Lake Silence Author: Anne Bishop Title: Lake Silence Series: The Others Genre: Dark Fantasy Pairing: M/F Rating: Four Petals On the Author's website: https://www.annebishop.com/b.lake.silence.html Summary: Human laws do not apply in the territory controlled by the Others–vampires, shapeshifters, and paranormal beings even more deadly. And this is a fact that humans should never, ever forget . . . After her divorce, Vicki DeVine took over a rustic resort near Lake Silence, in a human town that is not human controlled. Towns like Vicki’s have no distance from the Others, the dominant predators that rule most of the land and all of the water throughout the world. And when a place has no boundaries, you never really know what’s out there watching you. Vicki was hoping to find a new career and a new life. But when her lodger, Aggie Crowe–one of the shapeshifting Others–discovers a dead body, Vicki finds trouble instead. The detectives want to pin the man’s death on her, despite the evidence that nothing human could have killed the victim. As Vicki and her friends search for answers, things get dangerous–and it’ll take everything they have to stay alive. Maggie's Review:
I received this book as an ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Vicki hoped to start over with her resort and a new beginning to her life. It's slow going, but she's making progress, that is until one of her boarders finds a dead body. The ensuing investigation throws every one of her plans into disarray, but with the Others lurking around every corner, Vicki knows that surviving to the next day without being eaten might be impossible. This story reads a bit as a "what if?" novel. What if a regular human with no magic and no history with the Others is suddenly exposed to them. It's basically an experiment to see what the original series could have been like if Meg (the main character from that series) had been a regular human. You have the same story line of Vicki trying to figure out how she fits in with the Others, the cops figuring that out too, and the bad guy arrogant enough to not be capable of understanding the Others at all. It's all the same as Written in Red, except for the fact that it's patently not. Vicki is a completely unique and interesting character and the way she approaches the Others reflects her own personality. It was definitely the characterizations as a whole that gave this so-similar plot enough uniqueness to stand apart as its own novel. Maggie's Recommendation: This glimpse into another aspect of the world and all the various creatures that inhabit it was still very interesting despite the sameness of the overall plot to the original Others series. I completely enjoyed reading it and absolutely recommend it.
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