Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The Darkest Powers series

Oh yes.  Much better.  I know it looks like I just sit around reading all day, but that's only because for the last two days I've just been sitting around reading.  I need to stop looking at the Juvies section while I'm shelving.
The Summoning by Kelley ArmstrongThis starts with The Summoning.  She freaks out when a "melted" janitor starts following her around at her school, but no one else seems to be able to see him.  Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Chloe is sent to a home for troubled teens.  There she meets the talkative Liz, (who has temper tantrums and throws things, and later denies it) Rae (who has a thing for fire), Tori (who's a real witch with her whiplash-inducing mood swings), Derek (anti-social and the victim of a "puberty smack down"), and Simon (who no one can really figure out what he's in there for).  Chloe is determined to get out quickly and get on with her life, so she gives all the right answers to the psychologists...until one day her roommate Liz throws stuff around the room--without touching anything.  Chloe is freaked out, but that's nothing to compare with the shock she gets when she sees Liz floating around in her bedroom--after she's been taken away to the hospital
So good, so exciting and actually pretty clean.  No sexual scenes, mild language.  It is dark though, so stay away if you don't like that stuff. **** for both books, and a brown paper bag (for my hyperventilating at the cliffhanger at the end of the second.)

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