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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen HuntA G Slatter|title=In Dark Service (Far Called Trilogy 1)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Jacob Carnehan has settled down. He's minding his own business while raising his son Carter, and his days of adventure are - thankfully - long behind him. Carter Carnehan is going out The Briar Book of his mind with boredom. His humdrum life is dull, and he longs to escape. To test himself against the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575092076</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Tregillis|title=The Mechanical (Alchemy War)Dead

|summary='' There is 's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a truce between New France and remote mountain pass, far away from the Dutchworld, lies Silverton; a truce during which town under the Vicomtesse Berenice wants to learn protection of the secrets Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the ClakkersDarklands. These are robotic slaves that power everything Dutch just beyond Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the New French border: culturefirst non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, industryher training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, domestic duties, transport and theyEllie're also s cousin Audra becomes the most dangerousBriar Witch, relentless kind of soldier the world has ever known. Common knowledge confirms theytown're incapable of free wills leader, thought, communication or freedomand Ellie takes her place beside her. Common knowledge is wrong: Clakkers' free will is suppressed by painAs challenges come her way left, their thoughts right and communication are only shared between themselves and their freedom? Jax may be centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a Clakkermaelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, but heEllie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches's working on freedomlegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502325</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George R R Martin and Lisa TuttleRachel Greenlaw|title=WindhavenCompass and Blade

|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=As a huge fan of ''A Song I can hear the song of Ice and Firethe sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, I love George RR Martin’s writing style like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the vivid world Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and characters Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he createdis secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, and was interested she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to see unearth what his other work might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be like. Conversely, not being determined to stop at all familiar with Lisa Tuttle, I was even more intrigued nothing to read this booksave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473208947</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia BriggsT Kingfisher|title=Dead Heat: An Alpha and Omega novel|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=Just because you're werewolves, you still can find love, like Charles and Anna. Even with your new nature (although in his case, new is a couple of hundred years) you can still have joint hobbies. A little lycanthropy doesn't stop you wanting a fabulous horse to go riding through the mountains on. So Charles and Anna are holidaying on an Arabian stud farm to check out the stock and meet up with his old friends, when something nasty happens. One of the young women in the host Pack of werewolves suddenly turns nasty, and has to put herself through a serious ordeal just to stop herself from stabbing her young children. Such is the torment that Charles has to take the life-changing – but life-saving – decision to turn her. The problem is, the very magical strength to push the situation to such an end is definitely a mighty one – and things and people turning into nasty entities are going to be a recurring theme in the days ahead…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501620</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=George Mann|title=Ghosts of War|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In 1920's Manhattan, a lone hero patrols the streets and the skies, using his immense wealth and futuristic technology to keep evil at bay. However, at the start of ''Ghosts of War'', the Ghost is in mourning, following the tragic events that concluded [[Ghosts of Manhattan by George Mann|Ghosts of Manhattan]], the first book in the series. Thankfully for the Ghost (and for the reader) - Manhattan is under seige, and he has little time to lick his wounds. Mechanical winged beasts roam the skies, an alcoholic ex-lover is back on the scene, and a British spy may have to be dealt with in order to prevent a cold war turning hot...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294140</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Karen Maitland|title=The Raven's HeadThornhedge

|summary=Private Investigator Van H Avram is living in odd times. At least that's what he decides on the day he has to step over 'You had a dead body right to get from his office to the street and not just any body: it's that of a skinny blond thing – the first of manyretake your place. However life goes on and bills have to be paid so when a woman called Mina walks into Van's office and asks him to find Hugo Jorgen he doesn't refuse. Perhaps if at that point he'd realised where the search would lead, the brutally bloodied body count he would uncover and the link to a recurring childhood nightmare that materialises, then he may have refused. Too late now though…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1508455988</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Ronald Welch|title=The Gauntlet|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=T Kingfisher''The Gauntlet'' was one s latest novella is a lovely reimagining of the iconic books of my childhooda fairytale that is well known and well beloved. Why iconic? It's But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an over-used wordeternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. Why not say 'most memorable'Instead, 'outstanding'our protagonist is Toadling, 'most magical who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and exciting', -- or simply 'best'? Any secreted away to the land of those would do but I think I'll allow myself iconic. The gauntlet of the title justifies that wordfairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192738593</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donald HounamNicole Jarvis|title=Gifted|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fifteen-year-old Frank is a forensic sorcerer, employed to solve murders and other grisly crimes A Portrait in a world where adults get the blur and lose their eyesight by their mid-twenties, and only the young have enough sorcerous power to summon demons and angels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552571873</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Hermione Eyre|title=Viper WineShadow

|summary=Venetia Stanley lives ''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Seventeeth century LondonFlorence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. A celebrated beauty, But as some as she enters Florentine society she has had poems written in honour of herfaces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, and portraits painted by one the self-proclaimed guardians of the leading artists of healing magics that through paintings have the time. Married power to a handsome, kind protect the city and adventurous man, Venetia is kept in a life of luxury, its citizens from plagues and, at first glance curses. The all- male Accademia has everything she could ever have dreamed ofhoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. Except Venetia is not happy. A To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has made her name no place amongst them and fortune because of her beauty, she is convinced that her allure is quickly slipping through her fingers. Signing a pact with an apothecary for his famed restorative 'Viper Wine', Venetia is set on a dangerous paththeir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581663</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah PinboroughThomas D Lee|title=The Death HousePerilous Times|rating=53|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=Toby would appear to be lucky, having the run of an isolated country mansion on a small island off the coast of Britain. But no. His domain only exists at night, and only then because he sleeps in the day and refuses to take the 'vitamin' pills given him by the staff of an evening. He Hate is a captive of a mansion that works as a place of exile for teenagers with the Defective gene. Whatever it would normally lead to, even having it risks becoming suddenly really quite ill, and being the cause path of least resistance'' Set in the nightnear-time lift ride distant future, in a world on the one way route to the top floor Sanatorium. But Toby has it good as these things goverge of climate collapse, the teenaged head boy almost out of the small collection of children Britain is in his Dorm, the only one not to have suffered great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a loss of life. But things are about to change – new inmates arrive hero (or several) to bulk up save the numbers, day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of them, Clara, is the agent Knights of that changethe Round Table would answer the call. For when she stumbles on Toby's nocturnal habits she doesn't want to sleep either…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473202329</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jacquelyn FrankAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Cursed By FireDelilah Recovered|rating=24

|summary=The blurb We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of Cursed By Fire had me interested. I loved the openingwork, in which we meet Dethanabout to lose her flat, a former warrior cursed Dee is up for an accountant's job. But it's not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the gods attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to suffer do with Dee? She's just an unending punishment for daring to steal immortality from themordinary woman, and follow his attempts to lead the armies living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of Hexis things that are not ordinary at all return to victory to appease one of her and things will never be the vengeful godssame....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034553493X</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian TchaikovskyHadeer Elsbai|title=Guns The Daughters of the DawnIzdihar

|summary=Emily Marshwic has led a priveleged life - wealthy and Drawing inspiration from a good familyEgypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, she has known little discomfort. Until yet find themselves fighting for the war comes rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a vicioussociety pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, far reaching struggle that destroys whole nations wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and tears families apartthen join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. First Giorgina on the men are conscripted, other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and thenmaintain their reputation, after many defeats - whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Having seen her country ravagedGiorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and hearing news cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|isbn=0356520471}}{{Frontpage|author=Heather Fawcett|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her brotherlife's deathwork, Emily signs up for the army - very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is plunged into situations more deadly than not so good with people. So when she can ever have imagined. As finds herself far, far North in the tide small village of war turns - could Emily be Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the one village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put an end her final investigations for 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 bloodshedfaerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447272676</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Randy HendersonChristopher Golden|title=Finn Fancy Necromancy Road of Bones

|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Douglas Coupland suggested that all families are psychotic and he may just be right if that family consists The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of necromancersBones'… the R504. The usual family dynamic is already Stretching for over a little messed up when you are thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of four kids, but when you throw in the power to remove souls and reanimate world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the deadpermafrost surrounding it, things can get even more complicatedwhile 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. After 25 years Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, Finn returns home and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a 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 a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some things have changedof the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, but his family will always be gain the company of a nightmarelocal beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297239</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jen WilliamsAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Iron GhostDebt Collection Book 1)|rating=54

|summary=Wydrin of Crosshaven, Sir Sebastian and Lord Aaron Frith, the team of sell-swords now known as the Black Feather Three are employed by the people of Skaldshollow to steal back the heartstone from the Narhl. To the Shalds it's the means of making stone live; to the Narhls it's the very spirit of the mountain so where does that leave our adventurers? Not long to think about that as there seems to be an increase in mystic occurrences across the world and also Matt has a young assassin is polishing off entire familiesterrible life. Why? One thing thatSeriously—it's clear is that Seb, Wydrin and Frith ''will'' get involved eventually… involved right up to their necksawful. The other thing they will see with clarity It is so bad that an old adversary Dan the Demon is back and this time heshocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his soul.''s brought a friend!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472211138</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Melinda Salisbury|title=The Sin Eater's Daughter |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In a land of fantasyPoor Dan! I know, Twylla lives in the courtI know, engaged to the princewe shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But this is no fairytale – he really is one of the only people she can touch, made immune to the poison carried in her veinsa terrible salesman. The embodiment of a goddessHe never hits his targets and, Twylla is the executioner, forced when he fails to kill those who commit treason. Nearly everyone around is terrified of her. Until new guard Lief arrives, who could see her as a friend, or get even romantically. The question of whether Matt to sign on the two could have a future together is an intriguing onedotted line, but before long, it’s the least of Twylla’s worries as she’s thrown into danger by the queen’s obsession with destroying her enemieshe's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature. Can she survive?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407147633</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaye WellsOlivie Blake|title=Deadly SpellsThe Atlas Six|rating=4.5

|summary=Time has moved on since [[Cursed Moon: Prospero's War: Book Two by Jaye Wells|Cursed Moon]]. Kate's ex-loverDark, the devastatingly hunky but dangerous John Volos has been inaugurated as Babylon's mayor and Kate's neighbourly old witch Baba has moved in with the Prosperos. Meanwhile Kate has delivered on her promisesharp, persuading the MEA wizard Mez to teach her brother Danny how to cook clean potions. Away from everyday life, trouble is brewing. Two opposing gang members have been creatively killed which could mean a tit-for-tat rumble or it could be out-and-out gang war. Compared to the peril this could bringhighly inquisitive, the journalist poking around in Kate's forbidden past is almost 'The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a sideTik-showTok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356503003</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna SmaillDaniel Abraham|title=The ChimesAge of Ash|rating=4.5

|summary=Writing is outlawed We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and no one remembers how to reada meeting that she dreads. In fact memory itself Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a premium; people carry their memories around with them point in their hands or any way they're able as each day their minds empty the turning of so much. The world now answers to years when the music of The Chimes summoning worlds are at their thinnest and all to daily observancethings are possible. The music It is all. It lays aural paths for navigation, identifies people like the night between the funeral of a musical signature – Prince and the music is everywhere. The music is what brings young Simon to London after the death coronation of his parentssuccessor. How did they die? Why For a night the Kithamar is Simon here? Why is Lucien, one of his fellow River Thames mud larks so significant? Would Simon really want to know?un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444794523</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark AlderAnn Sei Lin|title=Son of the MorningRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=The fourteenth century - Edward III sits upon Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the throneMidori, trying to rebuild a country bought massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to its knees, drink and conquer France - a land thought to be rightfully hismake merry between their conquests. However Edward has , when a major problem - it man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is said that a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Angels will only fight for FranceEmpire. Edward He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has little choice - fail and fall known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in battlethe matter, convince because the Angels Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to switch sidesflee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, or open the gates a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hell hunt down shikigami, and begin a holy war...whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575115165</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Darkest Part of the ForestB09Q3P283Y|author=Holly Black|rating=4.5|genretitle=Teens|summary=The people of Fairfold know not to meddle with the faerie folk, they wear their socks inside out, fill their pockets with oatmeal and they stay out of the forest on the full moon. Tourists don’t know these things. People travel far and wide to see the faerie town and the sleeping boy in the glass coffin but one or two always go missing, never to be seen again. Tourists, the locals say, the folk don’t interfere with locals, if they do, you must be acting like a tourist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621736</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewShadebringer|author=Chris Evans|title=Of Bone and ThunderGrayson W Hooper|rating=4.5

|summary=The conscripted men and women of Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the KingdomVietnam War. He's military forces are battling not really that invested in the Slyts fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in Luitoxa career in the military. The KingdomIf he's might may include the latest weaponry honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the ability to thaum but the Slyts are elusive rut he's in. He's good in training and have their own ways. The jungle is as hot as hell which is apt as they will all face their own hells and some may even survivequickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. The odds aren’t good though; if the enemy doesnHe't get them, their own flying craft mays chuffed with himself. Nobody wants to be on the back of an overheated rag!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297557</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Den PatrickJennifer Saint|title=The Boy Who Wept Blood (Erebus Sequence 2)Elektra|rating=54|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Anea is now 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the ruler story of Demesne but, rather than retain three women who live in the current aristocratic system heavily male dominated world of ruling houses, she works towards a republic, empowering the plentiful but poor peasantsAncient Greece. As no turkey votes for ChristmasCassandra, not all ruling houses align with her ideasClytemnestra, making life treacherous – fatally so for some. Dino, her half-brother is doing and Elektra are all he can to protect her but, Anea's desire to spend most bit players in the story of her time with her scientific machines isn't doing her any favours in the popularity stakesTrojan War. For Dino hiding away is not an option; he's got questions Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and he wants to live long enough to answer themthe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473211522</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=R D ShanksDean Koontz|title=A Reverie of BrothersQuicksilver|rating=32.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=The castle of DelzeanMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's walls have always protected Emperor Elinot had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, his sonsfor he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, sister, niece and nephew from the ravages and poverty now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of the people in the city beyond. However the days may be numbered as mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a burgeoning revolution supernatural urge – has infiltrated its walls thanks demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the rebel movement known as The Eyeslam. Their plan necessitates the unwitting involvement And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of the spoiltinterest to them. Helped to escape, egotistical aforementioned niecehe finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, Princess Ava. Unfortunately there will be collateral damage with tragic effectsthe discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1505631394</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jo WaltonTasha Suri|title=What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading The Classics Of Science Fiction And Fantasy|rating=5|genre=Anthologies|summary=Jo Walton has published over ten books, several of which have been award winning. On top of that, she has a voracious appetite for books - both as a well respected writer of original fiction, but as a well respected reviewer too. Not only does she have time to do all that, but she also writes a regular column for Tor.com, on Science Fiction and Fantasy books, and it is these columns that a selection of which are collected here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472111613</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Richard Harland|title=Song of the SlumsJasmine Throne

|summary=''Song On the night of the Slums'' fuses politicsher sacred burning, music, social injustice Princess Malini defies her brother and gaslight fantasyrefuses to step on to the pyre. Set in 1846 during She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the age Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of steam it tells people who got powers from the story of Astor Vance and her mysterious servant/companion Verrol who are caught up in deathless waters. But now the machinations temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the plutocratic Swale family girl saved her from an attacker and must fight begs for survival in a world of intriguethe girl to become her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1743310056</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria AveyardGenevieve Gornichec|title=Red QueenThe Witch's Heart

|summary=London 1913: The Sixth Earl A modern and approachable reimagining of Radnor dies, passing his mantle on to his daughter Lady Lilith Montgomerythe Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. NoShe hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, it’s not the earldom he passes on (that goes to remembering nothing of her brother Freddie) past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the position of Head Witch stake three times because of Odin'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 tied to the Lazarus Covenstake—and refuses to leave her alone. With the position comes responsibilities After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and secrets that have been kept for generations. Divulging the secrets would break the coven code but there are dark entities abroad two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that want them's a wolf, no matter what… or who… it costsand another son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472116402</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne RiceHannah Whitten|title=The Wolves of MidwinterFor the Wolf|rating=2.5

|summary=Things have certainly changed for Reuben Golding now that he is In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a werewolfsacrifice. HeTo Red's living misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with hardly a care for his journalism career in a hugenothing but the cape on her back, rich mansion in Red knows what to expect: within the woods in rural west coast USis a wolf, with some exotic European retainers and servants, and several fellow werewolves, he is the one who are doing will decide the fate of their best at times kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to help him in the transitionwoods will be released, and guiding him in the ways of fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the immortalstories go. He's using his new-found powers But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be a sort of vigilante, ridding killed within the world of evil people and rescuing their victimshour, but it's much closer to home she finds that the change in his life really manifests itselflegends are lies. Just because he has cut ties to his past, it doesn't mean they cannot return to haunt him. The transaction that left him the mansion might wolf is not have been completely smooth after all. And even if he might have an endless future, ita monster—he's not to say he's going to get the one he thinks he wants and deserves, especially where his lover Laura is concerned…a man.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009958493X</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lynne Truss|title=Cat out of Hell|rating=3|genre=Horror|summary=Meet Alec Charlesworth. He's retired and decamped to an isolated coastal cottage with just his dog and loving memories of his colleague wife, now that she has died before her time. But the fusty librarian cannot rest too long before engaging in exploring some unusual computer files that were pinged across by someone at the college he worked at, just before he left. Bizarrely they show photographic and audio evidence of a talking cat called Roger, replete with Vincent Price voice – although they are also damaged by being included alongside some bad screenplay attempts about said cat. Worryingly, we soon see what at the most only a few of the characters can, that this cat is being accompanied by unusual and unexpected death – much like Alec's wife. It's only when Roger testifies to having been pushed through the ends of endurance and out the other side that we begin to doubt where the true evil in this story lies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099585340</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Patrick RothfussJohn Gwynne|title=The Slow Regard of Silent ThingsShadow Of The Gods|rating=4.5

|summary=Deep below The Shadow Of The Gods is the Universityfirst installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the ancient home shadow of magic Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and learningtheir bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, a young girl lives amongst and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the cavesgenre, tunnelswith mythical creatures, archaic language and abandoned roomsbattles galore. In Seven days, her friend will be visiting - one of her few friendsThis is a thick book, with an intricate plot and someone who Auri cannot wait fascinating characters that are woven together to see. Those seven days are filled with Auri's preparations - her hunt amongst the tunnels and caves for create a proper gift, wonderfully realistic and her thoughts as she goes about her businessgritty world in which our heroes must do battle. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473209323</amazonuk>0356514218