Author : Philippa Ballantine
Languange : English
Publisher: Ace
Length : 294 pages
Published date: October 26th, 2010
Format : Mass Market Paperback
Genre : Fantasy
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For Adult Readers
Sinopsis :
Sinopsis :
Between the living and the dead is the Order of the Deacons, protectors of the Empire, guardians against possession, sentinels enlisted to ward off the malevolent haunting of the geists...
Among the most powerful of the Order is Sorcha, now thrust into partnership with the novice Deacon, Merrick Chambers. They have been dispatched to the isolated village of Ulrich to aide the Priory with a surge of violent geist activity. With them is Raed Rossin, Pretender to the throne that Sorcha is sworn to protect, and bearer of a terrible curse.
But what greets them in the strange settlement is something far more predatory and more horrifying than any mere haunting. And as she uncovers a tradition of twisted rituals passed down through the dark reaches of history, Sorcha will be forced to reconsider everything she thinks she knows.
And if she makes it out of Ulrich alive, what in Hell is she returning to?
Among the most powerful of the Order is Sorcha, now thrust into partnership with the novice Deacon, Merrick Chambers. They have been dispatched to the isolated village of Ulrich to aide the Priory with a surge of violent geist activity. With them is Raed Rossin, Pretender to the throne that Sorcha is sworn to protect, and bearer of a terrible curse.
But what greets them in the strange settlement is something far more predatory and more horrifying than any mere haunting. And as she uncovers a tradition of twisted rituals passed down through the dark reaches of history, Sorcha will be forced to reconsider everything she thinks she knows.
And if she makes it out of Ulrich alive, what in Hell is she returning to?
Review
Note: This review is copied from my Goodreads review with some editing. If you find any mistake in grammar and structure, please kindly email me at : sawamura_foxman AT yahoo DOT com , so I can correct it. Thanks! :) .
When I see the date I start reading Geish and finish, it's took me more than 1 month! Yeah, actually I kinda had a dry spell in reading because I'm distracted with a game that I played nowadays :P. I neglect Geist for many days, but there's something that niggling in my mind. Like an itch that need to be scratched. So, I decide to pick Geist again and finish it in one sitting.
The story start with a bang with our heroine, Deacon Sorcha Faris lose her husband and partner in a fight, and must bonded herself with Merrick Chamber. Deacon is like a peace protector, those who stand between the living and the dead, called geist. Deacon divided into 2 type. First, Active that is an offense type like Sorcha. Their partner called Sensitive, a person who support Active to fight Geist by using Sight, a ability to peer into the Otherside when the Geist reside. The problem begin when Sorcha and Merrick go to Ulrich to investigate strange incident. On their way to Ulrich, they met Raed Rossin. Raed, called the Pretender, is the son of the last emperor of Arkaym (the setting on this book) who lose his throne to the current Emperor. Raed himself hold a curse, named the Rossin aka The Beast (that explain the lion on the cover). Things get complicated when Sorcha and Merrick face betrayal in Ulrich and face a sinister threat, and Sorcha get entangled by Raed, both mentally and physically.
