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    Long Hot Summoning
    Long Hot Summoning
    Long Hot Summoning
    Audiobook11 hours

    Long Hot Summoning

    Written by Tanya Huff

    Narrated by Amy Melissa Bentley

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    About this audiobook

    It started on the last day of high school, a day Diana Hansen had been anticipating for the last twelve years. Now, her real life could begin.

    For Diana, like her sister Claire, was a Keeper-gifted with the ability to reweave the possibilities of time and space to maintain the balance between Light and Darkness. What neither Diana nor Sam-formerly an angel, now a cat-could have anticipated was that her first Summons as an active Keeper would be to a shopping mall!

    But a quick trip to the Erlking's Emporium, a gift shop in a Kingston mall, confirmed Diana's worst suspicions. Not only was Darknesss trying to stage a takeover from the Otherside, but if Diana didn't bring in reinforcements, her first Summons might well be her last. Claire and Austin-who'd always been a cat and had little tolerance for cat wannabes like Sam-were only too ready to take on their "older and wiser" roles. But neither the Keepers nor their cats were prepared for what they found when they tried to cross from their world to the Otherside mall . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 10, 2018
    ISBN9781977382658
    Long Hot 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
      Diana gets her first summoning as soon as she steps foot off campus the day she graduates from high school. With Sam at her side, she starts investigating...the mall.
    • 5/5
      Diana gets her first summoning as soon as she steps foot off campus the day she graduates from high school. With Sam at her side, she starts investigating...the mall.
    • 3/5
      I'd been looking forward to this book--Diana grew on me during the second book. She's a pesky little sister, I have a pesky little sister, it was nice. I identify with Claire but I enjoy Diana enough that I thought the third book would be fun, and different enough from Claire's adventures that I wouldn't miss Claire and Dean. (Oh, Dean, hearts.) I thought it was nowhere near as enjoyable as the first two books in the series. It felt like Huff was trying to squish too much into this one book and in doing so the focus of the book got lost.

      This book felt rushed. It felt as if it should have been two books but they were combined so as to not abruptly lose Claire and have another main character step in and take over the series. I don't think that was necessary, because the second book managed to have both Claire and Diana working together, so it would have served as a transition. Also, the banter between Claire and Diana seemed to go too fast, and without Austin around to explain it to Dean a lot of it got lost on me, too. Like the minivan thing. Minivans are from HELL, okay, I get that, it works out in the end, but so little is done with that aside from mentioning it that it seems pointless. And considering Huff uses the Chekov joke all the time in her books I know she knows that, too, so I was expecting a way bigger payoff from that minivan she hung on the wall. I wish more had been done with the janitor because he was one creepy-ass geezer and I think there was the makings of a story in him alone.

      Here's the thing: I adore Tanya Huff's writing and her worlds. I find her repetitious use of "she is the cat's mother" to be way less annoying than, say, "he is the compass by which I steer my heart" and I've got no problem with the Chekov joke because I've made it too. That's why I like her characters so much, I think, because I'm like them, I hang out with them, I watched Buffy, too. So whoever made her do this needs to be stopped, because this book did not need all those plots. Sure, I would have missed Dean and Claire, but I would have been okay if that meant I got a good story about Diana.
    • 4/5
      It still reminds me of Good Omens - especially the Rules - but a rather different setting. Same old villain, eventually - though I guess it always is, one way or another. The mall, the mall-elves, Arthur (and I'm as relieved as he is that he seems to have shed Lancelot and Guenevere) make for some interesting sequences. The whole teenage thing makes another appearance, rather nicely done - expectations carry a lot of power on the Otherside, and it's fun watching them use and evade that. Purple hippopotami. And the dual, unrelated threat is rather neat. So what is the thing with minivans? Hmmm...and if Diana had gone in, as part of solving the problem, would she have gotten out too? Willing sacrifice has interesting implications, with that. Or does it only work with Bystanders? Questions, none of which are likely to get answered - even if there's another book. Again, fun to read.
    • 4/5
      Diana is about to get her own area as a keeper and stop living under the shadow of her sister. She never reckoned that her first summons would be to a mall. There are supernatural creatures working inside the mall who need to respect the balance of all things and it's her job to fix it, with some help from her sister.I enjoyed this one, maybe not as much as some of the rest of the series but it was quite enjoyable.
    • 5/5
      This is one of the few (although by no means only) books on my shelves with the "mall elves" tag that actually has mall elves in it. I have no idea where that trope came from, but growing up a quarter mile from a huge indoor mall, I always find it strangely comforting.

      A little less light-hearted than its predecessor, I believe the gravity counterbalances the puns nicely. And the increasingly smokin' hot romance between two characters (girls! Actual lesbian relationships! OMG!) made me happy, particularly because (spoiler!) neither of them end up dead or with a man at the end. I'll have to add it to my depressingly short list.
    • 4/5
      Yes, it has a TERRIBLE cover, but... Diana's just graduated high school, just in time for her first summoning. Unfortunately, Hell is again making its presence known, but this time it's attempting to take over the world via a shopping mall. Very funny (tongue-in-cheek) and a fast-read.Recommended!
    • 3/5
      Probably not as good as the previous two installments in the series, but still entertaining in that doesn't-take-itself-seriously sort of way; some of the themes are tired in this book, as Huff has already played with subject matter such as retired-gods-on-vacation. Still, given that it's fluff reading, with no brain required, it's generally delicious.
    • 5/5
      Third in the Keeper series, also very recommended. Mini-Vans as tangible evidence of evil?
    • 5/5
      Diana gets her first summoning as soon as she steps foot off campus the day she graduates from high school. With Sam at her side, she starts investigating...the mall.