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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=FantasyThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy__NOTOC__|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''
Within 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. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongRachel Greenlaw|title=13 (Women of the Otherworld)Compass and Blade
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|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=''13'' picks up where ''Spell Bound'' left off. A terrorist group is still trying to expose I can hear the supernaturals and create a new world order. Our heroes, from among the ranks song of the werewolves, the witches, the half-demons, the vampires, the necromancers and the sorcerer cabals, are trying to stop themsea. Savannah takes centre stage and the majority The call of the narration. Her spells are still on deep, the fritz but she thinks she knows why and she survived the explosionanswering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498033</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=N K JemisinT Kingfisher|title=The Shadowed Sun: Dreamblood: Book 2Thornhedge|rating=4.5
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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, a plague of nightmares is killing the once peaceful city's inhabitants in their sleep. It falls to two unlikely heroes, Wanahomen, son of the late Prince, and Hanani, the first female to train as one of Hananja's priesthood, You had a right to try to save the city from both of these problemsretake your place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500772</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stuart SharpNicole Jarvis|title=Court of DreamsA Portrait in Shadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Thomas and Nicola are no longer students. Finals finished, Nicola can start planning life after uni and with Thomas... and then he dumps her. To be fair, Thomas has a great job offer abroad and doesn't think that Nicola would 'I want to go but Nicola's still flaming angry. Adhering to the 'and another thing' school of arguing, Nicola tracks Thomas down. He's already busy dealing with someone but being the assertive modern woman she is, Nicola barges in front of the hit man attempting to kill her now ex-boyfriend so she can give him yet another piece all of her mind. In the ensuing tussle (hit man trying Florence 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 the tree towards somewhere thatknow my name's other worldly in all meanings of the phrase. For they land in the Court of Dreams, which isn't necessarily a good thing. Meanwhile the tumble has separated Nicola 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 out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0982991320</amazonuk>}}
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{{Frontpage
|author=Thomas D Lee
|title=Perilous Times
|rating=3
|genre= Fantasy
|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Courtenay GrimwoodAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=The Outcast BladeDelilah Recovered
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaHadeer Elsbai|title=Cursed: An Alex Verus NovelThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy FarrHeather Fawcett|title=Moon CrossingEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
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|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
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{{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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=H A GoodmanAndrew Givler|title=Breaking Soul Fraud (The Devil's Heart: A Logic of Demons NovelDebt Collection Book 1)
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|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>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=N K JemisinOlivie Blake|title=The Killing Moon: Dreamblood: Book 1 Atlas Six
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeri Smith-ReadyDaniel Abraham|title=ShineAge of Ash
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|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
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{{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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy FarrB09Q3P283Y|title=Moon ChaseShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|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 the Wraithe wolves in the Moon Chase and return alive and unharmed and go free, die in the attemptat least, or return injured and be hanged. |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 gets him out of slaves, forced to live and work underground by the brutal Cythonians who, rut he's in turn, have also been forced into a subterranean lifestyle. The land above them He's good in training and is Hightspall, rightly theirs but taken over generations agoquickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. HightspallHe'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 otherschuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498289</amazonuk>
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|rating=4
|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 the exorcist 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 Jennifer Saint tells the everyday end story of investigation. But now, M L N Hanover brings us Jayné Heller, three women who proves that fighting demons and live in 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 heavily male dominated world where fighting and eating and taking other people's loot are all-time-favourite, number-one activities, he has a terrible handicapof Ancient Greece. He thinks. In factCassandra, he's pretty cleverClytemnestra, 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, Elektra 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 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 bit players 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 story of Alex and Luna. For the powerful ones actually know what it isTrojan War.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500241</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Yet Jennifer Lynn Barnes|title=Every Other Day|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=When Kali sees Saint shows us that often the Orobouros mark on cheerleader, Bethany, at her high school, she doesn't hesitate in tempting silent women have the parasitic creature - a Chupacabra - out of Bethany most compelling stories 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 backmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085738970X</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela CarterDean Koontz|title=Burning Your BoatsQuicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=Short StoriesThrillers|summary='Burning your Boats' brings together CarterMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's early works and her uncollected short stories, alongside not had the collections 'Fireworks'chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he'The Bloody Chamber's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine'Black Venuss staff. But when this book starts he IS now ' and 'American Ghostssubject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'. Carter's ability , for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to take a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the everyday value of it out of his bank and transform it into prepare for going on the fantastic lam. And all this is evident just in stories that range from a cautionary tale time for two of a musician those typical Men in love with Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his instrument to a lost motorist whose journey ends flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in nightmarish circumstances control, the discovery that he is not unique in the Snow Pavilionhaving some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099592916</amazonuk>1542019885
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|rating=4
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|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne RiceGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Wolf GiftWitch's Heart
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|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. And, After an initial period of coursemistrust, he receives the Gift - and becomes a werewolf. What does this mean Angrboda begins to fall for him - and for othersLoki's charms, and just what are the secrets remaining in the strange mansion?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701187441</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michelle Lovric|title=Talina in the Tower|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Nineteenth century Venice can seem two start an unusual family made of up a sinister placehalf-dead daughter, full of secretsa son that's a wolf, misty forgotten islands and magic, both good and another son that'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 of what is happening, preferring instead to blame s a neighbouring townsnake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444003380</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ali ShawHannah Whitten|title=The Man Who RainedFor the Wolf
|rating=5
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margo LanaganJohn Gwynne|title=The Brides of Rollrock IslandShadow Of The Gods
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|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 Westonwhich our heroes must do battle. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411445</amazonuk>0356514218
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