A few months ago, I was delighted to stumble upon Written in Red, the first in “the others” series from Anne Bishop. Written in Red was the story of a world where creatures like vampires and werewolves are real, living in cities with humans, but barely tolerating them. Their world is a world where humans are seen as little more than meat. That is, until Meg, a blood prophet on the run from her captors, finds herself suddenly wrapped up in their lives and under their protection. In […]
Written in Red, by Anne Bishop
Humans and Others have long held an uneasy truce. Most of the wild places are Other controlled, but humans have persevered and cities have grown. As part of the truce, and to stay close to the human innovations they have come to appreciate, the Others are given a “courtyard” in most cities, where they live by their laws and unwanted trespassers are usually listed as “special meat” the next morning at the butcher shop. On a stormy winter night, Meg arrives freezing and scared, and […]
4.5 stars This is the second book in the series of The Others.While you get enough information to read it without having read the first one, you should really do yourself a favour and start with Written in Red. It’s the best paranormal/urban fantasy book I read last year, and deserves to be read by as many people as possible. This review will also contain minor spoilers for the first one, so you may want to come back and read it once you’ve finished book 1. Having […]
's CBR6 Review No:21 ·
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction ·
Tags: #CBR6, Anne Bishop, elementals, Malin, Murder of Crows, paranormal fantasy, shapeshifters, The Others, vampires ·
This book had handsome werewolves, but I liked it anyway
Let me just start out here by saying that this sort of book isn