The Summoning

The Summoning

by Kelley Armstrong

Book: Darkest Powers #1
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pub Date: July 1, 2008
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal
Format: Print
Source: Bought 
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Chloe Saunders used to have a relatively normal life.

But now she finds herself in the middle of some really strange situations because:
~She suddenly starts seeing dead people.
~She gets locked up in a group home for unstable teens.
~The group home isn't what it seems.

My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again.

All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don't even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost—and the ghost saw me.

Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won't leave me alone. To top it all off, I somehow got myself locked up in Lyle House, a "special home" for troubled teens. Yet the home isn't what it seems. Don't tell anyone, but I think there might be more to my housemates than meets the eye. The question is, whose side are they on? It's up to me to figure out the dangerous secrets behind Lyle House... before its skeletons come back to haunt me.

My Review: I'm finally catching up on the older books on my TBR and this was a series that I probably should've read when it came out. I might've been more hooked than reading it at a much older age.

I liked the book enough to finish the series but have a lot of mixed feelings about this book. 

The main character, Chloe, is annoying and that's the nicest way to put it. She is constantly talking to herself in the most annoying and immature way possible. It almost makes it seem as if she really is crazy, despite her episode in school being something real. 

Chloe is a good average kid. Goes to school, studying film in art school and just going day by day really. Nothing super special for a HS freshman. She's had to move numerous times, had a few nannies since her dad is constantly away for his business.

However, normal is about to go out the window the second she is screaming and school staff is trying to hold her down and calm her. She saw a ghost, a real actual ghost. But, that can't be right, they aren't real and she just had a mental breakdown. 

Welp, that's how it looked from every angle anyway. So the school wants her to get some help before returning and thus off to a group home she goes for treatment. 

Her diagnosis is a fake one. She is more than meets the eye. The people at this home all have secrets. Nothing is what it seems and Chloe is about to find that out and then some.  

My Rating:

✪✪✪✪