This Week in Reading #6

Geist by Philippa Ballantine

This Week: 150 Pages
Last Week: 155 Pages
Total: 1,157 Pages

Favorite Sentences and/or Passages (in no particular order):

1: It was good weather for a riot. - Geist

2: This Chambers, whoever he was, had better have a thick skin, because right now she needed someone to take [her anger] out on. - Geist

3: No one since Pareth, the Presbyter of the Young during Sorcha's childhood, had dared give her a nickname, but from Gent, it was somehow acceptable. - Geist

The first sentence would, by far, have to be my favorite sentence of this entire book. I honestly believe it could be filed in among some of the greatest opening lines of novels, like "Call me Ishmael." or "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." The other two hold significance in defining the character of Sorcha Farris. So far, even within the first opening scene, she is depicted as a very strong woman, mentally and physically, who could hold her own in the world, no matter what the situation.