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Claire Hansen, the Keeper, is summoned to the Elysian Fields Guest House to reseal a hole in the basement, which is literally an opening to Hell. The owner and monitor of the site disappears, leaving Claire stuck managing the place until the problem is solved. Her new employee, Dean McIssac, is a gorgeous Newfie who cooks, cleans, and lives the Boy Scout oath. Then there's Jacques Labaet: very French Canadian, very sexy, very dead. Jacques is a ghost who wants to be the man in Claire's life. Oh yeah, and there's Austin, a talking cat with attitude: "I barely know you, but I'm assuming you're human. I'm not saying this is a good thing, it's just the way it is."
Huff keeps the plot moving and the quips coming to the very end. Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series will find this novel light but refreshing. --Nona Vero
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Compares to best-selling fantasy authors Mercedes lackey and Charles deLint Tanya Huff's DAW books were chosen by the New York Public Library system as part of their Books for Teens program!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Tanya Huff is without equal,
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This review is from: Summon The Keeper (Mass Market Paperback)
I have decided after reading most of Tanya Huff's books, and with the rest on order, if I could chose a metaphysical home, I would like to take residence within Tanya Huff's imagination. Any book where Hell gets the best lines, and a last word that left me howling with laughter, is worth reading. But this story, like everything she writes, is impossible to duplicate. Even within her own books, no two series are similar. Except for the high quality of writing, it would be difficult to guess the person who writes the Valor Series and the Blood Ties / Smoke series is the same writer who created the Summoning books. The Enchanted Emporium comes closest but it is different again. There are many very fine writers of fantasy publishing today but I still feel spending eternity hanging out in Tanya's head would be endless fun. Since I can't, reading the books is the next best thing.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you read one...you'll have to buy the series,
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This review is from: Summon The Keeper (Mass Market Paperback)
Ok, I'm going to write a short summary of this book...but there is one thing you need to know BEFORE you read the summary: this is one of the funnier books I have read in years. Keep that in mind...Claire is a Keeper, one of the few of the lineage strong enough to help maintain the balance of good and evil in the world. She follows Summonses to "accident sites" and then she uses her powers to repair the sites. She follows a Summons to the Elysian Fields Guest House and finds it is or rather was run by a Cousin, a less powerful person of the lineage. The Cousin takes a hike leaving Claire to mind...well...A portal to Hell in the basement, a sleeping corrupted Keeper, and a randy ghost of a sailor. But Keepers are only supposed to be tied to one sight when they get OLD, and Claire is far from that. Throw in one of the most realistic anthropomorphic cats (read sarcastic in the extreme) and one hunky maintenance man and a meddling younger sister (who is too powerful for her own good) and you know all Hell will break lose (sorry). Huff's vampire detective series is great, but these are laugh out loud funny. So far there are three (Second Summoning and Long Hot Summoning follow this) and we can only hope for more. Give em a try...Second Summoning is my favorite (but best to read them in order)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Light, Festive Fantasy,
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This review is from: Summon The Keeper (Mass Market Paperback)
This isn't a Cat Book.I think cats are fine, but I'm a dog person (you really have to be one or the other, it's like politics) and was wary of Ms Huff's opus due to both the large cat on the cover, and large blurb on the back featuring the cat. But, I repeat, it isn't a cat book (I guess they thought that was their marketing hook). This is a fun, frothy fantasy, very light in tone (despite the presence of Hell in the basement), somewhat akin to Piers Anthony in his more tolerable incarnations. It's angst-free urban fantasy--the plot is essentially episodic, as new interesting guests arrive at the hotel--and one can imagine it being a Warner Brothers TV hit, a neat cross between Faulty Towers and Bewitched, without becoming too "twee." If you want something a little more psychological dense, or consciously literate, Charles de Lint may be more your style. But if you're in the mood to be playful, give Huff a chance to win you over. Note: a 3 star ranking from me means a pleasant enough read; 4 stars indicate a very enjoyable work; but I'll only give 5 stars to books that are or ought to be classic; sadly, most books published seem to warrant 2 or less ... I try not to read those.
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