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|authorisbn=Genevieve GornichecB0GHPMNF6P|title=The WitchZookeeper's HeartDragon: A Magical Modern Fantasy Tale for Grown-Ups|author=Carolyn Mathews|rating=4.5

|summary= A modern and approachable reimagining When Phil's father unexpectedly dies, he quits his Canary Wharf finance job to take over the running of the Norse myths family's farm zoo. He's not expecting much excitement, until he receives an unidentified egg that centres around his new-age stoner uncle Edgar found in a witch named Angrboda. She hides cave in a forest at the edge of the nine worldsNew Zealand, remembering nothing of her past and suddenly life but that fact that she was survived burnt at is no longer quite what it seems. Then the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in peaceegg hatches into neither a reptile nor a bird, howeverbut a dragon! Now he, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrustEdgar, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charmshis mother Abi, and the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son thatzoo's a wolfpart-time café waitress Pearl have to raise this little bundle of scales and joy, despite having no idea how to actually raise dragons and another son that's a snakenot being able to tell anyone about it.|isbn=1789097061But this tiny little dragon may show them love and connection in ways they had never before imagined…

|author=Hannah WhittenPekka Harju-Autti|title=For LoveVortex and the WolfDrakor's Curse|rating=54

|summary=In RedIt's family, the first daughter becomes queeneighteenth century, a time of discovery and the second daughter becomes a sacrificeBritain is expanding its foreign trade. To Red's misfortuneCaptain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, she is sent to the second daughterAndaman Islands in his endeavour. Sent alone into the woods Along with nothing but the cape on her backhis son, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolfPeter, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. If she is not cat, Michi, they set off on a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained perilous voyage to the woods will be released, these faraway lands. The islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woodsislanders' leader, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hourAarav, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a mankeen to establish good relations.|isbn=0356516369B0DS1VGHH3

|author=John GwynneA G Slatter|title=The Shadow Of The GodsBriar Book of the Dead

|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the Bloodsworn Sagaworld, set in lies Silverton; a town under the era protection of the Vikings in the shadow Briar's, a family of Ragnarok, when witches who protect the Gods have battled town and their bones lie scattered the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for all to see. This story magic, Ellie Briar is the ultimate in High Fantasyfirst non-witch to 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 spells and John Gwynne certainly does justice to potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the genreBriar Witch, with mythical creaturesthe town's leader, archaic language and battles galoreEllie takes her place beside her. This is a thick bookAs challenges come her way left, with an intricate plot right and fascinating characters that are woven together centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to create communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a wonderfully realistic maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and gritty world in which our heroes must determine what to do battleas the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=03565142181803364548

|author=H M LongRachel Greenlaw|title=Hall of SmokeCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary= Hessa is an Eangi: a powerful priestess ''I can hear the song of the Goddess sea. The call of Warthe deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. That is until she is banished by Mira, like her high priestess for not following mother before her , is one order: of the seven who swim out to kill survey the traveller ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that visits her templelies within. Her whole town is burnt But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the ground while she is praying for forgivenesswrecking, they capture the island's leader and Hessa – now left alone – must find this traveller to atone for her weakness and win back her goddessMira' favours father. On her journeyDesperate to save him from death, she encounters zealot soldiers, deceitful gods, and newly awakened demons at every turn. It Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is a gruelling quest, secretive and along the waywith only coordinates to guide her, she discovers sets off in search of a harrowing truth: family secret that lies buried deep in the gods are dyingsea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, and as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the High Halls heart of the afterlife are fading. Soon Hessasmuggler's trust in her goddess weakensterritory, and she is thrust into a battle between Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the gods future of the Old World her home and the Newones she holds most dear.|isbn=17890949840008664730

|isbn=0356512479|author= Alix E HarrowT Kingfisher|title= The Once and Future WitchesThornhedge|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''There's no such thing as witches, but there used You had a right to beretake your place.''

In 1893T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, after the purges who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the burnings, witching has been reduced land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to little more than weak charms draw magic from her veins and simple cast spells. If women want to hold power in their hands, to have their voices heard, it is now through women's suffrage.|isbn=1803364238

|author= Andrea StewartNicole Jarvis|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)A Portrait in Shadow

|genre= FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wantedwant all of Florence to know my name''

In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructsCast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an heir to the throne, a smuggler, and a warrior will fight to oasis in which her art can find their place in the world. Lin is the emperor's forgotten daughter, kept locked away in a palace of secrets home and closed doorswhere her future can thrive rather than stagnate. When her father refuses to recognise her But as some as heir to she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the thronepowerful Accademia, she vows to show him she is capable the self-proclaimed guardians of reviving a dying empire and in secret, she begins the healing magics that through paintings have the power to unlock one door after another, searching for protect the mysteries of her past city and its citizens from plagues and the forbidden curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art of bone shard magic. Yet Lin is playing a deadly game and her quest architecture for power will come at great costcenturies and guard it above all else. With revolution in the air To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and creeping closer and closer to the gates of the palace, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become a catalyst of change – has no place amongst them and save her peopletheir society.|isbn=03565149431803362340

|author= Joan HeThomas D Lee|title= Descendant of the CranePerilous Times|rating=53

|summary=''Heroes cannot be forged without villainsHate is the path of least resistance''Princess Hesina of the kingdom of Yan has never wanted the throne. Instead of craving power, she has always considered Set in the crown her inescapable duty and shrank away from the responsibilities of being Queen. To her, it has always been a near-distant, faraway future. Until that is, it isn't. When her beloved father suddenly dies, she is thrust into ruling. But contrary to in a world on the official reportverge of climate collapse, Hesina knows all Britain is not as it seems, her father didn't diein great peril. He was murdered.Determined The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to seek save the truth day and discover her father's killer, Princess Hesina will stop at nothing to find justice, even committing treasonrescue what little remains. Under What no-one expected was that one of the cover Knights of darkness, her feet lead her to a soothsayer to learn what happened that day and who killed the KingRound Table would answer the call.|isbn=17890940460356518523

|author=Joanne M HarrisAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=A Pocketful of CrowsDelilah Recovered|rating=54|genre= Confident ReadersFantasy|summary= I have always been We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of the mind that once you're above picture-book level and before you get work, about to graphic sex & violencelose her flat, there Dee is no difference between books up for children and books for adultsan accountant's job. But it's not to be. There are good books and poor onesDee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. And Joanne Harris does She survives the attack but not produce poor onesunscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She''A Pocketful s just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of Crows'' is clearly aimed things that are not ordinary at the younger readers as witness the use of the middle initial in the author's name all return to differentiate from her adult offers. Ignore that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you and things will know that Harris is mistress of never be the modern fairy talesame.. This is no different. It is an utter delight.|isbn=1473222184B0BKYFDLLV

|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallHadeer Elsbai|title= The Mermaid, the Witch and the SeaDaughters of Izdihar|rating= 54|genre= TeensFantasy|summary= On Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the pirate ship Dovelives of two women who could not be more different, Flora the girl has assumed yet find themselves fighting for the identity rights of Florian women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the man in an attempt upper class, wishes to fit in with attend the crew. Life is hard as a pirate, trust Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and empathy are then join the first things to be discardedmilitary, but anything has to be better than starving instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the streets. Meanwhileother hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards the Dove, headed off to be married to Daughters of Izdihar – a military man shegroup campaigning for women's never met on some far-flung colony of the Nipran Empirerights. Neither of them expects Giorgina also happens to be thrown together by fatein love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, never mind fall in love…from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|isbn=15362043150356520471

|author=Baye HartshorneHeather Fawcett|title=Ghosted: The Treason House TrilogyEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary='Julia Crawley has lost her job Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on ''Celebrity'' magazine faerie lore, and so she decides has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to cut write her losses life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and return home speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Monmouth Cove on Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the Jersey Shorevillage matriarch, hoping to return she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her harder hitting journalistic roots via local newsbook back on the right track. She Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily'll be staying s frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with her grandmother the 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's one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet 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, and because he wanted to give too many people a woman always ready to help younger relatives in need of lesson, it legendarily cost a handlife every metre it covers. There You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's only a bit rich, for one problem of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with that: creepy Uncle Dexhis cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who doesn't always keep his hands s mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to himselfclaw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|isbn= B0829CP5BM1803361476}}

|author=A J HackwithAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Library of the UnwrittenDebt Collection Book 1)|rating=24

|summary=Bear with me, this summary ''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is not going to be forced into so bad that Dan the intended, one breath length. In this world, there Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a corner of Hell that is employed to look after all the worldblissful life in exchange for his soul.'s incomplete stories. (You'd think Heaven would look after literature, but as it has no loss Poor Dan! I know, no need and no variation from heavenly normI know, you canwe shouldn't have any decent narrative therefeel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman.) Now He never hits his targets and again something happens to the restless creativity on show – characters come , when he fails to life as embodiments of the books they're in, and can get even breach through Matt to sign on the human world. As a result of one such incidence, our heroine Claire has gone to Seattle to force a Hero type back into ink form, but has faileddotted line, resulting in him still living. But ithe's also brought something much more important close to the fore – at the same time as this, a human at the Pearly Gates has tried to bribe his way in by yielding a page of what is claimed to be Satanso desperate that he simply forges Matt's Bible. The humble (and humbled) gatekeeper, the angel Ramiel, is on the hunt, but such is the import that Claire and her cohorts also feel the need to chase what fragments of it are floating about our worldsignature.|isbn=17890931711958204021

|author=H G Parry Olivie Blake|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepAtlas Six

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in the "normal" world - and Charley a man who is blessed with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real world. After years of protecting CharleyDark, sharp, Rob wants to discharge his duties and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. As literary characters begin to appear everywherehighly inquisitive, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's powers and intends to use them for nefarious gains'The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation. Rob and Charley must team up to stop the madness - in a battle to win before they, the characters and the world reach The End…|isbn=03565137771529095239

|isbn=1250168546|author=Sarah KozloffDaniel Abraham|title=A Queen In HidingAge of Ash|rating=34.5

|summary= World-building is We meet Alys under the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die. And what a pleasure, then, to get a novel with world-building you actually want to delve into. Sarah Kozloffmost northerly of Oldgate's debut novel presents four bridges, she has a startlingly rich knife in her hand and layered world, with a complex history meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of connecting nations that seems certain to have more to tap, years when the worlds are at their thinnest and the characters all things are interesting – if a little underdevelopedpossible. But it's It is the night between the funeral of a world I could – and did – eagerly buy into, Prince and the struggle coronation of each Queen to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very apthis successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruled.|isbn=0356515427

|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)Ann Sei Lin|title=Orphans of the TideRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary= In Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the last city on EarthMidori, anyone can be a massive dining hall floating in the vessel sky where soldiers of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has Empire come to wreak havoc on the last of humanitydrink and make merry between their conquests. When However, when a mysterious boy man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is pulled from a Crafter like him, someone with the corpse of power to form paper into whatever she desires – a whale, power sought after all across the citizens immediately believe Empire. He asks her to come with him , to be leave the Vessel - life of dreary servitude that is all except for young Ellie Lancastershe has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a girl inventormonstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. As She joins Himura aboard the ruthless Inquisition prepares Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to execute hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09Q3P283Y|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the boyfight against Communism, Ellie must prove that nor is he particularly interested in a career in the military. If he 's honest - which Clyde usually is innocent , with himself at least - even if it means revealing her deepesthe hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, darkest secretsgets him out of the rut he's in.He's good in training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course.He's chuffed with himself.|isbn=0241384435

|author= Luke ArnoldJennifer Saint|title= The Last Smile in Sunder CityElektra|rating= 24|genre= FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary= 'Elektra'The Last Smile by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in Sunder City'' is an urban fantasy noir written by Luke Arnoldthe heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. It centres on a Private DetectiveCassandra, Fetch PhilipsClytemnestra, as he attempts to find a missing vampire and Elektra are all bit players in a world filled with magical creatures where all the magic has suddenly disappeared with catastrophic consequencesstory of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furies.|isbn=0356512886 1472273915

|author= A K LarkwoodDean Koontz|title= The Unspoken NameQuicksilver|rating= 42.5|genre= FantasyThrillers|summary= What does it mean Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to betray someone? What if that someone be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a god? Csorwe needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has been raised knowing demanded of him that she would be sacrificed he go to her god on her fourteenth birthdaya derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, yet when cash the opportunity arises, she chooses to abandon everything she knows value of it out of his bank and flee with her lifeprepare for going on the lam. Who can blame her? Her god’s reach And all this is limited just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and Csorwe intends suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to stay far beyond itescape, yet fate he finds his flight is a funny thing and when circumstances bring her back within interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the reach discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers her, burgeoning power – and blames her very much indeeda whole lot more besides.|isbn=12502389001542019885

|author=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)Tasha Suri|title=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy TalesThe Jasmine Throne|rating=4.5

|summary=Curses. They're there throughout tales On the night of faery her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and other fantastical folk – people being cursed refuses to do this, or not step on to be able the pyre. She is immediately sent to do that. Children can be cursed, as can princesses imprisoned on the verge Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of marryingpeople who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, and older people toodecaying ruin. It seems in One day, Malini witnesses a way there's no escaping itgirl kill someone with magic. Which is why the theme of this book Instead of short stories is reporting her for such a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed charactergruesome crime, Malini claims that demonised place, the girl saved her from an attacker and that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrongbegs for the girl to become her own personal maidservant.|isbn=17890915000356515648

|author=Kathlaine C Gill and D Clark GillGenevieve Gornichec|title=Madness Between Light and DarkThe Witch's Heart|rating=3.54

|summary=It's 1912, A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at New Hope Sanatoriumthe edge of the nine worlds, Christine Agnes Tupper is fast growing up. Abandoned there by parents who were ashamed remembering nothing of her hunchback, past life but that fact that shewas survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's nevertheless grown up to an intelligent girl with a good heartwrath. Her encounters 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 tied to the inhabitants stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of the asylum swiftly take her on a fascinatingmistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, thrilling and sometimes terrifying journey the two start an unusual family made of selfup a half-discoverydead daughter, allowing Agnes to prove a son that's a wolf, even with and another son that's a twisted spine, her heart is in the right place!snake.|isbn=16411107081789097061

|author= Alexandra ChristoHannah Whitten|title= Into For the Crooked PlaceWolf|rating= 45|genre= TeensFantasy|summary= In Red's family, the city of Creije, Taviafirst daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a magical con-artistsacrifice. To Red's misfortune, specialises in wowing gullible tourists she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with cheap charms and trickery. Howevernothing but the cape on her back, when Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a new wolf, and powerful form he is the one who will decide the fate of magic unlike anything seen in decades begins trickling onto their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the streetswoods will be released, nearly killing her close friend Saxony, Tavia begins to worryand the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. At But when Red enters the same timewoods, her childhood best friend Wesley, the youngest underboss in expecting nothing more than to be killed within the cityhour, discovers she finds that Dante Ashwood, the kingpin of the Creijen criminal underworld, has his sights set on world dominationlegends are lies. ItThe wolf is not a monster—he's now up to the four unlikely allies to bring down his plans..a man.|isbn=12503183780356516369

|isbnauthor=0575095865John Gwynne|title=A Little Hatred|author=Joe AbercrombieThe Shadow Of The Gods

|summary=Adua The Shadow Of The Gods is going through a period the first installment of rapid industrial revolution, the old social structures being thrown into chaos as the factories go up. ButBloodsworn Saga, the old ways die hard set in this land. In the north, era of the young heir to Vikings in the Governorship Leo Dan Brock and his allies fight off the invading armies shadow of Scale Ironhand and his nephew Stour Nightfall. He desperately wants reinforcements from the crownRagnarok, but when the debaucherous, self-loathing Crown Prince Orso is Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all they can spareto see. Savine Dan Glotka, investor and daughter of This story is the ultimate in High InquisitorFantasy, plots to ascend and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the top of the social hierarchy no matter the cost. Butgenre, with hatred mythical creatures, archaic language and discontent growing among the working classes, her plans might never come to fruitionbattles galore. Under the tutelage of the world-weary old witch Isern-I-PhailThis is a thick book, young Rikke struggles to control the Long Eye, something she was blessed (or possibly cursed) with. However, seeing the future an intricate plot and affecting it fascinating characters that are two very different things..woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=0356514218