Category: Fantasy
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Holes In The Veil by Beth Overmyer – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Having killed his lifelong enemy, Aidan Ingledark finds himself in possession of a map to the Questing Goblet, one of the Goblets Immortal that gives the drinker luck beyond measure. Meraude seeks this Goblet to wipe out magic- kind. Aidan and his traveling companion are determined to find it first but they must…
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The Thief On The Winged Horse by Kate Mascarenhas – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The Kendrick family have been making world-famous dolls since the early 1800s. But their dolls aren’t coveted for the craftmanship alone. Each one has a specific emotion laid on it by its creator. A magic that can make you feel bucolic bliss or consuming paranoia at a single touch. Though founded by sisters,…
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The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In 1893, there’s no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the three…
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Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of The Faun by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A thrillingly dark novel that shows the rare magic that can happen when two dazzlingly original imaginations come together to make a book. Bestselling author Cornelia Funke has written a novel inspired by Guillermo del Toro’s captivating 2006 film. Beautiful, haunting, visceral, gutsy, it’s a vastly inventive, grown-up modern fairytale, pulsing with power…
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The End Of The Line by Gray Williams – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A fast-paced thriller set on the streets of a London rife with undercover magic. Abras, as they are known, can harness these illegal powers, but for con-artist Amanda Coleman – whose father was a powerful and abusive practitioner – magic is anathema. When her criminal crew decide to hire an Abra to help…
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*EXTRACT* from Whispers In The Mist by Darcy Coates
Hello and welcome to The Bookwormery. Today I am sharing an extract from Whispers in the Mist by Darcy Coates…but first a little about the book…. PUBLISHERS BLURB Clare and Dorran may still be alive against all odds, but relief is only temporary. Dorran is sick, and rapidly worsening. Clare fears the only way to…
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Sword In The Storm by David Gemmell – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Born in the storm that doomed his father, Connavar grows to manhood among the mist-covered mountains of Caer Druagh, where the Rigante tribe dwell in harmony with the land and its gods. But beyond the border, across the water, an evil force is gathering strength, an unstoppable force that will change the world…
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Orfeia by Joanne M. Harris – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB When you can find me an acre of land, Every sage grows merry in time, Between the ocean and the sand Then will you be united again. So begins a beautiful and tragic quest as a heartbroken mother sets out to save her lost daughter, through the realms of the real, of dream,…
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The Summoned Ones: Book One Flight To Bericea by Darryl A. Woods – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The Bericean army was in Malabrim for the ninth straight fighting season. Over the past 9 years, Zybaro, the leader of a small band of unknowns, had evolved from his days as a minor usurper of a tiny kingdom. Now, almost the entire country of Malabrim was under Zybaro’s control, and his army…
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Harbinger by Olga Gibbs – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB “I am Uriel: The Harbinger of Chaos, The Keeper of the Gates, The Begetter of Life, The Dam of The Ends, and I’m coming to take what is mine!” The clash with Baza and his angels had demonstrated to Ariel that Earth (Apkallu) is not the safe heaven she hoped it would be,…
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Venators : Promises Forged by Devri Walls – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB It has been mere days in the world of Eon, where Rune Jenkins, her twin brother Ryker, and their friend Grey have been trapped, fighting for their lives. After discovering the truth of their ancestry, the three are far from home, and far from anything resembling their mundane lives of the past. While…
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The Girl And The Stars by Mark Lawrence – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB East of the Black Rock, out on the ice, lies a hole down which broken children are thrown. On the vastness of the ice there is no room for individuals. No one survives alone. To resist the cold, to endure the months of night when even the air itself begins to freeze, requires…
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The Heron Kings By Eric Lewis – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB After a warlord slaughters her patients, Sister Alessia quits the cloister and strikes out on her own to heal the victims of a brutal dynastic conflict. Her roaming forest camp unwittingly becomes the center of a vengeful peasant insurgency, raiding the forces of both sides to survive. Alessia struggles to temper their fury…
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The Wrongful Death by Kenneth B. Andersen – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB An unfortunate chain of events makes Philip responsible for the untimely death of the school bully Sam—the Devil’s original choice for an heir. Philip must return to Hell to find Sam and bring him back to life, so that fate can be restored. But trouble is stirring in Lucifer’s kingdom and not even…
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The Die Of Death by Kenneth B. Andersen – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Philip’s adventures as the Devil’s apprentice have changed him—in a good way. Although he misses his friends in Hell, he has made new friends in life. But when the future of the underworld is threatened once again, Philip’s help is needed. Death’s Die has been stolen and immortality is spreading across the globe. …
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Cynetic Wolf by Matt Ward – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB It’s 2096, sixty years after ninety percent died from a man-made Bioplague. Humanity has splintered into four unequal subspecies: immortals, cyborgs, enhancers, and subservient half-human, half-animal hybrids. The world is anything but equal. Hybrids everywhere are suffering, but sixteen-year-old Raek Mekorian, a wolfish with a nose for trouble, doesn’t see an alternative. Except…
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VENATORS: Magic Unleashed by Devri Walls – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Welcome to Eon. An alternate dimension where fantasy and paranormal is reality, and humans sit at the bottom of the food chain. In this world of unadulterated power and ability, the innocent suffer greatly. The ruling council of Eon has selected two humans, born of the Venator bloodline, and brought them through the…
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The Goblets Immortal by Beth Overmyer – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In a land where magic’s feared, a magical kind exists: the Blest, products of the Goblets Immortal and Aidan’s one of them and on the run. Whispers of a new fear take shape in Meraude, a mage who hates all magic-kind. When she appears in Aidan’s dreams offering a bargain for the return…
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Spirit Of Prophecy by Jill Hughes – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A fast-paced mystery featuring psychic detective Rosetta Barrett, as she unpicks the clues of the crime, a deeper prophecy emerges dating back to an atrocity which happened on Apache lands some time ago, and the race to solve more than one karmic mystery begins. A gifted psychic but an emotional wreck, Rosetta Barrett…
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The Unlikely Escape Of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can’t quite control: he can bring characters from books into the real world. His older brother, Rob – a young lawyer with an utterly normal life – hopes that this strange family secret will disappear with disuse, and he will be…
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