The Gathering by Kelly Armstrong - Review

Everyone knows everyone else in the small secluded town Maya lives in. It’s a blessing and a curse. But, to Maya, it started to feel a little less safe and a little stranger than usual after her friend Serena drowns in the middle of a lake – particularly as she was the captain of the swim team. This haunts Maya, mainly as she thinks she might have felt hands in the water. Then a reporter shows up asking about Serena. On top of this, there are more and more mountain lions seen in the town. Her friend Daniel senses things about people that he can’t explain. And she’s more interested than she’d like to be in the new student, Rafe, whose reputation precedes him. What is happening in this town? Can she uncover its secrets? Does her birth mark mean anything? Maya is determined to find out.

This action-filled adventure is set in the same world as the Darkest Powers trilogy and leaves us with many, many questions and a need to know more about this second Edison Group experiment.