Romantic Times: Following last year’s phenomenal Written in Red, Bishop returns to Namid (a reimagined Earth) with its creatures both “terrible and wondrous.” Danger is stalking the Lakeside Courtyard and, once again, blood prophet Meg Corbin is at the epicenter. Book two in the Others series is just as mesmerizing as the first, rich with beautifully rendered detail and exceptional characters. Bishop and this series should be an auto-buy; you absolutely won’t regret it!
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March 4, 2014
Kirkus: Wrapping up Bear’s complex and beautifully rendered historical-fantasy trilogy (Shattered Pillars, 2013, etc.). It all adds up to an eminently satisfying conclusion. Considering the trilogy as a whole, the overused term masterpiece justifiably applies. Necromancer and blood-sorcerer al-Sepehr, head of the Nameless assassin cult, arranged to have his daughter Saadet impregnated by Qori Buqa, Khagan of the nomad horse-warrior Empire, whom he then murdered. 
P.C. Hodgell’s untitled fantasy novel, the sequel to Sea of Time (coming from Baen in June) and the 8th book in the series featuring Jamethiel Kencyrath, to Toni Weisskopf at Baen Books by Jennifer Jackson.
Tor.com: “There is kidnapping, and derring-do, and tense stand-offs, and last-minute rescues, and terrible revelations—in short, all the ingredients of an excellent adventure story.”