- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Harpercollins (2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0061662690
- ISBN-13: 978-0061662690
- Product Dimensions: 22.1 x 15.3 x 3.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,122,859 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Nothing short of brilliant,
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This review is from: The Summoning (Darkest Powers, Book 1) (Paperback)
The Summoning is set in the same world as Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series, but with a whole new cast of characters. Aimed at the YA crowd, the sex and violence themes have been toned down, but there's still plenty of meat for readers to dig into, and I never got the feeling things had been "dumbed down" for the younger readers. I blame my burnt dinner on the dark tone and the involving mystery, both of which kept me turning pages when I probably shouldn't have been.Chloe makes for a great heroine. She's strong, smart, and easily relatable. I really liked her tendancy to stutter, a quirk I don't think I've seen used before in a protagonist, but it was a simple and effective way to portray the social awkwardness she feels. Chloe felt like a real teenager, with all the insecurities that go with the territory, but this wasn't 400 pages of whiny angst. She faced things that weren't fair, but then she turned around and did something to stand up for herself instead of crying into her pillow. The story is full of smaller mysteries, all of them piling together naturally to create a bigger mystery that isn't solved by the end of the story. This is the first of a planned trilogy, and my only annoyance with the book is that I don't have the other two in my hands right now. It's very much a horror story, but with the hints of magic, romance, and teen drama, there's something here for everyone to fall in love with. The long and short of it is, this book is everything Twilight wishes it could be and isn't. I highly recommend it to everyone who likes a little YA now and then, but you have to get your own copy. Mine stays here with me.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Kelley is the Queen,
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This review is from: The Summoning (Darkest Powers, Book 1) (Paperback)
I am a huge Kelley Armstrong fan. She is one of the best supernatural/fantasy writers in the business in my opinion. The Summoning is the 1st book in a series of YA books. Chole Saunders and the rest of the cast of characters are well rounded and believable. You become easily caught up in the story and root for the kids to get away from the evil Dr and his cronies. Book one is a great leader into "The Awakening" and so on. Read them all you won't be disappointed.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not a lot happening ... (CONTAINS SPOILERS),
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This review is from: The Summoning (Darkest Powers, Book 1) (Paperback)
*** SPOILERS ALERT!! ***There's something I really like about books that are grouped as a series. For one thing, if I really like the characters, I get to meet them again in the next book. For another, I know what I'm going to be reading next. When I started reading The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong, the first book in the Darkest Powers series, I really didn't know what to expect. I've read my fair share of vampire books, supernaturals, immortals, demon hungers, etc., and figured this would be along the same wavelength. Plenty of what I've read had the hint of romance within its pages ' in Twilight there was Bella and Edward, in The Mortal Instruments there was Clary and Jace, and in the House of Night books there was Zoey and Eric. Or Zoey and Heath. Or Zoey and Stark. Wait ' wasn't she attached to a professor, too? In any case, there's always been that bit of romance going on. Anyway. In The Summoning I kept waiting for it to happen and it never did. There are really only two guys in the book ' Simon and Dereck ' opposite the main characters at Lyle House, a place for 'special' kids, which we later learn is a place for kids with supernatural powers (which seems more like a very lenient insane asylum). As it says on the back of the book, Chloe starts seeing ghosts so her Aunt Lauren sends her away to this house to 'get better.' From the sounds of it, there are only 6 kids in the whole house and they're watched like hawks by the nurses and doctors. No romance happens at all, though I kept wanting it to (what can I say? It must be the girl in me.), but there was plenty of action ' eventually. The book is almost 400 pages and the real action didn't start happening until the last 60 pages or so. The reader is left with many questions left unanswered and even though Chloe, Rachelle, Simon, and Dereck manage to escape Lyle House (or in some cases, 'almost'), not a lot happens in the book. Powers are discovered and talked about; a plan is made to escape Lyle House; plenty of laundry is done; and there are some conversations with ghosts that put a vague face to what Lyle House was many years ago. As a reader, I'm intrigued enough to read the next book in the series. Much like I was after reading Tempted, the 6th book in the House of Night series where, again, nothing really happened. The best thing about this book was that there was no false teen-talk (like Zoey's many sayings and words in the HON series), there was enough intrigue to keep me reading, and the characters seemed real: some being your typical spoiled-brat teens learning how to live in the real world. I just wish that the whole book could have stood on its own, rather than being a set up for the next book in the series.
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