The Summoning

The Summoning
By Kelley Armstrong
HarperCollinsPublishers, 2008. 390 pgs. Young adult fiction.

When teenaged Chloe starts seeing ghosts, she is sent to Lyle House, a group home for mentally disturbed youth. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, she does her best to accept her condition and cooperate with the doctors to be "cured." Making both friends and enemies there, she discovers there is something strange about the home and its inhabitants. As Chloe investigates the secrets of Lyle House, her world becomes increasingly complicated and her return to normal society seems less and less of a reality.

This book was fascinating. I was completely absorbed in it from the first page and I sped through the whole 390 pages in a day. Luckily, I had the sequel already and zipped through that right after as well. Robust characters, twisty plot, and a plucky main character all contribute to a wonderful read. This series would certainly appeal to fans of Twilight looking for paranormal literature. An excellent beginning to what seems to be a promising series.

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