Idle Hands – The Factory Trilogy #2 – Tom Fletcher
Desperate to cure his son Billy of the disease Idle Hands, Wild Alan must find a way back into the Pyramid from which he was exiled. But, trapped in the barren wasteland that is the Discard – the area surrounding the Pyramid – there isn’t much he can do alone. Bloody Nora, the mapmaker, has her own reasons for wanting to get into the Pyramid; she believes that the secrets of Gleam’s history can be found in the Pyramid’s vaults. And she has worked with Wild Alan before. There are more secrets there than either imagined: those vaults hold the key to destroying the Pyramid’s tyranny, but saving Billy and…
Blog Tour: Saint’s Blood – Greatcoats #3 – Sebastien de Castell + Competition!
Release date: April 7th, 2016 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Age Group: Adult Pages: 576 Format: Hardcover Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review How do you kill a Saint? Falcio, Kest, and Brasti are about to find out, because someone has figured out a way to do it and they’ve started with a friend. The Dukes were already looking for ways out of their agreement to put Aline on the throne, but with the Saints turning up dead, rumours are spreading that the Gods themselves oppose her ascension. Now churches are looking to protect themselves by bringing back the military orders of religious soldiers, assassins, and (especially) Inquisitors – a…
City of Blades – The Divine Cities #2 – Robert Jackson Bennett
Release date: January 7th, 2016 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Age Group: Adult Pages: 464 Format: e-galley Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review The city of Voortyashtan was once the domain of the goddess of death, war, and destruction, but now it’s little more than a ruin. General Turyin Mulaghesh is called out of retirement and sent to this hellish place to try to find a Saypuri secret agent who’s gone missing in the middle of a mission, but the city of war offers countless threats: not only have the ghosts of her own past battles followed her here, but she soon finds herself wondering what happened to all the souls that…
Spotlight: In Constant Fear – Peter Liney
About The Book Over a year has passed since Clancy and the gang managed to escape from the hell that was the City. Pursued by the ruthless leader of Infinity – the corporation behind the mass murders of thousands of ‘lower class’ citizens – they’ve been on the run ever since; constantly looking over their shoulders. Despite this, they have forged a new life working the land on an abandoned smallholding on the other side of the mountains. Hidden there, they are as close to happy as they can be. Until strange things start to happen in the valley: too many unlucky coincidences convince them that another power is rising…
The Mysteries – Lisa Tuttle
Release date: September 4th, 2014 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Age Group: Adult Pages: 464 Format: Hardcover Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review A blend of mystery, thriller and fantasy that will leave you looking over your shoulder. Laura Lensky’s daughter, Peri, has been missing for two years. For the police it’s a closed case – she wanted to run away – but for her mother and boyfriend, Henry, it’s a different story. When Laura hires private investigator Ian Kennedy, it is a last-ditch attempt to find her daughter before she leaves for America. Drawn in by strange parallels to an obscure Celtic myth and his first, almost unexplainable case, Ian takes the…
Marked – The Soulseer Chronicles #1 – Sue Tingey
Release date: May 7th, 2015 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Age Group: (Young) Adult Pages: 346 Format: ARC Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review With no family and very few friends, Lucky’s psychic ability has always made her an outcast. The only person she can rely on is Kayla, the ghost girl who has been with her since she was born. But Kayla is not all that she appears. And when Lucky is visited by a demonic assassin with a message for her friend, she finds herself dragged into the Underlands – and the political fight for the daemon king’s throne. Lucky, trapped in the daemon world, is determined to find her way…
Your Servants and Your People – The Walkin’ Trilogy #2 – David Towsey
Release date: November 6th, 2014 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Age Group: Adult Pages: 321 Format: Paperback Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review In a dystopian future the dead don’t always die – they are the Walkin’, but there are those that will not suffer the wicked to live . . . Seven years after Thomas returned as a Walkin’, the McDermott family are pursuing a new life as they run from Barkley to the remote outpost of Fort Wilson. But the teachings of J.S. Barkley are not so easily forsaken – there are those that would see the sinners dead, and they are slowly closing in. Review: If you read my…
The Pyre – The Return of Ravana #1 – David Hair
Release date: June 4th, 2015 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Age Group: (Young) Adult Pages: 325 Format: Paperback Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review Mandore, Rajasthan, 769 AD: Ravindra-Raj, the evil sorcerer-king, devises a deadly secret ritual, where he and his seven queens will burn on his pyre, and he will rise again with the powers of Ravana, demon-king of the epic Ramayana. But things go wrong when one queen, the beautiful, spirited Darya, escapes with the help of Aram Dhoop, the court poet. Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 2010: At the site of ancient Mandore, teenagers Vikram, Amanjit, Deepika and Rasita meet and realize that the deathless king and his ghostly brides are hunting…
Knight’s Shadow – Greatcoats #2 – Sebastien de Castell
Release date: March 5th, 2015 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Age Group: Adult Pages: 606 Format: Hardcover Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review Tristia is a nation overcome by intrigue and corruption. The idealistic young King Paelis is dead and the Greatcoats – legendary travelling magistrates who brought justice to the Kingdom – have been branded as traitors. But just before his head was impaled on a spike, the King swore each of his hundred and forty-four Greatcoats to a different mission. Falcio Val Mond, First Cantor, with the help of fellow Greatcoats Kest and Brasti, has completed his King’s final task: he has found his Charoites – well, one at least, and…
Blood Will Follow – Valhalla Saga #2 – Snorri Kristjansson
Release date: June 5th, 2014 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Age Group: Adult Pages: 308 Format: Paperback Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review Ulfar Thormodsson and Audun Arngrimsson have won the battle for Stenvik, although at huge cost, for they have suffered much worse than heartbreak. They have lost the very thing that made them human: their mortality. While Ulfar heads home, looking for the place where he thinks he will be safe, Audun runs south. But both men are about to discover that they can not run away from themselves. King Olav might have been defeated outside the walls of Stenvik, but now Valgard leads him north, in search of the…
