The Summoning (Darkest Powers, Bk 1) By: Kelley Armstrong

 The Summoning (Darkest Powers, Bk 1)

Author: Kelley Armstrong

Rating   * * * * 1/2

Review Date 4/2009

Reading level: Young Adult

Paperback: 416 pages

Publisher: HarperCollins; Reprint edition (March 31, 2009)

ISBN-13: 978-0061450549

"My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again. All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don't even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost - and the ghost saw me.

Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won't leave me alone. To top it all off, I somehow got myself locked up in Lyle House, a "special home" for troubled teens. Yet the home isn't what it seems. Don't tell anyone, but I think there might be more to my housemates than meets the eye. The question is, whose side are they on? It's up to me to figure out the dangerous secrets behind Lyle House ... before its skeletons come back to haunt me."

This was a great YA and I can't wait to read the rest of the series. It moved at a very fast pace and will keep you reading long after you should have gone to bed.
At this time TeenHarper.com is offering it as a free read on their site so try it and you may find yourself doing what I did, purchasing a copy so I would have it to reread when the rest of the series came out.

Darkest Powers Series

1. The Summoning   3/2009

2. The Awakening     4/2009

3. The Reckoning      4/2010

http://browseinside.harperteen.com/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061662690Link to free read.