Kelley Armstrong

Fifteen-year-old necromancer Chloe, having escaped from Lyle House with Derek, Simon, and Rae, finds herself imprisoned in a laboratory run by a sinister organization determined to control her and her supernatural friends.

The awakening

Kate Perrin

3.5-4
A little more slow than the first one **Spoiler** they mainly are running throughout the entire book but it's still really interesting and keeps you engaged. I spent most of my Saturday reading this.

Elizabeth Neill

Book II in the Darkest Powers trilogy takes us deeper into a world where the supernatural intrudes on the everyday with riveting effect. 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. A living science experiment – not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a group of people who call themselves 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. I’m running for my life with three of my supernatural friends – a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witch – and we have to find someone who can help us gain our freedom back before The Edison Group finds us first. Or die trying.

The Awakening

Kaley Catron

This series is so strange because the story feels like it could all be one book but like there’s so much that happens that I can see why it was split up. Also can Chloe and Derek just admit they’re in love because 👏🏻girl 👏🏻you👏🏻in👏🏻love👏🏻

Alexandra Mellas

Kelley Armstrong continues her mind capturing Darkest Powers trilogy in The Awakening. Chloe Saunders, a fifteen year old new to her powers as a necromancer, was betrayed to the Edison Group at the end of The Awakening. While there Chloe learns she and her friends are genetically altered supernaturals, part of an experiment called Genesis II.

Armstrong continues the adventures of Chloe and the runaways from Llye House, creating a convincing love triangle between Chloe, and brothers Simon and Derek. With souped up, and out of control, powers, Armstrong writes the puberty experience from hell. 

The Awakening is as creative as The Summoning and combines theories of magic and science. Armstrong brings werewolves, vampires and magicians to life in a new way; a hard thing to do in the current Twilight crazed environment. Armstrong manages to assign adult duties to a group of teenagers who want nothing more than acceptance, and she does it without giving them delusions of grandeur.

The relationship between Chloe and her friends develops better in The Awakening. Better friendships are formed and more background on the others, Simon, Derek and Tori, is developed. There is also some background for Chloe's supernatural family history.

Like The Summoning (see review), the Awakening ends with an slight twist, and with Chloe and her friends unaware of where they are heading. The Darkest Powers trilogy concludes in The Reckoning (see review).

The awakening

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