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Fantasy. Fiction. Literature. 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 . . .… (more)
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Very funny (tongue-in-cheek) and a fast-read.
Recommended!
A little less light-hearted
I enjoyed this one, maybe not as much as some of the rest of the series but it was quite enjoyable.
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.