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|summary=Vireon the Giant-King, Emperor Tyro and Feathered Serpent/Sorcerer Khama are readying their armies to face the Almighty Zyung, would be conqueror of the Five Cities, '' There's a Shaper and evil piece part of work. Meanwhile Sharadza (Vireon's sister) and Iardu (the good Shaper, mostly) take on swifter forms me that wants to keep this just to beg assistance from every place and being they myself for however long I can think . This secret magic of. For the time is coming when the world's freedom depends on victory against insurmountable odds. Back at the armiesmy own, Dahrima the Axeall mine, giantess and leader of Vireon's spear-maiden body guard, has sworn at last. I just want to die enjoy it for her king but also has some emotional issuesa while. As for Ianthe and Gammir, thecauses of much suffering in the past, they once again have their own agendas that could mean Zyung is the least of anyone's worries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500837</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|title=World After (Penryn and the End of Days Book 2)|author=Susan Ee|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Penryn successfully (depending on how you look at things) liberated her little sister Paige Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the sick experiments of the angels now ruling over the world. Believed to be dead at , lies Silverton; a town under the start protection of the storyBriar's, Penryn finds herself at the control centre of the human resistance movement whose treatment a family of her sister and other victims of angel brutality seems less than human. In order to witches who protect her sister she feels the need to leave the resistance town and risk life in the nearly destroyed wider world amongst predators such as angels and even more horrifying creations spawned by from the angelsDarklands. All Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the while Pen clings first non-witch to the hope of a reunion with Raffe, the angel responsible be born into her family for saving her life generations and true owner of the powerful sword as such since she carries with was young, hertraining as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444778536</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Girl With All the Gifts|author=M R Carey|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Meet Melanie. Not something thatWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's likely to happencousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, but itthe town's a standard introduction leader, and I'll run with itEllie takes her place beside her. If you do find As challenges come herway left, it's either in a subterranean cellright and centre, or a classroom. Or Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the shower-roomdead, where she and putting her at the other children get disinfected, and get to eat a bowl heart of maggots – the only nutrition they have all week. All this is on a military base so secure they've only seen a few members of staff – either military or mostly lacklustre teachers – and they've certainly no real hope maelstrom of seeing sunlightchaos. They are there because of the BreakdownReeling from one family secret to another, when most of Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the world got turned into ravenousBriar witches' legacy, mindless ''hungries''. But these children did not turn all the way. And as unlikely as it iseverything they have sacrificed to survive, as implausible a heroine as she is, young Melanie might just be the saviour of mankindunder threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502732</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|title=Rags Rosevear, a remote and Bones|author=Melissa Marr partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and Tim Pratt (Editors)|rating=4plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Anthologies|summary=Some Mira, like her mother before her, is one of todaythe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's top authors have come together leader and Mira's father. Desperate to retell classic tales - save him from fairy stories death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to Victorian-era fictionguide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. As usual with this kind With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of anthology, itthe smuggler's a fairly hit-or-miss affairterritory, but Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the hits here are so strong that they're well worth picking up future of her home and the book forones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jay KristoffT Kingfisher|title=Kinslayer (Lotus War Trilogy 2)Thornhedge

|summary= Spoilers for [[Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff|Stormdancer]] follow soread it first!The Shogun is dead, murdered in the public square by 16 year old Kage rebelYukiko to avenge her family and in retribution for the evil hold that he hasover the dystopian land of Shima. He may be dead but Hiro (equally nastyand Yukiko's former lover) has 'You had a plan right to take power which includes marryingAisha, the Shogun's sister and secret Kage sympathiserretake your place. Yukiko has to stopthe wedding with the help of Buruu, the flying thunder tiger and Kin, theformer Lotus Guild engineer. Yes, the Lotus Guild - the Shogun's lot.Yukiko has problems of her own as well, in that her ability to hear thethoughts of animals and feel the emotions of anyone and anything is becominga curse. Meanwhile in Hiro's palace there works No One, below the radar andbeneath contempt, but one day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230759025</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=I Love Lucid|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Lucid T Kingfisher's latest novella is more than a full-immersion role play game; it's THE full-immersion role play gamelovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. Its inventor Seth Pascal has ensured that all that needs to be done But whilst there is to plug a princess trapped in and the player's brain will take them to the virtual world while during sleepa tower, providing perfect lucidity and sleeping under an alternative life within an avatar. However it's also becoming the game to die for. Yeseternal enchantment, literally die for as players are being murdered while they're connected. Detective Evan Waugh Thornhedge is the investigator given the case to prove that he still has what it takesnot her story. However there's an added complication for both he and Seth as the investigation continues. Her name Instead, our protagonist is EllenToadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the woman for whom Lucid isn't just a way land of life, it ''is'' fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her lifeveins and cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00G0T342Q</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreview|title=The Time Traveller's Almanac|author=Anne VanderMeer Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and Jeff VanderMeer|rating=4|genre=Anthologies|summary=From Hwhere her future can thrive rather than stagnate.G Wells to ''Doctor Who''But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, there is something about a good timethe self-travel story proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that has through paintings have the power to ignite protect the imagination in a way unique to the genrecity and its citizens from plagues and curses. Perhaps The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it is due to the fact that when dealing with the subject of time travel, literally ''anything is possible''above all else. WellTo them, almost anything...apart from going back in time Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and killing your Grandfather, which we know would cause an almighty paradox change – has no place amongst them and probably destroy the universetheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|title=The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books|author=Walter Moers|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=It's been two hundred years since Optimus Yarnspinner last went to Set in the great literary city of Bookholmnear-distant future, where people trawled underground hells for classic works in a world on the verge of Zamonian literatureclimate collapse, and our Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero had an almighty, Odyssey-like journey through (or several) to save the nether regionsday and rescue what little remains. He would not have ever What no-one expected to return, except for a very intriguing letter he receives was that one day in his authorly garret. It contains such mystery, including of the idea that he wrote it to himself, to force him to journey back to Bookholm – a Bookholm completely rebuilt after the ending Knights of the last novel. The city is much more advanced, Round Table would answer the subterranean areas seemingly more at peace – yet something is definitely afootcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578263</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=AJ SmithAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=The Black Guard (The Long War)Delilah Recovered

|summary=Ro Canarn is falling We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to the brutal conquest look up. Out of the Red Knights. Duke Hectorwork, its rulerabout to lose her flat, Dee is on the verge of death and his twin offspring Lady Bronwyn and Lord Bromvy are on the run, outcastup for an accountant's job. However this is merely a portent of greater troubles ahead. One of the evil Seven Sisters is seen accompanying the Red Knights so if there is a secret agenda But it's not a good oneto be. Meanwhile if Ro Canarn can fall, Dee is anywhere safe anymore?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855625</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=A Dance of Cloaks|author=David Dalglish|rating=4attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Thren Felhorn is She survives the leader of the Spider Guild and is a name feared by everyone in Veldarenattack but not unscathed. For good reason, for Thren Witch hunters? What on earth has united the Guildsthat to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, those groups populated by the thieves and murderers of the cityliving an ordinary life. Thren’s long term aim is to lead the Guilds in a war against the Trifect – the three richest families who control the majority Slivers of the city’s legal activities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502783</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Bronze Gods|author=A A Aguire|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=One memory of the many reasons I love fantasy is discovering the new worlds things that are not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the authors have createdsame. 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 and we have the makings of a really good time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tone AlmhjellHadeer Elsbai|title=The Twistrose KeyDaughters of Izdihar

|summary=Olivia TaylorDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''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 weavers – those with magical abilities -Jones has in a charmed lifesociety pitted against them. Her family is richNehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her fiance perfect abilities and though she has some questions about her careerthen join the military, but instead she knows that things will work themselves outis forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Until she learns that she's adopted - her true parents America's most infamous serial killers. Suddenly Giorgina on the run from the mediaother hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, Olivia finds shelter in whilst secretly attending meetings of the small town Daughters of Cainsville. ItIzdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a strange sort story of place - full an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of oddball characters admirable women fighting for their rights and gargoyles that seem to only appear at certain timesovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184744511X</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreview|title=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)Frontpage|author=Catherine FisherHeather Fawcett|rating=4.5|genretitle=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 Shee, still hasn't made Venn her husband. Sarah still hasn't prevented the destruction of the future by Janus. And the Scarred Man still hasn't done, well, whatever it is that heEmily Wilde'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 Encyclopaedia 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 JohnsonFaeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Drusilla Jaco (DJ) Emily Wilde is the sentinel for the preternatural community in the greater New Orleans area an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and is still recovering from bereavementshe has travelled extensively, Katrina and broken ribs from researched meticulously, to write her last adventure. No such luck as life taking things easy on her, however's work, as it is discovered that the copycat very first encyclopaedia of a famous serial killer faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is notso good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in factthe small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, a copycat. The Axeman of New Orleans himself she is not sure what she has been raised from done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the dead by a necromancer or necromancers unknownright track. To make matters worse Enter Wendell Bambleby, her loup-garou fiend Jake bit her in a fit of pique dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and her best friend’s creepy boyfriend won’t leave her alonedelight, much to Emily's frustration. She doesn’t know what But why is he wants and she doesn’t know whether she’ll turn into a wolf at the next full moon but she here? What does know that he want? And what exactly is going on with the Axeman is after her, specifically. faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755397703</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Apocalypse Now NowChristopher Golden|authortitle=Charlie HumanRoad of Bones

|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Baxter Zevcenko is a sixteen year old student in South Africa who believes everything in life is business related and for The Kolyma Highway… the sole purpose 'Road of increasing his own powerBones'… the R504. Baxter deals porn at his school and is Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the leader world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a gang spread of misfits who have carved sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a niche within the school’s hierarchy out huge blodge of the student populations need for smutunremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. The group is called the Spider Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and Baxter believes himself because he wanted to be the arachnid at the centre 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 a bit rich, for one of an impressive web 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 ability project to manipulate and scheme his way fruition to power claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and richesfetch up at the guide's childhood village. His heroes are Rasputin and Machiavelli and we are made aware very early on And that as well as being a despicable power hungry megalomaniac he is also quite possibly insane.'s where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780891318</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaAndrew Givler|title=ChosenSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=54

|summary=Alex Verus, seer and London magic shop owner, ''Matt has had a year of crowded uncomplication since we last caught up with himterrible life. 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 LunaSeriously—it's training and finding someone to pick up Anne and Variam's apprenticeship; not huge awful. It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his normal kind are infernal offer: 10 years of a matter of blissful life or death. However all is about to change. You remember that way back in exchange for his youth Alex worked for a dark mage? Well he was hoping to forget thatsoul. 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>}}'

{{newreview|author=Susan Cooper|title=Ghost Hawk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Poor Dan! I loved Susan Cooper's [[The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper|The Dark is Rising Sequence]]know, but as surprised as I am to say this know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul- this book is far bettercatching demons. While still suitable for older children, this But he really is definitely a book that adults will want to read as wellterrible salesman. The book is more mature than her early worksHe never hits his targets and, and while obviously gifted from when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the startdotted line, Cooperhe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's talents have matured as well. This book is nothing short of a masterpiecesignature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782300007</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael J SullivanOlivie Blake|title=The Crown Tower: Book 1 of The Riyria ChronicleAtlas Six|rating=4.5

|summary= Hadrian Blackwater (ex-soldierDark, sharp, ex-lots-of-things) and Royce Melborn (exemplary thief and grump) are summoned to Melengar by Professor Arcadius. The duo may not know each other and arrive separatelyhighly inquisitive, but as they meet and begin the Professor's mission together a legend is born: 'The Riyria. (ThatAtlas Six'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 makes its publishing debut after becoming a place in fantasy novel historyTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502279</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreview|title=Broken Homes|author=Ben Aaronovitch|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=I’ve been waiting for Broken Homes to come out for months. Months. When it arrived on my doorstep, I whisked it away, cackling like Gollum over my new precious and was no use to anyone until I’d finished it. Then sat and thought about it for a while. Then re-read my favourite bits. The considered further. This is the conclusion I reached: if there are no further Peter Grant books, Mr Aaronovitch, you and I are going to have ''words''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575132469</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robin SloanDaniel Abraham|title=Mr Penumbra's 24-hour BookstoreAge of Ash

|summary=Unemployed and desperate, Clay Jannon wants a jobWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, any job! So, despite not having touched she has a paper book knife in years, he jumps her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in the chance turning of working years when the night shift worlds are at Mr Penumbra's 24 hour bookstore. Mr P is a very particular employer. The books their thinnest and all things are lent (not sold) to members of a unique clubpossible. Clay It is to serve these visitors, log their visit in the smallest detail (including their mood, their choice night between the funeral of clothing a Prince and what they say). Oh and Clay must never open any the coronation of the books. He doesn't but he's curioushis successor. Perhaps if he realised where his curiosity would lead he'd be For a little more cautiousnight the Kithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782391193</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Cold Steel: Spiritwalker: Book ThreeAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Kate ElliottRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=The Master Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Wild Hunt has stolen away Cat Barahal's husbandEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. She's being blamed for However, when a murder. Fire mage James Drake wants man named Himura arrives to kill tell her. And rebellion that she is burning up a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the streets back in EuropaEmpire. Can Cat save He asks her man to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and crush her enemiesshe is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and maybe even change her a whole world?of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498858</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09Q3P283Y|title=Siege and StormShadebringer|author=Leigh BardugoGrayson W Hooper

|summary=Sharon Li, former coffee shop barista and current community-support-worker-cum-apprentice-shaman, continues to run Magicals Anonymous, a self-help group Clyde Robbins signs up for those with mystic issuesthe US Army during the Vietnam War. It sounds a simple life, however there thereHe's one factor that ensure not really that 'simple' remains an illusion: her acquaintance with invested in the Guardian of fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the Citymilitary. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, Defender of the Gate with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and so forththis one, The Midnight Mayorat least, aka Matthew Swiftgets him out of the rut he's in. MatthewHe's workload includes investigating good in training and is quickly put onto a number of supernatural disappearances. Or at least it did till he too went missingnon commissioned officer training course. So who ya gonna call? No, they donHe't call them; they call Sharon and along s chuffed with the mission comes unwanted promotion: Sharon Li, Deputy Midnight Mayorhimself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500659</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Never PagesJennifer Saint|authortitle=Graham ThomasElektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary='Elektra'There are two rules that by Jennifer Saint tells the Dream Investigator must follow:''<br>''1. Document everything.''<br>''2. Keep moving forward.'' Master G is in search story of his one true love, Lucy. But Lucy is lost three women who live in the NeverRealm, the dimension that separates the living from whatever comes afterheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. In the NeverRealmCassandra, memories do not exist. So how is Master G - the Dream Investigator - to find her? From the very first momentClytemnestra, his journey into the NeverRealm is destroying his mind, turning thoughts and knowledge and recollection to sand, shifting sand. He will need courage to face Elektra are all bit players in the nightmarish environment. He will need fortitude to resist story of the degenerationTrojan War. He will need to find Brekker, his unreliable scientist friend. And he'll need Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often 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 Mahala's power source, Rojan really, really wants to keep his head down. The Ministry thinks he's dead - which helps - but with silent women have the last scraps of power fast fading, people are starving most compelling stories and the danger of riots and chaos loomsmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501671</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony RyanDean Koontz|title=Blood Song: Book 1 of Raven's ShadowQuicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Young Vaelin Al Sorna's father takes him to the gates of the Sixth Order of the Faith and leaves him thereMeet Quinn Quicksilver. VaelinHe's father is not had the Kingchance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's Battle Lord lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and Vaelinnow is starting a career on a needless magazine's mother someone the lad has sorely missed since her death but staff. But when this doesnbook starts he IS now 't matter. As 'subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a member supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the Order Vaelin has no family except value of it out of his Order brethrenbank and prepare for going on the lam. The long life-threatening training binds him closer And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to his fellows while exposing him to greater dangers turn up and mysteries than suggest he's ever knownof interest to them. However one day Helped to escape, he'll outgrow finds his comrades. One day flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he'll become a name whispered with fear is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and awe. For Vaelin will become a deadly weapon: Hope Killer himselfwhole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502465</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreview|title=The Mirror Chronicles: the Bell Between WorldsFrontpage|author=Ian Johnstone|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The hero of this long and engrossing book is a boy 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 HarbonTasha Suri|title=Seven Point Eight: The First Chronicle|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Following several main characters - scientist Paul, businessman Max, remote viewer Tahra and mystery woman Ava - across two time frames spanning the 1940s to the present day, ''Seven Point Eight'' blends science fiction and fantasy in a sprawling, absorbing, diffuse novel that will attract fans of both genres.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005IBYKC0</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Royce Prouty|title=Stoker's ManuscriptJasmine Throne

|summary=In a world where vampires are On the new romantic heroesnight of her sacred burning, Stoker’s Manuscript Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a bit community of a Godsendpeople who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. I, for one, am absolutely delighted to find some good old fashioned evil as sinBut now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, night dwelling, blood guzzling, crucifix hating Romanian villainsdecaying ruin. Of courseOne day, this means sacrificing sexiness, romance and attractively sulking out of Malini witnesses a window but since what we get in exchange is stunning views girl kill someone with magic. Instead of Transylvania, thought-through biology (reporting her for want of such a better word) of gruesome crime, Malini claims that the creatures girl saved her from an attacker and stakes that are elevated beyond one person, I say sharpen up begs for the spike pitgirl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099574454</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bee RidgwayGenevieve Gornichec|title=The River of No ReturnWitch's Heart

|summary= Nick was born in England in 1790 A modern and is rather partial to pickled bits approachable reimagining of pig and beef jellythe Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. He finds this rather difficult to explain to his girlfriends, him being She hides in a young man and this being Americaforest at the edge of the nine worlds, 2013remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. His 19th century Napoleonic war wounds are hard Her attempts to explain away too. His second lease on life live in the 21st century is thanks to the mysterious Guild whose main rule is peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that no one can return was cut from her chest before she was tied 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 stake—and refuses to changeleave her alone. Eventually they seem After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to think that they can send him back fall for Loki's charms, and won't take no for the two start an answer. Any thought unusual family made of up a possible catch is suppressed by thoughts of Juliahalf-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, the girl Nick left behind in England. Itand another son that's all a bit fishy thoughsnake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718176987</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mur LaffertyHannah Whitten|title=The Shambling Guide to New York City (The Shambling Guides)For the Wolf|rating=4.5

|summary=Zoe is an unemployed book editor who had to leave her last jobIn Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and indeed her last city, in rather the second daughter becomes a hurrysacrifice. ZoeTo Red's personal exodus brings misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to New York and expect: within the possibility of woods is a job that sounds perfect: editing a travel guide to NYC itself. Howeverwolf, its projected readership isn't and he is the one for which Zoe has written beforewho will decide the fate of their kingdom. New York City If she is full of not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters or coterie he keeps contained to the woods will be polite. Vampiresreleased, werewolves, demons, sprites, zombies… and the list goes on as all alternative life is there, both in and out of fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the officestories go. So But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the first question is if she survives her colleagueshour, will she survive her readership? finds that the legends are lies. The second question being, of course, who or what wolf is Granny Good Mae?not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501906</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen Lloyd JonesJohn Gwynne|title=The String DiariesShadow Of The Gods

|summary= Hannah Wilde flees into The Shadow Of The Gods is the Welsh mountains with daughter Leah and husband Nate while first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the life blood slowly seeps out shadow of him. They run to escape Ragnarok, when the evil that has relentlessly haunted Hannah's family Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for generationsall to see. Some people see it as a Hungarian legend but This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the Wildes it's real genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and insatiable battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and won't forget them. They know what fascinating characters that are woven together to do: verify everyone, trust no one create a wonderfully realistic and, if gritty world in any doubt, RUN! Although one day that may not be enoughwhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472204670</amazonuk>0356514218