Lake Silence

Decent read after price gorging removed. This is one of those books that release with a $60 tag and sell for $40 saying it's marked down. After a year or so they will reduce the book to the $10 mark every other book is. Her books comfortable and fimilar which is good. I've been reading since the black jewels on paperback. Average female surrounded by beautiful/ powerful people who are all protective of her because she is a decent person. Bad people always afraid but greedy. Still love it.

Absolutely superb, no questions five glorious stars! This spin off of the previous series (although still called The Others) centres on The Jumble, a small, slightly down-at-heel holiday home with 12 small chalets located just outside the village of Sproing, near Lake Silence. The owner, Vicki DeVine is a short, stubby woman (she isn't curvaceous, just solid) who received the Jumble in her divorce settlement. She has invested much of the remaining cash settlement in things like septic tanks and flushing toilets for the chalets. Vicki only discovers that her single paying guest, a young girl called Aggie, is Crowgard when she discovers her trying to heat up an eyeball ready to eat! This leads her to discover the body of a murdered man on the edge of her land. What follows is part taut thriller, part urban fantasy and all good. I can't even write a review because I just loved all of it. It was perfect. Loved all the characters (except the baddies - boo, hiss), loved The Others, loved Sproing. Loved it, loved it, loved it. Also, because this is not set in the Courtyard it can also be read as a stand-alone, provided of course that the reader is ready to be immersed in a world which might on the surface feel like our own, but is in reality very different. Go, go, go!

Anne Bishop is the kind of writer I would like to be. I tore through this book 404ish pages in about 2 days. She writes characters that are normally sidelined in fiction genres and she turns them into heroines. She takes women who have anxiety disorders, self esteem problems, and real bodies with real fat rolls and untamable hair- and she lets them do their thing and by the end of the book they are responsible for saving lives and speaking directly to the beings that represent mother earth. That is epic.