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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady TrentG Slatter|authortitle=Marie BrennanThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5

|summary=We could '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all wish mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a little while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of Lady Trent in ourselves. Itthe Briar's obvious what she feels , a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has inside always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her, family for ever generations and as such since she was young, her training as a young girl she ignored society steward revolved around letters and decorum administration rather than spells and was interested in sciencepotions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, natureEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, and the discovery of all that was unknown about dragons. She even went on a hunt for wolf-drakes, disguised as a maletown's leader, and that's a species that prefers female preyEllie takes her place beside her. But as renowned a pioneer as she isAs challenges come her way left, she has never told anyone in such detail of her life storiesright and centre, starting Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with this one – a journey to the colddead, mountainous land putting her at the heart of Vystrana, which successfully uncovered a lot maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the truth about dragons – but also a lot that was much harder Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to explain…survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783292393</amazonuk>1803364548

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Unnatural CreaturesRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Neil GaimanCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=''I wished I could visit a Museum can hear the song of Unnatural History, but even so, I was glad there wasn't onethe sea... 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 call of the impossible, which was, I was certaindeep, the only place that matteredanswering beat in my heart.''

So says Neil Gaiman in Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the introduction Council Watch lays a trap to this anthology of sixteen end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'unnatural creatures'' (s father. Desperate to capitalise or not save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to capitaliseguide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that is lies buried deep in the sea. 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 the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the question)ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408845466</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreview|author=Jen Williams|title=The Copper Promise|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Former knight Sir Sebastian Caverson and Wydrin of Crosshaven (aka Copper Cat) are swords for hire. On this occasion theyT Kingfisher're hired by Lord Aaron Frith s latest novella is a lovely reimagining of Blackwood to enter the Citadel, of which dark legends abounda fairytale that is well known and well beloved. They don't know what they need to do once But whilst there is a princess trapped in therea tower, but that doesn't matter. The trip unleashes something that would have made them forget their purpose anywaysleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not to mention their pay: they awake Y'Ruenher story. Instead, the last god. In return for the alarm callour protagonist is Toadling, Y'Ruen breathes death across the known world with who was stolen away by fairies when she was a little family assistance but that's not the worst bit. The worst bit (at least for them) is that Sebastian new-born baby and Wydrin are secreted away to the only ones who can stop land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from herveins and cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472211111</amazonuk>1803364238

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tanya HuffNicole Jarvis|title=The Enchantment Emporium (Enchantment Emporium 1)A Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=All the Gale family have powers and there are many in the clan, mostly women. This is one ''I want all of the reasons that 24-year-old Allie (or Alysha Catherine Gale Florence to the aunties) jumps at the chance of moving to the other side of Canada when her gran leaves her a junk shop. Ok, it may not be an ordinary junk shop and it could mean that Gran is dead but the fact that the love of her life has left her for a man makes her mind up. With the help of Joe Oknow my name'Hallan, a tall leprechaun with a gift for selling yo-yos, Allie sorts out the Enchantment Emporium but once there she hasn't escaped all supervision. Indeed, someone is watching her closely; very closely indeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169608</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Jaye Wells|title=Dirty Magic: Prospero's War: Book One|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Gray Wolf is the new magic drug Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in town but it's which her art can find a mite more evil home and where her future can thrive rather than the usual sex potions and enchanted uppers and downersstagnate. Gray Wolf ensures that But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the user becomes a craven devourer of flesh - human flesh. Kate Prosperopowerful Accademia, cop seconded to the MEA (self-proclaimed guardians of the government agency charged with clearing healing magics that through paintings have the streets of dirty, illegal magic) has her work cut out. Unfortunately this work includes having power to go into protect the Cauldron, the dangerous underbelly of a town called Babyloncity and its citizens from plagues and curses. However Kate The all-male Accademia has a lot to provehoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, having been born Artemisia – an adept in that very underbelly ambitious young woman who promises trouble 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 change – has no place amongst them and her kid brother is choosing his own way in life; not a good thing, not a good thing at alltheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650297X</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Nora Roberts|title=Dark Witch (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy)|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=American Iona Sheehan moves to Ireland Set 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 the family talent. Under their care and tutelage Iona has her own skills honed as she develops near-distant future, in a world on the magick passed down to her verge of climate collapse, Britain is in between her work at the local stablesgreat peril. Unfortunately magick isn't the only thing The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to have survived save the centuriesday and rescue what little remains. Cabahn, What no-one expected was that one of the nemesis Knights of Sorcha, the first O'Dwyer dark witch, has unfinished business with Round Table would answer the cousins and not in a good waycall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749958588</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Last to RiseAmelia Estelle Dellos|authortitle=Francis KnightDelilah Recovered|rating=4.5

|summary=Rojan has spent his We meet Dee at a point when her life running from any sort isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of responsibilitywork, but about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. But it's all catching up with him nownot to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. With She survives the Mishans and Storads both knocking attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on Mahalaearth has that to do with Dee? She's doorjust an ordinary woman, war seems inevitableliving an ordinary life. The inhabitants Slivers of memory of Mahala things that are starving as trade dries up, not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the natural resources of the city all usedsame... And the paltry amount of Glow the few pain mages can generate isn't enough to protect them.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650168X</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John R FultzHadeer Elsbai|title=Seven Sorcerers: Books The Daughters of the Shaper: Volume 3Izdihar

|summary=Vireon Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the Giant-Kinglives of two women who could not be more different, Emperor Tyro and Feathered Serpent/Sorcerer Khama are readying their armies to face yet find themselves fighting for the Almighty Zyung, would be conqueror rights of the Five Cities, women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a Shaper and evil piece of worksociety pitted against them. Meanwhile Sharadza (Vireon's sister) and Iardu (Nehal, born into the good Shaperupper class, mostly) take on swifter forms wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to beg assistance from every place control her abilities and being they can think of. For then join the time military, but instead she is coming when the world's freedom depends forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on victory against insurmountable odds. Back at the armiesother hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, Dahrima whilst secretly attending meetings of the Axe, giantess and leader Daughters of VireonIzdihar – a group campaigning for women's spear-maiden body guard, has sworn rights. Giorgina also happens to die for her king but also has some emotional issuesbe in love with Nico. As for Ianthe What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and Gammircruelty, thecauses from which blossoms a group of much suffering in the past, they once again have admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their own agendas that could mean Zyung is the least of anyone's worriespersonal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500837</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=World After (Penryn and the End of Days Book 2)Heather Fawcett|authortitle=Susan EeEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Penryn successfully (depending Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on how you look at things) liberated her little sister Paige from the sick experiments of the angels now ruling over the world. Believed to be dead at the start of the storyfaerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, Penryn finds herself at the control centre of the human resistance movement whose treatment of her sister and other victims of angel brutality seems less than human. In order researched meticulously, to protect write her sister she feels the need to leave the resistance and risk life in the nearly destroyed world amongst predators such as angels and even more horrifying creations spawned by the angels. All the while Pen clings to the hope of a reunion with Raffe's work, the angel responsible for saving her life and true owner very first encyclopaedia of the powerful sword she carries with her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444778536</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Girl With All the Gifts|author=M R Carey|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Meet Melaniefaeries. Not something that's likely Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to happenfaeries, but it's a standard introduction and I'll run she is not so good with itpeople. If you do find herSo when she finds herself far, it's either far North in a subterranean cellthe small village of Hrafvsnik, or a classroom. Or having somehow offended the shower-roomvillage matriarch, where she and the other children get disinfectedis not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and get to eat a bowl of maggots – put her final investigations for her book back on the only nutrition they have all weekright track. All this is on a military base so secure they've only seen a few members of staff – either military or mostly lacklustre teachers – Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and they've certainly no real hope of seeing sunlight. They are there because of the Breakdowninsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, when most of the world got turned into ravenousall charm and delight, mindless ''hungries'much to Emily's frustration. But these children did not turn all the way. why is he here? What does he want? And as unlikely as it what exactly is, as implausible a heroine as she is, young Melanie might just be going on with the saviour of mankind.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502732</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreview|title=Rags and Bones|author=Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Anthologies|summary=Some of today's top authors have come together to retell classic tales - from fairy stories to Victorian-era fiction. As usual with this kind of anthology, it's a fairly hit-or-miss affair, but the hits here are so strong that they're well worth picking up the book for. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jay KristoffChristopher Golden|title=Kinslayer (Lotus War Trilogy 2)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|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 Road of Shima. He may be dead but Hiro (equally nastyand Yukiko's former lover) has a plan to take power which includes marryingAisha, the Shogun's sister and secret Kage sympathiser. 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 LucidBones

|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Lucid is more than The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a full-immersion role play game; thousand miles across Siberia, it's THE full-immersion role play gameone of the world's most notorious routes. Its inventor Seth Pascal has ensured that all that needs to be done is to plug in and For months of the playeryear it's brain will take them to a spread of sheet ice suspended above the virtual world permafrost surrounding it, while during sleepits 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, providing perfect lucidity and an alternative because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life within an avatarevery metre it covers. However You can easily find documentaries about itonline, but that's also becoming the game to die a bit rich, for. Yesone of our main characters, literally die for as players are being murdered while theyFelix 'Teig're connected. Detective Evan Waugh Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the investigator given project to fruition to claw back some of the case to prove that funds he still has what it takes. However there'd invested in the pair's an added complication for both he and Seth as the investigation continuesprior TV projects. Her name is EllenThey pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the woman for whom Lucid isn't just company of a way of lifelocal beauty, it and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that'is'' her life.s where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00G0T342Q</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Time Traveller's AlmanacAndrew Givler|authortitle=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)

|genre=AnthologiesFantasy|summary=From H.G Wells to ''Doctor WhoMatt has a terrible life. Seriously—it'', there s awful. It is something about a good time-travel story so bad that has Dan the power to ignite the imagination in a way unique to the genre. Perhaps it Demon is due to the fact that shocked when dealing with the subject Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of time travel, literally ''anything is possiblea blissful life in exchange for his soul.''. Well, almost anything...apart from going back in time and killing your Grandfather, which we know would cause an almighty paradox and probably destroy the universe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books|author=Walter Moers|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=ItPoor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn's been two hundred years since Optimus Yarnspinner last went to the great literary city of Bookholm, where people trawled underground hells t feel sorry for classic works of Zamonian literature, and our hero had an almighty, Odysseysoul-like journey through the nether regionscatching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman. He would not have ever expected to return, except for a very intriguing letter he receives one day in never hits his authorly garret. It contains such mysterytargets and, including the idea that when he wrote it fails to himself, get even Matt to force him to journey back to Bookholm – a Bookholm completely rebuilt after the ending of sign on the last novel. The city is much more advanceddotted line, the subterranean areas seemingly more at peace – yet something is definitely afoothe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578263</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=AJ SmithOlivie Blake|title=The Black Guard (The Long War)Atlas Six

|summary=Ro Canarn is falling to the brutal conquest of the Red Knights. Duke HectorDark, its rulersharp, is on the verge of death and his twin offspring Lady Bronwyn and Lord Bromvy are on the runhighly inquisitive, outcast. 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 it's not 'The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a good oneTik-Tok sensation. Meanwhile if Ro Canarn can fall, is anywhere safe anymore?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855625</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Dance of CloaksDaniel Abraham|authortitle=David DalglishAge of Ash

|summary=Thren Felhorn is We meet Alys under the leader most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the Spider Guild and City of Kithamar is at a name feared by everyone point in Veldaren. For good reason, for Thren has united the Guilds, those groups populated by turning of years when the thieves worlds are at their thinnest and murderers of the cityall things are possible. Thren’s long term aim It is to lead the Guilds in night between the funeral of a war against Prince and the Trifect – the three richest families who control the majority coronation of his successor. For a night the city’s legal activitiesKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502783</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bronze GodsAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=A A AguireRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=One Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the many reasons I love fantasy Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is discovering a Crafter like him, someone with the new worlds that power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the authors have createdEmpire. Where He asks her 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 world? What kind creatures inhabit it? What are matter, because the customs, et ceteraMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, et cetera. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating and steampunk mixed with fantasy she is forced to flee out into the double hitworld. Throw in some murder most frighteningly horrid She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and we have the makings a whole world of a really good time.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tone AlmhjellB09Q3P283Y|title=The Twistrose KeyShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=Olivia Taylor-Jones has Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a charmed lifecareer in the military. Her family If he's honest - which Clyde usually is rich, her fiance perfect with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and though she has some questions about her careerthis one, at least, she knows that things will work themselves gets him out. Until she learns that sheof the rut he's adopted - her true parents Americain. He's most infamous serial killers. Suddenly on the run from the media, Olivia finds shelter good in the small town of Cainsvilletraining and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. ItHe's a strange sort of place - full of oddball characters and gargoyles that seem to only appear at certain timeschuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184744511X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)Jennifer Saint|authortitle=Catherine FisherElektra|rating=4.5|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Ok. Let's catch you up. JakeElektra's father is still lost by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in timethe heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Venn's wife is still dead. SummerCassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the Queen story of the Shee, still hasn't made Venn her husbandTrojan War. Sarah still hasn't prevented the destruction of Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the future by Janus. And silent women have 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 most compelling stories and the rest, but they all want different things from it. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likelymost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caleb CarrDean Koontz|title=The Legend of BrokenQuicksilver|rating=32.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=A historical manuscript has been found Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in what a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now Germany (so the story goes) chronicling an ancient civilisation inhabiting the fortress city ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of Broken (mood or Brocken in mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the original German). Those who anger the government are cast value of it out into the surrounding forests where they must face the dangers of man-eating wolves his bank and worseprepare for going on the lam. These outcasts can only survive by collaborating And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and becoming one tribe: the Banesuggest he's of interest to them. Although, Helped to be honestescape, they're becoming a bit he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of a nuisance with their terrorist wayshim acting without being in control, therefore Sixt Arnem, Sentek of the Broken Army discovery that he is ordered to eradicate them for once not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and for alla whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751551538</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Elysian FieldsTasha Suri|authortitle=Suzanne JohnsonThe Jasmine Throne

|summary=Drusilla Jaco (DJ) is On the sentinel for the preternatural community in the greater New Orleans area and is still recovering from bereavementnight of her sacred burning, Katrina Princess Malini defies her brother and broken ribs from her last adventurerefuses to step on to the pyre. No such luck as life taking things easy She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on her, however, as it is discovered the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the copycat of a famous serial killer mysterious deathless waters. But now the temple is notnothing more than an overgrown, in factdecaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a copycatgirl kill someone with magic. The Axeman Instead of New Orleans himself has been raised from the dead by reporting her for such a necromancer or necromancers unknown. To make matters worsegruesome crime, Malini claims that the girl saved her loup-garou fiend Jake bit her in a fit of pique from an attacker 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 begs for the Axeman is after girl to become her, specificallyown personal maidservant. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755397703</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Apocalypse Now NowGenevieve Gornichec|authortitle=Charlie HumanThe Witch's Heart|rating=3.54

|summary=Baxter Zevcenko is a sixteen year old student in South Africa who believes everything in life is business related A modern and for approachable reimagining of the sole purpose of increasing his own powerNorse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. Baxter deals porn She hides in a forest at his school and is the leader edge of a gang the nine worlds, remembering nothing of misfits who have carved a niche within her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the school’s hierarchy out stake three times because of the student populations need for smutOdin's wrath. The group is called the Spider and Baxter believes himself Her attempts to be the arachnid at the centre of an impressive web live 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 ability stake—and refuses to manipulate and scheme his way leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to power fall for Loki's charms, and riches. His heroes are Rasputin and Machiavelli the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and we are made aware very early on another son that as well as being 's a despicable power hungry megalomaniac he is also quite possibly insanesnake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780891318</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaHannah Whitten|title=ChosenFor the Wolf

|summary=Alex VerusIn Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, seer and London magic shop ownerthe second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, has had a year of crowded uncomplication since we last caught up with himshe is the second daughter. Crowded because he now shares his small flat Sent alone into the woods with unqualified nothing but adept mages Anne and Variam as well as his apprentice Luna. Uncomplicated because his biggest problem seems the cape on her back, Red knows what to be progressing Luna's training expect: within the woods is a wolf, and finding someone to pick up Anne and Variam's apprenticeship; not huge when his normal kind are a matter he is the one who will decide the fate of life or deaththeir kingdom. However all If she is about to change. You remember that way back in his youth Alex worked for not a dark mage? Well worthy sacrifice, the monsters he was hoping keeps contained to forget thatthe woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. Was? YesBut when Red enters the woods, past tenseexpecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, for now Alexshe finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's past has invaded his present and is in danger of curtailing his futurea man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502309</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan CooperJohn Gwynne|title=Ghost HawkThe Shadow Of The Gods

|summary= Hadrian Blackwater (ex-soldierThe Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, ex-lots-set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of-things) Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and Royce Melborn (exemplary thief and grump) are summoned their bones lie scattered for all to Melengar by Professor Arcadiussee. The duo may not know each other This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and arrive separatelyJohn Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, but as they meet with mythical creatures, archaic language and begin the Professor's mission together a legend battles galore. This 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 thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a place wonderfully realistic and gritty world in fantasy novel historywhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502279</amazonuk>0356514218

{{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 Move 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>}} {{newreview|author=Robin Sloan|title=Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Unemployed and desperate, Clay Jannon wants a job, any job! So, despite not having touched a paper book in years, he jumps at the chance of working the night shift at Mr Penumbra's 24 hour bookstore. Mr P 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 mood, their choice of clothing and what they say). Oh and Clay must never open any of the books. He doesn't but he's curious. Perhaps if he realised where his curiosity would lead he'd be a little more cautious.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782391193</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Cold Steel: Spiritwalker: Book Three|author=Kate Elliott|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Master of the Wild Hunt has stolen away Cat Barahal's husband. She's being blamed for a murder. Fire mage James Drake wants to kill her. And rebellion is burning up the streets back in Europa. Can Cat save her man and crush her enemies, and maybe even change her world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498858</amazonuk>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]