The Calling (Darkness Rising)
A powerful secret. A desperate race for survival.Maya and her friends are on the run. Having escaped a deliberately set forest fire and a fake rescue team with dark intentions, they were just beginning to feel safe again. Then their helicopter crashes near the Vancouver Island wilderness, and...
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A powerful secret. A desperate race for survival.Maya and her friends are on the run. Having escaped a deliberately set forest fire and a fake rescue team with dark intentions, they were just beginning to feel safe again. Then their helicopter crashes near the Vancouver Island wilderness, and Maya and her friends realize they're about as far from safe as they can get.But Maya has a secret. She can run faster, climb higher, and see better than nearly anyone else. It's part of who she really is—and it has something to do with her mysterious paw-print birthmark. Yet as Maya and her friends face unforeseen dangers, it becomes clear she's not the only one in their close-knit group who has something to hide. And if they're going to survive, they'll need all their extraordinary abilities to help them get back home.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061797064 (0061797065)
ASIN: 0061797065
Publish date: 2013-04-02
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
As with The Gathering, if you read this trilogy, you'll want to have the third book (The Rising) ready to go, because The Calling ends, not really with a major cliffhanger (although there is very little resolution), and the story is far from over. We spend the majority of this book learning more a...
I hadn't really planned to continue reading the Darkness Rising Trilogy, but when I saw this book in the library I did take it home with me, because after all, I was still a bit curious about what happened next. The end of The Gathering was quite a cliffhanger... For me, this book felt quite the s...
2.5 stars. This reminds me of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows movie - Part 1: run, dodge, sit around planning, but nothing really happens.