The Summoning
Ratings69
Average rating3.8
I would have been much, much happier if the ending were an ending. Instead, it's a “wait for the next book!” I've found the rest of Armstrong's work to be wonderful, and each book stood alone although they all twine together to create a fascinating universe. I cannot say the same for this one.
This book is dark, suspenseful, imaginative, realistic even though it is fantasy and action packed. This book had me hooked from beginning to end.
This was a really good story. Dealing with many supernatural elements the main one being ghosts. I am looking forward to the next book in the series.
I'm a big fan of Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series, so I was curious to try this out, but wasn't expecting to enjoy it all that much because I'm not much of a YA reader.
Really enjoyed it - it's Armstrong without a lot of the sexual/violent undertones her other work usually has, but it's told well enough that you don't really miss that content not being there, and the main character of Chloe can easily stand alongside Armstrong's other female protagonists.
The ending's a cliffhanger, which always bugs me when books are in a series, but that is all the rage for YA novels, so it's understandable that she chose to go that route.
Contains spoilers
💬:“The scene in the basement flashed back—Derek accusing me of talking to ghosts. Had he told Simon? Probably. I bet they had a good laugh at the crazy girl."
Armstrong, Kelley. The Summoning (Darkest Powers, Book 1) (p. 72). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
📖Genres: fiction, fantasy, young adult, urban fantasy, paranormal
📚Page Count: 396
🎧Audiobook Length: 08hrs 35mins
👩🏾🏫My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.5/5
TW - <spoiler>Child death, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Violence, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Kidnapping, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail</spoiler>
The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong is the first book in the young adult series "Darkest Powers" by the same author. Chloe Saunders starts seeing ghosts and suddenly her life is turned upside down within the next 24 hours. She ends up in a group home for unstable teens but there are things that she doesn't know about the group home, her peers, and even herself. The group home might be more than it seems, will Chloe figure out what the deal with this group home is and why she's been seeing ghosts?
I don't think this story is as interesting as it could be, but it still ends up being better than average. The majority of the story takes place in the group home and the repetitive scenery was a bit annoying and it wasn't as entertaining as the author aimed it to be.
I first read this when it was released in 2008 and I liked the story more back then, but this was still okay. I remembered about half of the details about this first book from the first time read it 16 years ago, but there were some details that I forgot all together. I think going into this story semi-unknowing means that I could somewhat experience the story in a similar way to the way I did 16 years ago.
I think this story was okay, I remember liking it a lot more when it first released but around that time I was in the book's target demographic, so it makes sense that I liked this young adult book back when I was a young adult. Rereading this was an interesting experience because I didn't remember all of the things that took place in this novel so some of the surprises and reveals were still surprising to me. Overall, this was an okay story with a good plot twist.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3.5/5
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