The CallingKelley Armstrong
HarperCollins
April 10, 2012
336 pages
Hardcover, $17.99
Maya and her friends, after escaping a fire, are kidnapped and
then stranded in the Vancouver Island wilderness. The 16-year-old also has a
paw-pint birthmark, which means she can perform extraordinary physical feats and, someday, may
transform into something more beastly than a teenaged girl. This second
installment of the Darkness Rising trilogy boasts a lot of action. The first novel in the series, The Gathering, appeared in April 2011. The third, Rising, came out in April 2013.
Bestselling author, Kelley Armstrong, also known for her Otherworld novels aimed an adult
female audience, wrote Calling for kids. “Here was a chance to
really do that kind of survival story,” Armstrong said from Toronto. “If you
are plunked out there not knowing where you are, you’ve got a little ways to go
to find help and if you’ve got people chasing you, that’s even worse.”
“My ideal reader is usually pretty close to my
protagonist, so girls 16 or so. If they say ‘I like paranormal, I like action
and adventure’, this book has that. The romance is fairly light. I tend to be
someone who prefers the action/adventure part.”
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