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Child of the Hunt

Child of the Hunt

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best Buffy book...Ever!
Review: This is the best Buffy book that I have ever read. And I've read them all. I was hesitant at first because this was billed as an adult Buffy book, and I was unsure if the authors could pull it off. But they did! And I am now a huge fan of Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder. They make a great writing team. I loved this whole story about the Erl King and Roland. The characters appear real and full of life, something which doesn't always survive the journey from TV to page. I give this book 5 stars and recomend it to anyone who likes Buffy, and I swear that you will not be dissapointed!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Book
Review: I did a report on this book. I'm in seventh grade but I love to read Buffy books. This book was written greatly and it is my favorite book now. I was very impressed with the writing and I was so anxious to read what happened that I couldn't even put it down. I recommend this book to everybody I even lent it to my mom. My teacher was so impressed with my report that she actually asked me where she could get a copy. I have read this book four times. I loved the fairs and Roland was really cool. All you people who have read the book you probably know what I'm talking about with the King Erl. Thanx for reading my review.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great story!
Review: I was skeptical about reading any book based on a TV show, but this one was very well-thought out. The characters stayed true to their television depictions in a whole new and very interesting story. I recommend this for any Buffy fan.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A great book, I couldn't really put it down...
Review: I've read all the Buffy books, and from knowledge, know that Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder are the best Buffy writers. This book (i am only half way through it) is riveting!! So far I luv it!! The only thing I don't like is the Buffy-Angel thing. They can't be together, yada yada, I won't spoil it for you.

It's my favorite book in the series besides Blooded. I can't wait for the next Buffy book...something Chaos...

Anyway, you've GOT to read it--it's exciting and hard to stop reading

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Buffy Book Ever!
Review: This was my first Buffy the Vampire Slayer Book. I read it before I even watched the show, the plot just seemed good to me so I bought it, and little did I know I was about to become a Buffy Fanatic. It starts off with Buffy and this hunt that goes through the town and they take people capture. All the rest I can say is "WOW" I'd give this book 10 stars if I could. Even if you are not a fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Book you should pick this one up.

P.S. Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder are the best Buffy writers in the series.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Show me, don't tell me
Review: Not a bad novel, but far from being a great one. Mr Golden and Ms. Holder have a decent grasp on the Buffyverse (though, given their expertise, far too many errors still creep in). My biggest gripe here is with the writing style. Many things in the book are simply described. We are told about what happened rather than seeing them played out in a scene. This should virtually never happen in any novel.

Perhaps I have standards that are set too high, but I never see the fact that a novel is a media tie-in as an excuse for lazy writing.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I am a HUGE fan of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. I have been since the first episode aired 7 years ago. I'm so sad that it's over but atleast there are still many buffy novels for me to read. Child of the Hunt was the first Buffy Novel I read. And I read it 5 TIMES!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Evil at the Renaissance Faire? Only in Sunnydale...5 Stars!
Review: My second book I've read from my favorite hit t.v show and again, I am impressed! The writing is great and the characters are so lifelike and true to form. What I like about the books are the fact that we finally get to delve into the collective minds of the complicated characters that are Sunnydale's 'Scooby Gang'. A vampire slayer, a watcher, a witch, a werewolf, a vampire, a wisecracker human and a rich girl who keeps getting mixed up with the gang, even if she pretends she can't stand them. Like the show, the book was beyond entertaining and well worth the money.
This novel, 324 pages, could easily have been a great episode. It was a very different departure from what we've seen in the show. A weird group of traveling renaissance faire people that arrives in Sunnydale, CA, (a.k.a, the Hellmouth) who are not only weird, but have something to do with a sinister group of horsebacked, hellhound dark faerie roaming the woods around Sunnydale looking for souls.
The Scooby Gang think a faire would be uncool, but find themselves drawn to the faire anyway and experience a feeling of dread and doom. Jousting contests, human chest matches, knights and ladies and a court jester that all seem a little too...real.
Caught up in a whirl of confusion, the gang experience the dark faerie for themselves and find out the faire is the least of their problems. The Erl King has brought the Wild Hunt to the Hellmouth and the gang must stop them before all the lost souls in town become part of the Hunt forever. Not only does the Slayer have to worry about the king, but the jester in the faire is not what he seems...he is destined to become the Slayer's mortal adversary....

Tracy Talley~@

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the Best Buffy books writen
Review: Nancy Holden and Christopher Golden would have to be some of the most creative writers. They thought up wonderful plot twists, and kept me on the edge of my seat. It took a while for me to will myself to put the book down. They even put a personality into the King of the Hunt. There is another good twist with Roland, a boy Buffy found working at the Renascence Fair, but I won't ruin the story for you. All in all, this book is one that I would not hesitate to recommend to some one.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Passable Debut
Review: I'm obviously in the minority on this particular Buffy entry. This was the first "adult line" Buffy offering, though it might be noticed that it's now packaged in the "juvenile line" format, as well. Something that must be borne in mind, always, when shopping for Buffy books, is that the packaging is immaterial as far as gauging maturity level of the content.

This isn't a bad book, and has a lot going for it. Other reviewers have noticed that the dialogue is less solid than in other entries, and that there are consistency problems. I was reluctant to buy another title in this series after reading this one, only because it struck me as nothing extraordinary - it isn't a great deal like the T.V. series, but is insufficiently independent of it to stand on its own as a novel. The characters are well-drawn (Roland, especially, who achieves something of tragic stature) and it has an interesting plot, which is recounted in the other reviews here. But this book doesn't have quite the caliber of writing as later entries.

In short, not bad, but I wouldn't recommend it as anyone's first foray into Buffy.


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