Debbie's Spurts
Just an avid reader. Mostly SF/Fantasy, some hobbies, paranormal, urban fantasy and lighter, fluffier things.
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Series Review: The Others by Anne Bishop
Okay, not really a review because a coherent review of these books continues to elude me. Oh, I blathered on incoherently about the first one in a review. Series is not finished; next one not out until 2017.
They are all ★★★★½ - ★★★★★ reads. All read in one sitting once started; I only notice some issues with the stories when I try to analyze to write a review.
I promised myself after how I wolfed down the first that I absolutely would not binge read the rest of books published in series. *snort* that did not work. Then I promised not to read the fourth book month before fifth was due to be published -- nope, broke that promise too. Some favorite quotes are below.
“Whether you’re beaten or pampered, fed the best foods or starved, kept in filth or kept clean, a cage is still a cage,”
" As Tess had pointed out, eating the staff was bad for marale and made it so much harder to find new employees.”
"It felt uncomfortable to lie to someone who was being kind.
She hadn't known a lie could have a physical weight.”
"She would always be short, but she wasn't helpless and she wasn't small. Not anymore.”
Marked In Flesh: A Novel of the Others:
"One store owner said he was going to leave a dictionary on a public bench so the vandals could at least spell the obscenities correctly. "
"Simon didn’t mention that since he suspected Meg preferred to think of the bunny as cute rather than crunchy. "
"Dear Jean, I have seen a deer. I have petted a pony. I helped plant a garden. I have smelled earth and felt it in my hands. You watched the sun rise. These things are worth the struggle to live outside."
“I’m not cs747,” she whispered defiantly as she shifted on her cot in order to lean back against the wall. “My name is Jean.""
"It was hard to be around Jean because he looked at her and saw what Meg’s future would have been if she hadn’t been brave enough to run away—and if Jean hadn’t been brave enough to stay.."
"She stared at him for a long moment.
Then she put her hand in his . . . and broke his heart"
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