Fantasy
From Goodreads:
No one
creates realms like New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop. Now
in a thrilling new fantasy series, enter a world inhabited by the Others,
unearthly entities—vampires and shape-shifters among them—who rule the Earth
and whose prey are humans.
As a cassandra
sangue, or blood prophet, Meg Corbyn can see the future when her skin is
cut—a gift that feels more like a curse. Meg’s Controller keeps her enslaved so
he can have full access to her visions. But when she escapes, the only safe
place Meg can hide is at the Lakeside Courtyard—a business district operated by
the Others.
Shape-shifter Simon Wolfgard is
reluctant to hire the stranger who inquires about the Human Liaison job. First,
he senses she’s keeping a secret, and second, she doesn’t smell like human
prey. Yet a stronger instinct propels him to give Meg the job. And when he
learns the truth about Meg and that she’s wanted by the government, he’ll have
to decide if she’s worth the fight between humans and the Others that will
surely follow.
Once again I picked an audio book by a author whose books I have never read and once again I am hooked. Written in Red by Anne Bishop drew me
in and would not let me go.
The world building caught me first
the characters kept me glued to the book.
This is a world where the geography is like ours but the Others and the
cassandre sangue (who are a form of human) are very different. Only the humans like us remain the same
and they are not the dominant species.
Some of the Others are shape
sifters, some are elementals and some are something no one even the rest of the
Others ever want to meet. To the
Others humans are just meat. Meg
Corbyn is human but also cassandre sangue or blood prophet. She does not smell like prey as other
humans do.
That sets up part of the conflict
in Written in Red. Meg Corbyn is
at the heart of the conflict. Meg has escaped a life she hated and the Others
take her in. Human law does not
apply in the Courtyard where she now lives. She is a very refreshing character. She was raised in isolation and has a very different
reaction to the Others. She has an
innocence that helps her win over the ones she is in contact with. Simon Wolfguard is the Other who gives
Meg the job in the Courtyard. The
fact that Meg does not smell like prey keeps him conflicted. The interaction between the two can
sometimes be very dangerous and sometimes be very amusing.
The book can be a little dark but there were things that lightened it up I loved the names of the stores in the Courtyard and they did add a light touch. Howling Good Reads, A Little Bite, and Run and Thump - a bookstore, a coffee shop and a gym all owned by the Others.
Writing in a way that brings all of
the elements of a book together into a cohesive whole takes a lot of
talent. Anne Bishop has that kind
of talent.
If I had been reading Written in
Red it would have been a book I could not put down. Since I was listening I ended up listening to it in my house
instead of my car because I had to know what was going to happen next.
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