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|author=H M LongPekka Harju-Autti|title=Hall of SmokeLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse

|summary= Hessa is an Eangi: It's the eighteenth century, a powerful priestess time of the Goddess of War. That discovery and Britain is until she is banished by her high priestess for not following her one order: to kill the traveller that visits her templeexpanding its foreign trade. Her whole town Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is burnt sent to the ground while she is praying for forgiveness, and Hessa – now left alone – must find this traveller to atone for her weakness and win back her goddess' favourAndaman Islands in his endeavour. On her journeyAlong with his son, she encounters zealot soldiers, deceitful godsPeter, and newly awakened demons at every turn. It is a gruelling questtheir cat, and along the wayMichi, she discovers they set off on a harrowing truth: the gods perilous voyage to these faraway lands. The islands are dying, beautiful and stunning in their scenery and the High Halls of the afterlife are fading. Soon Hessaislanders's trust in her goddess weakensleader, Aarav, and she is thrust into a battle between the gods of the Old World and the Newkeen to establish good relations.|isbn=1789094984B0DS1VGHH3

|isbn=0356512479|author= Alix E HarrowA G Slatter|title= The Once and Future WitchesBriar Book of the Dead|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''There's no such thing as witchesa part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, but there used at last. I just want to beenjoy it for a while.''

In 1893Within a remote mountain pass, after far away from the purges world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the burningswider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, witching has been reduced Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to little more be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than weak charms spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and simple spellscentre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. If women want Reeling from one family secret to hold power in their handsanother, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have their voices heardsacrificed to survive, it is now through women's suffrageunder threat.|isbn=1803364548

|author= Andrea StewartRachel Greenlaw|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Compass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre= FantasyTeens|summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wantedcan hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

In an empire controlled by Rosevear, a bone shard magic that powers animal-remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like constructsher mother before her, an heir is one of the seven who swim out to survey the throne, a smuggler, ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a warrior will fight trap to find their place in end the world. Lin is wrecking, they capture the emperorisland's forgotten daughterleader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, kept locked away in Mira makes a bargain with a palace of secrets wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and closed doors. When her father refuses with only coordinates to recognise guide her as heir to the throne, she vows to show him she is capable sets off in search of reviving a dying empire and family secret that lies buried deep in secret, she begins the sea. With only nine days to unlock one door after anotherunearth what might save her father, searching for the mysteries of as her journey takes her past and from the forbidden art watched streets of bone shard magic. Yet Lin is playing a deadly game and her quest for power will come at great cost. With revolution in the air and creeping closer and closer foreign islands to the gates heart of the palacesmuggler's territory, Lin Mira must decide just how far she will be determined to go stop at nothing to become a catalyst save the future of change her home and save her peoplethe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=03565149430008664730

|author= Joan HeT Kingfisher|title= Descendant of the CraneThornhedge

|genre= Fantasy|summary=''Heroes cannot be forged without villainsYou had a right to retake your place.''Princess Hesina of the kingdom of Yan has never wanted the throne. Instead of craving power, she has always considered the crown her inescapable duty and shrank away from the responsibilities T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of being Queen. To her, it has always been a distant, faraway future. Until fairytale that is, it isn't. When her well known and well beloved father suddenly dies, she is thrust into ruling. But contrary to the official reportwhilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Hesina knows all Thornhedge is not as it seems, her father didn't diestory. He Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was murdered.Determined to seek the truth stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and discover her father's killer, Princess Hesina will stop at nothing secreted away to find justice, even committing treason. Under the cover land of darkness, fairie where her feet lead childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her to a soothsayer to learn what happened that day veins and who killed the Kingcast spells.|isbn=17890940461803364238

|author=Joanne M HarrisNicole Jarvis|title=A Pocketful of CrowsPortrait in Shadow|rating=4.5|genre= Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary= ''I have always been want all of the mind that once youFlorence to know my name''re above picture-book level and before you get to graphic sex & violence Cast out from Rome, there is no difference between books for children Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and books for adultswhere her future can thrive rather than stagnate. There are good books and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful of Crows'' is clearly aimed at But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the younger readers as witness powerful Accademia, the use self-proclaimed guardians of the middle initial in healing magics that through paintings have the author's name power to differentiate protect the city and its citizens from her adult offersplagues and curses. Ignore that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress of the modern fairy taleThe all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. This is To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no different. It is an utter delightplace amongst them and their society.|isbn=14732221841803362340

|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallThomas D Lee|title= The Mermaid, the Witch and the SeaPerilous Times|rating= 53|genre= TeensFantasy|summary= On ''Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set in the pirate ship Dovenear-distant future, Flora in a world on the girl has assumed the identity verge of Florian the man in an attempt to fit climate collapse, Britain is in with the crewgreat peril. Life is hard as The British Isles desperately needs a pirate, trust and empathy are the first things hero (or several) to be discarded, but anything has to be better than starving on save the streetsday and rescue what little remains. Meanwhile, What no-one expected was that one of the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards Knights of the Dove, headed off to be married to a military man she's never met on some far-flung colony of Round Table would answer the Nipran Empirecall. Neither of them expects to be thrown together by fate, never mind fall in love…|isbn=15362043150356518523

|author=Baye HartshorneAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Ghosted: The Treason House TrilogyDelilah Recovered

|summary='Julia Crawley has lost We meet Dee at a point when her job on life isn''Celebrity'' magazine and so she decides t going as planned but things might, just might, be about to cut her losses and return home to the village look up. Out of Monmouth Cove on the Jersey Shorework, hoping to return about to lose her harder hitting journalistic roots via local newsflat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. SheBut it'll s not to be staying . Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with her grandmother - a Dee? She's just an ordinary woman always ready to help younger relatives in need , living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of a hand. There's only one problem with things that: creepy Uncle Dex, who doesn't always keep his hands are not ordinary at all return to himselfher and things will never be the same....|isbn= B0829CP5BMB0BKYFDLLV}}

|author=A J HackwithHadeer Elsbai|title=The Library Daughters of the UnwrittenIzdihar|rating=24

|summary=Bear with meDrawing inspiration from Egypt, this summary is ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not going to be forced more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the intendedupper class, one breath length. In this world, there is a corner of Hell that is employed wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to look after all control her abilities and then join the world's incomplete stories. (You'd think Heaven would look after literaturemilitary, but as it has no loss, no need and no variation from heavenly norm, you can't have any decent narrative thereinstead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico.) Now and again something happens to the restless creativity Giorgina on show – characters come to life as embodiments of the books they're in, other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and can even breach through feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the human world. As a result Daughters of one such incidence, our heroine Claire has gone to Seattle to force Izdihar – a Hero type back into ink form, but has failed, resulting in him still living. But itgroup campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also brought something much more important close happens to the fore – at the same time as this, a human at the Pearly Gates has tried to bribe his way be in by yielding love with Nico. What follows is a page story of what is claimed to be Satan's Bible. The humble (an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and humbled) gatekeepercruelty, the angel Ramiel, is on the hunt, but such is the import that Claire from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and her cohorts also feel the need to chase what fragments of it are floating about our worldovercoming their personal obstacles.|isbn=17890931710356520471

|author=H G Parry Heather Fawcett|title=The Unlikely Escape Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Uriah HeepFaeries

|summary=Brothers Rob Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and Charley have struggled she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to see eye write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to eye redeem herself and put her final investigations for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in her book back on the "normal" world - right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and Charley a man insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is blessed going on with an ability he canthe faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Golden|title=Road of Bones|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it't fully control - s one which allows him to bring literary characters into of the real world's most notorious routes. After years For months of the year it's a spread of protecting Charleysheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, Rob wants to discharge his duties and leave Charley because he wanted to his own devices - give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but circumstances soon take choices out that's a bit rich, for one of both their hands. As literary our main characters begin to appear everywhere, it soon becomes clear that someone out Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there shares Charleyto encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's powers and intends to use them for nefarious gainsprior TV projects. Rob and Charley must team They pick up to stop their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the madness - in company of a battle to win before theylocal beauty, the characters and fetch up at the world reach The End…guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|isbn=03565137771803361476

|isbn=1250168546|author=Sarah KozloffAndrew Givler|title=A Queen In HidingSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=34

|summary= World-building ''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that Dan the backbone by which fantasy novels live and dieDemon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his soul. And what a pleasure'' Poor Dan! I know, thenI know, to get a novel with worldwe shouldn't feel sorry for soul-building you actually want to delve intocatching demons. Sarah Kozloff's debut novel presents But he really is a startlingly rich terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and layered world, with a complex history of connecting nations that seems certain when he fails to have more get even Matt to tapsign on the dotted line, and the characters are interesting – if a little underdeveloped. But ithe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's a world I could – and did – eagerly buy into, and the struggle of each Queen to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very aptsignature.|isbn=1958204021

|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)Olivie Blake|title=Orphans of the TideThe Atlas Six|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary= In the last city on EarthDark, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has come to wreak havoc on the last of humanity. When a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse of a whalesharp, the citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancasterand highly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a girl inventor. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the boy, Ellie must prove that he is innocent Tik- even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets..Tok sensation.|isbn=02413844351529095239

|author= Luke ArnoldDaniel Abraham|title= The Last Smile in Sunder CityAge of Ash|rating= 24.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, ''The Last Smile she has a knife in Sunder her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City'' of Kithamar is an urban fantasy noir written by Luke Arnoldat a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. It centres on is the night between the funeral of a Private Detective, Fetch Philips, as he attempts to find a missing vampire in Prince and the coronation of his successor. For a world filled with magical creatures where all night the magic has suddenly disappeared with catastrophic consequencesKithamar is un-ruled.|isbn=0356512886 0356515427

|author= A K LarkwoodAnn Sei Lin|title= The Unspoken NameRebel Skies|rating= 45|genre= FantasyTeens|summary= What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone is a god? Csorwe Kurara has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to spent her god entire life as a servant on her fourteenth birthdaythe Midori, yet when a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the opportunity arisesEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she chooses is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to abandon everything form paper into whatever she knows and flee desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with her him, to leave the lifeof dreary servitude that is all she has known. Who can blame her? Her god’s reach Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is limited destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and Csorwe intends she is forced to stay far beyond itflee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, yet fate a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a funny thing and when circumstances bring her back within the reach whole world of her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers her, and blames her very much indeed.adventure awaits her…|isbn=12502389001406399590

|authorisbn=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)B09Q3P283Y|title=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy TalesShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=4.5

|summary=CursesClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. TheyHe're there throughout tales of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do this, or s not to be able to do really that. Children can be cursed, as can princesses on invested in the verge of marryingfight against Communism, and older people too. It seems nor is he particularly interested in a way therecareer in the military. If he's no escaping it. Which honest - which Clyde usually is why the theme of , with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this book one, at least, gets him out of short stories the rut he's in. He's good in training and is such quickly put onto a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed character, that demonised place, and that other bewitched personnon commissioned officer training course. WeHe'd be very wrongs chuffed with himself.|isbn=1789091500

|author=Kathlaine C Gill and D Clark GillJennifer Saint|title=Madness Between Light and DarkElektra|rating=3.54|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=It's 1912, and at New Hope Sanatorium, Christine Agnes Tupper is fast growing up. Abandoned there Elektra' by parents Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who were ashamed live in the heavily male dominated world of her hunchbackAncient Greece. Cassandra, she's nevertheless grown up to an intelligent girl with a good heartClytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Her encounters with Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the inhabitants of silent women have the asylum swiftly take her on a fascinating, thrilling most compelling stories and sometimes terrifying journey of self-discovery, allowing Agnes to prove that, even with a twisted spine, her heart is in the right place!most extreme furies.|isbn=16411107081472273915

|author= Alexandra ChristoDean Koontz|title= Into the Crooked PlaceQuicksilver|rating= 42.5|genre= TeensThrillers|summary= In Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the city of Creije, Taviachance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a magical conthree-artistday old foundling, specialises in wowing gullible tourists with cheap charms and trickerynow is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. However, But when a new and powerful form this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of magic unlike anything seen in decades begins trickling onto the streetsmood or mind'', nearly killing her close friend Saxonyfor something – call it unearthly intuition, Tavia begins call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to worry. At the same timea derelict diner, her childhood best friend Wesleyfind a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the youngest underboss in the city, discovers that Dante Ashwood, the kingpin value of it out of the Creijen criminal underworld, has his sights set bank and prepare for going on world dominationthe lam. ItAnd all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's now up of interest to the four unlikely allies them. Helped to bring down escape, he finds his plans..flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|isbn=12503183781542019885

|isbnauthor=0575095865Tasha Suri|title=A Little Hatred|author=Joe AbercrombieThe Jasmine Throne|rating=54

|summary=Adua is going through a period On the night of rapid industrial revolutionher sacred burning, the old social structures being thrown into chaos as the factories go up. But, the old ways die hard in this land. In the north, the young heir Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the Governorship Leo Dan Brock and his allies fight off the invading armies of Scale Ironhand and his nephew Stour Nightfallpyre. He desperately wants reinforcements from the crown, but the debaucherous, self-loathing Crown Prince Orso She is all they can spare. Savine Dan Glotka, investor and daughter of the High Inquisitor, plots to ascend immediately sent to be imprisoned on the top Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the social hierarchy no matter the costmysterious deathless waters. But, with hatred and discontent growing among now the working classestemple is nothing more than an overgrown, her plans might never come to fruitiondecaying ruin. Under the tutelage of the world-weary old witch Isern-I-PhailOne day, young Rikke struggles to control the Long Eye, something she was blessed (or possibly cursed) Malini witnesses a girl kill someone withmagic. HoweverInstead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, seeing Malini claims that the future girl saved her from an attacker and affecting it are two very different things..begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservant.|isbn=0356515648

|isbnauthor=1983376353Genevieve Gornichec|title=Lighthouse of the Netherworlds|author=Maxwell N AndrewsThe Witch's Heart|rating=3.54

|summary=The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put on a par with comments about Marmite. You're supposed to love it or hate it A modern and I'm halfway between, and likewise, approachable reimagining of the old adage is halfway trueNorse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. From She hides in a forest at the cover edge of this I had a child-friendly fantasythe nine worlds, what with remembering nothing of her past life but that name and fact that attractive artwork she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plantOdin's wrath. That Her attempts to live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was only built on by tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial fictionalised quotesperiod of mistrust, with their non-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture in this bookAngrboda begins to fall for Loki's world predated our standardised literacy. But why was I two chapters in and just finding more and more characterscharms, both human and animalthe two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, and more and more flashbacksa son that's a wolf, and no proof another son that this was what I'd bought in for?s a snake.|isbn=1789097061

|isbnauthor=williamabbeyHannah Whitten|title=The Pursuit of William Abbey|author=Claire NorthFor the Wolf|rating=3.5

|summary=When William Abbey fails to prevent In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the lynching of second daughter becomes a young boy in 1880sacrifice. To Red's South Africamisfortune, he finds himself cursed by she is the grieving mothersecond daughter. A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns Sent alone into the weight of woods with nothing but the curse upon himcape on her back, as the shadow of the dead boy begins Red knows what to follow him across expect: within the world. Never stoppingwoods is a wolf, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit he is the one who will decide the fate of Williamtheir kingdom. As If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he finds himself unable keeps contained to resist speaking the truths that he hears in otherswoods will be released, and the fabled kings he also learns that keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the dark shadow is deadly – and seeks woods, expecting nothing more than to kill be killed within the one he loves hour, she finds that the most…legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=0356516369

|isbnauthor=1077651538John Gwynne|title=The Years of Fading Magic|author=Kenelm AverillShadow Of The Gods|rating=45

|summary=Jessica Turner was one The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the more radical teens to come out Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of Eastfield. A youth spent hanging out with a close crowd the Vikings in the shadow of friends was characterised by Jessica's role as a trendsetterRagnarok, as an influencer, as a leader. Strangely charismatic, Jessica invited fascination when the Gods have battled and obsessiontheir bones lie scattered for all to see. Nobody who met her forgot her. Or This story is the days they spent ultimate in the EnclosureHigh Fantasy, a clearing in Eastfield woods that Jessica felt gave her power. But and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the group went its separate waysgenre, as adolescent groups dowith mythical creatures, archaic language and her influence faded.battles galore.This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=0356514218