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Summary: Don't waste your time...
Review: "Night of the Living Rerun" is, by far, the WORST of the Buffy novels. The author obviously has no understanding of the characters and only a basic knowledge of the premise. The characters were trite, the references inconsistent at best (completely wrong at worst!), the premise was shaky, and the storyline unsalvageable.Do yourselves a favor - skip over this book and go directly to "Blooded". I guarantee you much more bang for your buck...
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Summary: Perhaps just another collector's item...
Review: Arthur Byron Cover's "Night of the Living Rerun" is my least favorite book in the series to date. As a fan of the television show, I found numerous discrepancies when reviewed in parallel. Not only was the book difficult to read (I had to go back and reread portions of the book to follow the plot), but I think some of the characters were not portrayed accurately when compared to the television series. The plot centers around past lives and recurring history... basically a plot that has been gone over many times before. History repeats itself and so on. I do have to mention that Cover mentioned Cordelia and Angel, which seems to be a first in the history of this series... of course, the mentions are small and don't contribute to the plot. If you're a collector of the Buffy series, you'll want to get this book, but others might find it a hard read with an unsatisfactory plot.
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Summary: Perhaps just another collector's item...
Review: Arthur Byron Cover's "Night of the Living Rerun" is my least favorite book in the series to date. As a fan of the television show, I found numerous discrepancies when reviewed in parallel. Not only was the book difficult to read (I had to go back and reread portions of the book to follow the plot), but I think some of the characters were not portrayed accurately when compared to the television series. The plot centers around past lives and recurring history... basically a plot that has been gone over many times before. History repeats itself and so on. I do have to mention that Cover mentioned Cordelia and Angel, which seems to be a first in the history of this series... of course, the mentions are small and don't contribute to the plot. If you're a collector of the Buffy series, you'll want to get this book, but others might find it a hard read with an unsatisfactory plot.
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Summary: Not all that great.....
Review: As a major fan of the show (having created a scrapbook, having every episode on tape, and having pics up on my bedroom wall), I found this the least favorite of mine in the new book series. I've read all of them up to "Blooded." And this one, didn't seem to catch my eye all that much and wasn't all that realistic. It didn't carry the same excitement as the other books in the series. The plot to me was confusing. I do not recommend this book. I think it was a waste of my time. I am however looking forward to the Watcher's Guide coming in October. That's gonna be really cool. :0)
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Summary: not the greatest buffy book
Review: buffy is at about at wit's end. slaying occupies most of her waking hours but now she is dreaming about it. as it turns out her dreams have to deal with her old nemesis the master. he is
trying to rewrite history back to the time where he was trapped
in the alternate dimension. he wants to succeed this time and
bring the acopalise to earth. can buffy and crew stop him in time? tune in to see.
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Summary: probably my favorite buffy book
Review: buffy must kill the master as a different person everyone she meets before the night will play a part in the ceramony
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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: I adored this book.I loved the part when Xander turned into that woman.I thought that when Buffy talked to the demon it was funny (I usually do)I loved how she was sarcastic as well.Some of it I didn't get like when these people said they'd talked to the witch's ghost and Giles said they'd made a mistake or something.I liked the discription of the demon because it sounded like it was disgusting and I love that sort of stuff.I also liked it when the zombies came to the cafe where Buffy was working and she said to a waitress "You'll forget about it." and the waitress replied "I'll bet you one steak dinner I don't." I would love to write a Buffy book because it's one of the only books where I can get away with writing gory stories.This book is also really good because of the way the writers discribed it.When they said abot the demon's minions though I thought they were like the minions from Anastasia and only until later on did I realize that they were vampires.My favourite part was the part where Buffy fought the demon.I liked the epilouge when Willow was asleep and she dreamed she was a man from the past.
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Summary: NOT THE BEST BOOK
Review: I did not like this book at all I thought it was very boring. I read the book once and it took me a couple of weeks to finish then I read it a second time to see if it would be any better, it wasn't. I am a huge Buffy fan and I have liked most of the books I thought this was the worst book of them all. I wouldn't have bought the book if I would have known how bad it was.
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Summary: Not True to Buffy, but fun for the Horror and S&S Buff
Review: I didn't have trouble following this book, but I've been reading horror stories for over 30 years. The author doesn't have a good handle on the characters, but I didn't care. I've been an H.P. Lovecraft fan since I was 16, so I got a kick out of seeing the middle name of his good friend, Clark Ashton Smith, showing up, not to mention Giles consulting Eibon (A true Lovecraftian Evil Old Recluse will have the Book of Eibon amongst his forbidden tomes collection. Another of Lovecraft's friends, Robert E. [Ervin] Howard, is most famous for creating Conan the Barbarian, but he also created a fanatical Puritan adventurer who fought supernatural horrors. The name of that Puritan was Solomon Kane. That's why I laughed in delight over the dreams about the Puritan Slayer Samantha Kane and her Watcher, Robert Erwin. As a fan of "Kolchak the Night Stalker" [starring Darrin McGavin] from its first TV run, I chortled with glee when the even more hapless reporter Darryl MacGovern came on the scene. Readers who dislike Cotton Mather for his role in the Salem Witch Mockery-of-Justice will enjoy what happens to him in this book. Many of the other character names tease at my memory, but I haven't yet taken the time to look them up (worse, I left my notes at home!). Ooh -- almost forgot to mention how much I enjoyed the Master's dream of "Old Scratch." I found this book a very amusing romp and I suspect other horror fans will, too. BTW, the scene where Samantha Kane is stalking after escaped witch Dim[n?]sdale [name from Hawthorne's THE SCARLET LETTER?], before she's gruesomely attacked by various body parts that refuse to be slain, it says Kane didn't even have a captor to keep her company. Shouldn't that have been "captive"?
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Summary: It sounded so good on the back cover...
Review: I first read this book over three years ago and didn't like it. But then, a few weeks ago, I decided to see how much my taste in books had matured and gave it another chance. Big mistake! I hate this book! They took a wonderful concept and blew it to smithereens by ruining Giles and Xander. I would have felt better if they'd somehow discovered that the real Giles and Xander had been locked in a warehouse for the duration of this novel and had been replaced by cyborgs because only that could explain why the heck they were saying such stupid stuff!
Not only were they horrible, but the supposed climax of the novel - the zombie diner fight scene - was over waaay too fast and easily. It completely and irreparably damaged my spirit. The books only saving grace was some fun quips from the Buffster and a sweet (albeit, paranormal) kiss between Willow and Xander at the very end. I would recommend Coyote Moon and Halloween Rain in a heartbeat over this book.
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