Title: The Summoning (Book One in Darkest Powers Series)
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Publisher: HarperCollins
Number of Pages: 390
Date Released: 2008
Synopsis From back of book:
She sees dead people-and they see her.
Chloe Saunders used to have a pretty normal life. But that changed on the day she met her first ghost. Locked up in Lyle House, a group home for troubled teens, she finds out that there’s more to the home’s teen residents that meets the eye. Will Chloe be able to uncover the dangerous secrets of Lyle house . . . or will its skeletons come back to haunt her?
Review: I have been meaning to read this book for a really long time. Now that I have read it needless to say I am addicted to the series! I loved how the book was written so eloquently. Kelley Armstrong mixed teenage fears of being mentally unstable with supernatural powers. I found myself utterly mesmerized by how these two topics wound around each other. I didn’t know until the end of the book that it was a supernatural novel. Kelley had you fooled and hooked from the beginning to the sort of cover story of Lyle House.
Chloe Saunders can’t really remember her past. She knows though that she was always afraid of the basement. When her mother dies and her father starts traveling all the time Chloe is all alone in the apartment with housekeepers. Her Aunt Lauren keeps an eye on her though and Chloe knows she can always talk to her. Chloe starts seeing people that aren’t there and they talk to her. She ends up in Lyle House a place for troubled teens. Chloe finds the teens there very weird but nice. Derek is big, antisocial and sneaks up on Chloe all the time without meaning to, his brother Simon is charming and quite nice. Chloe finds she would do anything for these guys, but what one does she really like. Is she really a person who communicates with the dead or just plain crazy.
I extra highly recommend this to anyone who is into a mysterious type of read. I loved this book so much! I went out and bought the rest of the trilogy. I don’t spend money on books willy-nilly either, which is because I am broke. Anyways I knew I would not be disappointed in these books and you won’t either. Go run as fast as you can to a bookstore with that hard earned money you worked for, or check it out at the library! You will not be disappointed I promise you that!
Tell me please if this is the actual review for the summoning and not the dark divine, because I have gotten a complaint to someone it was wrong and on my ipod it was wrong, but on my main computer it is fine.
ReplyDeleteI have it as The Summoning...Which I LOVE by the way. I'm waiting anxiously to get my hands on The Reckoning. You did a nice job reviewing it!
ReplyDeleteOh thank goodness! I have it as the summoning on a second computer as well. Aww thank you so much for the kind words! I would like to take this time to give a reminder to all that my contest is still running and there is a link at the top of the page.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE all of Kelley Armstrong's books, I can't wait to read this one! Thanks for the great review. I also have a book review blog, check it out! http://endlessdaysofbooks.blogspot.com/
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