the awakening series kelley armstrong order

Armstrong leads her characters through a maze (or three) of doubts about who to trust, what to do, where their strengths lie, how to navigate a world that they don’t understand. I have yet to read Darkness Rising that trilogy is next on my list, and I will let you know then whether my perception changes.Īside from my concerns about genre, The Awakening is a strong continuation of Chloe and her friends’ story. I have absolutely no basis for my opinion, of course, except my discomfort with the texts as a set. The existence of the three books in Darkness Rising and a number of intermediary stories and prequels that form the series, suggest that Armstrong had an intended, overarching narrative that has been hijacked by financial or other expediencies. It seems to me that Kelley Armstrong did know, and yet was convinced (by self or others) to cater to the still-current trend in teen fiction of needing a series to be open-ended, permitting publishers to continue (should they so desire) with a solid franchise (should the story turn out to be one). As you know, I am totally fine with that, but authors need to know what it is they are writing. Even with the not-so-subtle reminders of the plot and characters, The Awakening cannot stand alone. The problem I have is that the author wrote the beginning chapters of the second book, The Awakening, as if it were a stand-alone part of a series and the reader would not have read The Summoning. The Darkest Powers is unequivocally a trilogy not a series, which is not an issue. They relate, not too surprisingly, to my perhaps overly strong opinions about trilogies and series fiction, expressed elsewhere. Still, I thought I would share my few thoughts. I’ve just finished re-reading The Awakening as part of my friend’s research project, and have to admit that with my review of The Reckoning when it was first published (2010), and my recent review of The Summoning (2010), I haven’t really a lot to say.

The awakening series kelley armstrong order