Sunday, July 17, 2011

Review of The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong

The Summoning is the story of Chloe Saunders, a teenage girl who sees dead people.  The first time Chloe sees a ghost is when she is about four years old and wanders into the dark basement of her.  Now Chloe is fifteen and barely remembers seeing them.  She wonders if that entire memory was just a dream.  That is until one day she wanders off in her high school bathroom.  It's there that she runs into another ghost.  She totally freaks out  and when the teacher and school staff hears her crazy story; they think she's nuts and ends up being transferred to a school for mentally ill teenagers.

There Chloe meets kids that have secrets too.  Soon Chloe discovers that it's not only her who has supernatural powers.  In fact all the kids in school have special powers.  Chloe meets a group of ghosts  who reveal secrets about her school and the doctors who run it.  Chloe and her friends end up escaping from the school and soon find themselves running for their lives as they work together to find answers to their past and protect themselves from the people who are hunting them.

The Summoning has lots of twists and turns.  Great surprises, action, and suspense.  This first book has no real romance but something is lurking among a few characters.  Maybe all will be revealed in the sequel, The Awakening.  Stay tuned.

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