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Summary: Amazing Third Installment
Review: Buffy has been launched five-years into the future, and is now inhabiting her 24-year-old body, while her 19-year-old mind reigns over all. She has been rescued by Willow and Xander, her two best friends, who, now, in their 24-year-old bodies, have begun working for the Watchers Council. No, they are not watchers, but protectors. The world is bleak five years later, for Buffy has found that her Mother is dead, and that Angel is missing. But that is not the worst of it, for a strange bit of information has found it's way to Buffy, and she now knows that Giles, her beloved Watcher for years, has switched sides, and is now the Vampire King. And Spike, who seemed pretty powerful in the past, is now nothing more than a minion to Giles. Now Buffy is forced to fight to take back Sunnydale, and soon, the rest of California back from the dead, or rather, undead, while her friends back home are struggling to bring her 19-year-old spirit back home.
Christopher Golden is one of my favorite authors, there is no doubt about that. So his LOST SLAYER quartet was one that I couldn't possibly miss. While PROPHECIES and DARK TIMES were a fantastic start, KING OF THE DEAD is an amazing middle novel, for it is beginning to bring in new aspects to the quartet. Giles as the Vampire King being one of them. Overall, this is an amazing addition to the LOST SLAYER quartet, and will have all BUFFY fans gripping the edge of their seats in anticipation for what will come in the conclusion, ORIGINAL SINS.
Erika Sorocco
Book Review Columnist for The Community Bugle Newspaper
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