The Second Summoning (The Keeper's Chronicles #2) by Tanya Huff

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The Barnes & Noble Review
In this second installment of Tanya Huff's Keeper's Chronicles, the pages are ripe with sexual innuendo, and the fast-paced humor will surely have you laughing out loud. I really enjoyed the exploits of poor Samuel, the lost angel who is completely confused by his unexpected male equipment. (Angels are not supposed to have gender.) His lines are without doubt the best in the book. His counterpart, the demon Byleth, is also extremely funny, as she tries to deal with well-intentioned strangers being genuinely nice to her.

Readers familiar with Huff's Summon the Keeper will find this novel a worthy successor and will undoubtedly enjoy the developments between Claire and her handsome young Bystander, Dean. Claire is a Keeper, someone who "maintains the structural integrity of the barrier between the world as most people know it and the metaphysical energy all around it." It's not an easy job -- with an angel and a demon to mess things up. (Corrina Allen)

From the Publisher

In this sequel to Summon the Keeper (a #5 Locus bestseller), Tanya Huff returns to her inspired occult world of dark souls, spirits of light, and one opinionated talking cat...

Whether it's a blessing or curse, Claire Hansen's gift for reweaving time and space must be used to maintain the balance between Light and Darkness.But when an angel and a devil take human form-raging hormonal, teenaged form-it's up to Claire to keep all hell and heaven from busting loose.

VOYA

Once one gets used to the fact that one of Huff's goals apparently is to bewilder, it actually becomes enjoyable to be bewildered. Perhaps this enjoyment is more because Huff's wit and satire are so outrageously funny that one wants to keep reading even with no idea what is going on. For anyone who read the first book, The Second Summoning provides the thoroughly enjoyable opportunity to spend more time with Huff's delightful duo, Claire and her faithful cat-sidekick, Austin. Although the plot is not readily evident for quite a way into the novel, when it does appear, it is just unbelievable enough to swallow and laugh at simultaneously. VOYA CODES:4Q 4P J S A/YA (Better than most, marred only by occasional lapses;Broad general YA appeal;Junior High, defined as grades 7 to 9;Senior High, defined as grades 10 to 12;Adult and Young Adult). 2001, DAW, 416p, $6.99 pb. Ages 12 to Adult. Reviewer:Thomas Flowers, Teen Reviewer—VOYA, December 2001 (Vol. 24, No. 5)

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