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[[Category:Paranormal|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Half BadDean Koontz|authortitle=Sally GreenThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Before I startBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, I'll declare an uninterestand his house gets trashed. I'm not Oh, and someone has delivered a really into the paranormal genreweird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and I'm definitely not into paranormal romances. I like fantasy and I've nothing against the supernatural. Itit's just possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the predictability of thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the paranormal genre that puts me offvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. I prefer books that surprise me rather than books that comfort me by giving me what I expect A really nice person. Sofortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, you realisea bad weather friend called Spike, I'm coming at ''Half Bad'' who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from the perspective nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of an Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny'un''-fans wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. And I loved it!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141350865</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Megan MirandaAlly Wilkes|title=VengeanceAll the White Spaces
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|genre=TeensHorror|summary=''Vengeance'' is a followIn post-up to [[Fracture WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by Megan Miranda|Fracture]]the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, in which Delaney almost diedthis adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, drowned under and the ice opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, without the disapproval and constraints of a lakehis parents. 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 However, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like a long time to get funeral shroud over the accidentexpedition. Delaney survived for 11 minutes under Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk the ice - how was this possible? And Carsonparty and, the boy who pulled her outwhen disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, is deada menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. There are mutterings that Falcon Lake If Jonathan is cursed. It wanted Delaney to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once andfor all, denied heror risk making the barren, is now taking others in some kind of freakish revengeicy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140883958X</amazonuk>1789097835
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= T L Huchu|title=The Woman in Black: Angel Library of Death|author=Martyn Waitesthe Dead|rating=4.5|genre=ParanormalTeens|summary=It's here at last – the novel Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of the script of the sequel Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the film dead of the book – that was always better as a stage-playEdinburgh for their living relatives. IEver since she dropped out of school, she'll maintain as long as you like that the play is the best way s been using it to witness [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill]]support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, purely for there's an evil stalking the added extra ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the final frisson – that youcity'll be carrying the story with you when you leaves children. Making sequels to Soon, Ropa is pulled into the film, what with its departures from search for a missing boy at the source, certainly don't marry request of his dead mother. She will end up with discovering an occult library and realise that – instead the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the ghost going away into the audience missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it's instead as if the new characters are compelled into claim her domain – but either way, the dread inevitability of all the best ghost stories are on these pages.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099588498</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Tales from the Dead of Night: Thirteen Classic Ghost StoriesHolly Rivers|authortitle=Cecily Gayford (editor)Demelza and the Spectre Detectors|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=This collection of classic ghost stories covers all kinds of chilling talesDemelza Clock is a scientist, often staying up late to work on her various gadgets, much to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. There are physical ghostsHowever, emotional ghosts, ghosts she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are never seen but merely sensednot especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, and even the odd entity that just seems ghostlyability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceased. Under the guidance of her Grandma Maeve, even though it might be an ordinary everyday thing - but still makes you feel as if you’veDemelza begins to master her newfound skills. However, well, seen there is a ghost. Each story is preceded with some information mysterious individual on the authorprowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. The stories are from are from several different periods It's up to Demelza and the settings range from winter nights in England her best friend Percy to sultry summers in India. This combines get to make for an excellent overview the bottom of all kinds of spooky sagasthis...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781250944</amazonuk>1912626039
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473669065|title=The Coldest Girl in ColdtownQueenie Malone's Paradise Hotel|author=Holly BlackRuth Hogan|rating=3.5|genre=TeensHumour|summary=In the futureTilda returns to Brighton, vampires exist, and everyone knows it. To try and deal with to tidy away the problem remains of vampirismher mother's life after her death. Whilst there, cities have been given she returns to the monsters Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and designated Coldtowns – walled cities misfits. A place where people can enterbe themselves, but hardly ever leaveand let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. With these cities broadcast on TV 24 hours Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a daychild, they look glamorous – but those just watching can’t see from this place of wonder. With the deadliness behind the glitz. Seventeen-year-old Tana is about to find out. Along with her ex-boyfriend Aidenhelp of Queenie Malone, who’s just been infected by a vampire and has to go without drinking blood for eighty eight days or turn into one himselfcaring, and a mysterious vampire named Gavrielgregarious, she’s headed for Tilda begins to pick apart the largest Coldtown of them alltricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. Can they get there – and if they do, will any of them survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621299</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=williamabbey|title=AntigoddessThe Pursuit of William Abbey|author=Kendare BlakeClaire North
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|genre=ParanormalFantasy|summary=Athena and her brother Hermes are When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a lot less godlike than they used 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 curse upon him, as the shadow of the dead boy begins to befollow him across the world. In factNever stopping, they are dying. Athena is being slowly suffocated by feathers always growing inside her – it crosses oceans and Hermes's body is eating itself. Literallymountains in pursuit of William. They are on a road trip As he finds himself unable to find out exactly what it resist speaking the truths that he hears in others, he also learns that the dark shadow is killing the gods deadly – and seeks to save themselves if they can. No matter kill the one he loves the cost to themselves or others. Gods don't count costs. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833075X</amazonuk>most…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Tudor Chalk|title=Memory: She's Dying to RememberThe Chalk Man|author=Christoph MarziC J Tudor|rating=4.5|genre=TeensHorror|summary=Jude can see the dead. His life has changed immeasurably since he saw his first ghost about six months ago. He's lost interest at school and become even further distanced from his father, who works away 'The Chalk Man'' follows a lot. Instead, he spends most group of his time in Highgate Cemetery with the shapeshifting vixen Miss Rathbone and a circle of dead people headed friends haunted by ex-rock star Gaskellan eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer. Jude feels more at home with ghosts than he does with By the time the living. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326507</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Hold Your Breath|author=Caroline Green|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Tara can locate lost objects - keysnew term begins, phonesfriendships will be fractured, and even peoplea girl will be dead. 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. who is the killer; is it The images she sees won't go awayChalk Man, though - should she risk humiliationwhose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or worse, by trying someone much closer to find herhome?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848121709</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Weight of Souls|author=Bryony Pearce|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Taylor Oh Thirty years later, Ed has inherited a curse from her mother. Fated tried to help ghosts of murder victims get revengeforget about that summer, or be taken by about all the Darkness herselfpoisoned, she lives her life in fear sinister memories of being consumedThe Chalk Man. It's bad enough trying However, someone seems determined not to alienate her only friend, let him and persuade her father that she's not insane - but when school bully Justin gets murderedthe letters start to arrive, she's left trying to solve the crime past follows, plaguing him and also cope with dredging up the realisation shefever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's becoming attracted to him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908844639</amazonuk>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=Daniela SacerdotiJester_Forever|title=TideForever After: a dark comedy|author=David Jester
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|genre=TeensHorror|summary=After her parents' deaths at Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the hands offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the demons records department) as 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 grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to Nicholas, new sit on the scenein their flat. 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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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim Harrington1785032461|title=PerceptionThe Girl at the Window|author=Rowan Coleman|rating=45|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=After solving Trudy Heaton is going home, to a murder over house where her roots burrow back through the summercenturies and to a mother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen years. Home, Clarity 'Clare' Fern finds her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with the centre traumatic loss of attention at schoolher husband. Mostly it's annoying, but harmless - popular girls wanting her She needs to use build bridges with her unique gift for show mother and entertainment - but someone convince her grieving son that his father is sending dead. Where better than the house full of light and shadow, that nurtured her throughout her increasingly creepy messages, and Clare keeps getting the feeling she's being followed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407130862</amazonuk>childhood?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kai Meyer1471407764|title=Arcadia BurnsThe Twisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge|rating=45|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=If you havenMartha't s world has changed. Blind in one eye after falling from a tree, she wakes with a disturbing gift. She can read people through their clothes, secrets tumble from the [[Arcadia Awakens by Kai Meyer|first book]] in this seriesweave, revealing insights she doesn't really want, and knowledge she doesn't understand. She flees to her grandmother, Mormor's cabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to give, then STEP AWAY FROM THIS PARTICULAR COOKIE AISLE! There will be spoilersand stumbles into world of menace. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848776403</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yelena Black1492687863|title=Dance of ShadowsBellewether |author=Susanna Kearsley|rating=4.5|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=Vanessa is just one of many new students at Flitting between the New York Ballet Academy present day and mid- but while they16thcentury, ''Bellewether''re tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and all trying to become its inhabitants. In the best dancerpresent tense aspects, she has her own reasons for the Wilde House is being thereturned into a museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. Three years ago her older sister disappeared It is told from the schoolperspective of Charley, the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and shetheir story; a tale that ends in a tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's determined sister, Lydia, and a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to find out what happened to Margaretlive there. Can she find out? And will The perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two boys taking an interest tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in herhistory, charismatic Zeppelin and incredibly intense Justin, help or hinder her search?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408829975</amazonuk>just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah White1473203287|title=DeceitSummerland |author=Hannu Rajaniemi
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|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=Thinking Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After the immortal Doctor defeateddiscovery of the afterlife, Claire the British Empire has allowed her modern-day London life to return - almost - to normalextended its reach into Summerland, the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. Her father has found In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a new girlfriend, Lindsay, race against Soviet spies and Claire quite likes her, despite dealing with a nagging guilt about disloyalty to her mother, who is depressed about mole buried deep in the divorce and struggling to cope with Claire's new baby brother, Matthewheart of Summerland. There's even a boyfriendWhen Rachel White, Joean ambitious SIS agent, on becomes suspicious about the scene. Last year's adventure involving a girl from the pastpotential rogue agent, an evil magician ancestor she must decide how far she is willing to go and an ancient prophecy, seem like old newshow much she is willing to risk to uncover the truth. After all, Doctor Robert died, didn't he? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848774133</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Becca Fitzpatrick1472235878|title=Finale (Hush Hush) A Gathering of Ghosts|author=Karen Maitland|rating=35
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|summary=We left Patch and Nora were finally happily together Witchcraft, the supernatural and the will to survive at all costs collide in love but with a big problem: Nora's vow to her dead father, Hank. Nora must lead story that never shies away from the Nephilim in the upcoming war against the fallen angels who possess their bodies each yeardarker side of human nature. If she doesn'tThe land is unhappy, both she ''the old spirits want revenge and'' her mother will die. She won't be accepted as leader by the Nephilim if her own boyfriend famine is kindling a fallen angelresurgence of the old faith. As fear rises, so once again their relationship it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has to go undergroundtaken root. Nora agrees to a fake relationship The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with Dante, the second-blood and strangers are blowing in-command Nephilim. The scam is easy enough to pull off - they need to spend on a lot wind of time together anyway, as Dante trains Nora's newly Nephilim body for warchange.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857072919</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Dyson1472234782|title=The Haunted BookStory Keeper|author=Anna Mazzola|rating=35
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|summary=Typically atypical noises faced by someone alone in an empty house… Audrey, a rock group reuniting at their old studios complex mix of flights of fancy and finding there are seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more haunting traces than what everyone expects of their passage than just their unremembered recordings… a nightmare for a round-her, escapes from the-world solo yachtsman when he gains a passenger… These could possibly count as entrants in any compendium straightjacket of ghost storiesher home. But what of their authorWhere every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, tasked who only once in his life threw caution to transfer reportage into readable non-fiction? Should he not know better about dabbling with the occultwind and married way beneath him for love. Now a widower and remarried, in any shape or form? How long will it be before he finds himself staring at a ghost himself – one that has not confined itself rigorously returned to just upholding what is right, what is proper, the pages bastion of the book he doing what is currently writing, but has made itself known in volumes past?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857862421</amazonuk>expected.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Hill0751571229|title=DollyWhen The Curtain Falls|author=Carrie Hope Fletcher|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorParanormal|summary=An empty house A thoroughly, magical and riveting story that hooks you in from the remote fenlands of England, with first page and takes you on a man returning to it alone… roller coaster ride towards the last. Fletcher weaves together a lawyer sorting out an inheritance… something buried yet still yielding power… [[:Category:Susan Hill|Susan Hill]]dash of ''Whodunit''s namethe thrill of romance, (the course of which never runs smoothly,) and the subtitle 'an unpredictable ghost. The ghost appears once a ghost story' on year, the cover… We do seem principal star of her very own show, to be in meet with the love of her life and re-enact her death. A tragic accident with the roots buried deep within the territory whole array of [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]]human nature. Love, joy, care, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, but worry not – this new short genre novel is a very different beastall laid bare on centre stage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685745</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libba BrayAaronovitvch_Furthest|title=The DivinersFurthest Station|author=Ben Aaronovitch
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|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=1920's New York City. Jazz and gin mix with murder and mystery. For Evie O'Neill When local police find something weird - fresh in from Ohio to spectres scaring commuters on a particular part of the city of her dreams after her demonstration of a strange power caused a scandal in society Metropolitan Line, for example - this is what she's always dreamed they call for PC Peter Grant ofthe Special Assessment Unit, also known as The Folly. But dreams can become nightmaresStray river gods, and when Eviemissing Victorian children, her uncle Will and their friends find themselves trying to stop a serial killerfleeting 18th century dispatch riders, she'll have to use they are all of her wits, as well as her power, to stay alive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410392</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tera Lynn Childs|title=Sweet Venom|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Grace is the new girl in San Francisco, who can't understand why shea day's seeing weird creatures whom no-one else seems to notice. Gretchen is an experienced monster-hunter. Greer is (or a socialite. The three of them look eerily alike - whatnight's their connection) work for The Folly team, even if the team only has two official members and can this mismatched trio of teens defend the world from the demons who seem filing system dates back 2 centuries. He may spend time pursuing supernatural offenders, but Constable Grant is a nicely wry and recognisable copper; health and safety rules annoy him and he is inclined to be appearing with evertrust his hunches and park outside Chinese take-increasing frequency?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848779321</amazonuk>aways in the hope of a free meal.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela HartshorneMoore_Strange|title=Time's EchoStrange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2)|author=Syd Moore
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|genre=Historical FictionParanormal|summary=Grace Trewe has temporarily moved to York to sort out the affairs of Rosie Strange is back - recovering after her godmotherlast escapade with curator Sam Stone, Lucy, who died suddenly. After surviving the Indonesian tsunami the previous Christmas, Grace has decided to live life and figuring out what on earth to do with the full and plans more travelling once LucyEssex Witch Museum she's house is soldrecently inherited. She hasn’t a care or a tie in the world, as long as If Rosie had her way she doesn't remember little Lucas d be selling the museum and heading back on that Christmas beachto her flat in London - but when her Auntie Babs recommends Rosie and Sam to a local businessman, they find themselves embroiled in dark events once again. As it turns outSomething is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliers, that's not scrawled messages in the rooms and apparitions walking through the only thing she needs to avoidwalls. Strange, horrific dreams disrupt her sleep Before Rosie and vivid daydreams Sam can start to attack her waking moments as 21st century York keeps fading to be replaced by its 16th century streets. Grace will be fine look into these possibly supernatural occurrences though; it, events take an even darker turn when a very real body is found in the restaurant - and the owner's just stress and her oddly acquired knowledge of the past is just daughter swears that a coincidence, or so says seemingly kindly neighbour, historian and single father Drewghost was to blame... Meanwhile, 500 years before, there was a woman named Hawise who met a terrible death…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033054425X</amazonuk>
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