The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong

The Summoning (Darkest Powers, #1)

by Kelley Armstrong

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.

Reviewed by inlibrisveritas on

3 of 5 stars

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I initially thought that this was going to be just like all other young adult paranormal novels/series that revolve around a female main character. Where she's thrust into the world, is helpless until a male character comes to her rescue in some way, then she's practically doing all she can to be with him. But it's not at all, it's actually fairly different. Chloe is a normal girl that has an ability that she isn't quite use to anymore, she sees ghosts. So when she's told she's schizophrenic she accepts the diagnosis until things become strange again. I personally enjoyed the characters and how different they are, and how normal they can be dispute their powers.The story is fresh and different, and for once I look forward to the sequel.

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