The sequel to Written in Red picks up just a few weeks after a nightmarish storm nearly wiped out the human city of Lakeside. Things are settling back down when Meg, a runaway prophet who sees visions of the future when her blood is shed, gets a premonition that someone is setting traps for the Others. She's able to stop one attack, but not all, and soon the Others are poised for war with the humans they allow to live here.
This book steps much more firmly into the "urban fantasy" category than the previous volume did. Part of that is the world gets expanded--we meet Others from different parts of the country, and visit other places outside of Lakeside. We also get a better read on the political situation, which is quite interesting. In Bishop's world, humans have never been the top predator (most of the Others refer to them as "clever meat"), but they have formed alliances with groups of Others that allow them to live on Other land and use Other resources (like farmland, water, etc.). Now all of that is breaking down as the Humans First movement takes hold, setting off centuries of buried hostilities between the two groups. Of course, we also get more growth from the characters I loved in Red. My one complaint is that I now have to wait a year for the next volume....
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