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Summary: A great read for Smallville fans
Review: Smallville has been on my Tivo season pass list since a friend in the entertainment journalism field gave me an advance "screener" copy of the pilot episode. Watching the show has gotten me more interested in the wider world of comics, and among the better comics writers I've come across is Devin Grayson. So you can imagine how excited I was when I found out Ms. Grayson was writing a Smallville tie-in novel!I was not disappointed. "City" captures the interactions between the two main characters (Clark and Lex) beautifully, and gives us interesting, well-rounded views of all the people in their lives. (Even better, it reads as though Grayson has actually spent some time around small farming towns, while the show sometimes makes me doubt that its writers have ever left LA!) The deep bond between these two characters, in all of its complexity, is portrayed compellingly, even as we see some of the forces that will eventually start to pull them apart already at play. The story of Clark and Lex's adventures in Metropolis ties in nicely to where the characters are at this point in the Smallville story (early S2, approximately), and also gives Grayson a chance to really delve into a question Smallville the show has only begun to touch on -- how can someone who can do as much good as Clark can live with the knowledge that he can't possibly save everyone his powers could help? The moment in the novel at which Clark, completely overwhelmed by Metropolis, breaks down in a telephone booth, is about as perfect a distillation of Smallville as a story of the superhero's coming of age as anyone could hope for, on the show or in a book. I hope Devin Grayson keeps writing comics (and that DC will someday release a collection of her great work on Gotham Knights!). But I also hope this won't be her last venture into the Smallville universe; I'd love to keep reading books like this one!
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Summary: This is THE ONE to READ !!!
Review: Smallville: CITY is nothing like the other novels out there I have read in the smallville universe. This woman paints her story and plot(Clark and Lex) true to the show and to the characters. She builds a great plot. This is a smart book. A book with questions that are asked and pondered over all through the story like an actual episode of the show. This book is so full of intelligence and smart. She simply astounds me. She makes Clark a smart sixteen year old boy who is mature but still a kid (like in the show) and she makes Lex smart and many layered. She makes her Lex almost duplicate to the show. She makes them 3-dimensional well-rounded characters. They breathe and think and feel. If you never read another Smallville book again, if you have no wish to read any others, this is the one to Read! I cannot Recommend this book enough. It should win an award for the best believeable portrayal of the Smallville Universe!
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Summary: Well-written and fun!
Review: The best of the Smallville novels so far, City proves to be a true gem for any fan! Ms. Grayson understands the complexities of the characters - both Clark and Lex fairly come to life on the pages, in some ways even more fully than the TV series. The original characters are a true treat as well. The storyline follows the two friends on a trip to Metropolis, where they get involved with the Japanese mafia, a psychotic field agent who believes he's discovered the identity of an alien who crashed in Kansas in 1989 and the machinations of Lionel Luthor. And along the way, the unlikely friendship between these two characters is examined in the way only a true fan of the show could do it. This novel has suspense, intrigue, action, laughter and even some moments of sorrow. If you are a fan of Smallville, then you must not let this one get by you! I can only hope that we are fortunate enough to get another novel written by Ms. Grayson.
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Summary: A MUST HAVE!
Review: The best of the Smallville novels so far, City proves to be a true gem for any fan! Ms. Grayson understands the complexities of the characters - both Clark and Lex fairly come to life on the pages, in some ways even more fully than the TV series. The original characters are a true treat as well. The storyline follows the two friends on a trip to Metropolis, where they get involved with the Japanese mafia, a psychotic field agent who believes he's discovered the identity of an alien who crashed in Kansas in 1989 and the machinations of Lionel Luthor. And along the way, the unlikely friendship between these two characters is examined in the way only a true fan of the show could do it. This novel has suspense, intrigue, action, laughter and even some moments of sorrow. If you are a fan of Smallville, then you must not let this one get by you! I can only hope that we are fortunate enough to get another novel written by Ms. Grayson.
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