Return to New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s 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 Others 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.
While reading this Daesh attacked Paris, fundamentalists attacked people for being different to them, it was interesting to see Anne Bishop show how exclusion of moderates can happen so easily the echoes were interesting.
Meg discovers more about herself and her abilities and what her blood can do. There's also two addictive drugs appearing on the market that appear to have links to Meg and her need to prophecise is making her cut herself. Her mission, in her own mind, is not only survival but to also rescue the others like her who are still suffering from abuse.
It's an interesting series about a world where humanity isn't the dominant life-form and where things could go horribly wrong at any time for humanity where the dominant are others who regard humanity as interesting food.
I'm enjoying this series.
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