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|summary=Phew. That'' There's the sound a part of relief me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I gave when I found this bookcan. This secret magic of my own, the eighth in this lengthy genre seriesall mine, was on format last. As the quality had hardly ever dipped in the past you might be wondering why I sounded particularly anxious this time. Well, book seven was that dip, and this time round things have changed – just want to enjoy it for the first time the British market gets a hardbackwhile. But we've not jumped the shark. If anything, the fantasy side of this series is following on from [[Mercy Thompson: River Marked by Patricia Briggs|book six – River Marked]] and the fae implement that was so much a feature of that book is being requested by a dangerously powerful character. But the urban fantasy side of this series is not without its dangerous characters – as Mercy is forced to bring the worried, frantic yet exceedingly manipulative figure of her husband's first wife into the shelter of their household…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650154X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Richard Ford|title=The Shattered Crown (Steelhaven: Book Two)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=''The king is dead… his city is next'' shouts Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the straplineworld, and itlies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's not wrong!Following on from [[Herald , a family of witches who protect the town and the Storm by Richard Ford|Herald of wider world from the Storm]]Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Janessa Ellie Briar is the new queen first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and is quaking; as such since she's was young, inexperienced her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and watching the massed hordes of Amon Tugha approach to rout the kingdom of Steelhavenpotions. This isn't the only problem When her fathergrandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's untimely death has left her with; therecousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's a whole heap of trouble (internal as much as external) leader, and hardly anyone Janessa can trustEllie takes her place beside her. Little Rag is now in the Guild but it's not all she dreamt it would be or as safe as she'd hoped. Meanwhile Merrick the ex-mercenary As challenges come her way left, right and Kairacentre, Ellie uncovers the former spear maiden are settling into their new job as bodyguards rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the Queenheart of a maelstrom of chaos. MerrickReeling from one family secret to another, though, has other things Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to think about do as his past comes back to haunt him. Waylian the witchBriar witches's assistant is still alivelegacy, which is good. And Regulus? He just wants everything they have sacrificed to offer his men's swords in defence of Steelhaven but just didn't realise how difficult that would besurvive, even before the fighting officially startsis under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755394062</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|title=The Islands of Chaldea|author=Diana Wynne Jones and Ursula Jones|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Imagine Rosevear, a story – a good old-fashioned adventure with journeys remote and magic and villains partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and young people finding their strengths despite plundering the oddswrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and coming at last any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the place wrecking, they belongcapture the island's leader and Mira's father. Then imagine another storyDesperate to 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 guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that 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-touching one this timeof the smuggler's territory, about Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the writing future of that story, her home and you have the whole of this charming bookones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007542232</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LibriomancerT Kingfisher|authortitle=Jim C HinesThornhedge|rating=4.5

|summary=Pulp fantasy may be frowned upon by some who believe that novels should be about emotions, inner journeys and despair. Fantasy and science fiction can have all these things as well, but they can also be fun, entertaining and laser pistols. ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines is ''You had a great example. It is a book that follows Isaac Vainio, a Libriomancer who has the power to draw magic from books. He must use this gift to good effect when one day, whilst sitting comfortably cataloguing, he is attacked by three vampires. Does that sound fun right to you? If so, read on; if not, this may not be the book for youretake your place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953456</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Mur Lafferty|title=Ghost Train to New Orleans: Book 2 T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of the Shambling Guides|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= After delivering [[The Shambling Guide to New York City (The Shambling Guides) by Mur Lafferty|The Shambling Guide to New York]], a travel guide for the coterie of the undead, Zoe the inadvertent citytalker goes to New Orleans to research the next onefairytale that is well known and well beloved. She sets off with But whilst there is a princess trapped in a feeling of forebodingtower, but perhaps she's being overly pessimistic? I meansleeping under an eternal enchantment, she's travelling with two godsThornhedge is not her story. Instead, (one of whom our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a rather strident exnew-Valkyrie), a born baby dragon, two vampires (one and secreted away to the land of whom hates fairie where her) and Arthur, childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her boyfriend the Public Works employee. (Yes, Public Works as in the body that polices veins and, where necessary, clears away the coterie.) Oh and by the way, Arthur may be turning into a zombie sooncast spells. The trip will be fine; what could possibly go wrong?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501914</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreview|author=Anne Leonard|title=Moth Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and Spark|rating=3where her future can thrive rather than stagnate.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Prince Corin has been bewitched by But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the dragonspowerful Accademia, something he'll forget until the time is right for him self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to free protect the fire breathers city and its citizens from enslavement to Emperor Hadon of Myceneplagues and curses. It doesn't stop there though The all- that's not male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all he's been bewitched by. The commoner Tam happens to be attending the summer court at his palace; a house party for unmarried debs to find the husband of their parents' dreamselse. Tam isn't actually looking but Corin finds her anyway. However their world doesn't run as smoothly as their hearts: war is about to startTo them, murderous treachery stalks the palace Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and Tam change – has visions she can't explain. Although as time goes on their purpose becomes clearer. Tam no place amongst them and Corin realise that their reason for being together extends beyond love – they've been brought together to save the worldsociety.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670015709</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Joanne M Harris|title=The Gospel of Loki|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Loki is a shape shifter and Set in the most recent addition to the Norse gods near-distant future, in a world on the halls verge of Asgardclimate collapse, Britain is in great peril. He’s there The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to help save the likes of Odin day and Thor but sometimes things go wrong or his actions are misunderstoodrescue what little remains. Loki definitely doesn’t deserve his ‘Trickster’ nickname and will explain why to anyone who will listen. This is Loki's gospel, his longWhat no-overdue side one expected was that one of the story and it’s all here: how he arranged a mason to rebuild Asgard (shame about Knights of the horse), his marriage to Sygni, Round Table would answer the problems fathering a werewolf and giving birth to a foal, what Freyja’s gold necklace cost mankind and, of course, that day Thor became a beautiful bridecall. (An occasion Thor has never spoken of since for some reason!) Indeed, Loki is there to help and facilitate - if anyone tells you differently, don’t believe them!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473202353</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady TrentAmelia Estelle Dellos|authortitle=Marie BrennanDelilah Recovered|rating=4.5

|summary=We could all wish for meet Dee at a little of Lady Trent in ourselves. Itpoint when her life isn's obvious what she feels she has inside hert going as planned but things might, for ever since she was a young girl she ignored society and decorum and was interested in science, naturejust might, and the discovery of all that was unknown be about dragonsto look up. She even went on a hunt for wolf-drakesOut of work, disguised as a maleabout to lose her flat, and thatDee is up for an accountant's a species that prefers female preyjob. But as renowned a pioneer as she it's not to be. Dee is, she attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has never told anyone in such detail of her life stories, starting that to do with this one – a journey to the coldDee? She's just an ordinary woman, mountainous land living an ordinary life. Slivers of Vystrana, which successfully uncovered a lot memory of the truth about dragons – but also a lot things that was much harder are not ordinary at all return to explain…her and things will never be the same....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783292393</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Unnatural CreaturesHadeer Elsbai|authortitle=Neil GaimanThe Daughters of Izdihar

|summary=Former knight Sir Sebastian Caverson and Wydrin Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Crosshaven (aka Copper Cat) are swords for hire. On this occasion theyIzdihar''re hired by Lord Aaron Frith explores the lives of Blackwood to enter two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the Citadel, rights of which dark legends aboundwomen and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. They don't know what they need Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to do once in therecontrol her abilities and then join the military, but that doesn't matterinstead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. The trip unleashes something that would Giorgina on the other hand did not have made them forget their purpose anyway, not a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to mention provide for her family and maintain their pay: they awake Y'Ruenreputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the last godDaughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. In return for the alarm callWhat follows is a story of an unjust society, Y'Ruen breathes death across the known world filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a little family assistance but that's not the worst bit. The worst bit (at least group of admirable women fighting for them) is that Sebastian their rights and Wydrin are the only ones who can stop herovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472211111</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tanya HuffHeather Fawcett|title=The Enchantment Emporium (Enchantment Emporium 1)Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=All the Gale family have powers Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and there are many in the clanresearched meticulously, mostly women. This is one of the reasons that 24-year-old Allie (or Alysha Catherine Gale to the aunties) jumps at the chance of moving to the other side of Canada when write her gran leaves her a junk shop. Oklife's work, it may not be an ordinary junk shop and it could mean that Gran is dead but the fact that the love very first encyclopaedia of her life has left her for a man makes her mind upfaeries. With the help of Joe O'HallanWhilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, a tall leprechaun she is not so good with a gift for selling yo-yos, Allie sorts out the Enchantment Emporium but once there she hasn't escaped all supervisionpeople. IndeedSo when she finds herself far, 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 far North in town but it's a mite more evil than the usual sex potions and enchanted uppers and downers. Gray Wolf ensures that the user becomes a craven devourer small village of flesh - human flesh. Kate ProsperoHrafvsnik, cop seconded to the MEA (having somehow offended the government agency charged with clearing the streets of dirtyvillage matriarch, illegal magic) she is not sure what she has her work cut out. Unfortunately this work includes having to go into the Cauldrondone, the dangerous underbelly of a town called Babylon. However Kate has a lot nor how to prove, having been born an adept in that very underbelly redeem herself and now having to face put her final investigations for her book back on the forces that helped create the tragedy still haunting herright track. Also, if she didn't have enough to worry aboutEnter Wendell Bambleby, her ex-lover is implicated in Gray Wolf's manufacture dashingly handsome and her kid brother is choosing his own way in life; not a good thinginsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, not a good thing at allcharm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650297X</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsChristopher Golden|title=Dark Witch (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy)Road of Bones

|genre=Women's FictionHorror|summary=American Iona Sheehan moves to Ireland in order to discover her ancestorsThe Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones' roots and oh so much more… the R504. Her ancestors were witches and her cousins Branna and Conor OStretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it'Dwyer have acquired s one of the family talentworld's most notorious routes. Under their care and tutelage Iona has her own skills honed as she develops For months of the magick passed down to her in between her work at year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the local stablespermafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. Unfortunately magick isn I don't the only thing think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to have survived the centuriesgive too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. Cabahn You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, the nemesis for one of Sorchaour main characters, the first OFelix 'Teig'Dwyer dark witchTeigland, is a film-maker, has unfinished business doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the cousins and not 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 good waylocal beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749958588</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Last to RiseAndrew Givler|authortitle=Francis KnightSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=4.5

|summary=Rojan ''Matt has spent his a terrible life running from any sort of responsibility, but it's all catching up with him now. With the Mishans and Storads both knocking on MahalaSeriously—it's door, war seems inevitableawful. The inhabitants of Mahala are starving as trade dries up, It is so bad that Dan the natural resources Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of the city all useda blissful life in exchange for his soul. And the paltry amount of Glow the few pain mages can generate isn't enough to protect them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650168X</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=John R Fultz|title=Seven Sorcerers: Books of the Shaper: Volume 3|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Vireon the Giant-KingPoor Dan! I know, Emperor Tyro and Feathered Serpent/Sorcerer Khama are readying their armies to face the Almighty Zyung, would be conqueror of the Five CitiesI know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a Shaper and evil piece of workterrible salesman. Meanwhile Sharadza (Vireon's sister) He never hits his targets and Iardu (the good Shaper, mostly) take on swifter forms when he fails to get even Matt to beg assistance from every place and being they can think of. For the time is coming when the world's freedom depends sign on victory against insurmountable odds. Back at the armies, Dahrima the Axedotted line, giantess and leader of Vireonhe'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 so desperate that could mean Zyung is the least of anyonehe simply forges Matt's worriessignature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500837</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=World After (Penryn and the End of Days Book 2)Olivie Blake|authortitle=Susan EeThe Atlas Six

|summary=Penryn successfully (depending 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 storyDark, sharp, 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 to protect 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 highly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a reunion with Raffe, the angel responsible for saving her life and true owner of the powerful sword she carries with herTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444778536</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Girl With All the GiftsDaniel Abraham|authortitle=M R CareyAge of Ash

|summary=Meet Melanie. Not something thatWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's likely to happenfour bridges, but it's she has a standard introduction knife in her hand and I'll run with it. If you do find her, it's either in a subterranean cell, or a classroommeeting that she dreads. Or Meanwhile the shower-room, where she and City of Kithamar is at a point in the other children get disinfected, and get to eat a bowl turning of maggots – years when the only nutrition they have worlds are at their thinnest and all weekthings are possible. All this It is on a military base so secure they've only seen the night between the funeral of a few members of staff – either military or mostly lacklustre teachers – Prince and they've certainly no real hope of seeing sunlight. They are there because of the Breakdown, when most coronation of the world got turned into ravenous, mindless ''hungries''his successor. But these children did not turn all For a night the way. And as unlikely as it Kithamar is, as implausible a heroine as she is, young Melanie might just be the saviour of mankindun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502732</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rags and BonesAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)Rebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=AnthologiesTeens|summary=Some Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of today's top authors have the Empire come together to retell classic tales - from fairy stories drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to Victorian-era fictionform paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. As usual He asks her to come with this kind him, to leave the life of anthologydreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, itsoon Kurara won's t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a fairly hit-or-miss affairmonstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, but and she is forced to flee out into the hits here are so strong that they're well worth picking up world. She joins Himura aboard the book for. Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jay KristoffB09Q3P283Y|title=Kinslayer (Lotus War Trilogy 2)Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=54

|summary= Spoilers Clyde Robbins signs up 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 US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in retribution for the evil hold that fight against Communism, nor is he hasover particularly interested in a career in the dystopian land of Shimamilitary. He may be dead but Hiro (equally nastyand YukikoIf he's former lover) has a plan to take power honest - which includes marryingAishaClyde usually is, the Shogunwith himself at least - he hasn's sister t got many choices and secret Kage sympathiser. Yukiko has to stopthe wedding with the help of Buruuthis one, the flying thunder tiger and Kinat least, gets him out of theformer Lotus Guild engineerrut he's in. Yes, the Lotus Guild - the ShogunHe's lot.Yukiko has problems of her own as well, good in that her ability to hear thethoughts of animals and feel the emotions of anyone training and anything is becomingquickly put onto a cursenon commissioned officer training course. Meanwhile in HiroHe's palace there works No One, below the radar andbeneath contempt, but one daychuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230759025</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark Lingane|title=I Love Lucid|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Lucid is more than a full-immersion role play game; it's THE full-immersion role play game. Its inventor Seth Pascal has ensured that all that needs to be done is to plug in and the player's brain will take them to the virtual world while during sleep, providing perfect lucidity and an alternative life within an avatar. However it's also becoming the game to die for. Yes, literally die for as players are being murdered while they're connected. Detective Evan Waugh is the investigator given the case to prove that he still has what it takes. However there's an added complication for both he and Seth as the investigation continues. Her name is Ellen, the woman for whom Lucid isn't just a way of life, it ''is'' her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00G0T342Q</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewJennifer Saint|title=The Time Traveller's Almanac|author=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerElektra

|genre=AnthologiesLiterary Fiction|summary=From H.G Wells to 'Elektra'Doctor Who'', there is something about a good time-travel by Jennifer Saint tells the story that has of three women who live in the power to ignite heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the imagination in a way unique to story of the genreTrojan War. Perhaps it is due to Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the fact that when dealing with silent women have the subject of time travel, literally ''anything is possible''. Well, almost anything...apart from going back in time and killing your Grandfather, which we know would cause an almighty paradox most compelling stories and probably destroy the universemost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Labyrinth of Dreaming BooksDean Koontz|authortitle=Walter MoersQuicksilver|rating=32.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=ItMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's been two hundred years since Optimus Yarnspinner last went not had the chance to get to the great literary city of Bookholmbe a mercurial character yet, where people trawled underground hells for classic works of Zamonian literaturehe's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and our hero had an almighty, Odyssey-like journey through the nether regionsnow is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. He would not have ever expected But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to returnsudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', except for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a very intriguing letter he receives one day in his authorly garret. It contains such mystery, including the idea supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he wrote it go to himselfa derelict diner, to force him to journey back to Bookholm – find a gold coin worth a Bookholm completely rebuilt after fortune, cash the ending value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the last novellam. The city And all this is much more advancedjust 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 subterranean areas seemingly discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more at peace – yet something is definitely afootbesides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578263</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=AJ SmithTasha Suri|title=The Black Guard (The Long War)Jasmine Throne

|summary=Ro Canarn is falling to On the brutal conquest night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the Red Knightspyre. Duke Hector, its ruler, She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the verge Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of death and his twin offspring Lady Bronwyn and Lord Bromvy are on people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. But now the runtemple is nothing more than an overgrown, outcastdecaying ruin. However this is merely One day, Malini witnesses a portent of greater troubles aheadgirl kill someone with magic. One Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the evil Seven Sisters is seen accompanying girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the Red Knights so if there is a secret agenda it's not a good onegirl to become her own personal maidservant. Meanwhile if Ro Canarn can fall, is anywhere safe anymore?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855625</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Dance of CloaksGenevieve Gornichec|authortitle=David DalglishThe Witch's Heart|rating=4.5

|summary=Thren Felhorn is the leader A modern and approachable reimagining of the Spider Guild and is Norse myths that centres around a name feared by everyone in Veldarenwitch named Angrboda. For good reason, for Thren has united the Guilds, those groups populated by the thieves and murderers of the city. Thren’s long term aim is to lead the Guilds She hides in a war against the Trifect – the three richest families who control forest at the majority edge of the city’s legal activities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502783</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Bronze Gods|author=A A Aguire|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=One nine worlds, remembering nothing of the many reasons I love fantasy is discovering the new worlds her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the authors have createdstake three times because of Odin's wrath. Where is the world? What kind creatures inhabit it? What are the customsHer attempts to live in peace, et ceterahowever, et cetera. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating and steampunk mixed quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with fantasy is her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the double hitstake—and refuses to leave her alone. Throw in some murder most frighteningly horrid After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and we have the makings two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and another son that's a really good timesnake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tone AlmhjellHannah Whitten|title=The Twistrose Key|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lin and her family are living in a rented house in For the city because Lin's mother has been given her dream job as professor of traditional songs at the university. Lin's novelist father doesn't mind: he can write and play at riddling in the city as well as anywhere. But Lin hates it. She misses the farm where she was brought up and she misses playing at troll-hunting with her friend Niklas. But most of all, she misses her pet vole, Rufus, who is buried under a rosebush. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349001669</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Omens|author=Kelley ArmstrongWolf

|summary=Olivia Taylor-Jones has In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a charmed lifesacrifice. Her family is richTo Red's misfortune, her fiance perfect and though she has some questions about is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her careerback, she Red knows that things what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will work themselves outdecide the fate of their kingdom. Until If she learns that she's adopted - her true parents America's most infamous serial killersis not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. Suddenly on But when Red enters the run from woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the mediahour, Olivia she finds shelter in that the small town of Cainsvillelegends are lies. ItThe wolf is not a monster—he's a strange sort of place - full of oddball characters and gargoyles that seem to only appear at certain timesman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184744511X</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreview|title=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)Frontpage|author=Catherine FisherJohn Gwynne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summarytitle=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 he's trying to do. The Chronoptika, a mirror made of black obsidian and a time travel device, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and the rest, but they all want different things from it. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Caleb Carr|title=Shadow Of The Legend of BrokenGods|rating=35

|summary=A historical manuscript has been found in what The Shadow Of The Gods is now Germany (so the story goes) chronicling an ancient civilisation inhabiting first installment of the fortress city of Broken (or Brocken Bloodsworn Saga, set in the original German). Those who anger era of the government are cast out into Vikings in the surrounding forests where they must face shadow of Ragnarok, when the dangers of man-eating wolves Gods have battled and worsetheir bones lie scattered for all to see. These outcasts can only survive by collaborating and becoming one tribe: This story is the Bane. Althoughultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to be honestthe genre, they're becoming a bit of a nuisance with their terrorist waysmythical creatures, therefore Sixt Arnemarchaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, Sentek of the Broken Army is ordered with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to eradicate them for once create a wonderfully realistic and for allgritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751551538</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|title=Elysian Fields|author=Suzanne Johnson|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Drusilla Jaco (DJ) is the sentinel for the preternatural community in the greater New Orleans area and is still recovering from bereavement, Katrina and broken ribs from her last adventure. No such luck as life taking things easy Move on her, however, as it is discovered that the copycat of a famous serial killer is not, in fact, a copycat. The Axeman of New Orleans himself has been raised from the dead by a necromancer or necromancers unknown. To make matters worse, her loup-garou fiend Jake bit her in a fit of pique and her best friend’s creepy boyfriend won’t leave her alone. She doesn’t know what he wants and she doesn’t know whether she’ll turn into a wolf at the next full moon but she does know that the Axeman is after her, specifically. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755397703</amazonuk>}}to [[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]