![]() ![]() Agent: Jennifer Jackson, Donald Maass Literary Agency. The offensive setup does nothing to enhance the familiar special-snowflake heroine’s journey of self-discovery and implausible romance. Meanwhile, Asia Crane, an actress spying on the Others for the chance to get her own TV show, brings potential trouble for Meg and her new protectors. As a cassandra sangue, or blood prophet, Meg Corbyn can see the future when her. She gets a job working for shifter Simon Wolfgard, who’s puzzled because she doesn’t smell like prey, and befriends a number of other Others. Enter the world of the Others in the first novel in New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s thrilling fantasy series: a place where unearthly entitiesvampires and shape-shifters among themrule the Earth and prey on the human race. Meg Corbyn, a human with precognitive gifts, escapes human slavers and finds sanctuary in a town’s Courtyard, the Others-only section where human law doesn’t apply. Despite the Others seeing humans as “meat” and brutally maintaining ownership of the continent, human settlements feel just like present-day small towns. In this alternate universe, Native Americans have been entirely erased instead, the natives of Thaisia (the continent analogous to North America) are Others, monstrous paranormal beings like vampires and werewolves. ![]() Bishop (the Black Jewels series) wraps a generally by-the-numbers urban fantasy in ill-conceived world-building. ![]()
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