The Reckoning

Title: The Reckoning
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Series: Darkest Powers (Book 3)
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal


The Awakening ended with Derek, Simon, Tori and Chloe being safe with Andrew and a group of supernaturals who are against the Edison Group and what they are doing. Or so we thought. Of course, that is not the case and the group has to think of another way to run and get away from a few individuals in this group.

It is all about who to trust and what to do. Are they doing the right thing to get away or just running into the arms of the enemy. It takes them several attempts to seemingly get it right.

This is the last installment of this trilogy. There will be another trilogy (Darkness Rising) that comes out in April. It will not involve the same main characters, but will be set in the same "world" and I think eventually there will be some crossover.

I continued to enjoy the budding relationship between Derek and was sad when the book ended. It ended very much on a starting of a new relationship, but after watching the two struggle, I would have loved to see something of them together. I really felt for Simon and Chloe when she had to turn him down and could barely keep from covering my own face in embarrassment.

We see the return of some other characters: Liz, Aunt Lauren and the Edison Group. A very suspense-filled second half of the book. I thought it was a decent ending for this trilogy, but a good way to leave things open for the rest of the series to come.