Keeper Chronicles - Tanya Huff

[rune]

Has anyone read this series?

So far I have read

Summon the Keeper (which I thoroughly enjoyed )
The Second Summoning (I am half way through and so far it's very good )

These books have quite a bit of dry humour included, which I kinda enjoy too.

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Can't say I have. What sort of themes and settings does this writer deal in?

 

[dwndrgn]

Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed the Keeper series. Read them all, they are very enjoyable.

 

[rune]

Can't say I have. What sort of themes and settings does this writer deal in?

Now this is a strange to describe. It's about a people who can work magic and live in our world but un-noticed. They repair magical rifts that occur and stop hell breaking free and creating havoc with peoples lives.

So far, from what I have read, they are very funny at times, as well as having a bit of excitement due to the situations the magic workers have to cope with (the Keepers as they are called)

 

[rune]

Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed the Keeper series. Read them all, they are very enjoyable.

Are there only three books in the series

 

[Devillishgirl]

I enjoyed them....my husband looked at me strangely every time I laughed out loud while reading. He should be used to that by now. As far as I know there are currently only three though I haven't yet read "Long Hot Summoning"

 

[The Master™]

Sounds like a series to be recommended... Have to get onto Amazon and have them delivered... Along with loads of others that are on the way...

I think I need to as the wife to leave, I'm gonna need some of her wardrobe (closet) space!!!

 

[rune]

I enjoyed them....my husband looked at me strangely every time I laughed out loud while reading. He should be used to that by now. As far as I know there are currently only three though I haven't yet read "Long Hot Summoning"

Ha, you do that too My hubby also gives me strange looks when I giggle at this books. The cat just cracks me up

 

[dwndrgn]

Sounds like a series to be recommended... Have to get onto Amazon and have them delivered... Along with loads of others that are on the way...

I think I need to as the wife to leave, I'm gonna need some of her wardrobe (closet) space!!!

Nah, all you need to do is ship all of your old books to me and then you'll have room

 

[rune]

Nah, all you need to do is ship all of your old books to me and then you'll have room

And drop some on my door step on the way

 

[The Master™]

Well, that isn't much good... I've got quite a library, have to take a few pictures sometime and show all the books I got...

If I gave my library to you two, what would I read??? Other than these two books...

 

[rune]

Since I started this thread I thought I should add a bit more detail about what I thought of the two books I have in the series. Just finished the 2nd today



Summon the Keeper

I though this first book was pretty good for a start of a series. There is a lot of humour included as I've mentioned, and I found the cat character, Austin, quickly became my favourite character.
There was quite a bit of magic used in the plot and was used in an entertaining, and not always predicatable way.
I enjoyed how the author approached familiar creatures (vampires and werewolves) and the Olympus Gods were a nice touch too. Despite the good humour in the plot, the tense scenes were well written and strenghtened a readers connection to the characters.

The Second Summoning

This story in the Keeper Chronicles finds Claire and Dean struggling with their relationship and dealing with an unexpected problem it causes,when and Angel is let loose (You'll have to read the book to figure out why that happened ). Then just when things can't get worse a Demon gets loose but both are opposites to each other. The angel is a young male, and the demon is a young girl, both with raging hormones.
It was hard to believe that Huff could get any more humouress in her writing, but she did in this book. Austin's dry humour is infectious and how the young angel and demon try to deal with their human bodies is hilarious. Probably one of the funniest books I have read in a long time.

 

[Devillishgirl]

I picked up the third one this weekend, Long Hot Summoning. I'm almost through it and it is just as funny as the first two...only now there are two cats to crack me up instead of just one. This one is about Diana, Claire's younger sister, who just graduated from high school. She gets her first Summons one minute after school lets out and it's a big one. A segue(where reality and the Otherside meet and reflect each other) in a mall. Diana can't do this one alone so she and Claire work on it together with a little help from some elves, magic mirrors, Arthur(yes, the Arthur, only imagine him as a teenager instead) and of course, the cats. Dean basically takes a back seat on this one because he can't enter the Otherside and Austin is blocked from going with Diana, Sam and Claire. Sam isn't as sarcastic as Austin is but he's got his own "I was an angel who turned into a cat" attitude going on. I'd definitely recommend this one if you guys liked the first two.

 

[rune]

The 3rd book sounds great, I can't wait to get my hands on it

 

[Devillishgirl]

I finished the third book yesterday and it definitely leaves things open for more. I am very much looking forward to another installment

 

[rune]

Have you read any of her other books

 

[Devillishgirl]

Not yet though they are on my list. Have you? Any recommendations?

 

[rune]

I havent read any of her other works, so don't know what they are like. I'm hoping others have so they can point me in the right direction