where we left off. A choice was made. Everything seems to have been changed. And now, we find, the End of Days is near… Dark characters lurk. Some who we thought (or hoped) were gone, have returned. Other things we’ve not seen before are starting to tear the small town of Gatlin apart. The shorthand way of summing up how terrible things are is to note that Mrs Lincoln may be one of the good guys now…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141335262</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Syd MooreOlivie Blake|title=The Drowning PoolAtlas Six

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=The book opens with a group of young women out on the townDark, sharp, letting their hair down and having fun. Moore describes all of them in a fresh and modern voice which I really liked. It came across as a breath of fresh air. The storyhighly inquisitive, Sarah's story is told by Sarah herself. But it's told from the perspective of looking back after itThe Atlas Six's all happened so there's lots of why-didn'tmakes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-I-see-that-coming language. Hindsight, in a wordTok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847562663</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laini TaylorDaniel Abraham|title=Daughter Age of Smoke and BoneAsh

|summary=Karou's friends think sheWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's normal. They assumefour bridges, however often she tells them that has a knife in her bright blue hair grows that colour, hand and a meeting that she dyes itdreads. They think her frequent errands Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of years when the worlds are just normal everyday at their thinnest and all things to earn moneyare possible. They believe It is the snake-bodied being she draws in her sketchbook is night between the funeral of a figment Prince and the coronation of her imaginationhis successor. They're wrong For a night the Kithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144472262X</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Erin MorgensternAnn Sei Lin|title=The Night CircusRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=The Night Circus moves from town to town; appearing with no warningKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, no announcements. The attractions seem impossible – a carousel with breathing animals, handkerchiefs that turn into birds massive dining hall floating in front of the watchful eyes sky where soldiers of the audienceEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, doors when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that appear and disappearshe is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. In He asks her to come with him, to leave the middle life of it dreary servitude that is all are Celiashe has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the daughter of matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a famous illusionistshikigami, and Marco, she is forced to flee out into the apprentice of a mysterious magicianworld. From She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a young age the lovers have been destined sky-ship whose express purpose is to compete against each other using their unusual skills to win hunt down shikigami, and a prize that neither whole world of them understands; and an end that will leave only one standing.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184655523X</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin J AndersonB09Q3P283Y|title=Terra Incognita: The Key to CreationShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=As Clyde Robbins signs up for the two opposing armies of Tierra and Uraba, both fighting for control of US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the holy city they each believe belongs to their religionfight against Communism, march towards nor is he particularly interested in a final battlecareer in the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, two Arkships – with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one Tierran, one Uraban – are having their own race to at least, gets him out of the legendary land of Terravitaerut he's in. Both armies He's good in training and both Arkships have suffered much in their timeis quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. From run ins He's chuffed with powerful witches, mutinies and sabotage, the Arkships are battered and their crews weary. The armies have both suffered and delivered atrocities and hate in the decades-long war that has gone on between themhimself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496618</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongJennifer Saint|title=Spell BoundElektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Wow'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. GoshCassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furies. Can it |isbn=1472273915}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be true? Wea mercurial character yet, for he're s lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on book 12 of Kelley Armstronga needless magazine's Women of the Otherworld series alreadystaff. It seems like only yesterday that I became acquainted with her world But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of werewolvesmood or mind'', witchesfor something – call it unearthly intuition, necromancerscall it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, demons and sorcerersfind a gold coin worth a fortune, but Wikipedia tells me cash the value of it was way back out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in 2001Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Spell Bound opens right after Waking the Witch left offHelped to escape, with Savannah Levine struggling to cope with her guilt he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the wake discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a disturbing murder casewhole lot more besides. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498076</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim ButcherTasha Suri|title=Dresden Files: Ghost StoryThe Jasmine Throne

|summary=It's been a while since I've read a Dresden Files novelOn the night of her sacred burning, so I am fuzzy Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the details before I begin 'Ghost Story', pyre. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the latest instalment Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the wildly successful urban fantasy seriesmysterious deathless waters. 'Ghost Story' But now the temple is nothing more than an unconventional oneovergrown, even by Jim Butcher's standards – it begins after the narrator, Harry Dresdendecaying ruin. One day, was shot by an unseen sniper in the previous novel [[Changes: The Dresden Files by Harry Butcher|Changes]]. There is no deus ex machina or cliffhanger resolution in the first chapter – Harry really is dead as Malini witnesses a doornailgirl kill someone with magic. For any fan Instead of the seriesreporting her for such a gruesome crime, this is naturally a conundrum: how do you continue Malini claims that the Dresden Files if Dresden is no longer alive? Jim Butcher gets around this seemingly insurmountable problem by having his brash lead character remain equally as incorrigible girl saved her from an attacker and unforgettable as before – it's just that now he's having a bit of trouble with his reliable 'punch first, ask questions later' doctrine, as his fists tend not begs for the girl to make contact with human flesh any morebecome her own personal maidservant. Yep, Harry's a ghost. Where do you go from here?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497614</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David WongGenevieve Gornichec|title=John Dies at the End|rating=3|genre=Horror|summary='John Dies at the End' begins with friends John and Dave going to a party and meeting a Jamaican drug dealer who provides John with a hit of something called 'soy sauce'. Thereafter, John starts to see things that others can't see. Dave thinks he has had a bad reaction to the drug until he accidentally takes a hit and also starts to have strange experiences, seeing odd shadow creatures, none of whom are very friendly. Even worse, people start to die and a dog takes on human characteristics. Before long, John and Dave are facing death on a regular basis and are aware that they have access to dimensions that normal people donThe Witch't know about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857684833</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Miles Allen|title=The Walkers of Legends Heart|rating=3.54

|summary=The Empire controls nine-tenths 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 globenine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but even this doesnthat fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin't supply enough victims s wrath. Her attempts to keep enough blood flowing live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from the Yan-producing chambers. And so the new Emperor sets about a plan her chest before she was tied to invade the last remaining free lands. Advance parties are abducting mages stake—and refuses to leave the defenders exposed and vulnerableher alone. This is nothing new - itAfter an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the two start an obvious tactic unusual family made of up a half- but among the refugees is Chaynedead daughter, a young man of startling power and promise. Chayneson that's potential is soon discovered by the advancing armya wolf, and another son that's chief mage, Lathashal, and the young Mlendrian finds himself a favoured apprenticesnake. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956832008</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen GrantHannah Whitten|title=Wish Me Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Rural Germany, in modern times. Steffi and her five friends lark about in a deserted building to summon a witch and get her to kill a local celebrity - who does indeed die. When a repeat attempt gifts a decent amount of cash to Steffi it becomes clear she is alone in having her wishes granted. So what will happen when she wishes for For the town hunk - hasn't Steffi heard to be careful what you wish for? But how on earth can things get so bad she feels her story deserves *that* title?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141337702</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=N M Browne|title=Wolf Blood|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Trista is a Celtic warrior girl and seeress. Her visions are always horrifying, full of blood and death. And one of her premonitions tells her she must escape from the tribe who have captured and enslaved her, for their time is running out. Fleeing into the snowy forest, she runs straight into two Roman soldiers and thinks this time the game is surely up. Surely she cannot survive a second time? But one of the soldiers has a secret - he is a shapeshifter. Part wolf, part man, Morcant also has both Roman Celtic blood in his veins and he has never felt truly at home in either world. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140881255X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Ember and Ash|author=Pamela Freeman|rating=4

|summary=Ember is about to be married. ItIn Red's not just family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a romantic day for her personally, itsacrifice. To Red's exciting because misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her wedding will seal back, Red knows what to expect: within the alliance of the Far South Domain woods is a wolf, and he is the Last Domain in one who will decide the north, making a new fate of their kingdom which . If she is not a shining example of justice and peace. By fantasy standardsworthy sacrifice, this sounds too good the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be true. And returned—or so, of course, it isthe stories go. Barely have But when Red enters the words which bind Ember woods, expecting nothing more than to new husband Osfrid been spoken before he is consumed by flamesbe killed within the hour, murdered by an elemental god her mother once angered. Soon after she finds that, nearly every fire in the kingdom is extinguishedlegends are lies. Shocked to learn that the world The wolf is controlled by elemental powers she knew nothing about, Ember enlists her cousins Ash and Cedar to go with her to Fire Mountain to bring back not a monster—he's a piece of the mountain and relight their lost firesman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498270</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom HoltJohn Gwynne|title=Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of SausagesThe Shadow Of The Gods

|summary=Imagine a world where pigs can do quantum mechanicsThe Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, and where female solicitors turn into chickens. Add a dry cleaner that moves (literally, from set in the era of the roof tiles to Vikings in the basement) from town to town every forty-eight hours, a couple shadow of medieval knights who've fought every day for centuriesRagnarok, when the Gods have battled and a magical ring (or pencil sharpener, depending on their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the mood it's in). Stir ultimate in a bit of property developingHigh Fantasy, a thaumaturgical detective and an old man who lives in a cloud. Result? You haven't even begun John Gwynne certainly does justice to probe the depths of this crazygenre, absurdwith mythical creatures, complex archaic language and hilarious battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841495077</amazonuk>0356514218