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[[Category:Paranormal|*]] {{adsense2}}__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=AntigoddessDean Koontz|authortitle=Kendare BlakeThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5
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|summary=Athena Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and her brother Hermes are his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a lot less godlike than they used really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to be. In facthis home, they are dying. Athena is being slowly suffocated by feathers growing inside her and Hermesit's body possible that whoever or whatever was inside is eating itselfthe thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. Literally He is a nice person. A really nice person. They are on So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a road trip bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to find out exactly what it help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is killing the gods going to take care of Benny, and to save themselves will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they can. No matter the cost to themselves or others. Gods don't count costsare. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140833075X</amazonuk>1662500491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Memory: She's Dying to RememberAlly Wilkes|authortitle=Christoph MarziAll the White Spaces|rating=4.5|genre=TeensHorror|summary=Jude can see In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the deadfamous Australis Randall. His For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, and the opportunity to live life has changed immeasurably since he saw as his authentic self and true gender, without the disapproval and constraints of his first ghost about six months agoparents. HeHowever, Jonathan isn's lost interest at school t the only one fleeing the confines of his past and become even further distanced from his father, who works away the shadow of the war hangs like a lotfuneral shroud over the expedition. InsteadGuilt, he spends most of his time in Highgate Cemetery with mistrust and grief stalk the shapeshifting vixen Miss Rathbone party and , when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a circle menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is to make it out of dead people headed by ex-rock star Gaskell. Jude feels more at home with ghosts than the Arctic winter alive, he does with will have to face his demons once and for all, or risk making the livingbarren, icy landscape his tomb. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408326507</amazonuk>1789097835
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Hold Your BreathT L Huchu|authortitle=Caroline GreenThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Tara can locate lost objects - keys, phonesRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and even peoplea bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. But Ever since she knows that this strange ability can bring trouble, so when bully Melodie Stone goes missingdropped out of school, she wants 's been using it to keep support not only herself, but her visions to herselfyounger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. The images She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she sees wonever could't go away, though - should ve imagined. Will she risk humiliationfind the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or worse, by trying to find will it claim hertoo?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848121709</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Weight of SoulsHolly Rivers|authortitle=Bryony PearceDemelza and the Spectre Detectors|rating=3.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Taylor Oh Demelza Clock is a scientist, often staying up late to work on her various gadgets, much to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. However, she has also inherited a curse from her mother. Fated certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the ability to help summon the ghosts of murder victims get revengethe recently deceased. Under the guidance of her Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins to master her newfound skills. However, or be taken by there is a mysterious individual on the Darkness herselfprowl, she lives her life in fear of being consumedkidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's bad enough trying not up to alienate Demelza and her only best friend, and persuade her father that she's not insane - but when school bully Justin gets murdered, she's left trying Percy to get to solve the crime and also cope with the realisation she's becoming attracted to himbottom of this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908844639</amazonuk>1912626039
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniela Sacerdoti1473669065|title=TideQueenie Malone's Paradise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan|rating=45|genre=TeensHumour|summary=After her parents' deaths at the hands of the demons they fought againstTilda returns to Brighton, Sarah Midnight was left reeling again by the revelation towards to tidy away the end remains of book 1 that her 'cousin' Harry Midnight was actually Harrymother's friend Sean Hannaylife after her death. Unable to trust Sean following his liesWhilst there, Sarah turns she returns to Nicholasthe Paradise hotel, new on the scenea haven for eccentrics and misfits. But Nicholas has dark secrets A place where people can be themselves, and let go of his own - has Sarah placed thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her faith in as a child, from this place of wonder. With the wrong person? And will help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she find out the truth about the Midnight legacy before the demons attack again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845025393</amazonuk>had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim Harringtonwilliamabbey|title=PerceptionThe Pursuit of William Abbey|author=Claire North|rating=43.5|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=After solving When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a murder over young boy in 1880's South Africa, he finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns the weight of the summercurse upon him, Clarity 'Clare' Fern finds herself as the centre shadow of attention at schoolthe dead boy begins to follow him across the world. Mostly Never stopping, always growing – it's annoyingcrosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of William. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in others, but harmless - popular girls wanting her to use her unique gift for show and entertainment - but someone he also learns that the dark shadow is sending her increasingly creepy messages, deadly – and Clare keeps getting seeks to kill the feeling she's being followed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407130862</amazonuk>one he loves the most…
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kai MeyerTudor Chalk|title=Arcadia BurnsThe Chalk Man|author=C J Tudor|rating=45|genre=TeensHorror|summary=If you haven't read 'The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer. By the time the [[Arcadia Awakens by Kai Meyer|first book]] in this seriesnew term begins, friendships will be fractured, then STEP AWAY FROM THIS PARTICULAR COOKIE AISLE! There and a girl will be spoilersdead. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848776403</amazonuk>But who is the killer; is it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to forget about that summer, about all the poisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk Man. However, someone seems determined not to let him and when the letters start to arrive, the past follows, plaguing him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yelena BlackJester_Forever|title=Dance of ShadowsForever After: a dark comedy|author=David Jester
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|genre=TeensHorror|summary=Vanessa Michael Holland is just one a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of many new students at his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the New York Ballet Academy - but while records department) as 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, grapple with their long lives and she's determined finding a clean surface to find out what happened to Margaretsit on in their flat. 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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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah White1785032461|title=Deceit|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Thinking The Girl at 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>}} {{newreviewWindow|author=Becca Fitzpatrick|title=Finale (Hush Hush) Rowan Coleman|rating=35
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=We left Patch Trudy Heaton is going home, to a house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and Nora were finally happily together and in love but with to a big problem: Noramother she hasn's vow t spoken to for sixteen years. Home, her dead fatherrefuge, Hank. Nora must lead the Nephilim in the upcoming war against the fallen angels who possess their bodies each year. If she doesn'tPonden Hall, both where she ''can heal herself and'' try to come to terms with the traumatic loss of her mother will diehusband. She won't be accepted as leader by the Nephilim if needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her own boyfriend grieving son that his father is a fallen angel, so once again their relationship has to go undergrounddead. Nora agrees to a fake relationship with Dante, Where better than the second-in-command Nephilim. The scam is easy enough to pull off - they need to spend a lot house full of time together anywaylight and shadow, as Dante trains Nora's newly Nephilim body for war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857072919</amazonuk>that nurtured her throughout her childhood?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Dyson1471407764|title=The Haunted BookTwisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge|rating=35
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=Typically atypical noises faced by someone alone Martha's world has changed. Blind in an empty house… one eye after falling from a rock group reuniting at their old studios and finding there are more haunting traces of their passage than just their unremembered recordings… tree, she wakes with a nightmare for a round-the-world solo yachtsman when he gains a passenger… These could possibly count as entrants in any compendium of ghost storiesdisturbing gift. But what of She can read people through their authorclothes, secrets tumble from the weave, revealing insights she doesn't really want, tasked and knowledge she doesn't understand. She flees to transfer reportage into readable non-fiction? Should he not know better about dabbling with the occulther grandmother, Mormor's cabin, in any shape or form? How long will it be before he finds himself staring at a ghost himself – seeking answers no one that has not confined itself is prepared to just the pages give, and stumbles into world of the book he is currently writing, but has made itself known in volumes past?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857862421</amazonuk>menace.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Hill1492687863|title=DollyBellewether |author=Susanna Kearsley
|rating=4.5
|genre=HorrorParanormal|summary=An empty house in Flitting between the present day and mid-16thcentury, ''Bellewether'' tells the remote fenlands fascinating tale of Englandthe Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, with the Wilde House is being turned into a man returning museum due to it alone… the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is told from the 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 lawyer sorting out an inheritance… something buried yet still yielding power… [[:Category:Susan Hill|Susan Hill]]tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's namesister, Lydia, and the subtitle 'a ghost story' on the cover… We do seem French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to be in live there. The perspective of the territory of [[book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in Black]]history, but worry not – this new short genre novel just as Charley is a very different beastbeginning to unravel it herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685745</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libba Bray1473203287|title=The DivinersSummerland |author=Hannu Rajaniemi
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|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=1920's New York City. Jazz and gin mix with murder and mystery. For Evie O'Neill - fresh Imagine a world in from Ohio which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After the city of her dreams after her demonstration discovery of 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 strange power caused race against Soviet spies and dealing with a scandal mole buried deep in society - this is what she's always dreamed the heart ofSummerland. But dreams can become nightmaresWhen Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, and when Eviebecomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, her uncle Will she must decide how far she is willing to go and their friends find themselves trying to stop a serial killer, how much she'll have is willing to use all of her wits, as well as her power, risk to stay aliveuncover the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410392</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tera Lynn Childs1472235878|title=Sweet VenomA Gathering of Ghosts|author=Karen Maitland|rating=3.5|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=Grace is Witchcraft, the supernatural and the new girl will to survive at all costs collide in San Franciscoa story that never shies away from the darker side of human nature. The land is unhappy, who can't understand why she's seeing weird creatures whom no-one else seems to notice. Gretchen the old spirits want revenge and famine is an experienced monster-hunterkindling a resurgence of the old faith. Greer As fear rises, it is a socialiteincreasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The three of them look eerily alike - what's their connectionsacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and can this mismatched trio strangers are blowing in on a wind of teens defend the world from the demons who seem to be appearing with ever-increasing frequency?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848779321</amazonuk>change.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela Hartshorne1472234782|title=Time's EchoThe Story Keeper|author=Anna Mazzola
|rating=5
|genre=Historical FictionParanormal|summary=Grace Trewe has temporarily moved Audrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to York to sort out be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the affairs straightjacket of her godmotherhome. Where every action, every thought, Lucyevery yearning is controlled by her father, who died suddenly. After surviving the Indonesian tsunami the previous Christmas, Grace has decided to live only once in his life threw caution to the full wind and plans more travelling once Lucy's house is soldmarried way beneath him for love. She hasn’t Now a care or a tie in the worldwidower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, as long as she doesn't remember little Lucas back on that Christmas beach. As it turns outwhat is proper, that's not the only thing she needs to avoid. Strange, horrific dreams disrupt her sleep and vivid daydreams start to attack her waking moments as 21st century York keeps fading to be replaced by its 16th century streets. Grace will be fine though; it's just stress and her oddly acquired knowledge bastion of the past doing what is just a coincidence, or so says seemingly kindly neighbour, historian and single father Drewexpected. Meanwhile, 500 years before, there was a woman named Hawise who met a terrible death…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033054425X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Jordan0751571229|title=VanishWhen The Curtain Falls|author=Carrie Hope Fletcher|rating=3.5|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=Events have forced Jacinda back into A thoroughly, magical and riveting story that hooks you in from the first page and takes you on a roller coaster ride towards the last. Fletcher weaves together a dash of ''Whodunit'' the arms thrill of romance, (the Pridecourse of which never runs smoothly,) and an unpredictable ghost. When her mother took her away from them The ghost appears once a year, it was the last thing Jacinda wanted. But now she's backprincipal star of her very own show, she wants nothing more than to spread meet with the love of her wings life and fly awayre-enact her death. But it's not that easyA tragic accident with the roots buried deep within the whole array of human nature. SeverinLove, leader of the Pridejoy, care, has her under virtual house arrest. Tamrafriendship, Jacinda's twinjealousy, is going through some tumultuous changespossessiveness, and needs the support of the Pride. And there's Cassian - a permanent fixture in Jacinda's lifeselfishness, the one who brought her back to the Pridecold ambition, who she is beginning to think cares about her for more than just her firebreathing talentsall laid bare on centre stage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756540</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janet EvanovichAaronovitvch_Furthest|title=Wicked BusinessThe Furthest Station|author=Ben Aaronovitch
|rating=4
|genre=Women's FictionParanormal|summary=Following When local police find something weird - spectres scaring commuters on from [[Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich|Wicked Appetite]]a particular part of the Metropolitan Line, pastry chef Lizzy and paranormal bounty hunter Diesel continue to seek for example - they call for PC Peter Grant of the seven powerful stones linked to the seven deadly sinsSpecial Assessment Unit, also known as The Folly. TheyStray river gods, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders, they are all in a day're looking s (or a night's) work for The Folly team, even if the stone associated with lust team only has two official members and it becomes the filing system dates back 2 centuries. He may spend time pursuing supernatural offenders, but Constable Grant is a bit nicely wry and recognisable copper; health and safety rules annoy him and he is inclined to trust his hunches and park outside Chinese take-aways in the hope of a treasure hunt as, accompanied by Gloria free meal.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Moore_Strange|title=Strange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (the slightly wizardy unEssex Witches Mystery 2)|author=Syd Moore|rating=5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Rosie Strange is back -witch) recovering after her last escapade with curator Sam Stone, and Carl (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 the illmuseum and heading back to her flat in London -mannered monkey) they have but when her Auntie Babs recommends Rosie and Sam to work their way through a string of clueslocal businessman, they find themselves embroiled in dark events once again. HoweverSomething is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliers, they aren't scrawled messages in the only ones looking; for wherever goodies seek power, rooms and apparitions walking through the baddies lurk alsowalls. The baddies Before Rosie and Sam can start to look into these possibly supernatural occurrences though, events take an even darker turn when a very real body is found in question are again the deliciously dark (on many levels) Gerwulf (Wulf) Grimoir restaurant - and his medieval minion Hatchet. Wulf may be Dieselthe owner's cousin but there's not daughter swears that a lot of family love in any room they both occupy so let the race ghost was to the stone commenceblame... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>075538492X</amazonuk>
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