I am so aggravated by B movie cliff hangers that I usually will not follow a series that uses them. So the story is both fascinating and satisfying and comes to a firm resolution, although there is more to the story. It is rare that an author can maintain tension without making the main characters 'too stupid to live', or adding thunder bolts from on high to save them from tight corners. I enjoyed the first book in the Darkest Powers series very much, and this one is very good too. I agree with a previous reviewer that the narrator sounds closer to five than fifteen, but it is not very distracting, and it is helpful to be reminded that the characters are very young. This book takes up the story of where they ran to, and the way they deal with their relationships to each other, to the adults they feel they can or cannot trust is fascinating. They talk to each other, and some of them run. Putting them in a special school seemed to be an excellent way of monitoring all of the teens as they come into their talents. So all of these children who have been enhanced, have different gifts and varying levels of the same 'gift' finally come to a special school run by the people who enhanced them. So if you can see ghosts, and ghosts can see you, do you admit it? Seeing things that are not there and admitting it can lead to institutions. These kids are having to deal with more than growth spurts and spots. These teenagers have been genetically altered to enhance certain paranormal gifts, and they were lied to. The three major characters in this book are learning to deal with things more difficult than first love and how to ace an algebra exam. This is the second book in an excellent series of coming of age novels.

The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong