Reading order
Darkest Powers reading order
1
2
3- 3 volumes
- Volumes
- 2008–2010
- Published
- about 21 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Horror#5
- Genre
Quick answer
Publication order
3 volumes2008–2010Completed
- A young adult trilogy: Chloe Saunders starts seeing ghosts, is sent to a group home for troubled teens and finds out she is a necromancer — and that the home is not what it claims.
- One continuous story, so read in order.
- Ratings climb with each book; The Reckoning is the highest.
- The Darkness Rising trilogy follows in the same world.
A plan for the whole series
3 volumes, 1,168 pages, about 21 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 4 weeks.
Share of volume 1’s readers who reach the last volume. Chance of reaching the last volume: high
Stages
2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around November 30, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.
- Stage 114 h19 daysby November 17, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 27 h10 daysby November 30, 2026
- The end of the series
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Does the series hold up
Shape of the series: the finale is the best part. The last volume (8.0) stands above the rest. Whoever reaches the end gets the reward.
Best volume: The Reckoning (8.0, 116 ratings). Weakest: The Summoning (7.6). The series is complete; you can read it start to finish with no waiting. The last volume (8.0) scores close to the series average or above it.
How this plan is calculated
The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →
Every volume in order
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Darkest Powers books ranked, best to worst
- 1.The ReckoningBook 3 · 20108.0
- 2.The AwakeningBook 2 · 20097.8
- 3.The SummoningBook 1 · 20087.6
Frequently asked questions
Which Darkest Powers book is the best?
By reader score, The Reckoning (8.0/10). The lowest-rated is The Summoning (7.6/10).
Which Darkest Powers book is the longest?
“The Summoning” is the longest at 400 pages; the shortest is “The Awakening” with 368 pages.
What should I read after Darkest Powers?
Other series by Kelley Armstrong: Women of the Otherworld.
