==Fantasy==
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{{newreview
|author=James A Owen
|title=Shadow Dragons (Imaginarium Geographica)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=If you want to know where Tolkein, C S Lewis and their ilk got their ideas from, you might consider their jobs. No - not their work in Oxbridge universities. In this book, at least, John, Charles and Jack are guardians of a very important book, the Imaginarium Geographica, within which lives a lot of secret, vital information, and almost the soul of the land. They might not get a surname so we know immediately who is whom. They might be from a different world - there is certainly enough talk of those in these pages. But we'll see them meet a vanishing Cheshire cat, a certain Spanish knight we might have thought fictional, and more, en route to a quest of Arthurian proportions.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386512</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=P C Cast
|summary=The 'Furies' of the title refer to elemental spirits of earth, air, fire, water and metal which bond with humans and grant them magical abilities. Welcome to Alera, where all the citizens have magical powers. All except fifteen year old farm boy Tavi, a native of the Calderon valley who for some reason has been unable to create any bonds with an elemental.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497444</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tom Holt
|title=May Contain Traces of Magic
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=It's a hard life being a salesman. Chris Popham spends all his time driving between customers trying to sell them things they don't really want to buy – products of JWW retail, magical goods. Portable parking spaces, bank holidays on a CD, the Book of all Human Knowledge, and the firm's most popular product, DW6, only don't ask what it's for, because no one knows.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495050</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Brian Keaney
|title=The Mendini Canticle (Dr Sigmundus Trilogy)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=In this fantasy world, the nasty king is dead, but that does not mean things are going well for the resistance fighters we are interested in - for what they immediately see is their guiding light replace him, and appear to be even worse. Meanwhile, in the country next door, another young hero is wondering how his best friend has disappeared. He encounters a passing mystical, elder man with token white hair, who explains it is down to magic - but they see the rest of the friend's family being taken by the military.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846160901</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marcus Alexander
|title=Who is Charlie Keeper?
|rating=3
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Twelve-year-old Charlie Keeper lives in a slightly peculiar house with slightly peculiar noises and slightly peculiar visitors. Her life isn't so great; her parents disappeared years before and she lives with her senile grandmother and under the auspices of the wicked family lawyer, Mr Crow. She really does need to get away. And get away she does. Fleeing one of Mr Crow's particular nastinesses, Charlie falls through a gap between worlds and finds herself in Bellania, home of myth and legend, and place of magic.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955891205</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kelley Armstrong
|title=The Awakening (Darkest Powers 2)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=We left poor Chloe Saunders just as she'd been taken captive by the rather sinister Edison Group. She'd only just escaped their clutches, too. And that was after she'd only just discovered that she's not a disturbed teenager, but an immensely powerful necromancer, capable of summoning ghosts and raising the dead. She's in good company; fellow captives Rae (half-demon) and Tori (witch) also have supernatural powers. Still free are Derek (werewolf) and Simon (sorcerer).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497118</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jaine Fenn
|title=Consorts of Heaven
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Fantasy and science fiction are genres that mesh well together. Some authors have written successfully across both genres, but not usually in the same story. Jaine Fenn has managed to combine both in one book and it's an interesting read.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575083239</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Margo Lanagan
|title=Tender Morsels
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Liga's upbringing has not been a happy one. Her mother died young. Her father has sexually abused her and forced herbal concoctions on her in order to abort the resulting pregancies - except the last one. After his death, she was gang-raped by village boys and fell pregnant again. In her degradation and despair, she resolves to throw herself and her baby off a cliff. But the moon-babby takes pity upon her and spirits her away to an alternate reality in which people are kind and everything is safe. Here, she brings up her daughters - the pacific Branza and the fiery Urdda - in peace and harmony. It is, after all, her heart's desire.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385613237</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jim Butcher
|title=Turn Coat (Dresden Files)
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Some time ago, I read the ninth book from Jim Butcher's ''Dresden Files'' series. [[White Night (Dresden Case Files) by Jim Butcher|White Night]] was a decent enough book, but did conform to a couple of the more obvious clichés and this took the edge off it for me. But with the eleventh in the series, Butcher seems to have been improving as he goes along and I found ''Turn Coat'' to be far more enjoyable.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496979</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Steve Augarde
|title=Winter Wood (The Various)
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''We are all one. I am the fly upon my own cheek, and in another life I watch myself through his eye''.
Pegs, an amazing flying horse that speaks in colours, gives Winter Wood's schoolgirl heroine, Midge, his parting words in this splendid fantasy adventure which can be enjoyed by confident readers, teens and adults alike.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>055254969X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=D J MacHale
|title=The Rivers of Zadaa (Pendragon)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Don't get me wrong - I never mean to disparage a book when I convert its mood, plot or impression into a two or three word comparison with something else. So if I say there is a lot here that boils down to Eloi vs Morlock, it's to point out I'm quite sure our author has knowledge of The Time Machine, in book or on film, and wanted to do something a little similar. And the key word is 'little' - there's a lot that's Machale's own here in the balance between his two races. One is above ground, one a lot paler for being subterranean, and the battleground between the two - played out on and under the desert capital city on Zadaa, in a heated time of drought, is perfect for the big bad, Saint Dane, to get his claws into.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384854</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=D J MacHale
|title=Blackwater (Pendragon)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=One of the most telling pages in this book was the one with the author's CV on, which declares his prior career in film and TV. It's one of the hallmarks of the best genre TV series that each episode can immerse you in a universe unique to that week's programme, while never losing sight of the grand, major story arc. And to that rule I can begin to add the best of teen fantasy fiction, such as this.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384846</amazonuk>
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