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 boghunden on

3 of 5 stars

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It's hard to review this book. I really liked the first 100 pages, there was so much going on and everything was exciting. And then it stopped. Then the novel was all about Chloe, who's institutionalized. Then at the last 80 pages, the action picked up again. That means that you have about 200 pages in the middle with nothing going on - except for Chloe talking to the other people at the institution. Dull!

In the end it's clear that this book is first in a series; there's a cliffhanger at the end. Unfortunately though, it just felt like a very long prologue! I won't be reading the rest of this series.

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