Darkest Powers Trilogy

The Summoning
(Darkest Powers 1) 2008

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 ghost everywhere and they won't leave me alone. To top it 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 house mate's then meets the eye. The question is, whose side are they on? It's up to me to figure out the dangers secrets behind Lyle House.... Before it's skeletons come back to haunt me.












The Awakening
(Darkest Powers 2) 2009

        If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girl-- someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I'm as far away from normal as it gets. I'm a living science experiment! Not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister oranization called the Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters....
       I'm a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control: I raise the dead without even trying. Trust me that is not a power you want to have. EVER!

       Now I'm running for my life with three of my supernatural friends- A charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf and a half demon. We have to find someone who can help us before the Edison Group find us first. Or die trying.










The Reckoning
(Darkest Powers 3) 2010

Chloe Saunders is fifteen and would love to be normal. Unfortunatly, Chloe happens to be a genetically engeneered necromancer who can raise the dead without even trying. She and her equally gifted (or should that be cursed?) Friends are now running for their lives from the evil corporation that created them.

As if that's not enough, Chloe is struggling with her feelings for Simon, a sweet tempered sorcerer, and his brother Derek, a not so sweet tempered werewolf... Defenitly not normal.






MY REVIEW OF THE SERIES:
(Spoilers are quiet possible so reader beware!!)


As a teen series (and it is a teen series..) it's a good series. If you have read Kelly Armstrong's "Women Of The Other World" series then there are consistant things in this series as that one.

As a reader of both series I appreciate this. Consistancy is a must that some authors seem to forget.. With this series like the other there are still Cabal's, the pack is still in New York (they even bring up the pictures of the hacked up werewolf that are mentioned in women of the other world, Clay's work). Now since there is a second trilogy off of this one hopefully Mrs. Armstrong will find a way to make all the series connect at the end. I mean there is room for it with a werewolf and and witch born with a sorcerer and another witch... Do you see the possibilities??

Anyway if you are looking for a little teenage drama with light romance (it's for teens so nothing gets past first base in the series), then this is a quick and cute series to start with. If you are slightly older and looking for a little more then a PG rating but want that same genre I recommend checking out the "Women Of The Other World" series.

Kelly Armstrongs a good writer who can keep stories close enough to stay seperate or close enough to intertwine if nessesary.

I rate this series 3 1/2 stars. This is only because it's a teen series and it seem to come to a close too quickly. But the writings great and the storys fun so by all means give it a read..