A Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop

A Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop

This is the second book to the "Novel of the Others" series, which starts with Written in Red. If you haven't read my review of that, the link is here:

A Murder of Crows answers the questions the first book did not, mainly about the cassandra sangue (blood prophets for those new to the series) and the prostitution-like institution they've been forced into.

Meg and other blood prophets across the country have been having the same horrific visions involving burning cities and the terra indigine (shape-shifters) of Lakeside Courtyard become the only beings able to find out why and stop it from happening.

I am still in love with the series. With this second book, it delves so much deeper into the world outside of Lakeside, and the politics. With this second book comes the introduction of the Humans First and Last movement, which I am beginning to think will become more terrorist like by the third book. We finally see how radical the Lakeside Courtyard is by cooperating with the human police. Anne Bishop does some amazing world building here and it is one of my favorite reasons for loving the series.

She also does a good job adding depths to character's relationships specifically, Meg and Simon, and Simon with the other humans working at the courtyard. Meg and Simon, though not together have the awkward situation of friend-zoning each other. It makes for a funny sub-plot and delves a little bit deeper into their personalities. Whereas with Simon and the other humans, the work relationship between them seems to grow as Simon learns how to be more human and the girls that work in the Courtyard learn to toughen up and actually begin to get accepted into the Courtyard as a 'human pack'.

Overall I am very impressed and cannot what for a third book.