The Summoned (Angel) [Mass Market Paperback]

Cameron Dokey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2001 | Series: Angel (Book 10)

A new supernatural challenge on the streets of Los Angeles for Angel - the vampire with a soul. Everyday life has its pitfalls when you're a half-demon plagued by visions. Doyle is in the supermarket when the latest vision hits him, but as usual it reveals only a handful of clues. Fear. Fire. Death...and an ornately engraved amulet. When Doyle regains his senses he finds he is being tended by Terri Miller, a shy girl from a small town who is newly arrived in LA and feeling overwhelmed by the big city. But no sooner has Doyle thanked and left her than she is befriended by a stranger, a charismatic young man who invites her to meet his companions at a club to which they belong. Meanwhile Angel Investigations are on the trail of a savage killer. Before long they discover the victims share something in common: several have connections to Terri's newfound friends. Then Cordelia finds herself in possession of a mysterious amulet that somehow looks awfully familiar...

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About the Author

Cameron Dokey is the author of nearly thirty teen novels.  She lives in Seattle, Washington.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment (December 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743407008
• ISBN-13: 978-0743407007
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,280,376 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bad Deal with a Hot Demon, December 11, 2001

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Marc Ruby™ "The Noh Hare™" (Warren, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Summoned (Angel) (Mass Market Paperback)

Just in time to cure Buffy-verse withdrawal, a new Angel story has arrived. Cameron Dokey, who is a prolific author with several Buffy tales, has managed to find another twist on Angel's find demon/kill demon plot line. This time Doyle gets a staring, if somewhat embarrassing, part and we find that Angel's half demon assistant is much more than the frequent victim of Cordelia's acid tongue.

Doyle has a major vision in the middle of his nightly beer run. One that starts out inside the head of a woman who is being burnt to a crisp and ends up with an image of a mysterious spinning coin. Badly shaken up, he is aided by Terri Miller a young woman who is trying to live in Los Angeles. In short order Doyle has offended Terri and run out trying to find Angel. Upset by Doyle and her own poor luck Terri leaves the store to encounter Andy, a young man who seems to have everything figured out. No surprise, Andy offers to help Terri out, getting the major subplot underway.

When Doyle reaches Angel, they are puzzled by the parameters of a vision that offers so little help. They already know they have a problem with something that likes to burn people up, since the police are desperately trying to find a serial killer that everyone is calling the Krispy Kritter. But when they get to the site of that night's Kritter killing they find no new evidence. While Detective Kate Lockley is not assigned to this case, Angel notices that she is haunting the scene.

Kate is involved because a close friend, Dierdre Arensen, has lost her father to the Kritter. Dierdre is so frustrated with the LAPD's lack of progress that Kate finally decides to take the psychologist to see Angel. In the meantime Terri is inducted in the Illuminati, moves in next to Cordelia and literally drops one of the mysterious coins in Cordelia's lap. By the time Dierdre is explaining to Angel that she believes her father was killed by a cult, he already knows that he is chasing Feutoch, a demon who makes a practice of offering to fulfill wishes in return for souls to toast. The coin is the mark whereby the demon finds his victims. Their only hope for information is Terri, who Doyle is assigned to follow and befriend. This turns out to be an assignment that is seriously beyond Doyle's somewhat primitive social skills.

The rest of the novel is predictable, if well told. The painfully inept Doyle manages to avoid being totally comic, and the overall result is entertaining. Dokey has a somewhat hardboiled style which is a bit alarming at first, but then becomes quite refreshing. I have to confess that I am getting a bit tired of 'early' Angel novels. It is getting harder and harder to accept stories that are years behind the show. It would be nice if Twentieth Century Fox would open up a little bit and allow the stories to be more contemporary. Otherwise we are stuck with well-written, new old fiction. Which eventually wears thin.

3.0 out of 5 stars Super Reader, August 6, 2007

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Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Summoned (Angel) (Mass Market Paperback)

A fire demon starts a cult to do his dirty work for him, he gives people what they want, but forces them to choose a mark for him to take the life of.

Doyle literally runs into a girl that is involved, and a vision has shown him more. A friend of Detective Kate Lockely is trying on the investigation thing to hide her involvement.

Fun scene at the end, with Angel Investigations and a bunch of fire extinguishers directed demonside : "Now I know what a Ghostbuster feels like," Cordelia said.

4.0 out of 5 stars one of the best, July 12, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Summoned (Angel) (Mass Market Paperback)

this book is really good .it explains what l.a. is like to people who have never been there. it tellls you to not get in a cult or something you don't know about very well.