Kadomi reviewed Written In Red by Anne Bishop
Review of 'Written In Red' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Started interesting, and then my interest grew less in a flattened curve I wish we had for Covid-19 yet, and then I stopped being interested at all.
Basic premise is an alternative USA where the Europeans upon colonisation found a different kind of natives, the terra indigenes: shapeshifters, elementals, vampires. They co-exist now, but the terra indigenes have the upper hand, living in so-called Courtyards amongst humanities.
The Courtyard in Lakeside, I suppose what we call Chicago, run by Simon Wolfgard, gets a new human liaison, a new arrival called Meg. But she is not a normal woman, she is a cassandra sanguine, a blood seer. They cut to have prophetic visions, or rather, they are held imprisoned to sell their visions to the highest bidder.
While all that sounds pretty interesting, the characters were dull, in particular Meg, and the book lost me when it spent pages and pages …
Started interesting, and then my interest grew less in a flattened curve I wish we had for Covid-19 yet, and then I stopped being interested at all.
Basic premise is an alternative USA where the Europeans upon colonisation found a different kind of natives, the terra indigenes: shapeshifters, elementals, vampires. They co-exist now, but the terra indigenes have the upper hand, living in so-called Courtyards amongst humanities.
The Courtyard in Lakeside, I suppose what we call Chicago, run by Simon Wolfgard, gets a new human liaison, a new arrival called Meg. But she is not a normal woman, she is a cassandra sanguine, a blood seer. They cut to have prophetic visions, or rather, they are held imprisoned to sell their visions to the highest bidder.
While all that sounds pretty interesting, the characters were dull, in particular Meg, and the book lost me when it spent pages and pages of describing how Meg walks a young wolf puppy, feeds him, plays with him, etc. It was just dull, nothing ever seemed to happen at all.
Giving the rest of the series a hard pass.