Anne Bishop, Author . Roc $23.95 (437p) ISBN 978-0-451-46073-8
Sweeping onto the scene with flair and grace, this latest page-turner from bestseller Bishop (Dreams Made Flesh
) flutters its eyelashes at you like a shy country maid and then sinks its teeth in like a hungry succubus. The maid is Lynnea and the...
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Anne Bishop, Author . Roc $23.95 (436p) ISBN 978-0-451-46126-1
Mystifying forces of light and dark continue to rend Ephemera, a shattered world of extraordinary, interconnected landscapes that can be altered by strong emotions, in Bishop's challenging sequel to Sebastian
(2006). The Eater of the World...
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Anne Bishop, Author . Roc $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-451-46160-5
In Bishop’s bewitching latest Black Jewels adventure (after 2005’s Dreams Made Flesh
), a tour of an old house becomes a hellish matter of life and death. Lady Surreal SaDiablo receives an invitation to preview the “silly, spooky
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Anne Bishop, Author . Roc $24.95 (429p) ISBN 978-0-451-46254-1
Bishop's capable seventh Black Jewels fantasy soap opera installment (after 2008's Tangled Webs
) surges with spellcraft and engaging romance. The former queen of Bhak is now just plain Lady Cassidy from Dharo, since her entire court...
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Anne Bishop, Author . Roc $24.95 (476p) ISBN 978-0-451-46315-9
The rambling eighth Black Jewels epic fantasy (after 2009’s The Shadow Queen
) doesn’t glow as brightly as earlier installments, but faithful fans will cheer to find Lady Cassidy at last on track to a happy ending. Plain jane Cassie, a...
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Anne Bishop, Author Roc $16 (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-46013-4
The ""scheming woman seeks to control powerful man"" plot substitutes for anything truly new or surprising in Anne Bishop's Dreams Made Flesh, a collection of four novellas set in the realm of her Black Jewels trilogy (Daughter of the Blood, etc.)....
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Anne Bishop, Roc, $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-46378-4
Bestseller Bishop fills out her popular Black Jewels dark fantasy universe (Daughter of the Blood, etc.) with this entertaining novella collection. Daemon Sadi, a black-jeweled Warlord Prince, deals with friends, family, and holiday celebrations in "
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Anne Bishop. Roc, $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-46381-4
Bishop adds a third chapter (after Sebastian and Belladonna) to the story of the living world Ephemera. Protagonist Lee is a Bridge, able to join disparate chunks of the fractured world. Still dealing with his disquiet over the deep changes in his...
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Anne Bishop. Roc, $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-46496-5
Bishop (the Black Jewels series) wraps a generally by-the-numbers urban fantasy in ill-conceived world-building. In this alternate universe, Native Americans have been entirely erased; instead, the natives of Thaisia (the continent analogous to...
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Anne Bishop. Roc, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-451-46526-9
Bishop’s solid but unspectacular sequel to Written in Red has all the strengths and weaknesses of its predecessor. Meg Corbyn, a prophet who has visions when she bleeds, sees danger approaching the compound where she’s protected by the supernatural...
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Anne Bishop. Ace, $27 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-58724-5
The sixth installment of Bishop’s paranormal series (after 2017’s Etched in Bone), set in an alternate upstate New York, constitutes a fresh take on a series concept that had been stalling. It is a standalone thriller, set near a village called...
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Anne Bishop. Ace, $27 (496p) ISBN 978-0-399-58727-6
Following the first-person experiment of 2018’s Lake Silence, the first book in the World of the Others continuation of the paranormal Others series, Bishop reverts to form, using multiple third-person perspectives to tell an unsatisfying story that
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Anne Bishop. Ace, $27 (432p) ISBN 978-1-9848-0662-8
Bishop revisits her Black Jewels romantic fantasy series almost a decade after Twilight’s Dawn with this erotically charged but unremarkable 10th installment, which reads primarily as setup for future works. Lord Dillon falls victim to a love spell...
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