A review by caseythebookwitch
Geist by Philippa Ballantine

4.0

Now I am a sucker for good fantasy, but this was different, fantasy yet paranormal in its bones. Hell yes! Excellent story, world building is extraordinary, I felt as though I was just on the tip of the iceberg in the vastness of the Order universe. The characters are fantastic, dark, deep, strong, weird yet it works. Very well in fact. The only reason I didn't give this 5 stars was the writing, its uncomfortable... not horrible, not unedited, just weird. It grew on me later, but it took 3 solid days of trying to get into the story before I knew I wanted to finish the book. I am glad I did. AND the very best part is we have no HEA here. Just a mere lightening of the load on the 3 main characters, it left me wanting to immediately start book 2... and only good can come of that :)