A vampire shows up, feints at seducing the Newfie, and then leaves without having any effect on the plot. Since there is really no way to fill 300 pages with that, other stuff happens. Also, in this universe, Newfoundland is indistinguishable from a Dickens novel. Betty is a really stupid Newfoundlander who resents stereotypes about stupid Newfoundlanders and has basically dedicated his life too cooking, cleaning, and (apparently, although this is not stated in the text) working eight hours per day. Veronica is played by a ghost who is mean to be Quebecois, but acts like a broad caricature of a Frenchman and who evidently died before the invention of the concept of sexual harassment was invented. The protagonist has an incredibly painful Betty and Veronica thing going on.
She does, to her credit, take some steps towards doing this, but they are mostly off screen, and take up a very small fraction of the book.įor the rest of the book, stuff happens. The protagonist is hoodwinked into taking care of a B&B with a portal to hell in the basement which, as a vaguely magical Keeper, it is her job to close, or monitor or something.
I was thinking of picking up one of her military science fiction works, but Summon the Keeper seemed like a good pick for Halloween. Nerd that I am, I actually went to the trouble of writing a shell script to select an author randomly, and wound up with Tanya Huff. For October's WOGF review, I decided to get my random read out of the way.
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