The Summoning is the first in a planned trilogy for teenagers, but it is set, I think, in the same fantasyverse as Armstrong's highly successful adult series Women of the Otherworld. And when fellow patients Simon and Liz start to show similarly unbelievable abilities, Chloe finds herself in a situation beyond her control in more ways than one. To her shock, Chloe is diagnosed as schizophrenic. And when she eventually breaks down and causes a scene at school, she's sent off to Lyle House, a home for disturbed adolescents. These ghosts don't hover past they demand her attention. Chloe wants to be a film director and she's enrolled at an arts school and spends her days happily making movies in her head.īut when she starts seeing ghosts, Chloe's life de-rails. As much as she likes her Aunt Lauren, she misses her mother who died when Chloe was very young. She'd like her hard-working father to pay more attention to her. She likes boys but not as much as peer pressure makes her pretend to. Richardson.Ĭhloe Saunders is a normal teenager. You may be looking for the similarly named The Summoning by E.E. The supernatural elements take too long to get going, however, and there's an annoying cliffhanger ending. Armstrong very successfully taps into the teen psyche and the characters are both interesting and fully-fleshed. Summary: The first in a trilogy set in the same fantasyverse as Armstrong's Otherworld series.
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