I so love sinking into a familiar world with characters that have already crept into my heart. 
 I still adore the social inadequacies of the terra indigene - endlessly entertaining! 
 "Why couldn't they just give the human female a bag of money and then pee on the building so that everyone would know it was theirs?" 
 As always, the plot is captivating without feeling forced. Such an original world with politics and powers to be reckoned with really intriguing me - which doesn't happen often! Sometimes they're written in such a way that you are aware of the politics and what's happening but you don't really care - not so here. I am invested in what happens in Lakeside. 
 What I really love is that Bishop doesn't try to romanticize the Others, she describes them as they are. It would be quite easy to see this story written from one of the humans perspective, vicious carnivores dictating their lives etc. But she writes it so well that I am definitely all the way on the Others side. Yes they want to eat the tasty humans, but they don't go around picking them off of the streets. They only eat them if they trespass into the courtyard, which is kind of them signing their own death sentence so I have no sympathy. 
 Meg grows a bit in this book, really looking at how her cutting affects those around her. Simon is still Simon, and though their progress is slow it is still heart warming. 
 Usually I get bored when there are so many different POVs, but the non-main characters POVs are always short and extremely well written that I wish they weren't so short! The side characters are not cardboard stand ins, they are well developed and a crucial part of the story. 
 I love this strange little pack/family and am keen to see what happens in the next book, especially after Hannah's comments while she was reading it!!