Murder of Crows: A Novel of the Others, Book 2 Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00IGFKXGC | Format: EPUB
Murder of Crows: A Novel of the Others, Book 2 Description
Return to New York Times best-selling author Anne Bishop?s "phenomenal" (Urban Fantasy Investigations) world of the Others - where supernatural entities and humans struggle to co-exist, and one woman has begun to change all the rules.?
After winning the trust of the terra indigene residing in the Lakeside Courtyard, Meg Corbyn has had trouble figuring out what it means to live among them. As a human, Meg should be barely tolerated prey, but her abilities as a cassandra sangue make her something more.
The appearance of two addictive drugs has sparked violence between the humans and the Others, resulting in the murder of both species in nearby cities. So when Meg has a dream about blood and black feathers in the snow, Simon Wolfgard - Lakeside?s shape-shifting leader - wonders if their blood prophet dreamed of a past attack or a future threat.
As the urge to speak prophecies strikes Meg more frequently, trouble finds its way inside the Courtyard. Now, the Others and the handful of humans residing there must work together to stop the man bent on reclaiming their blood prophet - and stop the danger that threatens to destroy them all.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 14 hours and 13 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Penguin Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: March 4, 2014
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00IGFKXGC
Murder of Crows is the second book in the "Others" series by Anne Bishop. In order to read and understand this book, you absolutely need to read the first book, Written in Red.
Murder of Crows takes up where Written in Red ended. By now, Simon knows that digesting the sweet blood of the cassandra sangue, or blood prophets can cause extreme anger and a feeling of invincibility. Up to this book, Simon has kept that knowledge to himself to protect Meg Corbyn, a blood prophet who is their Human Liaison and lives among them. With the saving of Simon's nephew, Sam, in the last book, Meg has cemented her place among the Others, and can depend on their protection from the Controller. The Controller is the individual who owns the institution that houses the blood prophets. No one knows his identity or how to find him, but the Others are looking. The book opens with Meg's vision of black feathers and blood as the Crows are being murdered and she warns Simon in time to stop the massacre. From this point the visions come faster and many pieces start coming together from the Others, the police, the villains, and other human cities.
I read this book in one sitting (probably drives authors nuts who read stuff like this, when it took them months to write). From the standpoint of holding my attention, I would have to give this book five stars. I was thoroughly engrossed with the book, the plot and the characters. What downgraded the book was a lack of the relationships with the characters that happened in the first book. While Meg and Simon's relationship grew and deepened, it was really the only one. The other characters were skimmed - Tess, Erebus, Ruthie, Sam, Henry, etc.
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