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The Summoning, The Awakening, and The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong make up the Darkest Powers trilogy, a young adult fantasy series about a fifteen-year-old girl who sees ghosts — or perhaps, she’s schizophrenic — at first, she isn’t sure.<\/p>\nThe Summoning, The Awakening, and The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong make up the Darkest Powers trilogy, a young adult fantasy series about a fifteen-year-old girl who sees ghosts — or perhaps, she’s schizophrenic — at first, she isn’t sure.<\/p>\n
Read together, these three books tell a complete story of a group of teenagers trying to escape from the adults who were supposed to care about them. Each has a special ability, but each is given a mental health diagnosis to explain the ability away.<\/p>\n
I greatly enjoyed the characters in this series, beginning with Chloe, who is also the first-person narrator. She is a determined girl, just coming into womanhood, with a certain vulnerability that makes her feel real. Each of the others — Liz, Victoria, Derek, Simon — adds to the group dynamic.<\/p>\n
One of the things I really liked about this story was that it fit very well into the young adult category. I wouldn’t have worked with adults. It couldn’t have. This fact added to what I would call a genuine teen sensibility. There was no talking down, no holding back. This was a book for teens about teens, and because of that fact, I found it enjoyable as an adult as well.<\/p>\n
I did have a few believability issues when the answers started coming in books 2 and 3, but even then I enjoyed the ride and the adventure.<\/p>\n
I also liked the minor romantic subplot, although I didn’t see a need for it to be a triangle. It took time away from everything else that was happening (and there was a lot happening), and the romance was generally too minor a plot to need to be thickened in that way. It made me feel like, in the wake of Twilight, everything has to be a triangle now, but it rarely works.<\/p>\n
I do recommend this book to anyone who enjoys YA fantasy.<\/p>\n
4\/5<\/p>\n
Title: The Summoning, The Awakening, and The Reckoning
\nAuthor: Kelley Armstrong
\nGenre: YA Fantasy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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