Gallery
Anne Bishop returns to her world of the Others, as humans struggle to survive in the shadow of shapeshifters and vampires far more powerful than themselves…
Written in Red (The Others #1) by Anne Bishop
The Others series by Anne Bishop; a series overview covering the first five books, with brief mention of the spin-off Lake Silence. Spoilers abound.
Third: Anne Bishop is in her sixties and it shows. There’s a fetishization for small town communities and conservative values. Cities are where humans go to forget the Others exist and thus become willing to believe that they aren’t scary, and cities are also where people go to become prostitutes (gasp!) or sell weed (GASP) or otherwise become evil. Small towns where everyone knows everybody else means that the community will help everyone out, they’ll gang up against evil outsiders, and so on. This extends into sexism as well – if a woman is unmarried there are assumptions that she needs to find a man. Men are protectors, women are caretakers – but writ large. The only aggressive, forward-thinking woman who wants more for herself than getting married is Asia Crane, and she’s dead by the end of book one.
A Novel of the Others Series 5 Books Set By Anne Bishop
