"Mindful of Geena Davis' Long Kiss Goodnight and Buffy"
Trained in the Vatican, Kate became a Level Four demon
hunter. Her kill rate one of the top until she met her
match. Kate fell in love with her slaying peer Eric who
returned her deepest feelings. They married, retired, and
relocated to San Diablo, California. A demon hunter
retiring is rare, but they do the unheard of; they even
have a child Allie. Allie is fourteen and Eric is dead while Kate has
remarried and has a terrible two Timmy that is a result of
her second marriage to attorney Stuart Connor, who is
running for a County seat. Kate is a contented suburban
soccer mom whose slayer days seem like a childhood dream.
That changes when High Demon Goramesh "the decimator"
visits her town. Now Kate is battling a demon horde that
senses she is a hunter. Goramesh knows hunters kill if
not killed. Mindful of Geena Davis' Long Kiss Goodnight and Buffy,
CARPE DEMON: ADVENTURES OF A DEMON-HUNTING SOCCER MOM is
an amusing horror romance that grips the audience once the
first demon arrives in the supermarket. Kate is a
terrific heroine who is contented with the PTA, but soon
has to use her latent skills to battle demon invaders who
assault her house and threaten her children even while her
spouse wonders what is going on. Amusing at times, Julie
Kenner provides a fun otherworldly thriller that readers
will treasure as they root for the soccer mom to defeat
the demon horde. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 24, 2005
SummaryCarpools. Crabgrass. Creatures from the depths of hell.
Suburbia has its problems too...
Lots of women put their careers aside once the kids come
along. Kate Connor, for instance, hasn't hunted a demon in
ages...
That must be why she missed the one wandering through the
pet food aisle of the San Diablo Wal-Mart. Unfortunately, he
managed to catch her attention an hour later-when he crashed
into the Connor house, intent on killing her.
Now Kate has to clean up the mess in her kitchen, dispose of
a dead demon, and pull together a dinner party that will get
her husband elected to County Attorney-all without arousing
her family's suspicion. Worse yet, it seems the dead demon
didn't come alone. He was accompanied by a High Demon named
Goramesh who, for some unknown reason, intends to kill off
the entire population of San Diablo.
It's time for Kate Connor to go back to work.
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