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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian LivingstoneA G Slatter|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|(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: Briar Book Two of the Draconis MemoriaDead

|summary=WARNING: '' There are spoilers 's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for [[The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria by Anthony Ryan|Book 1]] from the beginninghowever long I can.Lizanne Lethridge, Blood-Blessed and This secret agent magic of the Exceptional Initiatives Division has survived another missionmy own, all mine, only to be forced at last. I just want to go out again. This time enjoy it entails for a man-hunt in while.'' Within a place remote mountain pass, far away from which no one has emerged alive. Talking about alivethe world, Claydon Torcreeklies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, having escaped several types a family of death in the jungles now goes to the southern ice with Hilemore in their current attempt to defeat witches who protect the dragons town and put the wider world on a safe footingfrom the Darklands. What if all that waits Though she has always wished for them magic, Ellie Briar is more dragons the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and more inventive ways to die? Thatas such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's a thought thatcousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's soon banished leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from his mind. one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches'This legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is where we save the world' says Clay… but he's been wrong before!under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506401</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ritchie Valentine SmithRachel Greenlaw|title=Words of Fury: Volume 2 (Words of Power)Compass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Warning: Spoilers ahead…Emmanuel (Man) Kinross, Yoshi, Joah, ''I can hear the Voice and Dirk Faslane are all fleeing song of the Lord sea. The call of the North deep, the answering beat in a giant floating bubblemy heart. This is '' Rosevear, a delicate conveyance when you consider that the stakes are high remote andpartially forgotten island, if caught by survives on luring ships into the evil Lord of rocks and plundering the Northwrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the world as they know it will end. They just need to get seven who swim out to survey the Waning of ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Moon, Council Watch lays a psychic fortress that spells safety but there's still a long way trap to go and end the odds are very much against them. The Lord of wrecking, they capture the North has more power than theyisland've seen yet s leader and more devastating ways to use it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1544214839</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Vivian Shaw|title= Strange Practice: A Dr Greta Helsing Novel|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=''I don't suppose itMira's worth trying father. Desperate to convince you it's too dangerous?'' <br>''Not in the least.'' <br>Meet Dr Greta Helsingsave him from death, Mira makes a highly talented, well respected physician bargain with her own specialised medical practice, known a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and adored throughout London for with only coordinates to guide her great work… well, at least amongst the supernatural community. Greta is she sets off in fact search of a descendent of family secret that lies buried deep in the vampire hunter Professor Abraham Van Helsingsea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, but relations have improved since then and she now spends as her days carrying on journey takes her fatherfrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's legacy treating vampiresterritory, werewolves, mummies, ghouls Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the like. So early morning emergency calls are not uncommon; what is uncommon however, is a vampire's stab wound that won't healones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356508870</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher B HusbergT Kingfisher|title=Chaos Queen - Dark Immolation (Chaos Queen 2)Thornhedge

|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 the dungeon of Lord Daval she may as well be. Daval himself hasn't been the same since he was possessed by the Lord of Fear and leader of the Nine Daemons. He sees it as a positive but there's You had a high price to be paid in blood for everyone else. Our remaining adventurers return to Jane 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 her. 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 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 right to believe in the old stories. In the power of the landretake your place.''

It was fourteen years ago that ElannaT Kingfisher's life changed completely. Fourteen years ago that her father's plans of revolution fell through, and at the tender age latest novella is a lovely reimagining of five, King Antoine held a pistol to her head fairytale that is well known and took her hostagewell beloved. Raised by the KingBut whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Elanna grows into adulthood suppressing Thornhedge is not her magic and resenting the parents she once lovedstory. Now twentyInstead, Elanna prepares for either study or marriageour protagonist is Toadling, until King Antoine dies and who was stolen away by fairies when 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 in creating was a fair kingdom new-born baby and he wants Elanna secreted away to be the face land of the rebellion. He wants fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to be the Steward of the Land capable of powerful draw magic to make the very Earth move. Elanna must to decide which side she'll align with from her veins and how she will shape her destinycast spells. Can she deny her people the help they desperately need to build a new world?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473638720</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=G S DenningNicole Jarvis|title=Warlock Holmes - The Hell-Hound of the BaskervillesA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=ParanormalHistorical Fiction|summary=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a lot of Sherlock Holmes stories, but not that many novels. 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 is ''The Hound I want all of the BaskervillesFlorence to know my name''  Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and anyone who parodies where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the great detective would eventually need to cover powerful Accademia, the tale self-proclaimed guardians of the cursed Baskerville family. They don't come more parodic than Warlock Holmes and although he may healing magics that through paintings have died at the end of power to protect the last bookcity 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 else. To them, this won't stop him investigating one of his greatest casesArtemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299738</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Christina Henry Thomas D Lee|title= Lost BoyPerilous Times|rating= 43

|summary= Everybody has their own story to tell, and more often than not people only see things from one perspective. In the original Peter Pan Captain Hook ''Hate 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 path of the original work forever. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565568X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= V E Schwab|title= Our Dark Duet|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''Monsters, mayhem, revengeleast resistance''

Six months after Set in the final events of ''This Savage Song''near-distant future, Verity is in chaos. All-out war has broken out and a world on the city verge of climate collapse, Britain is now divided into two – with monsters gaining more and more territory in the North and humans battling for survival in the Southgreat peril. At the centre of the action is August Flynn, The British Isles desperately needs a monster of incredible power who once longed hero (or several) to be human. He will now stop at nothing to fight save the day and play the part he believes he mustrescue what little remains. No matter what the cost, What no matter how much -one expected was that one of himself he loses. Meanwhile, Kate Harker, V City escapee and kick-ass monster hunter, has been busy in Prosperity. But with the arrival Knights of a new monster leaving devastation in its wake and heading straight for Verity, Kate knows she must to return. She must fight for humanity's survival and play her part just like August. Alliances will be tested; old enemies will rise from the dead and past mistakes will come to haunt both August and Kate at every turnRound Table would answer the call.Will they be enough to save the city? And will they each be enough to save themselves from the darkest places within?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785652761</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= R J BarkerAmelia Estelle Dellos|title= Age of AssassinsDelilah Recovered|rating= 34|genre= Fantasy|summary= Age of Assassins is We meet Dee at a very ordinary fantasy novelpoint when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, which at the same time manages be about to slip in the occasional surpriselook up. The central protagonists are a pair Out of assassinswork, Girton Club-Foot and his master, Merela Karn, also known as Death’s Jester. They find themselves hired by a Queen about to protect lose her sonflat, Dee is up for an obnoxious prince, and accountant's job. But it's not to find out who be. Dee is behind attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the threats attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on his earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. In doing so they discover a host Slivers of plots and problems, leaving no part memory of life in the castle untouched. Plots and Machiavellian figures things that are evident not ordinary at every turn as noble families fight over the throne of a dying king. In the meantime between sorcerers in the stables, bitter rivalries between the young men who vie all return to her and things will never be heir to the throne, and the moves of great families, there is no lack of suspectssame... 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 those.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356508544</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom HoltHadeer Elsbai|title= The Management Style Daughters of the Supreme BeingsIzdihar|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary= Imagine, if you will, that the local deity and his well-beloved son Jay decide to retire from the god business and go fishing instead. After all, they've been working on, and for, the planet for millennia, and it is really is time they took a break. And the Venturi brothers, who already manage several other planets, have made them a very generous bid for the franchise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650669X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Benedict Jacka|title=Bound: An Alex Verus Novel|rating=54

|summary=Warning: From Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the beginning this contains spoilers lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for past booksthe rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them.Alex VerusNehal, seerborn into the upper class, mage wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and former owner of a now incinerated London magic shopthen join the military, but instead she is no longer under forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a death warrant but that doesn't mean that people don't want him dead. His only chance privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of survival isn't promising either: he's gone back to the place Daughters of nightmares. He and Anne are now working Izdihar – a group campaigning for his old apprentice master, Richard Drakh. Richardwomen's reasons are never straightforward so it's a mystery as rights. Giorgina also happens to why he's made Alex an offer he'd be killed to refusein love with Nico. UnsurprisinglyWhat follows is a story of an unjust society, Alex isn't the only one who wants to the answer eitherfilled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles. Oh and remember Rachel? She's back and… well… shall we say she has issues?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650719X</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreview <!-- remove 5/6 -->Frontpage|author=Mark LinganeHeather Fawcett|title=BL!NK (Hadron Damnation Book 1)Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=iYe Emily Wilde is a smasher: a child who is capable of sending back pictures of the future by travelling out an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to where write her life's work, the past and future meetvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. Smashers don't usually live Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to see their teens as the information generally returns without themfaeries, she is not so good with people. However iYe's motherSo when she finds herself far, Captain Trix Raidenfar North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, is determined he'll be different andhaving somehow offended the village matriarch, indeed he she isnot sure what she has done, in many waysnor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Not only does iYe surviveEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, he is a chip off the same block as Callyall charm and delight, the planetary heromuch to Emily's frustration. However there But why is a darker side: iYe carries a message that Earth doesn't he here? What does he want to hear. ? The planet And what exactly is used to dealing going on with the aliens that Cally originally fought but worse is on its way. ''We are coming to kill you.''faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0994616457</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= James AbbottChristopher Golden|title= The Never KingRoad of Bones|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyHorror|summary= The land Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Stravimon is in chaos. Cedius Bones'… the Wise died leaving the traitorous Mardonius to ascend to the throneR504. In far off Hell Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's Keep (one of the world's most deadly and remote prison in notorious routes. For months of the Kingdom; year it's a place no prisoner has ever returned from alive) Xavir Argentum is contacted by Cediusspread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' former Spy Mastersees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, Landrilapocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Betrayal Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, intrigueand 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, violence and magic follow as we travel across this strange but familiar land on that's a quest bit rich, for vengeanceone 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 of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, justice and freedomfetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509803114</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura LamAndrew Givler|title=Masquerade Soul Fraud (Micah Grey TrilogyThe Debt Collection Book 1)

|genre=TeensFantasy|summary= It''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's been a remarkable journey for our young protagonistawful. It wasn't long ago is so bad that Micah Grey was still living Dan the life of Iphigenia Laurus, daughter Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a noble family, trapped blissful life in a gilded cage forever hiding her true selfexchange for his soul. Since running away'' Poor Dan! I know, Micah has managed to reinvent himselfI know, first as a circus acrobat, and then as a magicianwe shouldn's apprenticet feel sorry for soul-catching demons. Along the way But he's discovered love really is a terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and friendships that have helped keep him afloat, when he fails to get even as betrayal and tragedy seem ready Matt to strike at every turn. But theresign on the dotted line, he's only so long desperate that he can keep running. His powers are growing, the Chimaera are returning, and Ellada is about to reach a violent tipping pointsimply forges Matt's signature. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509807780</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brian StaveleyOlivie Blake|title= SkullswornThe Atlas Six|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=Dark, sharp, and highly inquisitive, ''"Love is like killing," she said. "You do it with every part of you, or not at all.” The Atlas Six'' Pyrre is makes its publishing debut after becoming a skullsworn; one who is devoted to the God of Death. Trained as an assassin and having studied under the deadliest killers in 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 deathTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150982295X</amazonuk>1529095239

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= V E SchwabDaniel Abraham|title=A Conjuring Age of LightAsh|rating= 4.5

|summary= The Darker Shade of Magic trilogy concludes by continuing with We meet Alys under the story most northerly of Lila BardOldgate's four bridges, finding she has a knife in her way through hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the different Londons', one with magic, one without magic, City of Kithamar is at a London where magic has near enough destroyed point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their world thinnest and all things are possible. It is the last London, which balances precariously on night between the funeral of a Prince and the edge coronation of oblivionhis successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0765387468</amazonuk>0356515427

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire NorthAnn Sei Lin|title= The End of the DayRebel Skies

|genre= General FictionTeens|summary= At Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the end sky where soldiers of the day, Death visits everyoneEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Right before thatHowever, Charlie does. You might meet him in when a hospital, in man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a warzoneCrafter like him, or at someone with the scene of power to form paper into whatever she desires – a traffic accident.Then again, you might meet him at power sought after all across the North Pole - he gets everywhereEmpire. From jungles He asks her to deserts to tundra, you may come across Charlie. Would you shake with him by , to leave the handlife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, take soon Kurara won't have any say in the gift he offersmatter, or would you pay no attention to because the words he says? Sometimes he Midori is sent destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a courtesyshikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, sometimes as and a warning. He never knows which.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316316741</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jen WilliamsB09Q3P283Y|title=The Ninth Rain (The Winnowing Flame Trilogy 1) Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=54

|summary=Ebora is dying along with its tree-like god Ysegril but Hestillion is doing all she can to keep him aliveClyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. In fact sheHe'll go to any lengths to save him… any lengths at alls not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the military. HestIf he's brother Tormalin canhonest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't sit around got many choices and wait for this one, at least, gets him out of the end so rut he's engaged by Lady Vincenza (Vintage) de Grazon to be her factotum and hired sword during her quest for knowledgein. ItHe's turning into more of an adventure than they'd planned even before Fell witch good in training and fugitive Noon joins themis quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. Now the trio must work together, putting prejudices and passions aside (othersHe' as well as their own). The Ninth Rain is coming and more than Ebora is in dangers chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472235177</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrezej SapkowskiJennifer Saint|title= The Lady of the LakeElektra|rating=34|genre= Fantasy Literary Fiction|summary= This book was quite captivating 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the beginningheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. The idea that the truths of ancient history Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and mythology can be unearthed by exploring them Elektra are all bit players in the dreams story of a talented sleeper is rather enchantingthe Trojan War. It's an interesting idea, one Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that merges history often the silent women have the most compelling stories and fantasy creating an almost dream like feel within the writingmost extreme furies. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147321159X</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedDean Koontz|title= Stanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)Quicksilver|rating= 2.5|genre= Science FictionThrillers|summary= CynicalMeet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, solitary Stanly Bird used for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to be sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a fairly typical teenager supernatural urge – unless you count the fact has demanded of him that his best friend was he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came fortune, cash the superpowers. And value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the super powered allieslam. And the mysterious enemies. And the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. And the apocalypse. Now all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's not sure what he isof interest to them. Or where Helped to escape, he finds his flight is. Or how exactly one is supposed to proceed after saving interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the world. All discovery that he knows is that his story isn't finishednot unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides. Not quite yet …|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630764</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian McClellanTasha Suri|title=Sins of EmpireThe Jasmine Throne|rating=54

|summary=The fantasy genre On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. She is home immediately sent to some of be imprisoned on the best books Hirana: an ancient temple that I have ever read, but also some was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. But now the worsttemple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. The very nature One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of epic stories reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that span generations means that few fantasy books rock up under 400 pages and many are part of long running series or trilogies. When done badly, fantasy books are bloated the girl saved her from an attacker and boring affairs that rattle of every cliché begs for the genre has had girl to offer since Bilbo exited Bag End, but done well they can be brilliant. They can be ''Sins of Empire'' by Brian McClellanbecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650929X</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marisa SilverGenevieve Gornichec|title= Little NothingThe Witch's Heart|rating= 54|genre= Literary Fiction Fantasy|summary=In an unnamed country at the beginning A modern and approachable reimagining of the last century, Norse myths that centres around a peasant couple longs for witch named Angrboda. She hides in a child. In despair they turn to gypsy tonics and archaic prescriptions, and one cold wintery night, the couple's wish comes true. But forest at the silence that follows the birth forewarns edge of darker days to come. Strangers look on askance and fall speechless in the child's presence, and villagers protectively hush their children as they pass on narrow market lanes. Pavla is no ordinary childnine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but then this is no ordinary tale.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786071274</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marissa Meyer|title= Heartless|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= How did that fact that she was survived burnt at the Queen stake three times because of Hearts become the monster we know from AliceOdin's story? Welcome wrath. Her attempts to Meyer's Wonderland and the peaceful kingdom of Heartslive in peace, however, where a young Lady called Catherine's heart's desire is to be … the best baker in all of Hearts. But while are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her mother tolerates literal heart—the one that was cut from her hobby, Catherine knows chest before she will never consider it as a serious path for her daughter, unless Catherine can convince was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave heralone. HoweverAfter an initial period of mistrust, CatherineAngrboda begins to fall for Loki's dreams start to get that much more complicated once a mysterious stranger appearscharms, a royal suitor materialises and deadly beast starts stalking the once safe Kingdom. What is Cath's destiny? To be the dreadful queen we all know or to be two start an unusual family made of up a dedicated bakery owner? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509814132</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Amanda Hocking|title= Freeks|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= In the spring of 1987, the carnival comes to smallhalf-town Caudrydead daughter, Louisiana. Then events take a dangerous turn. For Mara Beznik, the carnival is home. Itson that's also a place of secretswolf, hidden powers and a buried past - making it hard to connect with outsiders. However, sparks fly when she meets local boy Gabe Alvarado. As they become inseparable, Mara realizes Gabe is hiding his own secrets. And his family legacy could destroy Maraanother son that's worlda snake. They find the word 'freeks' sprayed on trailers, as carnival employees start disappearing. Then workers wind up dead, killed in disturbing ways by someone or something. Mara is determined to unlock the mystery, with Gabe's help. But can they really halt this campaign of fear?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509807659</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephanie GarberHannah Whitten|title=CaravalFor the Wolf

|summary=Scarlett Dragna has had one desire all her life: to visit In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a Caravalsacrifice. These interactive events put on by magician and entrepreneur Legend are world famous but very exclusive. ItTo Red's therefore misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a huge surprise when Scarlett wolf, and her sister Tella receive tickets. These he is the one who will take them away from decide the fate of their sadistic father and prison-like island home for the first timekingdom. Caraval If she is never what one expects though and when Tella is kidnappednot a worthy sacrifice, Scarlett experiences the sinister side of a game in which nothing is what it seems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473629144</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Neil Gaiman|title=Stardust: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy |summary=Tristan Thorn has never wanted monsters he keeps contained to cross the Wall from his sleepy English village to woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the land of Faerie beyondstories go. However, But when Red enters the girl of his dreams – the beautiful Victoria Forester – promises woods, expecting nothing more than to be his bride if he retrieves a fallen starkilled within the hour, he has no choiceshe finds that the legends are lies. Without hesitation, Tristan sets out on The wolf is not a quest that will lead him into monster—he's a series of bizarre adventures and set him against the dark forces of the strange and magical land of Stormholdman. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785295624</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan DennardJohn Gwynne|title=Windwitch (The Witchlands Series)Shadow Of The Gods

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