Product Description

Chloe Saunders used to be a normal teenage girl - or so she thought. Then she learned the shocking truth - she is a walking science experiment. Genetically altered at birth by a sinister group of scientists known as the Edison Group, Chloe is an aberration - a powerful necromancer who can see ghosts and even raise the dead, often with terrifying consequences. Even worse, her growing powers have made her a threat to the surviving members of the Edison Group, who have decided it's time to end their experiment - permanently ...Now Chloe is running for her life with three other supernatural teenagers - a charming sorcerer, a troubled werewolf and a temperamental young witch. Together they have a chance for freedom - but can Chloe trust her new friends?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2008 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Review
"The Awakening' is an even better read than 'The Summoning.' Chloe and her fellow supernatural teens struggle to find someone who will help them combat the group that's trying to take them hostage, and there's never a slow moment in their journey or a false line in Armstrong's writing.' Charlaine Harris

About the Author
Kelley Armstrong is married with two children. She lives in Ontario.

Customer Reviews

Courtesy of Teens Read Too
Not too long ago, Chloe Saunders was an ordinary teenage girl with dreams of making movies when she got older.

Today she is a necromancer who has no idea how to control her powers or even what all of her powers are.

In book one of the DARKEST POWERS series, THE SUMMONING, Chloe and several of her friends escaped from the group home they had been living in. Now, Chloe and Rae are recaptured by the Edison Group, a shady organization that has genetically altered them to try and make use of the powers that many of them were born with.

I found THE AWAKENING to be well-written, descriptive, and thoroughly engaging. This book had soul-searching, action, and even a little teen angst - although it only had a little to do with being a teen and a lot to do with being a supernatural with very little control over their lives or their powers.

I would definitely recommend this book to others. Kelley Armstrong already has two popular adult series under her belt, and this is well on its way to being her third, and hopefully only the first for teens! I hope to see much more from her in the future.

Reviewed by: Breia "The Brain" Brickey

Kracking Kelley
As a huge fan of Kelley's work any book that lands with her name on automatically moves its way up the reading pile to give me some pure reading pleasure. Yet with three series on the go, and with a punishing publishing schedule you do wonder if quality is being sacrificed for quantity.

All these questions and more (mainly to do with the cliff-hanger from the original tale in the Darkest Powers series) were bubbling as I began the opening chapter to quickly find I was sucked straight back into this YA series through the eyes of the protagonista. It's a definite must buy for fans of Kelley and a great way to have an adult author bridge the gap between children's books to Young Adult with this addictive telling. Exciting, emotional and above all a story to thrill you long after the final page is turned as you sit to imagine what will happen to the characters next. A must own.

Not as good as expected.
As a fan of Kelley Armstrong's "Women of the Otherworld" series of books and the first Chloe Saunders book, I was really looking forward to this book coming out. Unfortunately, after reading this book I am left feeling disappointed and don't think it is anywhere near as good as the author's other books.

This book is well written, in that it is easy to read and the characters are well drawn and interesting, but it is the plot that lets it down. The book jumps straight into the action without much in the way of a recap of events from the previous book which was not a good start seeing as I read the first one so long ago! So I spent much of the first few chapters trying to remember who was who and what had happened before.

But my biggest critism is the fact that not much really happens. Yes there are some interesting and exciting scenes along the way, but the main plot can be summed up in four words - "one giant chase sequence" - because that is all this book is. As I was reading it I really had the sense that this book was just a bridge between the events in the first book and the (hopefully) major and exciting climax in the yet to be published book 3.

So to sum up, this book has no real beginning, a whole load of middle, and no end.