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rvmama's review against another edition
5.0
Absolutely loved this book. I wish I didn't have to wait a year for the next book in the series. The characters and the plot were all fresh while continuing in the world of the Others, which I love.
sandyfleener's review against another edition
5.0
Love 💘 this series!
I wait so patiently for each new book then mourn the loss when I finish each one. I like this spinoff just as much as the original. I'll miss them.
I wait so patiently for each new book then mourn the loss when I finish each one. I like this spinoff just as much as the original. I'll miss them.
crochetchrisie's review against another edition
3.0
OK, so I hate giving anything less than 4 stars because I feel like a meany. But I didn't 'really like' this book. I've read all the others and I felt like I should continue the series even though I found the last few to be lackluster. I thought maybe having a new set of characters would help, but I didn't connect with any of these characters at all.
I think it's a case of not really clicking with the author's writing style. It is almost too detailed. Like everything is really laid out. Stuff like bringing chairs into a room and the planning behind the placement of those chairs and all of that. The thing that drew me to the Others series in the first place was the idea of 'how' they would figure out how to bridge the gap with the humans and the others, but it's just really... tedious, I guess?
idk, I think if there's another book I won't be reading it. To each your own though.
I think it's a case of not really clicking with the author's writing style. It is almost too detailed. Like everything is really laid out. Stuff like bringing chairs into a room and the planning behind the placement of those chairs and all of that. The thing that drew me to the Others series in the first place was the idea of 'how' they would figure out how to bridge the gap with the humans and the others, but it's just really... tedious, I guess?
idk, I think if there's another book I won't be reading it. To each your own though.
sunsoar25's review against another edition
4.0
It was good coming back to the world of a favorite series. I can't wait to read the next installment.
mischievous_monkey's review against another edition
4.0
So happy to return to the world of the Others.
lee25's review against another edition
5.0
I wasn't sure what to expect with [b:Lake Silence|35463752|Lake Silence (The World of the Others, #1; The Others, #6)|Anne Bishop|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1497821052l/35463752._SY75_.jpg|53651626]; I loved the Lakeside Others books and I was concerned that Thaisia wouldn't be the same without Meg, Simon, Vlad, Sam et al. I shouldn't have been, although most of the characters are new, the world is familiar enough that [b:Lake Silence|35463752|Lake Silence (The World of the Others, #1; The Others, #6)|Anne Bishop|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1497821052l/35463752._SY75_.jpg|53651626] flows on easily from the previous books.
I can understand why some reviewers didn't like Vicki as our main protagonist, but I quite like her. Although Vicki is clearly "damaged" by years of abuse and she is apparently not physically attractive, she is loyal and she definitely has plenty of courage. And I really enjoyed her dry, self-deprecating sense of humour. However, there are some things I found annoying (particularly the whole "vigorous appendage" thing).
Overall, another really enjoyable read from [a:Anne Bishop|26897|Anne Bishop|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1237258217p2/26897.jpg]. I am looking forward to getting to know the residents of Lake Silence better and, hopefully, learning more about the Intuits.
I can understand why some reviewers didn't like Vicki as our main protagonist, but I quite like her. Although Vicki is clearly "damaged" by years of abuse and she is apparently not physically attractive, she is loyal and she definitely has plenty of courage. And I really enjoyed her dry, self-deprecating sense of humour. However, there are some things I found annoying (particularly the whole "vigorous appendage" thing).
Overall, another really enjoyable read from [a:Anne Bishop|26897|Anne Bishop|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1237258217p2/26897.jpg]. I am looking forward to getting to know the residents of Lake Silence better and, hopefully, learning more about the Intuits.
zephyr42's review against another edition
4.0
Anne Bishop is one of my favorite modern authors, and every book of hers I get to read is a delight. This one is no exception. More crowgard! An expansion of the world of the Terre Indigene! Town Politics! I could not put this one down, and it prompted me to go back and reread her series... which I'd only finished last year.
amym84's review against another edition
4.0
Lake Silence marks the next story arc in Anne Bishop's The Others series. This time around we follow human Vicki DeVine, living in a little town called Sproing, who received in her divorce settlement an old run-down resort known as The Jumble - which straddles the line between what can be considered "human run" and "wild country" but more closely associated with the wild country. Basically, it was a place initially set up so the terre indigene could closely study and learn about humans. Vicki works really hard to get The Jumble habitable again, but soon after she's completed renovations, a dead body is discovered on the property. Being a law abiding citizen Vicki immediately calls the police, but when some out-of-town detectives start investigating, they want to blame Vicki for the murder. As Vicki and her friends start their own investigation, that someone is interested in The Jumble and wants to push Vicki out no matter the cost. But what they don't understand is that just because you can't see some of the terre indigene doesn't mean they're not watching.
When I learned that Anne Bishop was ending story arc one with Meg and Simon and continuing the series with new characters, I was a little unsure. I mean over the course of five books I had really grown to love Meg, Simon, and all the other characters in Lakeside. I should have known Anne Bishop wouldn't let me down.
Lake Silence deals more with the human side of Thaisia and specifically it's a chance for us to really see the consequences from The Great Predation - when a group of humans got together to try and attack the terre indigene and subsequently failed - what that did to the smaller settlements in Thaisia. But in addition to focusing more in the human side, we also get a lot more focus placed on the Elders and Elemental terre indigene which were more on the periphery in the first arc with that focus being more on the vampires and shifters.
I liked Vicki, she's a woman who has been through a brutal marriage and still struggles daily to get past the poison her husband spewed to her throughout the years of their marriage. I loved the glimpses we get of her unguarded thoughts that show us this spunky woman. It makes the brutality of what her husband did her stand out more because she's so unsure of herself and she censors or hides herself because she has been told repeatedly that is where her place is, hidden. I look forward to the series continuing and seeing Vicki break out of that shell she's formed around herself.
Vicki's only paying lodger Aggie, a Crowgard, is also a wonderful addition to this series. She's inquisitive, like the Crow we've seen from the first story arc, but I think we see her really begin to understand the humans a bit more than other terre indigene from this series to the point where she really lets her investigative skills shine a couple of times. She's able to put herself into the mindset of the humans in certain cases. I'm interested to see where her character goes from here.
Lake Silence drew me in like all the others in this series, Anne Bishop has a pretty good formula worked out, but even though it does feel a bit formulaic at times, I still enjoyed the read.
When I learned that Anne Bishop was ending story arc one with Meg and Simon and continuing the series with new characters, I was a little unsure. I mean over the course of five books I had really grown to love Meg, Simon, and all the other characters in Lakeside. I should have known Anne Bishop wouldn't let me down.
Lake Silence deals more with the human side of Thaisia and specifically it's a chance for us to really see the consequences from The Great Predation - when a group of humans got together to try and attack the terre indigene and subsequently failed - what that did to the smaller settlements in Thaisia. But in addition to focusing more in the human side, we also get a lot more focus placed on the Elders and Elemental terre indigene which were more on the periphery in the first arc with that focus being more on the vampires and shifters.
I liked Vicki, she's a woman who has been through a brutal marriage and still struggles daily to get past the poison her husband spewed to her throughout the years of their marriage. I loved the glimpses we get of her unguarded thoughts that show us this spunky woman. It makes the brutality of what her husband did her stand out more because she's so unsure of herself and she censors or hides herself because she has been told repeatedly that is where her place is, hidden. I look forward to the series continuing and seeing Vicki break out of that shell she's formed around herself.
Vicki's only paying lodger Aggie, a Crowgard, is also a wonderful addition to this series. She's inquisitive, like the Crow we've seen from the first story arc, but I think we see her really begin to understand the humans a bit more than other terre indigene from this series to the point where she really lets her investigative skills shine a couple of times. She's able to put herself into the mindset of the humans in certain cases. I'm interested to see where her character goes from here.
Lake Silence drew me in like all the others in this series, Anne Bishop has a pretty good formula worked out, but even though it does feel a bit formulaic at times, I still enjoyed the read.
mindgazer's review against another edition
2.0
These books should not have "romance" as any part of their categorization. The writing was good and I was pulled in the characters and the story but as in her other series, the sexual tension between characters is what kept me waiting and then the meeting of the 2 romantic characters was agonizingly anticlimactic. So disappointing that I won't be reading any more of her work.