Review and comment: Anne Bishop’s Others series

I just finished reading a series that I thought was a bit of an object lesson, both in terms of what I think worked and what I think didn’t, so I decided to break a ten-year streak and actually review some fiction.

The series is Anne Bishop’s The Others, and the biggest thing Bishop does right is playing to her strengths. The series has a lot of the same horror-Romance feel as Bishop’s early work and many of the characters reprise roles that are familiar from her other stories.

Bishop has alw...