As good as I hoped but want more Meg!

This book carries on in the way I think we all would have expected with the stupid humans doing exactly what they were obviously going to do. So no great surprises in the plot.

The series has grown and is easy to follow, starting with just a few characters and then gradually adding more. The first 2 books were more or less told from Meg's viewpoint gradually adding more and more characters. Its a good way to build a series, the downside is there is much less of Meg and Simon in this book than the earlier books which I missed.
The book itself is excellent though and if you've read books 1 to 3 you should enjoy this one just as much.

Now got an annoying wait until March 2017 for Etched in Bone (probably longer for Audible version) for the next installment

As an aside I'm currently trying to get to grips with Bishop's much earlier Black Jewels series book 1 which unfortunately is not available on Audible UK and its much harder to follow so I think her writing style has definitely improved with time.

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Loved it

Both story and characters develop in this instalment of the series with quite drastic results. can't wait for the next book!

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A significant book in this series

I enjoyed this. I’ve listened to all the preceding books, and find myself still engaged and interested in what Ms Bishop is going to do with her world and characters.

The narrator manages a big cast list pretty well - I love that the vampires all have a Transylvanian hint, that the wolves are all gruff, and that Meg is always… well clearly Meg. She even manages to get variation into the “Aroo”s the wolves do. So while I know some listeners have issues with the narration, I feel it’s well done.

There’s some heavy stuff in this book - without giving anything away, any reader of this series will have seen the way things were going, and my goodness do they go that way! The big guns of the Others finally make an appearance, there are a lot of new characters, and a few new communities to absorb, so to make space, there’s less of Meg.

These books are an interesting mix of some quite juvenile bits, super powerful entities distracted by cookies, some significant human unpleasantness, and the very slow build of a relationship between two beings who are from very different worlds and species, one with some significant history to overcome.

I’ll stick with this - the next is due out next year. You need to read the preceding books to get this one.

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Love the Series

Its one of those series that you have to read and re read. The story telling brings the characters and the surroundings to life.

Can't wait to see where the next novel leads.

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Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!

A great book in the series!

This story has grown with each book and now is a rich story set in a unique, fascinating world both utterly unfamiliar and recognisable.

Meg, trapped by a future threatened by her gift of prophecy, is a catalyst for change.Simon Wolfgard, falling deeper in love with her, struggles to find a way to save her from herself.

Their world is spinning out of control when stupid, shortsighted humans stoke a fight with the Terre Indigine they cannot hope to win. These humans don't realise that, for the most part, they are only tolerated by the Terre Indigine, who will destroy them if pushed. They push, and the Others strike back.

Can't wait for the next book. The slow boil of Meg and Simon's growing romance is killing me!

I'm not wild about the narrator but the story is wonderful enough that it can be overlooked.

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Great

Great book with lots of twists and turns. After the fourth time of listening to it it never gets old.

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love this series!

another great epusode in the struggle for control of land. chilling meeting with the Elders.

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To much of the same spreads the story thin...

the storm is coming the human world will never be the same. a great build-up and a wonderful plot ruined by everything in between. I grew tired and bored of long episodes of insipid and unuseful details. the end of the world as we know it may be coming so who cares what books they need to buy and who will clean up the vomit in the office or who will send an email who will go shopping and so on and so forth. the events would have been anticipating since book 1 finally come to conclusion but ruined buy a book that feels spread thin with details already well-known. all in all I'm disappointed

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