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|summary=London 1883: Thaniel Steepleton'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a telegraphist in while.'' Within a government officeremote mountain pass, finds himself living and working in far away from the world, lies Silverton; a city at siege during a Clan na Gael bombing campaign. Ittown under the protection of the Briar's around this time that he also realises that his pocket watch seems to have some odd, previously unnoticed functionsa family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Grace CarrowThough she has always wished for magic, a 'bluestocking' physics student also owns Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a watchsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. The two total strangers may think their watches oddWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, but Ellie'odds cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town' s leader, and Ellie takes on a new meaning when they meet Mr Moriher 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 Japanese watchmaker. His clockwork pet octopus is only heart of a small measure maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the oddity aheadBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408854287</amazonuk>1803364548

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony RyanRachel Greenlaw|title=Queen of Fire: Book 3 of Raven's Shadow|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THE FIRST TWO RAVEN SHADOW BOOKS (ONLY)Queen Lyrna has been badly burnt but lives to rule Compass and seek vengeance through her massed armies. She also lifts the prohibition of the Dark due to their healing properties and three Gifted, the practitioners of the power are promoted with less than popular approval. Meanwhile Lyrna's right hand man Vaelin Al Sorna has lost his blood song, that precognition that made him such a strong and feared opponent in the past. Talking of opponents, the Volarians have a surprise – the mysterious entity known only as The Ally. To Vaelin he's anything but and so he must go to the ends of the world (or at least to a pretty inhospitable climate) to find him… her… it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650249X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anna Caltabiano|title= The Seventh Miss HatfieldBlade|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= Cynthia is a simple, All American girl who whilst generally happy – she’s fed and watered with a roof over her head - and relatively care free, she is somewhat bored of her existence in Suburbia. Miss Hatfield is Cynthia’s mysterious and rarely seen neighbour. What an enigma she is and how compelling and irresistible it is for Cynthia to attempt to discover more about her. Ever hear the phrase ''Be careful what you wish for''?. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473200415</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus and Sean Murray|title=Trollhunters|rating=43.5

|summary=West Coast USA ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in the 1960smy heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the city is wracked rocks and wrecked by a slew of missing children reportsplundering the wrecks. The parents with their new anguishesMira, and new rules against playing out after darklike her mother before her, have no idea is one of the horrors in their vicinity seven who swim out to survey the ruins – literally under their feet rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a city of trolls, guilty of snatching trap to end the children. Last to gowrecking, Jack Sturgess. Cue they capture the modern era island's leader and JackMira's youngerfather. Desperate to save him from death, now grown-up brother JimMira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, and Jim Jr live she sets off in search of a sheltered life family secret that lies buried deep in the most barricaded and secure home imaginablesea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, and Jim Jras her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's life is as exciting as you'd expect. Unfortunatelyterritory, however, the trolls are about Mira must be determined to make a return stop at nothing to their nastiest save the future of ways – her home and their intentions are a lot more surprising than Jim Jr could ever predict…the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405192</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tarn RichardsonT Kingfisher|title=The Damned (The Darkest Hand Trilogy) (Inquisitor Poldek Tacit 1)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=France, 1914: A priest is murdered, if you could ascribe such a mundane term to such an act. He was actually pulled apart brutally, literally and totally. The Catholic Inquisition sends one of its best to investigate: Poldek Tacit. Tacit may be a tortured, troubled soul fighting the demons of his own past but when it comes to eliciting information he's good, albeit via some questionable methods. Meanwhile on the battle lines at Arras the British face the Germans in a war that will become even more horrific due to the evil that walks among them as a dark, inescapable shadow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071564954X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Naomi Novik|title=UprootedThornhedge

|summary=Many years ago, in ''You had a village deep in Eastern Europe, the locals live a life of relative peace and happiness - knowing right to always avoid the wood that borders their land, and safe in the knowledge that they are guarded by a powerful wizard - the Dragonretake your place. Aware that he is the one thing keeping them safe from the dangers of the wood, the villagers take part in a ritual called 'The Choosing' every ten years - when a young girl is sent to serve the wizard for a decade.Agnieszka is of age for the choosing, but nobody fears that she will be picked - her best friend Kasia is pretty and graceful, and sure to catch the eye of the immortal Dragon. However, Agnieszka is not aware of the talents she holds that may attract the wizard - talents that the safety of the entire kingdom may come to depend on for their survival...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447294130</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael J Ward|title=The Eye of Winter’s Fury|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= The Cold North awaits you…War is coming to Valeron, where an ill and ineffectual king is beset on all sides by the scheming of ambitious men. His youngest son, Prince Arran is sent on a fool’s errand, with the real threat waiting to be revealed. Your are Prince Arran. The ghost prince, a sickly boy who haunts the palace library. As danger threatens, you must finally prove yourself. Will you defy fate and become a great hero of legend? You decide in this epic fantasy adventure. The cold north awaits you…are you ready for the challenge?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057509561X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Taran Matharu|title=The Novice|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''The Novice'T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, Taran Matharu’s Wattpad sensation has already received who was stolen away by fairies when she was a staggering five million reads. This book doesn’t just survive new-born baby and secreted away to the hype; it deserves itland of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spells.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444923978</amazonuk>1803364238

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luke ScullNicole Jarvis|title=Sword Of The North (The Grim Company) |rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=The heroes are scattered and seemingly powerless; the Age of Ruin is indeed upon the land as the new ruler may not be an improvement on the old. Back at the heroes, Emerul the half-mage is reduced to sending a messenger rather than acting upon it himself and Shanna is reduced to being that messenger. Davarus Cole is dying but it won't be the last time and what of the Sword of the North? He, Brodar Kayne, continues to seek someone he thought he'd never see again even though there's no guarantee of finding her. Meanwhile he has more pressing problems A Portrait in the form of a Brick and a Grunt. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851557</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dave Zeltserman|title=The Boy Who Killed DemonsShadow

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=Henry Dudlow is 15½ and has had a hidden gift since he was 13. It was then he discovered that some people are in fact demons and – what's worse- he can see their real demonic form. How, after two years 'I want all of knowing what Mr Hanley a couple of doors down is really like and hearing that children are going missing under under the most bizarre circumstances, itFlorence to know my name''s time to do something about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649892</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lucy Hounsom|title=Starborn|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary= On the day Kyndra comes of ageCast out from Rome, she accidentally destroys the relic of Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an ancient ceremony, ending centuries of tradition. So when terrible phenomena target oasis in which her art can find a home and where her community, Kyndra is blamedfuture can thrive rather than stagnate. Fearing for her lifeBut as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, she is saved and rescued by two mysterious strangers – one who wields the power self-proclaimed guardians of the Sun, healing magics that through paintings have the other – the Moon. Together, they flee power to protect the hidden citadel of Nariscity and its citizens from plagues and curses. And here, Kyndra experiences disturbing visions of the past, The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and is brutally tested in a bid to unlock her own magicguard it above all else. If she survives the ordealTo them, she'll discover a force greater than she could ever have imaginedArtemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society. But could it create as well as destroy? And can she control it, to right an ancient wrong?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447268458</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angus WatsonThomas D Lee|title=Clash of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy)|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Lowa is now queen at Maidun Castle as she, Dug the reluctant (but highly effective) warrior and his young ward Spring attempt to defend it from the local tribes chancing their arm. Spring seems to have lost her magic but hopefully this is only temporary. There are bigger worries however; Lowa knows that the Romans will come and so sends Ragnall and Dunstan, former prince and his druid tutor Durstan to Rome on a mission to gather intelligence about the enemy. Unfortunately things don't go to plan on either front!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502627</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marie Brennan|title=Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir by Lady Trent (A Natural History of Dragons 3)Perilous Times

|genre=Fantasy|summary=It's time. Lady Trent – Isabella Camherst – can finally leave her educational soirees 'Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set in her own salon and go and discover more about her beloved dragons. This time it's going to be epic – not only has she for the first time taken her young son with hernear-distant future, she is on a sailing ship with in a whole two years plying the seven seas to be looked forward to. The world is on the tip verge of a seesaw as regards dragons – just as one side weighs down with new knowledgeclimate collapse, so the other side comes down with industrialised exploitation of the creatures – and Lady Trent must make sure that she has Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (decorous, Victorian-styled coveredor several) firm bottom to keep things on save the side she wantsday and rescue what little remains. But she has What no idea how buttock-clenching one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the whole voyage will turn out to be…call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783295066</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melanie RawnAmelia Estelle Dellos|title=Glass Thorns - Window Wall (Book Four) Delilah Recovered|rating=4.5

|summary=The Touchstone Players begin another season We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned butthings might, just might, once again it differs from previous yearsbe about to look up. Now each Out of the quartet have become or are work, about to become fathers; all apart from Cade that lose her flat, Dee isup for an accountant's job. He still has But it's not to find that special person but isn't particularly looking as he has problems of his ownbe. His kid brother Derien Dee is starting to come into his own magical gifting which could potentially attract attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the wrong attentionattack but not unscathed. CadeWitch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's elsewhens (his visionary glimpses just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of possible futures) have also stopped; or rather he has chosen memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to thwart themher and things will never be the same.. Meanwhile there has been an accident badly maiming Jez, one of Mieke's brothers. At least everyone believes it's an accident until Mieke finds something suspicious in the debris.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781166668</amazonuk>B0BKYFDLLV

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy AdamsHadeer Elsbai|title=A Few Words For The DeadDaughters of Izdihar|rating=54

|summary= Warning: spoilers for both [[Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Clown Service by Guy Adams|The Clown Service]] and [[The Rain-Soaked Bride by Guy Adams|The Rain-Soaked Bride]] so best read them first. Remember Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the near-demonic Fratfield? Welllives of two women who could not be more different, the honeymooning Toby and Tamara yet find themselves – fighting for the rights of women and Fratfield weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the South American jungle. Howeverupper class, things aren’t running smoothly. Not only does Fratfield still wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the forces of naturemilitary, now he has some helpbut instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Meanwhile back home Giorgina on the other hand did not have a hit man prepares privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to continue his profession. The target? August Shiningprovide for her family and maintain their reputation, Tobywhilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's bossrights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, friend filled with hypocrisy and wanted as an interview subject by MI6cruelty, should he live that longfrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953197</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen HuntHeather Fawcett|title=In Dark Service (Far Called Trilogy 1)Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=3.54|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Jacob Carnehan Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has settled down. Hetravelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's minding his own business while raising his son Carterwork, and his days the very first encyclopaedia of adventure are - thankfully - long behind himfaeries. Carter Carnehan is going out of his mind with boredom. His humdrum life Whilst she is dull, brilliant at research and he longs speaking to escape. To test himself against the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575092076</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Tregillis|title=The Mechanical (Alchemy War)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=There faeries, she is a truce between New France and the Dutch; a truce during which the Vicomtesse Berenice wants to learn the secrets of the Clakkersnot so good with people. These are robotic slaves that power everything Dutch just beyond So when she finds herself far, far North in the New French border: culturesmall village of Hrafvsnik, industryhaving somehow offended the village matriarch, domestic dutiesshe is not sure what she has done, transport nor how to redeem herself and they're also the most dangerous, relentless kind of soldier put her final investigations for her book back on the world has ever knownright track. Common knowledge confirms they're incapable of free willEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, thoughtall charm and delight, communication or freedommuch to Emily's frustration. Common knowledge But why is wrong: Clakkers' free will is suppressed by pain, their thoughts and communication are only shared between themselves and their freedomhe here? Jax may be a Clakker, but What does he's working want? And what exactly is going on freedom.with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502325</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George R R Martin and Lisa TuttleChristopher Golden|title=WindhavenRoad of Bones

|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=As The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a huge fan thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it'A Song s a spread of Ice and Firesheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring'sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I love George RR Martin’s writing style don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and the vivid world other Siberian minerals, and characters because he createdwanted to give too many people a lesson, and was interested to see what his other work might be likeit legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. Conversely You can easily find documentaries about it online, not being at all familiar but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with Lisa Tuttlehis cameraman buddy, I was even more intrigued John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to read this bookclaw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473208947</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia BriggsAndrew Givler|title=Dead Heat: An Alpha and Omega novelSoul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=34

|summary=Just because you're werewolves, you still can find love, like Charles and Anna'Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. Even with your new nature (although It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his casesoul.'' Poor Dan! I know, I know, new is a couple of hundred years) you can still have joint hobbies. A little lycanthropy doesnwe shouldn't stop you wanting feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a fabulous horse to go riding through the mountains onterrible salesman. So Charles and Anna are holidaying on an Arabian stud farm to check out the stock He never hits his targets and meet up with his old friends, when something nasty happens. One of the young women in the host Pack of werewolves suddenly turns nasty, and has he fails to put herself through a serious ordeal just get even Matt to stop herself from stabbing her young children. Such is sign on the torment dotted line, he's so desperate that Charles has to take the life-changing – but life-saving – decision to turn herhe simply forges Matt's signature. The problem is, the very magical strength to push the situation to such an end is definitely a mighty one – and things and people turning into nasty entities are going to be a recurring theme in the days ahead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501620</amazonuk>1958204021

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George MannOlivie Blake|title=Ghosts of WarThe Atlas Six|rating=3.54

|summary=In 1920's ManhattanDark, a lone hero patrols the streets and the skiessharp, using his immense wealth and futuristic technology to keep evil at bay. Howeverhighly inquisitive, at the start of ''Ghosts of War'', the Ghost is in mourning, following the tragic events that concluded [[Ghosts of Manhattan by George Mann|Ghosts of Manhattan]], the first book in the series. Thankfully for the Ghost (and for the reader) - Manhattan is under seige, and he has little time to lick his wounds. Mechanical winged beasts roam the skies, an alcoholic ex-lover is back on the scene, and a British spy may have to be dealt with in order to prevent a cold war turning hot...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294140</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Karen Maitland|title=The RavenAtlas Six's Head|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In 13th century England, Gisa, niece and ward of an apothecary attracts the attention of one of his more sinister clients. Elsewhere Wilky, a small child, is taken from his parents in lieu of a debt and then taken to a monastery which is a cover for something less than Christian. Meanwhile in France, Vincent, a scribe's apprentice, is framed for makes its publishing debut after becoming a theft and has to run for his life. The three will meet but under circumstances that turn out to be the stuff of dark, bloody nightmaresTik-Tok sensation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472215060</amazonuk>1529095239

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeDaniel Abraham|title=SuckerAge of Ash

|summary=Private Investigator Van H Avram is living in odd times. At least thatWe meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's what he decides on the day he four bridges, she has to step over a dead body to get from his office to the street knife in her hand and not just any body: it's a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile the City of Kithamar is at a skinny blond thing – point in the first turning of many. However life goes on and bills have to be paid so years when a woman called Mina walks into Van's office the worlds are at their thinnest and asks him to find Hugo Jorgen he doesn't refuseall things are possible. Perhaps if at that point he'd realised where It is the search would lead, night between the brutally bloodied body count he would uncover funeral of a Prince and the link to coronation of his successor. For a recurring childhood nightmare that materialises, then he may have refusednight the Kithamar is un-ruled. Too late now though…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1508455988</amazonuk>0356515427

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ronald WelchAnn Sei Lin|title=The GauntletRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=''The Gauntlet'' was one Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the iconic books 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 life of my childhooddreary servitude that is all she has known. Why iconic? ItWell, soon Kurara won's an over-used word. Why not t have any say 'most memorable'in the matter, 'outstanding'because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, 'most magical and exciting'she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-- or simply 'best'? Any ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of those would do but I think I'll allow myself iconic. The gauntlet of the title justifies that word.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192738593</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donald HounamB09Q3P283Y|title=GiftedShadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=3.54|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=Fifteen-year-old Frank 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 forensic sorcerer, employed to solve murders and other grisly crimes career in a world where adults get the blur and lose their eyesight by their midmilitary. If he's honest -twentieswhich Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and only this one, at least, gets him out of the young have enough sorcerous power to summon demons rut he's in. He's good in training and angelsis quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552571873</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hermione EyreJennifer Saint|title=Viper WineElektra|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Venetia Stanley lives 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in Seventeeth century Londonthe heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. A celebrated beautyCassandra, she has had poems written in honour of herClytemnestra, and portraits painted by one of Elektra are all bit players in the leading artists story of the timeTrojan War. Married to a handsome, kind and adventurous man, Venetia is kept in a life of luxury, and, at first glance - has everything she could ever Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have dreamed of. Except Venetia is not happy. A woman who has made her name the most compelling stories and fortune because of her beauty, she is convinced that her allure is quickly slipping through her fingers. Signing a pact with an apothecary for his famed restorative 'Viper Wine', Venetia is set on a dangerous paththe most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581663</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah PinboroughDean Koontz|title=The Death HouseQuicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=Toby would appear Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be luckya mercurial character yet, having the for he's lived in a nun-run of an isolated country mansion orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a small island off the coast of Britainneedless magazine's staff. But no. His domain only exists at night, and only then because when this book starts he sleeps in the day and refuses IS now ''subject to take the sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'vitamin' pills given him by the staff of an evening. He is , for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a captive supernatural urge – has demanded of a mansion him that works as he go to a place of exile for teenagers with the Defective gene. Whatever it would normally lead toderelict diner, even having it risks becoming suddenly really quite illfind a gold coin worth a fortune, and being cash the cause value of the night-time lift ride on the one way route to the top floor Sanatorium. But Toby has it good as these things go, the teenaged head boy almost out of his bank and prepare for going on the small collection lam. And all this is just in time for two of children those typical Men in his Dorm, the only one not Black types to have suffered a loss turn up and suggest he's of lifeinterest to them. But things are about Helped to change – new inmates arrive to bulk up the numbersescape, and one he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of them, Clarahim acting without being in control, the discovery that he is the agent not unique in having some kind of that changeburgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides. For when she stumbles on Toby's nocturnal habits she doesn't want to sleep either…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473202329</amazonuk>1542019885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jacquelyn FrankTasha Suri|title=Cursed By FireThe Jasmine Throne|rating=24

|summary=The blurb On the night of Cursed By Fire had me interestedher sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyre. I loved She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the openingHirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, in which we meet Dethandecaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a former warrior cursed by girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the gods to suffer girl saved her from an unending punishment attacker and begs for daring to steal immortality from them, and follow his attempts to lead the armies of Hexis to victory girl to appease one of the vengeful godsbecome her own personal maidservant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034553493X</amazonuk>0356515648

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian TchaikovskyGenevieve Gornichec|title=Guns of the DawnThe Witch's Heart

|summary=Emily Marshwic has led a priveleged life - wealthy A modern and from approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a good family, she has known little discomfortwitch named Angrboda. Until She hides in a forest at the war comes - a viciousedge of the nine worlds, far reaching struggle remembering nothing of her past life but that destroys whole nations and tears families apartfact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. First the men are conscriptedHer attempts to live in peace, and thenhowever, after many defeats - are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the womenstake—and refuses to leave her alone. Having seen her country ravagedAfter an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and hearing news the two start an unusual family made of her brotherup a half-dead daughter, a son that's deatha wolf, Emily signs up for the army - and is plunged into situations more deadly than she can ever have imaginedanother son that's a snake. As the tide of war turns - could Emily be the one to put an end to the bloodshed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447272676</amazonuk>1789097061

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Randy HendersonHannah Whitten|title=Finn Fancy Necromancy For the Wolf|rating=3.5

|summary=Douglas Coupland suggested that all families are psychotic In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, 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 her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he may just be right if that family consists is the one who will decide the fate of necromancerstheir kingdom. The usual family dynamic If she is already not a little messed up when you are one of four kidsworthy sacrifice, but when you throw in the power monsters he keeps contained to remove souls the woods will be released, and reanimate the deadfabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, things can get even expecting nothing more complicated. After 25 yearsthan to be killed within the hour, Finn returns home to find she finds that some things have changed, but his family will always be the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a nightmareman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297239</amazonuk>0356516369

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jen WilliamsJohn Gwynne|title=The Iron GhostShadow Of The Gods

|summary=Wydrin The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of Crosshaven, Sir Sebastian and Lord Aaron Friththe Bloodsworn Saga, set in the team era of sell-swords now known as the Black Feather Three are employed by Vikings in the people shadow of Skaldshollow Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to steal back the heartstone from the Narhlsee. To This story is the Shalds it's the means of making stone live; to the Narhls it's the very spirit of the mountain so where ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does that leave our adventurers? Not long to think about that as there seems justice to be an increase in mystic occurrences across the world genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and also a young assassin is polishing off entire familiesbattles galore. Why? One thing that's clear This is that Seba thick book, Wydrin and Frith ''will'' get involved eventually… involved right up to their necks. The other thing they will see with clarity is that an old adversary is back intricate plot and this time he's brought fascinating characters that are woven together to create a friend!wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472211138</amazonuk>0356514218

{{newreview|author=Melinda Salisbury|title=The Sin Eater's Daughter |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In a land of fantasy, Twylla lives in the court, engaged Move on to the prince. But this is no fairytale – he is one of the only people she can touch, made immune to the poison carried in her veins. The embodiment of a goddess, Twylla is the executioner, forced to kill those who commit treason. Nearly everyone around is terrified of her. Until new guard Lief arrives, who could see her as a friend, or even romantically. The question of whether the two could have a future together is an intriguing one, but before long, it’s the least of Twylla’s worries as she’s thrown into danger by the queen’s obsession with destroying her enemies. Can she survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407147633</amazonuk>}}[[Newest For Sharing Reviews]]