The Summoning

Darkest Powers

by

electronic resource

English language

Published Sept. 28, 2008 by HarperCollins.

ISBN:
9780061758942

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2 stars (1 review)

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.

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reviewed The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong

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2 stars

This was a very meh read. It was a nice quick fix at the time, but it doesn't have enough of anything to make it truly compelling.

The characters were fine but not great and writing was also fine. My biggest problems were how contrived some plot elements felt and how cartoonish the villains were.

The best part was that it didn't hold back on creep factor for a younger skewing YA.

But... It also has one of my most hated tropes: "you're not actually mentally ill, you have powers and taking your meds is weakening you"
This is SUCH a dangerous trope and I really hate seeing it.
SPOILERS: They also have the character institutionalised and the people running the group home are