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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tanya HuffA G Slatter|title=The Wild Ways: An Enchantment Emporium Novel (Enchantment Emporium 2)Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5

|summary=Charlie Gale'' 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 mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the lass who has magic in her music (literally!)world, leaves lies Silverton; a town under the rest protection of the Briar's, a family behind to play at a Celtic festival on of witches who protect the Canadian coast. You can never leave town and the Gale family behind though even when wider world from the problem is an oil company drilling offshore in a seal sanctuary areaDarklands. This may not be a popular occupation but the oil company Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the clout first non-witch to use be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a little leveragesteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. Charlie pits herself against them with When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the help of a Selkie family but in Briar Witch, the process (family link incoming) also pits herself against town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the formidable Aunt Catherine. Back home Allie is having trouble rare ability to communicate with Jackthe dead, putting her at the young sorcerer dragon they rescued heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from the underworld last time. Indeedone family secret to another, in Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Gale households thereBriar witches's no such thing as peace and quiet anymore!legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781169624</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|author=Terry PratchettRosevear, Ian Stewart a remote and Jack Cohen|title=The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day (Science of Discworld 4)|rating=4partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The wizards Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the Unseen University are custodians of Roundworldseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. It may be different from their own turtle-carried Discworld (itBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's round for a start!) but theyleader and Mira're still rather fond of its father. HoweverDesperate to save him from death, there's Mira makes a problem: the Church of the Latter Day Omnians have taken bargain with a shine to it too wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and would like with only coordinates to claim it. A court case will decide the winnerguide her, she sets off in search of a court case family secret that will have a guest spectatorlies buried deep in the sea. For Marjorie Daw (yesWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, like 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 nursery rhyme) has arrived from Roundworld just in timeones she holds most dear. What on Earth will happen next?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091949807</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Octavia E ButlerT Kingfisher|title=KindredThornhedge

|summary=Life is a nightmare for black women (and indeed men) back in the southern USA in 1815. For Dana that's just history as she lives over 'You had a century away with her husband in their new LA apartment. However one day everything changes: Dana starts right to feel faint, the edges of her modern life blur and she's back in the era that can take more than her libertyretake your place. She knows her time travel is somehow linked to plantation owner's son Rufus but that doesn't help. In fact its knowledge that could make matters worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472214811</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Den Patrick|title=The Boy with the Porcelain Blade|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Lucien has reached his 18th birthday T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and final testingwell beloved. This But whilst there is the important one for Lucien a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is Orfano and as such lives for the day when he passes and can be adopted by one of the four housesnot her story. He hopes for the FonteiniInstead, our protagonist is Toadling, the house of fighters who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and with it will come an understanding of all secreted away to the mysteries land of Landfall. However there are some mysteries that are secrets even fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from the Orfani her veins and for a very good reasoncast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057513383X</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreview|author=Louise Welsh|title=A Lovely Way to Burn (Plague Times Trilogy 1)|rating=4Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate.5|genre=Crime|summary=The summer of But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the great heat wave is also powerful Accademia, the summer of death. Stevie thought nothing self-proclaimed guardians of the three establishment pillars turned snipers; healing magics that through paintings have the news just didn't registerpower to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. Then the illness came: plagueThe all-like symptoms sweeping across the world. When Stevie's boyfriend dies it's easy to put it down to the pandemic but Stevie male Accademia has a hunch hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and she won't stop till she's followed guard itabove all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no matter what happens or who tries to stop herplace amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848546513</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|title=Night Broken (Mercy Thompson)|author=Patricia Briggs|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Phew. That's Set in the sound of relief I gave when I found this booknear-distant future, the eighth in this lengthy genre series, was a world on form. As the quality had hardly ever dipped verge of climate collapse, Britain is in the past you might be wondering why I sounded particularly anxious this timegreat peril. Well, book seven was that dip, and this time round things have changed – for the first time the The British market gets Isles desperately needs a hardback. But we've not jumped hero (or several) to save the sharkday and rescue what little remains. 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 What no-one expected was that was so much a feature one of that book is being requested by a dangerously powerful character. But the urban fantasy side Knights 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 Round Table would answer the shelter of their household…call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650154X</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard FordAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=The Shattered Crown (Steelhaven: Book Two)Delilah Recovered|rating=4.5

|summary=We meet Dee at a point when her life isn''The king is dead… his city is next'' shouts the straplinet going as planned but things might, just might, and it's not wrong!Following on from [[Herald of the Storm by Richard Ford|Herald be about to look up. Out of the Storm]]work, Janessa is the new queen and is quaking; she's young, inexperienced and watching the massed hordes of Amon Tugha approach about to rout the kingdom of Steelhaven. This isn't the only problem lose her fatherflat, Dee is up for an accountant's untimely death has left her with; there's a whole heap of trouble (internal as much as external) and hardly anyone Janessa can trustjob. Little Rag is now in the Guild but But it's not all she dreamt it would to be or as safe as she'd hoped. Meanwhile Merrick Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the ex-mercenary and Kaira, the former spear maiden are settling into their new job as bodyguards to the Queenattack but not unscathed. Merrick, though, Witch hunters? What on earth has other things that to think about as his past comes back to haunt him. Waylian the witchdo with Dee? She's assistant is still alivejust an ordinary woman, which is goodliving an ordinary life. And Regulus? He just wants to offer his men's swords in defence Slivers of memory of Steelhaven but just didn't realise how difficult things that would are not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be, even before the fighting officially startssame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755394062</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreview|title=The Islands of ChaldeaFrontpage|author=Diana Wynne Jones and Ursula JonesHadeer Elsbai|ratingtitle=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Imagine a story – a good old-fashioned adventure with journeys and magic and villains and young people finding their strengths despite the odds, and coming at last to the place they belong. Then imagine another story, a heart-touching one this time, about the writing of that story, and you have the whole The Daughters of this charming book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007542232</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Libriomancer|author=Jim C HinesIzdihar|rating=4.5

|summary=Pulp fantasy may be frowned upon by some Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who believe that novels should could not be about emotionsmore different, inner journeys yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and despairweavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Fantasy Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and science fiction can have all these things as wellthen join the military, but they can also be fun, entertaining and laser pistolsinstead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines is Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great example. It is a book that follows Isaac Vainiopressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a Libriomancer who has the power group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to draw magic from booksbe in love with Nico. He must use this gift to good effect when one day, whilst sitting comfortably cataloguing, he What follows is attacked by three vampires. Does that sound fun to you? If soa story of an unjust society, read on; if notfilled with hypocrisy and cruelty, this may not be the book from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for youtheir rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953456</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mur LaffertyHeather Fawcett|title=Ghost Train to New Orleans: Book 2 Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of the Shambling GuidesFaeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= After delivering [[The Shambling Guide Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to New York City (The Shambling Guides) by Mur Lafferty|The Shambling Guide to New York]]write her life's work, a travel guide for the coterie very first encyclopaedia of the undead, Zoe the inadvertent citytalker goes to New Orleans to research the next onefaeries. She sets off with a feeling of forebodingWhilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, but perhaps she's being overly pessimistic? is not so good with people. I mean, So when she's travelling with two godsfinds herself far, (one far North in the small village of whom Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is a rather strident ex-Valkyrie)not sure what she has done, a baby dragon, two vampires (one of whom hates nor how to redeem herself and put her) and Arthur, final investigations for her boyfriend book back on the Public Works employeeright track. (YesEnter Wendell Bambleby, Public Works as in the body that polices her dashingly handsome andinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, where necessaryall charm and delight, clears away the coteriemuch to Emily's frustration.) Oh and by the way, Arthur may be turning into a zombie soon. But why is he here? What does he want? The trip will be fine; And what could possibly go wrongexactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501914</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne LeonardChristopher Golden|title=Moth and SparkRoad of Bones

|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Prince Corin has been bewitched by The Kolyma Highway… the dragons, something he'll forget until Road of Bones'… the time is right for him to free the fire breathers from enslavement to Emperor Hadon of MyceneR504. It doesn't stop there though - thatStretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's not all heone of the world's been bewitched bymost notorious routes. The commoner Tam happens to be attending For months of the summer court at his palace; year it's a house party for unmarried debs to find spread of sheet ice suspended above the husband permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of their parents' dreamsunremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. Tam isnI don't actually looking but Corin finds her anywaythink google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. However their world doesnYou can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig't run as smoothly as their hearts: war Teigland, is about a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to start, murderous treachery stalks claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the palace and Tam has visions she canpair't explains prior TV projects. Although as time goes on They pick up their purpose becomes cleareroh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. Tam and Corin realise And that their reason for being together extends beyond love – they've been brought together s where things start to save the world.go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670015709</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne M HarrisAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Gospel of LokiDebt Collection Book 1)|rating=54

|summary=Loki is ''Matt has a shape shifter and the most recent addition to the Norse gods in the halls of Asgardterrible life. Seriously—it's awful. He’s there to help It is so bad that Dan the likes of Odin and Thor but sometimes things go wrong or his actions are misunderstood. Loki definitely doesn’t deserve his ‘Trickster’ nickname and will explain why to anyone who will listen. This Demon is Loki's gospel, shocked when Matt turns down his long-overdue side infernal offer: 10 years of the story and it’s all here: how he arranged a mason to rebuild Asgard (shame about the horse), blissful life in exchange for his marriage to Sygni, 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 bridesoul. (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!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473202353</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent|author=Marie Brennan|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=We could all wish for a little of Lady Trent in ourselves. It's obvious what she feels she has inside herPoor Dan! I know, for ever since she was a young girl she ignored society and decorum and was interested in scienceI know, nature, and the discovery of all that was unknown about dragons. She even went on a hunt we shouldn't feel sorry for wolfsoul-drakes, disguised as a male, and that's a species that prefers female preycatching demons. But as renowned he really is a pioneer as she is, she has terrible salesman. He never told anyone in such detail of her life storieshits his targets and, starting with this one – a journey when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the colddotted line, mountainous land of Vystrana, which successfully uncovered a lot of the truth about dragons – but also a lot he's so desperate that was much harder to explain…he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783292393</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Unnatural CreaturesOlivie Blake|authortitle=Neil GaimanThe Atlas Six

|summary=Former knight Sir Sebastian Caverson Dark, sharp, and Wydrin of Crosshaven (aka Copper Cat) are swords for hire. On this occasion they're hired by Lord Aaron Frith of Blackwood to enter the Citadelhighly inquisitive, of which dark legends abound. They don't know what they need to do once in there, but that doesn't matter. The trip unleashes something that would have made them forget their purpose anyway, not to mention their pay: they awake YAtlas Six'Ruen, the last god. In return for the alarm call, Y'Ruen breathes death across the known world with makes its publishing debut after becoming 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 herTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472211111</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tanya HuffDaniel Abraham|title=The Enchantment Emporium (Enchantment Emporium 1)Age of Ash

|summary=All We meet Alys under the Gale family have powers and there are many in the clanmost northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, 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 her gran leaves she has a knife in her hand and a junk shopmeeting that she dreads. Ok, it may not be an ordinary junk shop and it could mean that Gran is dead but the fact that Meanwhile the love City of her life has left her for Kithamar is at a man makes her mind up. With point in the help turning of Joe O'Hallan, a tall leprechaun with a gift for selling yo-yos, Allie sorts out years when the Enchantment Emporium but once there she hasn't escaped worlds are at their thinnest and all supervisionthings are possible. 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 It is the new magic drug in town but it's night between the funeral of a mite more evil than the usual sex potions Prince and enchanted uppers and downers. Gray Wolf ensures that the user becomes a craven devourer coronation 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 Babylonhis successor. However Kate has For a lot to prove, having been born an adept in that very underbelly and now having to face night the forces that helped create the tragedy still haunting her. Also, if she didn't have enough to worry about, her exKithamar is un-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 allruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650297X</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsAnn Sei Lin|title=Dark Witch (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy)Rebel Skies|rating=3.5|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 the family talent. Under their care and tutelage Iona Kurara has spent her own skills honed entire life as she develops a servant on the magick passed down to her Midori, a massive dining hall floating in between her work at the local stables. Unfortunately magick isn't sky where soldiers of the only thing Empire come to have survived the centuriesdrink and make merry between their conquests. CabahnHowever, the nemesis of Sorcha, the first O'Dwyer dark witchwhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, has unfinished business someone with the cousins and not in power to form paper into whatever she desires – a good waypower sought after all across the Empire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958588</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Last He asks her to come with him, to Rise|author=Francis Knight|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Rojan has spent his leave the life running from any sort of responsibilitydreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, but itsoon Kurara won's all catching up with him now. With t have any say in the Mishans and Storads both knocking on Mahala's doormatter, war seems inevitable. The inhabitants of Mahala are starving because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as trade dries upa shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the natural resources of the city all usedworld. And She joins Himura aboard the paltry amount Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of Glow the few pain mages can generate isn't enough to protect them.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650168X</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John R FultzB09Q3P283Y|title=Seven Sorcerers: Books of the Shaper: Volume 3Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary=Vireon the Giant-King, Emperor Tyro and Feathered Serpent/Sorcerer Khama are readying their armies to face Clyde Robbins signs up for the Almighty Zyung, would be conqueror of US Army during the Five Cities, a Shaper and evil piece of workVietnam War. Meanwhile Sharadza (VireonHe's sister) and Iardu (not really that invested in the good Shaperfight against Communism, mostly) take on swifter forms to beg assistance from every place and being they can think of. For the time nor is coming when he particularly interested in a career in the worldmilitary. If he's freedom depends on victory against insurmountable odds. Back honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at the armiesleast - he hasn't got many choices and this one, Dahrima the Axeat least, giantess and leader gets him out of Vireonthe rut he's spear-maiden body guard, has sworn to die for her king but also has some emotional issuesin. As for Ianthe He's good in training and Gammir, thecauses of much suffering in the past, they once again have their own agendas that could mean Zyung is the least of anyonequickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's worrieschuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500837</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=World After (Penryn and the End of Days Book 2)Jennifer Saint|authortitle=Susan EeElektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Penryn successfully (depending on how you look at things) liberated her little sister Paige from 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the sick experiments story of three women who live in the angels now ruling over the heavily male dominated worldof Ancient Greece. Believed to be dead at the start of the storyCassandra, Clytemnestra, 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 Elektra are all bit players in the nearly destroyed world amongst predators such as angels and even more horrifying creations spawned by story of the angelsTrojan War. All Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the while Pen clings to silent women have the hope of a reunion with Raffe, the angel responsible for saving her life most compelling stories and true owner of the powerful sword she carries with hermost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444778536</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Girl With All the GiftsDean Koontz|authortitle=M R CareyQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Meet MelanieQuinn Quicksilver. Not something thatHe's likely not had the chance to get to happenbe a mercurial character yet, but itfor he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a standard introduction three-day old foundling, and Inow is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now 'll run with 'subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it. If you do find hermind-control, call it's either in a subterranean cellsupernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, or find a gold coin worth a classroom. Or the shower-roomfortune, where she and cash the other children get disinfected, value of it out of his bank and get to eat a bowl of maggots – prepare for going on the only nutrition they have lam. And all week. All this is on a military base so secure they've only seen a few members just in time for two of staff – either military or mostly lacklustre teachers – those typical Men in Black types to turn up and theysuggest he've certainly no real hope s of seeing sunlightinterest to them. They are there because of the BreakdownHelped to escape, when most he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of the world got turned into ravenoushim acting without being in control, mindless ''hungries''. But these children did not turn all the way. And as unlikely as it discovery that he is, as implausible not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a heroine as she is, young Melanie might just be the saviour of mankindwhole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502732</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{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 KristoffTasha Suri|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 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 LucidJasmine Throne|rating=3.54

|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 On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to be done is step on to plug in and the player's brain will take them pyre. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the virtual world while during sleep, providing perfect lucidity and Hirana: an alternative life within an avatarancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. However it's also becoming But now the game to die fortemple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. YesOne day, literally die Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for as players are being murdered while they're connected. Detective Evan Waugh is such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the investigator given the case to prove that he still has what it takes. However there's girl saved her from an added complication attacker and begs 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'' girl to become her lifeown personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00G0T342Q</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Genevieve Gornichec|title=The Time TravellerWitch's Almanac|author=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerHeart

|summary=ItA modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's been two hundred years since Optimus Yarnspinner last went wrath. Her attempts to 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 great literary city stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of Bookholmmistrust, where people trawled underground hells Angrboda begins to fall for classic works of Zamonian literatureLoki's charms, and our hero had the two start an almighty, Odysseyunusual family made of up a half-like journey through the nether regions. He would not have ever expected to returndead daughter, except for a very intriguing letter he receives one day in his authorly garret. It contains such mysteryson that's a wolf, including the idea and another son that he wrote it to himself, to force him to journey back to Bookholm – 's a Bookholm completely rebuilt after the ending of the last novel. The city is much more advanced, the subterranean areas seemingly more at peace – yet something is definitely afootsnake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578263</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=AJ SmithHannah Whitten|title=The Black Guard (The Long War)For the Wolf|rating=45

|summary=Ro Canarn is falling to In Red's family, the brutal conquest of first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red Knights's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Duke HectorSent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, its rulerRed knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is on the verge one who will decide the fate of death and his twin offspring Lady Bronwyn and Lord Bromvy are on the run, outcasttheir kingdom. However this If she is merely not a portent of greater troubles aheadworthy 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. One of But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the evil Seven Sisters is seen accompanying hour, she finds that the Red Knights so if there legends are lies. The wolf is not a secret agenda itmonster—he's not a good oneman. Meanwhile if Ro Canarn can fall, is anywhere safe anymore?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855625</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Dance of CloaksJohn Gwynne|authortitle=David DalglishThe Shadow Of The Gods|rating=4.5

|summary=Thren Felhorn The Shadow Of The Gods is the leader first installment of the Spider Guild Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is a name feared by everyone the ultimate in Veldaren. For good reasonHigh Fantasy, for Thren has united and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the Guildsgenre, those groups populated by the thieves with mythical creatures, archaic language and murderers of the citybattles galore. Thren’s long term aim This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to lead the Guilds create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in a war against the Trifect – the three richest families who control the majority of the city’s legal activitieswhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502783</amazonuk>0356514218