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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=AJ SmithA G Slatter|title=The Black Guard (The Long War)Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45
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|summary=Ro Canarn is falling '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to the brutal conquest myself for however long I can. This secret magic of the Red Knights. Duke Hectormy own, its ruler, is on the verge of death and his twin offspring Lady Bronwyn and Lord Bromvy are on the runall mine, outcastat last. However this is merely I just want to enjoy it for a portent of greater troubles aheadwhile. One of the evil Seven Sisters is seen accompanying the Red Knights so if there is a secret agenda it's not a good one. Meanwhile if Ro Canarn can fall, is anywhere safe anymore?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855625</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreview|title=Bronze GodsFrontpage|author=A A AguireRachel Greenlaw|rating=4|genretitle=Crime|summary=One of the many reasons I love fantasy is discovering the new worlds that the authors have created. Where is the world? What kind creatures inhabit it? What are the customs, et cetera, et cetera. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating and steampunk mixed with fantasy is the double hit. Throw in some murder most frighteningly horrid Compass and we have the makings of a really good time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tone Almhjell|title=The Twistrose KeyBlade|rating=43.5
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|summary=Lin and her family are living in a rented house in the city because Lin's mother has been given her dream job as professor of traditional songs at the university. Lin's novelist father doesn't mind: he I can write and play at riddling in hear the city as well as anywhere. But Lin hates it. She misses the farm where she was brought up and she misses playing at troll-hunting with her friend Niklas. But most song of all, she misses her pet vole, Rufus, who is buried under a rosebush. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349001669</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Omens|author=Kelley Armstrong|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Olivia Taylor-Jones has a charmed life. Her family is rich, her fiance perfect and though she has some questions about her career, she knows that things will work themselves out. Until she learns that she's adopted - her true parents America's most infamous serial killers. Suddenly on the run from the media, Olivia finds shelter in the small town of Cainsvillesea. It's a strange sort of place - full of oddball characters and gargoyles that seem to only appear at certain times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184744511X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Box call of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)|author=Catherine Fisher|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Let's catch you up. Jake's father is still lost in time. Venn's wife is still dead. Summer, the Queen of the Sheedeep, still hasn't made Venn her husband. Sarah still hasn't prevented the destruction of the future by Janusanswering beat in my heart. And the Scarred Man still hasn't done, well, whatever it is that he's trying to do. The Chronoptika, a mirror made of black obsidian and a time travel device, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and the rest, but they all want different things from it. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Caleb Carr|title=The Legend of Broken|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=A historical manuscript has been found in what is now Germany (so the story goes) chronicling an ancient civilisation inhabiting the fortress city of Broken (or Brocken in the original German). Those who anger the government are cast out into the surrounding forests where they must face the dangers of man-eating wolves and worse. These outcasts can only survive by collaborating and becoming one tribe: the Bane. Although, to be honest, they're becoming a bit of a nuisance with their terrorist ways, therefore Sixt Arnem, Sentek of the Broken Army is ordered to eradicate them for once and for all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751551538</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Elysian Fields|author=Suzanne Johnson|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Drusilla Jaco (DJ) is the sentinel for the preternatural community in the greater New Orleans area and is still recovering from bereavement, Katrina and broken ribs from her last adventure. No such luck as life taking things easy on her, however, as it is discovered that the copycat of a famous serial killer is not, in fact, a copycat. The Axeman of New Orleans himself has been raised from the dead by a necromancer or necromancers unknown. To make matters worse, her loup-garou fiend Jake bit her in a fit of pique and her best friend’s creepy boyfriend won’t leave her alone. She doesn’t know what he wants and she doesn’t know whether she’ll turn into a wolf at the next full moon but she does know that the Axeman is after her, specifically. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755397703</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaT Kingfisher|title=ChosenThornhedge
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Alex Verus, seer and London magic shop owner, has had a year of crowded uncomplication since we last caught up with him. Crowded because he now shares his small flat with unqualified but adept mages Anne and Variam as well as his apprentice Luna. Uncomplicated because his biggest problem seems to be progressing Luna's training and finding someone to pick up Anne and Variam's apprenticeship; not huge when his normal kind are a matter of life or death. However all is about to change. You remember that way back in his youth Alex worked for had a dark mage? Well he was hoping right to forget thatretake your place. Was? Yes, past tense, for now Alex's past has invaded his present and is in danger of curtailing his future.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502309</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael J SullivanNicole Jarvis|title=The Crown Tower: Book 1 of The Riyria ChronicleA Portrait in Shadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary= Hadrian Blackwater (ex-soldier, ex-lots-''I want all of-things) and Royce Melborn (exemplary thief and grump) are summoned Florence to Melengar by Professor Arcadius. The duo may not know each other and arrive separately, but as they meet and begin the Professormy name's mission together a legend is born: The Riyria. (That's elvish for two by the way.) Meanwhile a prostitute named Gwen escapes to save her life. Across the road (ok... she didn't run far) she goes into business leading her to a place in fantasy novel history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502279</amazonuk>}}
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|author=Thomas D Lee
|title=Perilous Times
|rating=3
|genre= Fantasy
|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Cold Steel: Spiritwalker: Book ThreeAmelia Estelle Dellos|authortitle=Kate ElliottDelilah Recovered
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The Master We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of the Wild Hunt has stolen away Cat Barahalwork, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's husbandjob. SheBut it's being blamed for a murder. Fire mage James Drake wants not to kill herbe. And rebellion Dee is burning up attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the streets back in Europaattack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Can Cat save Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her man and crush her enemies, and maybe even change her world?things will never be the same....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498858</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Siege and StormHadeer Elsbai|authortitle=Leigh BardugoThe Daughters of Izdihar
|rating=4
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|summary=Sharon LiDrawing inspiration from Egypt, former coffee shop barista ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and current communityweavers – those with magical abilities -support-worker-cum-apprentice-shamanin a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, continues wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to run Magicals Anonymouslearn to control her abilities and then join the military, a self-help group for those but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with mystic issuesNico. It sounds Giorgina on the other hand did not have a simple lifeprivileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, however there therewhilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's one factor that ensure that 'simple' remains an illusion: her acquaintance rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with the Guardian Nico. What follows is a story of the Cityan unjust society, Defender of the Gate filled with hypocrisy and so forth, The Midnight Mayorcruelty, aka Matthew Swift. Matthew's workload includes investigating from which blossoms a number group of supernatural disappearances. Or at least it did till he too went missing. So who ya gonna call? No, they don't call them; they call Sharon admirable women fighting for their rights and along with the mission comes unwanted promotion: Sharon Li, Deputy Midnight Mayorovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500659</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Never PagesHeather Fawcett|authortitle=Graham ThomasEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
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|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life''There are two rules that s work, the Dream Investigator must follow:''<br>''1. Document everything.''<br>''2. Keep moving forwardvery first encyclopaedia of faeries.'' Master G Whilst she is in search of his one true lovebrilliant at research and speaking to faeries, Lucyshe is not so good with people. But Lucy is lost So when she finds herself far, far North in the NeverRealmsmall village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the dimension that separates the living from whatever comes after. In the NeverRealmvillage matriarch, memories do she is not exist. So sure what she has done, nor how is Master G - the Dream Investigator - to find redeem herself and put her final investigations for her? From book back on the very first momentright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, his journey into the NeverRealm is destroying his mindher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, turning thoughts and knowledge all charm and recollection to sanddelight, shifting sand. He will need courage to face the nightmarish environment. He will need fortitude to resist the degeneration. He will need much to find Brekker, his unreliable scientist friend. And he'll need the companionship of Paisley, a dog named after a carpet...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956742203</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Before the Fall|author=Francis Knight|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=After destroying MahalaEmily's power source, Rojan really, really wants to keep his head downfrustration. The Ministry thinks But why is he here? What does he's dead - which helps - but want? And what exactly is going on with the last scraps of power fast fading, people are starving and the danger of riots and chaos looms.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501671</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony RyanChristopher Golden|title=Blood Song: Book 1 of Raven's Shadow|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|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 King's Battle Lord and Vaelin's mother someone the lad has sorely missed since her death but this doesn't matter. As a member of the Order Vaelin has no family except his Order brethren. The long life-threatening training binds him closer to his fellows 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: the Bell Between Worlds|author=Ian Johnstone|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The hero of this long and engrossing book is a boy Road of twelve, orphaned, lonely and unloved. He spends the little free time he has in creating beautiful kites covered in complicated, colourful designs until the day he meets a strange old man who sets him on the path to his destiny as a saviour of not one but two worlds. But in line with the traditions of the genre, this path will be fraught with fear, danger and loss.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007491220</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marie Harbon|title=Seven Point Eight: The First ChronicleBones
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|genre=Science FictionHorror|summary=Following several main characters 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 year it'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- scientist Paullevel mud, businessman Maxwhich 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, remote viewer Tahra and mystery woman Ava - across two time frames spanning the 1940s because he wanted to the present daygive 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 a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Seven Point EightTeig'Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who' blends science fiction and fantasy s mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a sprawlinglocal beauty, absorbing, diffuse novel and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that will attract fans of both genres.'s where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B005IBYKC0</amazonuk>1803361476
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Royce ProutyAndrew Givler|title=Stoker's ManuscriptSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=In ''Matt has a world where vampires are terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that Dan the new romantic heroes, Stoker’s Manuscript Demon is a bit shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a Godsendblissful life in exchange for his soul. '' Poor Dan! I know, Iknow, we shouldn't feel sorry for one, am absolutely delighted to find some good old fashioned evil as sin, night dwelling, blood guzzling, crucifix hating Romanian villainssoul-catching demons. Of course, this means sacrificing sexiness, romance and attractively sulking out of a window but since what we get in exchange But he really is stunning views of Transylvania, thought-through biology (for want of a better word) of the creatures terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and stakes that are elevated beyond one person, I say sharpen up when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the spike pitdotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099574454</amazonuk>1958204021
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bee RidgwayOlivie Blake|title=The River of No ReturnAtlas Six
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary= Nick was born in England in 1790 and is rather partial to pickled bits of pig and beef jelly. He finds this rather difficult to explain to his girlfriendsDark, sharp, him being a young man and this being Americahighly inquisitive, 2013. His 19th century Napoleonic war wounds are hard to explain 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 to the time or home country 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 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. ItThe Atlas Six''s all makes its publishing debut after becoming a bit fishy thoughTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718176987</amazonuk>1529095239
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mur LaffertyDaniel Abraham|title=The Shambling Guide to New York City (The Shambling Guides)Age of Ash
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Zoe is an unemployed book editor who had to leave her last job, and indeed her last cityWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in rather a hurry. Zoe's personal exodus brings her to New York hand and the possibility of a job meeting that sounds perfect: editing a travel guide to NYC itselfshe dreads. However, its projected readership isn't one for which Zoe has written before. New York Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is full at a point in the turning of monsters or coterie to be politeyears when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. Vampires, werewolves, demons, sprites, zombies… It is the night between the list goes on as all alternative life is there, both in funeral of a Prince and out the coronation of the officehis successor. So For a night the first question Kithamar is if she survives her colleagues, will she survive her readership? The second question being, of course, who or what is Granny Good Mae?un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501906</amazonuk>0356515427
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen Lloyd JonesAnn Sei Lin|title=The String DiariesRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary= Hannah Wilde flees into Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Welsh mountains with daughter Leah and husband Nate while Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the life blood slowly seeps out 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. They run He asks her to come with him, to escape leave the evil life of dreary servitude that is all she has relentlessly haunted Hannahknown. Well, soon Kurara won's family for generations. Some people see it t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a Hungarian legend but shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the Wildes it's real and insatiable and won't forget themworld. They know what She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to do: verify everyonehunt down shikigami, trust no one and, if in any doubt, RUN! Although one day that may not be enough.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472204670</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan CooperB09Q3P283Y|title=The Dark is Rising Sequence|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=As a child, I read The Grey King, book 4 in Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Sequence. I loved the book so much it topped my Christmas list for years, but sadly Santa never delivered. As an adult I finally bought the entire sequence for myself. This book is intended as a child's book, and it is brilliant as book for children, but it is also well loved by many adults, whether as a cherished memory of their own childhood or as a book discovered as an adult. I'll admit 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 be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0140316884</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewShadebringer|author=Lilith Saintcrow|title=The Red Plague AffairGrayson W Hooper|rating=54
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|summary=Sorceress PrimeClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, Emma Bannon, has done many things nor is he particularly interested in service of Queen and Country, and willingly. Her latest mission to track down a missing doctor puts her career in the path of a deadly contagion military. If he's honest - the Red plague. Mentath Archibald Clare which Clyde usually is perhaps the only person capable , with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of helping her find the doctor rut he's in time. But asking Clare, He's good in training and Valentinelli his assassin servant, to assist in the chase risks exposing them to the Redis quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. And Clare does not have the sorcerous advantages that Emma possessesHe's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500934</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan EeJennifer Saint|title=Angelfall (Penryn and the End of Days Book 1)Elektra
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|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Angels have ransacked 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the Earth and humankind is facing the apocalypse. The people story of three women who are left are desperate and starving. Penryn is one of live in the survivors and the protector heavily male dominated world of her disabled younger sister PaigeAncient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and when Paige is kidnapped by an angel for an unknown purpose Penryn has to do everything within her power to find and rescue her. Embarking on a quest containing Elektra are all manner bit players in the story of horrors both human the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and supernatural, Penryn is forced to make dangerous decisions and question her own humanitythe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144477851X</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel AbrahamDean Koontz|title=The Tyrant's Law (Dagger and the Coin)Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Cithrin Bel Sarcour has arrived in Suddapal Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to complete her apprenticeship with the Medean Bankbe a mercurial character yet, but her past actions may have put her for he's lived in dangera nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. After being betrayed by his comrade YardemBut when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, Marcus Wester call it a supernatural urge – has set out with Kitap rol Keshmet demanded of him that he go to kill a goddess. Clara Kalliamderelict diner, who should be disgraced after her husband's treasonfind a gold coin worth a fortune, is surviving cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the edge lam. And all this is just in time for two of high society thanks those typical Men in Black types to her youngest sonturn up and suggest he's friendship with the Lord Regent Geder Palliako - and is ready of interest to risk everything them. Helped to save her nation from Palliako. Meanwhileescape, all Geder wants he finds his flight is peace and prosperity for interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that nation. Even if it means killing everyone who disagrees with him to make sure he can get itis not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316080705</amazonuk>1542019885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Howard Andrew JonesTasha Suri|title=The Desert of Souls (The Chronicle of Sword and Sand)Jasmine Throne
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary= Place: Baghdad Time: 8th century Arabian-Nights-Time A dying man gives Dabir, tutor at On the Caliph's palacenight of her sacred burning, a precious artefact, making him promise Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to look after itthe pyre. Unfortunately it gets stolen before he has the chance She is immediately sent to. Jaffar be imprisoned on the son Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the Caliph's vizier realises that it has magical qualities that make it even mysterious deathless waters. But now the temple is nothing more precious than it appears and isn't too well pleasedan overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. He gives Dabir Instead of reporting her for such a chance to redeem himselfgruesome crime, sending him Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and Asim, Captain of begs for the Caliph's guard, girl to find it. The men set out on their quest facing danger, death, sorcery and someone whose presence could get them into even deeper troublebecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781854637</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Courtenay GrimwoodGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Exiled BladeWitch's Heart|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Tycho is back to face A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the edge of the dangerous intrigue nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the Venetian Courtstake three times because of Odin's wrath. While he wants nothing more than Her attempts to spend his nights with beautiful Guilietta Millionilive in peace, 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 the worst winter in living memory hits stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the citytwo start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, and Duchess Alexaa son that's treacherous rival builds a stronghold in Montenegro wolf, and attacks Guiliettaanother son that's son, Tycho must really take up the responsibility of his office as Bladea snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498505</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard FordHannah Whitten|title=Herald of For the StormWolf
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Nobul is a blacksmith and ex-mercenary who thinks he has next to nothing until even that is taken away from him. Rag is a young waifIn Red's family, surviving on the streets from stealth first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a talent for stealingsacrifice. Waylian spends his days poring over books and dodging verbal abuse as a witchTo Red's apprenticemisfortune, she is the second daughter. Meanwhile MerrickSent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, drinkerRed knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, gambler and for hire by anyone he is the one who can afford him (iwill decide the fate of their kingdom.e. by anyone) receives If she is not a commission he can't refuse no matter how much worthy sacrifice, the monsters he'd like keeps contained to. River the assassin woods will be released, and Kaira one of the temple guard Shieldmaidens just continue what they always dofabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, day inexpecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, day outshe finds that the legends are lies. For in Steelhaven daily life The wolf is not a routine round of existence until one day something happens… and suddenly itmonster—he's nota man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472203925</amazonuk>0356516369
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian IrvineJohn Gwynne|title=Rebellion: Tainted Realm: Book 2The Shadow Of The Gods
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The former heir Rixium Shadow Of The Gods is now just plain Rix as he flees his ancestral castle the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in Hightspall hotly pursued by the marauding Cythonians, invading his home along with his homeland. Accompanying Rix are Glynnie, a young maidservant and her little brother Benn. Hampered by his entanglement with era of the enemy resulting Vikings in the brutal loss shadow of his right hand, Rix is also still mourning his best friend TobryRagnarok, killed when hurled from a towerthe Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. MeanwhileThis story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, Rix's other friend, a Pale and therefore ex-slave of John Gwynne certainly does justice to the Cythoniansgenre, Tali has been kidnapped on the orders of the evil chancellor. He isn't the only one after herwith mythical creatures, just her current possessorarchaic language and battles galore. The other This is Lyfa thick book, the Cythonian King who needs only one more of the legendary black pearls with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to secure his omnipotence, i.e. the black pearl embedded in Tali's head. Tali's escape from slavery came at create a price, but the future for both her wonderfully realistic and Rix seems a lot more costlygritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498297</amazonuk>0356514218
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