The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong

If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girl — someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I'm as far away from normal as it gets. A living science experiment — not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister organization called the Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters, I'm a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control; I raise the dead without even trying. Trust me, that is not a power you want to have. Ever. Now I'm running for my life with three of my supernatural friends — a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witch — and we have to find someone who can help us before the Edison Group finds us first. Or die trying.

I read this book too dark fast and now I'm stuck with waiting until the third part come out! I wanna know what the heck happened!

So, the thing I hated most about this book was Tori. Just Tori in general. Her very fictional EXISTENCE pisses me off. She was useful for just one very important part of the story but that's about it. After that, I just kept hoping she'd miraculously get hit by a bus. And she got mad at her mom accusing her of being spoiled and selfish. -scoff- What right do YOU have to be offended and mad at that?
But that's not why I gave this book only 4 stars. Maybe I just felt that all the events of the book were fillers. Maybe it's just me, but I wasn't especially excited. The story gripped me pretty tightly but I wasn't completely enthralled with it.
However, that doesn't mean the fillers weren't captivating. Plenty of suspense and planning in them. There was no character to be mad at for being stupid (except Tori, of course. Maybe Armstrong poured the average stupidity of all characters in a book into her?). I also like the subtle coming-together of Derek and Chloe. -swoon & sign- So yeah, I would recommend this book, but it wouldn't be the first book I'd recommend.