#95 in Horror
The Summoning
- 400
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Summoning” opens the “Darkest Powers” trilogy with a ghost story steeped in a dark, haunted atmosphere. Kelley Armstrong writes fluently and without fuss, and necromancy gives the tale an angle of its own. Some readers find the plot slow and the heroine too quick to complain. The volume stops on a cliffhanger and is plainly the first third of a longer story.
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About the book
The Summoning is a novel by Kelley Armstrong, and is the first book in the Darkest Powers series. It was released on July 1, 2008.
Reading order · Darkest Powers
Full order & progress →- The SummoningThis book
7.67.6 / 10 - The Awakening
7.87.8 / 10 - The Reckoning
8.08.0 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 202 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 58% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 9.4 | 14 | 7% |
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 188 | 93% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Summoning?
It has 400 pages — longer than 50% of the ranked books in Horror.
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