Everyday is a journey of survival and new realities. They no longer can call parents for help because they might be placed in danger, some are the bad guys and others have already gone missing. Its interesting to see these very young people go out and fend for themselves. We have Tori the sarcastic rich girl, Simon the ever so sweet gentleman, Derek the leader and authority figure of the group, and of course sweet and naïve Chloe. Well after breaking loose, Chloe and her entourage are now on the run. I will say they have a lot of scenes alone together and they make me very happy.įor all y’all who don’t know Chloe is a new discovered necromancer ( able to awaken the dead), first she thought she was schizo but it was discovered that the home she was sent to after experiencing seeing a ghost, were finding ways to harvest her powers. I am in love with this boy, I wanna go in the book and drop kick Chloe, so she can see what she is missing. The second book in the Darkest Powers series is just as engaging as the first, more creepy action and a more Derek. Unbelievably, this is still one of my favorite Young Adult stories. I remembered liking this series so much when I first read it, but I'm surprised at how well it has held up over the past 11 years. And even though Simon is the typical hot artistic boy, and Chloe is the typical cute but doesn't know it girl, they aren't making mush eyes at each other instead of being worried about getting killed by mad scientists. Chole and Derek get to know each other because they have to in order to survive. I really liked how there was no romantic-y garbage going on here. The vast majority of this book focuses on these kids trying to stay under the radar and get to somewhere safe.

Eventually, she does get out - with the reluctant help of her old nemesis, Tori. The plan is to reunite with Simon & Derek, who managed to escape capture, so they can resume trying to get the hell away from the Edison Group. The whole thing stinks like a cheese fart, so she's actively looking for a way out the entire time she's there. I also like that Chole isn't an idiot who has to be convinced something is desperately wrong.

This is directly where the last book left off, so you don't have any time gaps to contend with, which is pretty great since I'm reading them back to back this time around.

The book opens with Chloe in some sort of a hospital that is obviously someplace you don't want to be unless your idea of a good time is to be experimented on and then murdered.Īnd she knows this because ghosts like to chat her up. The idea that there are secret supernatural groups out there is very cool, but then add in the genetic experimentation on their own kind gone wrong, and it goes up to a whole new level. The Awakening is a somewhat traditional second book in a trilogy in that some of it seems to be filler while we wait to find out what happens in the climax.

The awakening kelley armstrong