Changes

[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Codex BornA G Slatter|authortitle=Jim C HinesThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45

|summary=Bands are famed for having that tricky second album syndrome, but the same can be said for authors when writing the second book in '' There's a series. [[Libriomancer by Jim C Hines|Libriomancer]] was the first in a series part of me that blasted onto the scene with an infectious enthusiasm that allowed you wants to keep this just to forgive its one or two minor flawsmyself for however long I can. Could the follow up continue the momentumThis secret magic of my own, all mine, or will at last. I just want to enjoy it stagnate?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953472</amazonuk>}}for a while.''

{{newreview|title=The Ripper Affair|author=Lilith Saintcrow|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Emma BannonWithin a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, Sorcerer Prime a family of witches who protect the town and servant to the crown, wider world from the Darklands. Though she has been locked away in her house always wished for some time nowmagic, trying Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to avoid being drawn be born into affairs of treason her family for generations and murderas such since she was young, thank you very muchher training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. But when Archibald Clare discovers When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the secret Emma has been keeping from him - in a violent incident at a court that takes Briar Witch, the life of Claretown's manservantleader, Valentinelli - Emma finds herself unable and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to avoid being thrown back into communicate with the fray. For someone sorcerous is murdering frails in dead, putting her at the darker corners heart of Londiniuma maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and though Emma would rather Clare spend time resting and recovering his facultiesdetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, she soon starts everything they have sacrificed to realise that they may be the only ones capable of stopping whatever danger survive, is blooming in the nightunder threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500942</amazonuk>1803364548

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben PeekRachel Greenlaw|title=The Godless|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=These are strange times in Mieera, the land made from the bodies of dead gods. The Leeran army is closing in on a Mieera defended only by a scratch army of citizens Compass and The Dark, a band of mercenary saboteurs led by cynically tough Bueralan. Ayae the cartographer's apprentice has a more personal crisis. She's pulled from a burnt out building alive and totally unscathed. This can only mean one thing: she's one of the cursed. As the effects of this newly endowed immortality hit her she must decide what to do. Zaifyr, the mysterious charmed man, has some ideas but then so do the sinister Keepers which doesn't help much. Meanwhile that army is getting closer…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447251245</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Hornor Jacobs|title=The IncorruptiblesBlade

|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Fisk and Shoestring are a couple ''I can hear the song of the mercenaries paid to guard Ruman high born Cornelius and his family of spoilt, back-biting in-fighters on board their steamer, The Corneliansea. The exception to the continuous badly-mooded is Cornelius' daughter, call of the healerdeep, Livia. She seems to have struck up a rapport with Fisk; the reason why they get on so well seems hidden answering beat in a dark secret that Shoe hopes to crack if they live that longmy heart. The truth is that life is cheap – the Stretchers roam the land, bloodthirsty and dangerous ensuring that Fisk and Shoe earn every penny Cornelius allows them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057513366X</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Karen Maitland|title=The Vanishing Witch|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=More Rosevear, a remote and higher taxes are being levied partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the English by teenage King Richard II rocks and his uncle/advisor John plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Gaunt the seven who swim out to pay for survey the wars against Franceruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. They may cause annoyance But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the rich but wrecking, theycapture the island're breaking the poors leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, people like Lincolnshire river boat man Gunter Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and his with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a familysecret that lies buried deep in the sea. Meanwhile some 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 better off are facing problems from other quarters. Cloth merchant Robert heart of Bassingham is losing his stock before it arrives due to theft and unrest among the weavers in Flanders. Itsmuggler's not a good time territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to be English and eventually something will snap; we're heading towards 1831 save the future of her home and the peasants will be revoltingones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147221501X</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaye WellsT Kingfisher|title=Cursed Moon: Prospero's War: Book TwoThornhedge

|summary=It's now six weeks since Kate Prospero saved her brother Danny's life by cooking the illegal dirty magic antidote to her Uncle Abe's poisonous recipe. Abe is safely in prison but Kate, as an MEA cop trained You had a right to track and punish practitioners of dirty magic, now has a secretretake your place. There are also other matters clawing at her mind. A series of thefts and murders is disrupting Babylon, causing it to become more dangerous by the day - and that's saying something! Indeed as the Halloween new moon approaches the murder and mayhem will increase. Meanwhile Kate is discovering even older secrets than hers which cause her to question everything she's been brought up to believe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650302X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The WidowT Kingfisher's House (Dagger and the Coin)|author=Daniel Abraham|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The fourth in Daniel Abraham’s majestic The Dagger and the Coin series has pretty much everything you can want in an epic fantasy adventure – even more so than the first three. There’s action, war, politics, betrayal, great relationships between family and friends. There’s latest novella is a surprising amount lovely reimagining of laughter here, even if it’s all rather bleak, as some of the heroes are using gallows humour to cope with the amount of death a fairytale that is well known and destruction they're forced to seewell beloved. Even better than any of thisBut whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, thoughsleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is the superb characterisationnot her story. Abraham has given us perhaps half a dozen character arcs which are absolutely masterful. From the widowed woman trying to save her country by betraying its leaderInstead, while juggling an inappropriate romance with a servant (these two are probably my favourite couple ever)our protagonist is Toadling, to who was stolen away by fairies when she was a villain who manages new-born baby and secreted away to be simultaneously evil enough the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to make your skin crawl yet often pitiable draw magic from her veins and, sometimes, even likeable, all of the main players here are brilliantly portrayed. I also think the dialogue here is outstanding, hugely quotablecast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356504697</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreview|author=AJ Smith|title=The Dark Blood (The Long War)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The lands of Ro are slowly being subjugated by the evil sorceresses known as The Seven Sisters. Their only hope is to kill them Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and only one man is up to the task: the Dark Blood assassin, Rham Jaswhere her future can thrive rather than stagnate. He chooses master forger and fixer Kale But as his assistant but, some as this will reduce Kale's life expectancy markedlyshe enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, Kale's not keen. Meanwhile Utha, albino Black Order cleric, his squire Randall, axe maiden Halla Summer Wolf, Timon the Butcher et al are dragged into a bloody conflict during which they self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to fight protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for more than just centuries and guard it above all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their own survivalsociety.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178185226X</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Guy Adams|title=The RainSet in the near-Soaked Bride|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The last thing that distant future, in a world on the afflicted people see before their death verge of climate collapse, Britain is a wet woman in whitegreat peril. The last thing they feel is their own personal rain cloud soaking them while everywhere else remains dry. All also happen to be in top government jobs. What's happening? British Intelligence Department 37 Isles desperately needs a hero (in or several) to save the form of August Shining day and Toby Greene) is there to find outrescue what little remains. This may not be What no-one expected was that one of the full extent Knights of the problems facing them though; not with a South Korean delegation coming to the UK for talks and August's sister April wanting to get in on Round Table would answer the actcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953162</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrez BergenAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Depth Charging Ice Planet GothDelilah Recovered

|summary=16 year old Mina lives in Nede (thatWe meet Dee at a point when her life isn's 'Needy' out loud)t going as planned but things might, just might, a suburb of the Australian state of Victoria where she's in the final throes be about to look up. Out of school. However she feels very much an outsiderwork, especially after the recent death of about to lose her mother. Minaflat, Dee is up for an accountant's alienated further by her bullying elder brother and her fatherjob. But it's attempts not to move on with his life before Mina be. Dee is readyattacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has friends that she spends time to do with in a disinterested Goth wayDee? She's just an ordinary woman, the friend who understands her most being Animeidliving an ordinary life. Animeid is even more different than Mina, being half-girl, half-bird, but neither Slivers of memory of them seems things that are not ordinary at all return to mindher and things will never be the same... It doesn't affect anyone else after all – Mina's the only person who can see her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782796495</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony RyanHadeer Elsbai|title=Tower Lord: Book 2 The Daughters of Raven's ShadowIzdihar|rating=4.5

|summary= RevaDrawing inspiration from Egypt, young adherent to ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the True World Faithlives of two women who could not be more different, has yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a mission: murdering Lord Vaelin Al Sornasociety pitted against them. Frentis (one time Sixth Order Brother Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to Vaelin) also has murder attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on his mind but can't help it as he works through the deathly wish-list 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 mysterious woman who binds his will. Lyrna's brother Malcius now rules as King Daughters of the Unified Realm and sheIzdihar – a group campaigning for women's happy rights. Giorgina also happens to remain princessbe in love with Nico. However someone else thinks differently; she's summoned to What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a meeting that will prepare her group of admirable women fighting for an uncertain future. Meanwhile the greatest threat the Realm has ever known advances. Friend or foe? The difference may be indiscernible but differentiating means survivaltheir rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502449</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy AdamsHeather Fawcett|title=The Clown Service|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=If British Secret Intelligence Service operative Toby Greene worked for MacDonaldEmily Wilde's he'd be sacked for ineptitude. Unfortunately for the nation he cost thousands Encyclopaedia of pounds more to train than your average burger-flipper so he's off to Section 37 instead. The Section's label mentions anti-terrorism but, as his former boss told Toby ''If the security service is the circus, then Section 37 us where we keep the clowns.'' Meanwhile an old school Russian spy is coming to the UK with enough power to destroy London. This may only be Toby's first job for 37 and will include a touch of astral projection but what could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953154</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)Faeries|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The city has been rebuilt for war. The waves of cyborg attacks are just the beginning – what follows is more devastating. Not only that but also the flood of refugees surging in daily is as much of a problem as a resource. Actually in one or two cases the word 'problem' is a bit of an understatement. In the middle of this hell Seb and Melanie are doing their best to fight and survive, although survival doesn't look like an option once they realise they have to go into the enemy's hive and bring the battle to the cyborgs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Landline|author=Rainbow Rowell|rating=54

|summary=Georgie McCool Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has always known what shetravelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's wanted work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and pursued it until speaking to faeries, she has itis not so good with people. She got her dream job writing comedy So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she's about is not sure what she has done, nor how to get redeem herself and put her own showfinal investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and she got her dream guyinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, Neal. Onlyall charm and delight, shemuch to Emily's not so sure she has him anymorefrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409154912</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy)Christopher Golden|authortitle=Marie RutkoskiRoad of Bones|rating=43.5|genre=TeensHorror|summary=Kestrel has two alternative futures ahead The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of herBones'… the R504. As Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the daughter world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a general spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a vasthuge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, expansionist empirewhich dries into rutted, she can make a politically advantageous marriage or she can enlist in the militarypuddly dust. Kestrel doesn I don't want either think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and her other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is spent in a delicate game of manoeuvres film-maker, doing a recce with her father as she tries his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to put off encourage the decisionproject to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858207</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim HallAndrew Givler|title=Shadow of the WolfSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)

|summary=The child Robin Loxley is mysteriously separated from his father during what had been ''Matt has a routine foray into the forest. In grief and bewilderment Robin becomes a loner, choosing to raise himselfterrible life. HeSeriously—it's more than happy with the solitary lifestyle until he meets Marian Delbosque, spoilt daughter of local gentryawful. Their friendship It is cemented as they play together but their future won't all be childish games. They have a quest and Robin, as a winter-born, has a destiny so bad that he can't begin to guess. The clue Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in the mysterious words he heard whispered in the forest after exchange for his father's disappearance: ''Not yet. Too soon. He must suffer the woundssoul.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191020000X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Stella Gemmell|title=The City|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The City has been fighting for centuriesPoor Dan! I know, I know, be it the recognised war of Red versus Blue fuelled by the mysterious Emperor or the daily fight of the Dwellers struggling we shouldn't feel sorry for existence in the sewer settlementssoul-catching demons. Such oppression breeds unlikely heroesBut he really is a terrible salesman. A former generalHe never hits his targets and, now a fugitive from a questionable justicewhen he fails to get even Matt to sign on the dotted line, a 16 year old soldier trying to out-run her fatherhe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's reputation, a famed Red army leader and a little girl who believes in someone whom others hardly notice any more; these carry hope for the City, whether the City realises it or notsignature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552168955</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Tropic of Serpents (A Memoir by Lady Trent)Olivie Blake|authortitle=Marie BrennanThe Atlas Six

|summary=We are in sequel territoryDark, so we must hope that things have escalated for Lady Trentsharp, and that she is finding life even harder than before. And it is – as much as she would like to go dragon hunting with her husband she cannot. (And by dragon hunting I donhighly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six''t mean killing them, I mean being a natural historian for the species in makes its publishing debut after becoming a world that would rather massacre them for industrial purposes)Tik-Tok sensation. Here, repressed by the Victorian society she lives in, she can just about raise another exhibition together, to a different corner of the world, but she won't find herself with the possibility of observing dragons – she is instead faced with the demand that she MUST hunt dragons…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783292415</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Queen of the Dark ThingsDaniel Abraham|authortitle=C Robert CargillAge of Ash

|summary=Colby Stevens lost his best friend to an army We meet Alys under the most northerly of fairies six months ago. And things havenOldgate't got much better since. The Seventy-Twos four bridges, she has a powerful knife in her hand and angry bunch a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of demons want Colby to deal with Kithamar is at a point in the Queen turning of years when the Dark Thingsworlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. But Colby knows, whatever It is the night between the funeral of a Prince and the demons have planned for him, it isn't goodcoronation of his successor. Whatever he does For a night the Kithamar is playing into their plans in some way or anotherun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575130148</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dead Man's HandAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=John Joseph Adams (editor)Rebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Short StoriesTeens|summary=''Dead Man's Hand'' features short stories with themes ranging from time travel and vampires to theology; at first glance it definitely appears to be an eclectic mix. These stories are linked by Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the genre of the weird westMidori, which is defined by its elasticity. John Joseph Adams' helpful introduction outlines a massive dining hall floating in the main features sky where soldiers of the weird west Empire come to drink and provides make merry between their conquests. However, when a clearman named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, insightful guide someone with the power to this little-known genreform paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. Far from being mismatchedHe asks her to come with him, to leave the eclectic nature life of this collection dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in fact the greatest strength of matter, because the weird west genre. Unconstrained Midori is destroyed by narrow generic conventionsa monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the authors in this collection have plundered world. She joins Himura aboard the deepest depths of their imaginations. The result? A colourfulOrihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, memorable and, above all, ''imaginative'' collection a whole world of fiction.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783295465</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian IrvineB09Q3P283Y|title=Justice: Tainted Realm: Book 3Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=54

|summary=''The final battle. The ultimate priceClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War.He'' The deads not really that invested in the fight against Communism, regenerated King Lyf and his Cythonian army are poised to attack as nor is he particularly interested in a career in the army of Axil Grandysmilitary. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, complete with the other four of the five legendary Heroes. Rix has to stop them all with the help of Tali (the escaped Pale slave)himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, Glynnie (the ex-maid)at least, and an army gets him out of Rixthe rut he's own who would rather fight him than fight for himin. As Lyf and Axil both hunger for the final master pearl that sits beneath TaliHe's skull, the endgame approaches. Meanwhile Tobry, former best friend of Rix good in training and now an unpredictably dangerous Caithe shape-shifter, is still alive and without hopequickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. Although the 10 year old Rannilt would argue He's chuffed with that last bithimself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498300</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim ButcherJennifer Saint|title=Skin Game (Dresden Files)Elektra|rating=54|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Harry Dresden is and has been a lot 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of things: the only wizard three women who live in the Chicago phone bookheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, PIClytemnestra, reluctant Knight of the Winter Court, even apparently dead. Now it looks as though he's about to relive the death and Elektra are all bit but a bit more permanently. The parasite players in his brain is still killing him while he's stranded as warden on the island penal colony story of Demonreachthe Trojan War. Hold tight though – Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the good news is that he's about to be liberated. The bad? The liberator is Queen Mab who wants Harry to do a bit of robbery beside a former arch enemy of his. If he refuses, silent women have the parasite will kill him most compelling stories and then slope off to kill everyone he knows and cares about, including his little daughter Maggie. However, nothing is simple, even thisthe most extreme furies. There are catches, hell's bells there are!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650090X</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Manifest Destiny Volume 1Dean Koontz|authortitle=Chris Dingess, Matthew Roberts and Owen GieniQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=Graphic NovelsThrillers|summary=ItMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's 1804 lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and some newlynow is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-American soldiers are expanding the territory control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to the westa derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, at cash the orders value of President Jefferson – orders which allude to it out of his bank and prepare for going on the pioneering party encountering some very unusual thingslam. And they do – first a huge arc all this is just in time for two of greenery, putting the modern reader those typical Men in mind Black types to turn up and suggest he's of the Missouri landmark arch as bastardised interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by something along the lines other instances of him acting without being in control, the Statue of Liberty discovery that he is not unique in the original 'Planet having some kind of the Apes'burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides. But when that site gets attacked the weirdness certainly starts to show itself…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1607069822</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melanie RawnTasha Suri|title=Glass Thorns - ThornlostThe Jasmine Throne

|summary=The Touchstone Players are back and now mostly married but On the show must go on. Talking night of whichher sacred burning, it's their playwright Cayden's 21st naming dayPrincess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. He's come of age but his aristocratic mother would still rather he went She is immediately sent to court as be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a courtier than community of people who got powers from the entertainer that his wizard/elven/fae heritage equips him formysterious deathless waters. However Cade has other concernsBut now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. HeOne day, the dwarf glister, Mieka who wields Cade's Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic, Rafe (who manipulates it) and Jeska the masker (who can literally become anyone) are no longer the court favourites. AlsoInstead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, you remember Malini claims that the danger that Cade foresaw for Mieka girl saved her from Mieka's wife in his elsewhen premonitions? Well, there's more! (There follows some spoilers an attacker and begs for the previous novels so read them first before reading ongirl to become her own personal maidservant.)|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781166641</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca AlexanderGenevieve Gornichec|title=The Secrets of Life and DeathWitch's Heart|rating=4.5

|summary=A girl covered modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in magic sigils dies in London watched by Jackdaw (Jack) Hammond. Jack had tried to cure 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 girl escapedstake three times because of Odin's wrath. Now Jack has another chance Her attempts to provide the treatment linking them live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with Elizabethan alchemist/mathematician/royal advisor John Dee. Indeed some would even call Dee a sorcerer. Jack could achieve so much if her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she does it better was tied to the next time but the fight won't be easystake—and refuses to leave her alone. SheAfter an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's not charms, and the only one who wants her new subjecttwo start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, although she may be the only one who knows how to save herand another son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953243</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreview|title=Hilda and the Black HoundFrontpage|author=Luke Pearson|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Hilda and the Black Hound is the fourth book in the “Hildafolk” series, each of which is a self-contained tale about a highly inquisitive little girl and her adventures. This time Hilda joins the Sparrow Scouts and befriends a house spirit whilst in the meantime a mysterious beast stalks the town of Trolberg.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263184</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tanya HuffHannah Whitten|title=The Wild Ways: An Enchantment Emporium Novel (Enchantment Emporium 2)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Charlie Gale, the lass who has magic in her music (literally!), leaves the rest of the family behind to play at a Celtic festival on the Canadian coast. You can never leave the Gale family behind though even when the problem is an oil company drilling offshore in a seal sanctuary area. This may not be a popular occupation but the oil company has the clout to use a little leverage. Charlie pits herself against them with the help 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 For the underworld last time. Indeed, in 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)Wolf|rating=4.5

|summary=The wizards of In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the Unseen University are custodians of Roundworldsecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. It may be different from their own turtle-carried Discworld (itTo Red's round for a start!) misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but they're still rather fond of it. Howeverthe cape on her back, there's a problemRed knows what to expect: within the Church of the Latter Day Omnians have taken woods is a shine to it too wolf, and would like to claim it. A court case he is the one who will decide the winnerfate of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, a court case that the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will have a guest spectatornever be returned—or so the stories go. For Marjorie Daw (yesBut when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, like she finds that the nursery rhyme) has arrived from Roundworld just in timelegends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man. What on Earth will happen next?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091949807</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Octavia E ButlerJohn Gwynne|title=KindredThe Shadow Of The Gods

|summary=Life The Shadow Of The Gods is a nightmare for black women (and indeed men) back the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the southern USA era of the Vikings in 1815the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. For Dana that's just history as she lives over a century away with her husband This story is the ultimate in their new LA apartment. However one day everything changes: Dana starts High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to feel faintthe genre, with mythical creatures, the edges of her modern life blur archaic language and she's back in the era that can take more than her libertybattles galore. She knows her time travel This is somehow linked a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to plantation owner's son Rufus but that doesn't help. In fact its knowledge that could make matters worsecreate a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472214811</amazonuk>0356514218