The Gathering book review

Author: Kelley Armstrong


Pages: 359


Rating: 4/5

Recommend: yes

Summary:


Sixteen-year-old Maya is just an ordinary teen in an ordinary town. Sure, she doesn’t know much about her background - the only thing she really has to cling to is an odd paw-print birthmark on her hip - but she never really put much thought into who her parents were or how she ended up with her adopted parents in this tiny medical-research community on Vancouver Island.

Until now.

Strange things have been happening in this claustrophobic town - from the mountain lions that have been approaching Maya to her best friend’s hidden talent for “feeling” out people and situations, to the sexy new bad boy who makes Maya feel…different. Combine that with a few unexplained deaths and a mystery involving Maya’s biological parents and it’s easy to suspect that this town might have more than its share of skeletons in its closet.

                     
-goodreads


My thoughts:


Another book with a cliffhanger and it’s one of those cliffhangers where your like WTF. I mean they get to safety get on a chopper with five other people then it just ends.Nothing gets explain and just left it in the air until the next book.
The story was interesting how these families live on this remote island in Canada owned by this family called the St. Clouds and how everyone knows everyone. I really enjoyed Maya and her scenes of humor with everyone like her dad and her best friend Daniel. Also for the fact that she has a thing with nature and animals. The friendship between Maya and Daniel is just a friendship and not this secret love crap that authors sometimes use. Daniel is like the big brother that she never had, and a little overprotective. However I think that's good since Maya has a bad habits of finding cougars. Something I didn’t like all that much is how Maya was toward Rafe she liked him one minute and wouldn't talk to him the next. And Rafe he just seems to not take the hint which bugs me to. There was murders that didn’t get solved and hope when I get to the next book will get into those and who those mystery people in the forest and how one knew Maya. This is a book about a small town holding a big secrets in supernatural type of way.