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Discover the second book in the Keeper's Chronicles, where a young woman masters of the possibilities of time and space, maintaining the balance between worlds to protect Earth. 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--a catastrophe created by the power of love--when an angel and a devil each manifested in the mortal world as fully endowed teenagers, who didn't have a clue how to handle their all-too-human bodies, raging hormones, and opposing needs to do good and evil....… (more)
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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.
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.
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.
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.