• Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2019 March #1
  Paralleling the time line of Etched in Bone (2017), the latest World of the Others novel focuses on the challenges Tolya Sanguinati and the rest of Bennett's population face in rebuilding a workable alliance between the terra indigene and the humans they're allowing to settle in the city. Among the new human inhabitants is a sheriff's deputy on her first assignment; she has to navigate not only an unfamiliar role but the unfamiliar social structures of the Wolfgard sheriff. Alongside the (relatively) simple logistics of getting people to live and work together despite radical differences, there are the outside threats. The leader of a human outlaw family has set his sights on Bennett as the ideal place to settle down and make his grift a legitimate business. He is also under the delusion that he can take control of the city, leading to a dramatic final showdown. This is kind of a cozy thriller, but the characters and the details of Bennett's regrowth make it a pleasing read on its own. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews.

New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop is a winner of the William L. Crawford Memorial Fantasy Award, presented by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, for The Black Jewels Trilogy. She is also the author of the Ephemera series, the Tir Alainn trilogy, and the Novels of the Others--including Etched in Bone, Marked in Flesh, Vision in Silver, Murder of Crows, and Written in Red. She lives in upstate New York.