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[[Category:Paranormal|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= V H LeslieDean Koontz|title= Bodies of Water|rating= 3.5|genre= Paranormal|summary= Bodies of Water is a concise novella featuring a dual narrative from the perspectives of Kirsten, a modern day woman on the mend from a broken heart, and Evelyn, a nineteenth century 'guest' of a water treatment centre for ailing women. Kirsten moves into the old Wakewater House, attempting to heal herself with the proximity of the water. Centuries ago, Evelyn was forced by her father to visit that same house in order to restore her old vigour, but the water cannot drown out the ghost that haunts her. In fact, the water itself is a powerful and supernatural force. As the water encroaches upon both of their lives, Kirsten and Evelyn search to unveil the mysteries of the house as well as the drenched dark-haired figure who appears before them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630713</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Christine Feehan|title= Shadow Rider|rating= 4|genre=Paranormal|summary=Stefano Ferraro is the head of Italian family-run mega business. From hotels to racing cars, the Ferraros seem to have their fingers in many pies, and not all of them are legal. Splashed across the gossip columns of every newspaper and magazine in America the 4 brothers and their sister are a group of gorgeous beings to be reckoned with. The family have a secret though; they are Shadow Riders. They have supernatural powers which allow them to travel, unseen, through the shadows; a power which they use to serve justice when the legal system fails, allowing them to protect their neighbourhood from the criminal underworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410356</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=G S Denning|title=Warlock Holmes: A Study in BrimstoneBad Weather Friend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=A wise fictional character once said Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that when you have excluded whoever or whatever was inside is the impossiblething that has trashed his house! The thing is, whatever remains, however improbable, must be Benny is the truthvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. With this in mind – what He is Sherlock Holmes? a nice person. A genius eccentric whose mind works on really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a different plainbad weather friend called Spike, or perhaps the more obvious option who has been sent to help him since Benny is that he was clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a Warlock? good person. Surely his ability to see what others cannot Spike is more likely going to be through magictake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, rather than intellect?Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299711</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teri TerryAlly Wilkes|title=Book of LiesAll the White Spaces|rating=3.54|genre=ParanormalHorror|summary= As teenage fiction ''Book of Lies'' has all the usual themes -In post- confused sense of identityWWI England, relationship troubles, difficult family backgrounds... But it also has another element: Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the supernaturalfamous Australis Randall. The story starts when identical twin girls (For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, and the charmingly named Piper opportunity to live life as his authentic self and Quinn) are reunited as teenagerstrue gender, having been separated at birth. We follow their journey as they discover each other without the disapproval and reveal the complexities constraints of their shared family, their terrifying dreams and sinister non-human abilitieshis parents. As with all good supernatural storiesHowever, there are hints of witchcraft, hounds Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of death his past and family curses. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334283</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sophie Hannah|title=The Visitors Book|rating=3.5|genre=Paranormal|summary= Sophie Hannah's The Visitors Book is a short anthology the shadow of modern stories with the war hangs like a supernatural twistfuneral shroud over the expedition. There is not a hammy gothic turret in sight as her characters experience their mundaneGuilt, mistrust and grief stalk the party and, day-when disaster strikes and they are forced to-day, 21st century business -- a children's birthday partyoverwinter on land, a visit menacing presence waits to a boyfriend, neck pain, the school run. Now, ghost stories based prey on ordinary people leading ordinary lives can be very unsettling indeed, making overly imaginative readers look over their shoulder at darkness. If Jonathan is to make it out of the bus stopArctic winter alive, or giving them goosebumps he will have to face his demons once and for no apparent reason. So I was curious to see what Sophie Hannahall, a writer I much admireor risk making the barren, would make of this particular materialicy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908745525</amazonuk>1789097835
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongT L Huchu|title=DeceptionsThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=ParanormalTeens|summary=Liv Ropa Moyo is starting a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to understand take messages from the Fae world that has existed in secretdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her place within itaging grandmother. But However, there's an evil stalking the more she understandsruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the less she likes itcity's children. Visions Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of a girl torn between two men continue to plague her – visions his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that are starting to feel alarmingly similar the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her real life relationships with Gabriel and Ricky.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847445136</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robert BrockwayHolly Rivers|title= The UnnoticeablesDemelza and the Spectre Detectors|rating= 3.5|genre= ParanormalConfident Readers|summary= Carey Demelza Clock is a punk living in New York Cityscientist, often staying up late to work on her various gadgets, 1977much to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. Sick However, she has also inherited a certain set of watching his friends be abducted and killedskills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, he doesn’t care about the rumours ability to summon the ghosts of strange monsters and supernatural happenings – all he wants to do is drink beer and kick assthe recently deceased. In Under the present dayguidance of her Grandma Maeve, Kaitlyn is in HollywoodDemelza begins to master her newfound skills. A stuntwomanHowever, she has there is a missing best friend, has just escaped an attempt mysterious individual on her lifethe prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's up to Demelza and an angel is waiting outside her door. The survival of best friend Percy to get to the human race lies in the hands bottom of Carey and Kaitlynthis... We are, all of us, well and truly screwed…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297972</amazonuk>1912626039
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473669065|title=The Accident SeasonQueenie Malone's Paradise Hotel|author=Moira Fowley-DoyleRuth Hogan|rating=45|genre=TeensHumour|summary=For a month in every yearTilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the month leading up to Halloween, Cararemains of her mother's family are susceptible to accidents. There are cuts and scrapes and bruiseslife after her death. Sometimes Whilst there are broken bones. And sometimes, she returns to the accidents are even fatalParadise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits.A place where people can be themselves, and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere.. ... it's Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a cursechild, right? What else could it be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>055257130X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Megan Miranda|title=Soulprint|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Alina Chase lives in a future America obsessed by soulprintingfrom this place of wonder. Scientific advances have enabled With the tracking help of the soul by markers carried in spinal fluid. Reincarnation is now an established fact Queenie Malone, caring, and the government maintains a database of all past lives. People without heirs can even make wills leaving their worldly goods gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the person in whom their soul is reincarnated. But the discovery has led to problems tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and the problems have led to Alina's ''containment''distant mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408855402</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kelley Armstrongwilliamabbey|title=Otherworld Nights|rating=4|genre=Paranormal|summary=Kelley Armstrong revisits her hugely popular 'Otherworld' series in this collection of short stories, featuring many The Pursuit of the prominent characters from the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500667</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWilliam Abbey|author=Danny Weston|title=The PiperClaire North
|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.
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{{newreview
|title=An English Ghost Story
|author=Kim Newman
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The NaremoresWhen William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a young boy in 1880's South Africa, a family with a troubled pasthe finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. A naïve English Doctor, leave London in search he slowly learns the weight of peace in the quiet Somerset countryside. Finding curse upon him, as the shadow of the perfect home – 'The Hollow' – appears dead boy begins to symbolise a turning point and follow him across the end of all their problemsworld. The Hollow seems possessed Never stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of a healing magic which can restore health and relationships as well as hopes and dreamsWilliam. UnfortunatelyAs he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in others, he also learns that the positive power of the Hollow dark shadow is suddenly challenged deadly – and seeks to kill the family are plunged into horrors that perhaps they should have foreseen…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781165580</amazonuk>one he loves the most…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|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. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955506735</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTudor Chalk|title=Printer's Devil CourtThe Chalk Man|author=Susan HillC J Tudor
|rating=5
|genre=Horror
|summary=Susan Hill is ''The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by far an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer. By the master of time the old fashioned ghost storynew term begins, friendships will be fractured, and a girl will be dead. If you've But who is the killer; is it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever read tighter, or seen [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]]someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, then you’ll already know Ed has tried to forget about thatsummer, but her other ghost stories are a little less famousabout all the poisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk Man. That doesn’t make them any less goodHowever, someone seems determined not to let him and I for one am a big fan. I think there’s a lot when the letters start to be said for a good old fashioned scarearrive, with apparitionsthe past follows, goosebumps plaguing him and cold chills dredging up the spinefever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death. I always feel like I should be reading these books around a campfireDriven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, 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>will he ever let Ed go?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jester_Forever|title=Help for the HauntedForever After: a dark comedy|author=John SearlesDavid Jester|rating=34|genre=General FictionHorror|summary=Rose Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and Sylvester Mason make their living from helping gets made the hauntedoffer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, performing exorcisms a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and running seminars across America on Naff (a stoner in the subject of the paranormal. When records department) as they are murdered in a church, grapple with their daughters, Rose long lives and Sylvi, are left negotiating the complex legacy finding a clean surface to sit on in their work has left behindflat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751555908</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785032461|title=FirelightThe Girl at the Window|author=Kristen CallihanRowan Coleman|rating=3.5
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=Lord Benjamin Archer Trudy Heaton is going home, to a man feared throughout London. Dark house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and brooding, he hides behind to a mask, scared of revealing the disfigurement that has had him searching across the world mother she hasn't spoken to for a curesixteen years. Seeking companionship Home, her refuge, he weds Miranda EllisPonden Hall, a young woman from a family reduced where she can heal herself and try to come to povertyterms with the traumatic loss of her husband. As Miranda and Benjamin come She needs to know build bridges with her mother and love each other, secrets are revealed convince her grieving son that could destroy not just his father is dead. Where better than the relationshiphouse full of light and shadow, but both of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349405999</amazonuk>that nurtured her throughout her childhood?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471407764|title=VisionsThe Twisted Tree|author=Kelley ArmstrongRachel Burge
|rating=5
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=Olivia Jones, daughter of serial killers, Martha's world has successfully proved her parents innocent of changed. Blind in one murdereye after falling from a tree, she wakes with a disturbing gift. With that seed of doubt plantedShe can read people through their clothes, secrets tumble from the weave, revealing insights she doesn't really want, and knowledge shedoesn't understand. She flees to her grandmother, Mormor's out cabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to prove them innocent give, and stumbles into world of menace.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1492687863|title=Bellewether |author=Susanna Kearsley|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Flitting between the restpresent day and mid-16thcentury, ''Bellewether'' tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. She knows In the people of mysterious little town Cainsville know more than they are sayingpresent tense aspects, but trying the Wilde House is being turned into a museum due to get them to talk about anything - the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is told from her parents to Oliviathe perspective of Charley, the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; a tale that ends in a tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's strange ability sister, Lydia, and a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to read omens live there. The perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean- Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history, just as Charley is like trying beginning to get get blood from a stoneunravel it herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445128</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473203287|title=Better Homes and HauntingsSummerland |author=Molly HarperHannu Rajaniemi
|rating=4
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=When Nina Linden arrives on Deacon Whitney's private island, it's Imagine a chance for her world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to escape . After the difficulties discovery of her past the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and start rebuilding her failing landscaping businessdealing with a mole buried deep in the heart of Summerland. If she can do a good job hereWhen Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, it will open all sorts of doors to becomes suspicious about the upper class marketspotential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and on a private island, surely her horrible ex can't find ways how much she is willing to risk to sabotage her, right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00KASKUF2</amazonuk>uncover the truth.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472235878|title=Dead But Not ForgottenA Gathering of Ghosts|author=Charlaine Harris and Toni LP Kelner (Editors)Karen Maitland|rating=3.5|genre=AnthologiesParanormal|summary=''Dead But Not Forgotten'' returns to Sookie Stackhouse's worldWitchcraft, exploring the lives supernatural and misadventures of some of the more minor characters will to survive at all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the seriesdarker side of human nature. The collection features stories about Pam Ravenscroftland is unhappy, Adele Hale Stackhouse, Luna, Diantha, Bubba the old spirits want revenge and many famine is kindling a resurgence of the other colourful characters from Bon Temps and the wider universe of Sookie's storyold faith. As fear rises, written by authors such as Seanan McGuire, Rachel Caine, Nicole Peelerit is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, Christopher Golden its healing waters run red with blood and many morestrangers are blowing in on a wind of change.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GBQXN6K</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Nicholls1472234782|title=Shadow GirlThe Story Keeper|author=Anna Mazzola
|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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{{newreview
|title=Half Bad
|author=Sally Green
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Before I start, I'll declare an uninterest. I'm not really into the paranormal genre, and I'm definitely not into paranormal romances. I like fantasy and I've nothing against the supernatural. It's just the predictability of the paranormal genre that puts me off. I prefer books that surprise me rather than books that comfort me by giving me what I expect. So, you realise, I'm coming at ''Half Bad'' from the perspective of an ''un''-fan. And I loved it!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141350865</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Megan Miranda
|title=Vengeance
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=''Vengeance'' is a follow-up to [[Fracture by Megan Miranda|Fracture]], in which Delaney almost died, drowned under the ice of a lake. Things never got back to normal after that. Delaney can sense death. She is irresistibly drawn to people who are about to die. And people take a long time to get over the accident. Delaney survived for 11 minutes under the ice - how was this possible? And Carson, the boy who pulled her out, is dead. There are mutterings that Falcon Lake is cursed. It wanted Delaney and, denied her, is now taking others in some kind of freakish revenge.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140883958X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
|author=Martyn Waites
|rating=4.5
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=It's here at last – the novel Audrey, a complex mix of the script flights of the sequel fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the film straightjacket of the book – that was always better as a stage-playher home. I'll maintain as long as you like that the play Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once in his life threw caution to the best wind and married way to witness [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill]], purely beneath him for the added extra of the final frisson – that you'll be carrying the story with you when you leavelove. Making sequels Now a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to the filmupholding what is right, what with its departures from the sourceis proper, certainly don't marry up with that – instead of the ghost going away into the audience it's instead as if the new characters are compelled into her domain – but either way, the dread inevitability bastion of all the best ghost stories are on these pagesdoing what is expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099588498</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Tales from the Dead of Night: Thirteen Classic Ghost Stories|author=Cecily Gayford (editor)|ratingisbn=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=This collection of classic ghost stories covers all kinds of chilling tales. There are physical ghosts, emotional ghosts, ghosts that are never seen but merely sensed, and even the odd entity that just seems ghostly, even though it might be an ordinary everyday thing - but still makes you feel as if you’ve, well, seen a ghost. Each story is preceded with some information on the author. The stories are from are from several different periods and the settings range from winter nights in England to sultry summers in India. This combines to make for an excellent overview of all kinds of spooky sagas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250944</amazonuk>}}{{newreview0751571229|title=When The Coldest Girl in Coldtown|author=Holly Black|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the future, vampires exist, and everyone knows it. To try and deal with the problem of vampirism, cities have been given to the monsters and designated Coldtowns – walled cities where people can enter, but hardly ever leave. With these cities broadcast on TV 24 hours a day, they look glamorous – but those just watching can’t see the deadliness behind the glitz. Seventeen-year-old Tana is about to find out. Along with her ex-boyfriend Aiden, who’s just been infected by a vampire and has to go without drinking blood for eighty eight days or turn into one himself, and a mysterious vampire named Gavriel, she’s headed for the largest Coldtown of them all. Can they get there – and if they do, will any of them survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621299</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=AntigoddessCurtain Falls|author=Kendare BlakeCarrie Hope Fletcher|rating=3.5
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=Athena A thoroughly, magical and her brother Hermes are a lot less godlike than they used to be. In fact, they are dying. Athena is being slowly suffocated by feathers growing inside her riveting story that hooks you in from the first page and Hermes's body is eating itself. Literally. They are takes you on a road trip to find out exactly what it is killing roller coaster ride towards the gods and to save themselves if they canlast. No matter the cost to themselves or others. Gods donFletcher weaves together a dash of ''Whodunit't count costs. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833075X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Memory: She's Dying to Remember|author=Christoph Marzi|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jude can see the deadthrill of romance, (the course of which never runs smoothly,) and an unpredictable ghost. His life has changed immeasurably since he saw his first The ghost about six months ago. He's lost interest at school and become even further distanced from his father, who works away appears once a lot. Insteadyear, he spends most the principal star of his time in Highgate Cemetery her very own show, to meet with the shapeshifting vixen Miss Rathbone love of her life and a circle of dead people headed by exre-rock star Gaskellenact her death. Jude feels more at home with ghosts than he does A tragic accident with the livingroots buried deep within the whole array of human nature. Love, joy, care, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, all laid bare on centre stage. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326507</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Hold Your Breath|authorisbn=Caroline Green|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Tara can locate lost objects - keys, phones, and even people. But she knows that this strange ability can bring trouble, so when bully Melodie Stone goes missing, she wants to keep her visions to herself. The images she sees won't go away, though - should she risk humiliation, or worse, by trying to find her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848121709</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewAaronovitvch_Furthest|title=The Weight of Souls|author=Bryony Pearce|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Taylor Oh has inherited a curse from her mother. Fated to help ghosts of murder victims get revenge, or be taken by the Darkness herself, she lives her life in fear of being consumed. It's bad enough trying not to alienate her only friend, and persuade her father that she's not insane - but when school bully Justin gets murdered, she's left trying to solve the crime and also cope with the realisation she's becoming attracted to him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908844639</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFurthest Station|author=Daniela Sacerdoti|title=TideBen Aaronovitch
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=After her parents' deaths at the hands of the demons they fought against, Sarah Midnight was left reeling again by the revelation towards the end of book 1 that her 'cousin' Harry Midnight was actually Harry's friend Sean Hannay. Unable to trust Sean following his lies, Sarah turns to Nicholas, new on the scene. But Nicholas has dark secrets of his own - has Sarah placed her faith in the wrong person? And will she find out the truth about the Midnight legacy before the demons attack again?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845025393</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kim Harrington
|title=Perception
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=After solving a murder over the summer, Clarity 'Clare' Fern finds herself the centre of attention at school. Mostly it's annoying, but harmless - popular girls wanting her to use her unique gift for show and entertainment - but someone is sending her increasingly creepy messages, and Clare keeps getting the feeling she's being followed.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407130862</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kai Meyer
|title=Arcadia Burns
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=If you haven't read the [[Arcadia Awakens by Kai Meyer|first book]] in this series, then STEP AWAY FROM THIS PARTICULAR COOKIE AISLE! There will be spoilers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848776403</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Yelena Black
|title=Dance of Shadows
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Vanessa is just one of many new students at the New York Ballet Academy - but while they're all trying to become the best dancer, she has her own reasons for being there. Three years ago her older sister disappeared from the school, and she's determined to find out what happened to Margaret. Can she find out? And will the two boys taking an interest in her, charismatic Zeppelin and incredibly intense Justin, help or hinder her search?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408829975</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Deborah White
|title=Deceit
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Thinking the immortal Doctor defeated, Claire has allowed her modern-day London life to return - almost - to normal. Her father has found a new girlfriend, Lindsay, and Claire quite likes her, despite a nagging guilt about disloyalty to her mother, who is depressed about the divorce and struggling to cope with Claire's new baby brother, Matthew. There's even a boyfriend, Joe, on the scene. Last year's adventure involving a girl from the past, an evil magician ancestor and an ancient prophecy, seem like old news. After all, Doctor Robert died, didn't he?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848774133</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Becca Fitzpatrick
|title=Finale (Hush Hush)
|rating=3
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=We left Patch and Nora were finally happily together and When local police find something weird - spectres scaring commuters on a particular part of the Metropolitan Line, for example - they call for PC Peter Grant of the Special Assessment Unit, also known as The Folly. Stray river gods, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders, they are all in love but with a big problem: Noraday's (or a night's vow to her dead father) work for The Folly team, Hank. Nora must lead even if the Nephilim in team only has two official members and the upcoming war against the fallen angels who possess their bodies each yearfiling system dates back 2 centuries. If she doesn'tHe may spend time pursuing supernatural offenders, both she ''but Constable Grant is a nicely wry and recognisable copper; health and safety rules annoy him and'' her mother will die. She won't be accepted as leader by the Nephilim if her own boyfriend he is a fallen angel, so once again their relationship has inclined to go underground. Nora agrees to a fake relationship with Dante, the secondtrust his hunches and park outside Chinese take-aways in-command Nephilim. The scam is easy enough to pull off - they need to spend the hope of a lot of time together anyway, as Dante trains Nora's newly Nephilim body for warfree meal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857072919</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy DysonMoore_Strange|title=The Haunted BookStrange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2)|author=Syd Moore|rating=35
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=Typically atypical noises faced by someone alone in an empty house… a rock group reuniting at their old studios Rosie Strange is back - recovering after her last escapade with curator Sam Stone, and finding there are more haunting traces of their passage than just their unremembered recordings… a nightmare for a round-figuring out what on earth to do with the Essex Witch Museum she's recently inherited. If Rosie had her way she'd be selling themuseum and heading back to her flat in London -world solo yachtsman but when he gains her Auntie Babs recommends Rosie and Sam to a passenger… These could possibly count as entrants local businessman, they find themselves embroiled in any compendium of ghost storiesdark events once again. But what of their authorSomething is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliers, tasked scrawled messages in the rooms and apparitions walking through the walls. Before Rosie and Sam can start to transfer reportage look into readable non-fiction? Should he not know better about dabbling with the occultthese possibly supernatural occurrences though, in any shape or form? How long will it be before he finds himself staring at events take an even darker turn when a ghost himself – one that has not confined itself to just the pages of the book he very real body is currently writing, but has made itself known in volumes past?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857862421</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Susan Hill|title=Dolly|rating=4.5|genre=Horror|summary=An empty house found in the remote fenlands of England, with a man returning to it alone… a lawyer sorting out an inheritance… something buried yet still yielding power… [[:Category:Susan Hill|Susan Hill]]'s name, restaurant - and the subtitle owner's daughter swears that a ghost story' on the cover… We do seem was to be in the territory of [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]], but worry not – this new short genre novel is a very different beastblame...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685745</amazonuk>
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