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Title: Prophecies : Lost Slayer Serial novel Part 1 by Christopher Golden ISBN: 0-7434-1185-4 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $2.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (21 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: *~* Great Book *~* Slow Start *~* Bad Finish *~*
Comment: This book got off to a slow start, when I started to read it my only motivation to actually finish the book was "common, common, you bought all 4 of these books don't just let them go to waste." But they didn't go to waste. They were great! Throughout the middle of the book you capture Buffy and Willows thoughts. Its just too great! But my only problem with this book is at the end - it leaves you hanging like "what? what happens next?" but the book is finished. I guess this is just a cheap way to get you to read THREE other books and pay too much money for a series! I reccomend that you buy the big book with all 4 books in one. Its cheaper and not such a waste. But I do reccomend this book for a true Buffy fan. But definetly not for someone who just started watching Buffy as it can get a little confusing.
Rating: 5
Summary: Well Written Story and Worth the Read
Comment: This is an amazing tale. My first Buffy book was 'The Book of Fours' by Nancy Holder. It was ok, but it wasn't until I read 'Sins of the Father' by Chris Golden that I decided to continue reading Buffy books. I looked for another book written by him and found a complete gem in then 'The Lost Slayer' series. This is an incredibly great set up for a four part series. Chris Golden knows the Buffy characters so well, that it's a shame he never wrote an episode. Whenever I read one of his books, I envision it being a movie and this one is no exception. It is wonderfully thought out and well written.
The care for the characters and the story are evident and is a must read for any fan of Buffy novels. I suggest buying it one book at a time instead of the new novel that came out with all four installments together. It adds to the suspense not being able to read the next chapter right away. The bonus being that you get to enjoy the novel in the way the author intended.
Rating: 3
Summary: A Rather Slow Start to a Promising Series
Comment: "The Lost Slayer: Prophecies" is part one of a four-part series by long time Buffy-writer Christopher Golden, set at the beginning of season four as the gang settles into college. Or at least Buffy Summers, the Vampire Slayer, is trying to settle into college - after three disasterous years at Sunnydale High, she's determined to juggle her responsibilities as the Slayer and the daily life of Buffy Summers perfectly. But raising such standards upon herself can only end in tears as her stress level rises what with angry lecturers, late assignments, nightly vampire patrols and added tension between herself and best friend Willow Rosenburg.
But things really begin to get complicated when two new forces present themselves: a highly organised group of vampires that seem to suck not just blood, but energy from their prey, and the spirit of a past Slayer - the legendary Lucy Hanover, a Slayer of the 1800's. From Lucy comes a message from an otherworldly Prophet: that a great evil is one its way due to a mistake that Buffy herself has made; and from the bat-tattooed vampires comes a link to the Mayan bat-god Camazotz.
But things go from bad to worse when a stake-out at the habormaster's office turns sour, and the gang summon the Prophet to gain more information. But with this action, Buffy is catapulted forward in time, from a nineteen year old to a twenty-five year old, in an entirely new world from what she has ever known...
And there is ends. As one might expect, it finishes right when it begins to get exciting, and the frustration begins when you realise you're going to have to track down three more books in order to finish the story. For this reason, I strongly suggest getting hold of the four-book set published in one volumne to eliminate this problem. By itself, "Prophesies" is a promising, but rather slow start. Though the main components of the new sect of vampires, the spirit visits and the comparison between Buffy-the-Slayer and Buffy-the-Person are interesting, the continual fight and research scenes between them are a little sluggish. The "fight" between Buffy and Willow seems rather forced, but I enjoyed the role of Lucy Hanover - a character never seen in the television series, but who appears regularly in novelisations: (see "The Gatehouse Keeper trilogy" and "Immortal") The Slayer past that she represents is fascinating, as well as virtually unknown - because of this it is one of the open avenues that writers can explore more freely in the books.
The problems with novelisations based on existing material is that the author can't really extend the situations and the characters at the risk of contradicting past or future episodes on T.V. For that reason all the Buffy books seem to exist in a static world all of their own - you know before you start reading that none of the main characters are going to perish, and that the author has to get the all situations back to how it started in order to remain within the context of the T.V. series.
But all in all, it is a quick, entertaining read. All the characters are true to their portrayal in the television series, and readers will always enjoy the cute little references to things like Amy the rat and Olivia's plane-visits. Though it takes a while getting there, it sets up an interesting enough premise to make you head for the next installment: "Dark Times".
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Title: King of the Dead : Lost Slayer Serial Novel part 3 by Christopher Golden ISBN: 0743411870 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $2.99 |
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Title: Original Sins : Lost Slayer Serial Novel part 4 by Christopher Golden ISBN: 0743411889 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $2.99 |
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Title: Unseen: The Burning (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, 1) by Nancy Holder, Jeff Mariotte ISBN: 074341893X Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Door to Alternity by Nancy Holder, Jeff Mariotte ISBN: 0743418948 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Long Way Home : Long Way Home by Nancy Holder, Jeff Mariotte ISBN: 0743418956 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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