50 YA Books We Want Adapted to the Big or Small Screen

Cover to The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong. Image via HarperCollins.

50. Darkest Powers

We start with a completed series from the late 2000s and early 2010s. Kelley Armstrong’s Darkest Powers series serves as a sort of younger sibling to her Women of the Otherworld novels, as they share a universe as well as a set of rules about the paranormal people that populate the series.

Darkest Powers follows the adventures of Chloe, a young woman who not only sees dead people but can talk to them, too. She goes to a group home, but the other residents have some interesting secrets of their own. There’s a fairly standard YA love triangle here, but the trilogy of books also involves a conspiracy, so there’s plenty to dive into here.

Additionally, Darkest Powers has a sister series in Darkness Rising, which follows Maya in a small research community on Vancouver Island. Like Chloe, she’s just coming into some powers of her own, and there’s another excellent conspiracy.

Part of Women of the Otherworld was turned into a series called Bitten, which ran for three seasons on Syfy in the States, but it didn’t get through the entirety of that book series. It’s not like Armstrong’s world doesn’t have a lot going for it.

Since both series are just trilogies, miniseries or movies might not be a bad choice.