==Fantasy==
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{{newreview
|author=Janet Evanovich
|title=Wicked Appetite
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Take one rather ditzy girl. Add a funny, extrovert friend, and another, more sensible one. Stir in two seriously attractive men, an unhinged pet or two, a slapstick plot and an unending series of cars. What have you got? A Janet Evanovich novel! This has been the formula for the winning 'Stephanie Plum' series for years, about a hopelessly incompetent bounty hunter who never quite manages to choose between the two hunks in her life, and it has given much pleasure and amusement. But even the best formulas get stale, so this year Ms Evanovich has branched out into something new. Well, almost.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755352769</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gail Carriger
|summary=A few months after the Formorian war, Shannon Parker is living the high life. Hailed as Goddess Incarnate, married to a man (well, centaur) who was born to love her, carrying her first child, the next daughter of Epona and royally spoiled with amazing jewels and clothes, life really can't get much better.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303586</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Laura Powell
|title=The Master of Misrule
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In the Arcanum, fortunes could be won and lost. The bizarre otherworld, just the slightest shift away from our own, had been home to a life-altering game of chance, power and intelligence, based on the tarot. Four teenaged Londoners had been witness to this, then players. But they'd found it wanting, and to level the playing field, had thrown out the rulebook. With that, however, the referee is no more, and the Lord of Misrule is in charge. Free, too, to smother all of Britain with his unique brand of scratch-card lottery. Soon all humanity might be out of luck.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408302373</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=James A Owen
|title=Shadow Dragons (Imaginarium Geographica)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=If you want to know where Tolkein, C S Lewis and their ilk got their ideas from, you might consider their jobs. No - not their work in Oxbridge universities. In this book, at least, John, Charles and Jack are guardians of a very important book, the Imaginarium Geographica, within which lives a lot of secret, vital information, and almost the soul of the land. They might not get a surname so we know immediately who is whom. They might be from a different world - there is certainly enough talk of those in these pages. But we'll see them meet a vanishing Cheshire cat, a certain Spanish knight we might have thought fictional, and more, en route to a quest of Arthurian proportions.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386512</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=P C Cast
|title=Divine by Mistake (Goddess of Partholon)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Shannon Parker, broke Oklahoma English teacher, likes a good bargain hunt at an auction. But she gets more than her money's worth when she buys a vase with her likeness painted on it. Somehow transported to the magical world of Partholon, Shannon finds herself in the shoes of Rhiannon, her mirror double. Along with Rhiannon's station as Goddess Incarnate, Shannon finds herself landed with her double's less than enviable reputation and a Centaur husband.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303578</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jon Mayhew
|title=Mortlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Abyssinia, 1820. Three Englishment search for the Amarant, a mythical flower with the power over life and death, in a strange desert oasis. On finding the flower surrounded by decaying faces, they realize that it is cursed, and take a blood oath never to remove it.
London, 1854. 13 year old knife thrower Josie performs with her guardian the Great Cardamom, an especially gifted magician who we quickly learn is Chrimes, the coward of the original three Englishmen. Their relatively peaceful existence is shattered when three macabre Aunts (note the capital letter, never a good sign…) descend on them, and Cardamom instructs Josie, with his dying breath, to find the twin brother he'd never told her about and destroy the Amarant.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803925</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Celine Kiernan
|title=The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy)
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=In ''The Poison Throne'' what had been a benevolent kingdom has become characterised by repression and torture (which the book graphically describes). The magical aspects of the kingdom, its talking cats and ghosts, have been suppressed, while Alberon, the heir to the throne, has vanished. Wynter, along with Alberon's half brother Razi and his friend Christopher are increasingly at risk as they attempt to deal with this situation.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498211</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Russell Kirkpatrick
|title=Beyond the Wall of Time (Broken Man)
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=A couple of aspects have summed up Russell Kirkpatrick's ''Broken Man'' trilogy for me so far. There has been a fascinating story with some wonderful character building that has made it highly enjoyable. There have also been some of the most detailed maps I have ever seen in a fantasy series, offering more variation than I've seen in maps before and actually adding detail to some parts of the story, not merely acting as a guide. I was expecting more of the same from the final part, ''Beyond the Wall of Time'' and very much looking forward to it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496715</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
|title=Beautiful Creatures
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Teenage boy meets mysterious new stranger in a small town. They fall in love, he finds out she's harbouring a dark secret, the pair of them try to find out if their relationship can work while she tries to keep him safe from her world. This kind of book appears to be released every few weeks since [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] became so successful – but rarely in the past few years has it been done as well as it has in Beautiful Creatures.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326085</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jasper Fforde
|title=Shades of Grey
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Sometimes with authors you just don't know what you've been missing. Other times you do. Jasper Fforde has long been on my catch-up list. Snippets of Thursday Next and reviews and interviews were enough to convince me I had to get to know this work.
My chance finally came with the first in a completely new series: Shades of Grey.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340963034</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Pamela Freeman
|title=Full Circle (Castings Trilogy)
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Pamela Freeman's ''Castings'' trilogy is written in an unusual way for a fantasy novel. It tells the story from the characters' points of view, in a style more common to the chick-lit novels of Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees. This interrupted the flow of the story quite noticeably in ''Blood Ties'', the first of the trilogy, but didn't seem quite so much of a distraction in the second part, ''Deep Water''. Unfortunately, this time around it works against the story.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497037</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alan Skinner
|title=Furnaces of Forge
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In this [[Blue Fire and Ice (The Land) by Alan Skinner|sequel]], it's almost as you were, except here the mysterious powers of the blue flame are not being used by some outlander arsonist, but have been usurped by two inept young scientists from the Myrmidots, to fuel their industry. We can predict this will prove a bad thing, but the breadth of the journey to capture the flame, and the efforts of all our returning characters to put things right might still be a surprise.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955726859</amazonuk>
}}
