==Fantasy==
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{{newreview
|author=Catherine Fisher
|summary=The game is up. Despite the risk that she would be betrayed Avry couldn't stop herself from healing a sick child, and after years on the run she is in a cell awaiting execution. Then a band of misfit companions offer her freedom, in return for healing their prince. Unfortunately, said prince is the one who spread the idea of the healers' guilt in the first place, and as such he is Avry's sworn enemy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848450656</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=James Treadwell
|title=Advent
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=A December Night 1537: the greatest magus in the world packs everything up and heads down to the harbour. He's booked his passage to England under a new name, heading for a new life. But it is a stormy night, and when the jumble of rags that follows him, speaks in the voice of one he once loved and demands back what he took from her, he refuses. Inside the box he carries, wrapped in wool, in a calfskin pouch warded with every spell he could conjure is a ring apparently made out of wood. 'Inside the ring was all the magic in the world.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444728466</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julianna Baggott
|title=Pure
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=A Hiroshima-like event called ''the Detonations'' has transformed life on earth. Shortly after the Detonations, when the survivors were still hoping for some form of help to arrive, a cloud of leaflets were released all bearing the same message:
'We know you are here, our brothers and sisters. We will, one day, emerge from the Dome to join you in peace. For now, we watch from afar, benevolently.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755385489</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anne Rice
|title=The Wolf Gift
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Reuben is on the up, make no mistake about it. He will turn from a good journalist to a great journalist - it's just that most of his family, his girlfriend and his editor all patronise him with diminutive nicknames based on his boyish good looks. While staying at a secluded cliff-side mansion in the Californian forests, and researching the back-story of it being on the market for the first time in decades, he survives a bloody attack, and ends up with the house his. And, of course, he receives the Gift - and becomes a werewolf. What does this mean for him - and for others, and just what are the secrets remaining in the strange mansion?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701187441</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michelle Lovric
|title=Talina in the Tower
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Nineteenth century Venice can seem a sinister place, full of secrets, misty forgotten islands and magic, both good and 'baddened'. It does, however, have its brighter, warmer side, with cosy, comforting grannies and delicious recipes, and Talina loves it dearly. But then the mangy, rabid Ravageurs arrive, creatures part-way between wolves and hyenas, and claim the city as their ancestral home. Men, women and children are stolen away in the night, as are cats and rats, but the inhabitants refuse to believe the full horror of what is happening, preferring instead to blame a neighbouring town.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444003380</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ali Shaw
|title=The Man Who Rained
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Do you remember being a child who had only just learned how to read? Do you remember the very first time you read a fairy story that no-one had told you before? Can you recapture the joy of entering a truly magical land and (for a time) believing it was real?
No? Then I recommend that you read Ali Shaw's second novel 'The Man Who Rained'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857890328</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Margo Lanagan
|title=The Brides of Rollrock Island
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=On Rollrock Island, the fishermen find their brides from the sea through the usurial offices of the witch Miskaella. They're selkies; seal women who shed their skins to become human. Their husbands are obsessed by them and the men without a selkie will risk anything to become part of the enchantment, even their human wives and children and half their lifetime earnings. Soon there are no human women left on Rollrock - the adults to the mainland and the female selkie babies to the ocean. There are just dads and mams and little boys.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560336</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John R Fultz
|title=Seven Princes: Books of the Shaper: Volume 1
|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Elhathym gatecrashes a feast at the court of Vod-the-Giant-King demanding the throne, which he asserts was his 3,000 years ago. Vod is a little incredulous and refuses to abdicate. Elhathym then lives up to his job description (evil sorcerer), destroying the entire court... apart from his son, Prince D’zan who manages to escape with his bodyguard, Olthacus the Stone. Prince D’zan wants to fight to regain his kingdom but the only way to counter Elhathym and his armies of the dead is to form alliances with other nations; alliances that create friendships but also bring treachery and betrayal. Behind it all is Iardu the Shaper, a creation god-like figure who plans and plots.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500810</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robin Wasserman
|title=The Book of Blood and Shadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Nora is an unusual heroine. She is sharp, snarky and funny, and her wry tone and contemporary references will resonate with her readers. But she is also uncompromisingly geeky, and she opts to complete her independent study assignment by joining her three friends at the local university in a research project on the Voynich Manuscript by Edward Kelley (This manuscript actually exists, and has taxed the abilities of some of the greatest code-breakers in the world in the last hundred years.). However Professor Hoffpauer does not consider Nora mature enough to work on the manuscript itself, despite the fact that her linguistic ability is far superior to that of the others, and instead he gives her the lesser task of translating the letters of Kelley's step-daughter Elizabeth Weston.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411445</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Curtis Jobling
|title=Wereworld: Shadow of the Hawk
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=At the start of Shadow of the Hawk, our heroes are in disarray. Drew, having bitten off his hand to escape Vanmorten and the undead, is in captivity, about to be forced to fight as a gladiator. The Staglord Manfred and the Wereshark Vega, two of the three remaining members of the Wolf's Council, are on the run, spiriting Drew's mother to safety. And Hector, the third of the Council... oh, Hector!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141340495</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Darynda Jones
|title=First Grave on the Right
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Charley Davidson is a private investigator with a difference - she's the Grim Reaper, ushering souls towards the light. When three lawyers from the same firm are murdered, they ask her to solve the case to allow them to rest in peace. With the help of her uncle, a detective, she sets out to do just that - as long as she can avoid being distracted by the nightly dreams she's having of a sexy entity…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749956046</amazonuk>
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