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Long Hot Summoning: The Keeper's Chronicles #3 |  | Author: Tanya Huff
Publisher: DAW
Category: Book
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 182986
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: First Thus
Pages: 416
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0756401364
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780756401368
ASIN: 0756401364
Publication Date: May 6, 2003
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In Tanya Huff's delightful new follow-up to her acclaimed Locus bestsellers, Summon the Keeper and The Second Summoning, a force from the Otherside threatens to break through to our world and destroy the balance between Light and Darkness. Unless, of course, the Keepers Claire and Diana-two sisters who are able to reweave the possibilities of time and space-can prevent a permanent rift between worlds...at the local shopping mall.
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 Attack of the Mall Elves! October 15, 2007
'Nix Red (Places, USA)
This book is a worthy addition to the Summon the Keeper Series. If mall elves do not spark your imagination, or if sarcastic and amusing feline/sisterly/hole-to-Hell dialog doesn't make you drool, Long Hot Summoning is not for you. Go ahead and buy it: your teenage daughter will appreciate it.
The Last Hurrah in the series February 8, 2007
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1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this series (As you may have read if you checked out reviews for the first two books) but the last installment is the weakest. I miss Austin and Sam is just not as good at being a cat (albeit he does have less experience). This books focuses more on the younger keeper, Diana, which is okay but the first two book were mostly about Claire and she doesn't get enough time in this one. If the series was more than three books (and I really wish it was) then this installment would be fine, but it's the last so I wanted what I fell in love with- Claire, Austin, and Dean.
That being said this book lacks nothing in the humor and sarcastic wit of the first two. These book make me crack up again and again and I have read the series at least 4 times now. I definately reccommend if you would like a fun, hilarious trip with those who keep the rest of us from knowing just how often our world almost ends. Make sure to read the first two beofre this one!!!
Long Hot Summoning: Keeper Chronicles #3 October 4, 2005
N. C. Wall (Brevard County, Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book definitely lived up to the reputation of the first two books. It's quirky, zany and just down right funny. WARNING! Some of the gags can hit a bit later which can cause snickering at inopportune times and places! And for anyone who's wondered just what the cat's thinking behind that inscrutable stare...maybe it's best not to know. This is a must read along with the first two books.
 Pass the Basilisk April 10, 2005
Marc Ruby™ (Warren, MI USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I was rather pleased when I discovered that there had been a third volume in Tanya Huff's summoner series. While the previous volumes where fairly lightweight fare, they were a nice turn on the witch/godmother genre, updated with a lot of pleasant silliness that made the whole thing fun to read and accessible to a wide range of audience.
For those that have never read one of these tales, summoners are a class of magic worker whose purpose is to preserve the balance between the forces of light and darkness. They come in all ages and sizes, and Huff has chosen to tell the story of one family that includes summoners, friends, and cats (cats are important). Diana and Claire are the two summoners in question here, in particular Diana, who has just graduated from high school and has received her first 'summoning.'
The powers of darkness are attempting to create a doorway to our world by building a 'parallel' mall on the Otherside. Once it is brought into synch with the real mall, all hell will break loose. The task facing Clare and Diana is to deal with homeless teens turned elves, clumsy demons, Arthurian archetypes, soul sucking mummies, midget basketball players and about a hundred other equally exotic and peculiar characters. All in the effort to save the world and turn shopping back into a normal activity.
Two things disappointed in this effort. First, is the writing. Huff decided that everyone should have a story line and all the jumping between characters as the novel reaches a climax is more than a little distracting. I found that It was hard to feel involved in the story while trying to get my bearings between fragments of episodes. And the central story itself dissolves into a backdrop for a great deal of cuteness and slapstick. The problems the characters face appear, rapidly expand into insurmountable crisis and then are suddenly resolved ex machina.
My other issue has to do with making sexual orientation a plot device and then handling it so tentatively that the whole issue becomes gratuitous. Huff is so anxious to be light hearted that she turns all the relations in the book into comic stereotypes. It a book is going to work relationships have to be more than excuses for catastrophic decisions and crises that are going to dematerialize anyway. This book would have been twice as good if Diana had shown just the natural maturity of her age.
disappointing August 19, 2004
Rebecca Operhall (Southern New Mexico)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
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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