I love this series and always highly recommend it. I haven't read anything quite like it before. Very engaging characters, great story, and compelling world building.

It's The Others time!

Back to Lakeside Courtyard and all the wonderful inhabitants that call it home. This is a series that every person who calls themselves a fan of urban fantasy should be reading. Anne Bishop has built up such an amazing world with smart and unique cultural dynamics. I often times find myself slowing down and re-reading passages to make sure I understood what I just read and to savor the intelligence of a passage. I don't claim to be the sharpest knife in the drawer so this happens a bit.

I ABSOLUTELY recommend this series be read in order. Starting this series by picking up this book and trying to follow along doesn't do the story justice. You'd have no frame of reference for the characters or know any of the backstory. You'd just simply miss out! And to make matters worse, you might put up a poor review of this book and then I'd just have to hunt you down scribble on your forehead in permanent marker while you sleep.

Oh, right... I'm supposed to write a review for Vision in Silver here.

The overall story arc picks up immediately after the last book, Murder of Crows. The Others have taken a stand on the cassandra sangue, which Meg is one of them, and the Others are feeling the effects of their actions from the humans. In this book, there is a mystery that needs solving but there is also an ending to a story arc that has been going on since book one. I didn't think it was a plot thread that would be solved so quickly but to my delight, it was.

Meg, the main protagonist in the book and the point of view you read most often, is finding out she is fallible. Her logic and reasoning has helped her survive to this point but living in the real world is hard and she is still adjusting her way of thinking. If she doesn't, she won't survive the wrath of her "friends".

Speaking of Meg's friends, I have to say that Tess is still my favorite character in the series. Am I the only one who notices that she acts the most closely like a human AND she happens to be one of the deadliest Other beings in the "world"? Coming in a very close second for favorite characters, especially after Vision in Silver, is Captain Burke. I'd love to see a novella about Burke and his experiences from his past in the Wild. He IS the cleverest meat.

Ms. Bishop added a handful of new characters. Nothing says irony better than a sharp dressed vampire schooled in human law.

I do have this niggling feeling in the back of my head that someone, some human, is a traitor and I fear the day the poop hits the fan. Humans suck... right?!