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Title details for Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom by J. Kenner - Available

Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom

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by J. Kenner
Laura Hicks
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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 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 dispose of a dead demon and pull together a dinner party — all without arousing her family's suspicion. Worse yet, it seems the dead demon didn't come alone. It's time for Kate Connor to go back to work.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 11, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792740803
      • File size: 298966 KB
      • Duration: 10:22:50

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Kate Connor has given up her career as a demon hunter in order to live a regular life with her husband and child. But that doesn't stop one from seeking her out, crashing through the window and dying in her kitchen on the night when her husband brings eight men home for dinner. The fantastic nature of this plot requires a reader who is soft in voice and who believes every word that comes from her mouth. Laura Hicks gives a brash interpretation and does not catch her listener. She is not imagining the incidents as they happen, so we hear the story as farce and have no sympathy for Kate or her troubles. J.P. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 23, 2005
      What would happen if Buffy the Vampire Slayer got married, moved to the suburbs and became a stay-at-home mom? She'd be a lot like Kate Connor, once a demon/vampire/zombie killer and now "a glorified chauffeur for drill-team practice and Gymboree play dates" in San Diablo, Calif., that's what. But in Kenner's sprightly, fast-paced ode to kick-ass housewives, Kate finds herself battling evil once again. First a demon tries to kill Kate while she's making rigatoni for an important dinner party that her sweet second husband, Stuart, has scheduled—at the last possible minute—to butter up potential allies in his run for county attorney. Kate dispatches the demon handily enough, but she learns that Goramesh, one of the terrible High Demons, has come to town looking for something. Where's he hiding and what does he want? Can she defeat him without exposing her past to Stuart—and without putting two-year-old Timmy in day care? Though Kenner starts off her story by dropping so many brand names the book reads like a how-to manual for product placement, she settles down to the action soon enough, and readers will find spunky Kate hard not to root for in spheres both domestic and demonic. Film rights sold to 1942 Pictures and Warner Brothers
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  • English

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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Funding for additional materials was made possible by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.