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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
Damn. I mean...DAMN!! That could've been a lot better. It was basically the same story as Written In Red! To me, the characters developed no further and their relationships to one another developed no further. The end of this book left me in the same DAMN spot as the end of Written in Red. And I really really liked the first book, but Damn, I wanted to be further into the characters and world! UGH. Enough of the "DAMN"'s lol. I love Anne Bishop,but this was a disappointment.
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
I have enjoyed this series so far! I love the characters and the development. There is definitely a bit of slowness to the romance but I feel it will happen in time since this is a series. It had a great storyline and definitely entertained me with mystery and intrigue. This is a very good Supernatural Romance series.
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"All roads drive through the woods."
Just as good as the original :-)
Left eagerly awaiting the next in the series, again. Meg gets even ballsier as the world is yet again in danger from the Otners
Left eagerly awaiting the next in the series, again. Meg gets even ballsier as the world is yet again in danger from the Otners
Book 2. I'm liking this series.
Summary: After winning the trust of the terra indigene residing in the Lakeside Courtyard, Meg Corbyn has had trouble figuring out what it means to live among them. As a human, Meg should be barely tolerated prey, but her abilities as a cassandra sangue make her something more. The appearance of two addictive drugs has sparked violence between the humans and the Others, resulting in the murders of both species in nearby cities. So when Meg has a dream about blood and black feathers in the snow, Simon Wolfgard--Lakeside's shape-shifting leader--wonders whether their blood prophet dreamed of a past attack or of a future threat. As the urge to speak prophecies strikes Meg more frequently, trouble finds its way inside the Courtyard. Now the Others and the handful of humans residing there must work together to stop the man bent on reclaiming their blood prophet--and stop the danger that threatens to destroy them all
Summary: After winning the trust of the terra indigene residing in the Lakeside Courtyard, Meg Corbyn has had trouble figuring out what it means to live among them. As a human, Meg should be barely tolerated prey, but her abilities as a cassandra sangue make her something more. The appearance of two addictive drugs has sparked violence between the humans and the Others, resulting in the murders of both species in nearby cities. So when Meg has a dream about blood and black feathers in the snow, Simon Wolfgard--Lakeside's shape-shifting leader--wonders whether their blood prophet dreamed of a past attack or of a future threat. As the urge to speak prophecies strikes Meg more frequently, trouble finds its way inside the Courtyard. Now the Others and the handful of humans residing there must work together to stop the man bent on reclaiming their blood prophet--and stop the danger that threatens to destroy them all
There are certain series I love but really wish I hadn't discovered until the entire series is out. Why? Because I want to devour them all in one sitting of course. After having read the first two books in this series I was disappointed to find out I am going to have to wait until next year to read the next one. Ugh!!
Murder of Crows picks up where Written in Red left off. The citizens of the Lakeside Courtyard have successfully fought off the mercenaries who were coming to kidnap Meg and young Sam and take them back to the Controller. So one problem has been solved, but the bigger issues still remain. There are still lots of places with tensions running high between the terra indigene and the humans. There are more instances where the drugs gone over wolf and feel good have caused havoc. And now there are reports of tainted meat causing the same kinds of problems the drugs did. For those who know where the drugs are coming from this is disturbing news. The humans don't seem to realize how tenuous their place is in the world and how short their time might be if they keep pissing off the Others. Meg's prophecies are dark indeed and the future doesn't look very good for the human population. Simon and the rest of the Lakeside Courtyard are trying to solve the problems before they escalate past the point of no return. They are working closely with the local police to find solutions and peace. It is not escaping the notice of other Courtyards or terra indigene. They are on the hunt for the Controller and the cassandra sangue he is using to poison the world.
I think I might have loved this book just as much as Written in Red. Anne Bishop does such a fantastic job of building the worlds she creates and making them come alive. She also does a fantastic job of creating characters you come to love and cheer for. I thought it was interesting that in this book, as in the last, the Others are not the bad guys. The bad guys are the humans. Sure the Others do terrible things, but they are not human and the reader isn't expected to look at them through a human lens. They are other and for the most part think of humans as prey and meat. They tolerate humans because humans provide some of the things they enjoy, but they do not need humans and most of them never want to be around them. That is why I love the dynamic between the Lakeside Others and the humans who work with them. It is meant to show an ideal; it is an experiment to see if humans and Others can tolerate each other enough to live peacefully. It makes for thrilling storytelling.
Murder of Crows picks up where Written in Red left off. The citizens of the Lakeside Courtyard have successfully fought off the mercenaries who were coming to kidnap Meg and young Sam and take them back to the Controller. So one problem has been solved, but the bigger issues still remain. There are still lots of places with tensions running high between the terra indigene and the humans. There are more instances where the drugs gone over wolf and feel good have caused havoc. And now there are reports of tainted meat causing the same kinds of problems the drugs did. For those who know where the drugs are coming from this is disturbing news. The humans don't seem to realize how tenuous their place is in the world and how short their time might be if they keep pissing off the Others. Meg's prophecies are dark indeed and the future doesn't look very good for the human population. Simon and the rest of the Lakeside Courtyard are trying to solve the problems before they escalate past the point of no return. They are working closely with the local police to find solutions and peace. It is not escaping the notice of other Courtyards or terra indigene. They are on the hunt for the Controller and the cassandra sangue he is using to poison the world.
I think I might have loved this book just as much as Written in Red. Anne Bishop does such a fantastic job of building the worlds she creates and making them come alive. She also does a fantastic job of creating characters you come to love and cheer for. I thought it was interesting that in this book, as in the last, the Others are not the bad guys. The bad guys are the humans. Sure the Others do terrible things, but they are not human and the reader isn't expected to look at them through a human lens. They are other and for the most part think of humans as prey and meat. They tolerate humans because humans provide some of the things they enjoy, but they do not need humans and most of them never want to be around them. That is why I love the dynamic between the Lakeside Others and the humans who work with them. It is meant to show an ideal; it is an experiment to see if humans and Others can tolerate each other enough to live peacefully. It makes for thrilling storytelling.
Book Two of Anne Bishop's "The Others" series picks up a few weeks after the events of Written In Red, in which blood prophet Meg escaped from her controller and found sanctuary at Lakeside Courtyard, one of the few places in Thaisia where humans and the Others interact daily. The Others are terra indigene, the native shape shifters who dominate the world, and deal with humans only as necessary. Most of the Others see humans as just another kind of meat, and humans who test the rules of their trade agreements, or try to use more land than permitted, have been known to disappear--and a day or so later, the diner in the Courtyard advertises "special" meat.
Meg has won the cautious approval of the Courtyard's residents, which most humans do not know includes Others more fearsome than the Wolves, Crows, Hawks. Owls and Grizzly who work in the city Courtyard. The Elementals control the seasons and the weather, and regard Meg as a valued servant; Tess of the snakelike hair and terrible eyes has become the protector of Meg and her human "pack"; and the Sanguinati, ancient vampires, call her "sweet blood" and are committed to ensuring the Meg stays safely away from her former captors.
But a new movement to overthrow the rule of the Others is afoot. Humans First and Last, or HFL, as they call themselves, have started testing two drugs on the Others, one that promotes the extreme aggression of a wolf, the other causing extreme calm--and both may come from one unexpected source. The crows are the first to be drugged and killed; then poisoned meat causes a small town to go mad and tear the populace apart. And the humans who work in the Courtyard are ostracized, then attacked as "wolf-lovers." Courtyard leader Simon and his team of Others must work with local police Burke and Momtgomery to try to defuse the increasingly dangerous tensions that could spell the end of every human living in the midwest region, perhaps in all of Thaisia.
Meg meanwhile struggles with the compulsion to cut herself to see prophesies--an addiction that will ultimately either kill her, or drive her mad. She must develop her own process for prophesying to help her new protectors, and she hopes, keep her from the human hunters sent to recapture her⦠and maybe free the other blood prophets she left behind.
This is my new favorite paranormal series. I look forward to more books from Ms. Bishop.
Meg has won the cautious approval of the Courtyard's residents, which most humans do not know includes Others more fearsome than the Wolves, Crows, Hawks. Owls and Grizzly who work in the city Courtyard. The Elementals control the seasons and the weather, and regard Meg as a valued servant; Tess of the snakelike hair and terrible eyes has become the protector of Meg and her human "pack"; and the Sanguinati, ancient vampires, call her "sweet blood" and are committed to ensuring the Meg stays safely away from her former captors.
But a new movement to overthrow the rule of the Others is afoot. Humans First and Last, or HFL, as they call themselves, have started testing two drugs on the Others, one that promotes the extreme aggression of a wolf, the other causing extreme calm--and both may come from one unexpected source. The crows are the first to be drugged and killed; then poisoned meat causes a small town to go mad and tear the populace apart. And the humans who work in the Courtyard are ostracized, then attacked as "wolf-lovers." Courtyard leader Simon and his team of Others must work with local police Burke and Momtgomery to try to defuse the increasingly dangerous tensions that could spell the end of every human living in the midwest region, perhaps in all of Thaisia.
Meg meanwhile struggles with the compulsion to cut herself to see prophesies--an addiction that will ultimately either kill her, or drive her mad. She must develop her own process for prophesying to help her new protectors, and she hopes, keep her from the human hunters sent to recapture her⦠and maybe free the other blood prophets she left behind.
This is my new favorite paranormal series. I look forward to more books from Ms. Bishop.
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