Darkness Rising - The Rising - Kelley Armstrong

Loved it! 

  
   The Rising is the third book in the Darkness Rising series by Kelley Armstorng. This series falls under several genres such as young adult, fantasy, supernatural, and shapeshifters. 
   Facts about the author, Kelley Armstrong. 
   Kelley worked hard to reverse the viewpoint that werewolves were crazed-killers. 
   Though Kelley writes mostly supernatural, she has wrote a few crime novels. 
   Kelley drew mostly from myths and legend in her writing, which was easier with werewolves. Kelley did very little with vampires because it was hard to follow myth and legend. 

   I am very pleased with the way this book turned out. I was disappointed with the first two books, but this book was a great turn out. I am usually upset about love triangles, but this turned out surprisingly well. I am not gonna give away how it turned out. Just two excepts to make you wonder who she chose. 

   {"So now I was throwing a seventeenth birthday party for Daniel, just like he’d thrown my sixteenth one for me. And we were in another forest, climbing another wall. Rafe was beside me, for the final race, and as we climbed, it was just like the first time, me looking over, seeing his grin, feeling him there, swearing I could hear the pounding of his heart, spurring me on."}

   {"Well, that was the obstacle I hadn't quite overcome yet. While I was happy to be with him and talk to him and goof around with him, I could think of more I'd like to do. Enough to make me very glad no could tell I was blushing. I settled for averting my eyes and focusing on the climb."}
   I have not read the Darkest Powers series but I've heard that the characters in it turned up in the end of this book. I liked the characters, and I am interested in learning their stories. What I gather is Chloe is necromancer who can raise the dead, rotting corpses and all, Derek is a werewolf, and Simon is a sorcerer. I am thrilled that Kelley intertwined her books just a little. Just enough to get me interested but not too much to spoil the other books. I will look into reading that series. 

   {""We'll meet you here. Hopefully everyone will be in human form." A wry smile. "Though I'll warn you, he's not a whole lot more pleasant that way. At least as a wolf, he can't talk."}
   I love that it ended in a way I was not excepting. I almost wish there were more books to see if they ever do master their powers and fight the Cabal, but I doubt there will be more books. I can only hope that they eventually get their freedom. For some that have been on the run for months the situation was really great for them because they aren't on the run and don't have to fight their way through the world anymore. For the others who were only on the run for a little bit they want more freedom, but when you have something you are always gonna want more. 

   I did not dislike this book at all, but I try to keep things even by writing things I liked and disliked. And one of the things I didn't like was the powers. We say that Maya grew into her powers and Daniel is learning how to control his, but we didn't see much of the others. I understand that Corey gets visions,  but we didn't see Haley's powers much. She can swim and sing but shouldn't her powers have some sort of fighting advantage considering that is what the Cabal wants to train them to do. Also, Rafe and Ash haven't even shifted by the end of the book. That was disappointing.
   I really wished Kelley would have wrote a little bit about how Maya's parent's reacted to her being a skin-walker. I would have loved to known their reactions and concerns. 
   I was kinda sad for Daniel that his dad didn't show up at the end. I understand that his dad blamed Daniel for his wife leaving, but he is still his kid. It would have been nice for Daniel to get some sort of happiness. It was a little heartbreaking when he had to decide to live with. I also wanted to know where Maya's biological mother is. Did she really only care for herself? Some how her dad ended up being a good guy, which really surprised me. But a good surprise. 

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