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|summary= Carey is a punk living in New York City, 1977. Sick of watching his friends be abducted and killed, he doesn’t care about the rumours of strange monsters and supernatural happenings – all he wants to do is drink beer and kick ass. In the present day, Kaitlyn is in Hollywood. A stuntwoman, she has a missing best friend, has just escaped an attempt on her life, and an angel is waiting outside her door. The survival of the human race lies in the hands of Carey and Kaitlyn. We are, all of us, well and truly screwed…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297972</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Accident Season
|author=Moira Fowley-Doyle
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=For a month in every year, the month leading up to Halloween, Cara's family are susceptible to accidents. There are cuts and scrapes and bruises. Sometimes there are broken bones. And sometimes, the accidents are even fatal...
 
... it's a curse, right? What else could it be?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>055257130X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Megan Miranda
|title=Soulprint
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Alina Chase lives in a future America obsessed by soulprinting. Scientific advances have enabled the tracking of the soul by markers carried in spinal fluid. Reincarnation is now an established fact and the government maintains a database of all past lives. People without heirs can even make wills leaving their worldly goods to the person in whom their soul is reincarnated. But the discovery has led to problems and the problems have led to Alina's ''containment''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408855402</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kelley Armstrong
|title=Otherworld Nights
|rating=4
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=Kelley Armstrong revisits her hugely popular 'Otherworld' series in this collection of short stories, featuring many of the prominent characters from the series.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500667</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Danny Weston
|title=The Piper
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Peter and Daisy are evacuated on the eve of World War Two to The Grange at Romney Marsh. Something seems wrong from the moment they get there: there are children dancing in the garden and strange music that plays at night. When Peter realises that Daisy might be in danger he’s willing to do anything he can to fill the promise he made to his mother, keep his sister safe.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440511</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=An English Ghost Story
|author=Kim Newman
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The Naremores, a family with a troubled past, leave London in search of peace in the quiet Somerset countryside. Finding the perfect home – 'The Hollow' – appears to symbolise a turning point and the end of all their problems. The Hollow seems possessed of a healing magic which can restore health and relationships as well as hopes and dreams. Unfortunately, the positive power of the Hollow is suddenly challenged and the family are plunged into horrors that perhaps they should have foreseen…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781165580</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Green Door
|author=Christopher Bowden
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Clare Mallory is a promising junior barrister working from a prestigious chambers. Life is pretty good. She's not the type to be taken in by psychics but when cards advertising the services of one Madame Pavonia start arriving in the post, her interest is piqued, first by the rainbow spectrum pattern and then by... well, something else. Tempted to visit the fortune-teller at a local fair, Clare is taken aback at Madame Pavonia's reaction to her and rushes out of the tent. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955506735</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Printer's Devil Court
|author=Susan Hill
|rating=5
|genre=Horror
|summary=Susan Hill is by far the master of the old fashioned ghost story. If you've ever read or seen [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]], then you’ll already know that, but her other ghost stories are a little less famous. That doesn’t make them any less good, and I for one am a big fan. I think there’s a lot to be said for a good old fashioned scare, with apparitions, goosebumps and cold chills up the spine. I always feel like I should be reading these books around a campfire, wrapped in a blanket and eating marshmallows because it very much reminds me of sharing ghost stories with my friends when I was a child. What I like to call a ‘proper scare’.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125365X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Help for the Haunted
|author=John Searles
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Rose and Sylvester Mason make their living from helping the haunted, performing exorcisms and running seminars across America on the subject of the paranormal. When they are murdered in a church, their daughters, Rose and Sylvi, are left negotiating the complex legacy their work has left behind.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751555908</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Firelight
|author=Kristen Callihan
|rating=3.5
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=Lord Benjamin Archer is a man feared throughout London. Dark and brooding, he hides behind a mask, scared of revealing the disfigurement that has had him searching across the world for a cure. Seeking companionship, he weds Miranda Ellis, a young woman from a family reduced to poverty. As Miranda and Benjamin come to know and love each other, secrets are revealed that could destroy not just the relationship, but both of them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349405999</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Visions
|author=Kelley Armstrong
|rating=5
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=Olivia Jones, daughter of serial killers, has successfully proved her parents innocent of one murder. With that seed of doubt planted, she's out to prove them innocent of the rest. She knows the people of mysterious little town Cainsville know more than they are saying, but trying to get them to talk about anything - from her parents to Olivia's strange ability to read omens - is like trying to get get blood from a stone.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445128</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Better Homes and Hauntings
|author=Molly Harper
|rating=4
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=When Nina Linden arrives on Deacon Whitney's private island, it's a chance for her to escape the difficulties of her past and start rebuilding her failing landscaping business. If she can do a good job here, it will open all sorts of doors to the upper class markets, and on a private island, surely her horrible ex can't find ways to sabotage her, right?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00KASKUF2</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Dead But Not Forgotten
|author=Charlaine Harris and Toni LP Kelner (Editors)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Anthologies
|summary=''Dead But Not Forgotten'' returns to Sookie Stackhouse's world, exploring the lives and misadventures of some of the more minor characters in the series. The collection features stories about Pam Ravenscroft, Adele Hale Stackhouse, Luna, Diantha, Bubba and many of the other colourful characters from Bon Temps and the wider universe of Sookie's story, written by authors such as Seanan McGuire, Rachel Caine, Nicole Peeler, Christopher Golden and many more.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GBQXN6K</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sally Nicholls
|title=Shadow Girl
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=One of the disadvantages of the foster care system is that some children get moved around rather a lot and usually it's not down to them. But because of this it's easy to see making friends as being a wasted effort and this was certainly Clare's opinion. By the age of fourteen she was at her third secondary school - and after being there for two months she hated it. Everyone else had been there for years and they all had friends: Clare had no one. A very bad day saw her being evicted from the school bus and then getting lost as she tried to find her way home. The good thing was that she met Maddy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123136</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Goddess
|author=Laura Powell
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=After an economic collapse, Britain is close to breaking point. Citizens are going hungry and there are riots. But Aura is shielded from it all by her position as a handmaiden in the Cult of Artemis. In this Britain, the beliefs of the Ancient Greeks persevere and are followed by millions - the cult sits side by side with Christianity as a mainstream religion. Aura's thoughts aren't taken up by the suffering outside the sanctuary though - they're taken up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite to take over the position of head priestess when Opis retires. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>
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{{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 emotions, inner journeys and despair. Fantasy and science fiction can have all these things as well, but they can also be fun, entertaining and laser pistols. ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines is 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 for you.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953456</amazonuk>
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