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"Geist (Book of the Order #1)" by Philippa Ballantine♦ ♦ ♦
A good enough book for me to read part 2 if I get my hands on it but nothing I need to own ASAP.
Characters: I liked Merrick best, he was the best drawn and most likable of them, with enough mystery for me to want to know more about him. Raed was likable but a little thin, Nynnia too two-dimensional for how big a part she ended up playing and Sorcha... Well, Sorcha is the main character and maybe I'm a bit too harsh because of that very reason, but I didn't like Sorcha much. Always irritated and taking out on others, reckless and not really thinking of the consequences of her own actions... And I really hate adulterers!
Plot: The first half of the book was really good, their journey to Ulrich, the trouble there, really scary and horror-like. But after their return to Vermillion, the book felt rushed. They needed to get into the abbey, they got into the abbey. They found the matrix. They got where they needed to go. And not once did it occur to them that it was way too darn easy? And the deus ex machina that Nynnia turned into was a bit too much.
