


And luckily The Calling delivers on rocking characters.īut, to be completely and totally honest the dog Kenji who is a German shepherd, totally steals the show. One of my peeves when it comes to books is when characters experience no growth and don’t learn anything. She does make a few judgment mistakes and actually learns from them. You guys, I really like Maya as a main character. Meanwhile, Maya’s body is going through changes much worse than puberty, ya know, turning into a cougar and such. Of course, Maya loves the woods, so she and her BFF Daniel become de facto leaders and try to take the group back to civilization. BUT OMG the pilot tries to kidnap them THEN the plane crashes in the wilderness and the gang has to SURVIVE. Instead Maya and her dog Kenji and friends are on a helicopter escaping a fire that is raging in her isolated town. No slow boring beginning for The Calling by Kelley Armstrong.

You know that song A Country Boy Can Survive by Hank Williams Jr? No? Okay, well when I think about The Calling, second in Kelley Armstrong’s Darkness Rising trilogy, I can’t help but think the song applies to Maya, because, bro, that girl CAN survive and she’s totes a country girl and a full on bad ass.
