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Summary: A very enjoyable book
Review: I love Tanya Huff's Keeper books. They are among my favorites of her books. This one was just as good as the other two. I especially liked the scenes with the egyptian gods and the mummy. I cannot wait for the next book in this series.
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Summary: Disappointing.. definitely disappointing
Review: I loved the first 2 books. I loved only part of one sub-plot of this book- Dean, Austin and the mummy, and that isn't enough to love the whole book. Claire's ok in parts, but I didn't really see why she had to do the beach thing and the Egyptian otherworld thing. Lance was over-done and I didn't catch the Australian jokes.I didn't mind the lesbian thingy - at least I understood that part. Most of the time I just couldn't figure out what was going on, especially since Sam and Austin were separated from Claire and Diana so there were 5 threads to follow, none of which seemed to converge much. Things made a twisted kind of sense in the 1st 2 books, maybe because the plots were simpler. Some of those rules are also found in this book, but somehow I couldn't follow out how the mall(s) worked in this story. And while it's Diana's story, she doesn't come across as the heroine. I was hoping that Diana would find her feet as a keeper. She still comes across as a nasty immature and (sigh) impotent person. I need heroines I can like. Ms Huff is definitely capable of better. I'd buy the next book in the series if it's about Claire. Even if it's a better Diana in a sequel, I shudder to think of wading through all that teen-speak. It's hard enough to follow as it is, and it'll only become dated.
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Summary: Excellent series.
Review: I've read all three books in this series and I hope you are reading this Tanya please, please, write another for this series. Claire, Diana, Dean, and the cats Austin and Sam, Iloved all of them. The humor and sarcasm and action are timed perfectly for this book, and her earlier ones. I would also like her to bring some these characters back. So please Tanya write another book for this series. This series I recommend you will enjoy it.
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Summary: disappointing
Review: if there were the option, I'd probably rate this 2 and a half... Huff is an enjoyable writer, and she could have done better. There was nothing new -- including the novel's resolution -- brought out for this third Keeper go-round. At this point, I'd rather she saved her energies for her less lackluster series.
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Summary: Good from an Old Friend!
Review: If you enjoy "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", esp. the humor, then you will enjoy this book. The plot lines are just as silly, but the characters and wit keeps you going. I knew Tanya back in the late 1970's - She was dating the brother of my girlfiend of the time... We all lived in seperate apartments in a three story off of Bloor Street in DownTown TO. She was a struggling author then... Imagine my surpise when walking through B&N a few days ago to see her Name on a book, with an inside cover inidicating she'd written _Seventeen_ novels for DAW publishing alone. Good for her. Anyways, I bought the book, read it, enjoyed it. Hope you do too.
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Summary: Little sister?
Review: In this third installment of the Keeper's Chronicles, the story focuses on the newest and strongest Keeper, Diana, Claire's little sis. Although the story drags a bit and the plot is a little corney, the story still contains the dry sense of humor that is well known to this series. What really keeps the story going is Austin, the cat. His charater is a trip. Basically, Diana get's her first summons one minute after finishing high school and is sent to the local mall in Claire's town. So why didn't Claire get the summoning? Apparently because there was need for the strongest Keeper (which would now be Diana--since she is the youngest). Diana does ask for Claire's help and what they find in the Otherside are elves, Arthur, and shadow monsters. Not to mention a dirty old man. Oh, and Diana falls in love.
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Summary: delightful and charming urban fantasy
Review: Keepers are those of the Lineage who maintain the metaphysical balance of the world. Now that Diana Hansen has graduated high school she is no longer kept in reserve but is a full-fledged Keeper. She notices a bracelet a student is wearing is tainted by evil and learns that it was bought at a store in the Kingston, Ontario Mall. Realizing that the forces of darkness have almost taken over the mall, Diane gets her sister Claire, powerful in her own right, to help her in her first Summoning. They cross over from the mall to the Otherside where an identical mall is segueing into the one on the mortal plane. There they find allies in Arthur and his elves (street children who have found their way into the Otherside and have changed into another life form). There they prepare to do battle with the evil being known as the Shadowlord, a fight they must win if Earth is to survive. LONG HOT SUMMONING is a delightful and charming urban fantasy that is both funny and exciting. The plot is so fast-paced that readers find a need to see what happens next. The secondary cast is whimsical creatures that include a magic mirror and a cat that used to be an angel. They play a small but pivotal role in the story line, leaving readers feeling as if they were participants in an adult fairy tale. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: A LULL IN THE SERIES
Review: LONG HOT SUMMONING is # 3 in the Keeper's Chronicles series and while I won't go so far as to say it is a letdown it certainly doesn't have the same oomph as the first two. The humor is still there, but it just doesn't have the same bite or spontaneity we found in its predecessors. The characters seem to be taking a bit of a sabbatical here unlike SUMMON THE KEEPER and especially THE SECOND SUMMONING. The story focuses more on Diana, now a full fledged Keeper and on her first real assignment, and while she plays well as supporting foil for her sister Claire she doesn't have the interesting character quirks needed as the main protagonist. Sure she's a bundle of unpredictable hormonal insanity, but she's a teenager, that's not fiction that's real life! Her budding romance with a mall elf comes off more as teenage lust and experimentation than the love/fear/lust/need/lust/companionship/lust...well you get the picture, relationship that has developed between Dean and Claire. Also Diana's angel turned cat Sam just doesn't have the same cat-like qualities that dear old Austin has, nor does he have his razor sharp sense of humor. I was also disappointed to find that Hell, one of the funniest characters ever created, has only a cameo role and just isn't his old schizoid self. However it's not bad and there are some really interesting parts although one of the best is really a subplot centering around the male bonding between Dean and Austin, ok a neuter/wuss bonding, but it's good none the less. We even get to see Dean move past his boy toy/Felix Unger persona into a true support base for his Keeper mate. The gender role reversal that so helped the romance/friction of the first two volumes is still there and doesn't seem to be adversely impacted by this change. Good but not great, still I RECOMMEND it and will be looking forward to future episodes.
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Summary: A LULL IN THE SERIES
Review: LONG HOT SUMMONING is # 3 in the Keeper's Chronicles series and while I won't go so far as to say it is a letdown it certainly doesn't have the same oomph as the first two. The humor is still there, but it just doesn't have the same bite or spontaneity we found in its predecessors. The characters seem to be taking a bit of a sabbatical here unlike SUMMON THE KEEPER and especially THE SECOND SUMMONING. The story focuses more on Diana, now a full fledged Keeper and on her first real assignment, and while she plays well as supporting foil for her sister Claire she doesn't have the interesting character quirks needed as the main protagonist. Sure she's a bundle of unpredictable hormonal insanity, but she's a teenager, that's not fiction that's real life! Her budding romance with a mall elf comes off more as teenage lust and experimentation than the love/fear/lust/need/lust/companionship/lust...well you get the picture, relationship that has developed between Dean and Claire. Also Diana's angel turned cat Sam just doesn't have the same cat-like qualities that dear old Austin has, nor does he have his razor sharp sense of humor. I was also disappointed to find that Hell, one of the funniest characters ever created, has only a cameo role and just isn't his old schizoid self. However it's not bad and there are some really interesting parts although one of the best is really a subplot centering around the male bonding between Dean and Austin, ok a neuter/wuss bonding, but it's good none the less. We even get to see Dean move past his boy toy/Felix Unger persona into a true support base for his Keeper mate. The gender role reversal that so helped the romance/friction of the first two volumes is still there and doesn't seem to be adversely impacted by this change. Good but not great, still I RECOMMEND it and will be looking forward to future episodes.
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Summary: Interesting, but not as good as 2nd Summoning
Review: Most of this story deals with the adventures of the younger sister from the first two "Summon" novels. Diverting, but the dialog is somewhat predictable and shallow, compared to the first two. I think if she writes a 4th "Summon" novel, this will improve.
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