Long Hot Summoning (The Keeper's Chronicles #3) by Tanya Huff
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(Mass Market Paperback - Reissue)
- Pub. Date: April 2003
- 416pp
- Sales Rank: 79,756
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: April 2003
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
- Format: Mass Market Paperback, 416pp
- Sales Rank: 79,756
- Series: Keeper's Chronicles Series, #3
- ISBN-13: 9780756401368
- ISBN: 0756401364
- Edition Description: Reissue
Synopsis
It started on the last day of high school...
a day Diana Hansen had been anticipating for the last twelve years. Now her real life could begin....For Diana, like her sister Claire, was a Keeper—gifted with the ability to reweave the possibilities of time and space to maintain the balance between Light and Darkness. What neither Diana nor Sam—formerly an angel, now a cat—could have anticipated was that her first Summons as an active Keeper would be to a shopping mall!
But a quick trip to the Erlking's Emporium, a gift shop in a Kingston mall, confirmed Diana's worst suspicions. Not only was Darkness trying to stage a takeover from the Otherside, but if Diana didn't bring in reinforcements, her first Summons might well be her last. Claire and Austin—who'd always been a cat and had little tolerance for cat wanna-bes like Sam—were only too ready to take on the "older and wiser" roles. But neither the Keepers nor their cats were prepared for what they found when they tried to cross from their world to the Otherside mall....
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Juvenileby Anonymous
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April 28, 2007: My best guess is that this book was aimed at early teen readers. I certainly wouldn't recommend it for adults. The plot, characters and dialog were extremely juvenile.
A Sarcastic, Funny Tour de Farceby Anonymous
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May 13, 2003: Long Hot Summoning is the 3rd in the Keeper series by Tanya Huff, but don't let that stop you from picking it up first, if you get the chance. The earlier books spend time giving you background about Keepers and exploring the relationship between Dean and Claire - but this book can give you enough to jump you into the action without losing too much.------The book opens with Diana Hansen graduating from high school and embarking on her first summons as a Keeper (a cross between a vampire hunter, a cop and a magician). Diana is your typical teenager - a smart-aleck who seeks to do anything that is abosolutely forbidden by anyone older. She realizes that her 1st summons may be a bit too big just for her (and her cat, Sam, an former angel now a sort of familiar) so she enlists her elder sister, Claire. And so, with much sisterly bickering Diana & Claire enter the world of magic which is morphing an ordinary shopping mall into a gate for evil, a sort of bizarro mall with a Tailer Shop full of various tails and a Travel Agency bringing in tour parties from Hell itself. The use of the shopping mall as the site for the action invokes a certain sense of playfulness in this book, which is expanded by the humorous asides between all the characters. ----- This a scifi book with a sense of fun and a willingness to take shots at the standard images of the genre (Arthur, king of the mall-rats, is pretty happy that he does not have that emotional baggage - Lance & Guinevere - along for this adventure; a supreme evil being who is willing to torture but is disgusted by the mention of feminine hygeine products). Yet the action is just as exciting as any other adventure book & is better written than many others. Subtract a star for an occaisional lapse into the just too cute category, sucha as Dean and his Newfie speech and the perpetually starving, sarcastic cat/angels.
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