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[[Category:New Reviews|Fantasy]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jacquelyn FrankA G Slatter|title=Cursed By FireThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=25

|summary=The blurb '' There's a part of Cursed By Fire had me interestedthat wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. I loved the openingThis secret magic of my own, in which we meet Dethanall mine, a former warrior cursed by the gods at last. I just want to suffer an unending punishment enjoy it for daring to steal immortality a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from themthe world, and follow his attempts to lead lies Silverton; a town under the armies of Hexis to victory to appease one protection of the vengeful gods.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034553493X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Adrian Tchaikovsky|title=Guns Briar's, a family of witches who protect the Dawn|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Emily Marshwic has led a priveleged life - wealthy town and the wider world from a good family, the Darklands. Though she has known little discomfort. Until always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the war comes first non- witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a vicious, far reaching struggle that destroys whole nations steward revolved around letters and tears families apart. First the men are conscripted, administration rather than spells and then, after many defeats - the womenpotions. Having seen When her country ravagedgrandmother suddenly dies, and hearing news of her brotherEllie's deathcousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, Emily signs up for the army - town's leader, and is plunged into situations more deadly than she can ever have imaginedEllie 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 tide heart of a maelstrom of war turns - could Emily be the chaos. Reeling from one family secret to put an end another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the bloodshed?Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447272676</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Randy HendersonRachel Greenlaw|title=Finn Fancy Necromancy Compass and Blade

|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Douglas Coupland suggested that all families are psychotic and he may just be right if that family consists ''I can hear the song of necromancersthe sea. The usual family dynamic 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, like her mother before her, is already a little messed up when you are one of four kids, but the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when you throw in the power Council Watch lays a trap to remove souls and reanimate end the deadwrecking, things can get even more complicatedthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. After 25 yearsDesperate to save him from death, Finn returns home Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to find guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that some things have changedlies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, but his family will always Mira must be a nightmaredetermined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297239</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jen WilliamsT Kingfisher|title=The Iron GhostThornhedge

|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 You had a young assassin is polishing off entire families. Why? One thing that's clear is that Seb, Wydrin and Frith ''will'' get involved eventually… involved right up to their necksretake your place. The other thing they will see with clarity is that an old adversary is back and this time he's brought a friend!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472211138</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Melinda Salisbury|title=The Sin EaterT Kingfisher's Daughter |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In latest novella is a land lovely reimagining of fantasy, Twylla lives in the court, engaged to the princea fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But this whilst there is no fairytale – he is one of the only people she can touch, made immune to the poison carried a princess trapped in her veins. The embodiment of a goddesstower, Twylla is the executionersleeping under an eternal enchantment, forced to kill those who commit treason. Nearly everyone around Thornhedge is terrified of not herstory. Until new guard Lief arrivesInstead, our protagonist is Toadling, who could see her as was stolen away by fairies when she was a friend, or even romantically. The question of whether new-born baby and secreted away to the two could have a future together is an intriguing one, but before long, it’s the least land of Twylla’s worries as she’s thrown into danger by the queen’s obsession with destroying fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her enemiesveins and cast spells. Can she survive?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407147633</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaye WellsNicole Jarvis|title=Deadly SpellsA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Time has moved on since [[Cursed Moon: Prospero's War: Book Two by Jaye Wells|Cursed Moon]]. Kate's ex-lover, 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 promise, 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 bring, the journalist poking around in Kate's forbidden past is almost a side-show.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356503003</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anna Smaill|title=The Chimes|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Writing is outlawed and no one remembers how to read. In fact memory itself is at a premium; people carry their memories around with them in their hands or any way they're able as each day their minds empty of so much. The world now answers to the music of The Chimes summoning all to daily observance. The music is I want all. It lays aural paths for navigation, identifies people like a musical signature – the music is everywhere. The music is what brings young Simon to London after the death of his parents. How did they die? Why is Simon here? Why is Lucien, one of his fellow River Thames mud larks so significant? Would Simon really want Florence to know?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444794523</amazonuk>}}my name''

{{newreview|author=Mark Alder|title=Son Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can 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 powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians of the Morning|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The fourteenth century - Edward III sits upon healing magics that through paintings have the throne, trying to rebuild a country bought power to protect the city and its knees, citizens from plagues and conquer France curses. The all- a land thought to be rightfully his. However Edward male Accademia has a major problem - hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it is said that the Angels will only fight for Franceabove all else. Edward To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has little choice - fail no place amongst them and fall in battle, convince the Angels to switch sides, or open the gates to hell and begin a holy war..their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575115165</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|title=The Darkest Part of Set in the Forest|author=Holly Black|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The people of Fairfold know not to meddle with the faerie folknear-distant future, they wear their socks inside out, fill their pockets with oatmeal and they stay out of the forest in a world on the full moonverge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. Tourists don’t know these things. People travel far and wide The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to see save the faerie town day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the sleeping boy in Knights of the glass coffin but one or two always go missing, never to be seen again. Tourists, the locals say, Round Table would answer the folk don’t interfere with locals, if they do, you must be acting like a touristcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621736</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris EvansAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Of Bone and ThunderDelilah Recovered|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The conscripted men and women of the Kingdom's military forces are battling the Slyts in Luitox. The Kingdom's might may include the latest weaponry and the ability to thaum but the Slyts are elusive 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 survive. The odds aren’t good though; if the enemy doesn't get them, their own flying craft may. Nobody wants to be on the back of an overheated rag!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297557</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Den Patrick|title=The Boy Who Wept Blood (Erebus Sequence 2)|rating=5

|summary=Anea is now the ruler of Demesne We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned butthings might, rather than retain the current aristocratic system of ruling housesjust might, she works towards a republic, empowering the plentiful but poor peasantsbe about to look up. As no turkey votes for ChristmasOut of work, not all ruling houses align with about to lose her ideasflat, making life treacherous – fatally so Dee is up for somean accountant's job. Dino, her half-brother is doing all he can to protect her but, AneaBut it's desire not to spend most of her time with her scientific machines isn't doing her any favours in the popularity stakesbe. For Dino hiding away Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not an option; heunscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's got questions and he wants to live long enough to answer themjust an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473211522</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=R D Shanks|title=A Reverie Slivers of Brothers|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The castle memory of Delzean's walls have always protected Emperor Eli, his sons, sister, niece things that are not ordinary at all return to her and nephew from the ravages and poverty of things will never be the people in the city beyondsame. However the days may be numbered as a burgeoning revolution has infiltrated its walls thanks to the rebel movement known as The Eyes. Their plan necessitates the unwitting involvement of the spoilt, egotistical aforementioned niece, Princess Ava. Unfortunately there will be collateral damage with tragic effects.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1505631394</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jo WaltonHadeer Elsbai|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 Daughters of the SlumsIzdihar

|summary=Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''Song The Daughters of the SlumsIzdihar'' fuses politicsexplores the lives of two women who could not be more different, music, social injustice yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and gaslight fantasyweavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Set in 1846 during Nehal, born into the age of steam it tells upper class, wishes to attend the story of Astor Vance Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and her mysterious servant/companion Verrol who are caught up in then join the machinations of military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the plutocratic Swale other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and must fight maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for survival women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a world story of intriguean unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1743310056</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria AveyardHeather Fawcett|title=Red QueenEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Mare Emily Wilde is a Red - a race kept in lives of poverty an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and servitude by the Silversshe has travelled extensively, a race with wealth and mutant powers that allow them researched meticulously, to live lives write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of luxuryfaeries. Learning Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to survive amongst the slum like conditions that the Reds inhabitfaeries, Mare she is swiftly thrown into not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the world small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the Silvers - one that proves village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to be more dangerous than she had ever imaginedredeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, with treacheryher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, plots all charm and deadly games lurking round every cornerdelight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paula BrackstonChristopher Golden|title=The Midnight WitchRoad of Bones

|summary=Meet Alec CharlesworthThe Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. HeStretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's retired and decamped to an isolated coastal cottage with just his dog and loving memories one of his colleague wife, now that she has died before her timethe world's most notorious routes. But For months of the fusty librarian cannot rest too long before engaging in exploring some unusual computer files that were pinged across by someone at year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the college he worked atpermafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, just before he leftpuddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Bizarrely they show photographic Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and audio evidence of other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a talking cat called Rogerlesson, replete with Vincent Price voice – although they are also damaged by being included alongside some bad screenplay attempts it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about said cat. Worryinglyit online, we soon see what at the most only but that's a few bit rich, for one of the our main characters can, that this cat Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is being accompanied by unusual and unexpected death a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – much like Alecwho's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's wifeprior TV projects. It's only when Roger testifies to having been pushed through They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the ends company of endurance a local beauty, and out fetch up at the other side guide's childhood village. And that we begin 's where things start to doubt where the true evil in this story lies…go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099585340</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick RothfussAndrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Slow Regard of Silent ThingsDebt Collection Book 1)|rating=4.5

|summary=Deep below the University, the ancient home of magic and learning, ''Matt has a young girl lives amongst the caves, tunnels, and abandoned rooms. In Seven days, her friend will be visiting - one of her few friends, and someone who Auri cannot wait to seeterrible life. Those seven days are filled with AuriSeriously—it's preparations - her hunt amongst awful. It is so bad that Dan the tunnels and caves Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for a proper gift, and her thoughts as she goes about her businesshis soul. ''

Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and, when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the dotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473209323</amazonuk>1958204021

 {{newreview|title=The Murdstone TrilogyFrontpage|author=Mal PeetOlivie Blake|rating=5|genre=Teens|summarytitle=Philip Murdstone is becoming a bit of a has-been. The once-acclaimed children's author has won ''literary'' awards, dontchaknow. Literary. Got that? But these are past glories. His novels about young outsiders are no longer anything new. In fact, his agent can't even sell his latest. And Minerva Finch, said agent, is all about what she can sell. There's nothing for it, she tells Philip, but a foray into fantasy. He's going to have to write a sword-and-sorcery epic. She's even got an A4 blueprint of what's required: realms, minions, dark lords, dwarves, elves, swords, and all the rest of it. Fantasy, you see, is selling by the ''bucketloads, containerloads, downloads''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200158</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=An English Ghost Story|author=Kim NewmanAtlas Six|rating=4.5

|summary=The NaremoresDark, sharp, a family with a troubled pastand highly inquisitive, leave London in search of peace in the quiet Somerset countryside. Finding the perfect home – ''The HollowAtlas Six'' – appears to symbolise a turning point and the end of all their problems. The Hollow seems possessed of makes its publishing debut after becoming a healing magic which can restore health and relationships as well as hopes and dreamsTik-Tok sensation. Unfortunately, the positive power of the Hollow is suddenly challenged and the family are plunged into horrors that perhaps they should have foreseen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781165580</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Shifting Shadows: Stories From the World of Mercy ThompsonDaniel Abraham|authortitle=Patricia BriggsAge of Ash

|summary=To recap, then – We meet Patricia Briggs. Besides one standalone book [[Aralorn: Masques and Wolfbsane by Patricia Briggs|Aralorn]] her many novels have been set in one universe – a world in Alys under the NW USA where all kinds most northerly of fantasy creatures live in amongst humansOldgate's four bridges, whether officially or otherwise. Car mechanic Mercy Thompson is part-coyote, and therefore can shapeshift, but we've also seen how she has other minor talents a knife in solving problems her hand and identifying threats a meeting that other aspects of the fantasy world can delivershe dreads. Her colleagues have been fae, her best friends (and worst enemies) vampires, and she's now Meanwhile the partner City of the region's alpha werewolf – who employs Kithamar is at a witch as fixer; everywhere you look there is lore as to how all these species interrelate and point in the books drip with rules about every aspect turning of living beyond years when the mundaneworlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. So far there It is the night between the funeral of a minor trilogy set on Prince and the edges coronation of Mercy's world, but eight major – and majorly successful – books fully focussed on herhis successor. But Patty Briggs must clearly have a very restless imagination, and For a will to narrate strong stories, and night the results have also led us to this fat volume of short stories, that come from instances, characters and times scattered throughout her mythologyKithamar is un-ruled.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356505278</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark MorrisAnn Sei Lin|title=The Wolves of London - The Obsidian Heart Trilogy (Book 1)Rebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Alex Locke Kurara has grown from spent her entire life as a servant on the young petty criminal he once wasMidori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Now However, when a psychology lecturer 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 beautiful 5-year-old daughter he has every incentive he needs to stay straightpower sought after all across the Empire. It would take something devastating He asks her to make come with him return , to his former leave the life but devastation happensof dreary servitude that is all she has known. Alex Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is coerced into doing on last job: stealing destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a piece of heart shaped obsidian from someone it didn’t belong shikigami, and she is forced to in flee out into the first placeworld. What are She joins Himura aboard the consequences? What's so special about this piece of rock? As all hell breaks looseOrihime, Alex a sky-ship whose express purpose is about to find out.hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781168660</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chrysler Szarlan B09Q3P283Y|title=The Hawley Book of the DeadShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper

|summary= Revelation (Reve) Maskelyne 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 the latest of he particularly interested in a long line of girls named Revelations career in the Sears familymilitary. This has a significance sheIf he's unaware of as she divides her time between a happy marriagehonest - which Clyde usually is, parenthood and sharing the limelight with her husband Jeremy as illusionist team The Amazing Maskelynes. Until the day she kills Jeremy… The tragic event triggers the realisation that someone has been stalking Reve for most of her life. For the protection of her 15himself at least -year-old twins he hasn't got many choices and 10-year-old daughterthis one, Reve runs to Hawley Five Cornersat least, a large New England estate thatgets him out of the rut he's been in the family for centuries. Reve has always known that not all magic He's good in training and is illusion but now she has to rely on thatquickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891466</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The FreeJennifer Saint|authortitle=Brian RuckleyElektra

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=The Free are a band 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of mercenaries - magical warriors three women who have travelled live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are renowned for their skills all bit players in battlethe story of the Trojan War. Finally reaching a point where they can retire from war, their leader Yulan is offered one final contract - one he cannot refuseYet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501957</amazonuk>1472273915

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ErenDean Koontz|authortitle=Simon P ClarkQuicksilver|rating=42.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=People - Mum, mostly - are keeping secrets from OliMeet Quinn Quicksilver. Why have they He's not had the chance to leave London and come get to live be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in the country with Uncle Rob? Why hasn't Dad come too? Why does everyone keep turning off the TV news every time it comes a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on? Why does Ema needless magazine's dad dislike Oli staff. But when this book starts he doesnIS now 't even know '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? When will Dad come? When will life that he go back to normal? 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 lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472110978</amazonuk>1542019885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edward CoxTasha Suri|title=The Relic GuildJasmine Throne|rating=4.5

|summary=The Genii War was so devastating that now, 40 years laterOn the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the world pyre. She is a dismally different place. The Labyrinth, immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a hub permitting access to unlimited locations is now a prison. The police, under the control community of people who got powers from the Resident and his especially enabled Relic Guild, maintain ordermysterious deathless waters. The war may have left lasting reverberations but at least But now the Genii have been destroyedtemple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. If they hadn't beenOne day, combine their malevolent presence Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with the fact magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the Relic Guild is not as strong in numbers as they once were girl saved her from an attacker and things could worsen considerablybegs for the girl to become her own personal maidservant. Errrr… Labrys, we have a problem!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473200296</amazonuk>0356515648

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Broken Eye (Lightbringer 3)Genevieve Gornichec|authortitle=Brent WeeksThe Witch's Heart|rating=3.54

|summary=War is coming to A modern and approachable reimagining of the Seven Satrapies - not Norse myths that most centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the people stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in power want 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 admit itthe stake—and refuses to leave her alone. The Color Prince may not have succeeded in keeping hold After an initial period of his super powerful Banes yetmistrust, but heAngrboda begins to fall for Loki's steadily moving through charms, and the Satrapiestwo start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, burning and killing everything in his path all the sameanother son that's a snake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499099</amazonuk>1789097061

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benedict JackaHannah Whitten|title=Hidden: An Alex Verus novel For the Wolf|rating=4.5

|summary=Anne WalkerIn Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, life mage and former good friend of Camden magic shop owner/future diviner Alex Verus the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is in troublethe second daughter. Alex would love Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to help her but first expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he has to find heris the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. Meanwhile his guilty past as If she is not a dark mage apprenticed worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the less-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-nice Richard Drakh has come back to haunt himbe killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. In fact there are rumours that Richard himself The wolf is coming back to haunt Alex personally as Richardnot a monster—he's more than mildly miffed about Alex's betrayala man. Hang on Alex – it's going to be a bumpy ride!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502317</amazonuk>0356516369

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angus WatsonJohn Gwynne|title=Age of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy)Shadow Of The Gods|rating=4.5

|summary=Location: Here or hereabouts Date: 67BC. The Romans are coming but, before they turn upShadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the collection era of disparate tribes they're destined to call Britannia has other problems. There is much infighting among these mini-kingdoms and currently Dug the Warrior's region is subjected to a massive killing machine – Vikings in the army shadow of King ZadarRagnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. Everything's fine though; Dug This story is just one of the people who want ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to kill him. Yesthe genre, there's Dugwith mythical creatures, Lowa the talented archer-ess who used to work for Zadar archaic language and Springbattles galore. This is a thick book, a little girl. Some would say with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that they can't get through the army of thousands that surround the King but they're going are woven together to try anywaycreate a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502619</amazonuk>0356514218