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|author=Rachel Neumeier
|title=Griffin Mage: Law ofthe of the Broken Earth
|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=It's always wonderful to see a series going from strength to strength and getting better as it goes along. However, when this happens, there inevitably comes a point where it gets so good, you can't help but think that the next one can't possibly be any better as it feels like the series has peaked. ''Changes'', the twelfth in Jim Butcher's ''Dresden Files'' series, is such a book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497134</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Phoebe Reeves Murray
|title=Ghost: Blood and Fire
|rating=1.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Young Jennifer Rhys has been orphaned by the evil
Dark Angels. They can possess people and bite off their hands, and
there's something about living tattoos which you can take out of boxes
and paste into your skin. After growing up in an adolescent
psychiatric ward, she will grow up to go on and confront them and
fulfil her destiny. Or something like that. Between the huge amount of
poorly drawn characters, the leaden prose, and the disappointing
pictures of computerized 3-D models, I got lost a few times and
couldn't summon the interest to work out what was going on.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808863</amazonuk>
}}
 
{{newreview
|author=Martin Millar
|title=Lonely Werewolf Girl
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The plot is simple - the werewolf of the title is 17 year old Kalix, exiled from her family due to her involvement in the head of the clan’s death. Her elder brother has set a price on her head, and is pursuing her with all sources he can muster. It sounds horrific? It is indeed, and there are some truly gruesome scenes, as werewolves battle amongst themselves, or with the humans who come into their orbit. However, these scenes do serve a purpose (to remind us perhaps, that they are werewolves, and not humans?!), and by and large do not occupy too large a part in the narrative.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749942835</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jaye Wells
|title=The Mage in Black (Sabina Kane)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=After betraying the Dominae and siding with a Mage over the Vampires, Sabina Kane finds herself on the run. Leaving behind everything she knows, she travels with Mage, Adam, to meet the other half of her family – her twin sister, Maisie. Though the Mages welcome her with open arms, Sabina, used to the cold, displeasure of her Dominae Grandmother, can't quite accept their open affection, or their conviction that she has a destiny. Her only focus is on revenge, developing her Mage powers so she can defeat her Grandmother.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497576</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Patricia Briggs
|title=Silver Borne
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Mercy's life is just not getting any easier. The werewolf she lives with is looking like going rogue – not snapping out of wolf form, which might have dangerous repercussions – for himself and those around him. Someone within the pack she's joined with seems to be playing psychic warfare on her, and leading her astray with errant mental suggestions. Worse still, she's opened the door of her (ill-fated) trailer and found death threats on the step before, but not a fae assassin looking over things from the middle distance. Could any of this have anything to do with a mysterious fae book of fairy lore she's been asked to look after?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497991</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Brian Ruckley
|title=Fall of Thanes
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The Godless world is descending into a kind of insanity. All order is breaking down and members of both the True Bloods and the Black Road are fighting amongst themselves. There is rioting in the streets and the armies of both sides have taken to mindless slaughter rather than organised conquest. Under Aeglyss' command, the Black Road armies are strengthening and his power is increasing as his body weakens. His control of the Shadow Chancellor is a step towards ending the rule of the Thanes by murdering the greatest among them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841494410</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kresley Cole
|title=Pleasure of a Dark Prince
|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Sexy half dressed hunk on cover? Check. Enticing title? Check. Sometimes there's nothing nicer than curling up with a glass of wine (or two!), some cheese and crackers and lovely hunky man – even if he is the main character in a book! I've never read Kresley Cole before but I love fantasy, especially with a romantic element and so I was looking forward to trying a new author.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849830363</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Griffin
|title=The Midnight Mayor: A Matthew Swift Novel
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary='A telephone rang.
 
I answered.
 
After that…
 
…it's complicated.'
 
Sorcerer Matthew Swift does not especially like danger. In fact, after the events that led to him destroying the Tower and his former teacher, Robert Bakker, he'd prefer it greatly if danger would leave him to mind his own business, thank you very much.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497347</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Glenda Larke
|title=The Last Stormlord (Stormlord Trilogy)
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The Last Stormlord is a unique story which explores a civilization on the brink of disaster. The world survives through the powers of a Stormmlord who brings water to the parched lands of the Quartern from the distant seas. As the story opens the last Stormlord is weak and dying. Choices are being made about who will receive water, who will not and the Quartern hovers on the brink of returning to a time of Random Rain: water that does not fall where or when it is needed. Without a new Stormlord the land will die.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498114</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=N K Jemisin
|title=The Hundred-Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy)
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=A month after her mother's death, outcast Yeine Darr is summoned by her grandfather, king of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, to come to the palace of Sky. There named one of his three heirs, along with her feuding cousins, she quickly realizes that without allies she will surely lose the contest for the throne. Thus begins an epic quest to find her mother's murderer, save her own life, and fulfil a destiny she never knew she had.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498173</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=P C Cast
|title=Divine by Choice (Goddess of Partholon)
|rating=3
|genre=Fantasy
|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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