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|author=Joanne M HarrisT Kingfisher|title=A Pocketful of CrowsThornhedge

|genre= Confident ReadersFantasy|summary= I have always been ''You had a right to retake your place.'' T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of the mind a fairytale that once you're above picture-book level is well known and before you get to graphic sex & violencewell beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. Instead, there our protagonist is no difference between books for children Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and books for adults. There are good books secreted away to the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and poor onescast spells. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones|isbn=1803364238}}{{Frontpage|author=Nicole Jarvis|title=A Portrait in Shadow|rating=4. 5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''A Pocketful I want all of CrowsFlorence to know my name'' is clearly aimed at  Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the younger readers as witness powerful Accademia, the use self-proclaimed guardians of the middle initial in healing magics that through paintings have the author's name power to differentiate protect the city and its citizens from her adult offersplagues and curses. Ignore that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress of the modern fairy taleThe all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. This is To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no different. It is an utter delightplace amongst them and their society.|isbn=14732221841803362340

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

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

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

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

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

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

|summary=Brothers Rob Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and Charley have struggled researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to see eye faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to eye redeem herself and put her final investigations for years - Rob her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her 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?|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 sensible lawyer who exists in thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the "normal" 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 Charley because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a man who life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is blessed a film-maker, doing a recce with an ability his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he can't fully control d invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so- one which allows him 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 bring literary characters into go awry…|isbn=1803361476}}{{Frontpage|author=Andrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that Dan the real world. After Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of protecting Charleya blissful life in exchange for his soul.'' Poor Dan! I know, I know, Rob wants to discharge we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman. He never hits his duties targets and leave Charley , when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the dotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|isbn=1958204021}}{{Frontpage|author=Olivie Blake|title=The Atlas Six|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= Dark, sharp, and highly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|isbn=1529095239}}{{Frontpage|author=Daniel Abraham|title=Age of Ash|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary= We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. It is the night between the funeral of a Prince and the coronation of his own devices successor. For a night the Kithamar is un- but circumstances soon take choices out ruled.|isbn=0356515427}}{{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of both the Empire come to drink and make merry between their handsconquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. As literary characters begin He asks her to come with him, to appear everywhereleave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares CharleyKurara won's powers t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and intends she is forced to use them for nefarious gainsflee out into the world. Rob and Charley must team up to stop She joins Himura aboard the madness Orihime, a sky- in a battle ship whose express purpose is to win before theyhunt down shikigami, the characters and the a whole world reach The End…of adventure awaits her…|isbn=03565137771406399590

|isbn=1250168546B09Q3P283Y|authortitle=Sarah KozloffShadebringer|titleauthor=A Queen In HidingGrayson W Hooper|rating=34

|summary= World-building 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 career in the backbone by military. If he's honest - which fantasy novels live and die. And what a pleasureClyde usually is, then, to get a novel with worldhimself at least -building you actually want to delve into. Sarah Kozloffhe hasn's debut novel presents a startlingly rich t got many choices and layered worldthis one, with a complex history at least, gets him out of connecting nations that seems certain to have more to tap, the rut he's in. He's good in training and the characters are interesting – if is quickly put onto a little underdevelopednon commissioned officer training course. But itHe's a world I could – and did – eagerly buy into, and the struggle of each Queen to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very aptchuffed with himself.

|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)Jennifer Saint|title=Orphans of the TideElektra|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= In the last city on Earth, anyone can be 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the vessel story of The Enemy - the god three women who drowned live in the heavily male dominated world - who has come to wreak havoc on the last of humanityAncient Greece. When a mysterious boy is pulled from Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the corpse story of a whale, the citizens immediately believe him to be Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, a girl inventor. As silent women have the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute most compelling stories and the boy, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets..most extreme furies.|isbn=02413844351472273915

|author= Luke ArnoldDean Koontz|title= The Last Smile in Sunder CityQuicksilver|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'The Last Smile s lived in Sunder City'' a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is an urban fantasy noir written by Luke Arnold. It centres starting a career on a Private Detectiveneedless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', Fetch Philipsfor something – call it unearthly intuition, as call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he attempts go to a derelict diner, find a missing vampire in gold coin worth a world filled with magical creatures where fortune, 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. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the magic has suddenly disappeared with catastrophic consequencesdiscovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|isbn=0356512886 1542019885

|author= A K LarkwoodTasha Suri|title= The Unspoken NameJasmine Throne|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= What does it mean On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to betray someone? What if that someone the pyre. She is a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would immediately sent to be sacrificed to her god imprisoned on her fourteenth birthday, yet when the opportunity arises, she chooses to abandon everything she knows and flee Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with her lifea community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. Who can blame her? Her god’s reach But now the temple is limited and Csorwe intends to stay far beyond itnothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, yet fate is Malini witnesses a funny thing and when circumstances bring her back within the reach girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her god Csorwe learns for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the girl saved her god remembers her, from an attacker and blames begs for the girl to become her very much indeedown personal maidservant.|isbn=12502389000356515648

|author=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)Genevieve Gornichec|title=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy TalesThe Witch's Heart|rating=4.5

|summary=CursesA modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. TheyShe hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin're there throughout tales of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed s wrath. Her attempts to do thislive in peace, however, or not are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to be able the stake—and refuses to do thatleave her alone. Children can be cursed, as can princesses on the verge After an initial period of marryingmistrust, and older people too. It seems in a way thereAngrboda begins to fall for Loki's no escaping it. Which is why charms, and the theme of this book two start an unusual family made of short stories is such up a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed characterhalf-dead daughter, a son that demonised place's a wolf, and another son that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrongs a snake.|isbn=17890915001789097061

|author=Kathlaine C Gill and D Clark GillHannah Whitten|title=Madness Between Light and DarkFor the Wolf|rating=3.5

|summary=ItIn Red's 1912family, the first daughter becomes queen, and at New Hope Sanatoriumthe second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, Christine Agnes Tupper she is fast growing upthe second daughter. Abandoned there by parents who were ashamed of Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her hunchbackback, she's nevertheless grown up Red knows what to an intelligent girl with expect: within the woods is a good heartwolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. Her encounters with If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the inhabitants of monsters he keeps contained to the asylum swiftly take her on a fascinatingwoods will be released, thrilling and sometimes terrifying journey of self-discoverythe fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, allowing Agnes expecting nothing more than to prove be killed within the hour, she finds that, even with the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a twisted spine, her heart is in the right place!man.|isbn=16411107080356516369

|author= Alexandra ChristoJohn Gwynne|title= Into the Crooked PlaceThe Shadow Of The Gods|rating= 45|genre= TeensFantasy|summary= In The Shadow Of The Gods is the city first installment of Creijethe Bloodsworn Saga, Tavia, a magical con-artist, specialises set in wowing gullible tourists with cheap charms and trickery. However, when a new and powerful form the era of magic unlike anything seen the Vikings in decades begins trickling onto the streetsshadow of Ragnarok, nearly killing her close friend Saxony, Tavia begins when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to worrysee. At This story is the same time, her childhood best friend Wesleyultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the youngest underboss in the citygenre, discovers that Dante Ashwoodwith mythical creatures, the kingpin of the Creijen criminal underworldarchaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, has his sights set on with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world domination. It's now up to the four unlikely allies to bring down his plans..in which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=12503183780356514218

{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Abercrombie -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0575095865.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0575095865/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Adua is going through a period of rapid industrial revolution, the old social structures being thrown into chaos as the factories go up. But, the old ways die hard in this land. In the north, the young heir to the Governorship Leo Dan Brock and his allies fight off the invading armies of Scale Ironhand and his nephew Stour Nightfall. He desperately wants reinforcements from the crown, but the debaucherous, self-loathing Crown Prince Orso is all they can spare. Savine Dan Glotka, investor and daughter of the High Inquisitor, plots to ascend to the top of the social hierarchy no matter the cost. But, with hatred and discontent growing among the working classes, her plans might never come to fruition. Under the tutelage of the world-weary old witch Isern-I-Phail, young Rikke struggles to control the Long Eye, something she was blessed (or possibly cursed) with. However, seeing the future and affecting it are two very different things...[[A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie|Full Review]] <!-- Maxwell N Andrews -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1983376353.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1983376353/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put on a par with comments about Marmite. You're supposed to love it or hate it and I'm halfway between, and likewise, the old adage is halfway true. From the cover of this I had a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. That was only built Move on by the initial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacy. But why was I two chapters in and just finding more and more characters, both human and animal, and more and more flashbacks, and no proof that this was what I'd bought in for? [[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews|Full Review]] <!-- Claire North -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:williamabbey.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0316316849/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]  When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a young boy in 1880's South Africa, he finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns the weight of the curse upon him, as the shadow of the dead boy begins to follow him across the world. Never stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of William. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in others, he also learns that the dark shadow is deadly – and seeks to kill the one he loves the most… [[The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North|Full Review]] <!-- Averill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1077651538.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1077651538/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Years of Fading Magic by Kenelm Averill]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Newest For Sharing Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]  ''What if you could subtly change the lives of ordinary people around you?'' Jessica Turner was one of the more radical teens to come out of Eastfield. A youth spent hanging out with a close crowd of friends was characterised by Jessica's role as a trendsetter, as an influencer, as a leader. Strangely charismatic, Jessica invited fascination and obsession. Nobody who met her forgot her. Or the days they spent in the Enclosure, a clearing in Eastfield woods that Jessica felt gave her power. But the group went its separate ways, as adolescent groups do, and her influence faded...[[The Years of Fading Magic by Kenelm Averill|Full Review]]  <!-- Hewitt -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1509896465.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509896465/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] ''The Nightjar'' is an unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a box on her doorstep one morning and her life begins to unravel, fast. From that very moment, her life is flooded with magic, loss, expectation and particularly, betrayal. As everything around her shifts, all that she knows, all that she thinks she knows, must change. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself? [[The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt|Full Review]] <!-- Shackle -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473225213.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473225213/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Mike Shackle has written a really interesting and unusual story in ''We Are The Dead''; the tag line for the novel is 'No More Heroes' and that is what makes this story so different. There are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather the story is scattered with characters doing their own small part to survive, to fight back, and to find vengeance, in a world that has been utterly torn apart. The plot does not hang on any one character, no one is important, anyone can die and many do, but, like ants working together, each small character achieves their own part of a much larger plot that is rich and complex and keeps the reader glued to the story. [[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle|Full Review]] <!-- Donnelly -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1471407977.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471407977/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] ''People will not forget. Or forgive. An ugly girl is too great an offense...the world is made for men. An ugly girl can never be forgiven.'' ''Stepsister'' tells the gripping story of Cinderella's 'ugly' stepsister, Isabelle. We've been told this fairy-tale over and over again throughout our lives and know the characters well. But have you ever wondered what happened to the sisters after Cinderella married the Prince? Or why the sisters disliked her so much? [[Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly|Full Review]] <!-- Evan Winter -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0356512940.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356512940/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Every so often, as a reader, a book comes along that is utter and complete perfection. This book is one of those. Utter and complete perfection. Winter has created an absolute masterpiece of a novel, set in the fantasy land of Uhmlaba the reader is instantly thrown into war, a battle for survival for the Omehi people. Fleeing their homeland, they have to fight to remain on the only scrap of land they can reach. The culture of the Omehi people is rich and deep but not perfect, not sanctimonious. They have villains, they have faults, they are the invaders after all, but Winter creates a realistic and honest portrayal of a people desperate to survive, to save themselves and their culture for future generations. [[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE --> |}