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Night of the Living Rerun (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Book 4)

Night of the Living Rerun (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Book 4)

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Rerun is best reread
Review: The first time I read this book I found the character slipping found past to present clumsey. It drew me out of the plot. After putting it aside for several months I reread it and found that it easier to follow when you understood who was who in the past and present. I found it much more enjoyable and actually rather clever. Perhaps the title is suggestive. I recommend you buy the book and read it twice.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Rather Cliche
Review: The Salem Witch trials for this genre are cliche. While the plot was more complex than the previous 3 books, I think Giles and Xander, especially were written too out of character to maintain my suspension of disbelief. I kept stopping to think to myself: that's not how so and so would act!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Earlier Slayer Tale would have worked better without Buffy
Review: The thing that makes Buffy the Vampire Slayer such a great television shows is that it is able to combine action, comedy and drama in such a seemless manner. Once you get past the idea that all that martial arts stuff is needed to drive a steak through the heart of a vamp, the action routines are the best on television. The comedy is character driven to such an extent that a priceless funny moment can be a double-take or a raised eyebrow as much as a quick quip or arcane pop-culture reference. But the heart of the series is the dramatic undertones, always implicit in the fact that Slayers die young and reaching its operatic heights with Buffy's tragic relationship with Angel.

All of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer books, whether original stories or adapted from various episodes, automatically lose the action elements. Break down the fight sequence from the second part of "Becoming" and it is going to lose something on the printed page. So losing one part of the Buffy triad is an automatic given. The problem with "Night of the Living Rerun" is that the story overloads the comedy and comes up way short of the drama. Arthur Byron Cover is not alone in this regard as this my standard complaint with the vast majority of Buffy novels.

Forget about the cute title, the heart of this story is a compelling tale: the story of Samantha Kane, the Slayer during the title of the Salem Witch Trials. How does this fit into the Buffy mythos? This happened to be when the Master was accidentally trapped in the other dimension. Buffy keeps dreaming about the past, and when the same thing starts happening to Giles and Xander the set up is for a symbolic replay of the past.

I suppose it is too early to have tales of the earlier Slayers without including Buffy and the gang, but I think this particular story idea would have worked better either as a bookend to the final demise of the Master or as some sort of parallel story. Adding these extra layers took away from a fascinating story idea. Given the final episode of Season Four and the promise that we will learn more about the First Slayer and Buffy ancestors, hopefully we will get to the point where the Slayer mythos can sustain its owns fiction without this particular cast of characters. There have been intriguing graphic novels that have "retold" the Batman and Superman stories in different times and places, and I have to believe that the idea of the Slayer would work just as well (but not like in the movie where they all end up looking like Buffy).

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Not too entertaining, but I still LUV the show...
Review: This book is an average. It's not too exciting though, because much of it is history, and history is monotonous. Also, this book moves at a snail speed. The author should write for nonfiction books, not action books. Fans of the EXCELLENT show (da bomb baby) should read Coyote Moon, Halloween Rain, or the new books.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It went into the characters and gave them a past.
Review: This book was excellent. I have read every Buffy book up to date, and this was one of my Favorites. Also I enjoyed Child of the hunt very much. The reason I enjoyed Night of the Living Rerun because it showed the characters from a diffrent point of view. This book went into their pasts and showed them together. I think my favorite part of the whole book was when throughout the whole book Willow wasn't having any dreams like the others, and then at the very end of the book Willow has a dream that puts her and Xander together in the past. I think that that was an excellent ending to the book, and it was an exellent book. I have gone back and read it two more times. Out of all the books this one is my favorite, because of history it brings out, also I now know alot more about the Salem witch trials then I did before. I love the movie, I love the show, and I love the books, I'm obssed with BtVS!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: All fans should read this great book.
Review: This book was great but since I'm a Buffy fan I loved it. The plot was a little hard to follow but once you read the whole thing you can understand it. It is intresting to folow the dreams of Buffy,Giles,and Xander. The book is a must for all Buffy fans.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Easily the worst in the series
Review: This book was hard to follow and not very true to the series. It was, in my mind, easily the worst of the various Buffy books so far. For me, the only good news for this book was that it was still "young adult" so I could read it in about an hour -- about all I would waste on it.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Good, but could of been a lot better
Review: This book was not brutal, but it is probably the worst of all the Buffy novel's so far. Usually I would read one of the Buffy books in two days, but it took me almost two weeks to finish this one. It is so slow, and at the start it seems to be going no where -- not what a good Buffy book should be like. The characters aren't really that good in this either, and the dialogue is really bad

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not the Slayer at her best
Review: This is one of the most forgettable "Buffy" books I have read thus far. The plot wasn't one, and when it seemed it was going somewhere, it hit a brick wall with a loud thud. There were these different elements that just didn't fit into one another. I think the only thing I enjoyed, is how the characters from the past matched with those from today, except for Willow, which was revealed at the end. I think the ending was the best part, actually, because of that. It was just very choppy, and the characterization (which I am very big on) was very awkward. Not a must-read.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: quite good........
Review: This was the second buffy book i read the first bein visitors and i thot i wuld try this, see if they were good but no such luck.This was a good book and it was funny when Willow and Xander got possesed but where was the rest of the charecters giles was never in it and buffy neither and this is called BUFFY the vampire slayer.It dealt with the past more than present day.It was good but buy another book thankfully i got this out the library.


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