I received an eARC of this book from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of this review.

Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop is the third book in The Others and reveals the building tension between humans and the terra indigene. At the end of the last book, the cassandra sangue are saved from their captors and are now living among the Others and Intuits. Like Meg, many are addicted to the euphoria they feel from cutting and Simon has charged Meg and her “female pack” with defining limits and ways to help the young girls that were saved. With their focus on the blood prophets, the terra indigene miss the growing poison of the Humans First and Last movement that is sweeping through Thaisia.

Oh my goodness SO much is happening in this book! Meg is really struggling with her addiction to cutting. When she feels the pins and needles start she NEEDS to cut. However when cutting causes harm to one of her friends, Meg reevaluates and takes Simon’s advice enlisting the “female pack” (Theral, Ruthie, and Merri Lee) to help her figure out when she’s overwhelmed, to define when she should cut and when it’s better to walk away.

Simon is under a lot of pressure. There is a delicate balance between the humans and Others and his Courtyard is at the center of it. It is his relationship with Meg that started the tenuous relationship with the police of Lakeside and the other humans working inside the Courtyard. Afraid of becoming too human yet wanting to keep the peace between them, Simon needs Meg’s visions as much as her own need to cut.

The plot focuses on the cassandra sangue that are living with the Intuits. Meg and Simon want to help them and so Meg begins pushing herself to the limits so that she can figure out what is too much, when to walk away and when to cut. In the background though is the Humans First and Last movement. It started cropping up towards the end of the first book, made a big scene in the second and now in this book they are becoming a more pressing matter, turning on “Wolf Lovers” running them out of their homes. Simon and the Courtyard step up for their “human pack” but it may cost them more than they imagined.

Overall I really enjoyed this book. I did feel like it was a bit of a bridge though to the next one. There is a ton of build-up that culminates in an explosive ending, BUT I believe the real action and answers to the questions about the HFL will be answered in the next book. If you enjoy paranormal, urban fantasy, I highly recommend you start the series!