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    The Second Summoning
    The Second Summoning
    The Second Summoning
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Second Summoning

    Written by Tanya Huff

    Narrated by Amy Melissa Bentley

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    About this audiobook

    Claire Hansen was a Keeper, gifted-or cursed-with the job of being one of Earth's Guardians, "Summoned" to areas where anomalies existed, where rifts had opened-or had been opened. Such places were the world's danger spots where, if they weren't sealed in time, all the minions of Hell might break through.

    After she'd closed the portal into Hell at the Elysian Fields Guest House, Claire and her talking cat, Austin, found they'd acquired a new companion-Dean. Though Dean was a Bystander and shouldn't have been allowed to even remember Keepers existed, somehow in the course of their mutual ordeal at the Elysian Fields, he'd become an indispensable part of Claire's life. She knew she should change his memories and force him to leave her. Any other course was bound to lead to disaster. But as it turned out, it was already too late, for without Dean around Claire could easily become a danger to herself and the very fabric of space and time.

    Yet with Dean around-and a little of her sister Diana's meddling thrown in-the world was headed straight for Chaos.

    And Claire was about to face a challenge beyond her wildest imagining . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 12, 2018
    ISBN9781977382641
    The Second Summoning
    Author

    Tanya Huff

    Tanya Huff lives in rural Ontario with her wife Fiona Patton, five cats, and an increasing number of fish. Her 32 novels and 83 short stories include horror, heroic fantasy, urban fantasy, comedy, and space opera. Her BLOOD series was turned into the 22-episode Blood Ties and writing episode nine allowed her to finally use her degree in Radio & Television Arts. Many of her short stories are available as eCollections. She’s on Twitter at @TanyaHuff and Facebook as Tanya Huff. She has never used her Instagram account and isn’t sure why she has it.

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    • 5/5
      I love this one. Very, very funny.A slightly confused angel just got off a bus in Toronto:"Greenstreet Mission. We're doing a Christmas dinner. You can get a meal and hear the word of God."Samuel smiled in relief. This, finally, he understood. "Which word?""What?""Well, God's said a lot of words, you know, and a word like it or the wouldn't be worth hearing again but it's always fun listening to Him try to say aluminium."
    • 4/5
      An angel and a devil are accidentally created, and while Diana manages to deal with the angel, the devil wreaks havoc everywhere she goes.
    • 4/5
      An angel and a devil are accidentally created, and while Diana manages to deal with the angel, the devil wreaks havoc everywhere she goes.
    • 4/5
      I didn't like this as much as the first book. Parts of it felt like set up for book 3, which I knew was about Diana but now assume will be about Diana and her cat. As always, the sibling rivalry and affection cracks me up. It's realistic, reminds me of me and my sister. Austin remains fantastic--catlike in his demands for food and bathroom breaks yet also wise enough to play his role as advisor.

      Dean was absolutely fantastic and so very Dean in this book. He and Claire finally had sex, and it created a wave of positive energy that apparently every Keeper around could feel. Bad enough Dean is now mortified. Then the positive energy hits a spell cast by Diana intended to magnify positive feelings, hits a young girl dreaming for an angel, and, bam, angel. Here's where I really like the way Huff builds her universe: the angel was formed by the beliefs of those who were there during its forming. This means he's all-knowing, hot, and teenaged. He's seen by the father of the girl who created him, dad assumes he's a bad boy out to fornicate with his daughter, and all of a sudden we have a teenaged angel with genitalia and all the accompanying hormones.

      Nearby there's a hole and in it evil is trying to get through. As the angel moves and grows, so does the demon. Unfortunately the demon is just as trapped by the expectations as the angel and she turns out to be a cranky teenaged girl. Honestly, I found her attempts at being evil to be far more entertaining and realistic than I found the angel's attempts to deal with hard-ons. She was such a teenager, trying to snarl and getting all pissed off when the adults around her thought it was cute.

      The ending circled back to somewhere I wasn't sure we needed to go, and had a save-the-day aspect that has made me wonder about a lot of things, especially Austin.
    • 3/5
      I didn't like this one as much as liked the first book, Summon the keeper. Perhaps it lost its originality, but I also thought it was a bit more contrived. Still, it was funny and entertaining.
    • 4/5
      Weird and wonderful. This series reminds me strongly of Good Omens - not quite the same flavor, but close. They could be the same universe, from very different viewpoints. It's particularly strong with this book, as we're dealing with an angel (in the form of a teenage boy) and a devil (in the form of a teenage girl). Lots and lots of hormones, sex, sexual tension (nothing explicit, that's not the style), and confusion (note the "teenage" part). I really like several of the devil's interactions - she has a really hard time handling decent people, and she keeps finding them. Back to Kingston and the sealed hole...and some really interesting events, of various sorts. And a happy ending - more or less. I do like Sam the cat, much better than before, even if he's still figuring a lot of stuff out. Fun. Not deep, but fun.
    • 4/5
      I scared the cats by laughing too hard several times while reading this. The idea of an angel and a demon taking flesh on Earth as hormonal teenagers during Christmastime leaves plenty of openings for hilarity, and I don't believe Huff missed a single one.
    • 5/5
      Dean is now traveling with Austin and Claire - at least until Claire makes him leave, that is. Fortunately for Dean, Claire needs his calming influence to do her job. Unfortunately for everyone else, their reconciliation creates a magical surge which manifests as an angel in a teenage boy's body, which in turn causes the creation of a demon in a teenage girl's body. Now it's up to Claire to save the day, and up to her teenage sister Diana to save the day from Claire...This was very funny - I especially loved how the angel's and demon's human forms and emotions kept interfering with their higher/lower missions!Recommended.
    • 4/5
      This book is not as good as the first book, but still very well written. In this story, Claire and Dean get to be a couple, but when little sister Diana's happy generator gets generates a little too much energy, its up to Claire to fix the problem, try to keep Dean out of harms way, and keep the cat happy.There is not a lot of of depth in this novel. All the characters seem to be made of the same snarky mold, with a few exceptions thrown in. It can be hard to follow a conversation. Hell this time around is just not as cool, although the demon is quite awesome. Its a good addition to the series, but not anything great.
    • 4/5
      The Second Summoning picks up where Summon the Keeper left off. Claire and Dean are travelling around taking care of various sites. Although, they've acknowledged the attraction between them, they still haven't taken their relationship to the next level. Claire's sister Diana is on hand to create some mayhem that the whole group must take care of.This second installment wasn't as compelling as the first. A lot of time was spent on would they are wouldn't they, and then a lot of time was spent with secondary characters. In this sense the story was more scattered. Ms. Huff does a good job of pulling it all together in the end and resolving everything. It's just that none of the characters seemed to get enough development to make them as interesting as the first book.
    • 5/5
      Sequel to Summon the Keeper and recommended
    • 4/5
      An angel and a devil are accidentally created, and while Diana manages to deal with the angel, the devil wreaks havoc everywhere she goes.