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Summary: probaly the best smallville book
Review: adise from the first smallville book that was based on the first
episode, this book comes in a close second as a well written book. when a famous scientist is killed in an accident, his widow and daughter decide to move to smallville to start over. they rent a farmhouse but soon discover that the house is haunted. the daughter ginger enlists the help of clark, chloe,
pete, and lana to discover what is causing the unrest in the house. the story is suspenseful and has a very good ending. of course, nancy holder wrote this book. she has written several buffy the vampire slayer books and i have always admired her work. for any true smallville fan this book is a must.
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Summary: Rotten
Review: After reading the other books in the Smallville series, I was not pleased. They are nothing like the show. But even though thats true, I decided to give Hauntings a chance, and I'm glad I did. This is the best book in the Smallville series by far, it is about a haunted farmhouse, and a Mayor's past. A good book, if anyone else has read the Smallville books and has been disappointed, hopefully you will enjoy this one.
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Summary: a good book
Review: After reading the other books in the Smallville series, I was not pleased. They are nothing like the show. But even though thats true, I decided to give Hauntings a chance, and I'm glad I did. This is the best book in the Smallville series by far, it is about a haunted farmhouse, and a Mayor's past. A good book, if anyone else has read the Smallville books and has been disappointed, hopefully you will enjoy this one.
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Summary: Meteorite Manipulated Metaphysics
Review: Ghosts are real. In Smallville, there is strange energy generated by green glowing meteorites. Enter high-energy physics and you are just asking for trouble.Nancy Holder tells a tale of a scientist renting a haunted house. Unfortunately the ghosts have gained extra strength from the presence of the Smallville meteorites. Clark Kent and friends get involved with the scientist daughter and try to solve the ghostly mystery. Along the way there are disappearances, seances, cover-ups and Clark begins to lose his powers. The ghosts and their haunting would be at home in any conventional horror tale. Good spooks and some clever plot twists make it quite good. The book's weakness is involved in adapting the ghost story to Smallville. Ms. Holder has a strange idea about man-made elements and I couldn't help thinking that the imagery was taken from the movie Madame Curie. Also, there is no real explanation as to why Clark is losing his powers or how he gets them back again. Now, in the Superman mythos, Superman is vulnerable to magic, but that was not the case here. Instead, it was just an unexplained plot device. A good ghost story (I really enjoyed the twists), but the Smallville framing just didn't work.
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Summary: Meteorite Manipulated Metaphysics
Review: Ghosts are real. In Smallville, there is strange energy generated by green glowing meteorites. Enter high-energy physics and you are just asking for trouble. Nancy Holder tells a tale of a scientist renting a haunted house. Unfortunately the ghosts have gained extra strength from the presence of the Smallville meteorites. Clark Kent and friends get involved with the scientist daughter and try to solve the ghostly mystery. Along the way there are disappearances, seances, cover-ups and Clark begins to lose his powers. The ghosts and their haunting would be at home in any conventional horror tale. Good spooks and some clever plot twists make it quite good. The book's weakness is involved in adapting the ghost story to Smallville. Ms. Holder has a strange idea about man-made elements and I couldn't help thinking that the imagery was taken from the movie Madame Curie. Also, there is no real explanation as to why Clark is losing his powers or how he gets them back again. Now, in the Superman mythos, Superman is vulnerable to magic, but that was not the case here. Instead, it was just an unexplained plot device. A good ghost story (I really enjoyed the twists), but the Smallville framing just didn't work.
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Summary: Hauntings
Review: Hauntings was a good addition to the series and one well worth reading. The only reason I did not rate it a four is because the book was slow at points and unlike the first two books in the series I felt the Lex Luthor character was not as strong in dialogue. If you've read my reviews on the first 2 books then you will realize I hammered the Clark character. The author did a much better job with Clark in this book and it was very true to the story and characters. Definitely worth reading and I would say is one step behind Dragon but better than Strange Visitors.
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Summary: Rotten
Review: I don't think this author knows anything about the characters. This book was like reading a screenplay to a corny old horror movie with the names of the Smallville characters added as an afterthought. I didn't like this book at all.
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Summary: Holder doesn't "Get" Gray Characters
Review: Nancy Holder has a real problem with "gray" characters. She didn't get Spike in her Btvs novels, and she doesn't get Lex in Smallville. I really think she would be better served sticking with series where all the characters are clearly labeled "good" or "evil". If you like Lex, you won't like this novel. In fact, if you like the "gray" morally ambiguous characters in any series, you should probably avoid any tie-in novels by Nancy Holder.
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Summary: Good Scare!
Review: Okay, this book gave me goosebumps even in the day time. Very good suspense and thrill writing! Think you'll like it too. Don't expect the same as in the TV series. That's what makes it worth reading, a different perspective by a talented author.
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Summary: Good Scare!
Review: Okay, this book gave me goosebumps even in the day time. Very good suspense and thrill writing! Think you'll like it too. Don't expect the same as in the TV series. That's what makes it worth reading, a different perspective by a talented author.
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