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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= K J ParkerA G Slatter|title= The Two Briar Book of Swordsthe Dead|rating= 3.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=This is '' There's a difficult book part of me that wants to keep this just to reviewmyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, to be honestall mine, because at last. I am still not sure if I liked just want to enjoy itfor a while. It is '' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the first book protection of the Briar's, a trilogy so I expected that a lot family of it would be to set witches who protect the scene town and the characters but this doesn't really happenwider world from the Darklands. The novel Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is set during the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a long standing war between east steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and west that has been going on for so long no-one is really sure why they are fightingpotions. Currently in command are When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Belot brothersBriar Witch, each one a military genius the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and each one fighting for centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the opposing sidedead, there is also putting her at the guild heart of craftsmen whose purpose we never fully know a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and their role is determine what to manipulate and interfere do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to serve their own interestssurvive, is under threat. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506762</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen AryanRachel Greenlaw|title= Mageborn (Age of Dread)Compass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyTeens|summary=''Magic will destroy us allI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

Ten years after Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the devastating battlemage war when mages used their immense power to tear each other apart rocks and sundered plundering the world itselfwrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, suspicion is one of those the seven who wield magic is at an all-time highswim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. With But when the recent resurrection of Council Watch lays a trap to end the Red Towerwrecking, an institution for students they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to learn to control save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and expand their magic, Seekers visit villages each month with only coordinates to test children for magical abilities. But for those children and their families it is not a giftguide her, it is she sets off in search of a cursed For Habreelfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, who will never forget as her journey takes her from the destruction during watched streets of foreign islands to the war, the elimination heart of all magic will save countless lives and is the only solution smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to long lasting stability. He will stop at nothing to achieve his aim; he will deal with save the devil, crush villages future of her home and kill anyone in his waythe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356508471</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alice HoffmanT Kingfisher|title= The Rules of Magic|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction |summary= I've read several of Alice Hoffman's novels, although strangely, not the one she's most famous for ''Practical Magic'', which went on to be made into a film. ''The Rules of Magic'' is the long-awaited prequel to that book, and tells the story of three siblings of the Owens family; Franny, Jet and Vincent. The two sisters, Franny and Jet, go on to become the two aunts in the ''Practical Magic'' story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471157679</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller|title= OtherworldThornhedge|rating= 5

|summary=imon would not have considered himself a hero. In fact, by all accounts, particularly that of his parents, Simon is an epic failure. He's large, he's hairy, he has You had a ridiculously oversized nose and he's been kicked out of boarding school and kept on a federal watch list. But Simon is sure something is up with his friend Kat. She won't speak right to him. So he resorts to buying an incredibly expensive new virtual reality video game for them both - Otherworld. Otherworld engages retake your senses with graphics so good, you'll swear they are real, and it's here that Simon really wants to talk to Katplace. But it isn't real, it's a game… until a turn of events lands Simon in Otherworld in an all together different way. This time, whatever harm his avatar suffers has real consequences. And if it dies? Simon would rather not think about that. If he wants to save Kat, he has to keep pressing on. Simon is the chosen one, this is not a game. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786073692</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Melissa Caruso|title= The Tethered Mage|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= The Raverran Empire T Kingfisher's latest novella is run by a doge and the council lovely reimagining of seven, the governing group formed by the aristocratic families of Eruvia. The Empire thrives from trade, culture and the obedience of the cities surrounding Raverra. The Empire has obtained this power and dominance by harnessing and controlling the magic of Eruvia and all the ''mage-marked'' a fairytale that possess it. For years the Raverran empire has is well known peace, but with whispers of a rebellion, the discovery of a fire-warlock and the disappearance of children, the Empire's authority over Eruvia is in danger and war is looming on the horizonwell beloved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356510611</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephen Donaldson |title= Seventh Decimate |rating= 2|genre= Fantasy|summary= The Seventh Decimate But whilst there is not a book with compelling characters or buzzing personalities; it is not princess trapped in a book that allowed me to invest in the struggles of its protagonisttower, Prince Bifaltsleeping under an eternal enchantment, with any particular easeThornhedge is not her story. Though it Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a book about war new-born baby and the desperate extremes a nation will go secreted away to ensure absolute victory against its greatest foe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473221668</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=John Hornor Jacobs|title=Infernal Machines|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Having discovered the evil intent land of the Autumn Lords, Livia Cornelius is trying fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to beat the inferno that the ensuing war is creating in order to get back to her husband Fisk. That's not as easy as it sounds though as she and her entourage including (draw magic from her sister Carnelia veins and Livia's baby) will be caught up in the conflict more than they'd like to be. Meanwhile Fisk along with fellow mercenary Shoe, doesn't have it any easier… and the world is burningcast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057512413X</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kristen CiccarelliNicole Jarvis|title=The Last NamsaraA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=''Once there was a girl who was drawn I want all of Florence to wicked thingsknow my name''

''The Last Namsara'' revolves around AshaCast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a fierce young woman who has whispered stories to dragons all home and where her lifefuture can thrive rather than stagnate. But where once as some as she enters Florentine society she told them in friendshipfaces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, now she uses stories the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to hunt protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all those that still plague her father's fracturing kingdomelse. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473222850</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mark AlderThomas D Lee|title= Son of the NightPerilous Times|rating= 43

|summary=In [[Son of ''Hate is the Morning by Mark Alder|Son path of least resistance'' Set in the Morning]]near-distant future, author Mark Alder plunges the reader into in a chaotic, dangerous worldon the verge of climate collapse, taking them back Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the turbulent reign of Edward III day and the dangers of the Hundred Years Warrescue what little remains. Adding elements What no-one expected was that one of fantasy and theology to the mix, Alder created an intriguing read which is continued in ''Son Knights of the Night''. With Lucifer, Satan, God, Devils and Angels interacting with a cast of real and well researched characters, Alder continues his exploration of Round Table would answer the Hundred Years war whilst rather incredibly keeping his readers as educated as they are entertainedcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575115203</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keith DevineAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Wilderness of IceDelilah Recovered

|summary=Hans Schröder was not best pleased to We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be going about to the Nazi party headquarters in Alexanderplatz, Berlinlook up. It was a snowy night in December 1937 and even then Heinrich Himmler Out of the SS Protection Squadron had something of a reputationwork, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. Schröder know that his beliefs were But it's not completely in tune with those of to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the party hierarchy, attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on this occasion it was earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an order which would find him leading ordinary woman, living an expedition ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to Tibet in search of the yeti: Hitler her and Josef Mengele were keen to see if improvements could things will never be made to the master race and the thought of a humanoid with amazing capabilities was too tempting to dismisssame... In January 1938 the expedition was on its way via Transylvania.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524681857</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom LloydHadeer Elsbai|title= Princess The Daughters of BloodIzdihar|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= Toil – unpredictable and dangerous even Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for an assassin, now wears the Princess rights of Blood on her jacket. Mercanery Lynx still has his doubts about her women and weavers – but those with magical abilities - in a new mission society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to escort a dignitary soon throws attend the old team back together. Travelling Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an ancient city that conceals arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a mysterious labyrinthprivileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the situations go from bad Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to worsebe in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with new threats hypocrisy and worse horrors on every corner. The cruelty, from which blossoms a group argue of admirable women fighting for their rights and bicker as they go along – but will they be too concerned with overcoming their own disputes to see the far blacker evil that threatens to surround them?personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473213207</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tim AkersHeather Fawcett|title= The Iron HoundEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Ruling with Emily Wilde is an iron handexpert academic scholar on faerie lore, the Church and she has eliminated travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the ancient pagan waysvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. Yet demonic gheists terrorise 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 landsmall village of Hrafvsnik, hunted by having somehow offended the Inquisitionvillage matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, while age-old hatreds rage between the north nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the southright track. Three heroes Malcolm Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and Ian Blakeley insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and Gwendolyn Adair must end delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the bloodshed before chaos is unleashed.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299509</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jess RichardsChristopher Golden|title= City Road of CirclesBones|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyHorror|summary= Danu is The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a tightrope walker who is mourning her parentsthousand miles across Siberia, after a disease has ravaged it's one of the circus where she grew upworld's most notorious routes. Her mother has entrusted her with For months of the year it's a locket that hides spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a secrethuge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Over the years Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, Danu pushes away her grief and develops elaborate and successful high-wire acts with Morriebecause he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a charismatic hunchback who wants to marry herlife every metre it covers. When the circus returns to Danu You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's birthplacea bit rich, Matryoshkafor one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, Danu is enchanted by the templesa film-maker, spice mistsdoing a recce with his cameraman buddy, and pleasure seekers within John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the intoxicating outer circle district. Here, she finally gains funds he'd invested in the courage to open her motherpair's locketprior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, and discovers gain the name company of a stranger who lives behind local beauty, and fetch up at the locked gate of the Inner Circleguide's childhood village. Fated to remain in Matryoshka, Danu attempts And that's where things start to resolve this mystery. Will she and Morrie ever be reunited, or will something far more unexpected be waiting for her in the mysterious heart of the city?go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473656680</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian LivingstoneAndrew Givler|title=Fighting Fantasy: The Port of Peril|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy |summary=As I promised I would when I looked back at the beginning of the 35 year history of ''Fighting Fantasy'' gamebooks [[Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone|Soul Fraud (here)]], I took to the brand-new-for-2017 volume with my pen, mapping paper, and most importantly, dice. For the first time in a long, long time, I would not read a book for review. I would play it. And so, armed with healthy stamina, reasonable luck but frankly embarrassing skill, I set off. This is the report of that journey – as well as hopefully being the usual useful book review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407181297</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anthony Ryan|title=The Legion of Flame: Debt Collection Book Two of the Draconis Memoria1)|rating=54

|summary=WARNING''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: There are spoilers 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for [[The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria by Anthony Ryan|Book 1]] from the beginninghis soul.'' Lizanne LethridgePoor Dan! I know, BloodI know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-Blessed and secret agent of the Exceptional Initiatives Division has survived another mission, only to be forced to go out againcatching demons. This time it entails But he really is a man-hunt in a place from which no one has emerged aliveterrible salesman. Talking about aliveHe never hits his targets and, Claydon Torcreek, having escaped several types of death in the jungles now goes when he fails to the southern ice with Hilemore in their current attempt get even Matt to defeat sign on the dragons and put the world on a safe footing. What if all that waits for them is more dragons and more inventive ways to die? Thatdotted line, he's a thought so desperate thathe simply forges Matt's soon banished from his mindsignature. 'This is where we save the world' says Clay… but he's been wrong before!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506401</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ritchie Valentine SmithOlivie Blake|title=Words of Fury: Volume 2 (Words of Power)The Atlas Six

|summary=Warning: Spoilers ahead…Emmanuel (Man) KinrossDark, Yoshisharp, Joah, the Voice and Dirk Faslane are all fleeing the Lord of the North in a giant floating bubble. This is a delicate conveyance when you consider that the stakes are high andhighly inquisitive, if caught by the evil Lord of the North, the world as they know it will end. They just need to get to the Waning of the Moon, a psychic fortress that spells safety but there's still a long way to go and the odds are very much against them. 'The Lord of the North has more power than theyAtlas Six''ve seen yet and more devastating ways to use itmakes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1544214839</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Vivian ShawDaniel Abraham|title= Strange Practice: A Dr Greta Helsing NovelAge of Ash|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=''I don't suppose it's worth trying to convince you it's too dangerous?'' <br>''Not in the least.'' <br>Meet Dr Greta Helsing, a highly talented, well respected physician with her own specialised medical practice, known and adored throughout London for her great work… well, at least amongst the supernatural community. Greta is in fact a descendent of the vampire hunter Professor Abraham Van Helsing, but relations have improved since then and she now spends her days carrying on her father's legacy treating vampires, werewolves, mummies, ghouls and the like. So early morning emergency calls are not uncommon; what is uncommon however, is a vampire's stab wound that won't heal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508870</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Christopher B Husberg|title=Chaos Queen - Dark Immolation (Chaos Queen 2)|rating=5

|summary=Warning - spoilers ahead for Book 1 which should be read first:Winter is presumed dead by Knot, Jane, Astrid and Cinzia. To be honest, rotting in We meet Alys under the dungeon most northerly of Lord Daval she may as well be. Daval himself hasnOldgate't been the same since he was possessed by the Lord of Fear and leader of the Nine Daemons. s four bridges, He sees it as she has a positive but there's a high price to be paid knife in blood for everyone else. Our remaining adventurers return to Jane her hand and Cinzia's home as they continue their search for truth. Cinzia may still be a Priestess of Canta but Jane's heretical ideas are making more and more sense to hermeeting that she dreads. Meanwhile Knot is having severe problems with his multi-occupancy body but there are worse problems on the horizon. The Nine Daemons are out and doing what Daemons do best: dragging a world's population towards a particularly evil form City of destruction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299177</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Callie Bates|title= The Waking Land|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=''They need something to believe in, something beyond crowns and kingdoms. They need to believe in the old stories. In the power of the land.'' It was fourteen years ago that Elanna's life changed completely. Fourteen years ago that her father's plans of revolution fell through, and Kithamar is at the tender age of five, King Antoine held a pistol to her head and took her hostage. Raised by the King, Elanna grows into adulthood suppressing her magic and resenting the parents she once loved. Now twenty, Elanna prepares for either study or marriage, until King Antoine dies and she's condemned to death for treason. On the run, Elanna encounters her father's men, and finds herself moving from one imprisonment to another. Her father it seems, wants to carry out the revolution that failed fourteen years ago, he wants to unite the people point in creating a fair kingdom and he wants Elanna to be the face turning of years when the rebellion. He wants her to be the Steward of the Land capable of powerful magic to make the very Earth move. Elanna must to decide which side she'll align with worlds are at their thinnest and how she will shape her destiny. Can she deny her people the help they desperately need to build a new world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638720</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=G S Denning|title=Warlock Holmes - The Hell-Hound of the Baskervilles|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a lot of Sherlock Holmes stories, but not that many novelsall things are possible. Holmes adventures were mostly kept to a short story length that allowed a quick build up and reveal that would fit into an episodic telling. The best known novel It is ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' and anyone who parodies the great detective would eventually need to cover night between the tale funeral of the cursed Baskerville family. They don't come more parodic than Warlock Holmes a Prince and although he may have died at the end of the last book, this won't stop him investigating one coronation of his greatest casessuccessor.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299738</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Christina Henry |title= Lost Boy|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Everybody has their own story to tell, and more often than not people only see things from one perspective. In For a night the original Peter Pan Captain Hook Kithamar is an angry, perhaps slightly jealous, tyrant. But why is he this way? Christina Henry weaves a terrifying narrative together in response to such a question, a response that has the potential to alter the reader's perception of the original work foreverun-ruled. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178565568X</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= V E SchwabAnn Sei Lin|title= Our Dark DuetRebel Skies

|genre= FantasyTeens|summary=''Monsters, mayhem, revenge'' Six months after Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the final events of ''This Savage Song''Midori, Verity is a massive dining hall floating in chaos. All-out war has broken out and the city is now divided into two – with monsters gaining more and more territory in sky where soldiers of the North Empire come to drink and humans battling for survival in the Southmake merry between their conquests. At the centre of the action However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is August Flynna Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a monster of incredible power who once longed to be humansought after all across the Empire. He will now stop at nothing asks her to fight and play come with him, to leave the part he believes he mustlife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. No matter what Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the cost, no matter how much of himself he loses. Meanwhile, Kate Harker, V City escapee and kick-ass monster hunter, has been busy in Prosperity. But with because the arrival of Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a new monster leaving devastation in its wake shikigami, and heading straight for Verity, Kate knows she must is forced to returnflee out into the world. She must fight for humanity's survival and play her part just like August. Alliances will be tested; old enemies will rise from joins Himura aboard the dead and past mistakes will come Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to haunt both August hunt down shikigami, and Kate at every turn.Will they be enough to save the city? And will they each be enough to save themselves from the darkest places within?a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785652761</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= R J BarkerB09Q3P283Y|title= Age of AssassinsShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating= 34|genre= Fantasy|summary= Age of Assassins Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a very ordinary fantasy novel, which at the same time manages to slip career in the occasional surprisemilitary. The central protagonists are a pair of assassinsIf he's honest - which Clyde usually is, Girton Clubwith himself at least -Foot he hasn't got many choices and his masterthis one, Merela Karnat least, also known as Death’s Jester. They find themselves hired by a Queen to protect her son, an obnoxious prince, and to find gets him out who is behind of the threats on his life. In doing so they discover a host of plots and problems, leaving no part of life rut he's in the castle untouched. Plots and Machiavellian figures are evident at every turn as noble families fight over the throne of a dying king. In the meantime between sorcerers He's good in the stables, bitter rivalries between the young men who vie to be heir to the throne, training and the moves of great families, there is no lack of suspectsquickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. As such the novel is as much a mystery as it is a fantasy and as much as coming of age story as it is either of thoseHe's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508544</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom HoltJennifer Saint|title= The Management Style of the Supreme BeingsElektra|rating= 54|genre= FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary= Imagine, if you will, that 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the local deity and his well-beloved son Jay decide to retire from story of three women who live in the god business and go fishing insteadheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. After allCassandra, they've been working onClytemnestra, and for, Elektra are all bit players in the story of the planet for millennia, and it is really is time they took a breakTrojan War. And Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the Venturi brothers, who already manage several other planets, silent women have made them a very generous bid for the franchisemost compelling stories and the most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650669X</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaDean Koontz|title=Bound: An Alex Verus NovelQuicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Warning: From Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the beginning this contains spoilers chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for past books.Alex Verushe's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, seer, mage and former owner of a now incinerated London magic shop, is no longer under starting a career on a death warrant but that doesnneedless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now 't mean that people don't want him dead. His only chance subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of survival isnmood or mind''t promising either: , for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he's gone back go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the place value of nightmares. He it out of his bank and Anne are now working prepare for his old apprentice master, Richard Drakhgoing on the lam. Richard's reasons are never straightforward so it's a mystery as And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to why turn up and suggest he's made Alex an offer he'd be killed of interest to refusethem. UnsurprisinglyHelped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, Alex isn't the only one who wants to the answer eitherdiscovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides. Oh and remember Rachel? She's back and… well… shall we say she has issues?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650719X</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreview <!-- remove 5/6 -->Frontpage|author=Mark LinganeTasha Suri|title=BL!NK (Hadron Damnation Book 1)The Jasmine Throne

|summary=iYe is a smasher: a child who is capable On the night of sending back pictures of the future by travelling out her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to where the past and future meet. Smashers don't usually live step on to see their teens as the information generally returns without thempyre. However iYe's mother, Captain Trix Raiden, She is determined he'll immediately sent to be different and, indeed he is, in many ways. Not only does iYe survive, he is a chip off the same block as Cally, imprisoned on the planetary hero. However there is a darker sideHirana: iYe carries a message an ancient temple that Earth doesn't want to hear. The planet is used to dealing was once filled with the aliens that Cally originally fought but worse is on its way. ''We are coming to kill you.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0994616457</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= James Abbott|title= The Never King|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= The land a community of Stravimon is in chaos. Cedius people who got powers from the Wise died leaving the traitorous Mardonius to ascend to the thronemysterious deathless waters. In far off Hell's Keep (the most deadly and remote prison in But now the Kingdom; a place no prisoner has ever returned from alive) Xavir Argentum temple is contacted by Cedius' former Spy Masternothing more than an overgrown, Landrildecaying ruin. BetrayalOne day, intrigue, violence and Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic follow as we travel across this strange but familiar land on . Instead of reporting her for such a quest for vengeancegruesome crime, justice Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and freedombegs for the girl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509803114</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura LamGenevieve Gornichec|title=Masquerade (Micah Grey Trilogy)The Witch's Heart

|genre=TeensFantasy|summary= It's been A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a remarkable journey for our young protagonistwitch named Angrboda. It wasn't long ago She hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that Micah Grey she was still living survived burnt at the life stake three times because of Iphigenia LaurusOdin's wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, daughter of a noble familyhowever, trapped in a gilded cage forever hiding 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 true selfalone. Since running awayAfter an initial period of mistrust, Micah has managed Angrboda begins to reinvent himselffall for Loki's charms, first as and the two start an unusual family made of up a circus acrobathalf-dead daughter, and then as a magicianson that's apprentice. Along the way he's discovered love a wolf, and friendships another son that have helped keep him afloat, even as betrayal and tragedy seem ready to strike at every turn. But there's only so long he can keep running. His powers are growing, the Chimaera are returning, and Ellada is about to reach a violent tipping pointsnake. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509807780</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brian StaveleyHannah Whitten|title= Skullsworn|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''"Love is like killing," she said. "You do it with every part of you, or not at all.” '' Pyrre is a skullsworn; one who is devoted to the God of Death. Trained as an assassin and having studied under the deadliest killers in For the world since she was eight, Pyrre is about to embark upon her final trial. A trial in which success will mean elevation to the rank of priestess, while failure will mean death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150982295X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= V E Schwab|title=A Conjuring of LightWolf|rating= 5

|summary= The Darker Shade of Magic trilogy concludes by continuing with In Red's family, the story of Lila Bardfirst daughter becomes queen, finding her way through and the different Londonssecond daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, one she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with magicnothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one without magicwho will decide the fate of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, a London where magic has near enough destroyed their world and the last Londonfabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, which balances precariously on she finds that the edge of oblivionlegends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0765387468</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire NorthJohn Gwynne|title= The End of the Day|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= At the end of the day, Death visits everyone. Right before that, Charlie does. You might meet him in a hospital, in a warzone, or at the scene of a traffic accident.Then again, you might meet him at the North Pole - he gets everywhere. From jungles to deserts to tundra, you may come across Charlie. Would you shake him by the hand, take the gift he offers, or would you pay no attention to the words he says? Sometimes he is sent as a courtesy, sometimes as a warning. He never knows which.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316316741</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jen Williams|title=The Ninth Rain (Shadow Of The Winnowing Flame Trilogy 1) Gods

|summary=Ebora The Shadow Of The Gods is dying along with its tree-like god Ysegril but Hestillion is doing the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all she can to keep him alivesee. In fact she'll go This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to any lengths to save him… any lengths at all. Hest's brother Tormalin can't sit around and wait for the end so he's engaged by Lady Vincenza (Vintage) de Grazon to be her factotum genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and hired sword during her quest for knowledgebattles galore. It's turning into more of This is a thick book, with an adventure than they'd planned even before Fell witch intricate plot and fugitive Noon joins them. Now the trio must work fascinating characters that are woven together, putting prejudices and passions aside (others' as well as their own). The Ninth Rain is coming to create a wonderfully realistic and more than Ebora is gritty world in dangerwhich our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472235177</amazonuk>0356514218