The Awakening

The Awakening
by Kelley Armstrong

Book: Darkest Powers #2
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pub Date: April 28, 2009
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal
Format: Print
Source: Bought 
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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 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.
 
My Review: Welp, I will say book two was better and got mem more interested in the series, but I still think it would've been more of a hit if I read it closer to when it released than have left it sitting on my shelf for so long. 
 
Chloe is slowly becoming more knowledgeable about who and what she is. While not exactly in control right now, she is more powerful than people may think. 
 
Right now, the main point is to escape with her friends (Tori still questionable on the friend scale at first) and somehow venture back into the normal world. Even if that means living on the streets for now. Though normal doesn't have the same meaning anymore, but together they can make it work. 
 
I still can't get over the way Chloe is constantly talking to herself, more than what a possible person might do and was just too much for me and would have wanted more maturity but then again it's been a while since I read YA and so the younger immature characters are kinda hard for me to like these day. Overall, I did like this one better and finally more glued into this world and can't wait to read the next one.

 

My Rating:

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