Darkest Powers Trilogy

Maybe you noticed... maybe you didn't, I read these fast. My sister told me about these books some time ago and I finally decided to grab them from her last week. This morning I finished the last book of the trilogy.


The books are The Summoning, The Awakening, and The Reckoning written by Kelley Armstrong. My sister was right, they were such great books! Not exactly what I was expecting after I read a couple reviews, I expected vampires the way people put the writer down about trying to be like Stephanie Meyer. There's no vampires in these.

The main character is Chloe Saunders, she sees a ghost and gets put into a group home for troubled teens. When she finally learns the truth about who and what she really is, the adventures begin. She escapes with a few other teens who also have their own unique abilities. The group that had them wants the back, bad, so there is a lot of running away and getting caught throughout each book. You would think it would get tiring to read about it all but it was all written really well, I literally could not put the books down. The last one took me about 5 hours to get through.

Reading these really took me back to the type of books I used to read as a kid, after the first few chapters all I kept thinking was how much it reminded me of the R.L. Stine books I read. I don't know how I managed to read about the ghosts and killer cheerleaders at age 11 without having nightmares. But, I guess now I know why I didn't get scared reading some of the parts that my sister told me really scared her, I desensitized myself early. I wonder if R.L. Stine writes for adults? I'm thinking I want to give that type of book a chance again but I think buying the Fear Street books would look a little weird for me now.