The sweet and shy Chloe we’ve known is growing up. Many of her experiences break her down, but also build up her confidence. While she is not ruthless, she has gotten better at handling dangerous situations. Sadly, her control of her enhanced necromancer powers has not increased. Now that she is away from the Lyle House, she is seeing even more ghosts, but some of these new ghosts have more hostile intentions. She has little control of her ability to raise the dead. There is still plenty of room for her to grow in the following installment.
The Awakening is much more exciting than its predecessor. The plot is always moving and points of action are frequent in this book. No longer isolated in the Lyle House, the characters must face the dangers of living on the street. The writing in this book is much more fun and sarcastic when compared to the previous book. Chloe still treats her life like a movie which puts an interesting third person perspective on a book written in first person. While some of the characters develop, others stay the same with flat and 2-Dimensional personalities. In all, I give this 357 page book 4 stars.