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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=Before the FallFrontpage|author=Francis KnightA G Slatter|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summarytitle=After destroying Mahala's power source, Rojan really, really wants to keep his head down. The Ministry thinks he's dead - which helps - but with the last scraps Briar Book of power fast fading, people are starving and the danger of riots and chaos looms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501671</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anthony Ryan|title=Blood Song: Book 1 of Raven's ShadowDead

|summary=Young Vaelin Al Sorna's father takes him to the gates of the Sixth Order of the Faith and leaves him there. Vaelin's father is the KingThere's Battle Lord and Vaelin's mother someone the lad has sorely missed since her death but a part of me that wants to keep this doesn't matterjust to myself for however long I can. As a member This secret magic of the Order Vaelin has no family except his Order brethrenmy own, all mine, at last. The long life-threatening training binds him closer I just want to his fellows enjoy it for a while exposing him to greater dangers and mysteries than he's ever known. However one day he'll outgrow his comrades. One day he'll become a name whispered with fear and awe. For Vaelin will become a deadly weapon: Hope Killer himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502465</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The Mirror Chronicles: Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Bell Between Worlds|author=Ian Johnstone|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The hero Briar's, a family of this long witches who protect the town and engrossing book 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 boy of twelvesteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, orphanedEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, lonely and unlovedEllie takes her place beside her. He spends As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the little free time he has in creating beautiful kites covered in complicatedrare ability to communicate with the dead, colourful designs until putting her at the day he meets heart of a strange old man maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who sets him on the path to his destiny trust and determine what to do as a saviour of not one but two worlds. But in line with the traditions of the genreBriar witches' legacy, this path will be fraught with feareverything they have sacrificed to survive, danger and lossis under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007491220</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|author=Marie Harbon|title=Seven Point Eight: The First Chronicle|rating=3Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Following several main characters - scientist PaulMira, businessman Maxlike her mother before her, remote viewer Tahra is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and mystery woman Ava - across two time frames spanning any treasure that lies within. But when the 1940s Council Watch lays a trap to end the present daywrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'Seven Point Eight'' blends science fiction s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and fantasy with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a sprawlingfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, absorbingas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, diffuse novel that will attract fans Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of both genresher home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B005IBYKC0</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Royce ProutyT Kingfisher|title=Stoker's ManuscriptThornhedge|rating=45

|summary=In ''You had a world where vampires are the new romantic heroes, Stoker’s Manuscript is a bit of a Godsend. I, for one, am absolutely delighted right to find some good old fashioned evil as sin, night dwelling, blood guzzling, crucifix hating Romanian villains. Of course, this means sacrificing sexiness, romance and attractively sulking out of a window but since what we get in exchange is stunning views of Transylvania, thought-through biology (for want of a better word) of the creatures and stakes that are elevated beyond one person, I say sharpen up the spike pitretake your place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099574454</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Bee Ridgway|title=The River T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of No Return|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= Nick was born a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in England in 1790 and a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is rather partial to pickled bits of pig and beef jellynot her story. He finds this rather difficult to explain to his girlfriendsInstead, our protagonist is Toadling, him being who was stolen away by fairies when she was a young man new-born baby and this being America, 2013. His 19th century Napoleonic war wounds are hard to explain secreted away too. His second lease on life in the 21st century is thanks to the mysterious Guild whose main rule is that no one can return land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to the time or home country draw magic from which they originated. He doesn't mind as they pay him well for his silence but all this is about to change. Eventually they seem to think that they can send him back her veins and won't take no for an answer. Any thought of a possible catch is suppressed by thoughts of Julia, the girl Nick left behind in England. It's all a bit fishy thoughcast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718176987</amazonuk>1803364238

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mur LaffertyNicole Jarvis|title=The Shambling Guide to New York City (The Shambling Guides)A Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Zoe is an unemployed book editor who had to leave her last job, and indeed her last city, in rather a hurry. Zoe's personal exodus brings her to New York and the possibility 'I want all of a job that sounds perfect: editing a travel guide Florence to NYC itself. However, its projected readership isnknow my name''t one for which Zoe has written before. New York City is full of monsters or coterie to be polite. Vampires, werewolves, demons, sprites, zombies… the list goes on as all alternative life is there, both in and out of the office. So the first question is if she survives her colleagues, will she survive her readership? The second question being, of course, who or what is Granny Good Mae?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501906</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Stephen Lloyd Jones|title=The String Diaries|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Hannah Wilde flees into Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the Welsh mountains with daughter Leah and husband Nate while powerful Accademia, the life blood slowly seeps out self-proclaimed guardians of him. They run to escape the evil healing magics that has relentlessly haunted Hannah's family for generations. Some people see it as a Hungarian legend but through paintings have the power to protect the Wildes it's real city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and insatiable architecture for centuries and won't forget guard it above all else. To them. They know what to do: verify everyone, trust Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no one place amongst them and, if in any doubt, RUN! Although one day that may not be enoughtheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472204670</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Susan Cooper|title=The Dark is Rising Sequence|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=As a child, I read The Grey King, book 4 Set in Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Sequence. I loved the book so much it topped my Christmas list for yearsnear-distant future, but sadly Santa never delivered. As an adult I finally bought in a world on the entire sequence for myself. This book is intended as a child's bookverge of climate collapse, and it Britain is brilliant as book for children, but it is also well loved by many adults, whether as in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a cherished memory of their own childhood hero (or as a book discovered as an adultseveral) to save the day and rescue what little remains. I'll admit What no-one expected was that as child, this can book can completely draw into other worlds in a manner not possible for an adult, but this is still an excellent read, whatever age you may beone of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0140316884</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lilith SaintcrowAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=The Red Plague AffairDelilah Recovered|rating=54

|summary=Sorceress PrimeWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, Emma Bannonjust might, has done many things in service be about to look up. Out of Queen and Countrywork, and willingly. Her latest mission about to track down a missing doctor puts lose her in the path of a deadly contagion - the Red plague. Mentath Archibald Clare flat, Dee is perhaps the only person capable of helping her find the doctor in timeup for an accountant's job. But asking Clare, and Valentinelli his assassin servant, it's not to assist in be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the chase risks exposing them attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to the Reddo with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. And Clare does Slivers of memory of things that are not have ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the sorcerous advantages that Emma possessessame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500934</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan EeHadeer Elsbai|title=Angelfall (Penryn and the End The Daughters of Days Book 1)Izdihar

|summary=Angels have ransacked Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the Earth and humankind is facing lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the apocalypse. The people who are left are desperate rights of women and starvingweavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Penryn is one of Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the survivors Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the protector of her disabled younger sister Paigemilitary, and when Paige but instead she is kidnapped by forced into an angel arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for an unknown purpose Penryn has to do everything within her power family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to find and rescue herbe in love with Nico. Embarking on What follows is a quest containing all manner story of horrors both human an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and supernaturalcruelty, Penryn is forced to make dangerous decisions from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and question her own humanityovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144477851X</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel AbrahamHeather Fawcett|title=The Tyrant's Law (Dagger and the Coin)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Cithrin Bel Sarcour has arrived in Suddapal to complete her apprenticeship with the Medean Bank, but her past actions may have put her in danger. After being betrayed by his comrade Yardem, Marcus Wester has set out with Kitap rol Keshmet to kill a goddess. Clara Kalliam, who should be disgraced after her husband's treason, is surviving on the edge of high society thanks to her youngest sonEmily Wilde's friendship with the Lord Regent Geder Palliako - and is ready to risk everything to save her nation from Palliako. Meanwhile, all Geder wants is peace and prosperity for that nation. Even if it means killing everyone who disagrees with him to make sure he can get it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316080705</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Howard Andrew Jones|title=The Desert of Souls (The Chronicle Encyclopaedia of Sword and Sand)Faeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= Place: Baghdad Time: 8th century Arabian-Nights-Time A dying man gives DabirEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, tutor at the Caliphto write her life's palacework, a precious artefact, making him promise to look after itthe very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Unfortunately it gets stolen before he has the chance Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking tofaeries, she is not so good with people. Jaffar So when she finds herself far, far North in the son small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the Caliph's vizier realises that it village matriarch, she is not sure what she has magical qualities that make it even more precious than it appears done, nor how to redeem herself and isn't too well pleasedput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. He gives Dabir a chance to redeem himselfEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, sending him all charm and Asimdelight, Captain of the Caliphmuch to Emily's guard, to find itfrustration. The men set out But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on their quest facing danger, death, sorcery and someone whose presence could get them into even deeper trouble.with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781854637</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Courtenay GrimwoodChristopher Golden|title=The Exiled BladeRoad of Bones|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Tycho is back to face The Kolyma Highway… the dangerous intrigue 'Road of Bones'… the Venetian CourtR504. While he wants nothing more than to spend his nights with beautiful Guilietta Millioni Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, when it's one of the worst winter in living memory hits world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the citypermafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a 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 other Siberian minerals, and Duchess Alexabecause he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's treacherous rival builds a stronghold 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's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in Montenegro and attacks Guiliettathe pair's sonprior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, Tycho must really take gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the responsibility of his office as Bladeguide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498505</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard FordAndrew Givler|title=Herald of the StormSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=54

|summary=Nobul is a blacksmith and ex-mercenary who thinks he ''Matt has next to nothing until even that is taken away from him. Rag is a young waif, surviving on the streets from stealth and a talent for stealingterrible life. Waylian spends his days poring over books and dodging verbal abuse as a witchSeriously—it's apprenticeawful. Meanwhile Merrick, drinker, gambler and for hire by anyone who can afford him (i.e. by anyone) receives a commission he can't refuse no matter how much he'd like to. River It is so bad that Dan the assassin and Kaira one Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of the temple guard Shieldmaidens just continue what they always do, day a blissful life in, day outexchange for his soul. For in Steelhaven daily life is a routine round of existence until one day something happens… and suddenly it's not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472203925</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Ian Irvine|title=Rebellion: Tainted Realm: Book 2|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The former heir Rixium is now just plain Rix as he flees his ancestral castle in Hightspall hotly pursued by the marauding CythoniansPoor Dan! I know, invading his home along with his homeland. Accompanying Rix are GlynnieI know, a young maidservant and her little brother Bennwe shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. Hampered by his entanglement with the enemy resulting in the brutal loss of his right hand, Rix But he really is also still mourning his best friend Tobry, killed when hurled from a towerterrible salesman. Meanwhile, Rix's other friend, a Pale He never hits his targets and therefore ex-slave of the Cythonians, Tali has been kidnapped when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the orders of the evil chancellor. He isn't the only one after herdotted line, just her current possessor. The other is Lyf, the Cythonian King who needs only one more of the legendary black pearls to secure his omnipotence, i.e. the black pearl embedded in Talihe's head. Taliso desperate that he simply forges Matt's escape from slavery came at a price, but the future for both her and Rix seems a lot more costlysignature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498297</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian McClellanOlivie Blake|title=Promise of Blood (Powder Mage Trilogy)The Atlas Six|rating=54

|summary= AdamatDark, sharp, investigator and ex-police inspectorhighly inquisitive, is summoned to the Skyline Palace for, he assumes, an audience with the king. However, when he arrives, the grounds are in darkness and a greater darkness lurks within. ''The KingAtlas Six's Hielman bodyguard are all dead and the royal family won't be around for much longer as Field Marshal Tamas of the homemakes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-grown Adros Military has led a coup. Tamas wants to hire Adamat for his investigating prowess but neither Adamat, Tamas nor the mages and sorcerers under Tamas' command realise what will be unleashed as a result… or perhaps Tamas does. Meanwhile a servant girl starts the fight for the survival of herself and a small but very important childTok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650199X</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=C Robert CargillDaniel Abraham|title=Dreams and ShadowsAge of Ash|rating=4.5

|summary=Once upon a timeWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a sweet boy met knife in her hand and a sweet girl and they fell perfectly in lovemeeting that she dreads. Their love Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is rich and fulfilling and true. They did what people at a point in love do: moved in together, got married, had a baby. And then something most people don't believe exists crawls into the turning of years when the worlds are at their house through an open window thinnest and exchanges their perfect baby for a changelingall things are possible. It's is the night between the funeral of a Prince and the start coronation of something bigger than even his successor. For a night the switcher can begin to imagineKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575130091</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen LoweAnn Sei Lin|title=The Gathering of the LostRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=It may only have taken Kurara has spent her entire life as a year for servant on the second Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the ''Wall sky where soldiers of Night'' series 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 hit form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the shelvesEmpire. He asks her to come with him, but on Haarth five years have passed since [[The Heir to leave the life of Night by Helen Lowe|The Heir of Night]] disappeared from the Walldreary servitude that is all she has known. SheWell, soon Kurara won's known not to t have died any say in the Swarm attackmatter, but was last seen in because the wilds of Jaransor Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and many believe her now she is forced to be deadflee out into the world.She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500039</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham ThomasB09Q3P283Y|title=Maria & The DevilShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=''The Devil has ridden out''Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. MariaHe's lover not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is Montana's most feared outlaw. He has left her alone he particularly interested in a secluded cabin deep career in the wildernessmilitary. Maria If he's honest - which Clyde usually is pregnant. Left in solitude, she develops a familiar routine that feels safe. But with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the isolation is pervasive and Mariarut he's defences against it are crumblingin. And while she waits for her lover to return, she is discovered by Rickman Chill, whose gang He's good in training and is tracking the Devil in quickly put onto a relentless quest for revengenon commissioned officer training course. What will happen when Chill discovers MariaHe's identity? Will the Devil return in time? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BFEC2NI</amazonuk>chuffed with himself.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeJennifer Saint|title=Beyond BeliefElektra|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Joshua Richards isn't the most successful PI; clients arenElektra't exactly lining up around by Jennifer Saint tells the block but he lives story of three women who live in hope that one day his luck will change… the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and it does. Within a couple of weeks he has a sudden plethora Elektra are all bit players in the story of enquirers; the bad news is Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that none of them seem to live long enough to pay him. Meanwhile elsewhere, often the Engine powering silent women have the world (literally) is dying, although most compelling stories and the populous is blissfully oblivious. Is there a connection? Joshua Richards doesn't know, but there seems to be a huge part of himself he's not acquainted with either… at least not yetmost extreme furies. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0987478605</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francis KnightDean Koontz|title=Fade To BlackQuicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=In Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a city hemmed in by mountains thatmercurial character yet, for he's grown the only way it can lived in a nun- upwards run orphanage since he was a three- Rojanday old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's job is to find peoplestaff. Usually theyBut when this book starts he IS now 're runaways 'subject to sudden or bountiesunpredictable changes of mood or mind'', easy money and guilt freefor something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, just like Rojan likes cash the value of itout of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. But then RojanAnd all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's niece of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is takeninterrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and despite never having met her, Rojan will do anything it takes to get her backa whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501663</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreview|author=Melanie Rawn|title=Glass Thorns - Elsewhens (Glass Thorns 2)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Only a little while has passed since we last spent time with Touchstone, the touring theatre company that not only shows the audience the performance, but enables them to experience, feel and taste it as a 4D hallucination. This time they're being taken beyond their comfort zone as they're cornered into escorting a princess home from the foreign Continent. Meanwhile Cade Silversun is still getting his 'Elsewhens': the premonitions of alternative futures that come as nightmares and daydreams. Yes, Elsewhens, those things that warned him about a woman; the same woman that friend and colleague Mieka Windthistle is in love with. Indeed, Touchstone is forced to cope with foreign travel, foreign attitudes and, for some of them, the feeling that all isn't as it should be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781166625</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aimee Bender|title=Willful Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary= In this collection we're shown the reaction of ten men with terminal illness prognoses, a large man purchasing a very unusual pet and the case of a hard-done-by boyfriend. There are also delights like the shop that sells words crafted into what they read, a boy with keys instead of fingers and the beautifully touching tale of the pumpkin-headed mother who gives birth to an iron-headed baby. No, this isn't your average collection of predictable short stories; these are [[:Category:Aimee Bender|Aimee Bender]] short stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099558858</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Storr|title=The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Killian Lone grows up in a home lacking in love and security. For these he relies on his elderly aunt Dorothy, an accomplished cook. Indeed his visits to Dorothy revolve around food as he absorbs all she can teach him, slowly inheriting her passion and skill along with her knowledge. This attachment to food then becomes his career choice, leading to the unfortunate discovery of a family secret that has remained hidden for a very long time. Why 'unfortunate'? There's a reason for its concealment… a very, very good reason.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780720807</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luke ScullTasha Suri|title=The Grim CompanyJasmine Throne|rating=4.5

|summary=The gods are deadOn the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. The Magelords murdered them and hurled their bodies She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from heaven and are also slowly dominating the world belowmysterious deathless waters. Dorminia But now the temple is already in their iron graspnothing more than an overgrown, policed by the feared Crimson Watch and the terrorising Augmentorsdecaying ruin. It's not even safe to think as Mind Hawks monitor and punish One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with pain and sufferingmagic. However there is Instead of reporting her for such a resistancegruesome crime, albeit fragmented and comparatively impotent but Malini claims that the situation is worsening so they must make a stand or lose everything (girl saved her from an attacker and everyone) they love. Is begs for the evil magic stronger than the heroes' girl to become her own resources? They're dying to find outpersonal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781851328</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James P BlaylockGenevieve Gornichec|title=Lord KelvinThe Witch's MachineHeart

|summary=On a dark A modern and rainy night, approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a weary but determined Langdon Stwitch named Angrboda. Ives rides out She hides in hot pursuit a forest at the edge of the villain who is holding his wife, Alice, captive. Catching up with his nemesis on the roadnine worlds, the resulting standoff between the two ends with St. Ives witnessing the cold-blooded murder remembering nothing of his beloved, shot in the head her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at point blank range whilst pinned under the wheels stake three times because of a carriageOdin's wrath. It is a scene that will play out again and again Her attempts to live in his mind, driving him to the brink of madness and desperation. There appearspeace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to be a glimmer of hope in the form stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of a mysterious machine in the possession of the Royal Academy of Science; a machine that may hold the secret mistrust, Angrboda begins to time itself. Is it possible fall for our hero to harness Loki's charms, and the power two start an unusual family made of Lord Kelvin’s Machine and rewrite history?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689843</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James P Blaylock|title=Homunculus|rating=2.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=What could possibly be the connection between up a half-dead daughter, a mechanical toy crocodile son that eats birds, 's a giant emeraldwolf, an oxygenator device for a spaceship and a tiny alien man with the power of life and death? The answer, of course, is another son that each item on this unusual list has been placed inside one of four identical boxes. The boxes are hidden in various locations in order to prevent the contents from falling into the wrong hands, but evil has 's a habit of seeking things out...snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857689827</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terence BlackerHannah Whitten|title=The TwyningFor the Wolf

|summary= Efren In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a 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 expect: within the woods is a nobody in wolf, and he is the kingdom of rats till he witnesses one who will decide the kidnapping fate of the kingtheir kingdom. His future changes in If she is not a moment as worthy sacrifice, the monsters he's sent up keeps contained to the human world to rescue himwoods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. Talking of humansBut when Red enters the woods, 11 year old Peter is abandoned by his parents and left expecting nothing more than to scrape a living from London's streets. His affinity with animals gives him be killed within the hour, she finds that the name 'Dogboy' and employment with rat catcher Bob and scientist Dr Ross-Gibbonlegends are lies. The Doctorwolf is not a monster—he's ambition is to encourage humanity to annihilate the rats by dragging them into a war. Efren and Dogboy, both insignificant in their own worlds, must make both man and rodent see sense; easier said than done.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781850704</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel O'MalleyJohn Gwynne|title=The Rook (Shadow Of The Checquy Files)Gods

|summary= A woman wakes up with amnesia surrounded by dead people wearing gloves. In her pocket she discovers a letter from Myfanwy Thomas, The Shadow Of The Gods is the previous inhabiter first installment of her body. Myfanwy tells a strange story of working for 'the Checquy'Bloodsworn Saga, a paranormal version set in the era of MI5 which has been permeated by a web the Vikings in the shadow of betrayal Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and dangertheir bones lie scattered for all to see. The problem This story is that Myfanwy never discovered the source before her body changed hands (so ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to speak)the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. The amnesiac has This is a clear choice: thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to continue Myfanwy's investigation or to do create a runner. It's her decision but Myfanwy's warning is less than encouraging: ::''Remember they want you dead.'' Something for her to bear wonderfully realistic and gritty world in mind along with the fatal, unintended consequences of permitting cheap cheese into the UKwhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908800372</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|author=John R Fultz|title=Seven Kings: Books of the Shaper: Volume 2|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Runaway slave Tong suicidally avenges his lost love but death seems to elude him. Meanwhile King Vireon is happily married to the beautiful shape-shifting sorceress Alua, although his sister has problems with her husband, King D'zan. A courtesan is carrying his baby; odder still when you realise he's impotent. The Twin Kings of Uruz, scholarly Lyrilan and war-hungry Tyro, can't agree Move on how to rule so Tyro's wife Talondra puts a real spanner in the works to force a decision. However bad their lives currently are, evil is spreading through their world like a dark shadow and, to make things worse still, Ianthe the Claw and Gammir the Reborn aren't as dead as everyone supposes them to be. (You'd think the clue would be in Gammir's name wouldn't you?)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500829</amazonuk>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]