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    Lake Silence

    Written by Anne Bishop

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    In this thrilling and suspenseful fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, an inn owner and her shape-shifting lodger find themselves enmeshed in danger and dark secrets.

    Human laws do not apply in the territory controlled by the Others—vampires, shapeshifters, and paranormal beings even more deadly. And this is a fact that humans should never, ever forget . . .

    After her divorce, Vicki DeVine took over a rustic resort near Lake Silence—in a human town that is not human controlled. Towns like Vicki's have no distance from the Others, the dominant predators that rule most of the land and all of the water throughout the world. And when a place has no boundaries, you never really know what's out there watching you.

    Vicki was hoping to find a new career and a new life. But when her lodger, Aggie Crowe—one of the shapeshifting Others—discovers a dead body, Vicki finds trouble instead. The detectives want to pin the man's death on her, despite the evidence that nothing human could have killed the victim. As Vicki and her friends search for answers, things get dangerous—and it'll take everything they have to stay alive.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 6, 2018
    ISBN9780525530688
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    Lake Silence
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    Anne Bishop

    Anne Bishop is the bestselling author of the Black Jewels series, the Tir Alainn Trilogy and the Landscapes of Ephemera series. Her novels are published in Australia, Germany, the UK and Portugal, as well as the United States. In her free time, she enjoys gardening, reading and music.

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    • 4/5
      Another good one

      Although I missed the Lakeside characters, the Jumble and surrounding inhabitants didn’t disappoint. I enjoyed this new village and its characters and am hoping they’ll appear in other stories. I want to hear about the Meg, though, too.
    • 5/5
      I like this book and The Others world. Bishop has a handle on how humans act and how their prejudices and actions can make it harder for other people. I hope there are more to come!
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this spin-off in the world of the Others. I liked the characters, and found it interesting that Vicki and Julian both had emotional wounds (and physical) but chose to relocate somewhere in such close proximity to the Others. Vicki did have The Jumble as a reason, which I thought was a clever name, as relationships between humans and the Others are definitely in a jumble at this point. When her ex returns to try to take the land back for redevelopment, all against the terms of the deal struck with the terra indigenes, I was a little bit skeptical about where the book was going. Thasia had just had most of the population wiped out because people didn’t listen to the Others. The explanation that despite that, there were people living in land not controlled by terra indigenes who still didn’t “get it” made sense. One would think it would make a difference, but all you have to do is look at the world today and the idiocy that occurs every day to realize how high the level of denial is. I thought the Sanguinati were interesting. Ilya was one of the more interesting characters. He was much better at reading people than anyone else, especially in the case of Vicki’s panic attacks. It would have been nice to have seen a more proactive approach to those—I.e. maybe medication would have helped her—but she was able to get The Jumble going again. I just wish if someone is going to use a mental health issue as part of who a character is, they would do something to help empower the character to learn to live with it as opposed to being completely at its mercy and that’s it. Yes, Vicki could still run The Jumble, but she didn’t learn anything about her panic attacks. Julian forced himself to work as backup to Wayne even though it was psychologically/emotionally extremely difficult/detrimental to him, and that didn’t change. Overall, though, I liked the book—much more than the last book in the series with Meg. So that was a good thing. Bishop is very good at world building and creating characters who are memorable. I have really liked the whole concept of the terra indigenes since she started this world. This book is a good addition
    • 2/5
      Although I enjoy the world that Bishop created, I'm getting a little sick of the downtrodden main female character who can only find self-worth through the bevvy of hunky men around her. I'd love to see how Bishop would handle a female character who has had it rough, but is healing herself without the the male crutches.
    • 5/5
      I put off reading LAKE SILENCE for quite a while. I was scared that I wouldn't love it like I loved the previous books in the Others series with the different setting and characters. I am happy to report that I was worried for no reason and that I loved LAKE SILENCE just as much as its predecessors. I DID miss Meg, Simon and the rest of the Lakeside Courtyard crew, but Vicki and her new friends—both human and Other—were easy to like, easy to root for and so much fun to get to know. Vicki has a lot of insecurities and doubts throughout LAKE SILENCE. If you're looking for a romance, you won't get it. She isn't ready to trust men romantically yet after the disaster that was her marriage, but she is on her way there. I loved learning about another part of the world. The town and the people really helped make the story. We don't have that Courtyard feel of the last books, but there is definitely a community.I would have liked to get to know the Others better. We get a lot of information on the humans of the group, but we only got a few tidbits about the others. Even with not getting to know them, we do get to see what their powers are used for and what they are willing to do for those that have their protection.After finishing LAKE SILENCE I'm once again excited to continue the series and look forward to seeing what will come next. * This book was provided free of charge from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
    • 5/5
      Vicki DeVine got The Jumble as her divorce settlement when her emotionally abusive husband Yorick Dane decided he needed to move up from his starter wife. She has spent months updating the very run down resort on the shore of Lake Silence. The Jumble is near Sproing, the only human village near Lake Silence. When her only renter Aggie Crowe is getting ready to heat an eyeball in the wave-cooker and mentions that the rest of the body is on the path between Vicki's place and the neighbor, Vicki contacts the nearest police station.Since the troubles that happened when the Others cleaned house leaving many humans missing or dead, Sproing doesn't have a police force of their own. Wayne Grimshaw is the highway patrol officer who is sent to Sproing to check out the body. He is used to patrolling the roads and knows very well that there are many dangerous Others out there. One look tells him that the victim was not killed by a human.Grimshaw begins an investigation which leads right back to Vicki's ex and a club of unscrupulous businessmen. Apparently, they want The Jumble back so that they can turn it into a high class resort. Luckily, Vicki has made friends including her new lawyer Ilya Sanguinati who is the vampire overseer of the humans in Sproing. She is also befriended by many of the Others and Elementals who call Lake Silence home and who want Vicki to succeed in her new business which provides a way for humans and Others to learn about each other. She also makes friends with some of the humans in Sproing too, including Julian Farrow who was an Intuit and former police officer and is currently the owner of Lettuce Read - the local bookstore.I liked that the story was told from a number of viewpoints with the chapter titles saying who was telling that part of the story. I like that that humans are not the dominant species in this world. I liked that the Others were so very different than humans in the way they thought. Vicki was a great character who had self-deprecating humor despite suffering from crippling anxiety attacks. I liked the way she treated any of the Others she met with caution, courtesy, and respect. I liked the idea that a bookstore was an essential part of the town and that sharing stories was a way for the Others and the humans to begin understanding each other. I highly recommend this great fantasy story.
    • 4/5
      Review courtesy of All Things Urban Fantasy.allthingsuf.comFans of The Others series will not find anything new in LAKE SILENCE, but the story is no less enjoyable for that familiarity. Bishop’s Others are given a brutal fairness and dignity, and her humans once again fall into bianary camps of good and evil.Of course, evil brings to mind serial killers. The villains in LAKE SILENCE are more akin to the cruel, misogynist, entitled, racist businessman caricatures we can all love to hate. The skirmishes between Others and humans feel more realistic on a small scale, and it is almost more satisfying to see venial hubris laid low than having to read along with the greater crimes of prior books. Still, reading from the perspective of main characters that are voyaging deeper and deeper into the world of the Others, it makes the oblivious behavior of the villains all the more hard to understand. LAKE SILENCE tries to address this disconnect by explicitly describing the experience of most humans, either insulated within city centers or willfully blind to the Others around their towns.But perhaps these efforts are unnecessary. A love child of fairy tale and morality play, LAKE SILENCE is about rooting for your heroes and seeing bad guys humiliated, punished, and sometimes eaten. For fans of Bishop’s brand of justice, LAKE SILENCE will not disappoint.Sexual content: References to rape, sexual assault, and domestic abuse
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this book. After reading the earlier books in the series last year, I was really curious about this newest installment. I knew going into this book that it was set in the same world as the previous books but it would feature different characters. I was relieved to find that I liked this new group of characters right away. I had a really nice time with this story.Vicki is a rather new resident in the area. She recently acquired a resort property, The Jumble, on Lake Silence as part of her divorce agreement. The resort is just starting to conduct business with its first renter. When a body is discovered near the resort, a chain of events begin that will put everything in jeopardy. This book had a colorful cast of characters. Vicki was easy to like. She was such an honest and dependable person that hasn't always been treated well by others. Grimshaw was the calm authoritative voice of reason that everyone needed. He really seemed to care about Vicki and the residents in town. Julian is a good friend to Vicki and Grimshaw and steps into help and give advice when it is needed. I really liked how the wider group of characters quickly felt like a community working together.There was a lot of action to keep everyone busy in this book. Vicki's right to The Jumble ends up being called into question by a group that has their own agenda. The property has a very detailed list of rules that must be followed since it is in the territory of the Others that Vicki has worked to follow while those who want to take the property plan to ignore. I really liked seeing how scary some of the Others could be when agreements were not followed. I was never quite sure how things would work out and was a bit nervous for the characters at times.I would recommend this book to others. I think that anyone new to the series would be okay jumping in with this book but the background information from the earlier books was very helpful. I thought that this book came to a very satisfactory ending. I am really not sure whether their will be future books with this group of characters or not since the story felt very complete but I would certainly welcome any future installments. I received an advance reader edition of this book from Berkley Publishing Group - Ace via NetGalley.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this and while I missed Meg and Simon, I also liked seeing different characters. Unfortunately, Vicki isn't as a compelling character as Meg and I am getting tired of seeing yet another main female character with a host of emotional issues. Julian is, I think, her future love interest but there is no spark whatsoever between them. So, this is another flaw. I also didn't quite get behind why all the Others got Vicki's back. It made sense with Meg because her developing relationships with the Others was shown but in this novel, Vicki meets them one time and boom, they've got her back. And that's about what I didn't like in this novel. Grimshaw and Aggie were my favorite characters. I liked the new elementals and the Others that showed up in this novel and I enjoyed the slow pace of the developing story just like the rest of the series. I hope in the next book, the author makes Vicki and Julian's characters more interesting and spends more time developing relationships.
    • 5/5
      Vicki DeVine (yes, she hates her name) got the run-down resort, The Jumble, on one of the Finger Lakes as her settlement in her divorce from Yorick Dane (I love that name). It's located on Lake Silence in the small town of Sproing which is only noted for its isolation and the rabbit-like Sproingers that live in the area. The story takes place about a year after the last book and the events known as the Great Deprivation.Her sole tenant is Aggie Crowe though Vicki's first hint that Aggie isn't human is when she finds Aggie heating up an eyeball for lunch. Turns out it came from a dead body on the property. Since Sproing doesn't have its own police department, a highway patrol officer named Grimshaw is dispatched to the crime scene. Like all the books about The Others, this is a world populated with rich characterizations and details. It took me a while to get used to Vicki, partly because her POV is in First Person unlike the POVs of the other characters. Vicki is presented at first as a wreck of a woman, abused by her ex-husband to the point that her nerves take over when a man accosts her in any way. But the First Person viewpoint allows the reader to really get to know Vicki. She has a wry sense of humor and more courage than she thinks. Her musings about Ilya Sanguinati, the leader of the vampire clan on Lake Silence, are anything by modest, and I found them pretty funny. I do like her friendship with Julian, the Intuit bookstore owner. There's lots of great secondary characters that I hope to learn more about if the Others series continues. It's a fertile territory for more stories about the terra indigene and the humans who try to live with them. Speaking of humans, we have here some more petty criminals than the evil ones in the earlier books, but they still try to do a lot of damage. The Others series at its core are books about the evils that men do to their environment and the earth, and those businessmen who try to wrest The Jumble away to develop it as a playground for their pals are representative of the unthinking consequences of this kind of thinking. Ms. Bishop never preaches; indeed, the Others, as predators, would rather solve these issues in their own way. As Ilya says, "It's been our observation that humans often wilfully believe that they can repeat the actions of those who went before them and not suffer the same consequences." Consequences from the Others usually means meat for the terra indigene.
    • 4/5
      This is the beginning of a new paranormal series set in the same world of Bishop’s “Others” series, a world mostly divided into humans and the terra indigene, commonly known as The Others.These Others include shapeshifters (such as werewolves), vampires, “elementals,” and “harvesters,” inter alia. There is also a third sort of in-between group with extra-sensory perceptiveness, including the cassandra sangue or blood prophets - females who can see visions of the future after self-mutilation or reading cards; and Intuits, humans with enhanced instincts that enable them to sense danger. In the first series, a political movement- Humans First and Last (HFL), tried to challenge the hegemony of the Others and “take back the land” (which of course was never theirs in the first place). This upset the harmony of the world and led to a great culling of humans by unhappy Elders, who are the primal, dangerous, and most powerful forms of the terra indigene. Readers followed what happened through the events taking place in Lakeside, where humans and Others mixed in a unique situation facilitated by the wonderful characters of the werewolf Simon Wolfgard and the cassandra sangue Meg Corbyn. Fans were worried when the author announced that Etched in Bone was the last book that would take place in the city of Lakeside, but not the last taking place in this particular world the author created. But happily, we need not have been.In this book, we meet Victoria (“Vicki”) DeVine, a 30-year-old human who shows sufficient respect for Others to be accepted, and more importantly, protected by them. In a divorce settlement with her sleazy, emotionally-abusive ex-husband, she received “The Jumble,” a vacation rental property on a lake in the village of Sproing. (The odd name comes from the strange shape-shifter denizens of the village.) The terms of the lease for The Jumble are strict; any owner or user must adhere to the conditions set out by the terra indigene. There are also certain understandings associated with the lease, such as that the human caretaker will help any interested terra indigene to learn human ways.Until the disaster begun by the HFL, most of the terra indigene paid little attention to humans. But now it was imperative for them to pay close attention, as part of their guardianship of the earth.As the story starts, Vicki’s only tenant (so far), Aggie Crowgard, has found a dead body on the property. Officer Wayne Grimshaw is sent to Sproing from a nearby larger town to investigate. There he also encounters a young new police officer, David Osgood (not much help), and Julian Farrow, an Intuit and former fellow policeman now running the local bookstore, Lettuce Reed. Grimshaw finds he needs Julian’s help when the dead man turns out to be connected to some not-so-nice developers who want to take the land away from Vicki.Vicki is also assisted by her self-appointed attorney, Ilya Sanguinati, one of the Sanguinati vampire clan. Vicki, who finds solace in food, is reassured by Ilya's intervention:“He was . . . . yummy. I mean, he was a double-scoop sundae with hot fudge and caramel sauce and a mountain of real whipped cream yummy.”[Can anyone be that yummy? Okay, it’s fantasy!]As for Ilya, he has never met a woman as damaged as Vicki, and takes it upon himself to become an amateur psychologist to help boost Vicki’s ego.Eventually, the good humans and Others working together rid the town of the menace, but not before a number of additional bodies are added to the toll.Evaluation: Much to my relief, I liked this book almost as much as those in the initial series, albeit while missing the characters from it. And missing the romance! There isn’t any in this book, but there are other elements to keep one’s interest level high: plenty of humor, suspense, and a cast of colorful characters.
    • 4/5
      A more adult tale in World of the Others which takes place after the YA Lakeside series. Vicki is trying to make a go out of The Jumble, a lakeside establishment near the village of Sproing, that she received as a divorce settlement. Just as she has the main building and a set of cabins ready for the summer guests a dead body proves to be the tip of the iceberg of the troubles outsiders bring to Sproing and The Jumble. Vicki has allies in dealing with the troubles, though they are in danger of doing so much they make her feel unable to take care of herself. Good characters, interesting setting and interactions and flows really well.
    • 4/5
      So far, I have not read a single book from the Others series but when I heard that there was a spinoff from the previous five books, set in the same world, I thought that now was a good time to start. I know that there are some nods in this book to characters from the previous books but you really need not be familiar with those books in order to get the most out of this one. Lake Silence is focused on a human, centered at a human village, nestled in the terra indigene-controlled Finger Lakes region of Northeast Thaisia. Vicki DeVine was the newest resident who had come to town to take possession of a resort that was past its prime years ago as part of a divorce settlement. This property is set on land that is owned by Others and has very specific rules and regulations for what can happen to the structures that are on the land.Vicki was a good owner and she was very careful to respect the rules and regulations that were related to the property. Her treatment of the resort and the Other guests garnered her respect with the Others and they became more and more protective of Vicki. When trouble came into town the Others were quick to respond because they wanted Vicki to stay where she was and they did not take kindly to the plans that the offenders had in store for Vicki or the land. This interaction with the Others and the Elementals absolutely made the story for me! It was very creative and each Other was unique in its background as well as added humor and danger to the story. The layering of this world and its inhabitants was very descriptive and nicely developed. I found myself wanting to get lost in this world.I did struggle a little in the beginning because I was completely unfamiliar with what the Others were. Once I had a grasp of this world and its inhabitant’s things went smoothly. I was not too thrilled with Vicki’s character at the start because she seemed rather weak to me. She had been through a verbally abusive marriage and was prone to panic attacks when it came to dealing with men. I did not know how she was going to be the type of character that drew me into the story but as the story went on I started to like her. She’s not my favorite but I loved the relationships that she developed with the Others and how they looked out for her. It made her more appealing to me. After finishing Lake Silence, I am ready for more and this is a series I am excited to continue in because I loved how things were set up at the end of this story. I can’t wait to see more from the characters in this story! It was a fantastic read!This review is based on a complimentary book I received from NetGalley. It is an honest and voluntary review. The complimentary receipt of it in no way affected my review or rating.
    • 4/5
      I loved the characters in this book. I found it to be funny, and it flowed very well. But something was missing. I would have loved to see more from the vampires in this story (not saying anymore--I don't want to give nothing away). Otherwise this was an enjoyable read.
    • 5/5
      This was fantastic, seriously enjoyable! I love the original series and this spin-off was just perfect.
    • 3/5
      Good book, although at times I felt like I was missing things because I haven’t read her other series. Maybe I’ll go back and read them.
    • 4/5
      After a while, I start to wonder if the humans in this world are smart enough to survive. Experience seems to point to no, but it's still delightful to see the ones that do. Purest and most satisfying wish fulfillment, where the world bites back against greed and bad behavior and rewards kindness and tolerance with the protection of teeth.
    • 4/5
      This is a new book in the Others series but this one is in a new setting with new characters. Lake Silence is in the middle of Others territory and deals with Vicki running a hotel that was part of her divorce settlement. The catch with the hotel is no real expansion can be done to it without the Others approval. When her ex husband tries to take it back from her and ignore the contract that was set in place when the land was first leased from the Others to his family then the problems start.

      This book can be a good starting point in the series but it does give away some of the stuff from the previous books but it does stand on its own as a new start to the series. A good read both for newcomers and for the faithful fans of the series.

      Digital review copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley