
Chole and Derek get to know each other because they have to in order to survive. I really liked how there was no romantic-y garbage going on here.

The vast majority of this book focuses on these kids trying to stay under the radar and get to somewhere safe. Eventually, she does get out - with the reluctant help of her old nemesis, Tori. The plan is to reunite with Simon & Derek, who managed to escape capture, so they can resume trying to get the hell away from the Edison Group. The whole thing stinks like a cheese fart, so she's actively looking for a way out the entire time she's there. I also like that Chole isn't an idiot who has to be convinced something is desperately wrong. This is directly where the last book left off, so you don't have any time gaps to contend with, which is pretty great since I'm reading them back to back this time around. The book opens with Chloe in some sort of a hospital that is obviously someplace you don't want to be unless your idea of a good time is to be experimented on and then murdered.Īnd she knows this because ghosts like to chat her up. The idea that there are secret supernatural groups out there is very cool, but then add in the genetic experimentation on their own kind gone wrong, and it goes up to a whole new level.

The Awakening is a somewhat traditional second book in a trilogy in that some of it seems to be filler while we wait to find out what happens in the climax.
