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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian IrvineA G Slatter|title=Justice: Tainted Realm: The Briar Book 3of the Dead

|summary=''The final battleThere's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. The ultimate priceThis secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''

The deadWithin a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, regenerated King Lyf and his Cythonian army are poised to attack as is lies Silverton; a town under the army protection of Axil Grandysthe Briar's, complete with a family of witches who protect the town and the other four of wider world from the five legendary HeroesDarklands. Rix Though she has to stop them all with the help of Tali (the escaped Pale slave)always wished for magic, Glynnie (Ellie Briar is the exfirst non-maid)witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and an army of Rixadministration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's own who would rather fight him than fight for himleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As Lyf challenges come her way left, right and Axil both hunger for centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the final master pearl that sits beneath Tali's skulldead, putting her at the endgame approachesheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Meanwhile TobryReeling from one family secret to another, former best friend of Rix Ellie must decide who to trust and now an unpredictably dangerous Caithe shape-shifterdetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is still alive and without hope. Although the 10 year old Rannilt would argue with that last bitunder threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498300</amazonuk>1803364548

Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate 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 of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim ButcherT Kingfisher|title=Skin Game (Dresden Files)Thornhedge

|summary=Harry Dresden is and has been a lot of things: the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, PI, reluctant Knight of the Winter Court, even apparently dead. Now it looks as though he's about to relive the death bit but a bit more permanently. The parasite in his brain is still killing him while he's stranded as warden on the island penal colony of Demonreach. Hold tight though – the good news is that he's about to be liberated. The bad? The liberator is Queen Mab who wants Harry to do You had a bit of robbery beside a former arch enemy of his. If he refuses, the parasite will kill him and then slope off to kill everyone he knows and cares about, including his little daughter Maggie. However, nothing is simple, even this. There are catches, hell's bells there are!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650090X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Manifest Destiny Volume 1|author=Chris Dingess, Matthew Roberts and Owen Gieni|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's 1804 and some newly-American soldiers are expanding the territory right to the west, at the orders of President Jefferson – orders which allude to the pioneering party encountering some very unusual thingsretake your place. And they do – first a huge arc of greenery, putting the modern reader in mind of the Missouri landmark arch as bastardised by something along the lines of the Statue of Liberty in the original 'Planet of the Apes'. But when that site gets attacked the weirdness certainly starts to show itself…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1607069822</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Melanie Rawn|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, itT Kingfisher's their playwright Cayden's 21st naming day. He's come latest novella is a lovely reimagining of age but his aristocratic mother would still rather he went to court as a courtier than the entertainer fairytale that his wizard/elven/fae heritage equips him foris well known and well beloved. However Cade has other concernsBut whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. HeInstead, the dwarf glisterour protagonist is Toadling, Mieka who wields Cade's magic, Rafe (who manipulates it) was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and Jeska secreted away to the masker (who can literally become anyone) are no longer the court favourites. Also, you remember the danger that Cade foresaw for Mieka land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic 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 onher veins and cast spells.)|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781166641</amazonuk>1803364238

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca AlexanderNicole Jarvis|title=The Secrets of Life and DeathA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=A girl covered in magic sigils dies in London watched by Jackdaw (Jack) Hammond. Jack had tried to cure her but the girl escaped. Now Jack has another chance ''I want all of Florence to provide the treatment linking them with Elizabethan alchemist/mathematician/royal advisor John Dee. Indeed some would even call Dee a sorcerer. Jack could achieve so much if she does it better the next time but the fight wonknow my name'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 Cast 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. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the Black Hound|author=Luke Pearson|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Hilda and self-proclaimed guardians of the Black Hound is healing magics that through paintings have the fourth book in power to protect the “Hildafolk” series, each of which is a selfcity and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-contained tale about a highly inquisitive little girl male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and her adventuresguard it above all else. This time Hilda joins the Sparrow Scouts To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and befriends a house spirit whilst in the meantime a mysterious beast stalks the town of Trolbergtheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909263184</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Tanya Huff|title=The Wild Ways: An Enchantment Emporium Novel (Enchantment Emporium 2)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Charlie GaleSet in the near-distant future, the lass who has magic in her music (literally!), leaves the rest of the family behind to play at a Celtic festival world on the Canadian coast. You can never leave the Gale family behind though even when the problem verge of climate collapse, Britain is an oil company drilling offshore in a seal sanctuary areagreat peril. This may not be The British Isles desperately needs a popular occupation but hero (or several) to save the oil company has the clout to use a day and rescue what little leverageremains. Charlie pits herself against them with What no-one expected was that one of the help Knights of a Selkie family but in the process (family link incoming) also pits herself against the formidable Aunt Catherine. Back home Allie is having trouble with Jack, the young sorcerer dragon they rescued from Round Table would answer the underworld last timecall. Indeed, in the Gale households there's no such thing as peace and quiet anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781169624</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack CohenAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day (Science of Discworld 4)Delilah Recovered|rating=4.5

|summary=The wizards We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of the Unseen University are custodians of Roundworldwork, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. It may be different from their own turtle-carried Discworld (But it's round for a start!) not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but they're still rather fond of itnot unscathed. However, thereWitch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's a problem: the Church just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of the Latter Day Omnians have taken a shine things that are not ordinary at all return to it too her and would like to claim it. A court case things will decide never be the winner, a court case that will have a guest spectatorsame... 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>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Octavia E ButlerHadeer Elsbai|title=Kindred|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|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 a century away with her husband in their new LA apartment. However one day everything changes: Dana starts to feel faint, the edges The Daughters of her modern life blur and she's back in the era that can take more than her liberty. 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 BladeIzdihar

|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 FonteiniDrawing inspiration from Egypt, 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 of the great heat wave is also the summer Daughters of death. Stevie thought nothing of the three establishment pillars turned snipers; the news just didnIzdihar't register. Then the illness came: plague-like symptoms sweeping across the world. When Stevie's boyfriend dies it's easy to put it down to explores the pandemic but Stevie has a hunch and she won't stop till she's followed it, no matter what happens or lives of two women who tries to stop her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848546513</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Night Broken (Mercy Thompson)|author=Patricia Briggs|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|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 could not be wondering why I sounded particularly anxious this time. Wellmore different, book seven was that dip, and this time round things have changed – yet find themselves fighting for the first time the British market gets a hardback. But we've not jumped the shark. If anything, the fantasy side rights of this series is following on from [[Mercy Thompson: River Marked by Patricia Briggs|book six women and weavers – River Marked]] and the fae implement that was so much a feature of that book is being requested by those with magical abilities - in a dangerously powerful charactersociety pitted against them. But the urban fantasy side of this series is not without its dangerous characters – as Mercy is forced to bring the worriedNehal, frantic yet exceedingly manipulative figure of her husband's first wife born 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 straplineupper class, and it's not wrong!Following on from [[Herald of wishes to attend the Storm by Richard Ford|Herald of the Storm]], Janessa is the new queen and is quaking; she's young, inexperienced and watching the massed hordes of Amon Tugha approach Weaving Academy to learn to rout the kingdom of Steelhaven. This isn't the only problem her father's untimely death has left control her with; there's a whole heap of trouble (internal as much as external) abilities and hardly anyone Janessa can trust. Little Rag is now in then join the Guild military, but it's not all instead she dreamt it would be or as safe as she'd hopedis forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Meanwhile Merrick Giorgina on the ex-mercenary other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and Kaira, the former spear maiden are settling into maintain their new job as bodyguards to the Queen. Merrickreputation, though, has other things to think about as his past comes back to haunt him. Waylian whilst secretly attending meetings of the witchDaughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's assistant is still alive, which is goodrights. And Regulus? He just wants Giorgina also happens to offer his men's swords be in defence of Steelhaven but just didn't realise how difficult that would be, even before the fighting officially starts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755394062</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Islands of Chaldea|author=Diana Wynne Jones and Ursula Jones|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Imagine a story – a good old-fashioned adventure love with journeys and magic and villains and young people finding their strengths despite the odds, and coming at last to the place they belongNico. Then imagine another story, What follows is a heart-touching one this time, about the writing of that story, and you have the whole of this charming book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007542232</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Libriomancer|author=Jim C Hines|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Pulp fantasy may be frowned upon by some who believe that novels should be about emotionsan unjust society, inner journeys filled with hypocrisy and despair. Fantasy and science fiction can have all these things as wellcruelty, but they can also be fun, entertaining and laser pistols. ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines is from which blossoms 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 to you? If so, read on; if not, this may not be the book 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

|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

|summary= Spoilers for [[Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff|Stormdancer]] follow soread it first!The Shogun Shadow Of The Gods is deadthe first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, murdered set in the public square by 16 year old Kage rebelYukiko to avenge her family and era of the Vikings in retribution for the evil hold that he hasover shadow of Ragnarok, when the dystopian land of Shima. He may be dead but Hiro (equally nastyGods have battled and Yukiko's former lover) has a plan their bones lie scattered for all to take power which includes marryingAishasee. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, the Shogun's sister and secret Kage sympathiser. Yukiko has John Gwynne certainly does justice to stopthe wedding genre, with the help of Buruumythical creatures, the flying thunder tiger archaic language and Kin, theformer Lotus Guild engineerbattles galore. YesThis is a thick book, the Lotus Guild - the Shogun's lot.Yukiko has problems of her own as well, in with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that her ability are woven together to hear thethoughts of animals create a wonderfully realistic and feel the emotions of anyone and anything is becominga curse. Meanwhile gritty world in Hiro's palace there works No One, below the radar andbeneath contempt, but one daywhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230759025</amazonuk>0356514218