The Summoning

The Summoning by S.V. Filice

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


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Let's start with the good news. The author is an excellent wordsmith and the story flows like silk. At the climax she makes use of a combination short and long sentences to convey action while keeping us informed of what his happening around the protagonist.

Unfortunately she may have bitten off a little more than she can chew in this book. Essentially the heroine is kidnapped to a school where she's being taught good and evil. Apparently she is a descendant of angels when they fell to Earth so she's also part demon. The trick is to learn to promote her angelic self while controlling the demonic. Her lessons, however, seem mostly to involve meditation. In addition, she's been separated from a younger sister for whom she feels responsible yet doesn't do much if anything to escape what amounts to captivity to find the girl. Such logic as was present in the book seemed to be geared mostly to the acquiring of an affinity (a superpower) and battling demons which appear to be about half the school. Frankly it seemed all the characters were going around in circles and getting nowhere. Perhaps I'm being over critical because the book was classified as YA, but I'm really not sure young people would enjoy it.



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