The Reckoning

The Reckoning
by Kelley Armstrong

Book: Darkest Powers #3
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pub Date: April 6, 2010
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal
Format: Print
Source: Bought 
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Chloe Saunders is fifteen and would love to be normal. Unfortunately, Chloe happens to be a genetically engineered necromancer who can raise the dead without even trying. She and her equally gifted (or should that be 'cursed'?) friends are now running for their lives from the evil corporation that created them.

As if that's not enough, Chloe is struggling with her feelings for Simon, a sweet-tempered sorcerer, and his brother Derek, a not so sweet-tempered werewolf. And she has a horrible feeling she's leaning towards the werewolf...

Definitely not normal.

 
My Review: The final book was by far the better one in the series. 

Chloe and her friends are once again planning a way out. The ones meant to help them have been secretly behind many of the things going on, like the rouge werewolves causing Derek and Chloe trouble. 

Oh and if that wasn't enough, they get betrayed yet again by them when they knock them out and bring them RIGHT back to the very place they are running from. They are all too powerful ans difficult to handle and so the best thing was betray them and send them right into the enemy. 

Welp, we've seen this movie already. Everyone must work together to break out yet again and hopefully this will be the last time they get caught and have to escape because this is just a bad repetitive cycle.

It doesn't take long before Chloe reached out to the demon hanging around and together they come up with a plan for everyone to escape and get what they want.

A very long day of escaping, fighting and destroying the place, we finally get an ending that everyone deserves. Yes, they might have to be on the run for who knows how long. But they are together, they are family and they will make the best of this.

Plus Chloe and Derek finally have their moment.

Overall, it wasn't a bad series at all. If you're closer in age to these characters, then you will probably love this on a whole different level. If you're like me and had these books sit on your TBR for 10 years before diving in, well, we should have read it sooner. It's a little bit harder to enjoy and relate when you're no longer in a similar age group as the characters.
 

My Rating:

✪✪✪✪