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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melanie RawnA G Slatter|title=Glass Thorns - Thornlost|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Touchstone Players are back and now mostly married but the show must go on. Talking of which, it's their playwright Cayden's 21st naming day. He's come Briar Book of age but his aristocratic mother would still rather he went to court as a courtier than the entertainer that his wizard/elven/fae heritage equips him for. However Cade has other concerns. He, the dwarf glister, Mieka who wields Cade's magic, Rafe (who manipulates it) and Jeska the masker (who can literally become anyone) are no longer the court favourites. Also, you remember the danger that Cade foresaw for Mieka from Mieka's wife in his elsewhen premonitions? Well, there's more! (There follows some spoilers for the previous novels so read them first before reading on.)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781166641</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rebecca Alexander|title=The Secrets of Life and DeathDead|rating=4.5

|summary=A girl covered in '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic sigils dies in London watched by Jackdaw (Jack) Hammondof my own, all mine, at last. Jack had tried I just want to cure her but the girl escaped. Now Jack has another chance to provide the treatment linking them with Elizabethan alchemist/mathematician/royal advisor John Dee. Indeed some would even call Dee enjoy it for a sorcererwhile. Jack could achieve so much if she does it better the next time but the fight won't be easy. She's not the only one who wants her new subject, although she may be the only one who knows how to save her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953243</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Hilda and Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the Black Hound|author=Luke Pearson|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Hilda town and the Black Hound is the fourth book in wider world from the “Hildafolk” seriesDarklands. Though she has always wished for magic, each of which Ellie Briar is a selfthe first non-contained tale about witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a highly inquisitive little girl steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her adventures. This time Hilda joins As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the Sparrow Scouts and befriends a house spirit whilst in rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the meantime heart of a mysterious beast stalks maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the town of TrolbergBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909263184</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreview|author=Tanya Huff|title=The Wild Ways: An Enchantment Emporium Novel (Enchantment Emporium 2)|rating=4Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Charlie GaleMira, the lass who has magic in like her mother before her music (literally!), leaves the rest is one of the family behind seven who swim out to play at a Celtic festival on survey the Canadian coastruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. You can never leave the Gale family behind though even But when the problem is an oil company drilling offshore in Council Watch lays a seal sanctuary area. This may not be a popular occupation but trap to end the oil company has wrecking, they capture the clout island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to use save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a little leverage. Charlie pits herself against them wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with the help only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a Selkie family but secret that lies buried deep in the process (family link incoming) also pits herself against the formidable Aunt Catherinesea. Back home Allie is having trouble with JackWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, the young sorcerer dragon they rescued as her journey takes her from the underworld last time. Indeed, in watched streets of foreign islands to the Gale households there's no such thing as peace and quiet anymore!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169624</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen|title=The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day (Science of Discworld 4)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The wizards heart of the Unseen University are custodians of Roundworld. It may be different from their own turtle-carried Discworld (itsmuggler's round for a start!) but they're still rather fond of it. Howeverterritory, there's a problem: Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the Church future of the Latter Day Omnians have taken a shine to it too her home and would like to claim it. A court case will decide the winner, a court case that will have a guest spectatorones she holds most dear. For Marjorie Daw (yes, like the nursery rhyme) has arrived from Roundworld just in time. 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 and final testing. This is the important one for Lucien is Orfano and as such lives for the day when he passes and can be adopted by one of the four houses. He hopes for the Fonteini, the house of fighters and with it will come an understanding of all the mysteries of Landfall. However there are some mysteries that are secrets even from the Orfani and for a very good reason.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057513383X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Louise Welsh|title=A Lovely Way to Burn (Plague Times Trilogy 1)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The summer T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of the great heat wave a fairytale that is also the summer of deathwell known and well beloved. Stevie thought nothing of the three establishment pillars turned snipers; the news just didn't registerBut whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. Then the illness came: plagueInstead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-like symptoms sweeping across the world. When Stevie's boyfriend dies it's easy to put it down born baby and secreted away to the pandemic but Stevie has a hunch and she won't stop till she's followed it, no matter what happens or who tries land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to stop draw magic from herveins and cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848546513</amazonuk>1803364238

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Night Broken (Mercy Thompson)Nicole Jarvis|authortitle=Patricia BriggsA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Phew. That's the sound of relief I gave when I found this book, the eighth in this lengthy genre series, was on form. 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 – for the first time the British market gets a hardback. 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 want all 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 Florence to bring the worried, frantic yet exceedingly manipulative figure of her husbandknow my name''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 the strapline, and it's not wrong!Following on Cast out from [[Herald of the Storm by Richard Ford|Herald of the Storm]]Rome, Janessa is the new queen and is quaking; she's young, inexperienced and watching the massed hordes of Amon Tugha approach to rout the kingdom of Steelhaven. This isn't the only problem Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her father's untimely death has left her with; there's art can find a whole heap of trouble (internal as much as external) home and hardly anyone Janessa where her future can trustthrive rather than stagnate. Little Rag is now in the Guild but it's not all she dreamt it would be or But as safe some as she'd hoped. Meanwhile Merrick enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the exself-mercenary and Kaira, proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the former spear maiden are settling into their new job as bodyguards power to protect the Queencity and its citizens from plagues and curses. Merrick, though, The all-male Accademia has other things to think about as his past comes back to haunt himhoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. Waylian the witch's assistant is still aliveTo them, which is good. And Regulus? He just wants to offer his men's swords in defence of Steelhaven but just didn't realise how difficult that would be, even before the fighting officially startsArtemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755394062</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|title=The Islands Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of Chaldea|author=Diana Wynne Jones and Ursula Jones|rating=4climate collapse, Britain is in great peril.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Imagine The British Isles desperately needs a story – a good old-fashioned adventure with journeys and magic and villains and young people finding their strengths despite hero (or several) to save the odds, day and coming at last to the place they belongrescue what little remains. Then imagine another story, a heartWhat no-touching one this time, about expected was that one of the writing Knights of that story, and you have the whole of this charming bookRound Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007542232</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LibriomancerAmelia Estelle Dellos|authortitle=Jim C HinesDelilah Recovered|rating=4.5

|summary=Pulp fantasy may be frowned upon by some who believe that novels should We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about emotions, inner journeys and despairto look up. Fantasy and science fiction can have all these things as wellOut of work, but they can also be funabout to lose her flat, entertaining and laser pistols. ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines Dee is a great exampleup for an accountant's job. It is a book that follows Isaac Vainio, a Libriomancer who has the power But it's not to draw magic from booksbe. He must use this gift to good effect when one day, whilst sitting comfortably cataloguing, he Dee is attacked by three vampirestwo men calling themselves witch hunters. Does She survives the attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that sound fun to youdo with Dee? If soShe's just an ordinary woman, read on; if not, this may living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the book for yousame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953456</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mur LaffertyHadeer Elsbai|title=Ghost Train to New Orleans: Book 2 The Daughters of the Shambling GuidesIzdihar

|summary= After delivering [[Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Shambling Guide to New York City (The Shambling Guides) by Mur Lafferty|The Shambling Guide to New York]]Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, a travel guide yet find themselves fighting for the coterie rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the undeadupper class, Zoe wishes to attend the inadvertent citytalker goes Weaving Academy to New Orleans learn to research control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the next oneDaughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. She sets off Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a feeling story of forebodingan unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, but perhaps shefrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|isbn=0356520471}}{{Frontpage|author=Heather Fawcett|title=Emily Wilde's being overly pessimistic? I meanEncyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and shehas travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's travelling with two godswork, (one the very first encyclopaedia of whom faeries. Whilst she is a rather strident ex-Valkyrie), a baby dragon, two vampires (one of whom hates her) brilliant at research and Arthurspeaking to faeries, her boyfriend the Public Works employeeshe is not so good with people. (YesSo when she finds herself far, Public Works as far North in the body that polices andsmall village of Hrafvsnik, where necessaryhaving somehow offended the village matriarch, clears away she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the coterieright track.) Oh Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and by the waydelight, Arthur may be turning into a zombie soonmuch to Emily's frustration. The trip will be fine; But why is he here? What does he want? 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

|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=''I wished I could visit a Museum of Unnatural History, but even so, I was glad there wasn't one... If someone actually caught a werewolf, or a dragon, if they tamed a manticore or stabled a unicorn, put them in bottlesDark, dissected them, then they could be only one thingsharp, and they would no longer live in the shadowy places between the things I knew and the world of the impossible, which was, I was certainhighly inquisitive, the only place that mattered.'' So says Neil Gaiman in the introduction to this anthology of sixteen The Atlas Six''unnatural creatures'' (to capitalise or not to capitalise, that is the question)makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408845466</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jen WilliamsDaniel Abraham|title=The Copper PromiseAge of Ash

|summary=Former knight Sir Sebastian Caverson and Wydrin We meet Alys under the most northerly of Crosshaven (aka Copper Cat) are swords for hire. On this occasion theyOldgate're hired by Lord Aaron Frith of Blackwood to enter the Citadels four bridges, of which dark legends abound. They don't know what they need to do once she has a knife in there, but her hand and a meeting that doesn't mattershe dreads. The trip unleashes something that would have made them forget Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their purpose anyway, not to mention their pay: they awake Y'Ruen, the last godthinnest and all things are possible. In return for It is the alarm call, Y'Ruen breathes death across night between the known world with funeral of a little family assistance but that's not Prince and the worst bitcoronation of his successor. The worst bit (at least for them) For a night the Kithamar is that Sebastian and Wydrin are the only ones who can stop herun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472211111</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tanya HuffAnn Sei Lin|title=The Enchantment Emporium (Enchantment Emporium 1)Rebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=All Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Gale family have powers and there are many Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the clan, mostly women. This is one sky where soldiers of the reasons that 24-year-old Allie (or Alysha Catherine Gale Empire come to the aunties) jumps at the chance of moving drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to the other side of Canada when her gran leaves tell her that she is a junk shop. OkCrafter like him, it may not be an ordinary junk shop and it could mean that Gran is dead but someone with the fact that power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the love of Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has left her for a man makes her mind upknown. With Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the help of Joe O'Hallanmatter, because the Midori is destroyed by a tall leprechaun with monstrous paper spirit known as a gift for selling yo-yosshikigami, Allie sorts and she is forced to flee out into the Enchantment Emporium but once there she hasn't escaped all supervisionworld. IndeedShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, someone a sky-ship whose express purpose is watching her closely; very closely indeed.to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781169608</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jaye WellsB09Q3P283Y|title=Dirty Magic: Prospero's War: Book OneShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=54

|summary=Gray Wolf is Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the new magic drug in town but itVietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a mite more evil than career in the usual sex potions and enchanted uppers and downersmilitary. Gray Wolf ensures that the user becomes a craven devourer of flesh If he's honest - human flesh. Kate Prosperowhich Clyde usually is, cop seconded to the MEA (the government agency charged with clearing the streets of dirtyhimself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, illegal magic) has her work cut gets him out. Unfortunately this work includes having to go into the Cauldron, the dangerous underbelly of a town called Babylon. However Kate has a lot to prove, having been born an adept in that very underbelly and now having to face the forces that helped create the tragedy still haunting her. Also, if she didnrut he't have enough to worry about, her ex-lover is implicated s in Gray Wolf. He's manufacture good in training and her kid brother is choosing his own way in life; not quickly put onto a good thing, not a good thing at allnon commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650297X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsJennifer Saint|title=Dark Witch (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy)Elektra|rating=3.54|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|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 OElektra'Dwyer have acquired by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the family talentheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Under their care Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and tutelage Iona has her own skills honed as she develops Elektra are all bit players in the magick passed down to her in between her work at story of the local stablesTrojan War. Unfortunately magick isn't Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the only thing to silent women have survived the centuries. Cabahn, most compelling stories and the nemesis of Sorcha, the first O'Dwyer dark witch, has unfinished business with the cousins and not in a good waymost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749958588</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Last to RiseDean Koontz|authortitle=Francis KnightQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Rojan has spent his life running from any sort of responsibilityMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, but itfor he's all catching up with him lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now. With the Mishans and Storads both knocking is starting a career on Mahalaa needless magazine's doorstaff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, war seems inevitable. The inhabitants call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of Mahala are starving as trade dries uphim that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the natural resources value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the city all usedlam. And the paltry amount all this is just in time for two of Glow the few pain mages can generate isnthose typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he't enough s of interest to protect them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650168X</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John R FultzTasha Suri|title=Seven Sorcerers: Books of the Shaper: Volume 3The Jasmine Throne

|summary=Vireon On the Giant-Kingnight of her sacred burning, Emperor Tyro Princess Malini defies her brother and Feathered Serpent/Sorcerer Khama are readying their armies refuses to step on to face the Almighty Zyung, would pyre. She is immediately sent to be conqueror of imprisoned on the Five Cities, Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a Shaper and evil piece community of work. Meanwhile Sharadza (Vireon's sister) and Iardu (people who got powers from the good Shaper, mostly) take on swifter forms to beg assistance from every place and being they can think ofmysterious deathless waters. For But now the time temple is coming when the world's freedom depends on victory against insurmountable oddsnothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. Back at the armiesOne day, Dahrima the Axe, giantess and leader Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of Vireon's spear-maiden body guard, has sworn to die for reporting her king but also has some emotional issues. As for Ianthe and Gammirsuch a gruesome crime, Malini claims that thecauses of much suffering in girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the past, they once again have their girl to become her own agendas that could mean Zyung is the least of anyone's worriespersonal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500837</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=World After (Penryn and the End of Days Book 2)Genevieve Gornichec|authortitle=Susan EeThe Witch's Heart

|summary=Penryn successfully (depending on how you look at things) liberated her little sister Paige from the sick experiments A modern and approachable reimagining of the angels now ruling over the worldNorse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. Believed to be dead She hides in a forest at the start edge of the storynine worlds, Penryn finds herself remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the control centre of the human resistance movement whose treatment stake three times because of her sister and other victims of angel brutality seems less than humanOdin's wrath. In order Her attempts to protect live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her sister literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she feels was tied to the need stake—and refuses 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 angelsher alone. All the while Pen clings After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the hope two start an unusual family made of up a reunion with Raffehalf-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, the angel responsible for saving her life and true owner of the powerful sword she carries with heranother son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444778536</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Girl With All the GiftsHannah Whitten|authortitle=M R CareyFor the Wolf|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Melanie. Not something thatIn Red's likely to happenfamily, the first daughter becomes queen, but it's and the second daughter becomes a standard introduction and I'll run with itsacrifice. If you do find her, itTo Red's either in a subterranean cellmisfortune, or a classroomshe is the second daughter. Or Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the shower-roomcape on her back, where she and Red knows what to expect: within the other children get disinfectedwoods is a wolf, and get to eat a bowl he is the one who will decide the fate of maggots – the only nutrition they have all weektheir kingdom. All this If she is on not a military base 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 secure they've only seen a few members of staff – either military or mostly lacklustre teachers – and they've certainly no real hope of seeing sunlightthe stories go. They are there because of But when Red enters the Breakdownwoods, when most of expecting nothing more than to be killed within the world got turned into ravenoushour, mindless ''hungries''. But these children did not turn all she finds that the waylegends are lies. And as unlikely as it The wolf is, as implausible not a monster—he's a heroine as she is, young Melanie might just be the saviour of mankindman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502732</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{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 KristoffJohn Gwynne|title=Kinslayer (Lotus War Trilogy 2)The Shadow Of The Gods

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