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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Alexander Gordon Smith|title=The Fury|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Brick felt it. Daisy felt it. Cal felt it. All three, unconnected kids, had the same noisy, throbbing headache at the same time <!-- Remove - and all aches went at the same time, in very disappointing circumstances. Brick took his girlfriend to his favourite place, an abandoned theme park, and found her response to both it and him to be not what he expected. Daisy was the school Juliet, and found the experience quite traumatic - almost as bad as what she found back at home. Cal was more regularly after the attention, as the school's best football player, but found everyone's eyes turned to you is one thing, everyone turning against you is another.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571276164</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=M L N HanoverA G Slatter|title=Unclean Spirits: Black Sun's Daughter|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Although the world is moving towards equality in the workplace, when you're fighting the supernatural, it seems to help to be a man. [[Changes: The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher]] features Harry Dresden, professional wizard and general smart ass and the exorcist Briar Book of [[Thicker Than Water (Felix Castor) by Mike Carey]] is also male. Admittedly, Lynda La Plante's DCI Jane Tennison is a great female lead, but she's more on the everyday end of investigation. But now, M L N Hanover brings us Jayné Heller, who proves that fighting demons and the like isn't just a man's job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501221</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Reeve|title=Goblins|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Poor Skarper. He's such a loser. In the violent and bloodthirsty goblin world where fighting and eating and taking other people's loot are all-time-favourite, number-one activities, he has a terrible handicap. He thinks. In fact, he's pretty clever, for a goblin, to the extent that he uses the goblins' bumwipe heaps for . . . reading. Yup, you heard me. Reading. The foolish hatchling works out that the black squiggles on the mouldering heaps of soft and crinkly stuff left, long ago, by the ancient inhabitants of the tower, are written words, and instead of going out raiding like any sensible goblin, he creeps off to a quiet corner to work out what they mean. Silly, eh?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407115278</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Griffin|title=The Minority CouncilDead

|summary=In Matthew Swift's London, just about anything is possible. As the Midnight Mayor, protector of the city, Matthew has incredible power and resources at his disposal. Not that he really wants them. In fact he'd rather not have all the hassle, if heThere's quite honest. But a new drug is swamping the streets part of London - Fairy Dust. This deadly magical drug eventually turns its users into fairies, who then disintegrate into the dust me that they've been taking, ready wants to be collected and sold again. And keep this perverse practise is not Matthew's only issuejust to myself for however long I can. Some teenage vandals have had their souls sucked out and social worker Nabeela wants the help This secret magic of the Midnight Mayor to work out exactly how that happenedmy own, all mine, at last. But the more Matthew digs into both issues, the more he starts I just want to realise that the source of the problem may be closer than he initially thoughtenjoy it for a while.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500632</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Benedict Jacka|title=Fated: An Alex Verus Novel|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=Alex Verus runs Within a little shop in Camdenremote mountain pass, London selling magic tricks and bits and pieces. Some of far away from the bits and pieces are world, lies Silverton; a more magical than town under the protection of the magic tricksBriar's, for he is a diviner (someone family of witches who sees protect the future)town and the wider world from the Darklands. IndeedThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the day that his friend Luna finds first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a little red artefactsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, his ability comes in handy. There are some very powerful people looking for that little red Ellie'things cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Unfortunately they aren't powerful in a nice As challenges come her way left, right and they're centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a jump or two ahead maelstrom of Alex chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and Luna. For determine what to do as the powerful ones actually know what it Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, isunder threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500241</amazonuk>1803364548

 {{newreview|author=Jennifer Lynn Barnes|title=Every Other Day|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=When Kali sees Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the Orobouros mark on cheerleaderwrecks. Mira, Bethany, at like her mother before her high school, she doesn't hesitate in tempting is one of the parasitic creature - a Chupacabra - seven who swim out of Bethany to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and into her own bodyany treasure that lies within. The parasite is But when the Council Watch lays a death sentence for humans. Some daystrap to end the wrecking, Kalithey capture the island's blood is toxic to paranormal creatures. Some days sheleader and Mira's blessed father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with strength, speed a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and killer instinctwith only coordinates to guide her, and she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the parasite feeding off sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her memories wouldnfrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler't have stood a chance. But not on this day. On this days territory, Kali is completely human. And she has Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to survive save the future of her home and the next 17 hours before ones she changes backholds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085738970X</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela CarterT Kingfisher|title=Burning Your BoatsThornhedge

|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 'You had a band of captivesright to retake your place. 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 Troupe|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=George never knew his father, T Kingfisher's latest novella is a man with whom his mother had lovely reimagining of a brief relationship when the Vaudeville - a travelling theatre company - came to townfairytale that is well known and well beloved. Sixteen years later and George But whilst there is following a princess trapped in the footsteps he believes to be his father'sa tower, by playing piano at a theatre on the circuit and hoping his father will show up. He doesn'tsleeping under an eternal enchantment, so George goes in search of him. The first glimpse George has of the man he thinks of as his father Thornhedge is at one of the troupe's showsnot her story. He Instead, our protagonist is captivated not just by SilenusToadling, but who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the entire companyland of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500403</amazonuk>1803364238

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel AaronNicole Jarvis|title=The Legend of Eli MonpressA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=The important thing, when reading or reviewing books, is to take them on their own terms, and not to try and make something ''I want all of them that they do not claim Florence to be. Do not seek laugh-out-loud humour from horror stories (except by accident). Do not expect picture books to discuss the ins and outs of astrophysics. And do not demand great depth from a series of fantasy novels where the heroknow my name''s first action is to steal a king on the grounds that, to be perfectly honest, no one will actually miss him very much.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500861</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Maria V Snyder|title=Touch of Power: Avry of Kazan Book 1|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=The game is up. Despite the risk that she would be betrayed Avry couldn't stop herself Cast out from healing a sick childRome, and after years on the run she is Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a cell awaiting execution. Then a band of misfit companions offer home and where her freedom, in return for healing their princefuture can thrive rather than stagnate. UnfortunatelyBut as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, said prince is the one who spread self-proclaimed guardians of the idea of healing magics that through paintings have the healers' guilt in power to protect the first city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place, amongst them and as such he is Avry's sworn enemytheir society. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848450656</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=James Treadwell|title=Advent|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=A December Night 1537: the greatest magus Set in the world packs everything up and heads down to the harbour. He's booked his passage to England under a new namenear-distant future, heading for in a new life. But it is a stormy night, and when world on the jumble verge of rags that follows himclimate collapse, speaks Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the voice of one he once loved day and demands back rescue what he took from her, he refuseslittle remains. Inside What no-one expected was that one of the box he carries, wrapped in wool, in a calfskin pouch warded with every spell he could conjure is a ring apparently made out Knights of wood. 'Inside the ring was all Round Table would answer the magic in the worldcall.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444728466</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julianna BaggottAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=PureDelilah Recovered|rating=4.5

|summary=A Hiroshima-like event called 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 to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the Detonationsattack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She'' has transformed s just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life on earth. Shortly after the Detonations, when the survivors were still hoping for some form Slivers of help to arrive, a cloud memory of leaflets were released things that are not ordinary at all bearing return to her and things will never be the same message: 'We know you are here, our brothers and sisters. We will, one day, emerge from the Dome to join you in peace. For now, we watch from afar, benevolently.'.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755385489</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne RiceHadeer Elsbai|title=The Wolf GiftDaughters of Izdihar

|summary=Reuben is on the upDrawing inspiration from Egypt, make no mistake about it. He will turn from a good journalist to a great journalist - it's just that most 'The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of his familytwo women who could not be more different, his girlfriend yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and his editor all patronise him weavers – those with diminutive nicknames based on his boyish good looks. While staying at a secluded cliffmagical abilities -side mansion in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the Californian forestsupper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and researching then join the back-story of it being military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the market other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the first time Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in decades, he survives a bloody attack, and ends up love with the house hisNico. And, What follows is a story of coursean unjust society, he receives the Gift - filled with hypocrisy and becomes cruelty, from which blossoms a werewolf. What does this mean group of admirable women fighting for him - their rights and for others, and just what are the secrets remaining in the strange mansion?overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701187441</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle LovricHeather Fawcett|title=Talina in the TowerEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Nineteenth century Venice can seem a sinister placeEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, full of secretsand she has travelled extensively, misty forgotten islands and magicresearched meticulously, both good and 'baddenedto write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. It does, however, have its brighter, warmer side Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with cosypeople. So when she finds herself far, comforting grannies and delicious recipesfar North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, and Talina loves it dearly. But then having somehow offended the mangyvillage matriarch, rabid Ravageurs arrive, creatures part-way between wolves and hyenasshe is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and claim put her final investigations for her book back on the city as their ancestral homeright track. Men Enter Wendell Bambleby, women her dashingly handsome and children are stolen away in the nightinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, as are cats all charm and ratsdelight, but the inhabitants refuse much to believe the full horror of Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is happening, preferring instead to blame a neighbouring town.going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444003380</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ali ShawChristopher Golden|title=The Man Who RainedRoad of Bones|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Do you remember being a child who had only just learned how to read? The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Do you remember the very first time you read Stretching for over a fairy story that no-thousand miles across Siberia, it's one had told you before? of the world's most notorious routes. Can you recapture For months of the joy year it's a spread of entering sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a truly magical land huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and (for other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a time) believing life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it was real? No? Then I recommend online, but that you read Ali Shaw's second novel a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who'The Man Who Raineds mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857890328</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margo LanaganAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Brides of Rollrock Island|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=On Rollrock Island, the fishermen find their brides from the sea through the usurial offices of the witch Miskaella. They're selkies; seal women who shed their skins to become human. Their husbands are obsessed by them and the men without a selkie will risk anything to become part of the enchantment, even their human wives and children and half their lifetime earnings. Soon there are no human women left on Rollrock - the adults to the mainland and the female selkie babies to the ocean. There are just dads and mams and little boys. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560336</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John R Fultz|title=Seven Princes: Books of the Shaper: Volume Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=3.54

|summary=Elhathym gatecrashes ''Matt has a feast at the court of Vod-the-Giant-King demanding the throne, which he asserts was his 3,000 years agoterrible life. Seriously—it's awful. Vod It is a little incredulous and refuses to abdicate. Elhathym then lives up to his job description (evil sorcerer), destroying so bad that Dan the entire court... apart from Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his son, Prince D’zan who manages to escape with his bodyguard, Olthacus the Stone. Prince D’zan wants to fight to regain his kingdom but the only way to counter Elhathym and his armies infernal offer: 10 years of the dead is to form alliances with other nations; alliances that create friendships but also bring treachery and betrayal. Behind it all is Iardu the Shaper, a creation god-like figure who plans and plotsblissful life in exchange for his soul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500810</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Robin Wasserman|title=The Book of Blood and Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Nora is an unusual heroine. She is sharpPoor Dan! I know, snarky and funnyI know, and her wry tone and contemporary references will resonate with her readerswe shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But she he really is also uncompromisingly geekya terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and, and she opts when he fails 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 get even Matt to work sign on the manuscript itselfdotted line, despite the fact that her linguistic ability is far superior to he's so desperate that of the others, and instead he gives her the lesser task of translating the letters of Kelleysimply forges Matt's step-daughter Elizabeth Westonsignature. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411445</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Curtis JoblingOlivie Blake|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 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 RightAtlas Six|rating=4.5

|summary=Charley Davidson is a private investigator with a difference - she's the Grim ReaperDark, ushering souls towards the light. When three lawyers from the same firm are murderedsharp, they ask her to solve the case to allow them to rest in peace. With the help of her uncleand highly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a detective, she sets out to do just that Tik- as long as she can avoid being distracted by the nightly dreams she's having of a sexy entity…Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749956046</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael J SullivanDaniel Abraham|title=Rise Age of EmpireAsh

|summary=''Rise We meet Alys under the most northerly of Empire'Oldgate's four bridges, the second volume she has a knife in The Riyria Revelations, starts her hand and a year after [[Theft meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Swords by Michael J Sullivan|Theft Kithamar is at a point in the turning of Swords]] finished. The Imperialist forces years when the worlds are encamped across the river from Melengar, biding at their time before they rout thinnest and capture Alric’s kingdomall things are possible. However, it’s ok as Princess Arista has It is the night between the funeral of a plan. She will send Hadrian Blackwater Prince and Royce Melborn to enlist the help coronation of the nationalistshis successor. Oh, and Arista wants to go too... and Hadrian is getting fed up with an adventurer’s life and wants to retire... and Gwen, Royce’s girlfriend, has had For a premonition of death surrounding night the enterprise..Kithamar is un-ruled. so what could possibly go wrong?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501078</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian PhilipAnn Sei Lin|title=Frost ChildRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fans Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of Gillian Philip's Firebrand novels will be thrilled the Empire come to get drink and make merry between their hands on this stunning prequelconquests. However, set when Seth's mother Lilith met his fathera man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the Sithe captain Griogair, for power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the first timeEmpire. Starting He asks her to come with Griogair rescuing the youngster from the Lammyrhim, who have kept her captive for years, it follows Lilith trying to settle into leave the way of life of the Sithe as Griogair keeps an uneasy eye on herdreary servitude that is all she has known... and those of us whoWell, soon Kurara won've read [[Firebrand (Rebel Angels) t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by Gillian Philip|Firebrand]] a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and [[Rebel Angels: Bloodstone by Gillian Philip|Bloodstone]] realise that he's right she is forced to be worriedflee out into the world. When She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a young Sithe boy starts sky-ship whose express purpose is to bully Lilithhunt down shikigami, he's clearly taking and a massive risk... whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B006NXYEBE</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael J SullivanB09Q3P283Y|title=Theft of SwordsShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=The central charactersClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, Royce Melborn and Hadrian Blackwater are nor is he particularly interested in a career in the Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid of fantasymilitary. Royce If he's honest - which Clyde usually is a dour thief , with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and Hadrian an agilethis one, soft-hearted mercenaryat least, both gets him out of whom can be hired if the price is right or if their curiosity is piqued sufficientlyrut he's in. Both books He's good in this volume begin with the same simple intention – to steal a sword from a tower. Different swords training and different towers but they both go horribly wrong. Now this is where it gets difficultquickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. I don’t want to give away spoilers so there won’t be much in the way of plot explanation in this review. Let’s just say that they’re framed for a royal murder and become more deeply embroiled in the far reaching consequences as the volume goes on, collecting companions en routeHe's chuffed with himself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650106X</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Kevin Barry|title=City of Bohane|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Bohane is a thoroughly lawless town, set in what would appear to be some kind of parallel universe. We are told it is set in 2053, but it's a town without any technology or modern luxuries. It's a violent place fuelled by alcohol, drugs and lust with a patois style language that takes a little work to get into. Novels with this kind of premise have to be beyond good if they are to interest the annual literary prize judges; this is one such book and ''City of Bohane'' is nominated for this year's Costa First Novel prize. It is stunningly good.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090577</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christopher Golden (Editor)|title=Monster's Corner|rating=4.5|genre=Anthologies|summary=''The Monster's Corner'' is a collection of tales that are told from the monster's perspective. It takes the idea that we are all the heroes of our own story and has a gloriously good time with it. Ranging from the thought-provoking to the strange, to the shocking and gory – they're a great selection of stories from the likes of [[:Category:Kelley Armstrong|Kelley Armstrong]], [[:Category:Kevin J Anderson|Kevin J. Anderson]], Sarah Pinborough and many others.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749957859</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jackson PearceJennifer Saint|title=SweetlyElektra

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=This book is 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the second story of three women who live in a series the heavily male dominated world of fairy tale retellings (the first being [[Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce|Sisters Red]]) which, without being closely connected, share common elementsAncient Greece. They both deal with the paranormalCassandra, including the FenrisClytemnestra, which and Elektra are about as far from all bit players in the glamorous and sexy werewolves story of recent books and films as you can getthe Trojan War. They stalk. They kill. They eat. End of story. The two books also look at Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the aftermath of an attack, most compelling stories and how it changes the lives of those who survivemost extreme furies. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444900595</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne HarrisDean Koontz|title=RunelightQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He''Runelight'' continues several years after [[Runemarks by Joanne Harris|Runemarks]] left off. The rescue of s not had the gods has left chance to get to be a rift between the Worlds which allows demons and assorted ephemera to escape from Chaos into Malbry and spread towards Worldmercurial character yet, for he's Endlived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a lawless city career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has no Order demanded of him that he go to maintain a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it. With Odin dead out of his bank and prepare for going on the surviving gods power-stripped and forced to inhabit bodies of Folk, there is little chance of re-establishing Orderlam. And with the End all this is just in time for two of the Worlds prophesied those typical Men in just twelve days, the task of rebuilding Asgard Black types to turn up and preventing it is Herculean.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085753081X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl|title=Beautiful Chaos|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Those suggest he's of you who've been hooked on this series already will remember where we left offinterest to them. A choice was made. Everything seems Helped to have been changed. And nowescape, we findhe finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the End of Days discovery that he 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 unique in having some kind of Gatlin apartburgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides. The shorthand way of summing up how terrible things are is to note that Mrs Lincoln may be one of the good guys now…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141335262</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Syd MooreTasha Suri|title=The Drowning PoolJasmine Throne

|summary=Karou's friends think she's normal. They assume, however often she tells them that On the night of her bright blue hair grows that coloursacred burning, that she dyes it. They think Princess Malini defies her frequent errands are just normal everyday things brother and refuses to earn moneystep on to the pyre. They believe the snake-bodied being she draws in her sketchbook She is a figment of her imagination. They're wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144472262X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Erin Morgenstern|title=The Night Circus|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Night Circus moves from town immediately sent to town; appearing be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with no warning, no announcements. The attractions seem impossible – a carousel with breathing animals, handkerchiefs that turn into birds in front community of people who got powers from the watchful eyes of mysterious deathless waters. But now the audiencetemple is nothing more than an overgrown, doors that appear and disappeardecaying ruin. In the middle of it all are CeliaOne day, the daughter Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a famous illusionistgruesome crime, Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and Marco, the apprentice of a mysterious magician. From a young age begs for the lovers have been destined girl to compete against each other using their unusual skills to win a prize that neither of them understands; and an end that will leave only one standingbecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184655523X</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin J AndersonGenevieve Gornichec|title=Terra Incognita: The Key to CreationWitch's Heart

|summary=As A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the two opposing armies edge of Tierra and Urabathe nine worlds, both fighting for control remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the holy city they each believe belongs stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to their religionlive in peace, march towards a final battlehowever, two Arkships – are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one Tierran, one Uraban – are having their own race that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the legendary land stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of Terravitae. Both armies and both Arkships have suffered much in their time. From run ins with powerful witchesmistrust, mutinies and sabotageAngrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, the Arkships are battered and their crews weary. The armies have both suffered and delivered atrocities and hate in the decadestwo start an unusual family made of up a half-long war dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and another son that has gone on between them's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496618</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongHannah Whitten|title=Spell BoundFor the Wolf|rating=45

|summary=Wow. GoshIn Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. Can it be true? We're on book 12 of Kelley ArmstrongTo Red's Women of misfortune, she is the Otherworld series alreadysecond daughter. It seems like only yesterday that I became acquainted Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her world back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of werewolvestheir kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, witches, necromancersthe monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, demons and sorcerers, but Wikipedia tells me it was way back in 2001the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. Spell Bound opens right after Waking But when Red enters the Witch left offwoods, with Savannah Levine struggling expecting nothing more than to cope with her guilt in be killed within the hour, she finds that the wake of legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a disturbing murder caseman. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498076</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreview|author=Jim Butcher|title=Dresden Files: Ghost Story|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=It's been a while since I've read a Dresden Files novel, so I am fuzzy on the details before I begin 'Ghost Story', the latest instalment of the wildly successful urban fantasy series. 'Ghost Story' is an unconventional one, even by Jim Butcher's standards – it begins after the narrator, Harry Dresden, 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 a doornail. For any fan of the series, this is naturally a conundrum: how do you continue 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 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 to make contact with human flesh any more. Yep, Harry's a ghost. Where do you go from here?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497614</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Wong|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 don't know about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857684833</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Miles AllenGwynne|title=The Walkers of Legend|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Shadow Of The Empire controls nine-tenths of the globe, but even this doesn't supply enough victims to keep enough blood flowing from the Yan-producing chambers. And so the new Emperor sets about a plan to invade the last remaining free lands. Advance parties are abducting mages to leave the defenders exposed and vulnerable. This is nothing new - it's an obvious tactic - but among the refugees is Chayne, a young man of startling power and promise. Chayne's potential is soon discovered by the advancing army's chief mage, Lathashal, and the young Mlendrian finds himself a favoured apprentice. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956832008</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Helen Grant|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 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 BloodGods|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 The Shadow Of The Gods is about to be married. It's not just a romantic day for her personallythe first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, it's exciting because her wedding will seal set in the alliance era of the Far South Domain and the Last Domain Vikings in the northshadow of Ragnarok, making a new kingdom which is a shining example of justice when the Gods have battled and peace. By fantasy standards, this sounds too good their bones lie scattered for all to be truesee. And so, of course, it This story is. Barely have the words which bind Ember ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to new husband Osfrid been spoken before he is consumed by flamesthe genre, murdered by an elemental god her mother once angered. Soon after thatwith mythical creatures, nearly every fire in the kingdom is extinguishedarchaic language and battles galore. Shocked to learn that the world This is controlled by elemental powers she knew nothing abouta thick book, Ember enlists her cousins Ash with an intricate plot and Cedar to go with her fascinating characters that are woven together to Fire Mountain to bring back create a piece of the mountain wonderfully realistic and relight their lost firesgritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498270</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|author=Tom Holt|title=Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Imagine a world where pigs can do quantum mechanics, and where female solicitors turn into chickens. Add a dry cleaner that moves (literally, from the roof tiles to the basement) from town to town every forty-eight hours, a couple of medieval knights who've fought every day for centuries, and a magical ring (or pencil sharpener, depending Move on the mood it's in). Stir in a bit of property developing, a thaumaturgical detective and an old man who lives in a cloud. Result? You haven't even begun to probe the depths of this crazy, absurd, complex and hilarious book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495077</amazonuk>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]