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Summary: A must for all Buffy fans!
Review: As the first Buffy novel aimed at an adult audience, "Child of the Hunt" is certainly a triumph. This darker, more angst-filled installment explores the effect that recent events have had upon the Slayer and her companions. Set after Buffy's return and Angel's release from Hell (though no details are offered), Buffy and her friends confront the Erl King, a disturbing foe who prays upon the "lost souls" of Sunnydale, and attempt to rescue Roland, a sad young man whose ties to the Erl King are key to his destruction. I can't recommend this book enough. The characters have a depth and reality unmatched by any of the previous books (although "Blooded" is the closest). And although I missed some of the humor (even Xander is remarkably subdued), it was more than made up for by the detailed exploration of each character. The Erl King makes for a horrifying adversary and you just have to love a book that manages to sneak in a little Goethe and make it interesting to the common reader! All in all, Golden and Holder continue to prove their intuitive understanding of the characters and the show, and have produced another superb Buffy novel. I can't wait to see what they have in store for us in their next collaboration!
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Summary: A good length!
Review: I really liked this book better than the previous one, Blooded. I could actually see the scenes inside of my head as I read it. The story line is more complex, but interesting. The one thing that really dragged the book down was the loss of humor. The few jokes it had were so drawn out that they weren't funny at all. All of a sudden every one's home life was extremely depressing. The Buffy series is incredible because it mixes jokes with gore. I recommend the book any way.
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Summary: All heads turn when the Hunt goes by . . .
Review: CHILD OF THE HUNT is actually the first adult novel written about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. With more space to work with (the book is 324 pages long), my coauthor, Christopher Golden, and I were able to create a more complex plot and dig more deeply into the characters. It was a very exciting experience for us, both as writers and devotees of Buffy. The dread Erl King leads the Great Hunt to Sunnydale to carry away the souls of the lonely and the lost...including some of the runaways from the local shelter. When a traveling Renaissance fair arrives at the same time, Buffy realizes the path to the Erl King's destruction leads straight to the fair's sad-eyed court jester, a boy named Roland ... who himself is not quite human. "All heads must turn when the Hunt goes by" ... or you will be the next to die.
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Summary: A great book.
Review: This book moves Buffy beyond the young adult fiction that the previous book have been. A great overall Buffy book.
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Summary: Great story!
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.
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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~@
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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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Summary: Ricardo's Child of the Hunt Review
Review: Out of the Buffy books I have read this is one of the best stories. A great plot with many surprise that keep you guessing. The evil in this book was great, different form just any episode. I also LOVED the action. Everybody did there part and it was a lot of fun going through the adventure. Cordy and even Joyce had great parts. These reason and many others like great eniemes made me believe this book to be one of Nancy Holder's and Christopher Golden's best ever.
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