Book Review: Written in Red by Anne Bishop

When Simon Woldfuard offers Meg the role of Human Liaison for the Lakeside Courtyard, the last thing he expects her to do is accept it. After all, the courtyard is a place where human laws do not apply and Meg is a perplexing one to Simon, who like most of the courtyard's residents, is terra indigene.

What Simon soon learns is that Meg is a blood prophet, someone who can see visions by cutting her own skin, either on purpose or accidentally, and her visions will change life in the courtyard for everyone.

Meg must learn how to work alongside the shape shifters, vampires and other beings that reside in the courtyard. They in turn become a amused at the changes this one human brings to their world.

But someone is looking for Meg, and they'll do anything to get back what she stole from them.

Then Simon is called away and he entrusts Meg to look after his nephew Sam. Sam is trapped in wolf-cub form after witnessing his mother's murder. Throughout their time together, Meg helps Sam to become less timid and helps him to break free from his confines and earache the shifter within ohm again.

While Meg becomes more confident in her abilities as a blood prophet, she openly shares her latest vision: trouble is coming to the courtyard and it will start with the poisoning of the delivery horses and end in the revelation of the most terrifying terra indigene of them all.

Rating 4/5