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Summary: A decent Buffy novel...
Review: This is an original novel based on the WB show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This was my first time to read a Buffy novel by this author, and I was impressed with his writing style and content. Although I wasn't as impressed with the characters' voices, I thought he did a good job overall.The plot revolves around a Hindu statuette that, with the proper preparation, will lead to mass destruction (always a key of the Buffy stories). Buffy and the Scooby gang are charged with locating and destroying the statuette before the demon is released. As if this wasn't enough, small monsters called the Rakshasa are causing inexplicable feuds between bestfriends, husbands and wives and parents and children. Often, the feuds lead to murder, where the Rakshasa "mysteriously" appear and devour the murderer. The book I absolutely love the adult series of the Buffy original novels and can't wait to read another Buffy book by Gharton!
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Summary: A Mediocre Buffy Adaptation
Review: This novel from the superb TV series has Buffy and the Scoobies battling demons called rakshasas, taken from Hindu mythology, who can turn friends violently against each other and are trying to do the same to the Scooby Gang. It's a good idea, but the exploration of it here isn't compelling. My main problem is exactly what the last reviewer complained of: Garton doesn't seem to have a real command of the show and its characters. The behavior and dialogue just aren't quite right. You could explain that as the effects of the rakshasa magic, but Garton lets slip a few times that he doesn't know enough about Sunnydale. Willow describes a new Sunnydale High guidance counselor created for this story, Ms Daruwalla, as the first real person hired by Sunnydale High since Rupert Giles - ignoring her close friendship with Jenny Calendar. At another point, Willow say she doesn't know anybody who's ever been transformed into an animal, ignoring the transformation of Buffy into a mouse and Xander into a jackal (or was it hyena?). And although the story takes place at a time when Faith is in town, she is never mentioned in the book. Granted, these little mistakes are only going to upset obsessive Buffy fans like yours truly, but isn't that pretty much the target audience for these books? I really can't see many of them being sold to or read by people who haven't seen the series. The plot does have some nice twists, and the sections where Buffy is playing detective, trying to track down the source and nature of the latest evil, are pretty good. But overall, I didn't think this one had enough bite.
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Summary: Very exciting.. thriller on the edge of your seat!
Review: This was a very well written book! Iliked how Garton explained& described everything so well! I think it had a very goodplot.. and seemed like it would be a nice Buffy episode. I iwsh they would convert the books into epsiodes.. especially the Gatekeeper books which i reccomend! But... this is a very good book and i recommend anyone thats a fan of Buffy to read it.
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Summary: Very exciting.. thriller on the edge of your seat!
Review: This was a very well written book! Iliked how Garton explained& described everything so well! I think it had a very goodplot.. and seemed like it would be a nice Buffy episode. I iwsh they would convert the books into epsiodes.. especially the Gatekeeper books which i reccomend! But... this is a very good book and i recommend anyone thats a fan of Buffy to read it.
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Summary: OK story but characterization off
Review: This was an interesting story, and I always enjoy the inclusion of Ethan Rayne, but as with some of the other more recent books in this line, this author was really off the mark on the characters. Buffy lacked fire, Giles often came across as childish, and Angel was - very simply - an afterthought. This book was probably better than Obsidian Fate, but aside from that the weakest in the series (to date).
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