A fun start to what should be an exciting new series. Those who persevere through the rather slow start will find that this has more in common with Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment (if that were written well and had fewer plot holes) than it does with Gossip Girls: a group of kids with special powers trying to escape from scientists who want to experiment on them. That would be a shame - with a touch of gruesome and edgy violence, and that last action-packed quarter of the book, along with ghosts, werewolves, and magic, boys will find just as much to like here as girls. The cover picture, showing a hot girl in a low-cut dress holding a ruby pendant, may convince some boys that this book is not for them. The novel starts off where The Summoning left off, with the kids’ short-lived escape plan thwarted, at least for Chloe. By the end, though, Chloe and her friends have just barely begun on their journey to understand themselves and their world, which is quite different than what they have been brought up to believe. The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong HaperCollins, 2009 The second book of the Darkest Powers series, The Awakening, by Kelley Armstrong continues the story of Chloe and her band of runaway supernatural friends. Before that, the author gradually builds up Chloe's (and the readers) understanding of what is happening to her and around her, though the reader will get there long before Chloe does. This is no slam-bang action-adventure, though it does get pretty exciting in the last quarter.
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