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jazzy_daveChristopher Golden "The Lost Slayer - Prophecies" (Simon Spotlight Entertainment)
The first in a quadrilogy entitled "The Lost Slayer" begins like your average Buffy plot: new Big Bad shows up in town with freaky acolytes and tries to take on the Slayer. Giles even gets knocked out! But then, in the last chapter the story turns incredibly interesting. I won't spoil it for you, but it's incredibly tantalising. And nearly impossible to have portrayed on the small screen.
A big complaint I've had with several of the Buffy novels is that it's either a novelization of an actual episode with just a little extra thrown in (deleted scenes, if you will) or that it could've been an episode but didn't make the cut, for obvious reasons. But this, this is something different, and I'm very interested as to how it plays out. It's also gratifying that Golden writes these characters so well. You can almost hear the actors voicing the dialogue. I am already half way through the second book "Dark Times".
The first in a quadrilogy entitled "The Lost Slayer" begins like your average Buffy plot: new Big Bad shows up in town with freaky acolytes and tries to take on the Slayer. Giles even gets knocked out! But then, in the last chapter the story turns incredibly interesting. I won't spoil it for you, but it's incredibly tantalising. And nearly impossible to have portrayed on the small screen.
A big complaint I've had with several of the Buffy novels is that it's either a novelization of an actual episode with just a little extra thrown in (deleted scenes, if you will) or that it could've been an episode but didn't make the cut, for obvious reasons. But this, this is something different, and I'm very interested as to how it plays out. It's also gratifying that Golden writes these characters so well. You can almost hear the actors voicing the dialogue. I am already half way through the second book "Dark Times".
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