Books by Philippa Ballantine
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review 1: Enjoyed this first installment in this series. Sorcha, Merrick & Raed seem very real, with their own talents, their own fears, the good and the bad shining through. The use of magic and the Order that uses it to protect humanity is well organized without a lot info dumps to throw...
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review 1: This book is another strong story in the ultimate series about "The Order" and the changes that are coming. The revelations will shock you and you'll be surprised at how unpredictable the important events are. The battle between good and evil becomes even more intimate and harder...
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review 1: What begins as a seemingly isolated if extremely strange occurence of a passenger disappearing in an inexplicable flash of lightning witnessed on a train journey turns out to be only one among numerous such occurences: Suffragists are vanishing without a trace, leaving behind stu...
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review 1: I am going to have to edit my shelves for books like this.Spectyr completely lives up to the promise the author made in the first book, and I am completely hooked by the story of the magic weilding Deacons, Sorcha and Merrick, and their bonded companion Raen, cursed by (being) a ...
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review 1: On the plus side, this book has a very interesting world. I can't fully invest in the world because many of the rules are clearly arbitrary, but that is overpowered by the fact that the setting is fairly unique. I find many of the characters intriquing and I enjoy the story mostl...
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review 1: Like many other readers, I find the style of this book comparable to the Kate Daniels series from Ilona Andrews. The worlds are very different, but it's a similar concept as far as the character development and magical hierarchy and its institution go.Sorcha is a likable heroine:...
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review 1: this book is a tough one to review because I really like the characters (I absolutely adore Sorcha and Merrick) but for me the first one was my favorite.this story was very complex and told from different perspectives, which is good for the story because otherwise you would not c...