Lake Silence

The good thing about Anne Bishop books is the quirky, somewhat damaged but charming characters who come together to offer support and create healing community for each other. The bad thing about them is the world creation! Geography, history, sociology, technology appear in the books in The Others series to serve plot quirks but without the well thought-out internal logic that would keep these details from getting under my historian/anthropologist skin. (Shall I get myself started on how creepy it is that the Others live in fake North America as the original residents until apparently fake-Europe descended people came–which makes First Nation people what exactly in this alternate Earth??? Blergh! I want to hop up and down and roar about this!)
Yeah, this'll be my last Anne Bishop. An easy read, but kind of obvious for a thriller genre, and not engaging enough for a “let's hang out with these quirky characters” read–I don't really care about whether everyone finds their soulmate or not–and the very weak world creation is the lasting bad taste that lingers after digesting Lake Silence, so..nope.