Author interview with Philippa Ballantine Over the last years I have been reading quite a few books of Phillipa Ballantine, starting with the series; Books of the Order and later the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. The Books of the Order is an take on Epic Fantasy taking a bit of ghostbusters in the mix, opposite to this is the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences which is an electrifying steampunk series. Philippa Ballantine's latest series: Shifter Worlds takes readers back to the trusted Epic/High Fantasy setting. Each of these three series are solid reading material. What I have come to learn from Philippa Ballantine's works is that her writing style is the key to everything, I am not saying that the stories are boring, more on the cotnrary they are interesting and keep you glued to the pages. But her writing style, the prose that she uses somehow transforms these magical stories into a completely new ones and makes them easy to get lost into. I really have to recommend her...