Okay, this book only arrived in the mail yesterday. I, having an ear infection and being good for absolutely nothing but reading in bed, gobbled it down like it was manna from heaven.
Short synopsis: Chloe, fifteen, gets locked up in a group home for teens when she suddenly starts to see ghosts. The cast of characters at Lyle House, where she ends up, is as strange as she is. No, stranger. They may all have diagnoses — schizophrenia, in Chloe’s case — but they’ve got something else, too. Superpowers? Something like that.
It’s a book about a girl who sees ghosts, so it’s a little creepy. And it gets creepier as time passes. Best of all, it’s told from the perspective of a girl who is obsessed with film and wants to be a director one day. So we get all sorts of, “If this were a movie, X would happen” moments. You’ve got to love that whole told-like-a-movie thing Kelley’s got going on here.
Honestly? Kelley Armstrong totally saved my day yesterday. She made it not worthless. And she made me desperate for the sequel, The Awakening, which is slated for May 2009. Wait. May 2009? You mean I have to wait almost a year to find out what happens next???
Well, I’m not happy, but I suppose I have to admit it’s worth the wait. Anyway, get started, so you can be as totally keyed up in anticipation as I am.
Buy The Summoning
I just posted a review of this last night. I got it for HarperTeen FirstLook, and they ended up pushing the release date WAY up by two months, so that the book actually came out on the day that the FirstLook reviews were due, lol.
Great review- I can’t wait for the sequel too. Hoping that HarperTeen puts the sequel in the FirstLook program early next year, hehe.
Hmm. I should get myself on this FirstLook list of which you speak.
Yes you should, however it’s a contest sort of thing. They put up a list of several ARCs every month and you enter for the ones that sound interesting to you and then you just wait until the month is over to find out if you won one. The site is here: http://www.harperteen.com/firstlook. I just won The Blonde of the Joke by Bennett Madison and Play Me by Laura Ruby (which hasn’t come in the mail yet though, which kinda sucks- don’t know why they didn’t just put Blonde and Play Me in the same package).
Hmm. I don’t really want to do contests, I don’t think … I’ve got The Blonde of the Joke waiting for me, but I can’t get to it until it’s a little closer to September.