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A review by bookish1ifedeb
Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop
4.0
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.