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otherwise a whole lot less. I thought that SUMMON THE KEEPER was one of the funniest, most original books I had ever read, I enjoyed the sequel, THE SECOND SUMMONING, although, like many sequels, it was not quite as good as the first. This third entry into the series has much of the off-the-wall humor of the first two but just isn't as good as the earlier books.
The action picks up a few weeks after THE SECOND SUMMONING, Claire and Dean (and Austin) are back at the Elysian Fields Guest House while younger sister Diana is finishing her last few hours of high school. Her first summoning arrives immediately after the last bell rings and takes her to a mall. It sems as though the mundane and magical worlds are overlapping here and need to be separated. Claire also arrives at the mall, the two set out to sort out the mess, meeting King Arthur along the way. Meanwhile back at the guest house Dean and Austin are dealing with their own problems.
The action is split among the two sisters and Dean which gives the book a lot of plot to deal with, maybe too much. At times it is difficult to keep the various threads straight, particularly between Claire and Diana.
If there is another in the series I hope that it returns to the standards of the first book. It is possible that this is the end of the series, and if so it was fun while it lasted. In any case, if you have read and enjoyed the first books by all means read this one. If the series sounds interesting to you start with SUMMON THE KEEPER. I will be looking for additional books by this author either in this series or one of her others.


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Long Hot Summoning Keeper Chronicles Tanya Huff 9780756401368 Books Reviews

The third and so far last of the chronicles is a nutty, wild ride through cliche'd mayhem. Taking part largely in the "otherworld" where your thoughts can influence your surroundings, Keeper sisters Claire and Diana have to yet again save the "real" world. This time it's the darkness merging an otherworld copy of a shopping mall into an unsuspecting real one. They fight alongside street kids turned elves and their otherworld provided teenage anime version of King Arthur, and they're wielding an enchanted pepper shaker! Oh, and a sparkly pink wand of ultimate destruction! What could be more fun? Well you reading it of course!!!!!! 3
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.
otherwise a whole lot less. I thought that SUMMON THE KEEPER was one of the funniest, most original books I had ever read, I enjoyed the sequel, THE SECOND SUMMONING, although, like many sequels, it was not quite as good as the first. This third entry into the series has much of the off-the-wall humor of the first two but just isn't as good as the earlier books.
The action picks up a few weeks after THE SECOND SUMMONING, Claire and Dean (and Austin) are back at the Elysian Fields Guest House while younger sister Diana is finishing her last few hours of high school. Her first summoning arrives immediately after the last bell rings and takes her to a mall. It sems as though the mundane and magical worlds are overlapping here and need to be separated. Claire also arrives at the mall, the two set out to sort out the mess, meeting King Arthur along the way. Meanwhile back at the guest house Dean and Austin are dealing with their own problems.
The action is split among the two sisters and Dean which gives the book a lot of plot to deal with, maybe too much. At times it is difficult to keep the various threads straight, particularly between Claire and Diana.
If there is another in the series I hope that it returns to the standards of the first book. It is possible that this is the end of the series, and if so it was fun while it lasted. In any case, if you have read and enjoyed the first books by all means read this one. If the series sounds interesting to you start with SUMMON THE KEEPER. I will be looking for additional books by this author either in this series or one of her others.