Reading Level: Young Adult
(4 out of 5)
If you have read Ms. Armstrong's Darkest Powers trilogy you will want to read The Gathering. If you haven't read The Summoning, The Awakening, and The Reckoning I highly recommend that you do. All three were amazing. The Gathering starts a new series called Darkness Rising and is about another group of kids that the Edison group has put together.
Maya lives in Salmon Creek which is a small medical research town on Vancouver Island. The town is so small it's not on any maps, only has about two hundred residents, and the school houses sixty eight kids from kindergarten to twelfth grade. Strange things have been happening. First Maya's friend Serena, who was the captain of the swim team, drowns in the lake. Then a year later cougars start appearing around Maya and they won't go away. Her best friend Daniel has a hidden talent for "feeling" out people and situations. The sexy new boy Rafe makes Maya feel different. Combine that with a few unexplained deaths and a mystery involving Maya's biological parents and it's easy to suspect that this town might have more than it's share of skeletons in its closet.
I'm excited because on Ms. Armstrong's website it said that by the end of this trilogy we may see some of the characters from the Darkest Powers series. I'm ready for the next book but it won't be out until next year.
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