One thing I can’t express enough is Armstrong’s amazing ability to control that slow build up in a story, making readers not only want but NEED to reach the end of the novel. I LOVE Kelley Armstrong so much and I haven’t read this trilogy in a while, so I thought it was a good time to pick it up once again! Honestly, the best way for me to get out of a reading slump is to re-read. It’s been an OFF year for me, reading wise - and gosh knows what else ha-ha! It’s honestly been a struggle to have the patience to sit and read, even though I enjoy most of the books I pick once I get settled. Genre / Themes: Contemporary | Supernatural | Urban Fantasy 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. 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. 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. Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Maya is just an ordinary teen in an ordinary town.

But I don’t want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.” “I want you to have big dreams, big goals.

The gathering kelley armstrong trilogy