Review: Disappointment, With Descriptions As A Redeeming Feature.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2013
From an allegedly true Irish story Summoning falls into the general horror and/or mystery genre of young adult texts, but somehow seems to fall short.  The one redeeming feature of the book is that the descriptions, particularly of the dissonance between the senses, and inner conflicts when dealing with demons which help to create a darker, more suffocating mood.  The characters, however are merely sketched, and this is not helped by the leaps forward and back through time.  Though the time jumping does not hinder the telling of the story, it puts a barrier between the text and the reader which makes identifying with Meredith's plight difficult to do.  This also makes the abrupt ending hard to accept.  All of a sudden we, as readers, go from Meredith's 15th year, to her 30th, and suddenly everything is resolved in an 'almost-happy-ever-after'