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Okay, first, a warning: if you ever engaged in self-harm, if you have ever been tempted to engage in self-harm, don't read this book. Don't go near this book. Don't even finish this review. You'd be better off reading Moby Dick backwards while dangling upside-down by a toe.
Actually, everyone would be better off reading Moby Dick backwards while dangling upside-down by a toe. This isn't just a bad book, it's an actively awful one on virtually every level. I finished this book so mad I came back t ...more
Actually, everyone would be better off reading Moby Dick backwards while dangling upside-down by a toe. This isn't just a bad book, it's an actively awful one on virtually every level. I finished this book so mad I came back t ...more
So I don't normally like any of the elements of this type of book, but I love it. I love everything about it. I love the little bits of humour we get, I LOVE all the world building, I love the relationships, and the physical representations of things like winter or thunder. I love every bit of it. And I shouldn't. So that is saying something!
Thanks to Shannon for the great recommendation and my partner for asking her for one before they gifted it to me! And yay for random book gifts. 😍♥️😍 ...more
Thanks to Shannon for the great recommendation and my partner for asking her for one before they gifted it to me! And yay for random book gifts. 😍♥️😍 ...more
I was never a fan of Bishop's Black Jewels series, but I thought I would give her another chance with this new series. Only, it's not really a new series at all. The characters are pretty much retreads of the main characters from the Black Jewels series. You have your heroine, who is incredibly powerful and has been abused in an institutional setting for years, and yet remains guileless and charming to all who meet her (unless they are evil, of course). You have the masculine hero who is feared
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I always enjoy Anne Bishop's books so I don't know why it took me so long to read this series. I love The Others series the characters are great and the world is fascinating. This series reminds me a bit of her Ephemera series mixed with Ilona Andrews' Kate Daniels series and Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series.
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Well, I kept reading it. So yeah, there was some good plotting and I generally don't love supernatural-being books. Still, the caricatures of everyone bugged me to no end. There were the stereotypical vampire and werewolf characters and, the one that really drove me the most crazy, the villain- a single-minded wench obsessed with plotting everyone's demise to what end? So that she could one day star in her own "tv show" (I felt like she was something out of a 1980's made for tv drama, and not in
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Anne Bishop has done it once again, creating a world that is vivid, unique, and full of passionate characters that leap off the page. Written in Red is my favorite book of 2013. All of her work shows a distinctive style, but what I love is the new take she is able to bring to paranormal fantasy. This alternate-Earth setting is rich in detail and mythology while remaining familiar to the reader. She creates characters that seemingly possess human qualities, yet at the same time are distinctly Oth
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it is entirely possible that Bishop has only one book (series) in her. i've heard some less-than-lovely reviews of anything of hers that's not her debut, The Black Jewels Trilogy: Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Shadows, Queen of the Darkness, and if 'written in red' is indicative of the rest, well, yep.
the world here is all kinds of interesting - there are hints that it's a sort of alternate-history, that it takes place in an america of feral shapeshifters, where civilization as we know it n ...more
the world here is all kinds of interesting - there are hints that it's a sort of alternate-history, that it takes place in an america of feral shapeshifters, where civilization as we know it n ...more
It takes a lot for me to be interested in a book that doesn't have romance in it, so I was confused when I found myself crying at three in the morning because of this book. But I don't know! Something about the characters and their relationships, the world (sort of, but it is only the first book), the unapologetic people-eating (maybe I'm just bored of worlds that have non-human eating shapeshifters?), the different perspectives illustrated (as a result, the characters aren't super developed, bu
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I’ve read the whole series and I don’t want to move on yet so I’m diving back in for round two.
It’ll be fun to see what I missed in the first reading.
It’ll be fun to see what I missed in the first reading.
Feb 16, 2013
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