Review: The Summoning - Kelley Armstrong

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Review: The Summoning - Book #1 The Darkest Powers - Kelley Armstrong - July 2008

Chloe has just hit puberty and with puberty has come some strange happenings, she has just started to see ghosts and they are making her scared and crazy. She finds herself in a semi-breakdown , next thing she knows her father and Aunt Lauren pull her out of the school and into a special rehab titled Lyle House. When Chloe arrives at the house , she discovers that not all is what it seems and that all the students in the house have special gifts from fire to necromancer. As the story goes along, we read as dangerous situations start arising and at one point it turns out that the basement of Lyle House is a graveyard burial and that Samuel Lyle was a dark magic practitioner and the people dead are test subjects and now it seems that the current occupants are all part of a new group of test subjects.
Can Chloe and her friends summon the bodies of those from the past in order to survive or by summoning bodies will they accidentally summon the ghost of Samuel Lyle ?
Find out in Book #1 of Kelley Armstrong's teen series "The Darkest Powers". 

 


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