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Geist
by Philippa Ballantine
I enjoyed this book a lot. It has a very original magic system, an interesting story and great characters.
A lot of fantasy authors tend to overdo world building. Sometimes it feels like they try to give the reader every little detail about the world. Others know only give information relevant to the story, but don't proportion it well. Ballantine gave only the necessary information and spread out over the whole story. No big chunks of word building information in one go.
The characters are very memorable and they all interested me a lot. At the start of the book, I was annoyed by one of the quirks of a main character, but ended up loving that quirk. It made the character very real.
I was a little disappointed with the climax. I had expected more of it; that it would be more difficult and that it'd lasted longer. The biggest dislike about this book is, however, the fact that the author keeps repeating colours. She mentions many times that Sorcha has red hair and almost as many times that Raed has hazel eyes.
I wanted to givethis book 4.5 out of 5 stars because of these little annoyances, but seeing that I cannot do that, I shall give it 5 starts because i enjoyed it so much.
A lot of fantasy authors tend to overdo world building. Sometimes it feels like they try to give the reader every little detail about the world. Others know only give information relevant to the story, but don't proportion it well. Ballantine gave only the necessary information and spread out over the whole story. No big chunks of word building information in one go.
The characters are very memorable and they all interested me a lot. At the start of the book, I was annoyed by one of the quirks of a main character, but ended up loving that quirk. It made the character very real.
I was a little disappointed with the climax. I had expected more of it; that it would be more difficult and that it'd lasted longer. The biggest dislike about this book is, however, the fact that the author keeps repeating colours. She mentions many times that Sorcha has red hair and almost as many times that Raed has hazel eyes.
I wanted to givethis book 4.5 out of 5 stars because of these little annoyances, but seeing that I cannot do that, I shall give it 5 starts because i enjoyed it so much.