100 Book Challenge - Book 12 - The Reckoning

Book 12 / 100

Book: The Reckoning (Darkest Powers Trilogy #3)

Author: Kelley Armstrong

ISBN: 978-0-06-145056-3

Pages: 391

Picking up where The Awakening left off, Chloe and her friends have found a safe refuge with Andrew, a friend of the boy’s father. With the help of other supernaturals they start to understand a little more about their powers, and realize just how unpredictable they are, at least in Tori and Chloe’s cases, Simon and Derek however are shown to be successes, Simon cannot see other sorcerers and witches, and Derek is peaceful and calm and in control in wolf form.

While Chloe is being trained to control her powers, things go out of control and she begins to raise a cemetery, demonstrating in no uncertain terms that this group of supernaturals were something to be feared.

That act sends them down a path that leads straight back to the Edison Group, with several dead bodies littered along the way. Once there though, plans are made, old friends and new allies work together, but is it enough?

Rating… 4 out of 5 ghosts. This was a good story, but it didn’t really finish, it just kinda stopped. I have to wonder if there’s some bigger arc, maybe the author is planning a trilogy of trilogies that will complete the story… I will confess though, there were several points in the story where I began to wonder if any of them would make it out alive.

100 Book Challenge - Book 7 - The Awakening

Book 7 / 100

Book: The Awakening (Darkest Powers Trilogy #2)

Author: Kelley Armstrong

ISBN: 978-0-06-145055-6

Chloe and her friends are on the run, with the diabolical Edison Group hot on their heels, their only hope is a friend of Simon and Derek’s father.

The story picks up exactly where The Summoning left off with Chloe a “guest” of The Edison Group. With the help of a dead housemate she and her nemesis / rival Tori escape and meet up with Simon and Derek. The four of them agree to go to New York to find an old friend of Simon and Derek’s father who is their emergency contact. With Chloe’s father offering a half million dollar reward for her return, and street gangs and wolf packs standing in their way, they use disguise and public transport to reach their destination, only to find it empty.

Rating… 5 out of 5 ghosts. Much as with The Summoning, I loved the story and the very premise, unlike The Summoning though this story has more action and adventure. We get to learn more about the gang and what happened to them, and why Chloe has the power to raise a zombie army!

100 Book Challenge - Book 6 - The Summoning

Book 6 / 100

Book: The Summoning (Darkest Powers Trilogy #1)

Author: Kelley Armstrong

ISBN: 978-0-06-145054-9

Necromancers, witches, sorcerers, werewolves and ghosts, oh my!

I went into this book not having read anything about the series, literally, all I knew was that a couple of friends had given it 4 or 5 stars, and that was good enough for me.

The story follows Chloe Saunders, a petite fifteen year old girl who discovers she can see ghosts, the down side? They can see her too, and they know it. When she’s freaked out by a ghost in her school, the school demands she be sent for treatment, so her aunt and father check her into Lyle House. When there and the meds don’t stop the ghosts, Chloe begins to accept that she’s different.

With the help of the other patients at the house she begins to learn about her powers and how to use them. Her housemates are special too! But where there are special people there are those that wish to exploit them and use them, people like those that run Lyle House, when things come to a head what’s a girl to do?

Use everything she has at her disposal of course.

Rating… 5 out of 5 ghosts. I found this book to be a well written peek into the world of necromancers and other supernatural beings, and it raises some interesting ideas, like just how many of the people in mental institutions or on drugs are really hearing voices, what if they’re really hearing ghosts talking to them?