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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=Unnatural CreaturesFrontpage|author=Neil GaimanA G Slatter|ratingtitle=4|genre=Teens|summary=''I wished I could visit a Museum of Unnatural History, but even so, I was glad there wasn't one... If someone actually caught a werewolf, or a dragon, if they tamed a manticore or stabled a unicorn, put them in bottles, dissected them, then they could be only one thing, and they would no longer live in the shadowy places between the things I knew and the world The Briar Book of the impossible, which was, I was certain, the only place that mattered.'' So says Neil Gaiman in the introduction to this anthology of sixteen ''unnatural creatures'' (to capitalise or not to capitalise, that is the question).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408845466</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jen Williams|title=The Copper PromiseDead|rating=4.5
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|summary=Former knight Sir Sebastian Caverson and Wydrin of Crosshaven (aka Copper Cat) are swords for hire. On this occasion they're hired by Lord Aaron Frith ' There's a part of Blackwood me that wants to enter the Citadel, of which dark legends abound. They don't know what they need keep this just to do once in there, but that doesn't mattermyself for however long I can. The trip unleashes something that would have made them forget their purpose anywayThis secret magic of my own, not to mention their pay: they awake Y'Ruenall mine, the at last god. In return I just want to enjoy it for the alarm call, Ya while.'Ruen breathes death across the known world with a little family assistance but that's not the worst bit. The worst bit (at least for them) is that Sebastian and Wydrin are the only ones who can stop her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472211111</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaye WellsRachel Greenlaw|title=Dirty Magic: Prospero's War: Book One|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Gray Wolf is the new magic drug in town but it's a mite more evil than the usual sex potions and enchanted uppers Compass and downers. Gray Wolf ensures that the user becomes a craven devourer of flesh - human flesh. Kate Prospero, cop seconded to the MEA (the government agency charged with clearing the streets of dirty, illegal magic) has her work cut out. Unfortunately this work includes having to go into the Cauldron, the dangerous underbelly of a town called Babylon. However Kate has a lot to prove, having been born an adept in that very underbelly and now having to face the forces that helped create the tragedy still haunting her. Also, if she didn't have enough to worry about, her ex-lover is implicated in Gray Wolf's manufacture and her kid brother is choosing his own way in life; not a good thing, not a good thing at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650297X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nora Roberts|title=Dark Witch (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy)Blade
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|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary=American Iona Sheehan moves to Ireland in order to discover her ancestors' roots and oh so much more. Her ancestors were witches and her cousins Branna and Conor O'Dwyer have acquired I can hear the family talent. Under their care and tutelage Iona has her own skills honed as she develops song of the magick passed down to her in between her work at the local stablessea. Unfortunately magick isn't the only thing to have survived the centuries. Cabahn, the nemesis The call of Sorcha, the first O'Dwyer dark witchdeep, has unfinished business with the cousins and not answering beat in a good waymy heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958588</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John R FultzT Kingfisher|title=Seven Sorcerers: Books of the Shaper: Volume 3Thornhedge|rating=45
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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, ''You had a Shaper and evil piece of work. Meanwhile Sharadza (Vireon's sister) and Iardu (the good Shaper, mostly) take on swifter forms right to beg assistance from every retake your place and being they can think of. For the time is coming when the world's freedom depends on victory against insurmountable odds. Back at the armies, Dahrima the Axe, giantess and leader of Vireon's spear-maiden body guard, has sworn to die for her king but also has some emotional issues. 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>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Girl With All the GiftsNicole Jarvis|authortitle=M R CareyA Portrait in Shadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Meet Melanie. Not something that's likely to happen, but it's a standard introduction and I'll run with it. If you do find her, it's either in a subterranean cell, or a classroom. Or the shower-room, where she and the other children get disinfected, and get to eat a bowl of maggots – the only nutrition they have want 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 theyFlorence to know my name've certainly no real hope of seeing sunlight. They are there because of the Breakdown, when most of the world got turned into ravenous, mindless ''hungries''. But these children did not turn all the way. And as unlikely as it is, as implausible a heroine as she is, young Melanie might just be the saviour of mankind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502732</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|author=Mark LinganeAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=I Love LucidDelilah Recovered|rating=3.54
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Lucid is more than We meet Dee at a full-immersion role play game; itpoint when her life isn's THE full-immersion role play gamet going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Its inventor Seth Pascal has ensured that all that needs Out of work, about to be done lose her flat, Dee is to plug in and the playerup for an accountant's brain will take them to the virtual world while during sleep, providing perfect lucidity and an alternative life within an avatarjob. However But it's also becoming the game not to die forbe. Yes, literally die for as players are being murdered while they're connectedDee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. Detective Evan Waugh is She survives the investigator given the case attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to prove that he still has what it takes. However theredo with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an added complication for both he ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and Seth as things will never be the investigation continuessame... Her name is Ellen, the woman for whom Lucid isn't just a way of life, it ''is'' her life.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00G0T342Q</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Time Traveller's AlmanacHadeer Elsbai|authortitle=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerThe Daughters of Izdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=ItDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar''s been two hundred years since Optimus Yarnspinner last went to explores the great literary city lives of Bookholmtwo women who could not be more different, where people trawled underground hells yet find themselves fighting for classic works the rights of Zamonian literature, women and our hero had an almighty, Odysseyweavers – those with magical abilities -like journey through the nether regions. He would not have ever expected to return, except for in a very intriguing letter he receives one day in his authorly garretsociety pitted against them. It contains such mysteryNehal, including born into the idea that he wrote it to himselfupper class, wishes to force him attend the Weaving Academy to journey back learn to Bookholm – control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a Bookholm completely rebuilt after privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the ending Daughters of the last novelIzdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. The city What follows is much more advanceda story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, the subterranean areas seemingly more at peace – yet something is definitely afootfrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578263</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=AJ SmithHeather Fawcett|title=The Black Guard (The Long War)Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
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|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Ro Canarn Emily Wilde is falling an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the brutal conquest very first encyclopaedia of the Red Knightsfaeries. Duke Hector, its ruler, Whilst she is on the verge of death brilliant at research and his twin offspring Lady Bronwyn and Lord Bromvy are on the runspeaking to faeries, outcast. However this she is merely a portent of greater troubles aheadnot so good with people. One So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the evil Seven Sisters village matriarch, she is seen accompanying not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the Red Knights so if there is a secret agenda itright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's not a good onefrustration. Meanwhile if Ro Canarn can fall, But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is anywhere safe anymoregoing on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855625</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Dance of CloaksChristopher Golden|authortitle=David DalglishRoad of Bones|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Thren Felhorn is The Kolyma Highway… the leader 'Road of Bones'… the Spider Guild and is a name feared by everyone in VeldarenR504. For good reason, Stretching for Thren has united the Guildsover a thousand miles across Siberia, those groups populated by the thieves and murderers it's one of the cityworld's most notorious routes. Thren’s long term aim is to lead For months of the Guilds in year it's a war against spread of sheet ice suspended above the Trifect – the three richest families who control the majority permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of the city’s legal activitiesunremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502783</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Bronze Gods|author=A A Aguire|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=One of the Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many reasons I love fantasy is discovering the new worlds that the authors have createdpeople a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. Where is the world? What kind creatures inhabit You can easily find documentaries about it? What are the customsonline, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, et ceterais a film-maker, et cetera. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating and steampunk mixed doing a recce with fantasy is 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 the double hitpair's prior TV projects. Throw in some murder most frighteningly horrid and we have They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the makings company of a really good timelocal beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>1803361476
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tone AlmhjellAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Twistrose KeyDebt Collection Book 1)
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Olivia Taylor-Jones ''Matt has a charmed terrible 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 sheSeriously—it'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 Cainsvilleawful. It's a strange sort of place - full of oddball characters and gargoyles is so bad that seem to only appear at certain times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184744511X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Box 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, Dan 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 Demon is that he's trying to do. The Chronoptika, a mirror made shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of black obsidian and a time travel device, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and the rest, but they all want different things from itblissful life in exchange for his soul. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Elysian FieldsOlivie Blake|authortitle=Suzanne JohnsonThe Atlas Six
|rating=4
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|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 factDark, a copycat. The Axeman of New Orleans himself has been raised from the dead by a necromancer or necromancers unknown. To make matters worsesharp, 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 herhighly inquisitive, specifically. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755397703</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Apocalypse Now Now|author=Charlie Human|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Baxter Zevcenko is a sixteen year old student in South Africa who believes everything in life is business related and for the sole purpose of increasing his own power. Baxter deals porn at his school and is the leader of a gang of misfits who have carved a niche within the school’s hierarchy out of the student populations need for smut. ''The group is called the Spider and Baxter believes himself to be the arachnid at the centre of an impressive web with the ability to manipulate and scheme his way to power and riches. His heroes are Rasputin and Machiavelli and we are made aware very early on that as well as being a despicable power hungry megalomaniac he is also quite possibly insane.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891318</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Benedict Jacka|title=Chosen|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 LunaAtlas Six's training and finding someone to pick up Anne and Variam's apprenticeship; not huge when his normal kind are makes its publishing debut after becoming a matter of life or death. However all is about to change. You remember that way back in his youth Alex worked for a dark mage? Well he was hoping to forget that. 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=I loved Susan Cooper's [[The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper|The Dark is Rising Sequence]], but as surprised as I am to say this Tik- this book is far better. While still suitable for older children, this is definitely a book that adults will want to read as well. The book is more mature than her early works, and while obviously gifted from the start, Cooper's talents have matured as well. This book is nothing short of a masterpieceTok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782300007</amazonuk>1529095239
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael J SullivanDaniel Abraham|title=The Crown Tower: Book 1 Age of The Riyria ChronicleAsh
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary= Hadrian Blackwater (ex-soldierWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, ex-lots- she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of-years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things) and Royce Melborn (exemplary thief and grump) are summoned to Melengar by Professor Arcadiuspossible. The duo may not know each other and arrive separately, but as they meet and begin It is the night between the Professor's mission together funeral of a legend is born: The Riyria. (That's elvish for two by Prince and the waycoronation of his successor.) Meanwhile For a prostitute named Gwen escapes to save her life. Across night the road (ok... she didn't run far) she goes into business leading her to a place in fantasy novel historyKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502279</amazonuk>0356515427
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Broken HomesAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Ben AaronovitchRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=I’ve been waiting for Broken Homes Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to come out for monthsdrink and make merry between their conquests. Months. When it arrived on my doorstepHowever, I whisked it awaywhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, cackling like Gollum over my new precious and was no use someone with the power to anyone until I’d finished it. Then sat and thought about it for form paper into whatever she desires – a whilepower sought after all across the Empire. Then re-read my favourite bitsHe asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. The considered further. This is Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the conclusion I reached: if there are no further Peter Grant booksmatter, Mr Aaronovitchbecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, you and I are going she is forced to have ''words''flee 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>0575132469</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robin SloanB09Q3P283Y|title=Mr Penumbra's 24-hour BookstoreShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Unemployed and desperate, Clay Jannon wants a job, any job! So, despite Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not having touched a paper book really that invested in yearsthe fight against Communism, nor is he jumps at particularly interested in a career in the chance of working the night shift at Mr Penumbramilitary. If he's 24 hour bookstore. Mr P honest - which Clyde usually is a very particular employer. The books are lent (not sold) to members of a unique club. Clay is to serve these visitors, log their visit in the smallest detail (including their moodwith himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, their choice of clothing and what they say). Oh and Clay must never open any gets him out of the booksrut he's in. He doesn't but he's curiousgood in training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. Perhaps if he realised where his curiosity would lead heHe'd be a little more cautiouss chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782391193</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Cold Steel: Spiritwalker: Book ThreeJennifer Saint|authortitle=Kate ElliottElektra
|rating=4
|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=The Master 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the story of the Wild Hunt has stolen away Cat BarahalTrojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furies.|isbn=1472273915}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's husbandstaff. SheBut when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind's being blamed ', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a murder. Fire mage James Drake wants supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to kill hera derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And rebellion all this is burning just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the streets back discovery that he is not unique in Europahaving some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides. Can Cat save her man and crush her enemies, and maybe even change her world?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498858</amazonuk>1542019885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Siege and StormTasha Suri|authortitle=Leigh BardugoThe Jasmine Throne
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Sharon LiOn the night of her sacred burning, former coffee shop barista Princess Malini defies her brother and current community-support-worker-cum-apprentice-shaman, continues refuses to step on to run Magicals Anonymous, a self-help group for those with mystic issuesthe pyre. It sounds a simple life, however there there's one factor She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that ensure that 'simple' remains an illusion: her acquaintance was once filled with the Guardian a community of people who got powers from the City, Defender of mysterious deathless waters. But now the Gate and so forthtemple is nothing more than an overgrown, The Midnight Mayordecaying ruin. One day, aka Matthew SwiftMalini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Matthew's workload includes investigating Instead of reporting her for such a number of supernatural disappearances. Or at least it did till he too went missing. So who ya gonna call? Nogruesome crime, they don't call them; they call Sharon Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and along with begs for the mission comes unwanted promotion: Sharon Li, Deputy Midnight Mayorgirl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500659</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Never PagesGenevieve Gornichec|authortitle=Graham ThomasThe Witch's Heart
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=''There are two rules A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that the Dream Investigator must follow:''<br>''1. Document everything.''<br>''2centres around a witch named Angrboda. Keep moving forward.'' Master G is She hides in search a forest at the edge of his one true love, Lucy. But Lucy is lost in the NeverRealmnine worlds, the dimension remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that separates she was survived burnt at the living from whatever comes afterstake three times because of Odin's wrath. In the NeverRealm, memories do not exist. So how is Master G - the Dream Investigator - Her attempts to find her? From the very first momentlive in peace, his journey into the NeverRealm is destroying his mindhowever, turning thoughts and knowledge and recollection are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to sand, shifting sand. He will need courage to face the nightmarish environment. He will need fortitude stake—and refuses to resist the degenerationleave her alone. He will need After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to find Brekkerfall for Loki's charms, his unreliable scientist friend. And he'll need and the companionship two start an unusual family made of Paisleyup a half-dead daughter, a dog named after son that's a wolf, and another son that's a carpet..snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956742203</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Before the FallHannah Whitten|authortitle=Francis KnightFor the Wolf|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=After destroying MahalaIn Red's power sourcefamily, Rojan reallythe first daughter becomes queen, really wants to keep his head downand the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. The Ministry thinks heTo Red's dead - which helps - misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but with the last scraps of power fast fadingcape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, people are starving and he is the danger one who will decide the fate of riots their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and chaos loomsthe fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501671</amazonuk>0356516369
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony RyanJohn Gwynne|title=Blood Song: Book 1 of Raven's The ShadowOf The Gods
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Young Vaelin Al Sorna's father takes him to The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the gates era of the Sixth Order Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Faith Gods have battled and leaves him theretheir bones lie scattered for all to see. Vaelin's father This story is the King's Battle Lord ultimate in High Fantasy, and Vaelin's mother someone John Gwynne certainly does justice to 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 genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and mysteries than he's ever knownbattles galore. However one day he'll outgrow his comrades. One day he'll become This is a name whispered thick book, with fear an intricate plot and awe. For Vaelin will become fascinating characters that are woven together to create a deadly weapon: Hope Killer himselfwonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502465</amazonuk>0356514218
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