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|isbn=1250168546|author=Sarah KozloffT Kingfisher|title=A Queen In HidingThornhedge|rating=35

|summary= World-building is the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die. And what a pleasure, then, to get ''You had a novel with world-building you actually want right to delve intoretake your place. Sarah Kozloff'' T Kingfisher's debut novel presents latest novella is a startlingly rich and layered world, with lovely reimagining of a complex history of connecting nations fairytale that seems certain to have more to tap, is well known and the characters are interesting – if a little underdevelopedwell beloved. But it's whilst there is a princess trapped in a world I could – and did – eagerly buy intotower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the struggle land of each Queen fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to discover and hone draw magic from her magical talent felt very real veins and very aptcast spells.|isbn=1803364238

|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)Nicole Jarvis|title=Orphans of the TideA Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary= In the last city on Earth''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, anyone Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can be 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 vessel of The Enemy - powerful Accademia, the god who drowned the world self- who has come to wreak havoc on the last proclaimed guardians of humanity. When a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse of a whale, healing magics that through paintings have the citizens immediately believe him power to be protect the Vessel city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all- male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all except for young Ellie Lancaster, a girl inventorelse. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the boyTo them, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets..Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|isbn=02413844351803362340

|author= Luke ArnoldThomas D Lee|title= The Last Smile in Sunder CityPerilous Times|rating= 23

|summary= ''The Last Smile in Sunder CityHate is the path of least resistance''  Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is an urban fantasy noir written by Luke Arnoldin great peril. It centres on The British Isles desperately needs a Private Detective, Fetch Philips, as he attempts hero (or several) to find a missing vampire in a world filled with magical creatures where all save the day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the magic has suddenly disappeared with catastrophic consequencescall.|isbn=0356512886 0356518523

|author= A K LarkwoodAmelia Estelle Dellos|title= The Unspoken NameDelilah Recovered|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone is We meet Dee at a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to point when her god on her fourteenth birthdaylife isn't going as planned but things might, yet when the opportunity arisesjust might, she chooses be about to abandon everything she knows and flee with her lifelook up. Who can blame Out of work, about to lose her? Her god’s reach flat, Dee is limited and Csorwe intends up for an accountant's job. But it's not to stay far beyond it, yet fate be. Dee is a funny thing and when circumstances bring her back within attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the reach attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of her god Csorwe learns things that are not ordinary at all return to her god remembers her, and blames her very much indeedthings will never be the same....|isbn=1250238900B0BKYFDLLV

|author=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)Hadeer Elsbai|title=Cursed: An Anthology The Daughters of Dark Fairy TalesIzdihar|rating=4.5

|summary=Curses. TheyDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar''re there throughout tales explores the lives of faery two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and other fantastical folk weavers – people being cursed those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to do thiscontrol her abilities and then join the military, or but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be able to do thatin love with Nico. Children can be cursedWhat follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, as can princesses 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 life's work, the verge very first encyclopaedia of marryingfaeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, and older she is not so good with people too. It seems So when she finds herself far, far North in a way there's no escaping it. Which is why the theme small village of this book of short stories is such a standout – we may well think we know all there Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to know about this accursed characterredeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, that demonised placeher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and that other bewitched person. Wedelight, much to Emily'd be very wrongs frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=17890915000356519120

|author=Kathlaine C Gill and D Clark GillChristopher Golden|title=Madness Between Light and DarkRoad of Bones

|summary=ItWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's 1912four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and at New Hope Sanatorium, Christine Agnes Tupper is fast growing upa meeting that she dreads. Abandoned there by parents who were ashamed Meanwhile the City of her hunchback, she's nevertheless grown up to an intelligent girl with Kithamar is at a good heartpoint in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. Her encounters with It is the inhabitants night between the funeral of the asylum swiftly take her on a fascinating, thrilling Prince and sometimes terrifying journey the coronation of self discovery, allowing Agnes to prove that, even with his successor. For a twisted spine, her heart night the Kithamar is in the right place!un-ruled.|isbn=16411107080356515427

|author= Alexandra ChristoAnn Sei Lin|title= Into the Crooked PlaceRebel Skies|rating= 45

|summary= In Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. 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. He asks her to come with him, to leave the city life of Creijedreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, Taviasoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, 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, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09Q3P283Y|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=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 magical concareer in the military. If he's honest -artistwhich Clyde usually is, specialises with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the rut he's in. He's good in wowing gullible tourists training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with cheap charms himself.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Elektra|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and trickerythe most extreme furies. However|isbn=1472273915}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, 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 sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a new 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 powerful form suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of magic unlike anything seen him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in decades begins trickling onto having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|isbn=1542019885}}{{Frontpage|author=Tasha Suri|title=The Jasmine Throne|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= On the streetsnight of her sacred burning, nearly killing Princess Malini defies her close friend Saxony, Tavia begins brother and refuses to step on to worrythe pyre. At She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the same timemysterious deathless waters. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her childhood best friend Wesleyfor such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the youngest underboss girl to become her own personal maidservant.|isbn=0356515648}}{{Frontpage|author=Genevieve Gornichec|title=The Witch's Heart|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the edge of the citynine worlds, discovers remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the 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 Dante Ashwoodwas cut from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, kingpin Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and another son that's a snake.|isbn=1789097061}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Whitten|title=For the Wolf|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In Red's family, the Creijen criminal underworldfirst daughter becomes queen, has his sights set and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on world dominationher back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. ItThe wolf is not a monster—he's now up a man.|isbn=0356516369}}{{Frontpage|author=John Gwynne|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the four unlikely allies ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to bring down his plans.the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore.This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world 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, 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 Move 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 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 trendsetter, as influencer, as 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]] <!-- Moyer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:178747920X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178747920X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Robin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, and retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he had built. Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to break the curse surrounding them and to save their lives. Setting off with a soldier, a Fey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in a maze of betrayals, complicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the throne…[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]] <!-- Wild-Palmer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1782692231.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782692231/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Tunnels Below by Nadine Wild-Palmer]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Meet Cecilia. It's her twelfth birthday, and after a scene that shows her parents to be wacky, witty and wonderful as if fresh from an American sit-com, the whole family is set to go out for a grand day of celebration. Cecilia is toting a large, silvered ball that her younger sister found as a present, but ends up dropping it, and watching it as it rolls right back from her grip into the very Underground carriage they had just left. Mind the gap. Back in the train with it she finds she is alone – and the train promptly hares off to leave her abandoned in pitch darkness at a stop no other train has ever taken her to… It's the outskirts, Cecilia will find, of a strange society of English-speaking humanised animals, and her first acquaintance, a fox-man, will tell her that all talk of a world above, with suns and fields and fresh air, is pooh-poohed as the nonsense gibberish of people who have wandered in darkness too much and forgotten their origins. Can she survive all this wondrous civilisation can throw at her and find her way back to the family she left behind – or will the dark leaders from the resident crow family subject her to their evil reign? [[The Tunnels Below by Nadine Wild-Palmer|Full Review]] <!-- Motayne -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:147367591X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/147367591X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Nocturna by Maya Motayne]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] A thief without a face, a prince who was never meant to be king, Finn and Alfie collide, as if thrown together by fate, to bring about a series of catastrophes and set in motion the release of a darkness that seeks to consume all the goodness and magic in the world. These two unlikely allies must try to put their own personal battles behind them and join forces to stop the evil from destroying everything they hold dear. [[Nocturna by Maya Motayne|Full Review]] <!-- Cooch -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0578444305.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0578444305/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] This novel is set about a hundred years into the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's left of the old United States is run from Center City. Women run this world and it is very proud of having defeated the old patriarchy. Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don't, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. And if that doesn't work, they're sent to work camps, away from open society, or even worse: expelled to the wilderness beyond the Central Authority's borders. [[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch|Full Review]] <!-- Ireland -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1789090873.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789090873/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Dread Nation by Justina Ireland]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''Two days after I was born … the dead rose up and started to walk on a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg '' Dread Nation narrates the unconventional life of Jane McKeene who was born days before the dead began to walk the streets. An event which in interrupting the civil war between the states altered American history forever. In the changed world, minorities are forced into conscription and under the new Native and Negro Re-education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to destroy the dead once and for all. For Jane and other girls like her, there is however the opportunity for a better life by being employed as an attendant. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and are valued above all else. [[Dread Nation by Justina Ireland|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE --> |}