A review by spiravirgo
The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong

5.0

The Summoning was my first interdiction to the amazing and talented writer known as Kelley Armstrong. She has this amazing pull on you to get interested at her stories, like a good bait and we are the fish ready for the worm in this never ending pool of entertainment.

The book opens with Chloe Saunders finally having her life just in the right direction. She's finally enrolled in art school, she's making new friends, flirt a bit with hot boys and pursuing her dreams on becoming a movie director. Her life is finally turning out wonderfully. That is until she's starting to experience some really, really scary dreams and hallucinations. That and having her first period ever (yeah, not her best day in her life, poor her ;A;) she's encountering with a ghost that almost cost her life. Chloe then is evaluated by the doctors as schizophrenic and all what she seen was part of her dementia. Fortunately, all of those problem can be cured in a special home group made especially for mentally behavior kids known as the Lyle House. Could it be Chloe really is mentally sick? Or perhaps all those recent problems are not as we think they are?

The characters are good. Chloe is by far one of my favorites Heroines in fiction due to how amazing and fun it is to read from her perspective. Not only its first person view, which highlights my experience to understand her better, but it's so far special and humorous and interesting just listening to her. I could read for hours about Chloe and her troubles, her history, her friends and she'll never make me bored. The other characters like Derek, Simon, Liz, etc etc are all good, but some were less development then the rest but it has lots of potential to grow once we hit the other 2 books in this trilogy.

Kelley Armstrong really captured me the moment I read the first paragraphs of the book. She has this unique talent of keeping things captivating with mystery and tension in every printed word. She's just know how to allure us into Chloe's world and all she's going through. And my, how scary it is sometimes just trying to turn off a page. Seriously, Armstrong should write a screenplay for horror films for Christ sake...



So yeah, The Summoning is a fine interdiction to this trilogy, giving us a fun main lead, cool characters, steady pace and good written plot, cliffhangers you won't be see coming. Yes, it's a good book and you should defiantly give it a read :3