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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]]==Fantasy==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kresley ColeB0GHPMNF6P|title=Pleasure of a Dark PrinceThe Zookeeper's Dragon: A Magical Modern Fantasy Tale for Grown-Ups|author=Carolyn Mathews|rating=34.5
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|summary=Sexy half dressed hunk on cover? Check. Enticing title? CheckWhen Phil's father unexpectedly dies, he quits his Canary Wharf finance job to take over the running of the family's farm zoo. Sometimes thereHe's nothing nicer than curling up with not expecting much excitement, until he receives an unidentified egg that his new-age stoner uncle Edgar found in a glass of wine (or two!)cave in New Zealand, some cheese and crackers and lovely hunky man – even if he suddenly life is no longer quite what it seems. Then the main character in egg hatches into neither a reptile nor a bird, but a bookdragon! INow he, Edgar, his mother Abi, and the zoo've never read Kresley Cole before but I love fantasys part-time café waitress Pearl have to raise this little bundle of scales and joy, especially with a romantic element despite having no idea how to actually raise dragons and so I was looking forward not being able to trying a new authortell anyone about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849830363</amazonuk>But this tiny little dragon may show them love and connection in ways they had never before imagined…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate GriffinPekka Harju-Autti|title=The Midnight Mayor: A Matthew Swift Novel |rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='A telephone rang. I answered. After that… …itLoveVortex and the Drakor's complicated.' Sorcerer Matthew Swift does not especially like danger. In fact, after the events that led to him destroying the Tower and his former teacher, Robert Bakker, he'd prefer it greatly if danger would leave him to mind his own business, thank you very much.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497347</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Glenda Larke|title=The Last Stormlord (Stormlord Trilogy) Curse
|rating=4
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|summary=The Last Stormlord is It's the eighteenth century, a unique story which explores a civilization on the brink time of disasterdiscovery and Britain is expanding its foreign trade. The world survives through Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to the powers of Andaman Islands in his endeavour. Along with his son, Peter, and their cat, Michi, they set off on a Stormmlord who brings water perilous voyage to the parched these faraway lands of the Quartern from the distant seas. As the story opens the last Stormlord is weak The islands are beautiful and dying. Choices are being made about who will receive water, who will not stunning in their scenery and the Quartern hovers on the brink of returning islanders' leader, Aarav, is keen to a time of Random Rain: water that does not fall where or when it is needed. Without a new Stormlord the land will dieestablish good relations.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498114</amazonuk>B0DS1VGHH3
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=N K JemisinA G Slatter|title=The Hundred-Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy)Briar Book of the Dead
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=A month after her mother'' There's death, outcast Yeine Darr is summoned by her grandfather, king a part of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, me that wants to come keep this just to the palace of Skymyself for however long I can. There named one This secret magic of his three heirsmy own, along with her feuding cousinsall mine, she quickly realizes that without allies she will surely lose the contest for the throneat last. Thus begins an epic quest I just want to find her mother's murderer, save her own life, and fulfil enjoy it for a destiny she never knew she hadwhile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498173</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P C Cast|title=Divine by Choice (Goddess of Partholon)|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=A few months after the Formorian war, Shannon Parker is living the high life. Hailed as Goddess Incarnate, married to a man (well, centaur) who was born to love her, carrying her first child, the next daughter of Epona and royally spoiled with amazing jewels and clothes, life really can't get much better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303586</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James A OwenRachel Greenlaw|title=Shadow Dragons (Imaginarium Geographica) |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you want to know where Tolkein, C S Lewis and their ilk got their ideas from, you might consider their jobs. No - not their work in Oxbridge universities. In this book, at least, John, Charles Compass and Jack are guardians of a very important book, the Imaginarium Geographica, within which lives a lot of secret, vital information, and almost the soul of the land. They might not get a surname so we know immediately who is whom. They might be from a different world - there is certainly enough talk of those in these pages. But we'll see them meet a vanishing Cheshire cat, a certain Spanish knight we might have thought fictional, and more, en route to a quest of Arthurian proportions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386512</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P C Cast|title=Divine by Mistake (Goddess of Partholon)Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Abyssinia, 1820''I can hear the song of the sea. Three Englishment search for The call of the Amarantdeep, a mythical flower with the power over life and death, answering beat in a strange desert oasis. On finding the flower surrounded by decaying faces, they realize that it is cursed, and take a blood oath never to remove itmy heart.''
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|summary=A couple of aspects have summed up Russell Kirkpatrick's ''Broken Man'' trilogy for me so far. There has been a fascinating story with some wonderful character building that has made it highly enjoyable. There have also been some of the most detailed maps I have ever seen in You had a fantasy series, offering more variation than I've seen in maps before and actually adding detail right to some parts of the story, not merely acting as a guideretake your place. I was expecting more of the same from the final part, ''Beyond the Wall of Time'' and very much looking forward to it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496715</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jasper FfordeNicole Jarvis|title=Shades of GreyA Portrait in Shadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Sometimes with authors you just don't know what you've been missing. Other times you do. Jasper Fforde has long been on my catch-up list. Snippets I want all of Thursday Next and reviews and interviews were enough to convince me I had to get Florence to know this work. my name''
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{{Frontpage
|author=Thomas D Lee
|title=Perilous Times
|rating=3
|genre= Fantasy
|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''
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|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Dr Gideon Matthews, We meet Dee at a shouty hellfire and damnation preacherpoint when her life isn't going as planned but things might, has just delivered a sermon all might, be about the evils to look up. Out of women being allowed into the church hierarchy andwork, on his way home afterwardsabout to lose her flat, he Dee is murdered. The following day however he wakes up in hospital or, actually, for an angel called Gabriel finds himself inside Dr Matthewsaccountant' body, able s job. But it's not to recall Dr Matthews' memories and thoughts and feelings but acting now as himselfbe. Gabriel goes a little bit wild, finding himself overwhelmed Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the new feelings and desires he experiences in this body, sinning left, right and centre and causing scandal at his every moveattack but not unscathed. He is also wondering for what purpose he Witch hunters? What on earth has been brought into this body and finds that he is dreaming about a demon, someone who is persuading an unknown monk to commit murders in Goddo with Dee? She's name and who seems to be getting closer and closer to Dr Matthews in order to kill him toojust an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1438994699</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=The Harvard Lampoon|title=Nightlight: A Parody Slivers of Twilight |rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Most people will have heard memory of the worldwide phenomenon things that is [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]. The books by Stephenie Meyer are not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the film have made a legend of the romance between vampire Edward Mullen (Robert Pattinson plays the movie role) and teenage schoolgirl Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart)same....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849013330</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ElliottHadeer Elsbai|title=Traitors' Gate (Crossroads)The Daughters of Izdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Kate ElliottDrawing inspiration from Egypt, 's 'The Daughters of Izdihar'Crossroads'' series has so far come in largeexplores the lives of two women who could not be more different, slightly off-putting chunks. They've been decent reads, by yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and large, weavers – those with magical abilities - in a huge cast of wonderfully drawn characters, but the sheer size and slow pace of the action has meant I didn't enjoy society pitted against them as much as I may otherwise have done. ''Traitors' Gate''Nehal, born into the third in upper class, wishes to attend the sequence is different in only one aspect; the character development is still there, Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the huge page count is still theremilitary, but the pacing instead she is a lot betterforced into an arranged marriage with Nico.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498351</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amanda Downum|title=The Drowning City|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In Giorgina on the other hand did not have a nutshellprivileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, you're reading this because you're wondering whether The Drowning City is good, bad or mediocre. You've probably glanced at whilst secretly attending meetings of the rating and guessed the latter. I'm afraid itDaughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's not quite that simple. This is a debut that provokes decidedly mixed feelingsrights. I started off convinced that I was going Giorgina also happens to be in love this bookwith Nico. The cover art What follows is effortlessly coola story of an unjust society, the premise intriguingfilled with hypocrisy and cruelty, the characters laden with potential from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for greatness their rights and the backdrop is certainly evocativeovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498149</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannHeather Fawcett|title=WakeEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Janie Emily Wilde is seventeen an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and studying hard for college. Sheshe has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's also working lots work, the very first encyclopaedia of hours faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at a local nursing home research and speaking to earn money for college as it's unlikely her alcoholic mother faeries, she is going to provide much not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the way small village of resources. College Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is Janie's only chance at a life better than the one not sure what she's lived so far has done, nor how to redeem herself and so you can't blame put her final investigations for being so single-minded in her book back on the pursuit of her goalright track. Only one thing stands in Enter Wendell Bambleby, her way..dashingly handsome and 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 going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385036</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren KateChristopher Golden|title=Fallen|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=A 17 year old girl at a new school meets a mysterious and impossibly good-looking boy, who she's immediately drawn to. He seems determined to either ignore her or be outright rude to her, until he saves her life, and the two Road of them end up drawn together. This isn't Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight'', but it certainly has striking similarities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385738935</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Beth Durst|title=IceBones
|rating=3.5
|genre=TeensHorror|summary=Cassie lives on an Arctic research station in Alaska. She loves The Kolyma Highway… the ice and the wilderness 'Road of her remote home and sheBones'd definitely prefer to spend her time on tracking polar bears and fending off frostbite rather than on mixing with her peers and enjoying college and home comforts back in Fairbanks… the R504. However Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, things arenit's one of the world't all rosys most notorious routes. Cassie For months of the year it's mother died when she was just a baby and she canspread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring't help feeling sees it turn into a huge hole in her heart. Her scientist father is remote and unloving and her grandmother left the station after an argument with him when Cassie was still very young. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386571</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeanette Winterson|title=The Battle blodge of the Sun|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=London 1601unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. Elizabeth I is getting on in yearsdon't think google streetview updates it very often. Her capital city is a busy Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, bustling place. Boats fill the river and because he wanted to give too many people fill the streetsa lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. Jack is happy because You can easily find documentaries about itonline, but that's his birthday and his present a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his heart's desire: an excitable black puppy named Maxcameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's a mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair'licking and s prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a running and a leaping local beauty, and a jumping and a tummy in fetch up at the air and a tail wagging and a barking, racing, braking, spinning energy dog of delightguide's childhood village. And that'. s where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140880042X</amazonuk>1803361476
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|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Dros Delnoch, ''Matt has a massive fortress with six walls of defence, is in danger of falling to the Nadirterrible life. Seriously—it's awful. With its fall, the Drenai empire It is soon to follow. The Nadir haven't lost yet and as a result, morale among so bad that Dan the defenders Demon is low and desertions are rampant. The men long for shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a hero, but the legendary Druss has hidden himself away blissful life in the mountains and become a mythexchange for his soul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498580</amazonuk>}}''
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|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=When Hegel Dark, sharp, and Manfried are ticked offhighly inquisitive, you know about it. Returning to a town for vengeance - someone didn't like their scrumping there as children - they leave several dead, and several more corpses behind when a posse is sent off to seek its own justice. They're journeying south, graverobbing their way through mediaeval Europe, and they donThe Atlas Six''t care how many people they have to kill, betray, get vengeance on, or blaspheme, or what they have to eat or drink, until their task is donemakes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497835</amazonuk>1529095239
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Walter Moers Daniel Abraham|title=The Alchemaster's ApprenticeAge of Ash
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Meet Echo We meet Alys under the Crat. most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, He is she has a rare example of his species, which is knife in her hand and a cat meeting that can speak every language knownshe dreads. His life among Meanwhile the miserable, permanently ill citizens City of Malaisea Kithamar is not great, which at a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. It is why, when the strange scientist from night between the castle that looms over everyone funeral of a Prince and everything offers him the coronation of his successor. For a month of entertaining gluttony before he kills Echo, as opposed to three days' starving penury on the streets, night the offer Kithamar is acceptedun-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846552222</amazonuk>0356515427
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia BriggsAnn Sei Lin|title=Hunting Ground (Alpha and Omega)Rebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Life with Kurara has spent her entire life as a werewolf is servant on the Midori, a question massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of balancesthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. You have However, when a man named Himura arrives to swing your new-found status as the motherly, calming, but powerful Omega wolftell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with his Alpha-male studly status. You have the power to equate his inner Brother Wolf being practically form paper into whatever she desires – a different entity power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to his human sidecome with him, and know when and how to relate to bothleave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. And you Well, soon Kurara won't have to remember that you might be playfighting any say in the snow one minutematter, and because the next told Midori is destroyed by your father-in-law to go to Seattle, and act a monstrous paper spirit known as figurehead for a revolution in werewolf life - shikigami, and stand in she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the face of Orihime, a very wicked and powerful European werewolf, vampiressky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and more.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497959</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Audrey Niffenegger B09Q3P283Y|title=Her Fearful Symmetry|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=When Elspeth Noblin dies of Leukemia, she leaves behind a strange bequest that will have dramatic and tragic consequences. She leaves her London flat and all the trappings of her life to the 'mirror' twins of her own twin sister who currently live outside Chicago. This is news to the twins who didn't even know that they had an aunt. The only condition of her legacy is that the twins, Julia and Valentina, have to live in the flat, which is adjacent to Highgate Cemetery, for a year before they can sell it. It is clear from the outset that Elspeth has secrets about her relationship with her twin sister Edie, which she is keen to keep hidden from the twins, but when it turns out that Elspeth hasn't quite left the apartment after her death, things get a whole lot messier for everyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224085611</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewShadebringer|author=Michelle Zink |title=Prophecy of the SistersGrayson W Hooper|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=This book is almost four hundred pages long, but I read it so quickly that it might as well have only had one hundred pages! Lia Milthorpe and her twin sister Alice have never Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really been allies, always slightly at odds with one another. When their father dies and they become orphans, the twins discover that they are enemies invested in truththe fight against Communism, on opposing sides of nor is he particularly interested in a prophecy that could destroy career in the worldmilitary. With the help of her new friends Sonia If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and Luisathis one, Lia must find at least, gets him out of the Keys before Alice does rut he's in. He's good in training and prevent demons from taking over the worldis quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905654480</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia Briggs Jennifer Saint|title=Cry WolfElektra
|rating=4
|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=It is not easy to move in with a werewolf. He is two hundred years old or more, and you've been a werewolf for Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three years. He comes with generations of baggage, a father women who is live in the capo di capi heavily male dominated world of werewolves in North America, and a job as his assassin and general fiery dogsbodyAncient Greece. You are only just beginning to get to grips with your new statusCassandra, and his temperamentClytemnestra, and how they Elektra are expected to mix before you're confirmed as a coupleall bit players in the story of the Trojan War. So when it comes to him clearing up a mess with regards to a lethal, rogue werewolf nearby - making humans take too much notice - Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the timing could silent women have been betterthe most compelling stories and the most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497940</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=K S Turner Dean Koontz|title=Before the Gods (Chronicles of Fate and Choice)Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he'Before The Gods'' is presented as an enigma, wrapped s lived in a puzzle nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and shrouded in mystery. The front now is adorned by starting a career on a beguiling image created by the authorneedless magazine's staff. A glance at the back cover serves only But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to tantalise rather than reveal what might be in store. sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind''This is where , for something – call it all began. Everything. Loveunearthly intuition, hatecall it mind-control, goodcall it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, evilfind a gold coin worth a fortune, us cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. This Helped to escape, he finds his flight is before they were godsinterrupted 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.''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956224202</amazonuk>1542019885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barb and J C Hendee Tasha Suri|title=Child of a Dead GodThe Jasmine Throne|rating=3.54
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Margiere, half-human, half-vampireOn the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. She is being drawn south by dreams of immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an icebound castle. Her quest to discover a mysterious ancient artefact borders on obsession – temple that was once filled with a dangerous one that threatens community of people who got powers from the lives of her travelling companionsmysterious deathless waters. But little sagenow the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, Wynndecaying ruin. One day, will follow Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting herfor such a gruesome crime, seeking knowledge Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for her guild on the long forgotten history of their world, as will Chap and Elven warrior Sgäille, who swore an oath of guardianship girl to Margiere and Leesilbecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497312</amazonuk>0356515648
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Markus Heitz Genevieve Gornichec|title=The DwarvesWitch's Heart
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The charismatic dwarfA modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, Tungdil, abandoned remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at birth, and brought up in the land stake three times because of Odin''long-uns'' (humans)s wrath. 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 raised and apprenticed tied to a magus. He finds that his peaceful life is about the stake—and refuses to change dramaticallyleave her alone. Plucked from obscurity and anonymityAfter an initial period of mistrust, he is sent on a quest Angrboda begins to find his fellow dwarvesfall for Loki's charms, delivering messages en route: naturallyand the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, adventure will follow hima son that's a wolf, and perhaps he is even the long lost heir to the dwarvesanother son that' throne - time will tell!s a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316049441</amazonuk>1789097061
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher MooreHannah Whitten|title=You Suck|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=You know that old adage about books and covers? Well this is a case in point. The title isn't great, but the cover design for the paperback imprint is, like, duh!, the pits. It is so uncool…so unrep-resent-ative of the book. This is not a cocktail thing. Not even a "Bloody Mary" thing. Well, except for For the tiny bit that is, but you'll discover that in due course.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498092</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K E Mills|title=Witches Incorporated (Rogue Agent)Wolf|rating=35
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|summary=In Red''Witches Incorporated'' is s family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second book in Kdaughter becomes a sacrifice.E. MillsTo Red' rogue agent seriess misfortune, which are about she is the exploits of wizard Gerald Dunwoody and his friendssecond daughter. In this bookSent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Gerald has Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a new job as a secret agent for wolf, and he is the one who will decide the Ottosland governmentfate of their kingdom. He's on If she is not a deadly mission worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to hunt down a saboteurthe woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, determined expecting nothing more than to make amends for his past. Meanwhilebe killed within the hour, his friends have set up an agency (Witches Incorporated) and she finds that the legends are themselves heading for danger when they accidentally cross paths with Geraldlies. The wolf is not a monster—he's saboteura man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497282</amazonuk>0356516369
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tad WilliamsJohn Gwynne|title=The Dragonbone ChairShadow Of The Gods|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=To Simon, an orphaned servant at the Hayholt, home of an aged king, it seems that his life will forever be dull and mundane. The King's youthful glory days were long ago and Simon, who dreams of adventure, sees his peaceful but quiet life as a tragedy. When the old King dies his son Elias Shadow Of The Gods is crowned, but begins to act strangely. Strange weather strikes the realm, terrifying beasts are attacking from first installment of the NorthBloodsworn Saga, and set in the King, far from helping his people from these problems, is adding his own heavy taxes. Simon is caught up on a journey that is as full era of danger and intrigue as he ever dreamed of, but finds it less than he hoped for. An ancient enemy is stirring, the High King Elias is aiding this enemy and it seems the only hope for the kingdom lies Vikings in the knowledge shadow of Ragnarok, when the mysterious League of the Scroll Gods have battled and the finding of three ancient swords of powertheir bones lie scattered for all to see.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498394</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kevin J Anderson|title=The Edge of This story is the World|rating=4|genre=ultimate in High Fantasy |summary=Kevin J. Anderson is perhaps better known for his Science Fiction books, such as continuations and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the ''Dune'' Saga and numerous ''X-Files'' genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and ''Star Trek'' booksbattles galore. Having only ever read his ''X-Files'' books, I was unsure how I would like This is a fantasy thick book by someone who was so ingrained in my mind as a Science Fiction author. I needn't have worried, his first foray into the fantasy genre is with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a good start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496634</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marie Brennan |title=In Ashes Lie|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction |summary=It's September 1666 wonderfully realistic and although the mortals' Civil War is over the war amongst the fae is still raging gritty world in London. There's now a greater threat to the Onyx Court and it could destroy everything when a spark starts a fire which for three days spreads through the city devouring everything in its pathour heroes must do battle. Can the mortals and the fae unite to find a way to defeat a foe which neither can better on their own?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497185</amazonuk>0356514218
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