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Anne Bishop (1) (1955–)

Author of Daughter of the Blood

For other authors named Anne Bishop, see the disambiguation page.

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About the Author

Anne Bishop is a fantasy writer, born in 1955. Her most noted work is the Black Jewels series. She won the Crawford Award in 2000 for the first three Black Jewels books, sometimes called the Black Jewels trilogy: Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Shadows, and Queen of the Darkness. She started her show more writing career by publishing short stories. She went on to create several series. The Tir Alainn Trilogy and her third series The Landscapes of Ephemera. She is working on her next series The Others which contains the first three books, Written in Red, Murder of Crows, and Vision in Silver. In 2015, Vision in Silver made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series

Works by Anne Bishop

Daughter of the Blood (1998) 3,310 copies
Heir to the Shadows (1999) 2,446 copies
Queen of the Darkness (2000) 2,374 copies
Dreams Made Flesh (2005) 2,118 copies
The Invisible Ring (2000) 1,932 copies
Written in Red (2013) 1,790 copies
Sebastian (2006) 1,524 copies
The Black Jewels Trilogy (2003) 1,519 copies
The Pillars of the World (2001) 1,367 copies
Tangled Webs (2008) 1,281 copies
Belladonna (2007) 1,124 copies
Shadows and Light (2002) 1,111 copies
Murder of Crows (2014) 1,108 copies
The Shadow Queen (2009) 1,077 copies

Associated Works

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (1995) — Contributor — 943 copies
Silver Birch, Blood Moon (1999) — Contributor — 625 copies
Black Swan, White Raven (1997) — Contributor — 584 copies
Powers of Detection: Stories of Mystery and Fantasy (2004) — Contributor — 524 copies
Heroic Hearts (2022) — Contributor — 190 copies
Horrors! 365 Scary Stories (Anthology) (1998) — Contributor — 124 copies
Treachery and Treason (2000) — Contributor — 77 copies
Imaginary Friends (2008) — Contributor — 54 copies
Orbiter (2002) — Contributor — 9 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name
Bishop, Anne
Birthdate
1955
Gender
female
Nationality
USA
Places of residence
New York, New York, USA
Occupations
fantasy writer
Agent
Jennifer Jackson

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Reviews

I love these books about the Others. This was another excellent addition
 
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corliss12000 | 28 other reviews | Mar 16, 2024 |
I'm so happy, that I decided to start with this book, because it was just great! I simply flew through it, although it was not a short book - 496 pages. I love Anne Bishop's writing style, so I knew I was going to enjoy the language of the book, I just wasn't sure if I would like the plot. And I did! It was a great story.

Meg is hiding from the people trying to hunt her and she hides among the Others. The Others usually don't like humans, but they discover, that Meg is unique - a blood prophet, who can see the future - and they decide to keep her.

I especially liked, that the Others were so not human. Usually a werewolf or a vampire is just a man who has some special abilities - well, the Others were not human at all and we kept getting really bloody and horrible moments, like eating a living person or burning somebody's hands. I don't like horrors, but Anne Bishop can write so well, that I enjoyed this book despite those moments.

Meg was so sweet and good and I really like her. The wolves were moody and angry all the time - I wasn't the biggest fan, especially of Elliot. I loved Tess, she was really original and scary. I don't understand why Monty from the police got so much interest in this book, because he did more or less nothing, but maybe he's going to be important later. Generally, the characters were well developed and interesting.

What I found annoying was the so-called villain - Asia Crane was so stupid, greedy and irritating, that I kept thinking why Simon simply didn't eat her. The Others are so powerful and strong, yet one stupid Asia managed to cause the death of two of them? I didn't like that.

The second problem I had was how little humans and the Others knew about each other. They lived together for hundreds of years and they behave as if they just met. It was strange.

Anyway, the book was great, I loved it and I will definitely read the second book in this series soon.

(first published on my blog https://dominikasreadingchallenge.blogspot.com/)
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Donderowicz | 142 other reviews | Mar 12, 2024 |
Although I loved the Black Jewels books, I was quite surprised that I liked this series beginning as much as I did. Also, the audiobook was well done
 
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jazzbird61 | 142 other reviews | Feb 29, 2024 |
Once things actually started happening, the story got really good. I found the romance at the end a bit forced, but we're dealing with two very awkward folks so I'll give them a pass.

I thought the book was a bit overpriced, so I went with audio-book, but I'll pick up the Kindle version after a price drop.
 
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