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The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon (The Bone Season 1) is set in a world of Scion London, and there are those with psychic powers (voyants), and those who don’t.  It’s 2059, and Paige is a voyant with a rare power – she’s a Dream Walker.  She works in the criminal underworld for a man named Jaxom.

She gets caught one day, and taken to the city of Oxford, except this city isn’t meant to have existed for the last two hundred years!  But everyone knows that the Scion kill voyants when they find them, so what can be happening?

I enjoyed the story, the setting, and the twists! I didn’t know anything about this book going in, and so I want to leave as many surprises for you as possible!  

This is a fantasy book, with different psychic powers and other twists.  I’m going to be reading more in the series, so you can watch out for those reviews!

The Bone Season was published on 20th August 2013, and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can follow Samantha Shannon on Twitter and her blog.

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Call Me Joe by Martin Van Es and Andrew Crofts is set in the future a little, where environmentally things are worse, which has resulted in things like butterflies nearly dying out.  One day, the sun goes out, and then a man appears, who claims to be Jesus returned.  He has ideas about how humanity needs to change their ways, and a lot of people listening to him.

There’s political skewering, where you can spot various famous politicians (*cough* Trump, Putin and Jacinda Ahern *cough*), and a lot of what Joe says is about how humanity can and should improve.

I was reading this book, and had to pause to check if I had stumbled into Christianity section as this is quite a religious story, obviously, considering we have Jesus returned.

I wasn’t a huge fan.  I found it to be preaching to me, which in places is a good point, but I didn’t find the story to have many twists to it, which I feel it needed.

Call Me Joe was published on 1st March, and is available on Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

I’m afraid I couldn’t find anywhere for you to follow Martin Van Es.

You can follow Andrew Crofts on his website and Twitter.

I was given this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and Red Door Press.

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Across the Face of the World by Russell Kirkpatrick is a fantasy novel, where the we follow characters on a journey.  

Leith and Hal are travelling to save their parents, and are joined by 2 village elders and another villager.  They meet various people with different customs on their travels, and go through different landscapes.

I’m afraid I found this book too descriptive and quite dull.  Everything has to be described to the fullest, and any decisions need to be talked and argued about.  It was exhausting and exhaustive. 

Across the Face of the World by Russell Kirkpatrick was published on 4th May 2006, and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can follow Russell Kirkpatrick on Twitter and Facebook.

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Of Wicked Blood by Olivia Wildenstein & Katie Hayoz is a book that I thought I knew what was going to happen, and then added a fantasy twist!

Slate is used to looking out for himself, and has had to do this since he was very young in the foster system. Out of the blue, he’s told about a small town where his parents had lived, and that they’ve left money for him.

There are challenges, secrets and lies that come out when Slate goes there.  This was an enjoyable book, and one that surprised me.  I enjoyed the twists and the story.

Of Wicked Blood by Olivia Wildenstein & Katie Hayoz was published on 2nd February, and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can follow Olivia Wildenstein on her website, Instagram and Facebook.

You can follow Katie Hayoz on her website and Facebook.

I was given this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Twig Publishing.

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Blood Rites by Jim Butcher has Harry on the set of an adult film, undercover, trying to track down who is trying to kill the producer.  He only got involved in this because Thomas asked him to, and of course there’s going to be some money involved as well!  

There’s also the matter of the Black Court vampires that are lurking around!

Blood Rites by Jim Butcher was published on 3rd August 2004, and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can follow Jim Butcher on his website, Twitter and Facebook.

My reviews for previous Dresden Files books are below:

Storm Front (book 1)

Fool Moon (book 2)

Grave Peril (book 3)

Summer Knight (book 4)

Death Masks (book 5)