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|summary=Ten years after the events of [[The Killing Moon: Dreamblood: Book 1 by N K Jemisin|The Killing Moon]], the events of the earlier book have left their mark on the world. Gujaareh is now under the oppressive rule of the Kisuati Protectorate. Worse, '' There's a plague part of nightmares is killing the once peaceful city's inhabitants in their sleepme that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. It falls to two unlikely heroes, Wanahomen, son This secret magic of the late Princemy own, and Hananiall mine, the first female at last. I just want to train as one of Hananjaenjoy it for a while.''s priesthood, to try to save the city from both of these problems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500772</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Jeanette Winterson|title=The Daylight Gate|rating=4Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=1610s LancashireThough she has always wished for magic, and Alice Nutter Ellie Briar is the best landowner you could wish first non-witch to be born into her family for. Singlegenerations and as such since she was young, rich her training as a steward revolved around letters and connectedadministration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, she takes no sides in Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the religious schisms James I has inheritedBriar Witch, and takes no bull from those trying to oppress the poortown's leader, putting them up and feeding them when no-one else willEllie takes her place beside her. But those poor are seen as sinful by others - amoral, dirty in mindAs challenges come her way left, body right and spiritcentre, and in league Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the devildead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. And people are beginning Reeling from one family secret to question Alice's attitudesanother, choice of company - Ellie must decide who to trust and ageless beauty. Thisdetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, theneverything they have sacrificed to survive, is the based-on-truth story of how Alice Nutter got to be one of the accused in the Pendle Witch trialsunder threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099561859</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|author=Stuart Sharp|title=Court of Dreams|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Thomas Rosevear, a remote and Nicola are no longer students. Finals finishedpartially forgotten island, Nicola can start planning life after uni survives on luring ships into the rocks and with Thomasplundering the wrecks... and then he dumps Mira, like her mother before her. To be fair, Thomas has a great job offer abroad is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and doesn't think any treasure that Nicola would want to go but Nicola's still flaming angrylies within. Adhering But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and another thingMira' school of arguings father. Desperate to save him from death, Nicola tracks Thomas down. He's already busy dealing Mira makes a bargain with someone but being the assertive modern woman she a wreck survivor who is as charming as he issecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, Nicola barges she sets off in front search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the hit man attempting sea. With only nine days to kill unearth what might save her now ex-boyfriend so she can give him yet another piece of father, as her journey takes her mind. In from the ensuing tussle (hit man trying watched streets of foreign islands to skewer Thomas and Thomas trying to prevent Nicola from becoming an ex-person as well as an ex-girlfriend) the formerly blissful couple fall back into a tree... and then onwards, through heart of the tree towards somewhere thatsmuggler's other worldly in all meanings of territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the phrase. For they land in the Court future of Dreams, which isn't necessarily a good thing. Meanwhile the tumble has separated Nicola her home and Thomas, the hit man is not only determined but also a local lad so knows his way around and Thomas' mother has neglected to tell him a thing or two about his origins, as he's just about to find outones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0982991320</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael BoccacinoT Kingfisher|title=Charlotte Markham and the House of DarklingThornhedge

|summary=Widowed under tragic circumstances, Charlotte Markham needs an income and so she's employed by widower Henry Darrow as 'You had a governess for his sons James and Paulright to retake your place. Their home 'Everton' may seem a typical Victorian mansion but the town of Blackfield isn't your average English small town; the Darrow T Kingfisher's Nanny Prum latest novella is found murdered in a particularly grisly mannerlovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. It's But whilst there is a mystery to the local police but Charlotte's friend Susannah has princess trapped in a clue if only they'd listen to tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not herstory. Meanwhile Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the Darrow boys' nights are spent dreaming land of a house in the woods fairie where their mother still lives. Charlotte decides her childhood was spent being taught how to treat this head on draw magic from her veins and takes them for a walk to show them there's no substance to it. However, in doing so they discover the nightmare that is The House of Darklingcast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781164460</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreview|author=K J Parker|title=Sharps|rating=3Cast 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.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Fencing But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self- it's such an exotic, rarefied world with it's own language, proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that it's no surprise through paintings have the power to remember protect the director of ''Alien'', ''Blade Runner'' city and its citizens from plagues and ''Prometheus'' started his career with a fencing filmcurses. And it's The all -male Accademia has hoarded power over this fantasy, but not in the usual sword-art and-sorcery way of old, as a delegation of swordsmen architecture for centuries and -women visit Permia from Scheria - two fencing-loving countries that until recently have been at warguard it above all else. But why exactly are they going - separatelyTo them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and as a group? Who is playing what kind of diplomatic game between the two countries, change – has no place amongst them and is a wielded sword the only danger they'll face?their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499269</amazonuk>1803362340

Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|isbn=0356518523}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Courtenay GrimwoodAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=The Outcast BladeDelilah Recovered

|summary=After defeating the armies that threatened Venice single handedlyWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, the newly knighted Sir Tycho finds himself with statusjust might, wealth and the subject be about to look up. Out of much interest work, about to the Venetian citizenslose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. But all Tycho really wants is Lady Giulietta, niece of the cityit's stewardnot to be. Giulietta, grieving her dead husband, Dee is desperate attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to escape the backstabbingdo with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, poisonous world living an ordinary life. Slivers of the Venetian court, memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and isn't in things will never be the mood for Tycho's clumsy attempts to woo hersame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498475</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaHadeer Elsbai|title=Cursed: An Alex Verus NovelThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating=4.5

|summary=A beautiful enchantress steps through Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the door just as an evil construct beast hurtles through lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the windowrights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Not an obtuse Chinese sayingNehal, born into the upper class, but a typical day in wishes to attend the life of future-diviner Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and magic shop ownerthen join the military, Alex Verusbut instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Add to this Giorgina on the benign magical animal that seems to other hand did not have died mysteriously a privileged upbringing like Nehal and unmarked feels great pressure to provide for her family and you begin to realise somethingmaintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's afootrights. It's the sort of day that could only Giorgina also happens to be made worse by the realisation that Alex's curse-soaked friend Luna has fallen in love with someone other than Alex Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and... yescruelty, the downward spiral has just taken another turnfrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650025X</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy FarrHeather Fawcett|title=Moon CrossingEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Wil Calloway returns Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to Saran in write her life's work, the most unwelcome very first encyclopaedia of circumstancesfaeries. Tally Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, Lady Elanor's young sistershe is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, has been abducted by the evil Lord Rexmoore far North in an attempt to find the whereabouts small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the Legacy. Tally doesn't know itvillage matriarch, but that won't save her. So Wil she is not sure what she has come done, nor how to rejoin his Fellmen friends redeem herself and mount a rescue missionput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. But it Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's not going to be easyfrustration. Gisella and Mortimer aren't talking. Seth But why is as accident-prone as ever. he here? What does he want? And Leon and his father are still deeply suspicious about Wil's part in Giles's death during what exactly is going on with the last Moon Chase. faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781485151</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon GrahameChristopher Golden|title=ReaperRoad of Bones|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Ex-cop Jim Reaper gave up on living after his fourteen-The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the yearit's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-old daughter was raped 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 committed suicideother Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. To make matters worse You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, her attacker is let out a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of jail after serving only three yearsthe funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. Reaper comes They pick up with their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a plan to end himlocal beauty, and to end his own miserable life in one move. Only fetch up at the world has other plans with himguide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905802528</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=H A GoodmanAndrew Givler|title=Breaking Soul Fraud (The Devil's Heart: A Logic of Demons NovelDebt Collection Book 1)

|summary=In this afterlife, Heaven is pretty much hands off. Angels whisper sweet nothings into human ears but don't go much further than that'Matt has a terrible life. If the living don't act on HeavenSeriously—it's advice, the angels simply practise what you might call courageous restraintawful. Hell, on It is so bad that Dan the other hand, Demon is much better organised. Set up like shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a sizeable corporation, its demons are purveyors of the Formula and relentless targets push the demons into becoming exceedingly effective - and dodgy - salesmenblissful life in exchange for his soul. Drink too much of the Formula and you're in big trouble - sinning all over the place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B007T0BDVE</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Rachel Hartman|title=Seraphina|rating=4Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Comonot Treaty But he really is approaching its 40th anniversary but the state of play between humans and dragons is still parlousa terrible salesman. The people in Goredd still revile He never hits his targets and distrust the dragons who walk among them in human form. For the dragons, humans are like cockroaches - easily crushed individually, but surprisingly resilient when they band together. Humans are impulsivehe fails to get even Matt to sign on the dotted line, emotional. Dragons are impassive, logical. Ithe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's not an easy fit and the fragile peace is at risk after the murder of a Goreddi prince. Dragons are suspected of the crimesignature. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857531565</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=N K JemisinOlivie Blake|title=The Killing Moon: Dreamblood: Book 1 Atlas Six

|summary=Ehiru is a Gatherer. He visits those who are dying to help them pass away peacefully. He sends their souls to a safe place for eternityDark, while taking their dreamblood to heal others. Most people in his citysharp, Gujaarehand highly inquisitive, are happy with this. Then he Gathers ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a foreigner who's unwilling, and claims that the order of priests he belongs to are corrupt..Tik-Tok sensation. could this barbarian be correct?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500764</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeri Smith-ReadyDaniel Abraham|title=ShineAge of Ash

|summary=After unexpectedly managing to expose a conspiracy to murder Prince AsterWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, Geder Palliako she has become a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the prince’s Protector and City of Kithamar is at a point in the hero turning of Anteayears when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. Dawson Kalliam It is working with him as the Anteans pursue night between the roots funeral of a Prince and the plot, with the possibility coronation of war breaking outhis successor. Elsewhere, Cithrin Bel Sarcour For a night the Kithamar is frustrated by a new notary stopping her from running her bank as she wants to, while Marcus Wester tries to protect herun-ruled. As if that wasn’t enough to keep things going, Master Kit has a goddess to kill…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498890</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carolyn Jess-CookeAnn Sei Lin|title=The Boy Who Could See DemonsRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Alex can see demonsKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He's been able asks her to come with him, to ever since his dad left when he was five years oldleave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Some demons are hideousWell, some are frighteningsoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and some just lurk in corners doing not much at allshe is forced to flee out into the world. One She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is called Ruento hunt down shikigami, and he's Alex's best friend.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749953136</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy FarrB09Q3P283Y|title=Moon ChaseShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=When Wil dreams, itClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's as if he not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is inhabiting someone - or something - else's body. And when he wakes one morning after dreaming of particularly interested in a terrible crime and a desperate Fellhound, he knows career in the dog that military. If he can hear howling 's honest - which Clyde usually is that very Fellhound. Following Farrow to try to rescue her injured master, Wil is captured by the Saranians, who believe with himself at least - he is the hasn't got many choices and this one to have tried to murder young Seth Tanner. His sentence is harsh - track and kill , at least, gets him out of the Wraithe wolves rut he's in the Moon Chase and return alive and unharmed and go free, die . He's good in the attempt, or return injured training and be hangedis quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907652868</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Ian Irvine|title=Vengeance: The Tainted Realm: Book 1|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Tali is a slave born of slaves, forced to live and work underground by the brutal Cythonians who, in turn, have also been forced into a subterranean lifestyle. The land above them is Hightspall, rightly theirs but taken over generations ago. Hightspall's occupiers are led by a group of noble houses, which brings us to Rix, the heir to his alcoholic father, the Lord Ricinius. They both live under the thumb of his overbearing mother, Lady Ricinius, but then so do many others.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498289</amazonuk>}} {{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 - 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 HanoverJennifer Saint|title=Unclean Spirits: Black Sun's DaughterElektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|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 Elektra' by Jim Butcher]] features Harry Dresden, professional wizard and general smart ass and Jennifer Saint tells the exorcist story of [[Thicker Than Water (Felix Castor) by Mike Carey]] is also three women who live in the heavily maledominated world of Ancient Greece. AdmittedlyCassandra, Lynda La Plante's DCI Jane Tennison is a great female leadClytemnestra, but she's more on and Elektra are all bit players in the everyday end story of investigationthe Trojan War. But now, M L N Hanover brings Yet Jennifer Saint shows us Jayné Heller, who proves that fighting demons often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the like isn't just a man's jobmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501221</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip ReeveDean Koontz|title=GoblinsQuicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Poor SkarperMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's such not had the chance to get to be a loser. In the violent and bloodthirsty goblin world where fighting and eating and taking other peoplemercurial character yet, for he's loot are alllived in a nun-timerun orphanage since he was a three-favouriteday old foundling, number-one activities, he has and now is starting a career on a terrible handicap. He thinksneedless magazine's staff. In fact, But when this book starts heIS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind''s pretty clever, for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a goblin, to the extent supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he uses go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the goblins' bumwipe heaps value of it out of his bank and prepare for . . . reading. Yup, you heard me. Reading. The foolish hatchling works out that the black squiggles going on the mouldering heaps lam. And all this is just in time for two of soft those typical Men in Black types to turn up and crinkly stuff leftsuggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, long agohe finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, by the ancient inhabitants discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of the tower, are written words, burgeoning power – and instead of going out raiding like any sensible goblin, he creeps off to a quiet corner to work out what they meanwhole lot more besides. Silly, eh?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407115278</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreview|author=Kate Griffin|title=The Minority Council|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|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 he's quite honest. But a new drug is swamping the streets of London - Fairy Dust. This deadly magical drug eventually turns its users into fairies, who then disintegrate into the dust that they've been taking, ready to be collected and sold again. And this perverse practise is not Matthew's only issue. Some teenage vandals have had their souls sucked out and social worker Nabeela wants the help of the Midnight Mayor to work out exactly how that happened. But the more Matthew digs into both issues, the more he starts to realise that the source of the problem may be closer than he initially thought.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500632</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Benedict Jacka|title=Fated: An Alex Verus Novel|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=Alex Verus runs a little shop in Camden, London selling magic tricks and bits and pieces. Some of the bits and pieces are a more magical than the magic tricks, for he is a diviner (someone who sees the future). Indeed, the day that his friend Luna finds a little red artefact, his ability comes in handy. There are some very powerful people looking for that little red 'thing'. Unfortunately they aren't powerful in a nice way and they're a jump or two ahead of Alex and Luna. For the powerful ones actually know what it is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500241</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Jennifer Lynn Barnes|title=Every Other Day|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=When Kali sees the Orobouros mark on cheerleader, Bethany, at her high school, she doesn't hesitate in tempting the parasitic creature - a Chupacabra - out of Bethany and into her own body. The parasite is a death sentence for humans. Some days, Kali's blood is toxic to paranormal creatures. Some days she's blessed with strength, speed and killer instinct, and the parasite feeding off her memories wouldn't have stood a chance. But not on this day. On this day, Kali is completely human. And she has to survive the next 17 hours before she changes back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085738970X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Angela Carter|title=Burning Your Boats|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary='Burning your Boats' brings together Carter's early works and her uncollected short stories, alongside the collections 'Fireworks', 'The Bloody Chamber', 'Black Venus' and 'American Ghosts'. Carter's ability to take the everyday and transform it into the fantastic is evident in stories that range from a cautionary tale of a musician in love with his instrument to a lost motorist whose journey ends in nightmarish circumstances in the Snow Pavilion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592916</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sadie S Forsythe|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 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 Troupe|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|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'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 of him. The first glimpse George has of the man he thinks of as his father is at one of the troupe's shows. He is captivated not just by Silenus, but by the entire company.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500403</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel AaronTasha Suri|title=The Legend of Eli Monpress|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The important thing, when reading or reviewing books, is to take them on their own terms, and not to try and make something of them that they do not claim 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 hero'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 1Jasmine Throne

|summary=The game is up. Despite On the risk that she would be betrayed Avry couldn't stop herself from healing a sick child, and after years on the run she is in a cell awaiting execution. Then a band night of misfit companions offer her freedom, in return for healing their prince. Unfortunately, said prince is the one who spread the idea of the healers' guilt in the first placesacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and as such he is Avry's sworn enemy. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848450656</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James Treadwell|title=Advent|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=A December Night 1537: the greatest magus in the world packs everything up and heads down refuses to step on to the harbourpyre. He's booked his passage She is immediately sent to England under a new name, heading for a new life. But it is a stormy night, and when be imprisoned on the jumble of rags Hirana: an ancient temple that follows him, speaks in the voice was once filled with a community of one he once loved and demands back what he took people who got powers from her, he refusesthe mysterious deathless waters. Inside But now the box he carriestemple is nothing more than an overgrown, wrapped in wooldecaying ruin. One day, in Malini witnesses a calfskin pouch warded girl kill someone with every spell he could conjure is a ring apparently made out of wood. '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 ''the Detonations'' has transformed life on earth. Shortly after the Detonations, when the survivors were still hoping Instead of reporting her for some form of help to arrivesuch a gruesome crime, a cloud of leaflets were released all bearing Malini claims that the same message: 'We know you are here, our brothers girl saved her from an attacker and sisters. We will, one day, emerge from begs for the Dome girl to join you in peace. For now, we watch from afar, benevolentlybecome her own personal maidservant.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755385489</amazonuk>0356515648

  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne RiceGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Wolf GiftWitch's Heart

|summary=Reuben is on A modern and approachable reimagining of the up, make no mistake about itNorse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. He will turn from She hides in a good journalist to a great journalist - it's just that most forest at the edge of his familythe nine worlds, his girlfriend and his editor all patronise him with diminutive nicknames based on his boyish good looks. While staying remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at a secluded cliff-side mansion in the Californian forests, and researching the back-story stake three times because of it being on the market for the first time Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in decadespeace, he survives a bloody attackhowever, and ends are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the house hisstake—and refuses to leave her alone. AndAfter an initial period of mistrust, of courseAngrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, he receives and the Gift two start an unusual family made of up a half- dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and becomes another son that's a werewolfsnake. What does this mean for him - and for others, and just what are the secrets remaining in the strange mansion?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701187441</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle LovricHannah Whitten|title=Talina in the Tower|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|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 For the full horror of what is happening, preferring instead to blame a neighbouring town.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444003380</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ali Shaw|title=The Man Who RainedWolf

|genre=Literary FictionFantasy|summary=Do you remember being In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a child who had only just learned how sacrifice. 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 read? Do you remember expect: within the very first time you read woods is a fairy story that no-wolf, and he is the one had told you before? Can you recapture who will decide the joy fate of entering their kingdom. If she is not a truly magical land worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and (for the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a time) believing it was real? No? Then I recommend that you read Ali Shawmonster—he's second novel 'The Man Who Rained'a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857890328</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margo LanaganJohn Gwynne|title=The Brides of Rollrock IslandShadow Of The Gods

|summary=Elhathym gatecrashes a feast at The Shadow Of The Gods is the court first installment of Vod-the-Giant-King demanding the throneBloodsworn Saga, which he asserts was his 3,000 years ago. Vod is a little incredulous and refuses to abdicate. Elhathym then lives up to his job description (evil sorcerer), destroying set in the entire court... apart from his son, Prince D’zan who manages to escape with his bodyguard, Olthacus era of the Stone. Prince D’zan wants to fight to regain his kingdom but Vikings in the only way to counter Elhathym and his armies shadow of Ragnarok, when the dead is Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to form alliances with other nations; alliances that create friendships but also bring treachery and betrayalsee. Behind it all This story is Iardu the Shaperultimate in High Fantasy, a creation god-like figure who plans and plots.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500810</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robin Wasserman|title=The Book of Blood and Shadow|rating=4.5|John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre=Teens|summary=Nora is an unusual heroine. She is sharp, snarky and funnywith mythical creatures, archaic language and her wry tone and contemporary references will resonate with her readersbattles galore. But she This is also uncompromisingly geekya thick book, with an intricate plot and she opts fascinating characters that are woven together to complete her independent study assignment by joining her three friends at the local university in create a research project on the Voynich Manuscript by Edward Kelley (This manuscript actually exists, wonderfully realistic and has taxed the abilities of some of the greatest code-breakers in the gritty 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>}} {{newreview|author=Curtis Jobling|title=Wereworld: Shadow of the Hawk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=At the start of Shadow of the Hawk, which our heroes are in disarraymust do battle. 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!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141340495</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|author=Darynda Jones|title=First Grave Move on the Right|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Charley Davidson is a private investigator with a difference - she's the Grim Reaper, ushering souls towards the light. When three lawyers from the same firm are murdered, 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>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]