The Awakening
Written by Kelley Armstrong
Narrated by Cassandra Morris
3/5
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About this audiobook
If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girl — someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I'm as far away from normal as it gets.
A living science experiment — not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister organization called the Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters, I'm a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control; I raise the dead without even trying. Trust me, that is not a power you want to have. Ever.
Now I'm running for my life with three of my supernatural friends — a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witch — and we have to find someone who can help us before the Edison Group finds us first. Or die trying.
A HarperAudio production.
Kelley Armstrong
When librarians finally granted Kelley Armstrong an adult card, she made straight for the epic fantasy and horror shelves. She spent the rest of her childhood and teen years happily roaming fantastical and terrible worlds, and vowed that someday she'd write a story combining swords, sorcery, and the ravenous undead. That story began with the New York Times bestselling Sea of Shadows and continues with Empire of Night. Armstrong's first works for teens were the New York Times bestselling Darkest Powers and Darkness Rising trilogies. She lives in rural Ontario with her husband, three children, and far too many pets.
Reviews for The Awakening
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Find this review and more at On The Shelf!Well, this wasn’t exactly what I was expecting it to be. I watched the first 3 seasons before I read this book. I love the TV series, but I wasn’t in love with the book. At least not this first one. It is quite different from the show!Elena was very different between the book and the show. In the show she is a caring person who puts others before herself, but in the book she was the queen bee at school and manipulated people to get whatever she wanted. I just didn’t like her very much.And this book was the worst I have read on insta-love. It was unreal how fast the insta-love was. There was no real connection between Elena and Stefan for me. I understand why Stefan would want Elena, but I don’t know why she wants Stefan other than she feels the need to take whatever she wants. There was no relationship development.Stefan on the other hand I actually did like. He is very mysterious and wants to protect Elena. We get a good history on him and he is a deeper character than Elena and has a better attitude.There was soooo many things that were different between this book and the show, I really wouldn’t know where to start with it. There are characters in the book not in the show and vice versa, characters who have totally different personalities and names where changed and mixed around. Gotta say I like the TV show better than what I have read so far. I will keep reading however because I want to see more of Damon (I’m Team Damon all the way) and hopefully I won’t be so annoyed with Elena past the first book.Annoying main female character, good writing, major insta-love, enjoyed the TV show better.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Couldn’t bring myself to finish the book. I became more and more annoyed with the characters the more I read. I was really looking forward to this book after watching the TV series but was kind of let down.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoyed this book reading about the relationship between Elena and Stefan and Damon. Unlike the tv show which I am a fan of Tyler, in the book not so much he really plays the bratty card well. I liked how Damon kept the mysteriousness of himself. Definitely a great teenage read!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Fairly typical beginning of a vampire saga although with the love triangle element. The downside of this volume is the high school atmosphere (although admittedly the youthfulness of the characters is necessary to carry the passion). I am the wrong gender and age to enjoy accounts that include the pettiness of girls' rivalry and the fluttery expressions of feeling.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I loved this book when I was about 13 and it actually holds up surprisingly well. It's not as dated as I thought it would be, more sensual than I remembered, and I think the TV show's doing a nice job of adapting the plot and characters for today's teens.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This was definitely not my cup of tea. I admit I didn't completely finish the book, I just couldn't. My eyes were falling out of its sockets.Elena is one of the most disliked characters (imo) and she's obsessive and annoying. So instead of having to finish off the rest of the series I wikipedia-d the next books and am I thrilled to find out I didn't waste my time curled up to this series.